The Golden Section is just one among many, mostly ancient, geometrical methods/systems for structuring pleasing VISUAL proportions in the physical world. Any association with room acoustics, sound, or vibrational progressions is pure rubbish, and something the Greeks never contemplated -- expecially since they hadn't learned much about volume calculations at that time; something upon which acoustics fundamentally depends.
And then there's the Fibonacci numbers and those people who have turned themselves into pretzels trying to link them to Golden Ratio progressions. It all reminds me of the story about the guy who was obsessed with measuring every circle he saw -- trying to see if Pi would ever come out an even THREE!! It's simply PAINFUL watching people grasping to make these meaningless connections when any acoustician will tell you that absolute dimensions of a space relative to volume, and not their ratio, are what affect acoustic properties.
This is a good primer on the subject: http://www.friesian.com/golden.htm All this ridiculous hype would die a quick death, if folks just do a little research. It's as easy as g-o-o-g-l-e !!
And SHAME on you, George Cardas!!
And then there's the Fibonacci numbers and those people who have turned themselves into pretzels trying to link them to Golden Ratio progressions. It all reminds me of the story about the guy who was obsessed with measuring every circle he saw -- trying to see if Pi would ever come out an even THREE!! It's simply PAINFUL watching people grasping to make these meaningless connections when any acoustician will tell you that absolute dimensions of a space relative to volume, and not their ratio, are what affect acoustic properties.
This is a good primer on the subject: http://www.friesian.com/golden.htm All this ridiculous hype would die a quick death, if folks just do a little research. It's as easy as g-o-o-g-l-e !!
And SHAME on you, George Cardas!!