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To: JohnM who wrote (27137)	12/31/2009 9:06:41 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51765

I measured the acoustics of my room once. I bought an equalizer and sound level meter and decided I'd tune my stereo to the room. I had a signal generator sweeping across the spectrum. What I saw on the O-scope was downright disturbing, maybe even overwhelming. Not only did the place where I measured affect it, there were frequency-dependent dead zones caused by furniture and lamps and even my presence. I gave up and simply adjusted the knobs and slides by ear. Personally, I usually go out to my tinny screen room, knock out some chord progressions and bend some notes unaccompanied to amuse myself. For passive music, I listen to my 2-3 thousand MP3 collection (some painfully over compressed) while sitting at my desk while the computer fan whirs and my kids argue in the background. So, all of this seems a little abstract as in defining "what good art really means". Good enough art? Maybe not, but usually there is a lot of ambient sound that isn't music. My amp's contribution is minuscule. My $150 acoustic guitar is a favorite. There is nothing but organic materials between my playing and my ear. A more expensive acoustic sounds better, but finish doesn't matter as much as a lot of other factors. It does make a lot of people very happy to spend more than what they could have if sound was the only concern. I'm not judging that and there is definitely an aesthetic to owning things that make good sounds and at the same time make us happy. It's hard to put a price on that.