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[marty]

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Don't knock this! At one point, it's all we had! When you walked down the Residence Hall way back in college, you could tell the budding serious audiophiles from the rest of the crowd if they had tennis balls under their bookshelf speakers! This was a somewhat useful treatment that worked nicely and was cheap! The only thing missing here is that it was often better to add a few vertical slits to the equator of the tennis ball which helped lower the Q of the overall damping as needed. (Predictability however was nil so it was a compete trial and error experience. Still it was quite useful in many cases. Led Zeppelin and walls of cinder block in a small dorm room was not a great recipe for good sound!)

 

[jbrrp1]

IDK, I liked my Large Advents rested atop beer cases as stands just fine. It was a nice project each fall to "create" the stands in the first week!

 

[Elliot G.]

Don't knock this! At one point, it's all we had! When you walked down the Residence Hall way back in college, you could tell the budding serious audiophiles from the rest of the crowd if they had tennis balls under their bookshelf speakers! This was a somewhat useful treatment that worked nicely and was cheap! The only think missing here is that it was often better to add a few vertical slits to the equator of the tennis ball which helped lower the Q of the overall damping as needed. (Predictability however was nil so it was a compete trial and error experience. Still it was quite useful in many cases. Led Zeppelin and walls of cinder block in a small dorm room was not a great recipe for good sound!)

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Marty you have some set of balls!

 

[marty]

IDK, I liked my Large Advents rested atop beer cases as stands just fine. It was a nice project each fall to "create" the stands in the first week!

Loved those large Advents. When I bought those, I had no idea it was a gateway drug to the world of audiophilia.

 

[Lagonda]

 

[tima]

Cat Pool

 

[Lagonda]

 

[Lagonda]

 

[tima]

Feline MMA is brutal

 

[Stereophonic]

 

[Kozak170]

Don't knock this! At one point, it's all we had! When you walked down the Residence Hall way back in college, you could tell the budding serious audiophiles from the rest of the crowd if they had tennis balls under their bookshelf speakers! This was a somewhat useful treatment that worked nicely and was cheap! The only thing missing here is that it was often better to add a few vertical slits to the equator of the tennis ball which helped lower the Q of the overall damping as needed. (Predictability however was nil so it was a compete trial and error experience. Still it was quite useful in many cases. Led Zeppelin and walls of cinder block in a small dorm room was not a great recipe for good sound!)

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Aside from tennis balls, during college, we would sometimes encounter cheap cutting boards under some students' turntables, which they often "borrowed" from the university kitchen.

 

[Kozak170]

 

[TooCool4]

 

[treitz3]

Son, that's bad!!!

Tom

 

[TooCool4]

 

[marty]

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Here's the big secret. You don't need to hear above 14K to enjoy music. My guess is that 95% of folks who go to Carnegie Hall or any classical venue regularly can't hear above 10K. Even more troubling, those who go to rock concerts regularly and don't use some sort of ear plugs or even tissues (with the exception of The Sphere and perhaps a few other venues) are taking the express train to assuring they will get there faster than everyone else.

 

[Another Johnson]

Here's the big secret. You don't need to hear above 14K to enjoy music. My guess is that 95% of folks who go to Carnegie Hall or any classical venue regularly can't hear above 10K. Even more troubling, those who go to rock concerts regularly and don't use some sort of ear plugs or even tissues (with the exception of The Sphere and perhaps a few other venues) are taking the express train to assuring they will get there faster than everyone else.

Very true.

FWIW, The highest written note in symphonic music is C8 at 4186 Hz. (Piano and piccolo may get there). Even the violin does not have that note available.

So at 14000 Hz, you could hear the note and even a couple of harmonics if they were present.

 

[Kozak170]

Here's the big secret. You don't need to hear above 14K to enjoy music. My guess is that 95% of folks who go to Carnegie Hall or any classical venue regularly can't hear above 10K. Even more troubling, those who go to rock concerts regularly and don't use some sort of ear plugs or even tissues (with the exception of The Sphere and perhaps a few other venues) are taking the express train to assuring they will get there faster than everyone else.

Yes, exactly.

The marketing about frequencies above 14 kHz in high-end systems is mostly related to audiophile obsessions. The human ear generally can't hear frequencies above 14 kHz, but these frequencies may help with clarity and depth of sound or enhance the sense of sound space. These claims are more about creating a more complete listening experience and preventing frequency loss, but their actual impact on the listening experience is limited.

 

[Kozak170]

 

[TooCool4]