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- From: b-grant@nwu.edu (Barry Grant)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
- Subject: Re: Roomtunes was Re: speaker clamps
- Followup-To: rec.audio.high-end
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:28:34 GMT
- Organization: Northwestern University
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- Approved: tjk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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- Originator: tjk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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- In article <1e89hqINNjso@uwm.edu>, ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1dtof2INN31t@uwm.edu> b-grant@nwu.edu (Barry Grant) writes:
- > > Has anyone heard the Roomtunes speaker clamps or tried them on their
- > > speakers? I use their corner tunes, echotunes, roomtunes, and clamprack,
- >
- > In true usenet fashion, I'd like to reply to your question with another
- > question.
-
- I guess it's only fitting that I answer your question to my question.
- Roomtunes (RT) stuff doesn't deaden a room, but does take care of the
- problem you describe. The RT philosophy, as I can reconstruct it, is based
- on dispersing, not deadening, sounds. They advise moving speakers near the
- center of the room and working with as live a room as possible and then
- adding their products to improve soundstaging and get rid of slap echo and
- bass boominess. Your room sounds ideal for their products. My current
- listening room is much more alive than my previous one. It has wood floors,
- no carpeting, little furiniture--and though it took more work to get into
- shape (well, I'm still working on it, thus my post), the result is better
- sound than I had before--better soundstage, clearer sound, more information
- off the recordings.
- You are describing a live-end/dead-end philosophy of room treatment.
- This is only one approach to room treatment. In my experience, the more
- dead a room is, the less information (mostly high frequencies) you hear.
- But, I recall reading a post a few months ago describing a room with
- treatments on all the walls and ceilings that said it gave a tremendous
- soundstage, so who knows.
- I'd say though that you can't go wrong with a set of corner tunes. They
- cost about $80 for four and fit in the upper corners of a room. They
- significantly clear up the sound and improve imaging.
-
-
- Barry Grant
- Northwestern Univesity
- Evanston, Illinois
- b-grant@nwu.edu
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