Where were you when Nathan called mass loading speakers and wire damping rediculous?
I'd like to know where I was when I called those things ridiculous too!
Oh wait, I forgot...I said those things in Chuck's imagination.
Er, I meant "rediculous". Sorry professor...
I think wire damping is a bit bizarre and I fail to see how it can affect the electricity passing through the wires to a meaningful degree, but if you want to do it and hear a difference - THAT'S GREAT FOR YOU! I think it could be done in a way that did not look half-assed though. If you fabricated lead-lined channels to route your cables neatly through I'd be impressed. In the pictures it just looks like a rat's nest of cables bolted to the floor. As I've said since the beginning, I am poking fun at Chuck's IMPLEMENTATION, not his THEORY. It just looks like a mess, it looks like a science project. It obviously works, because as we know it is the best sounding system ever.
I have NOT ridiculed mass-loading of cabinets - that is your personal fantasy. Besides, Chuck is hardly the first person to suggest this. From memory I know both Dan Banquer and John Casler have suggested weighting down speakers and\or subwoofers and others have as well I am sure. Chuck Josephon did not invent this idea, he simply did it by using barbells and chains, that's all.
I believe in diffusion and absorption, quieting vibration and all that stuff. I never argued against any of these ideas. I and 99% of other folks simply find the way he did it subjectively, asthetically and practically silly. Nothing wrong with that at all. Chuck can do whatever he wants with his room and gear. But if he wants to tell everyone they're morons in the process he can kiss my ass. Telling everyone to try his tweaks or else while at the same time refusing to listen to my music which he loves ridiculing so much. He's a two-faced hypocrite plain and simple. A teacher that does not want to learn - interesting concept isn't it?
