[WEB4LIB] Re: ?sound domes

[Jean Armour Polly]

Hi- about  a year and a half ago we did get the dealer to bring two 
competing systems to our library. One was the freestanding cone of 
silence product. We had them each for about a week. While they worked 
well on a noisy trade show floor, we were not happy with them in the 
comparative quiet of the library. The sound bled out too much for our 
particular need. You could hear perfectly right underneath the 
parabolic speaker, and you could also hear pretty well 10 feet and 
more away. :-( It is possible that if they could have been mounted 
much higher in the ceiling, the sound could have been more narrowly 
focused. My advice is try one before you spec 'em!

At 11:23 AM -0700 9/28/04, Gideon Lattimore recently said:
>Hello,
>
>I saw these on the showroom floor at the Computers in Libraries 
>Conference in DC last March:
>
>http://www.m-media.com/Audio-Displays/BrownInnovation/index.php
>
>The company is Brown Innovations, and if I remember correctly, 
>"Brown" was involved early in the history of Bose Audio Systems.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>GL
>
>=====
>
>At 10:19:30, Phalbe wrote:
>
>Folks,
>
>We're getting ready to design and build a new library. I'd like to
>put a
>sound dome in. You know, like the one that NASA had at ALA. I can't
>find
>much on the internet and I suspect my search terms are inadequate.
>
>I was interested to find that Kohler has put them in their Design
>Center
><http://www.us.kohler.com/pr/renovation.html>.
>  Also, there's this from
>Microsoft, which I don't understand a word of:
><http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
>
>us/directx9_c/directX/htm/idirectsound3dbuffer8getconeangles.asp>.
>
>Does anyone know of any brand names? Do they have to be custom-built?
>Does anyone know how much they cost? Why is this so difficult?  Let's
>see...get a Pyrex mixing bowl, drill a hole in the bottom....
>
>Thanks.
>
>Phalbe Henriksen
>Director
>Bradford County Public Library
>Starke, FL
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