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Graham Slee
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I suppose if Thor placed sufficient felt pads (and I mean thousands) all over his room in groups making different heights he would eventually end up with an anechoic chamber, so I must conclude that such tweaks do work... in very liberal quantities
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tg [RIP]
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Aren't you supposed to be building some sort of bomb shelter for your new hi-fi rack or designing an equivalent performance alternative to the lightspeed attenuator for the new preamp or something ? The rest of us can do the silly tweaking and chattering stuff to keep ourselves amused while we wait. |
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Fatmangolf
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I know you are only joking tg so I shall risk being cheeky to you as a moderator by saying our generous host deserves some downtime!
My experience with acoustic treatments suggests tens of thousands of felt pads would be needed to absorb anything below high frequencies. I thought of the egg box treatments and carpet on walls/absorber panels in some studios.
I did smile at the thought of plastic piping hanging from the walls. Tuned resonators without damping would be like having drone pipes or strings (like those on the guitars I have) storing and releasing energy in the listening room. What notes, or indeed key, would be best for different types of music?
Listening to speakers is like recording an acoustic instrument. You are listening to the room as much as the source. Real rooms and recordings can sometimes benefit from a little EQ in my opinion.
Has anyone tried fitting isolating spikes to their listening chair and footwear to control the structure borne LF energy? If so what was the best material? For those about to mock...
However it was the playful spirit of the article and open minded approach I respected.
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Jon
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tg [RIP]
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You are dead right there - Graham does indeed deserve a little respite. However poorly it may have been executed, my intent was to provide some of that by means of a little levity as you have correctly observed. Only time I have tried spikes on my shoes was when playing golf, I found them extremely beneficial in that application |
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Fatmangolf
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tg, you were thinking the same thing I was about the spiked shoes I risk going Krabby Patty by saying I also play golf.
Back on the tone/tweaking theme, my avatar is a photo of a tweaked ribbon microphone. So I think it isn't just h-ifi!
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Jon
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Graham Slee
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Picture of crater being filled by Robert (Bob the builder...) and Phillip And Robert in his day job... Can they fix it? I bl**dy hope so... Edited by Graham Slee - 17 Sep 2010 at 12:24am |
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Actually I'm just making appearances here at odd times of day as I wind down from one chore before I begin another or fall asleep...
At the same time as Bob and Co are building the "silo" for my hi-fi rack ... , I am having to consider the most effective soundproofing not only for the "bomb shelter" but for the adjoining fence, and doing the rounds of the soundproofing websites I stumbled upon a device widely used in studios called a "bass trap". The corners give the most concentrated bass of the studio/room and absorbent material or a more elaborate solution is used to counter it. I wonder if that could be the reasoning behind gluing felt pads close to the corners? Mind you, I wouldn't have thought three felt pads sufficient - perhaps it's a joke? Edited by Graham Slee - 17 Sep 2010 at 1:33am |
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