kevinzoe
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| Questions about room size and speaker choice Actusreus,Do you have a web link to the "Acoustic Fields" products by chance?I would highly recommend you educate yourself first before wasting money or your time, so pick-up a copy of Dr Floyd Toole's latest book and read it. If you're not famili... | |
| Room treatment advice needed Glai - I agree with what you've said and experienced.I'd add that I find a mix of LOW FREQ absoprtion and MID/HIGH FREQ diffusion works best. Broadband absorption for low-to-high frequencies tends to narrow the soundstage and create more defined s... | |
| Room treatment advice needed Go out and land yourself a copy of Dr Floyd Toole's latest book. In it you'll learn why treating 1st reflection points is NOT a good idea; where your room's transition frequency lies and how the treatment strategy below this frequency differs from... | |
| Is my room doomed? Pic Good on 'ya for trying various things and noting the differences. Measuring the frequency response / SPL (dB) is also important for trying different things so you have a record of the sound for each setup variation.You wrote: "the biggest issues a... | |
| Is my room doomed? Pic ". . .I'll have sidewalls but no front and back walls. Would that be a problem?"The side wall lateral reflections are beneficial - particularly in stereo - since they can produce greater apparent source width and spaciouness, while the front/rear ... | |
| Is my room doomed? Pic Enzo Lets see if we can diagnose before we perscribe; here is what I heard you say your problems were:1) I'm having a hard time getting it to sound anywhere as good as the dealer/distributor using very similar equipment (outside the preamp). I... | |
| Tailoring tweeter output Forgive my ignorance buy why are you trying to reduce the tweeter output from a speaker you love? Trying to surpress the tweeter will be like killing the "air" and sonic life of certain instruments.By chance have you considered - like in Kung Fu?!... | |
| Room treatment success story Inpieces - thanks for sharing your story above. Have you a digital camera to take pics of your room for all to see?Like Inpieces, I too have traveled down a long road of room treatments. If there was any advice I'd like to share it's to educate yo... | |
| Making Your Own 2D Diffusors If anyone would like to try their hand at building a DIY wooden Skyline diffusers and / or Hemi-Cylindrical diffusers made from sono tubes for pouring concrete and covered with wooden veneer, then ping me. Examples of both are in my system pics. | |
| Room treatment success story Edge22 - congrats on your GIK transaction and its impact on your room. You're well on your way to improving your room/system sound! I would HIGHLY recommend you buy and read Dr Floyd Toole's latest book (http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Ac... | |
| diffuser panels made more simple? Schipo - I can't really tell from your description, but do you mean the "Skyline" type of diffusers is what you're interested in possibly building? If so, then the best Skyline calculator I've found and used is found here:http://www.oliverprime.co... | |
| Looking for reasonably priced sound diffusion. FrankC (Gundam91):Just wanted to clarify one of your points above - taken from the RPG website: "H The overall dimensions shall be 23-3/8"(H) x 23-3/8"(W) x 7"(D) and weigh no more than 4 pounds." found at this link http://www.rpginc.com/products/... | |
| Looking for reasonably priced sound diffusion. Grannyring,I've done quite a lot of diffusion studying, communicating with Prof Trevor Cox and Dr Sean Olive, and built several DIY Skylines and Hemi-Cylindrical diffusers, so I hope my words of wisdom will be considered by you.CAUTION: www.miocul... | |
| New Distributor for Audio Aero?? any news yet on who the new NorAm distributor is? | |
| Acoustic treatment for corners. Thanks Wmakshak. If you plan on putting a resistive-type bass trap which I believe ASC are (but I could be wrong) then the maximize its effectiveness it would need to out from the wall 1/4 the wavelength of the transition zone frequency which coul... |