Art Noxon on TubeTrap™
Articles by Arthur M. Noxon, PE
Room
Acoustics:
Audio's Final Frontier | Download
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-A roundtable discussion on room acoustics, equalization, and DSP-based
room correction originally published in The Absolute Sound,
October/November, 2004.
The Chain Is As
Strong As Its Weakest Link
-an article written for the first Hong Kong Hi-Fi Show, 1993
Trapping Bass
In Your Project Studio | Download PDF Version
-an article written for db Magazine, November 1991
The Wall in the
Desert
-from a lecture given at the Hi-End Audio Show in Milano, Italy, 1993
Magazine Articles by Arthur M. Noxon, PE
Home Theater Acoustics
-a five-part article in Home Theater magazine, October 1993 -
February 1994
Volume 1
| PDF Version
How the distraction factor of the room
is important.
Volume
2 | PDF
Version An overview of common
home theater acoustic problems.
Volume
3 | PDF
Version How resonant modes
create sound cancellation.
Volume
4 | PDF
Version Speaker positioning
for maximum sound.
Volume
5 | PDF
Version Flutter Echo/Flutter
Tones in the home theater.
Modes, Modes and More Modes
| Download
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- A detailed discussion concerning home theater acoustic priciples
originally published in the October '05 edition of Home Theater Builder
Magazine. Written by Arthur Noxon, PE, Licensed Acoustic Engineer
History of Sound Fusion Recording
| Download
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-We're proud to announce that the June 2007 issue of EQ Magazine
features an article by Mr. Noxon covering the history and development
of our Quick Sound Field system.
AES Papers
Technical papers by Arthur M. Noxon, PE, presented at various AES Conventions.
Click on the highlighted titles to read selected papers on-line. Bound
copies of the five original manuscripts are available from ASC for
$25.00, postage and handling included. Please call 1-800-272-8823 to
order.
These are the first two articles written by Art about room acoustics and corner bass traps. The first paper introduces the TubeTrap, shows how it is designed and how it is used in rooms. The second paper takes a look at how room modes are managed by corner bass traps.
Listening
Room - Corner Loaded Bass Trap | PDF
Version
-presented at the 79th AES
Convention, October 1985
Room
Acoustics and Low Frequency Damping | PDF
Version
-presented at the 81st AES
Convention, November 1986
These next two papers were written in response to the difficulty in accounting for the satisfaction from TubeTrap use when doing traditional, steady state room mode analysis, pink noise and tone sweep evaluation of room acoustics. Articulation accounted for the dynamic aspects of room acoustics. The first paper covers the details of MTF testing and the second paper looks at MTF as a global concept in performance spaces.
Articulation
and the Small Room | PDF
Version
-presented at the 85th AES
Convention, November 1988
Articulation-Prerequsite
to Performance | PDF
Version
-presented at the 87th AES
Convention in NY, October 1989
The next two papers are about acoustic spaces for recording. TubeTraps led recording engineers to discover that lots of very early reflections produce a better, more manageable sound than the traditional, reflection-free, dry studio recording. The first paper introduces the concept of a sampling room, highly reflective with a fast RT60. The second paper introduces the free standing QSF version of Haas Saturated recording approaches the same subject from a generalized overview.
Controlled
Reflection Isolation Booth | PDF
Version
-presented at the 83rd AES
Convention, October 1987
Sound Fusion and
the Acoustic Presence Effect | PDF Version
-presented at the 89th AES
Convention, September 1990
This last AES paper by Mr. Noxon addresses the hot field of acoustic diffusion. It introduces the concept of coherent and incoherent diffusion, how to measure it and what each type is good and not good for.
Coherent and
Incoherent Diffusion | PDF
Version
- A discussion of various forms
of diffusion and their effects on the listener.
This AES paper presents the results of a successful collaboration between Arthur, the authors who are audio engineers from Croatian Television and our Italian TubeTrap factory, Acoustica Applicata.
Room
Acoustics For Eurovision 1990 (PDF)
- With the addition of TubeTraps a large music hall with a long reverb
time was successfully converted to a television production stage.
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