In Reply to: RE: "I had a several hour audition at Linkwitz' home this past May" posted by Robert C. Lang on October 27, 2008 at 23:31:43:
An open window or door to the outside is a great bass (reflection) trap.
Any room opening that reduces reflections between two opposing surfaces inside your room would be working as a bass trap.
A rough rule of thumb: If a room opening is more than 1/3 the area of the surrounding wall, the bass may not even "see" that wall, and may bounce off a wall of the NEXT room before returning to your room.
I suppose you could measure this with a door open, and then with the door closed, assuming there was a door.
An open door to another room can also act like a speaker port, with air in the next room resonating at a certain frequency ... and a hall can resonate like a speaker port, or act like an echo chamber, especially if behind your ears.
All these potential problems are why I bring my stereo outside and listen there.
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Richard BassNut Greene
"The Floyd R. Turbo of Bingham Farms Michigan"
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- an adjacent room can serve as a bass trap and, if so, how would that work? - Richard BassNut Greene 07:55:14 10/28/08 (0)