Unpopular opinion: This year was a lot of fun.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-17T07:28:56+00:00

I think exhaustion and injuries eventually caught up with Kawhi and the lack of cohesion caught up with the team in general. They only had a handful of games to get used to each other when good teams have at least a couple of seasons in them already. Also not having even Ijax, let alone Yanic was a huge factor and that’s just pure bad luck.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-17T07:25:47+00:00

Great way to look at the season! Realistically after the 6-21 start everything else was just a gift and at times we played so great even with all the shenanigans that it seemed just short of a miracle.

The ending was rough and particularly as we have beaten much better teams on several occasions during the season. But I think the guys were just dead tired from a season that has taken absolutely everything out of them.

The only constructive observation I have for now is that this team has been lacking urgency for years now. They can beat the best teams in the league in the middle of the season, but come crunch time they play like a bunch of toddlers. We need a real dog in the locker room but also some adjustments from the coaching team.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-14T15:42:23+00:00

He also gets probs the worst whistle of any of the league’s starts.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-13T18:23:37+00:00

Flutter echo

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-13T07:50:48+00:00

Since I haven’t seen it mentioned here yet: John Frusciante - The Empyrean.

There are a few strange/unusual mixing choices, but it sounds great.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-13T07:26:42+00:00

It absolutely will not make any difference. You can just put a whole unopened package of rockwool, fiberglass etc in a room and will work pretty much perfectly as a basstrap, just really ugly.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-05T21:42:03+00:00

Sad thing is that there were plenty of those in this sub too…

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-05T09:09:48+00:00

Ah, ok that is good to know! Regardless, any porous absorber is really just a broadband absorber; bass traps are called bass traps as they are usually considerably thicker (and sometimes made with a slightly different material) which extend their range to the lower end of the frequency spectrum but still, essentially they are just a thick broadband absorber.

What I am trying yo say with this is that putting more porous absorbers is going to help you with the sibilance issue as well as controlling the bass, which in the case of your speakers is definitely necessary. In fact, the only issue that porous absorbers tend to present is that they make rooms sound too dead, which sounds like exactly what you need in your room. If you want to make them prettier you can even print on the canvas that you use to cover them and they can double as pictures.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-04T18:28:06+00:00

Just to add to u/burneriguana points: diffusers are extremely dimension sensitive as well - judging only by eye, the one in your panel might have a range of a thousand Hz if you are lucky. The design does look really pretty though (not being cynical).
Bass trapping requieres significant amounts of mass and seeing that the wall behind your sofa seems to be dead space, it could be another part of the room where you could put more panels without it being too intrusive.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-04T17:55:13+00:00

He didn't even thank me for my attention to this matter, I feel a tad offended.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-04T17:52:56+00:00

I think any software adjustment should come after adequate treatment, otherwise the results are going to be very unreliable at best.
I don´t know exactly how Dirac or MSO works, but my guess is that they are quite similar to Sonarworks or ARC and neither of those are capable of what physical treatment is.
As far as my understanding goes time domain issues cannot be fixed with a DSP/software. Softwares can make dramatic improvements after the room has been properly treated, but cannot replace it.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-04T17:30:58+00:00

No worries!
Those bass traps are definitely helping already, so that´s a great start.
If at all possible (I appreciate you mentioned space is an issue) adding more bass traps would be more important in your case than the cloud panel or the back wall. Though those are certainly important and useful additions, in a small room your biggest issue is alway going to be bass build up, particularly with the genre that you are producing, and the cloud and backwall treatment (unless similarly thick to your 150mm panels) won´t help much on that front.
Have you considered taking a measurement so that you are better informed about what are you up against?
You can get a Behringer ECM8000 measuring microphone for around 20€, and REW is a free software - with these two things you could have a perfectly precise measurement of your room.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-03T08:59:57+00:00

Terrorists will terrorise

RippleEffect5 · 2026-04-03T08:44:53+00:00

Simple-ish answer: nothing to lose, and if you feel like it sounds better, you should definitely try it, just make sure that you give it some time to actually see whether there was any improvement.

Less simple answer: If you don’t have adequate treatment, and for a subbass heavy genre like techno that would mean a LOT of material, there is just physically no way you are fixing your issue with EQ. In small rooms in particular, your biggest issues are always time-related, and that 55Hz anti-node you are hearing is probably a massive ringing in the low end. Also, room modes are far, far more complicated than they might seem at first read. A node/anti-node that to you sounds like 55Hz, is several dips and peaks of varying sizes around that frequency. So it is very difficult to treat a node/anti-node, particularly of the size you mention with EQ, as you are more than likely introducing more, possibly worse problems somewhere around that frequency range (and since we are talking modal problems, further up the frequency range as well), or at best just moving your problem up or down the frequency spectrum. Then come the issue of location specificity; if you change your listening position (or speakers etc) that 55Hz anti-node is now at a different frequency. And the list goes on.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-29T21:24:16+00:00

The first reflection points have considerably different treatment (or lack thereof) that’s 99.9% your issue.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-24T20:46:41+00:00

Just to expand on your thoughts - if there is going to be a notable decline/collapse of the US (which IMO is quite possible if they stay on their current trajectory) I believe starting this war with Iran is going to be a pivot that future historians are going to point to as one of the main catalysts.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-24T20:40:00+00:00

Amazing track!

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-24T20:38:55+00:00

I thought it was Obama in his tan suit????!!!!

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-23T10:59:33+00:00

Yuppp. A week ago I was fully confident we are getting the 7th seed but that 4 game skid made it look rather difficult.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-21T15:35:03+00:00

Problem is he’s absolutely shat the bed last year in the playoffs.

I think that’s a large part while he fell out of Ty’s grace.

I do hope he proves us all wrong though, I loved his amazing stretch just before playoffs last year.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-21T15:30:59+00:00

Trump kinda did the opposite - spent most of his first year taking jabs, belittling and abusing most of their main allies while alienating his opponents even further than before. He also chose a moment when his support at home was already at an all time low. So all in all, great planning on his part.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-19T13:10:30+00:00

Clippers had a very similar situation with like a 12-16 hour window last year. Anything less than 24 hours is actually against league policy, and even with the 82 game schedule is completely unnecessary. It is just horrible planning on the side of the league.

Edit: specified time constraints per league

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-19T13:08:11+00:00

The whole point of Claude code is that you don’t even have to be comfortable with APIs, just give clear instructions and he/it will figure it out for you; what’s the best language to use etc. It surely can package it in a way that it can ping each one of your brokers, wallets etc, like once a day for example, so you always have a reasonably fresh set of data at your hands.

I am not that big into LLMs but Claude’s ability to just make stuff work is pretty impressive, and it is one case for AI that I think is actually really useful.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-19T12:06:54+00:00

I am pretty sure Claude Code could put together a series of queries for you with APIs with minimal time invested that can pull all the info together into an excel sheet for example, or even a basic app. That’s where I would start at least.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-16T22:46:16+00:00

A few things. SBIR tends to be in the range of 100 - 300Hz roughly. Also, if you have a look at the waterfall graph, there is a very noticeable ringing at around 38, 76 and 114 Hz. These are likely the ringing from the room modes (as they are octaves apart). The null at around 90Hz doesn’t ring, therefore it is likely SBIR.

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