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Best material for an isolation platform?
A geophysicist friend of mine has a patent on how to reduce interferingenergy that returns from the floor and back into the strings and bow of a cello. She has a method and science for select travertine stonesto rid the cello of its wolf note doub... 
Best material for an isolation platform?
A different remedy is at hand for those who realize isolation can only exist with the absence of matter. Creating greater impedance on or between 2 or more surfaces generates another set of issues as does spongy materials and springs between and u... 
Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse?
I have been using cryod neodymium N45 rod magnets for nearly 15 yrs.They sound spectacular and cost less than $10 each. I plan on treating the magnets with the High Fidelity contact enhancer. Tom 
Ceiling Panels in a normal room, have you tried them?
At my parents house in the 70's I attached and suspended a surplus parachute from the basement ceiling . It did help the sound in a room with Maggies and looked kool with lights in between..those were the days..Tom 
Ceiling Panels in a normal room, have you tried them?
I use drywall angles on my ceiling to redirect energy off the ceiling and wall junctions and towards the listening area.I have built a multi angle acoustic lens on the ceiling in which the movie screen retracts. The lens is hard mounted to the cei... 
Thiel Owners
Happy Kentucky Derby weekend AllSunshine is bright with blue skys for miles..Tom 
Nothing is sturdier than a ring radiator
Until you compare to the Viawave matched pair ribbons from Russia.Check out HiFi Compass..while your there read about the Purifi drivers. Tom 
Thiel Owners
Tom,Thanks for your answers and response. I need to do a time offset on a speaker that already has a physical offset. The new ribbon tweeter I thought would be nearly a drop in has its element recessed by a bout a .5 inches. Now it needs to come f... 
Thiel Owners
Hello Tom Thiel,I want to ask you about the shim or shims you added to the driver to aid in alignment. Was there a number such as .125 or .250 shim thickness added singularly or in addition to arrive at your final destination? Is there a minimum f... 
Thiel Owners
Thanks Tom,When I sold your products I remember smooth studs with no threads at one time there was a switch to threads, but when ?May send him a couple different sets. Thanks again. Tom 
Thiel Owners
Hello out there.. I have a out of town friend who has a pair of 3.6s and wants to use a set of Audiopoints with them. He is not able to turn them over to check the thread size..I think they are 1/4-20.  Does anyone know for sure. Thanks in advance... 
Raise your acoustic panels or die
I see 9 windows a 4 ft opening into another room a stairwell that is probably 3ft wide a 24×30 return duct and a ceiling fan which can be a benefit. The return duct can be fronted out and I think it is as a table..but trim out with louvered doors.... 
Raise your acoustic panels or die
Is that really going to be your music room??  
Schumann Resonator
Thanks Mom for the gratuitous insult. I can scold myself for both those those terms applied to audio as eye hear them. Tom 
Schumann Resonator
Carp ask a mutual friend if I am a fibber. Tom