Bass Traps


Anyone own or heard either Acoustic Sounds Dennis Foley's Bass Traps (i.e. ACDA-10 or ACDA-12) or GIK Soffit Traps?  If you have, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the products.  Thanks.
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Showing 2 responses by bdp24

Recording studios is where ASC and their Tube Traps first found acceptance. Art Noxon is a highly degreed acoustical engineer, a true expert in a field with rather low standards, if not outright charlatans. Room Tunes, anyone? ;-)

Studios build bass traps into the structure of the room/building, the reason being that to be effective at very low frequencies, traps need to be huuuuge. To call the flat panels containing 2-4" 703 fiberglass offered by GIK and RealTraps bass traps is a stretch. Products like the DSPeaker Anti-Mode are an effective non-acoustical means of dealing with room modes.

Why are GIK products mentioned so much more frequently than ASC Tube Traps on Audiogon? Not that GIK doesn't make fine products, mind you.