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01-16-10
Hello steve! thanks so much for the info! beautiful workmans ... Eddiesudz
01-17-10
01-16-10: mikelavigne writes: lucky man. i actually hope f ... Metralla
01-17-10
Again great systen! you went to reed "l" from a sm ... Gerrym5
01-17-10
Ed, the stereo dartzeel nhb-108 is no slouch. what you hear ... Mikelavigne
01-17-10
Metralla, i know what you mean. will the difference between ... Mikelavigne
01-17-10
Hi gerry, i did consider the sme 312s awhile back (about 2 ... Mikelavigne
01-19-10
Here we go. tomorrow -12- 4' x 8' sheets of quietrock 545t ... Mikelavigne
01-19-10
Mike, long time no speak. i was visiting steve williams in d ... Ugamotz
01-19-10
Mike, here are some thoughts on your room bass imbalance and ... Zargon
01-19-10
Hi marty, good to hear from you. i read about the confab in ... Mikelavigne
01-19-10
Zargon wrote; my posts from 1/12/2010 above get into more ... Mikelavigne
01-20-10
Mike, i did read your earlier post and am impressed by how ... Zargon
01-20-10
So let me get this straight, you paid rives to design and bu ... Carlos269
01-20-10
Zargon, thanks. yes, it will be interesting for me to see h ... Mikelavigne
01-21-10
Got home tonight, went out to check out the progress. about ... Mikelavigne
01-22-10
Hey, mike, you're definitely not pathetic :-) looking forw ... C1ferrari
01-22-10
Good luck mike. can't wait to hear the results. i'm sure it ... Crna39
01-22-10
Hi mike, will you be trying the ea bnc interconnects too? it ... Mtkhl567
01-22-10
Sam, thanks. the dart monoblocks are sitting safely in the ... Mikelavigne
01-22-10
Bruce, thanks. i was hopeing you (and your dialed in ears) ... Mikelavigne
01-22-10
Henry, i've had the evolution acoustics bnc's in my system ... Mikelavigne
01-22-10
Henry, the monoblocks, the mm7's, so many nice places to sp ... Mikelavigne
01-22-10
Hi mike, good luck on the room adjustments. i have to agr ... Grr6001
01-23-10
Good evening, mike, sounds like an exciting weekend...wish ... C1ferrari
01-23-10
From 6:30pm till 10:30pm i cleaned and worked on setting the ... Mikelavigne
01-23-10
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; consider me corrupted. ... Mikelavigne
01-23-10
mike, you are likely feeling the increase pressure in the r ... Zargon
01-23-10
Congrats, mike - i think you're having fun... "the bas ... C1ferrari
01-25-10
Sam and zargon, i'm having fun and i do by a wide margin pre ... Mikelavigne
01-25-10
It certainly complicates understanding the room effects by c ... Zargon
01-25-10
I listened on friday night with the stereo 108 amp, then sat ... Mikelavigne
01-25-10
I'll add that there is no hurry to button up the room; i liv ... Mikelavigne
01-25-10
Try not to confuse yourself. never make more than one change ... Idos
01-25-10
:) thanks. Mikelavigne
01-25-10
It seemed like there is a bit of image smearing from the exp ... Mikelavigne
01-26-10
"...determine whether i can (possibly) justify the inve ... C1ferrari
01-26-10
Mike, many thanks for allowing the visit previously. i am ... Glai
01-26-10: Mikelavigne
yesterday my contractor re-installed the fabric panels without the 1" fibreglass. i went home at lunch time to see how it was progressing. they had just finished hanging the last panel.....so i sat down and listened for 5 minutes.
the slight smearing was gone, but the sound was dulled and blunted too much, it was too clean.....the life of the music was missing compared to the naked Quietrock. the decay and air was missing.
it was clear what that cloth did to the sound.
the bass performance was still wonderful.
as i drove back to work i called Chis Huston and spoke about my impressions. Chris mentioned that the fabric was specd for a bass trap and is not acoustically transparent. we talked about alternatives.
last night i went home and listened for a hour to make sure my earlier brief impressions were correct. they were.
i need to retain the life of the bare Quietrock, add some diffusion, but hopefully still have some sort of wall where the fabric panels are. otherwise i'd need to refinish that whole area.
i have concluded that what i need is to attach some diffusion directly on top of the Quietrock and then have acoustically transparent fabric (like a grill cloth) in a matching color installed over the frames. the diffusion can be minimal, and it's ok for the fabric to dampen the highs just a touch (compared to the bare Quietrock).
looking back now at the various components of the bass traps and walls; i understand what i (and room visitors) had been hearing over these years. the wall structure, the fibreglass dampening, and the fabric covering all had their own affect.
tomorrow my contractor will return and remove the fabric panels. then i will measure and assess whether my idea of the diffusion and different cloth covers is the right way to go.
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01-26-10
Hi gordon, you are welcome, that was back in sept 2008 as i ... Mikelavigne
01-26-10
Gordon, one additional thought. ask rives about adding a la ... Mikelavigne
01-26-10
Mike, shouldn't both sides of the room have similar high fr ... Idos
01-26-10
idos, i'm not sure what you are referring to. i did not i ... Mikelavigne
01-26-10
As i indicated in my story above, allowing bass energy to es ... Zargon
01-26-10
Mike, sorry, i must have misunderstood. i thought you were s ... Idos
01-26-10
yes; everything done on one side is done identically on the ... Mikelavigne
01-26-10
Hi, mike, thanks for the updates. it'll be interesting to ... C1ferrari
01-26-10
Sam, come up to mike's this weekend. i will be visiting an ... Jtinn
01-27-10
I just listened to a new tape project tape, tp-011, linda ... Mikelavigne
01-27-10
Hi jonathan, i'm sorely tempted! it'd be great to be of an ... C1ferrari
01-27-10
Mike, yes, i have fond memories of your courtesy and your s ... Glai
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