Cool concept - I doubt it would work

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In my internet travels one finds many things, todays curio is the "Sound egg" http://www.soundegg.com/

As a concept I think this is cool. You buy a sound egg, plug it in and away you go. No more acoustic treatment, no more standing waves, no more does this room sound funny?

Okay so this is setup for the entertainment market and not the pro audio market and its probably not going to work but I think it's a cool concept.

Bit awkward for clients, I suppose you could patch in multiple eggs.
 
Extremely unreasonable.

Agreed. But it is a what if scenario. What if we create a mini environment, an egg, pod, whatever, that does have an acoustically flat response loaded with good monitors? The concept is a good one. If you can build a room to be a great mixing environment maybe it is possible to build an egg to do the same thing.

Plus it nurtures my inner hermit, not only will I been hiding in my studio I'll be hiding in my egg as well.
 
Agreed. But it is a what if scenario. What if we create a mini environment, an egg, pod, whatever, that does have an acoustically flat response loaded with good monitors?

I'm pretty sure this is impossible, considering the size of the wavelengths of lower frequencies (e.g. bigger than that egg) Cool idea, though but I highly doubt it's anywhere near "flat"

EDIT: Here's a frequency response chart

freq-response-sound-egg-chair.jpg


15dB range between the loudest and softest frequencies (not counting roll-offs) is pretty :yow: but at least it doesn't look like there are any massive modes or nulls (or is a different test required for that?)
 
Okay, so I've tried to be serious because I do think it's a cool idea, but to be honest, I haven't stopped laughing! I'm just thinking about all these fucking metalheads sitting in their eggs mixing away like some goofy seventies stoner, spinning around, banging their heads. :rock:

I want an egg now! One with jet packs and a jetsons style aerial on the top. I don't care if jetpacks don't work, they just look cool.
 
Reading this post makes me wonder where you all get your information?

"Ah the old 20-20kHz response. Oldest trick in the book, don't mention that response is not flat!" - It's not? How do you know? It actually is a flat source and was tested in our state of the art testing facility. The same facility that is used in all our military testing which is required by MIL-PRF specifications that have windows smaller then you could even imagine. Ever heard of B&K - I'm sure since we are all SO knowledgeable about equipment. Calibrated regularly required by the military.

I suggest every single one of you come to our facility and see it for yourself - In fact, I encourage it. It baffles me that you can make assumptions about something that you have never even touched or experienced.

"Extremely unreasonable. Especially considering they're aming those at home-theater-enthusiasts and gamers."

WRONG - This is geared to about 50 markets. Some of which you have never even heard of. This item was initially designed to test high-attenuation headsets at trade shows (Our primary business). By simulating a prop airplane exactly you can allow your customers to know what your product does before you have to buy it to test it in your plane. That's just the tip of the iceberg... We were asked to bring it to the consumer electronics market by our customers on a daily basis - which is why we offer it to everyone.

So I suggest you all take a seat sometime so I can stop laughing at how uneducated these comments are. Come prove me wrong because 30 years in the audio industry is something you cannot fake.

Cheers and happy audio. I also suggest a little less ignorance of some of you in this thread. Doesn't show well for your knowledge of this industry.

Joel M. Cochran
Project Manager
 
Reading this post makes me wonder where you all get your information?

The users on this forum range from mere beginers to some of the best music producers the world has ever seen. Granted only a few of them have chosen to comment on this post, and their opinions are their own, but typically, in my experience, posts made here come form a collective pool of millions of hours of real world experience from around the world.

"Ah the old 20-20kHz response. Oldest trick in the book, don't mention that response is not flat!" - It's not? How do you know? .

I suggest every single one of you come to our facility and see it for yourself - In fact, I encourage it. It baffles me that you can make assumptions about something that you have never even touched or experienced.
Fair enough and thanks for the invite. Don't be so baffled, peaple make assumptions everyday, I'm sure you do. You've made more than a few about the users on our forum.

"Extremely unreasonable. Especially considering they're aming those at home-theater-enthusiasts and gamers."

WRONG - This is geared to about 50 markets. Some of which you have never even heard of.
Clearly we haven't heard of them, perhaps you could list them? Is the recording industry one of them?

This item was initially designed to test high-attenuation headsets at trade shows (Our primary business). By simulating a prop airplane exactly you can allow your customers to know what your product does before you have to buy it to test it in your plane. That's just the tip of the iceberg... We were asked to bring it to the consumer electronics market by our customers on a daily basis - which is why we offer it to everyone.

So I suggest you all take a seat sometime so I can stop laughing at how uneducated these comments are. Come prove me wrong because 30 years in the audio industry is something you cannot fake.

Oh and Dolby approved this egg, and I take their prestigious comments more seriously then all of yours. You will be able to check one out at any Dolby building by the mid 2010. If you know the president of Dolby then you'd already know he has one in his office.

Cheers and happy audio. I also suggest a little less ignorance of some of you in this thread. Doesn't show well for your knowledge of this industry.

Joel M. Cochran
Project Manager
You have a right to defend your product but you've blown a great opportunity. Most of us agreed that it was a cool idea. You could have set the record straight and edified us of how the product was tested and how it could work for us. It's called selling. If it were me, I would have taken the opportunity to pick the brains of the users on this forum. Regardless of what your target market is, you've missed the fact that these users are potential customers, to you their opinion should be important.

Instead you went on the attack.

You've asked us to prove you wrong, this is a ridiculous marketing strategy. You need to prove to us that your product is right. So I ask you, how many albums have been produced, mixed, and/or mastered in a sound egg?

You called us ignorant and uneducated and boasted of your years audio experience. Talk is cheap. You don't know how our forum works or anything about the users that reside here. It is also apparent that you don't know how an internet forum works. The internet gives everyone a voice, you can't have them all agree with you. Granted that not all voices are created equal but you've come here and started flinging the insults around without proving anything to us. We know the opinions the users here are valid because we see their work. We listen to the albums that they produce. We test out the advice that they give us in the real world.

You've offered us nothing, no helpful advice to anyone, no constructive criticism, only this, your only post. So before you come back with the insults, prove your worth, prove your worth to us, offer some helpful advice, and don't flame people you know nothing about, it's called humility.

On that note I offer you some advice - relax.
 
yuppp totally loving the sales pitch there.
If you can produce a version of this with a near-flat frequency response it would be very valuable to the mid-budget studio engineer, a category that many of the people on this forum belong to. Please bear this in mind while being aggressive as you risk losing potential business
 
"Ah the old 20-20kHz response. Oldest trick in the book, don't mention that response is not flat!" - It's not? How do you know? It actually is a flat source and was tested in our state of the art testing facility. The same facility that is used in all our military testing which is required by MIL-PRF specifications that have windows smaller then you could even imagine. Ever heard of B&K - I'm sure since we are all SO knowledgeable about equipment. Calibrated regularly required by the military.

Umm, well considering there is a 15dB difference between the loudest and softest frequencies, that is definitely NOT a flat response. And a 10 dB increase from 300-500 in the "mud" frequencies?

All you accomplished with that post was making yourself look like an ass by coming on a pro audio forum and trying to tell a group that is made up of many people that do audio for a living that we don't know what we're talking about, just because we haven't actually used your product.

Also, if you want people to take your product seriously, you should invest in a website that looks like it was designed by a professional, your current site looks like it was designed by some kid in high school.
 
Insulting enthusiasts and potential customers isn't very effective. Having a direct response is very cool though. I'm not sure how involved you are with your product's marketing, but you will attract more flies with honey than vinegar. Misinformed or not, the original poster is giving you free exposure, that should be commended not discouraged.
 
I did come off as an ass - and I am sorry. You are right . I was acting on impulse and not in respect to this forum.

But when you put a lot of heart into something and you read people shredding away at it - it gets emotional.

This is my formal apology to everyone in the forum. I was out of line, and when I was writing my aggression came through my words. It was very unprofessional and I retract my statements previous. I will not delete them as I will not hide from my faults.

Thank you,

Joel M. Cochran
Project Manager