Tweakers' Asylum: dude, I'm actively experimenting with these in multiple settings by tonemaniac

Tweakers' Asylum: dude, I'm actively experimenting with these in multiple settings by tonemaniac

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In Reply to: Re: We have a reasonable acoustic explanation. posted by KlausR. on November 22, 2006 at 01:40:16:

Theory is all good and well... just don't confuse a seductive or intellectually appealing theory with stepwise empirical application... I've installed these in "live" vocal production settings, so we're not listening to reproduced or amplified music, only to spoken or sung human voices, and they make a distinct difference that naive listeners can easily discern (to eliminate the placebo effect they were hidden behind a thin scrim curtain at the rear of the stage)... and yes, different alloys do distinctly different things... simultaneously I have a set in my office where I listen to reproduced music, and a third one at home that I play with on top of, behind, in front of my television... in every case, consistently, with the theramal veriations I have noticed before, there IS a powerful effect... and I'm a 50 year old guy with tinnitus... and, yeah, there is a store downstains from the studio which sells..... tibetan singing bowls ! And yup, they are all there, tuned to every note, so sometimes I go down and hang around the singing bowls and try to detect something... unlike the Tchangs, the bowls are tuned deep, to fundamentals, and thus I expect hard to energize... I have considered decorating the space behind my speakers with a "tibetan gamelan" made from a group of these bowls but they are quite large and have long decays...

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Topic - Acoustic System Resonators - follow-up - KlausR. 23:23:28 11/17/06 ( 40)

Re: Acoustic System Resonators - follow-up - Tuckers 19:01:12 11/21/06 ( 9)
- Re: Acoustic System Resonators - follow-up - Tuckers 13:00:38 11/27/06 ( 1)
  - Re: There is an acoustic theory - KlausR. 06:20:28 11/28/06 ( 0)
- Re: We have a reasonable acoustic explanation. - KlausR. 01:40:16 11/22/06 ( 6)
  - dude, I'm actively experimenting with these in multiple settings - tonemaniac 11/22/06 08:35:52 11/22/06 ( 5)
    - Re: different alloys do distinctly different things... - KlausR. 10:00:15 11/22/06 ( 4)
      - were you some kind of psychologist in your previous incarnation ? - tonemaniac 10:43:50 11/22/06 ( 3)
        
        Re: I trust my perceptions - KlausR. 21:51:55 11/22/06 ( 2)
        
        How can we when we have no idea what this mysterious "challenge" is - tonemaniac 00:27:13 11/23/06 ( 1)
        
        Re: reading about contemporary neuroscience - KlausR. 21:21:51 11/23/06 ( 0)
I own 7 of them, they work better than advertized, however... - tonemaniac 15:48:15 11/20/06 ( 13)
- You look like the ideal candidate for my test CD!!! - KlausR. 05:18:03 11/22/06 ( 0)
- Science, pseudoscience, spurious explanations of real phenomena - bartc 20:46:08 11/20/06 ( 11)
  - The effects, when properly set up, are unmistakable - tonemaniac 05:26:34 11/21/06 ( 10)
    - And you are describing an ancient technology - bartc 06:01:20 11/21/06 ( 9)
      - Re: And you are describing an ancient technology - Steve Eddy 13:34:47 11/21/06 ( 3)
        
        I suspect there are 2 resonance characteristics at least in play - bartc 15:54:30 11/21/06 ( 2)
        
        Re: I suspect there are 2 resonance characteristics at least in play - Steve Eddy 19:05:25 11/21/06 ( 1)
        
        Well you got me there - bartc 21:02:57 11/21/06 ( 0)
      - Re: "Ancient technology used by the Greeks" - geoffkait 06:42:30 11/21/06 ( 4)
        
        well, the nice thing is they stay out of the signal chain - tonemaniac 09:30:54 11/21/06 ( 1)
        
        Re: "they stay out of the signal chain" - geoffkait 14:44:05 11/21/06 ( 0)
        
        Don't you have anything better to do... - Wellfed 09:27:49 11/21/06 ( 1)
        
        Re: Better shape up or I'll - geoffkait 11:21:49 11/21/06 ( 0)
How I would "translate" explanation c... - Steve Parry 23:39:48 11/17/06 ( 6)
- Do we have to re-write the acoustics textbooks? (nt) - KlausR. 01:54:30 11/18/06 ( 4)
  - As though they don't need to be rewritten, if only the science were more complete. nt - Norm 10:32:09 11/23/06 ( 2)
    - Maybe it takes more than a French goldsmith and a review in 6moons! nt - KlausR. 01:04:31 11/25/06 ( 1)
      - Re: Stereo Times review, Nov 2004 - geoffkait 02:53:51 11/26/06 ( 0)
  - Re: Pop over to General Asylum and - geoffkait 16:25:50 11/18/06 ( 0)
- Hah, for little bells, I would hope not!...though one can be... - Steve Parry 07:24:01 11/18/06 ( 0)
Re: Acoustic System Resonators - follow-up - zako 06:45:09 11/18/06 ( 0)
Maybe the toilet bowl is the real reason - The Killer Piglet 11:44:45 11/18/06 ( 1)
- Is it better if the bowl is half empty or half full ?nt - JB 10:54:32 11/21/06 ( 0)
How 's the resarch Re: your unsubstantiated claims about standing waves inside a speaker enclosure coming along? - bjh 17:06:06 11/18/06 ( 2)
- Grow up, kid, then we talk (nt) - KlausR. 22:04:56 11/18/06 ( 1)
  - Aggression won't make your problem go away. nt - bjh 05:46:21 11/19/06 ( 0)
And this is on Critic's Corner why? (nt) - mkuller 19:29:30 11/19/06 ( 0)
And what did you think when you tried them? - Sordidman 11:11:27 11/20/06 ( 1)
- Those that say don't know, Those that know don't say... Lao Tzu - tonemaniac 15:50:32 11/20/06 ( 0)