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Post Subject: Imponderabilis NeurosisPosted by oxric on: 2/9/2011

Hi Romy:

No need to reach for your medical glossary. The medical condition that I call 'Imponderabilis Neurosis,' is only the preserve of highly disturbed individuals such as myself (Hamlet seems to have exhibited symptons which are highly indicative of the disease as well) but one that the medical profession chooses to ignore as it is relatively harmless and affects only a minuscule proportion of the population.

'Imponderabilis neurosis,' is therefore a term I coined which means a disturbance of one's mental state brought about by a fear or too close analysis of imponderables. In the course of a conversation, I can quite well make what appears to be an irrefutable case for one or another solution but then in the next minute revisit the argument and smash the reasoning to bits as if it had all the coherence and solidity of sawdust.

The imponderables, as you make clear, are many and the mere thought of imagining myself spending 6 months to a year trying the different solutions paralyses me with fear. You see, I am not a believer in learning by mistakes, as my view is life is too short and I would rather minimise mistakes and enjoy successes. Nonetheless, in this case I can indeed see that there is very little hope I can reach an optimal solution by underhand means.

A very long note to say thanks for your thoughts as they at least confirm that these solutions are the ones worth considering. By the way, I would urge you to look at Infinite Baffle solutions, see link below, as an addition to the mix of potential and promising avenues for exploration.

http://home.comcast.net/~infinitelybaffled/page2IB-IBmanifold.html

I have a wine cellar that adjoins the room where I could install an infinite baffled subwoofer (i.e. the 'manifold') system but I really intend to use it to store wine (given that the town itself where the house is located produces three rather highly prized 'Grands Crus', not an unreasonable desire I would think as opposed to the gratification of my selfish audiophile pursuits). On the other hand it looks to me that you have the ideal locations, either in the roof space/attic in the wall facing you from your listening position, or using the crawl space and connected to your large working room/cellar in the basement for adopting such an approach. The advantages of IB solutions over even a sealed enclosure design seem to be many...

For now, I will anxiously draw my sword and ask myself whether I should slice the neck of the king at prayer...(for law enforment agents out there reading Romy's site and I am sure there must be many, do not be alarmed, this is a metaphor, a reference to the reasons we find for procrastination and not doing the things we so badly want to do). Then maybe I will buy the damned AS 1808s drivers. Or not.

Kind regards
Rakesh

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