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I need to admit that I absolutely adore my listing room. I like absolutely everything about it and if I enumerate what hat I like about it then the list will be long. Ironically, from a perspective of self-education I sometime try to nail down what would I do with my listening room if I built it from scratch and was not bound by any limitations of currently existing real-estate. Any my fantasies still go to the direction of multiple “random” cavities and I end up with the very same room that I currently have.

In the best scenario, building the room it from scratch, I would change two things.

First, I would make the house entry not directly to listening room and got rid of the entry door.  It is not that it bothers me but it would let me have another 7-8 feet of the self with records in the listening room. I do have another main entry to the house but I do not use at all and always use the entry in my house from deck. I do have an idea how to do it move my usable entry to another location but it will be combined with another project of 50K-60K price tag, something that might do in future but have no desire to do now.

Second, I would like my listening room to be 3-4 feet deeper, not wider but deeper. No I do not want to sit further from the residue of the back wall as it will screw up my midbass-horn time aliment (they live above the back wall). The purpose to have the room deeper is to have extra few feet of space behind the loudspeakers.

Macondo is 6 feet extended from the back wall to the center of the room. For Macondo topology I feel it is sufficient extension and under normal conditions Macondo would not read the wall behind it. But the “normal conditions” imply the wall behind loudspeakers to be treated and it is not my case. In my case I have 22 feet long, 4-section French glass door behind and in my estimation in order Macondo do not read them I would need extra 3-4 feet depth of the room behind Macondo. The 2 out of 4 sections of the French door I keep covered with acoustically-very-nice cellulose blinds but the mid 2 section I keep all time uncover and I feel that they do screw imaging, not too much but they do. Sure I can lower the blinds on them as well or I can put some kind of treatment on the glass but I like the open view. So, this brings me to the Asian man after whom I named the post.

It was over 10 year back in Vegas. I met at CES a guy who represented some kind of company or himself, I do not remember. All that I remember was that he was an Asian man and I can’t even say what ethnicity he was. So, this man showed me his product that at this time did not impress me as I had no need for it. It was some kind of heavy compound that he recommended to apply to glass in order to shape the reflective acoustic quality of glass. He claimed the he can rotate phase, up to 180 degree (!!!), with his applicator, let call it “applicator” for the luck of better name. I remember that I was arguing with him, suggesting that is imposable to reface phase with by his method but he was confident and proposed to try it.

So, my question is: did anybody know anything about that Asian guy or the technology he claimed to use. I admit the I would try his applicator at my glass now and would give to the technology very attentive testing in my room. If his applicator works then I might use it or perhaps combine his applicator with some very light, view not obtrusive acoustic treatment of my glass.

I do consider using some in-space resonators between Macondo and glass but I did not know the credible people who do them. Whoever I know who use the in-space resonators are accustomed to the Sound that I would not bother to improve by anything besides dynamite.

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