Who What Where When and Why of the QuickSoundField
We're talking Who, What, Where, When and Why of the QuickSoundField. In 2006, New England Digital contacted us about a digital sampling booth. Traditional dry [...]
BassTrap Sound-Off: FuzzBalls vs TubeTraps
BassTrap Sound-Off: FuzzBalls vs TubeTraps Is a bass trap nothing more than just a container of fuzz, building insulation? Many budget bass traps are essentially [...]
Room Breakup the Audiophile’s Curse
Nothing, not even audio, is perfect all of the time. But most of the time, the audio system seems to behave just fine. Still, if [...]
What’s with HiFi These Days
What’s with HiFi these days? Nothing much, except it’s a new generation of people who are discovering it… It started in NYC in the early [...]
Buy Subwoofers Instead of Soundproofing
Buy Subwoofers Instead of Soundproofing Dec 2014, comments submitted to Audiophile Review supporting Brent Butterworth’s article about multiple subs. Good work Brent... There are other reasons [...]
More On Early Reflections
Comment to Audiophile Review, Roger Scoff, 6/19/14, Room Acoustics, "What gets you more, $10k ..." The diagram showing the direct, 1st reflection and reverberation as being [...]
Art Responds to Studio Performance Questions
Studio performance...Yes, FFT analysis has gotten pretty inexpensive since those early days in the mid 1980’s when we had to buy the Crown Techron 12 [...]
Church Carpet Not Good For Organists
Question I’m the organist at a church with a beautiful pipe organ in a historic stone church. I'm finding that church carpet is not good [...]
Limp Mass Membrane Bass Traps?
The formula f = 170/√(m x d) is often quoted as applying to limp mass membrane bass traps. The m term is surface weight (lb/sqft) [...]
Do Audio Measurements Correlate with Sound Quality?
(Originally posted on AVS forum, Dec 2013). Do Audio Measurements Correlate with Sound Quality? Sometimes yes, but usually not, depending on the kind or [...]
