yeah that's the problem, they do eat up a lot of space, we have a plant on top of mine so it looks like a table kinda
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 February 2024 14:12 (four months ago) link
Yeah mine is down firing with a wood veneer so it looks pretty innocuous in the corner. Usually has a few records or CDs on top.
― woof, Friday, 9 February 2024 14:17 (four months ago) link
My little entertainment room is pretty cluttered, but I have a space carved out for the sub in front of the stereo between a couple vinyl crates. I spend about 90% of my waking time at home in this room, and no one else usually comes in here, so I'm cool with the encroaching mess.
I'm aiming for what woof described, subtly filling out the low frequencies that the mains can't quite handle, I think I can tweak it to be fairly balanced. It will also give me an opportunity to try out the sock trick, because I may no longer need the lows coming out of the towers.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 9 February 2024 14:32 (four months ago) link
should be able to set the crossover on the receiver so the speakers aren't sent much bass
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 9 February 2024 14:44 (four months ago) link
as a lifelong apartment dweller having a sub would make me feel too guilty
― 龜, Friday, 9 February 2024 14:47 (four months ago) link
Ditto—I don’t even have one on my home theater system for that reason, especially as I am someone who is often annoyed at others’ apartment noise.
― blatherskite, Friday, 9 February 2024 18:52 (four months ago) link
Has this been shared yet?
https://hypebeast.com/2024/2/brian-eno-light-changing-turntable-ii
― Indexed, Friday, 9 February 2024 19:10 (four months ago) link
my kids have night lights that are similar to that turntable, it's just that they're animal-shaped rather than turntable-shaped, I will try to remember to look at them the next time I listen to some music
― silverfish, Friday, 9 February 2024 19:34 (four months ago) link
I should be receiving the sub sometime today, so in anticipation, I've been fooling around with the placement of the Polks. I pulled them forward by about 1/2 foot, which immediately reduced the boominess and added transparency, possibly too much but I'm assuming the sub will help fill that out. I also straightened them out instead of having them pointed in a triangle shape toward me to help emphasize the stereo image over the center. It's a pretty dramatic change soundwise and I'm not yet sure if I will stick with it, but it's good to know that it can be adjusted rather dramatically through small speaker movements.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:15 (four months ago) link
yeah I have these bigass Paradigm speakers on stands in a room maybe 16 x 16? and inches of adjustment definitely make a difference
― Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:17 (four months ago) link
this was helpful in showing me how to think about it, I like the emphasis on trusting your ears as you adjust
https://imgur.com/MhkQwCo
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:21 (four months ago) link
one thing i'd really like to do is getting into room treatment, i.e. hanging carpets or other soft stuff up on the walls to reduce echo. of course they sell special audiophile foam stuff for this too.
― 龜, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:02 (four months ago) link
I've been pondering this for my music studio room. It seems that a few well-placed high quality panels is preferable to putting a bunch of those inexpensive tiles up. I probably won't mess with it until I first replace my studio monitors because the ones I have now are garbage.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:16 (four months ago) link
Generally I think reflections are the easy targets for room improvement - thicker pile rugs, a sheet of (even thin) fabric hanging an inch inside the wall, deadening material concealed on the underside of tables, etc.Glad that getting the Polks away from the wall sharpened things up!
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:38 (four months ago) link
I got the sub, it's enormous! My biggest challenge is going to be figuring out how to set it so that it is audible without completely overwhelming everything else. Trying to keep it tight and punchy, rather than full house shaking rumble. This is resulting in rather dramatic shifts to the overall EQ scheme to help find the right balance. I have a feeling I'll be messing around with this for a while until I'm fully satisfied.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 16:20 (four months ago) link
I would say to err on the side of house shaking rumble :)
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 16:21 (four months ago) link
this is pretty helpful on setting the crossover
https://www.svsound.com/blogs/subwoofer-setup-and-tuning/tips-for-setting-the-proper-crossover-frequency-for-a-subwoofer
on the level i sort of dialed it in just to the point where it was noticable
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 19:22 (four months ago) link
I think I have this mostly set how I want it. The big sub has a pretty different sound from the Edifier one, but it sounds good, more deep and rubbery vs the chest thump of the Edifier sub.
Here's what it all looks like, the sub is down on the floor by the right loudspeakerhttps://dl.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mi08xg1wysms3uea2rllz/20240219_165934.jpg?rlkey=cb5dip7ovmrmpavxl2l1amozy
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 19 February 2024 23:08 (four months ago) link
oh good, now I can stop holding my tongue about how wood paneling and carpet work pretty well with acoustics 😉
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 19 February 2024 23:53 (four months ago) link
to say nothing of the acoustically beneficial properties of mickey mouse gnome figurines
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 00:18 (four months ago) link
I didn't really know if the wood is good or bad, I could imagine it reflecting some stuff but maybe not because it's more porous?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 01:14 (four months ago) link
I was trying not to be creepy with "Wait, I know the room he's describing! I've been there!"
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 17:18 (four months ago) link
lol, it's a true statement and not at all creepy, mh happens to be the only ILX person to have visited the Moodles home, although a bunch of folks from here have seen this same room in zoom sessions
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 17:35 (four months ago) link
But why place the Eames chair off-center?!
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 18:02 (four months ago) link
it's the only place it will really fit in that room, photo was taken from the perspective of the big sofa on the opposite wall where I spend most of my time, there's a cluttered coffee table next to the Eames chair that I moved out of the way for a better shot
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 18:13 (four months ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C20vGfiv1qK/?igsh=dHVlbDMxeGY4bndk
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Saturday, 24 February 2024 17:06 (four months ago) link
this is primo snake oilhttps://www.musicdirect.com/equipment/accessories/audio-additives-sorbothane-6-x-6-damping-sheet-each/on sale!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:15 (three months ago) link
if you’re not using damping sheets are you even really listening to music?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:58 (three months ago) link
the word “thereby” does a lot of work in these pitches
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:36 (three months ago) link
You need the cold-pressed sorbothane otherwise it can really mess with the soundstage...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:50 (three months ago) link
the fact they are 0.125 inches thick is so hilarious
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:52 (three months ago) link
Sorbothane is a legit shock-absorbing material - watch at 1:48 for the attempted hand-smashing (it's actually pretty impressive):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVN98EwM3l0
― ernestp, Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:22 (three months ago) link
yeesh
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:35 (three months ago) link
Hate the marketing, not the material! Hahaha
― ernestp, Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:39 (three months ago) link
Place them anywhere you have vibration and let your components deliver better performance.
pretend you don't have any context whatsoever for the above sentence.
seems quite rude + intrusive now, doesn't it? with all due respect, what could you possibly know about my components?
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:55 (three months ago) link
sorbothane does seem pretty cool. unfortunately the link posted seems to be the going rate
― 龜, Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:26 (three months ago) link
goddamn it I'm gonna end up buying this crap
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 March 2024 03:57 (three months ago) link
Pretty easily debunked - sorbothane is a high impedance material for physical vibration, so it would absorb vibration passing from one thing to another. You can't place it on something and expect it to "suck in" vibration, or stick it to something vibrating in the hope of damping it down; mass is pretty much the only way to do that.Also worth pointing out that sound is, y'know, vibration, so I wouldn't be keen on a material that absorbed ambient vibration around my audio system.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 05:03 (three months ago) link
i was thinking it'd be good to use as speaker feet? or turntable feet?
― 龜, Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:14 (three months ago) link
For sure, I’m just guessing they hope people will use it like magic stones
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:18 (three months ago) link
xps according to sorbothane.com, it can be used both for vibration isolation and vibration damping, so not sure that is correct:
https://www.sorbothane.com/technical-data/articles/vibration-damping/
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:18 (three months ago) link
Is it named after Kevin Sorbo
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:32 (three months ago) link
lol
― budo jeru, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:59 (three months ago) link
Urethane is named after Kevin Sorbo's urethra
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 21 March 2024 16:29 (three months ago) link
pls stop posting about that person. thanks.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 21 March 2024 17:02 (three months ago) link
xps I think that describes two different modes of reducing vibration between things, not sucking it out of the air. I’m sure it would prevent e.g. sound from bouncing off a surface (which is also a coupling thing) but I strongly doubt you’d unwrap a sorbothane mat and the room would go quiet.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:07 (three months ago) link
people I think we all need to consider this incredible breakthrough: I present the ground box.https://www.entreq.com/en-GB/products/ground-boxes-17667704Sceptical? What if I told you that
By attaching an Entreq ground box with Eartha cables to your gear, you can eliminate high-frequency pollution, resulting in more detailed and clear music. You will experience a better flow, more air, and improved dynamics.It's like driving a car with the handbrake on and then releasing it, everything works smoother.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 22:20 (two months ago) link
oh I need a whole bunch of these
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 4 April 2024 01:07 (two months ago) link
they tried not to advertise their prices but I can't be deterred in my pursuit of a box with some plates in it https://www.futureshop.co.uk/brands-category/entreq/entreq-grounding-boxes
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 4 April 2024 01:13 (two months ago) link
reminds me of an orgone box https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone
― 龜, Thursday, 4 April 2024 01:24 (two months ago) link