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Originally Posted by R_O  I'm sorry, but that floor seems like a waste of money and space. Instead of actually making a floating wall you seem to have an elevated floor.
Judging this picture: 
I don't see the "spring" in your construction. Correct me if I'm wrong.. |
R_O,
The floating floor construction we are using in the mastering rooms is deceptively simple, but quite effective. The Kinetics SR board (the bottom layer, honeycomb looking board with insulation on each side) decouples the mastering room floor from the cement slab below. The inside walls of the room are then built upon the isolated floor and are further decoupled from the outside shell with other isolating materials and airspace.
If you take a look at the pictures of Frank Marchand's recording and control room, you will see that Sam specified more extreme isolating techniques including the use of Kinetics brand KIPs. The KIPs provide a little more "spring". Frank's room needed a little more isolation because he will be recording in there and much more energy will be generated inside of it (guitar amps and drum kits etc..)
-Mike