At 01:44 PM 5/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
[snip]
>Real silica sand provides the best isolation. In recording
>studios we've been known to float rooms on sand AND pour sand in
>the walls. Twin double-studed walls with 1-2 layers of sheetrock
>with sand inbetween.
[snip]
>One facility in Nashville has two-feet of poured concrete for
>the floors. The mastering suites have the speakers mounted in
>six-foot thick concrete walls.
>
>Speaking of suspending... The old WXYZ studios in Detroit (where
>the Lone Ranger, Sgt Preston, and the Green Hornet originated)
>were suspended by piano wire. The entire rooms hung by wire and
>had rubber bumpers on the sides.
[snip] [etc.]
I learn the damndest things from this List. 8^>
Garth
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