And Oh, by the way, I myself came from a poor schooling background, had lots of early disiplinary problems, etc. - I was a true juvenile delinquent. It is possible to excell no matter what your background is. One cannot use the background of ones upbringing as an excuse for failure. But, fortunately I can offer my kids something better. Hopefully they will make the best of it. But, that too is not within my control either.
gedlee said:
Very true.
(..though note that I really wasn't suggesting the read with regard to you, but rather any cultural effect it might have on your young son. Also, the author is NOT a youth - I believe his perspective was on 30+ years on-and-off habitation in Thailand.. which started in his mid-to-late teens.)
gedlee said:
I can't say for certain what they are like today.. but I had a BROAD spectrum of US schooling (across the country, public and private). At no time did I feel like private schooling offered any additional incentive to excel over *good* public schooling - at least in general. IMO (and my experience) there were four real advantages to a good private school, a slightly more aggressive curriculum, better teachers on average (they could pay more), moderately smarter students (simply because they had the ability to select smarter students), and perhaps most importantly - a better student to teacher ratio (..and this is in comparison to a *good* public school). With the exception of the student teacher ratio though, there wasn't a great disparity. The kids that weren't really that smart were often just "passed" - it didn't substantially "slow down" or diminish learning because of them. Finally, I only found in some "magnet" schools (and even then only in a few classes), an emphasis on excellence. (..and several teachers in both public and private schools did provide an accommodation to excel - but it was always a teacher specific thing.)
ScottG said:
My son goes to a Montessori School, which I have to say I find impressive. Nathan excells at math, some two to three years ahead of his public school grade and the Montessori system handles this with no problem. When I look back on my own experiences, I too could have excelled, but the motivation wasn't there for me to do so. I was a troublemaker because I was bored. When I got to college (which I barely got into) I found a need to really apply myself for the first time and I did. I went from mudane grades to excellent and finished college with a 4.0 in my last two years and all the way through graduate school. Apparently the capability was there, but the public schools just could not seem to bring this out of me. I had to do it myself.
I hate to generalize on things like this, but I just have not found the public school approach to be motivating to the exceptional student. And perhaps they shouldn't - its a complex problem. For us the answer appears to be private schools and I'm OK with that.
We really need to take this off line.
"The foam in layers may work, but I worry about the interface between the layers. I would certainly NOT glue this. The effect of these layers vibrating, etc. concerns me which is why I use a block."
I wouldn't want to risk filling the interstices with glue, either.
I can't imagine vibration being a problem what with the foam being lossy and nearly transparent.
My thought was to literally sew the layers together in a few spots and secure it to the hoen with a few smears of RTV in the moth area.
"So when someone asks how will "such-and-such" act, its only a guess, and likely not a very good one at that. In my experience small deviations from the ideal/optimum cause large deviations in the results. So it doesn't take much of a change for an intuitive guess as to the results to be way off."
Can I interpret this as you have no comment and smoothing that edge in the XT1086 which seems to alreadybe a deviation from the ideal)?
Thanks
I wouldn't want to risk filling the interstices with glue, either.
I can't imagine vibration being a problem what with the foam being lossy and nearly transparent.
My thought was to literally sew the layers together in a few spots and secure it to the hoen with a few smears of RTV in the moth area.
"So when someone asks how will "such-and-such" act, its only a guess, and likely not a very good one at that. In my experience small deviations from the ideal/optimum cause large deviations in the results. So it doesn't take much of a change for an intuitive guess as to the results to be way off."
Can I interpret this as you have no comment and smoothing that edge in the XT1086 which seems to alreadybe a deviation from the ideal)?
Thanks
Sheldon said:
Remember though that the change in interface will affect the sound. There is a loss as you cross boundaries. even if the boundaries are thin glue-up layers.
I haven't looked but I'd wager there's a two-part foam that can be poured and molded into any three dimensional shape you can build a mold for AND has the appropriate "phase plug" properties. It would yield a relatively homogenious and inexpensive solution.
Like a NERF football...
Matt
y8s said:
You would loose that wager as the technology to make "open cell" foam is considerably more complex than to make "closed cell" foam. All two part foams are closed cell.
How do they get "open cell"? It takes a special formulation that leaves a combustive residue in each cell. Then they set up a combustion chain that bursts each cell igniting it and then on to the next, etc. This is not feasible to do in small blocks.
"How do they get "open cell"? It takes a special formulation that leaves a combustive residue in each cell. Then they set up a combustion chain that bursts each cell igniting it and then on to the next, etc. "
How delightfully bizarre.
That might make some interesting furniture for unwanted guests
How delightfully bizarre.
That might make some interesting furniture for unwanted guests
jzagaja said:
When I put Unity horn clones in my car, I leveraged the idea of using a physical boundary to extend the horn mouth. You missed one thing though;
What about the throat?
What happens near the diaphragm of a loud speaker is critical; this means that if you screw up the throat, you'll cause problems that can't be fixed.
Knowing that, how do you create a proper interface between a riboon and a room?
Once you figure that one out, you'll be on your way.