Since Analytic doesn't have comments, this'll be a quick(!) note regarding his thoughtful response to my ponderousness...something more lengthy to follow later.

So if there is anything socialist about my approach to intellectual property, it is anarcho-socialist rather than authoritarian-socialist.

I should have clarified that my little flight off into the land of fanciful rhetoric regarding socialism was not at all to suggest you were advancing some socialist ideal of IP or anything like that. I probably should have just cut that out, as it really didn't directly pertain to the discussion. It was more me just being a jackass and not being a good editor. Be glad I didn't go off on some tiresome tangent about the long suffering Shostakovitch (believe me, I was tempted!).

I'm also uncomfortable with content-consumption models of idea propogation...

I was worried about my choice of the word "consume," knowing how frought it can sometimes be. I meant it in the most basal sense; that is, purely to suggest one who, uh, consumes, ingests, absorbs--whatever the best word is--art or music or whatever. I did not intend there to be any connotation of disposability, nor was I alluding to tired old Marxist dialectics. Small 'c' consumer. Just like how I consume The Sound and the Fury, or Pet Sounds, or poor old Shostakovitch's 13th symphony. Nawhamean? It's a dangerous word, and especially radioactive when uttered amongst people who've read way too much boring theory in college (Pieter sheepishly raises hand).

Then again, I can think of quite a number of people around which the word carries no such connotations.

Anyway, thanks for the nice reply. Will try to get back to more of it later. Must eat dinner now.

Oh, and you'll be glad to know that I'm the proud owner of four large panel bass traps...with six more smaller ones to go!

RE: Comments on analytic's blog: I do have comments turned on! Are you not seeing them? Strangeness ... check with a different browser perhaps?

RE: Socialism: I don't think you were too far off base with that observation. I just think you got out ahead of me, that's all.

RE: Bass Traps: w00t!

You don't have comments in the individual entries; that's where I was. I see now you've got them on the main index.

Whoops.

Big up all on the internet on a Friday night crew!

Re: bass traps/acoustics:

http://www.harman.com/wp/index.jsp?articleId=131

That's a fabulously easy to use room mode calculator; it's an Excel doc, and runs on a Mac (most of the acoustics industry software packages don't seem to run on Macs; odd, considering how much of the music industry does).

Very useful if you're trying to identify room modes and figure out which frequencies need special attention.

Even if you're not building or treating, it's neat to know which parts of your room will suck most (there's a visual graph), and where would be the best places to situate your listening position...if you have that flexibility.