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RE: Measuring Maggie stuff with Cool Edit Pro (or Adobe Audition)

Hmmm . . . it seems to me that a rigid frame coupled to a high mass (your house and the earth) should be functionally equivalent in some regards to a massive frame.

Anyway, I don't think you want to raise the resonance frequency, rather lower it, because the ear is more sensitive to midrange frequencies than to bass ones.

I wouldn't worry about reflections from the metal. Yes, they will occur, but the same reflections occur when the wood contacts the air, there's just as bad an acoustical impedance mismatch. What you want is damping, and metal attached to wood is a good way of damping resonances.

I still tend to think that the right way to do this is with a massive, rigid, well damped frame. The frame should not make sound. The diaphragm should move with respect to a fixed origin, not a moving one. Transverse waves should be absorbed by the Milloxane and edge damping strip. But of course that's just theory, I haven't played with most of this myself (though I plan on finishing my own stands one of these days, I'll probably put some metal strips on the edges to stiffen the frame and maybe some Mye-style rear braces if I can accommodate them).

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