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Post Subject: I absolutely love it.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/11/2010

I stopped by today in a local warehouse and picketed a 4x 16” fiber pipes and 2 two 20”. I absolutely love the effect. As soon I brought the tubes to the room and took the cover off in the hall room turned to be much quieter at HF. I did not expect that it will be so hugely effective. I will most certainly finish then and will use them.

I do not particularly care that people use them as bass traps. I am not looking to do anything with bass using my tube traps. The people with a off the shelf speakers and bass section shooting from under MF shall play those games. With 7- channel DSET driven system I have no need to shape bass with bass absorbers, I have more powerful and effective methods to do it. What I see a great room for tube traps is to have them to be in room located HF eaters and they do work surprisingly effective. I have two 16” wide 72” tubes that I locate between the Macondo MF channels and I can shape the amount of HF crosstalk. I have experimented with it briefly and it just phenomenally well.

Also, I am planning DO NOT USE the foam in my back wall. I still be using foam but in different locations. Behind the wall it will be one half-tube of 45” long, covering the whole wall. On the vertical ridge, under the mouth of the midbass horn it will be 3x 16” by 36 sections of half-tubes. The will be absolutely fantastic as they will take care of reflections but also they will roll of some HF from the midbass horn. The will be position that their curve will be a continuation of the midbass profile, so the midbass horn will have a smooth edge at the bottom – very cool! I just a bit concerned that they might suck out HF too much, so I need to learn how to mitigate their HF consumption.

Still, I am still a bit surprise how huge effect to the room took just presents of those six fiberglass tubes. Now I need to hunt for good fabric to cover them and good back walls to cover the wall mounting half-pipes.

Oh, yes, thanks that you asked. The bass got less interesting then what I use to be without the tube traps…

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