From: sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au   
      
   Somewhere on teh intarwebs Arny Krueger wrote:   
   > "~misfit~"  wrote in   
   > message news:i8h2a3$dbr$1@news.eternal-september.org   
   >> Somewhere on teh intarwebs GregS wrote:   
   >>> In article   
   >>> <4c852721$0$2372$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>,   
   >>> David Nebenzahl  wrote:   
   >>>> On 9/5/2010 10:02 PM Eeyore spake thus:   
   >> [snip]   
   >>>> My point was that the floor the speakers is placed on   
   >>>> *could* easily be carpeted. Certainly not my choice of   
   >>>> floor covering here, but it exists   
   >>>> in many places out there in the wild.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And yes, I certainly wouldn't expect to see carpet in a   
   >>>> studio control room.   
   >>>   
   >>> I would say carpeting is mandatory in my view in any   
   >>> audio room. So is wall treatments, and ceiling   
   >>> treatments.   
   >>   
   >> Ahh! I fondly remember the days of gluing egg-trays to   
   >> the ceiling of the lounge until it was completely covered   
   >> from wall to wall.   
   >> Those were the days, when aesthetics took a back-seat to   
   >> sound quality.   
   >   
   > At university, my room was fairly small and some really neat egg   
   > trays were available in large volumes from the dumpster behind the   
   > residence hall kitchen. I obtained a large number of them, painted   
   > them tasteful colors, fastened them together into large panels with   
   > stiff wire, and literally covered the walls of my room with them.   
   >   
   > They had virtually no beneficial acoustical effects, which   
   > measurements bear out.   
      
   Yeah, I don't think our egg trays did anything either. Still, it was a   
   talking point. :-)   
      
   I actually have one on the side of the 100+ year-old solid timber   
   chest-of-drawers in my bedroom right now. There is a downward-firing Klipsch   
   12" sub next to it with the port only around 120mm away and aimed right at   
   the side. I don't know if that does anything either but I didn't like the   
   idea of a big port like that breathing so close to a large flat (potentially   
   resonant) surface.   
   --   
   Cheers,   
   Shaun.   
      
   "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a   
   monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also   
   into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche   
      
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