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Posted by Peter Gunn (M) on April 30, 2003 at 15:18:39

In Reply to: Re: Room Tweak report and other observations posted by jjqiv on April 30, 2003 at 14:34:53:

Yes, vinyl was chosen deliberately.

The back wave is what makes a planer speaker different from a cabinet one, and gives it it's special sound. But it has seemed to me that too often people seem like they are trying to kill that back wave, by moving the speaker way into the room, or filling it with traps and all sorts of things.

To my way of thinking, if you don't want the back wave, don't get maggies. You CANNOT kill the back wave from them, once it's produced, it's out there. And one should not be trying to eliminate it anyway. It is an asset that needs to be tamed, not removed.

Fabrics absorb sound too much and we felt that would kill too much of the back wave. The vinyl is soft, and has some give due to the batting, but it is still reflective. What this configuration seems to do is both break up the waves and slow them down slightly.

The former effect removed the echo problems of the square room, and the latter is what is responsible for the widened soundstage I believe. That slight delay gives the impression of a bigger room, and the system certainly plays that way now. I have not heard a room this size have such a nice soundstage, and at times it almost seems to expand beyond the walls.

Fabric might work if it was a tight weave, but I think burlap would be a failure. In any case I don't think you'd get the same bass improvement from fabric over vinyl. This was just a common sense guess on our parts, but the results seem to bear it out. The gains were very real and obvious.

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Topic - Room Tweak report and other observations - Peter Gunn 07:28:32 04/30/03 (17)

Rectangles - magmann 16:14:52 04/30/03 (1)

Re: Rectangles - Peter Gunn 17:54:06 04/30/03 (0)

Re: Room Tweak report and other observations - jjqiv 14:34:53 04/30/03 (1)

Material choice - Peter Gunn 15:18:39 04/30/03 (0)

looks like an excellent candidate for [Tweaks] - Mart 08:43:00 04/30/03 (1)

Re: looks like an excellent candidate for [Tweaks] - Peter Gunn 09:47:13 04/30/03 (0)

Nice Vern Yip take-off! Really nice. :) - grantv 08:09:53 04/30/03 (6)

I prefer a 'man's man' decor show - Green Lantern 16:06:16 05/01/03 (1)

Can you say "Faaaaabulous!?!?!?"" - ChristopherLowell 22:13:29 05/03/03 (0)

the Trading Spaces lie - Peter Gunn 08:34:05 04/30/03 (3)

Let me say this much. - grantv 09:08:41 04/30/03 (2)

One other too... - Peter Gunn 11:35:12 04/30/03 (1)

OMG! Trading Spaces! - TommyD 16:53:44 04/30/03 (0)

Re: Room Tweak report and other observations - Green Lantern 08:04:24 04/30/03 (3)

Thanks - Peter Gunn 08:06:39 04/30/03 (2)

am wondering.. - Green Lantern 08:45:26 04/30/03 (1)

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