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RE: just one little comment (okay, two)

Posted by Peter Gunn (M) on November 11, 2009 at 07:47:56

In Reply to: just one little comment (okay, two) posted by wazoo on November 11, 2009 at 04:57:25:

I deleted my first reply because I did say resonate but you took it entirely out of context. I was referring to the resonance of the decaying musical notes made by the driver, not any resonance coming from the frame.

First, living and dead trees? Waz, 3/4 (or more) of every living tree is a dead tree. As it grows a new ring each year, an old one dies. (sapwood and heartwood) It does this because the heartwood is essentially it's skeletal structure, and if anything it retains the ability to dissipate vibrations more because that is now it's main job. It is no longer transferring nutrients to the leaves.

It doesn't know it got cut and is sitting on a lumber pile, or is now speaker frames, so it keeps doing what nature designed it to do - dissipate vibrational energy so the tree doesn't break. I don't know why you think some magical transformation happens, but it doesn't. Nothing changes, except the moisture content. Heartwood is only wet because it's trapped inside a wet tree, and it has no interaction with the "living" parts of the tree anymore once it is heartwood. It is the same in or out of that tree. (and you can make it just like it's old self by steaming it) I don't know where you got the idea from that it's different, but you are very incorrect.

Wood only changes when it begins to decay, as then the cell structure breaks down. That is why I don't use spalted wood for frames. It gets used for furniture, but it clearly feels "wrong" when you hold it. It has lost much of it's mass, and it clearly no longer has any elastic, vibrational properties. Spalted wood snaps very easily and it "feels" dead.

Dynamats are an engineered, un-natural material. As a result it behaves in, let us say, an un-analog, un-natural way. It simply stops vibration cold. Wood does not remove vibration that way, so they cannot sound alike.

To close, I really think arguing is your new hobby (or should I say arguing with me) and this wasn't even a line of questioning worth wasting time on. It was pointless gossamer. You're lucky enough to actually have a working stereo, unlike me. I suggest you go use and enjoy it.

It's all about the music...

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