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the further away the panel is from from wall the better will it absorb mid-low frequencies.Within reason.
Hanging a 2'x4'x2" porous (fiberglass, rockwool, foam, etc) only panel six feet out from the ...

Dan has a sticky there that explains what happened this weekend.

packrat:

Green Glue's most famous compeditor is http://www.quietsolution.com/html/quietglue.html

However I understand that quietglue is not as good as Green Glue.
Certainly there are fewer 3rd ...

if the framing were to be held together with screws they would snapThe implication on the advertising was that these screws would not snap.

So I put them to the test, and Nails came out better than ...

jazzman_in_pa:

I haven't found a web based description yet.
There was a mention in the catalog, but no useful english text on the topic.

I think I found the screws that Mike Holmes is using in his framing.

They say "Outperforms nails in all projects where fasteners are required."
The examples are all framing with 2x material (e.g. ...

The really fun one used to be
http://www.auralex.com/savant/couches.pdf
Which according to the also missing www.auralex.com/literature/acoustology_104.pdf had been moved to the also missing http://w ...

Thank's Rod.

I note that the Holmes On Homes guy (who screws basement studs)
a) passes building inspections - so the building inspectors think whatever he's doing is fine. Given your comment abo ...

In Ontario (canada) Building Code section 9.23.3 gives lots of examples/tables of using nails for connecting various types of framing.
The only examples/tables for screws that I see are for gypsum, s ...

Thank's Knightfly. That's unexpected.

Nifty.

Perhaps I'm defining framing incompletely. When framing a house there's lots of things (roofs, floors, walls, decks, wood/concrete), and I've seen al ...

Guys were chatting about how to frame walls in a basement, and someone wrote
Originally Posted by rlindo "Oh and make sure to use screws for your framing. Nails are silly."

Nevermind the fact th ...

http://www.bobgolds.com/AbsorberCeilingJoist/

Also, it lowers the center resonant frequency. A better design I guess Rolling Eyes

Much more difficult to predict the resonant frequency though. I've never seen a formula for this design.

It seems to ...

philsaudio:

I was thinking about you back in June when I built this:
http://www.bobgolds.com/AbsorberCeilingJoist/

This is the stuff the local home depot sells.
http://www.usehickson.com/StoneMason/FlooringMaintenance/EZFlowSelfLevelingUnderlayment.shtml
I see the PDF from the website says 1/4" pea gravel (and n ...