DYohn
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Post by DYohn on Jul 6, 2010 15:46:27 GMT -5
Nice space (is that a A-H Sprite I see?) But man, a warehouse like that is going to be very difficult to make sound like anything other than a, well, a warehouse without some significant sound treatments. WHAT?!! SOUND TREATMENT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU! THE SOUND'S BOUNCING AROUND TOO MUCH!!! WAY TOO BRIGHT!!! heh heh heh... -b -and yes, that's a bugeye. the wife restored it herself. i just stood around, looking decorative. One relatively low-cost first step toward taming the echo chamber effect is to hang some decorative fabric across the ceiling. Velvet works really well, but draping sail cloth in random length strips can look good and stop the reflections off the ceiling. It also effectively lowers the ceiling acoustically making the volume of the room smaller... Your wife is the wrench jockey, eh? Looks like a great job was done.
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Post by barryrobin on Jul 6, 2010 15:58:25 GMT -5
WHAT?!! SOUND TREATMENT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU! THE SOUND'S BOUNCING AROUND TOO MUCH!!! WAY TOO BRIGHT!!! heh heh heh... -b -and yes, that's a bugeye. the wife restored it herself. i just stood around, looking decorative. One relatively low-cost first step toward taming the echo chamber effect is to hang some decorative fabric across the ceiling. Velvet works really well, but draping sail cloth in random length strips can look good and stop the reflections off the ceiling. It also effectively lowers the ceiling acoustically making the volume of the room smaller... Your wife is the wrench jockey, eh? Looks like a great job was done. good advice. in most of the warehouses i've lived in, the open rafters actually help swallow the reverb by refracting the sound in and about the trusswork. shouldn't work, but it does... the wife's pretty handy that way. she also redid the floors and exposed the bricks in our old place: -b
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Post by DYohn on Jul 6, 2010 16:02:50 GMT -5
the wife's pretty handy that way. she also redid the floors and exposed the bricks in our old place: -b OK I am intrigued. What are those giant ribbon drivers?
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Post by barryrobin on Jul 6, 2010 16:39:42 GMT -5
the wife's pretty handy that way. she also redid the floors and exposed the bricks in our old place: -b OK I am intrigued. What are those giant ribbon drivers? firstly, you get big brownie points for even knowing they're speakers! ...most people just gasp and ask:" my god, what are those things?!... those "giant ribbon drivers" are stacked Quad ESL57's. and man, are they detailed. sometimes too detailed: An AV story: i used to live across the alley from American Zoetrope about the time they were downmixing Apocalypse Now. just for fun, one day we hooked up the Quads to test the looping. and we heard the dubbing clicks through the soundtrack! you know the phrase "too much detail...?" -b
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Post by DYohn on Jul 7, 2010 10:10:51 GMT -5
Ah, so that's what they look like with the grills off. Interesting. Any particular reason why you are stacking them?
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Post by barryrobin on Jul 7, 2010 12:50:48 GMT -5
Ah, so that's what they look like with the grills off. Interesting. Any particular reason why you are stacking them? just ask any maggie owner; it turns the quads into one big 6ft line source. gives a much larger soundstage, adding 3db to the top end and 6db to the bottom. and it looks neat too! -b
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Post by DYohn on Jul 7, 2010 12:54:51 GMT -5
Ah, so that's what they look like with the grills off. Interesting. Any particular reason why you are stacking them? just ask any maggie owner; it turns the quads into one big 6ft line source. gives a much larger soundstage, adding 3db to the top end and 6db to the bottom. and it looks neat too! -b Ok, whatever floats your boat! Me, I've never been a fan of electrostatics, and especially not a fan of line sources. But if it works for you, then that's great! But it does look neat. The look sort of reminds me of the full range Heil AMTs I ran through a workout for a few weeks 25 years ago...
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Post by barryrobin on Jul 7, 2010 13:05:37 GMT -5
just ask any maggie owner; it turns the quads into one big 6ft line source. gives a much larger soundstage, adding 3db to the top end and 6db to the bottom. and it looks neat too! -b Ok, whatever floats your boat! Me, I've never been a fan of electrostatics, and especially not a fan of line sources. But if it works for you, then that's great! But it does look neat. The look sort of reminds me of the full range Heil AMTs I ran through a workout for a few weeks 25 years ago... heh heh! "floats yer boat"...haven't heard that expression in a long time! i admit electrostatics aren't for everybody. a lot depends on the music you play; they don't do loud or big-but that's not what they're made for. they love single instruments like pianos or violins, small-scale ensemble stuff and voices. rock, not so much. full orchestras, a but muddy. -b
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