so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled.


Well I've watched a few of their videos and mostly they seem to be no nonsense. what do you think? 

 

Corner Bass Trap Nonsense - www.AcousticFields.com (youtube.com)

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I want to shave his head.

Don't be so rude to silver haired foxes... I am sorry if mother nature robbed you too soon and left you with nothing but a low WAF bare dome.

(Pretty birds never nest in bare tree...I mean dome.) 

Last I heard, you all occupy a single listening position.. you are not some omnipresent being who float around in space.. listening from every inch of the room.

Standing waves occur between 2 parallel walls. Hence, look at the wall spots straight in front of you, behind you, to either side and above you.

Dennis Foley's mention of full wall coverage of ACDA, etc could come in handy with multiple listening positions (hometheater, for example). It has some other benefits as well, but, will consume significant real estate in smaller rooms. ACDA is huge and can give you a hernia if you try to move it around too much.

Very few panels out there will do anything under a 100 Hz. His ACDA will get much lower. But, the correct thing to do is to "cancel out" modes in the subwoofer range with strategic placement of subs, phase correction, etc. Use the panels for ranges above the sub crossover.

For SBIR, you can use panels right behind the speaker woofers or pull the speakers out enough so the SBIR frequencies get pushed into the subwoofer range.

Unless you are an omnipresent being with telescopic ears listening in every corner, your corner traps don't mean much. 

Stop looking at what some flat earth audiophile did as gospel and get a measurement mic. Thereafter, download a free measurement software known as REW.

God bless.

Dennis means well. Whether or not you agree with him, he’s working hard to bring better sound to this hobby that we all care so much about.

I diy’d all diffusion panels (the formula, home depot lumber, saw, glue, nails, stain, no other magic required)...His ACDA panels are quite unique though, I have never heard definition and resolution to the current level in my room until those came in. He has some theories on the ’rate of absorption’ of a panel (which nobody looks into), effect on the ear and i am starting to believe him. Guy spent years dev’ing those.

 

P..S if a guy has a tiny room and speakers sitting 6 inches from a corner (bad location to begin with)...yeah, a corner trap will do something for sbir if it’s sitting directly behind the woofers..

A Umik cal’d mic is 70 bucks....you’d be surprised how many guys around here don’t have one (facepalm). They’ll do everything 300 hz and under by ear is the claim.. I highly doubt it.

Guys, I feel it would be remiss of me not to warn you about Dennis Fooley. Apart from him frequently offering dubious information he has spent time in prison. Best to steer clear.

Wow, aren’t you something special? So, a guy who spent some time in the big house for a drug conviction or whatever can’t lead a normal life, run a legitimate business, thereafter?

Plenty of white collar crooks in this country (who do way worse) never make it to the big house because they paid a handsome sum to a gang of lawyers. Move on!

 

 

Several posts on other sites about Foley taking money and not delivering the product. Suits filed evidently.

I have ordered his ACDA product in the past and it got delivered just fine! In fact, GIK took longer on a couple of deliveries.