Recent content by Flint

Acoustic blankets are less ideal than fiberglass or mineral for a given thickness, but they are better than nothing. Typically in home studios they are used as sound barriers rather than in room acoustics, but they do offer decent midrange and treble absorption.

Ha! I have no need. I watch TV to experience story telling. Big tvs, for me, are mostly a sensory overload and distract from the great writing in the best movies and TV shows.

Sorbothane is always sticky, as the closed cell foam is filled with viscous fluid that leaches out. So your experience is common. The stuff my speakers released was fully dissolved sorbothane where the walls of of the cells broke down for some reason. Solvents can cause that, so maybe cleaners...

To warm up for each show, they would sing the chorus of "Carry On My Wayward Son" by Kansas in full harmony over and over and over and over to get their voices going and hit peak synchronicity on pitch and intonation. They worked HARD to have the chops, because back then it was expected for...

For my speaker design & building work, the joy of listening to other people's rigs, and measuring acoustics, I have carried a stand-alone portable digital player for quite a long time. That way I have instant access to all of my reference recordings and test tones/tracks which I know for a fact...

Now some joyful Piano jazz trio live tunes.

Loving me some classic powerpop from Chewy Marble:

Well, I've been lucky to get to spend time in the hot seat in small mixing rooms for TV and BluRay audio mastering and I did not feel especially enamored to the height channels in those "ideal" setups. However, in the huge cinema mixing facilities with 350 seats and a 50 foot screen, I was...

This is the dilemma we face, just as we have to deal with it concerning subwoofers. The most natural performance from subs which most accurately resembles real life sounds is when the sub is not loud enough to stand out from the main speakers, but then we often feel we are not getting our...

Very generally - out listening mechanism isn't designed for instantly recognizing vertical placement of sounds. We can do it when a sound is repeated by turning our heads to the side, or tilting it more than a tiny amount, but we are designed to be very accurate at placing sounds in front of us...

Heeman has the data if anyone cares to see it, but the dynamic range performance of these speakers in his room are stunning. Similarly, the room decay across the entire frequency range, even in the bass, is about as good as it can get - far better than 95% of the dedicated listening rooms out there.

Here's a good summary of Heeman's speakers' frequency response at the listening position.

Last week I traveled to Alabama and spent a solid 9 days with our friend Keith enjoying his wife's abundant hosting and Keith's great listening room. We spent dozens of hours listening to the new loudspeakers, fine adjusting the placement in the room, tuning the crossovers to achieve ideal...

1) I have to see that proven with real world testing. That said, S/N is one of the last differentiators between high end components given they have reached levels of perfection WAY beyond human perception, even the best listeners. 2) Saying they came from a company known for stellar engineering...

To a certain extent, yes. I am sure they tuned them to have a large window area of effectiveness while still being silent further away.