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Anyone used the IKEA LERBERG wall-mounted cd/dvd racks? I've run multiple searches, and unless I've made some idiotic posting error (a distinct possibility), no one at the Assylum has EVER mentioned them. They look good, but you never know.....that's what this thing is for, roght???
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You might want to check out the Boltz racks.
I didn't use their floor stands. I raised them off of the floor and bolted them to the wall so I could vacuum underneath. Also helps with the earthquakes if the wall doesn't come down first =).
They are available in different sizes and also expandable if your collection grows. I started out with their 600 rack and then added another 600 extension.
They are not cheap, but they are much less expensive than I had imagined.
Dave
CD rack? Soo 90s...
There are FLACs and WAVs stacked on a NAS, palyed by a streamer...
mp3? So 00s...
As opposed to what? Mp3 or mp4 downloads? I getting old, but my ears haven't turned all of the way to tin yet.
I haven't used the CD rack but I am planning to buy it and have looked them over carefully. I do use the IKEA record racks and tables. The materials are not expensive (I.E. cheap, except on there more expensive stuff), but the engineering is very good. It is better than the stuff I see at Target and other big box stores. Everything I have works and holds up well. I recommend gluing the dowels when you put it together.
Dave
Pretty sure these are all steel. I don't see anything to stop the discs from sliding out and falling, though. It doesn't appear that they hang at an angle that would prevent that. Otherwise, they look good. And solid. And at $6 per 60 discs, they're a bit more economical than those pressboard-with-pictures-of-wood-on-them upright racks that are made by five or six different companies.
I am also considering Ikea Expidit shelving units, which are ideally sized for lps, and look sturdy enough to provide a solid base for my t/t, preamp, SACD player, etc.
I must have confused it with another model. The one I was talking about looks like a mini-Expidit. The Expidit is what I use for record shelves, and I think they are great. I think they were actually designed to be record shelves but when records when out of fashion, they re-purposed them. An Expidit loaded with records is also a great sound diffuser. I have 3 of them! (The one pictured is not mine.)Dave
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Unfortunately, I'm limited by the size of my listening room (about 12'6" square) and door and window placement (two std. doors, a double french door(almost always open) and two windows) for what I cn do for sound absorbation and diffusion.
I guess, since I've got a window, with a 2" wooden slat venetian blind on tt the right of the right speaker, I could cheat and call that a diffuser, and build a DIY woooden diffuser of varying size blocks or slats (lots of plans on net) for the correponding spot on th left. Actually, I'm starting to warm to that iea. I will make some tube corner traps (except in corners where the doors interfere) and triangular absorbers for the cieling corners.
I'd hope that'd deal with most of the nils. I eventually (I dream) will get a Simplifi Audio Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core room correction box, which is supposed to smooth out the bumps in the response of both the mains (Newform R645s) and the subs (old Velodyne acceleromter-corrected jobs) if it's placed between the preamp (ASL autoformer passive) and the crossover (older Nak -100).
We'll see how much of this I actually accomplish.
"We're all doing what we can!" You DIY wooden diffusers traps and triangles are good ideas. You should post your results in the DIY Asylum. I plan to put venetian blinds on the windows in my sound room. They have drapes, but I still think the blinds will enhance the effect.I have never tried a room correction box, but the idea seems sound.
Dave
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...might have a better effect but they are more expensive than venetian blinds.
By "plantation shutters," do you mean those usually unfinished interior shutters that have a wooden wand, for lack of a more precise term, conneced to each of the pivoting slats via staples, so that all slats are adjusted simultaiously with a manipultion of it? I'd think they'd tend to rattle like a MF to material recorded as whatever frequency each shutter is (randomly) sympethic. Or am I missing the obvious (happens all the time!) ?
OOOOHHH. I see.
In fact you bring up a good point about the potential vibrations. Shutter buzzing would not be a good thing. I was only considering the fact that each shutter could be individually adjusted for a possible sonic benefit in diffusing the sound. Probably not worth the effort and expense.
Well, I guess even a blind squirrel like me finds the occassional acorn. You know, just after posting that message, it occurred to me that there is a variation of those shutters which are pretty much the same, but with fixed (presumably non-rattling) slats. But that would not give you the ability to have varying angles, would it?
Have you checked out the "How to...." site? (ihow to, or something like that). Just google "How to make an acoustic panel," or "How to make a sonic diffuser," or "how to whatever...." You get the idea. Anyway, they've got a dozen or more recipes for DIY sound absorbing panels, sound diffusing panels, tubular bass traps (run "bass trap" on the search function, and you'll get sonic cures AND fish traps!), and a bunch of other things for treating your listening room (or recording studio). Most of it is cheap, and general enough thaat use can combine ideas from two or three recipes for the same thing.
It occurrred to me to suggest that site to you in particular because of two or three wooden diffusion (as distinct from absorption) pannels I've lloked at there. One invlovlved long vertical wooden slats at varying depths. Another used 1" x1" wooden blocks of various lentghs glued to a backing board, from which they would in turn protrude by those varying lentghs in a specific placement that avoids any two blocks of the same depth being side by side. (that's a mouthful! And probably a textbook example of a run-on sentence. But you get the idea...)
I don't recall pictures of the finished projects on most of these pages, but both sound like (no pun intended) they'd produce something very similar to diffusers I've seen in photos of high dollar custom home installs and recording studios. I'm thinking of making one or the other to go on the wall opposit to my wooden blinds (these spots are about two feet in front of, and three feet to the side of, my main speakers, so they need SOMETHING!.
Anyway, a potentially positive suggestion to balance out my previous nay-saying.
Dave
From Home Depot.
Dave
P;lastic, as in those molded foam diffusers? Those look pretty pricey to me.
Plastic as in plastic venetian binds.
Dave
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