Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

These are hands down the best sound absorption panels on Amazon. I moved into a really noisy, old pre 1950 apartment. I normally wouldn’t care, but suddenly my job wants me to work from home. I can hear my neighbors talking below me and to the right of me. I don’t want them to hear me talking to customers over the phone! So I spent many hours and sleepless nights researching soundproofing. Now I’m an expert. Sound travels through the air in all directions. Think of it like smoke. Smoke will go in all direction looking for a way out of your room (or into your room). Smoke will bounce off your walls and ceilings and funnel it’s way out of the cracks in your doors and windows. Same concept with sound. Sound absorption panels have little pores in them, so that the sound doesn’t bounce but gets absorbed. So you can scatter them if you want, or you can put the panels right next to each other for maximum effect. I bought almost every brand of sound panels available on Amazon, because I was in a hurry to get my room soundproofed before I had to start work from home. I was just looking for the best deals, whatever was on sale. I can tell you this: The cheap panels, are worthless. Might as well just tape bath towels on your wall. Dekiru is an upgrade from the cheap panels. I was buying massive amounts of dekiru while they were on sale. But honestly dekiru is just a small upgrade from the cheap panels. Especially when compared to Bubos. Bubos is the Rolls Royce of sound absorption panels. They are thicker, more dense, better finish, brighter colors, deeper bevel than dekiru. Density is important when it comes to sound absorption. It determines how much sound it can actually absorb. The other qualities I mentioned, means that the bubos panels simply look better when installed on your walls. Using the orange, white, and purple panels, I was able to make a LA Lakers themed wall. I’m sure with their color choices you could do the same for your team of choice. I know these work, because I would put up several tiles a night and each night things got quieter. I could hear my tv more clearly. I can no longer hear the neighbors. The biggest culprit will be your windows and doors (for sound coming in). I weatherproof sealed both, and I put bubos panels on my doors. I use the 3M mounting tape (buy the rolls it is better value than the precut squares), and put 5 squares on the back of the panel. 4 corners and 1 in the middle. The dekiru panels... you literally have to place panel and press down with all your strength for 30 seconds for it to stick. If you dont press the middle down, the middle wants to “pop” back out and unstick itself. It’s characteristic of cheap quality (although dekiru is better than the cheap ones... the cheap ones are not even worth it). However the bubos panels, just align where you want, and place it and it sticks. I push for like 5 seconds just in case. That’s because the bubos panels are good quality. It feels like thick wooden tiles, but made from the fabric sound absorbing material, super dense. But they feel like wooden tiles, but can also bend if your wall is lumpy like mine. All the other panels feel like hairy, cheap, cardboard, that don’t want to stick to your walls. They start to unstick and fall off, and you have to redo the tape, and press with all your might for beyond 30 seconds and hope that it sticks. The Bubos panels adhesion is so strong, with the same amount of tape. I know this because when I needed to rearrange some panels when I try to take off it has a nice grip and takes some force to take off. This is after just 5 seconds of holding firm. Oh and dekiru just has boring gray/white/black themed colors. The main reason I stumbled upon bubos because I wanted some vibrant colors. Glad I tried them. 100% would recommend. You won’t be disappointed. And their customer service is amazing too.