Does anyone use wood for vibration control?

"wood is too random and has unavoidable colorations"

But I also think it’s a starting place for those experimenting. A lot of my clients start off DIYing their wood pieces which I think is cool. Then when they get the real thing and comment on why does the authentic MGA wood sound so much better. The products I do sound better because it is born with a purpose, it’s not random but specifically chosen and voiced. My curing shop resembles an instrument builders space.

I shipped 65 8’ long pieces last week to one client and when the shipper was loading he picked up a piece and went "d***". Then I played the piece of wood for him and he freaked out.

But again everyone needs to start somewhere and many times the first DIY approaches get the wheels turning so I try to encourage playing around with different tones. Ultimately though getting the real thing is much easier to tune with. Plus buying the real thing is a lot less expensive than the learning curve of voicing.

Michael Green

Hi Glupson

Now that we have developed the tools of tuning it’s pretty easy to do. The more difficult thing was the timing aspect. In the 70’s and 80’s most products, by design or mistake, were made of materials and applications that were more organic to the audio signal. When the 90’s got here designs changed dramatically and the products were more locked into their sound and became harder to mate to other components. Right then things should have stopped and the problem looked at. Instead HEA created it’s own little world of plug & play, not taking into account chassis, PC boards and a bunch of problems they were giving birth to not knowing what the end results would end up doing to the industry.

HEA created a very impractical monster and then built a marketing scam around it. Once the reviewers put this to motion the progress stopped. Now that HEA has been in decline it’s time once again to push Tuning in a more practical sense.

But tuning itself? Tuning itself is an easy discipline to learn and follow. I would say this though. It’s much easier for a person to use tuning right off the bat than it is for the person who has been HEA-ishly trained. To quote Jim Bookhard "you can’t tune a rock".

let me give an example

Remember when power cords started to be plugged into receptacles on the back of components? This was done so HEA could market power cords. Fact is a direct connection without using the extra plug sounds much better. Banana plugs, same issue. HEA built a plug & play world that made sound generally worse but it fit into a marketing play that worked beautifully. Problem now is things have been made so messed up for so long the general HEA public thinks these impractical moves are common place, even more high end, when in reality they were some huge steps backward.

MG

Hi Glupson

I only give the feedback I get from people who have lived through the experience. I don’t add to or take away from what is. I don’t have the time or desire to head down paths that burn up my time as you can probably gather.

not sure I used the words "big conspiracy" did I, if so sorry that would have been a bit stretched

MG