toilet paper! - AndrewH - Tweakers' Asylum

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Posted by AndrewH on August 1, 2000 at 22:00:22

Who was it who mentioned or invented the tp tweak? I need to give credit to whoever it is because the tweak is !*@#%ing awesome!

My nOrh 6.5s have been bugging me with their excessive treble... I think a lot of the frequency imbalance is due to my listening setup (two speakers are directly in front of me on my desk and not spaced very far apart, I listen from about 6' away) and because they're not completely broken in yet, but because of the constraints of my little room, I can't adjust their positioning to achieve a more mellow frequency balance.

So I taped about four layers of toilet paper (two sheets folded in half) over the top half of each tweeter and the sound has improved a lot. I chose to leave half of the tweeter open because I figure 4 sheets of absorption over half of the tweeter will decrease the treble more gradually than 2 sheets of absorption over the entire tweeter. This makes sense, right?

It's amazing how a minor 1 or 2 db alteration in the frequency curve (treble tilted back down towards flat) made everything groovy.

Thanks, toilet paper man! I'll never think of tp the same way again! =D

Andrew

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Topic - toilet paper! - AndrewH 22:00:22 08/01/00 (19)

Re: toilet paper! - Conductor 01:58:19 08/06/00 (1)

Re: toilet paper! - AndrewH 21:59:20 08/06/00 (0)

Re: toilet paper! - Bob D. 22:37:50 08/05/00 (0)

Re: how about tone controls? - JohnR 23:55:05 08/02/00 (1)

Re: how about tone controls? - AndrewH 18:17:00 08/03/00 (0)

Re: toilet paper! - BFitz 12:07:21 08/02/00 (0)

Some tweaks - Capt. Z 08:48:14 08/02/00 (0)

Re: toilet paper! - Impoverished Audiophile 06:18:53 08/02/00 (3)

Similar results from.... - BrianG 18:42:20 08/02/00 (0)

Re: toilet paper! - agram 14:40:41 08/02/00 (1)

Thanks for the tip! nt :) - Firefli 14:44:18 08/02/00 (0)

Re: toilet paper! - Rob Doorack 06:06:26 08/02/00 (0)

Re: toilet paper! - what colour? - Graham C 01:53:49 08/02/00 (0)

Re: toilet paper! - john curl 00:42:27 08/02/00 (0)

Re: toilet paper! - Jeff Canaday 22:26:02 08/01/00 (4)

Re: toilet paper! - drum 01:18:31 08/02/00 (0)

hahahaha - AndrewH 23:39:51 08/01/00 (2)

Makes me wonder? - BrianG 18:16:24 08/02/00 (1)

Re: I think we need Jon Risch's input on this one! - AndrewH 22:55:10 08/02/00 (0)

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