Room rebuild

RE: Room rebuild, posted on March 21, 2015 at 03:44:54
geoffkait	Medium blue is best for walls. Medium green is best for the ceiling. I'm not hot dogging you.

Really, Geoff?, posted on March 21, 2015 at 15:00:55

Winston Smith
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Where did you get that info? Your own experience, or research?

BTW, I hope you're doing great. (And I may need some more DM from you soon. I'll let you know when I do.)

Miss you over at tweaks, but, well, c'est la vie.....

BTW, my Music Rooms were either all wood walls and ceilings (Los Angeles) or white paint on gypsum board walls (boring but looks fine; wife liked it a lot) with a breath-taking knotty (naughty?) spruce ceiling stained a lovely deep brown (here in New Zealand.)

Cheers,

WS

RE: Room rebuild, posted on March 21, 2015 at 19:12:47
Cameraman Audiophile Posts: 396 Location: 33701 Joined: September 25, 2011	Thanx for the info couldn't find much out there Thanx

Would I kid you?, posted on March 22, 2015 at 06:29:47
geoffkait	Perhaps you're unfamiliar with my Blue Meanies and Green Meanies, both of which are based on how boundaries and their colors influence our perceptions and how claustrophobia is not particularly good for the sound.

RE: Would I kid you?, posted on March 24, 2015 at 10:11:51
zako Audiophile Posts: 935 Location: Mo. Joined: March 29, 2004	Black is my best,,,Very restfull

You need frequency sensitive paint, posted on March 30, 2015 at 10:36:30
jedrider Audiophile Posts: 15166 Location: No. California Joined: December 26, 2003	It must be possible, don't you think?

RE: You need frequency sensitive paint, posted on March 30, 2015 at 10:41:55
Cameraman Audiophile Posts: 396 Location: 33701 Joined: September 25, 2011	Sure kinda like a mood ring for paint? Thanx

RE: You need frequency sensitive paint, posted on April 5, 2015 at 11:42:42
Presto Audiophile Posts: 5957 Location: Canada Joined: November 10, 2004	I don't think it's a stretch that open-cell flat-colored paints are going to be less reflective at certain frequencies than smoother surfaces... it's not going to be a massive effect I don't think... I wonder if it would show up on reverberation time plots. Cheers, Presto

Bullocks, posted on April 5, 2015 at 11:46:44

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Mapleshade. All the way.

For me, room color is more about the mood it puts me in because mood alters perception.

I like colors with red, brown, orange and yellow hues. Earth tones of an autumn variation. With soft light, not this in your face LED crap.

The worst rooms for me are the "modern" monochromatic rooms with high-color-temperature lighting. Makes me feel like I am in a nicely outfitted classroom.

If I am not in, or can't GET in, a relaxed state of mind in which I can connect with the music, I may as well be lifting weights and cranking Rammstein. Not to say that's not a valid use of my time, it's just not my definition of "audiophile listening".

Cheers,
Presto

RE: Bullocks, posted on April 5, 2015 at 14:14:25

geoffkait

You seem to be of the opinion that you're in control of your perceptions, right? Let me guess, you're one of those guys that thinks he can't be hypnotized.do you think we're aware of the colors in the room even when the lights are off and it's completely dark? If you were blindfolded and taken into a strange listening room do you think you could tell what colors the walls are in a controlled blind test?

RE: Bullocks, posted on April 5, 2015 at 15:23:48

Presto
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You can't control your perceptions. But you can influence them.
That's what being an audiophile is! That's what being a foodie is too I think...

It's all about influencing your perceptions, with processes either real or imagined. And if perceptions are altered, and in a way that is deemed pleasing...

Then that doesn't really matter either.

So yes, since I listen with my eyes open (to watch the instruments and vocalist play in and around the sound stage) I like a room that has soothing decorum and lighting.

If I was blind, or listened blindfolded, then maybe I would not bother to paint or worry about the aesthetic.

Cheers,
Presto

RE: You need frequency sensitive paint, posted on April 14, 2015 at 07:14:16

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He can try electrically conductive paint to shield his room from EMI/RFI and from emitting EMI/RFI. Unless he prefers aluminum foil, of course.

Electrically Conductive Paints and Coatings

RE: You need frequency sensitive paint, posted on April 26, 2015 at 20:45:44
pictureguy Audiophile Posts: 22597 Location: SoCal Joined: October 19, 2008	Such a room NEEDS a Schumann generator. Too much is never enough

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