Townshend Springs under Speakers

I’m sensitive to aesthetics in my set up, so would be very unlikely to employ such a tweak.

I understand that my solution so effective it was cannot be adopted in a living room at all...

My problem was cost...

I dont wanted and never bought anything costly...

I prefered to use cheap materials and my homemade devices...With astounding results...





« A straw can change the sound of an entire room if you put it at the mouth of the rightfully choosen bottle or pipe»-Anonymus Acoustician son of Helmholtz

Helmholtz as in the Argent Room Lenses I recommended to you a couple years ago..Great devices they are...stage shifters and shapers. Tom

Helmholtz as in the Argent Room Lenses I recommended to you a couple years ago..Great devices they are...stage shifters and shapers. Tom

Precisely yes! i thank you for that in the past and i can thank you again...

But it takes me only few hours to understand why argent Room lenses are not so effective...reading about psycho acoustic and Helmholtz original ideas...

I created more than 40 Helmholtz tubes around my room and they begin their "circle" near the tweeter of one speaker ( few inches) the "head" of my mechanical equalizer and ended near at few inches also the woofer of the other speaker...

The reason for this is the psycho-acoustic fact linked to the way each ears perceive first frontwaves sounds coming from each speaker and the way the brain locate each sound in a room...

Then the power of my mechanichal equalizer compared to the Argent room lenses are huge improvement...Because the room lenses are not each one of them like my 40 tubes and pipes and bottles FINE TUNED each one in relation to the technical specificity of the speakers and the specific acoustic features of the room geometry, topology and content...Each of my tubes work differently in their particular location creating a new pressure zone in the room...

And my mechanical equalizer cost is zero...
I used only discarded plumbers pipes tubes and bottles... With straws of different size mechanically adjusted to the mouth of each pipe... More than that i also created tubes which are more diffusers of sound than absorbers...

All is fine tuned on a few months listening experiments process like we tune a piano....

Then yes it is you who inspire my idea but there is NO relation in cost and efficiency between my equalizer and the 9 identical tubes of the room lenses...You just put my attention at the right time on the right phenomenon : Helmholtz bottles....Thanks for that....

Because i never bought any tweak but prefer to let them inspire my own working i react speedily....

My geatest tubes is 8 feet high and the smaller one is almost a straw...

In audio nevermind the amplifier, the dac, or the speakers, ACOUSTIC is queen....

 For sure my mechanical equalizer cannot be put in a living room....

 The most precious tool for audiophile experience is simply a dedicated audio room... It was and is my own luxury in audio....

Yea my room is freak enough yours is  Plan Nine from outer space..I will send you pictures of the mechanical coupling devices we created at Starsound Technologies so you can create your pantomime version. Or look on line.. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing your ideas and personal experience. Tom

Thanks  theaudiotweak for your humor and advices and generosity.....

My deepest respects....