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low ceilings in modern dwelling spaces. Standard ceiling heights nowadays range around 8 to 81 4 feet, and in such surroundings the 6- and 7-foot high breakfronts, cupboards and highboys of former days look out of proportion. They were intended for rooms with 9-12-foot ceilings. The same horizontal line emphasis is shown in Fig. 404. Here visual interest has been added by the stepup and setback of the record-player compartment at the left and the outside leg at the Fig. 406. The use of...
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Fig. 205. Short of throwing out the sofa the only practical solution to the problem of Fig. 204 is to use a wall enclosure. Fig. 205. Short of throwing out the sofa the only practical solution to the problem of Fig. 204 is to use a wall enclosure. effect. Often this kind of muddiness is blamed on the system, when actually the room is at fault. There are ways of both testing and calculating the exact rever- Fig. 206. The best and next-best locations for a wall enclosure in an L-shaped room....
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Tuners. Tuner dimensions. Vertical and horizontal mounting of tuners. Ventilation. Turntables. Leveling the turntable. Mounting level of changers and turntables. Tape decks and recorders. Amplifiers. Stack mounting. Construction of a tuner-amplifier compartment. Speaker enclosures. Infinite baffle. Bass reflex. Horns. Stereo equipment. Choosing the room. Placing the speaker. Room shapes. Room acoustics. Sound distribution from a speaker. Room traffic patterns. The scaled floor plan. Making room...
Doubleshouldered butt joint
The next joint is not frequently used. It is a further variation of the shoulder butt, and could be defined as a double-shouldered butt. Fig. 611 . The ends of both pieces to be joined are notched and are butted together with the notches interlocked. This joint has more strength than a normal shoulder butt since the pieces being joined bear against each other on three surfaces. However, it is not as popular as it might be, possibly because the notches in both pieces must be very accurate to...