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http://www.neofuel.com/inhabit/inhabit.pdf It's quite a long read, but is a magnificent (and, worryingly, true) tale of real mad boffins. GJ's comment above doesn't even come close.... |
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I wonder if the "audiophiles" have threads about "radiophools"?!
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Might be worth a quick google, but I think they just try to ignore us.
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Yes, you'd think they would be able to hear what the room was doing to the sound, even if they don't know anything about the science of acoustics. Just a bit of basic treatment can make a big difference.
The same applies to the audiophools - for what some of them spend on snake oil, they could have a fully treated room and be amazed at how good a system can sound. I wish I could have kept this one, and transferred it to my house (and just for fun James, try dating it from the equipment fit): Last edited by m0cemdave; 21st Apr 2019 at 11:18 pm. |
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1985/6?
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Turns out they never listened to their designs, at all. They designed them as engineers according to hard electronics and acoustics principles, tested them using the usual raft of gear, production engineered them and sold tens of thousands. And Mike had zero interest in Audio, in spite of being the designer of many of Quad's iconic products. His hobby was restoring and riding old motor bikes! Their PCB design was a joy to behold. Mike taped it up at x4, and stuck it onto the end of a Dexion rack, under a skylight and facing the toilet door. In a hole in that door was a camera lens. Once inside the toilet, the photoresist board was taped to the wall, and the lens cap was taken off. After drinking his coffee, he would develop and etch the board and drill holes in it. Once the layout worked to everyone's satisfaction and circuit measurement, and they were heading towards production, the final x4 layout was sent to the board manufacturer. And that is the reason that all the older Quad gear (33/303/FM3 etc) were all single sided boards. Double sided technology certainly existed, but Mike's layout technique only gave rise to single sided boards. Craig |
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Try explaining a lens through a toilet door nowadays!
I had the luxury version. Taped up my layouts at 2:1 on mylar sheets with index pegs on a drawing-table sized lightbox. David
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Forgive me, but is that ad for pebbles actually real? Not a p-take? I know Audiophools will believe almost anything, but pebbles? And the comments - are they also genuine, as some of them seem totally deranged!
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Oh it's real. If you want a more high-tech version you could go for Shakti stones http://www.shakti-innovations.com/product/shakti-stone/. These make your car run better too.
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Oh I need me some of those, one of ours is running a bit wooly and rich at the moment... Oh, or then again I could spend a tenth of the money on a new CTS & IATS and have the same effect
They do look nice though, great paired with these http://www.shakti-innovations.com/product/hallograph/ if you can run to a couple of grand. (Worth it for the reduction in chaotic reflections?) |
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Control of early reflections does have a major influence on the sound in a listening room, but there are proper scientific methods of dealing with the problem. You can go the whole hog and build a shell with angled sides and a rear wall full of diffusors, as in my picture above. But in a typical living room or similar, some carefully positioned absorption on the side walls can effect a surprisingly large improvement, and at very low cost. Last edited by m0cemdave; 22nd Apr 2019 at 11:05 am. |
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For those prices you could go the whole hog and have a live-in witch-doctor for a year.
The chanting would get on my nerves, so this isn't the approach for me. David
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