peshewah Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I seen it in the "garage sale" section and I was wondering, whats it do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Well it would absorb bass in a corner or at least that is the theory. Top Notch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peshewah Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 O.K. But is there Pros or cons to having one. I have a sub on order and I'm putting it in the corner. Do I need to One( bass absorber)? Does it make the sound really good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Well its usually room and system dependant. Check this out. http://www.rivesaudio.com/resources/listening_room/frame.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 You mean, when I was a kid and bad, and sent to stand in the corner, I was absorbing BASS, not being punished ??????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 foambymail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Yes you absorb the bass then you buy a subwoofer to fill it in. You reflect the highs then buy heavy drapes to soften the treble. Buy tube amps to have more liquid mids. Dont forget to buy Mcpingo wood puks to get better imaging. Or sticky little dots to place around the room to correct for all the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 don't forget to file the edges of your CDs and use a "special" green marker to color the newly sanded edges of your CDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peshewah Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 Wow. Its a little more complicated than I thought it would be. Its like a complete reconstuction of the whole living room. That won't happen. Thanks for the explaination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I was absorbing BASS, not being punished ??????? Wrong ... that was simply the beginning of adding your BASS to your TU*D [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 You mean, when I was a kid and bad, and sent to stand in the corner, I was absorbing BASS, not being punished ??????? A Bass wacker? [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IB Slammin Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I seen it in the "garage sale" section and I was wondering, whats it do? If you are asking about bass traps, hopefully you will get a strait answer. The replys so far are from (lovable) d*ckheads having fun with you. Shame on you boys. (Jack) A clear answer from reputable people will follow. (I hope) tc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMcD Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 As you read, it is very difficult to control or absorb low frequency sound. The wavelengths are very long and thus any absorber of reasonable size is relatively small. OTOH, the overall room dimensions are usually very large. You do have hard walls which are a wavelenght apart at bass frequencies. .This leads to reinforcement of bass wavelengths and also interference where they null out. In a rough way, our rooms are like three pipe organ tubes. One is floor to ceiling, the other is front wall to back wall, the third is side wall to side wall. As you can imagine, if we wanted to damp those effects out, we would have to stuff the entire room with some absorbing material. But we can't. There are some related room effects though. There are diagrams about this which show that the highest sound pressure is in the corners. You usually see this in a two-dimensional diagram. PWK has diagrams where his K-Horns are shown in a reflective corner and we see multiple images of the speaker as a source. With the mirror images, the speaker is bigger. In some ways, eight times bigger than with no reflective surfaces. It the same as saying it is in 1/8th space. And you read that the corner is equivalent to an extension of the bass horn flare. And any horn flare translates a high pressure at the small end of a horn to a low pressure area in the mouth. These corner effects are all manifestations of a common principle. The corner acts like a horn. What might not be quite as apparent is that horns work both ways, and corners, being horns, work both ways. If the K-Horn in a corner "looks" eight times bigger as a radiator, so does an absorber in a corner. That is why, in theory, bass absorbers can be put in a corner. Gil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peshewah Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 I can put the sub in between my TV(old style) and my front left speaker. Would that be better? Or would the corner be better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Put the sub where you normally sit. Play some bass heavy material or test tones at a reasonable level (sine waves are tough on subs when played loud). Crawl around the room (with a dB meter if you have one) and see where the bass sounds the "tightest" or best. Thats where you put your sub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Or if you have bass & treble controls on your preamp, Just roll off the bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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