[Gllug] MP3 player recomendations

[Nix]

On 3 Sep 2007, Chris Bell told this:
> On Mon 03 Sep, Nix wrote:
>    Studios are often built with insulation-filled cavities a couple of feet
> deep covering the walls, designed to absorb frequencies down to the lowest
> possible, but orchestral performers often prefer a "live" environment in
> which they can hear sound reflected from the walls. It can be quite strange
> entering an anecoic room, normally built with conical foam protrusions to
> absorb all sound and used to test microphones and speakers. There have been
> attempts to introduce artificial reverberation into a "dead" studio by
> feeding sound back to loudspeakers around the walls, but this requires fixed
> delays which need to be reset according to the daily physical layout
> variations, and once adjusted only really works for a single point in the
> studio.

Um.... *why*? I can't understand why anyone would produce an anechoic
environment and then try to reintroduce the very echoes that they just
went to such effort to eliminate. Why not just have a non-anechoic room
for people who prefer that?
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