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• Re: room lens with a twist - Jon Risch 21:17:50 03/09/03 (6)
  In Reply to: room lens with a twist posted by green lantern on March 09, 2003 at 17:29:25:

  Nice disguise with the fake vines trailing down the pipes.

  However, I do want to point out that the room lens do mostly diffusion, and as a secondary and relatively minor effect SOME room mode damping.

  You do not say if you have holes in the bases of you versions, if the pipes are closed off, they would not work at similar frequencies to the original Argent versions, stuffing or not.

  It also looks from the pictures, that the spacing between the pipes is fairly wide, this also does not duplicate the Argent versions. Not being able to readily measure the difussion effects, I can not say if this is a problem, but it is safe to say that the Argent versions work with the closer spacing they use.

  Finally, the use of wheels on the base may be OK on solid floors, without kids or pets present, but the stability might not be good enough for said kids or pets, and would pose a potential stability problem for carpeting.

  For carpeting, spikes of some sort (home made or otherwise) would be more appropriate, and more likely to provide a stable unit.

  
  Jon Risch
  
  

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  • Re: room lens with a twist - Green Lantern 04:49:35 03/10/03 (0)
    In Reply to: Re: room lens with a twist posted by Jon Risch on March 09, 2003 at 21:17:50:

    thanks John I'll make the necessary changes
    

    good listening- GL
    
    
    

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  • Jon, a question relating to lens decoration & WAF - bartc 21:36:02 03/09/03 (4)
    In Reply to: Re: room lens with a twist posted by Jon Risch on March 09, 2003 at 21:17:50:

    Jon, by your instructions I built a set of 2 clones and am having a blast with them behind my smallish Energy XL nearfields. The acoustics and soundstaging are really something! Thanks for insisting on sticking with the original design as much as possible; it does work as you suggested.

    Now my question: this vine thing, does it interfere with the room lens effect in any way? My wife would LOVE for me to do that to what she calls my "shrine" architecture...

    This is NOT a joke or a trick question! I'm serious.
    
    

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    • Re: Jon, a question relating to lens decoration & WAF - Jon Risch 10:16:13 03/10/03 (3)
      In Reply to: Jon, a question relating to lens decoration & WAF posted by bartc on March 09, 2003 at 21:36:02:

      As long as you did not close up the space between the pipes significantly, then it should not be a problem.

      The fake vines would tend to provide localized random difussion as long as the leaves were not all pointing in the same direction.

      I would not go overboard with the amount of vines used.

      
      Jon Risch
      
      

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      • One more question, Jon... - vrgard 13:11:52 03/10/03 (2)
        In Reply to: Re: Jon, a question relating to lens decoration & WAF posted by Jon Risch on March 10, 2003 at 10:16:13:

        Any sonic detriment to entirely covering the room lenses with a (relatively) acoustic transparent material like what you recommend for bass traps? I'm just thinking that, while it would create a bit more of a monolithic structure, it would hide the pipes/lens and might be more attractive (or at least generate fewer questions) than the exposed pipes/lens do. What are your thoughts?

        Thanks,
        Randy
        
        

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        • Re: One more question, Jon... - Jon Risch 22:00:10 03/10/03 (1)
          In Reply to: One more question, Jon... posted by vrgard on March 10, 2003 at 13:11:52:

          Sure. But use speaker grille cloth, as burlap actaully absorbs some of the sound and reflects little.

          You could even turn it into a Monolith, by covering the base and top board, and making them larger. This should hide the pipes even better.
          Jon Risch
          
          

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          • on a related note - Mart 22:15:47 03/11/03 (0)
            In Reply to: Re: One more question, Jon... posted by Jon Risch on March 10, 2003 at 22:00:10:

            duplicate thread 's simultaneous conversation depicting other thoughts
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