[sdiy] ot: audiophile cones was, Oh I wish I had never saidthat...

[harry]

Do you take VISA ???

H^) harry

patchell wrote:

>     We really should not be making fun of these people.
>
>     First of all, they can't help it.
>
>     Second.....they are a money making oportunity ;^).
>
>     In fact, I have found that hanging towels up in your listening room soaked in
> water removes the chalkiness from the sound.  However, for what ever reason, only
> the water that comes out of my tap seems to work, so please send me $100 and I will
> send you a quart of water.  Oh yes, polyester towels don't work.  Only pure virgin
> cotton towels will work properly, and I can sell you these for $200 each.......
>
> Magnus Danielson wrote:
>
> > From: harry <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
> > Subject: Re: [sdiy] ot: audiophile cones was, Oh I wish I had never said that...
> > Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:25:53 -0500
> >
> > > Hi Nick:
> > >
> > > My understanding is that they decouple the speaker vibrations from the
> > > mounting
> > > surface, mainly the floor. The low frequencies are poorly coupled by the
> > > tiny
> > > contact area.
> >
> > Strange... I've used to discuss how to make the speaker COUPLE to the
> > floor and walls, basically letting them become baffles. If you have a
> > bas-speaker in a room, put them tight up in two corners and you are
> > basically there, that's good use of the rooms aspects. Doing that, you
> > can pump less energy into the speaker for the same effect.
> >
> > If you place the speakers somewhere in the middle of a wall (say
> > halfway to the corners from the center), then the speakers will have
> > to emit energy into twice the space-angle as if they where in the
> > corners. This is all classical schoolbook stuff.
> >
> > > Some folk like alternating layers of foam and something heavy.. like
> > > wood... concrete
> > > etc.
> >
> > That would form a good decouple of lowfreq stuff, but I wounder if the
> > effect would be very prestine. These people tend to use vented
> > speakers anyway, and then you've lost before you got started. Most of
> > the stuff I've seen is passively filtered, then you have a big looser
> > on your hands.
> >
> > Then you have manufactors that doesn't know what polarity means. Oh
> > my. You *really* want to check polarity before you start doing
> > anything, especially on bas-speakers. You sense more "punch" if you
> > have the polarity right (that is, a positive going kick pushes air out
> > of the cone and into your chest, just as a real bassdrum would).
> >
> > > I like laughing a little bit at this behavior...
> >
> > Please do, please do.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Magnus
>
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