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November 5, 2008 - 8:46am
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Now here is a "dedicated" listening room.
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Seriously dedicated.
I've participated in art installations / "sound environments" that were similar to this.
OMG, I bet that rooms sounds like absolute crap. Not only because of all the untamed reflections, but it looks like they're trying to add intentional resonance with all those musical instruments.
--Ethan
The owner says it sounds better that way.
Is he a liar?
The work of a seriously deranged mind, hahaha! The question I have is, with all that money into the gear, couldn't they just get a real floor installed, instead of all those random plywood panels laying around?
I have the evil urge to let my two year old son into that place and have some "fun". BwhooHAHAH!
Nutty, but fun.
So metal never sounds good, huh? So no organs, bells, brass instruments, metal stringed instruments - they just knocked out a good share of any orchestra.
I thought it was some Halloween decoration, with random instruments suspended in the air. But who's to say the music doesn't sound good in there? The guy likes it like that, so that is that.
Not a liar, but he surely has lousy taste and / or is uneducated in what constitutes good sound.
--Ethan
Wow, "lousy taste" and/or "uneducated."
So, he's the Sarah Palin of audio?
A veritable Donald Trump?
You'd be fun to have on jury duty.
Ethan: "Your Honor, I can tell just by looking that the defendant is uneducated and has poor taste. How about I just pronounce him guilty of conspiring to promote bad sound and we all call it a day?"
Added: Does anybody recall the speaker company that used actual brass horns in their speakers?
Was it Joli/Jolie, or something like that?
I can't find a link.
I seem to recall that they claimed listening to their speakers lowered serum cortisol levels and promoted good health.
They were from Korea, and demo'd at either a Stereophile show or CES.
LOL, sure!
Well, it's not as prejudiced as it might sound. Adding intentional acoustic resonances into a room is by definition opposite the stated goal of "high fidelity" where the idea is to reproduce sound accurately.
In recording studios, when recording an acoustic guitar in a room where a drum set is present, the engineer will always turn off the snare drum's snare to prevent it from vibrating and adding a rattle sound to the guitar. Likewise if there's a piano in the room, the lid is always closed and sometimes a moving blanket is draped on top to prevent any string resonance from being picked up.
This is really common sense stuff IMO. So while I'll stop short of saying said room owner is wrong, because taste has no right or wrong, he surely is misguided.
--Ethan