Paul, you would not believe how much I look forward to updates on the sound room, I find the journey fascinating and strangely mediative! I have subscribed to your email blogs as well and am very much enjoying them. Keep up the good work!
So happy to learn that an audiophile brand is chosen for the XLR cabling (I was shocked to hear about Mogami in Part 4). Recording studios never believed in after market cables, that is wrong! Mogami is pretty neutral and widely used but for an high-end system you need better quality. Krysztof, time to try after market cables, starting with power cables, you will hear what you have been missing out.
$90K worth of cable in the wall and you wouldn't pay a finish carpenter 3 hours labour to trim out the alcoves... audiophiles, will listen to a $1mil system sitting on milk crates.
Let's see. Two 15-meter pairs of AQ WEL Signature balanced interconnects. Retail value? Over $90k. It's good to have friends in the industry. But yes, I too was concerned about the Mogami choice. I'm still concerned about burying it inside the wall. Our needs and choice change over the years. I predict that within five years there will be a cable run coming out of the gear alcove and going across the floor.
Hello Paul, I was just wondering if filling the cavity with insulating material (i take its for absorbing the sound energy), will it not change the frequency of the Helmholtz Resonator, as the air volume in the Cavity is going to reduce?
Bhushan Surve that’s what I asked in the first video! Also, I’d think the resonator would need to be air tight, which I’m not sure would work with drywall... although I’m still trying to figure out more about how they work exactly
I would have put some nice Altec 604's in those walls just above ear level.It would have been nice to just take a short break from listening to the main system and check out what the sound in quite a few studio control rooms was back when many of our favorite recordings were made.
Oh, and i wrote my previous note before the end. I really hope we have a nice long video on bringing in and setting up all the equipment.. Yeah, I know its geeky of me but what the heck!
Hello, very nice set up. To be honest what's wrong with the Mogami cables which are commonly used in the professional studios over the word besides the fact the Audioquest wont some advertisement of course? Mogami W3103 is pretty nice, transparent cable AFAIK. This things with battery on sticking to the cables etc is rather BS.
***** Thanks for your response. Just was curious what's wrong with it. Cable sounding it the rather war igniting subject and what cable can do is to improve dampening factor of you power amps (mostly related to capacity of those cables if appropriate AWG is selected) and reduce resistance - but the latter one, again with good AWG is rather negligible in comparison to 4, 6 or 8Ohm of your speakers. Cut-off frequency of any good AWG cables is way beyond the audible range (over 100kHz).
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I'm seriously hoping that none of your cables have a sound of their own. If they do then you have a problem.
just notice you used atticat blow in insulation..you should have used GreenFiber Cellulose. Better for absorbing sounds and much more affordable - although money is not an object here it seems..
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Nope. Fiberglass is unequaled for sound absorption. Decades of research and applicaiton prove it.
To further explain that, the desirable property here is the nature of fiberglass in that is made up of thousands of small strands of glass fiber. When a sound wave comes in and hits the fiberglass, those strands are pushed and pulled every which way and rub against each other, and in the process converts that acoustic energy into heat. It's also why you want your damping material in the middle of the enclosed area and not just stuck on the side, because that's where majority of the sound wave is going to be passing through.
$90K for some pieces of wire, really, who buys that stuff? Are they UL rated for in wall use? If not it's a VIOLATION! Especially in commercial facility, really a violation!
You know there is a t-shirt that is now on the market that's longer to cover up that butt crack problem. Duluth Trading company sells the long tail t-shirts to end that butt crack problems. :-)
fiberglass insulation is horrible for many reasons, you can get cellulose or there is new jean material which is denser. Yes you need a respirator too. Fiberglass is the next asbestos. Nice room.
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They aren't looking for thermal insulation, their application requires acoustic absorption. Years and years of research by every major speaker manufacturer and acoustician has shown that fiberglass is unequaled for acoustic 'absorption'. Read a book on acoustics.
Paul, you would not believe how much I look forward to updates on the sound room, I find the journey fascinating and strangely mediative! I have subscribed to your email blogs as well and am very much enjoying them. Keep up the good work!
So happy to learn that an audiophile brand is chosen for the XLR cabling (I was shocked to hear about Mogami in Part 4). Recording studios never believed in after market cables, that is wrong! Mogami is pretty neutral and widely used but for an high-end system you need better quality.
Krysztof, time to try after market cables, starting with power cables, you will hear what you have been missing out.
MOGAMI Cable is great . AUDIO QUEST IS SNAKE OIL CABLE that Cost a ton of money!
$90K worth of cable in the wall and you wouldn't pay a finish carpenter 3 hours labour to trim out the alcoves... audiophiles, will listen to a $1mil system sitting on milk crates.
Let's see. Two 15-meter pairs of AQ WEL Signature balanced interconnects. Retail value? Over $90k. It's good to have friends in the industry.
But yes, I too was concerned about the Mogami choice. I'm still concerned about burying it inside the wall. Our needs and choice change over the years. I predict that within five years there will be a cable run coming out of the gear alcove and going across the floor.
Hello Paul,
I was just wondering if filling the cavity with insulating material (i take its for absorbing the sound energy), will it not change the frequency of the Helmholtz Resonator, as the air volume in the Cavity is going to reduce?
Bhushan Surve that’s what I asked in the first video!
Also, I’d think the resonator would need to be air tight, which I’m not sure would work with drywall... although I’m still trying to figure out more about how they work exactly
I would have put some nice Altec 604's in those walls just above ear level.It would have been nice to just take a short break from listening to the main system and check out what the sound in quite a few studio control rooms was back when many of our favorite recordings were made.
Oh, and i wrote my previous note before the end. I really hope we have a nice long video on bringing in and setting up all the equipment.. Yeah, I know its geeky of me but what the heck!
Those cables with a battery are well words fail me .Have a listen with the battery on and off make your own mind up.
I was thrown off at the 'bass moldings'
Hello, very nice set up. To be honest what's wrong with the Mogami cables which are commonly used in the professional studios over the word besides the fact the Audioquest wont some advertisement of course? Mogami W3103 is pretty nice, transparent cable AFAIK.
This things with battery on sticking to the cables etc is rather BS.
***** Thanks for your response. Just was curious what's wrong with it. Cable sounding it the rather war igniting subject and what cable can do is to improve dampening factor of you power amps (mostly related to capacity of those cables if appropriate AWG is selected) and reduce resistance - but the latter one, again with good AWG is rather negligible in comparison to 4, 6 or 8Ohm of your speakers. Cut-off frequency of any good AWG cables is way beyond the audible range (over 100kHz).
I'm seriously hoping that none of your cables have a sound of their own. If they do then you have a problem.
Thanks!
The Attic Cat absorption doesn't do low frequencies below 100Hz, it's not dense or porous enough.
Density is based on depth and compaction of the material. It's physics.
Pretty sure that’s the point of the resonator, no?
Who put in that casing on the big opening. Terrible joints, looks bad.
A bit sloppy on the rack trims though.
just notice you used atticat blow in insulation..you should have used GreenFiber Cellulose. Better for absorbing sounds and much more affordable - although money is not an object here it seems..
Nope. Fiberglass is unequaled for sound absorption. Decades of research and applicaiton prove it.
To further explain that, the desirable property here is the nature of fiberglass in that is made up of thousands of small strands of glass fiber. When a sound wave comes in and hits the fiberglass, those strands are pushed and pulled every which way and rub against each other, and in the process converts that acoustic energy into heat.
It's also why you want your damping material in the middle of the enclosed area and not just stuck on the side, because that's where majority of the sound wave is going to be passing through.
hope the hifi sounds better than those 45 degree corners youve cut..
$90K for some pieces of wire, really, who buys that stuff? Are they UL rated for in wall use? If not it's a VIOLATION! Especially in commercial facility, really a violation!
Finish carpentry needs a little tuning.
You know there is a t-shirt that is now on the market that's longer to cover up that butt crack problem. Duluth Trading company sells the long tail t-shirts to end that butt crack problems. :-)
fiberglass insulation is horrible for many reasons, you can get cellulose or there is new jean material which is denser. Yes you need a respirator too. Fiberglass is the next asbestos. Nice room.
They aren't looking for thermal insulation, their application requires acoustic absorption. Years and years of research by every major speaker manufacturer and acoustician has shown that fiberglass is unequaled for acoustic 'absorption'. Read a book on acoustics.
Audioquest and their batteries...does NOTHING.
Nothing quite pisses off an audio nut like saying what wires you are gonna use