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Post Subject: I need to educate myself about tube trapsPosted by Romy the Cat on: 10/12/2010

Serge wrote:
Looks like a good solution, this. To make the fabric-covered pipe more reflective you may spray-paint the fabric, I think.

I read last night the ACS papers, patent and learned how the tube traps work. To my surprise they are much more sophisticated devises that I initially thought. I however, very much disagree with the way ACS advocate to use them. You see, ACS presumes that a speaker in the room and bass coming from the speakers is some kind of constant the need to be corrected. This is absolutely wrong from my point of view. The whole idea of Macondo it to make acoustic system that fits a room, not vise-verse. All that I need from room treatment slightly reduce the amount of HF frying in the room. I do not need any lower frequency modifications. The tube traps do show it as phenomenal HF consumption tool but I absolutely do not want them to deal with my sub 1000Hz, in fact I very much do not like what they do in there. So, I need to educate myself and to learn how to use tube traps in the way I need them.

Anyhow, this is what I am planning to do now. The 16” palf-tubes are in red. I will experiment with non-sealing the tubes and with applying spiral aluminum tape over the tubes ubderthe final fabric… (in yellow)

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