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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room

Post Subject: Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/28/2010

I stopped by on my way home at my local insulation shop to pick up my custom ordered, huge 28” half-pipe for my middle column. While I was there I saw something that made me horny. It looks like Knauf company last month changed technology and their compressed fiberglass pipes become available not in bright orange as before but in dark brown. I snatched a few of them and I am absolutely in love with them. The Knauf compressed fiberglass pipes is what ASC use as their tube traps and as I told I am not a huge fan of them. I use the Knauf pipe as they are – not sealed. I also do not target LF so I use the tube to break up focusing effect of MF in corners and reflective surfaces, not to EQ bass. They do work very effective and they are in my view wonderfully looking as they are. At the picture below the 72” tube without any modification of any kind – juts take it from the store, take the protective paper away and place it in the room. Call me a tasteless motherfucker but I like how they look and I very much like how they work acoustically. Prepare for the shock – the whole pleasure cost me $16 and as much labor as to bring the tube from trunk of my car to my room. BTW, on the picture below some of CD are not completely stacked into the shelf. This is not negligence- this is my old refection randomizing techniques.

Look at the two pictures above and you will see the empty focusing corner where is stays.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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