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Does anyone use wood for vibration control?

What kind of wood have you found to be best?
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glupson
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michaelgreen,

I do not think you used "big conspiracy", but that is how it feels reading your thoughts about HEA. Like some monster decided to fool everyone and started doing things to prepare for a scam that would follow. Kind of like detaching power cords to prepare for selling them aftermarket. That is how your thoughts about HEA development come across, at least some of your thoughts.

Not that I have love for any industry, but it might have all just been a gradual and unplanned development. HEA may be getting smaller these days, I do not know the numbers, but it still seems that every day I read about a product from a company I have never heard of. And they happen to be more and more expensive. Maybe to accommodate for smaller numbers sold? I have no idea, just observations.
glupson
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michaelgreen,

As a completely theoretical/semantic/babbling exercise, and to come back to the title of this thread, would you consider paper (think: stack of magazines or newspapers) placed somewhere where usual wood is commonly used for vibration control, as "using wood for vibration control"?

I am not saying "do it", "what are your experiences", or anything like that. Just "would it be wood for vibration control", regardless of outcome. If it worked, that would be a cheap one.

I am basing that only on "save the trees" statements that sometimes urge you not to use paper.
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michaelgreenaudio
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Hi Glupson

I think I'm a little tough on the industry because of the numbers of people who have come to me to start tuning, and then they end up feeling ripped off by HEA because HEA was not being straight up about how audio works and instead kept selling up till that music lover became trapped in a "fixed sound" world.

Do you have any idea how many folks have come to me and replaced their 100,000.00 plus system with a tunable 8,000-14,000 one? A $14,000.00 system completely blowing away the big buck systems and to boot one that you can make sound almost anyway you want.

people can use whatever words work for them but this is the world I live in daily

MG

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geoffkait
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I kind of doubt too many people these days swallow the old axiom that you have to spend a lot of money to get good sound. Furthermore I don’t consider high end audio to be all about super expensive systems. It really more about attitude and knowledge.

We just saw Michael Fremer’s room with a $100,000 system and 100,000 records jammed in the room with the system. That is the opposite of high end audio in my book. If he doesn’t know better he should. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Give me a break. Your comment that your $14,000 system kills $100,000 systems is pure salesmanship puffery. Obviously, there are a great many rich audiophiles who are all thumbs. I did not fall off the turnip truck yesterday. 

Knowledge is what’s left after you subtract all the stuff you forgot from school. He not busy being born is busy dying. 

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michaelgreenaudio
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Hi Glupson

If you read some of Johnathan Skull's writing (I think it was he) he used cardboard boxes partly filled with newspaper for trapping his corners. Cardboard and newspaper (not so much slick print) can be fun to play with.

If you ever run across me talking about making pressure boxes, the originals were cardboard. Tons of uses for compressed paper, or even loose crumpled. Sometimes however cardboard and paper can be a curse in a system, especially if you live in higher humidity.

Btw thanks for your questions and being patient with me many times. Sometimes when I'm up here I barely have enough time to squeeze out a few words before needing to run, and I appreciate it very much when the questions are clear and stated in a way that makes it easy to answer and also with good intent. So much easier to answer things with good vibes attached to them instead of the bad vibes that for people like me are the wrong experiences. I literally spend all my time inside of the tuning vibe solving sound situations for people or having my mind in the right place while writing articles or evaluating. Getting out of tune is a drag and sometimes when I see people here on head trips or have bad intent it's simply a waste of time and productive life. thank you Glupson

MG

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