Dusty Chalk

Those are my favorite two, but the whole album is good. Some of the stories from that album are particularly interesting -- Alex standing on a boat in the middle of a lake to get that just right wind-whipped sound during "Red Barchetta" is a favorite.

Okay, I have to add Timeout Drawer (specifically the album Nowonmai) to my list of favorite tones. When they go into full on rock mode, I just get these wonderful little feelings of bliss. Cases in point, "Blue-Eyed and Full of Horror" and "What Looked Like Morning was the Beginning of Endless Night" and the track that can be found on their MySpace and a bunch of other places, "Bursting with Tears, I Commit to Destroying You". I think they're doubling the guitar with some Moog, that's part of why I heart so much.

This coincides exactly with what my thought exercise of superimposing a sloped filter on a the frequency response you've described is. If you start the slope too high, you thin out the bass too much; if you start the slope too low, you accomplish nothing; one basically wants to shoot for a "sweet spot" of attenuation of the peak you described with the slope, but before the slope gets too high (as with lowering frequencies) and attenuates too much bass. If I remember correctly, this is the same sort of thing that bass reflex math yields. So which would it have more of an effect on -- the 40's (closed design) or the 50's (open design)? That's the main reason I got both. I'm more of a closed design guy, but if the 50's yield better sound, I'll stick with those.

Scrap all of those, I just let the Mac roll on down to Timeout Drawer.

I actually came to work.

I can delete you all.

Tylenol <-- that's me holding my head, not a facepalm.

NP: The Maid We Messed, Matt Elliott as Third Eye Foundation OD: Keith Jarrett or Boris Berman, don't know, maybe Helene Grimaud.

Mine is/are outdated and silly. And so is my hair.

And you can tell they're huddled together for warmth.

Pic post fail.

I wouldn't.

Alright, so to test my understanding: it's not to absorb acoustic backwave, but to act as sort of a broad "notch" filter? Except that wouldn't wind resistance continue to go up with lower frequencies (I.E. wouldn't it act as a broad sloped filter)?

Thanks, I'll wait until all signs of whatever I have has passed before I do so, just to be on the safe side.

I put this under a separate thread with the understanding that the audience for this thread might be a 100% exclusive union with the orthodynamic thread, because it's really a separate issue, and is not necessarily an issue indigenous to orthodynamics. blah blah blah future audience growth potential blah blah blah So without preface, let me start with my fundamental question: Why felt? I mean, there are other materials that are flexible and dense at the same time -- corduroy, for example, or perhaps certain dense weaves such as linens or velvet. And I ask not to question felt's supremacy, but rather as a learning exercise. What is it about felt that makes it superior? Is it its chaotic nature (no weave implies no consistent surfaces to reflect any one particular frequency)? Would I want felt with a backing or not? Alright, yes, I went to G Street Fabrics (for those not from this area, G Street is a high end fabric store -- they have, or can get, anything and everything) and looked around. Found some nice...uh, something, might be felt, might not, not sure, didn't ask. Price was less than $3 so I bought it. Worst case, I can fix any holes in my pea coat with it. But while I was there I (uh) "felt" a bunch of other materials that I couldn't imagine would be any worse. I mean, felt just seems so acoustically transparent compared to some of these things. What is the goal? 100% absorption, zero reflection would be the ideal towards which we strive, right? In a more realistic world: high, frequency-independent absorption, low -- yet still frequency-independent -- reflection would be the characteristics we seek, right? I mean, we want to reduce the backwave as much as possible (except in the rare cases of bass reflex), and the worst offenders are the bass frequencies, right? Or in the small enclosures of headphones, do priorities shift, do we suddenly become more interested in higher frequencies as well? So...enlighten me, I'm all ears. I do intend to start with the orthos, but there are other headphones that I'd be interested in doing interesting things with, perhaps putting some ribbons in some sealed enclosures... I still haven't gotten together with Justin to feel his uberfelt, but I didn't want to expose him unnecessarily. So I can't compare what I got with what he has, or even get his opinion on it. PS Should I wash it? It was in the scraps heap, so there are lots of loose threads and dust on it.

Are you serious? LOLlers. PS Good thing they are really good headphones.

I'm feeling like that, too. And: go back and look, it was indeed a different "Dusty" (though I don't think Salt Peanuts goes by that).

"My other ride is a TIE Fighter."

I live in the DC area, I NEED the machine gun. But...nice thought, though...shared...

DO WANT. Especially the not-jamming part.

Hmmm...

Different Dusty?

I think you missed his point.

I slept through it. :\