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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6028 
The first take on the new room. 6022 
New Room, a first shot. 6021 
Wonderful 6021 
Adopted 6020 
The first relaxed night with the room 6018 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6017 
The listening room is ready. 6016 
New Room, a First Shot 6014 
Continue to work with the room 6014 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6014 
Room 6013 
I think it will take another month. 6013 
The Buttressing 6013 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6012 
The new place and the new noises. 6012 
Big listening room 6011 
Screw the "big" rooms 6011 
Big listening rooms 6011 
First reflection points 6010 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6010 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6007 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6006 
Squeezing the floor 6006 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6006 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6006 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6005 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6005 
The new room, the very first listening. 6005 
The 14.5 foot. 6004 
Again… 6003 
Romy's new Playground 6003 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6003 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6003 
For the uninitiated ... 6002 
NH guy 6002 
Room 6002 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6001 
The first base is done 6001 
Reentry time alignment. 6000 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5999 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5999 
Mid bass horn. 5999 
Guess is only a guess… 5999 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5999 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5998 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5998 
Diffusors 5998 
Diffuse injection 5998 
Let analyse why it so 5998 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5998 
Wheel and Deal 5998 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5998 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5998 
I Must Be Missing Something 5998 
I put sliders under my speakers 5997 
ROOM 5996 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5996 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5996 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5996 
No concerns 5996 
Speakers and room 5996 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5995 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5995 
Diaphram 5995 
Phram 5995 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5995 
Perfect piston 5995 
Decorater 5994 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5994 
New morning 5993 
The first take on the room with RTA 5992 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5992 
Axiomatic 5992 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5991 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5991 
The size of the bass. 5991 
Bass Factory 5991 
Crude Level, or something more? 5991 
I will play with it this week…. 5991 
Rent-A 5991 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5991 
Corner horns 5991 
Cheating from below 5991 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5991 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5990 
A possibly overly simplified view 5990 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5990 
Iceberg 5990 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5990 
Why not horn 5990 
A correction…. 5990 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5990 
They are just not related things at all. 5990 
Fertin 5988 
Low resonance is good... 5988 
Et tu, Brute? 5987 
The Room response at LF 5986 
Life On The Ground Floor 5986 
Bass arrays 5986 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5986 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5986 
The super sucks. 5986 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5986 
You may also try 5985 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5985 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5985 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5985 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5985 
60 Hz Resonance 5985 
No notching… so far. 5985 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5984 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5984 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5984 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5984 
Power to the People 5984 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5984 
Aura 5984 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5984 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5984 
All class D is the same 5984 
Interpreting the LF results. 5983 
The Halibut 5983 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5983 
The Big Picture 5983 
Power & ULF channels 5983 
The big picture indeed. 5983 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5983 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5983 
The Power and the Glory 5982 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5982 
I guess I did not get this memo 5982 
French LF drivers 5982 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5982 
(another) French LF approach 5981 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5981 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5981 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5981 
Limpschtick 5981 
Symmetry 5981 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5980 
Room correction 5980 
It migh be more complicated. 5980 
Bass EQ ? 5980 
Agree and not. 5980 
Two "diseases" 5980 
Parametric filters 5980 
Ceiling arrays 5980 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5980 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5980 
The Middle of the Room. 5980 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5980 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5980 
Stop! 5980 
Appendectomy 5980 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5979 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5979 
No Isolation 5979 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5976 
Potential contenders? 5975 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5975 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5975 
Those Crazy Canucks 5971 
Mo' Better Bass 5965 
Bird in the Hand? 5965 
A wet listening spot? 5958 
Storm 5955 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5955 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5941 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5911 
Polar Opposite ULF 5910 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5898 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5896 
Differently but the same. 5895 
PVC 5894 
The sail test try. 5894 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5894 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5894 
Trial 5893 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5893 
Some explanations 5893 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5892 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5891 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5890 
Acrylate 5889 
Magic blanket 5889 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5888 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5888 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5888 
I have a few options. 5888 
Foam color 5888 
Strange things with upperbass 5888 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5887 
Teatro reform. . . 5887 
The foaming room dilemma. 5886 
Melamine Foam 5886 
Foaming up the cat house 5886 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5886 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5886 
Acoustic revisions… 5885 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5882 
Surprises so far in the new room 5881 
The upperbass in the new room. 5881 
Slight change of hart. 5880 
Camco supply of Boston 5878 
Room acoustics 5878 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5837 
I need to kill dust first. 5837 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5835 
To feed the leeches? 5835 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5834 
Yh 5834 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5834 
DPOLs? 5834 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5834 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5831 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5831 
A HalfPipe solution? 5831 
I absolutely love it. 5831 
Piper work 5830 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5830 
Absorption 5830 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5829 
Cats life ? 5829 
Call me Pussy. 5829 
More about traps 5829 
Acoustic impedance? 5829 
You maybe right 5829 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5829 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5828 
Heavy Curtain 5828 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5827 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5827 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5827 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5824 
Fix speaker move chair? 5823 
Back and forth ceremony 5823 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5822 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5821 
Glass windows 5820 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5819 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5818 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5816 
How to use basement jacks? 5816 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5816 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5816 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5815 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5815 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5814 
Sore eyes... 5813 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5813 
The harvesting week! 5811 
I need an inspiration… 5810 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5809 
Like this? 5809 
Dramatically randomize MF 5809 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5808 
The room eats dynamic 5808 
Diffusers 5808 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5807 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5792 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5791 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5791 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5791 
About Width-Importance balance. 5789 
Letting the music scale up 5788 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5788 
To finish my house décor… 5784 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5783 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5782 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5782 
Calling the gods of music 5782 
Absolutely 5782 
Phase manipulation 5782 
No relation. 5782 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5782 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5782 
Dynamical mismatch 5781 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5781 
Stradiwinerius? 5778 
Dealing with the glass. 5777 
Boston 5777 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5777 
Added mass 5777 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5777 
It is about moderation…. 5777 
To hell with the wine... 5777 
Also for other surafaces 5776 
LEAD 5776 
LEAD & GLASS 5776 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5776 
Read carefully 5776 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5776 
Crooks and morons 5776 
Magiscopios 5775 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5755 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5755 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5754 
The LP setup in the new home. 5703 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5698 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5698 
Pianochord will do! 5698 
Spanyi heaven 5698 
I see no conflict at all. 5698 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5698 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5698 
A year after closing 5690 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5690 
Traveling antimatter 5683 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5677 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5676 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5650 
Cast Iron fireplace 5649 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5649 
The hardcore way 5649 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5613 
This is How It's Done 5612 
Listening room during summer. 5600 
What about those... 5599 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5599 
Reducing A/C Noise 5599 
HVAC the Cat 5599 
Big Ass fan 5598 
Variac dimmers 5598 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5598 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5598 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5530 
Some winter observations. 5421 
That Asian man…. 5390 
The Franz Schubert morning 5364 
Spring.... 5313 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5263 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5234 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5234 
Just good photography? 5234 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5234 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5234 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5233 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5233 
Sports car 5233 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5233 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5233 
Train Positioning 5233 
Kind of what I want 5233 
The lap listening… 5233 
Family Room 5233 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5230 
A super audio room. 5226 
Time Warp! 5226 
A piano in a listening room 5205 
Pianissimo 5205 
The plan in blue. 5205 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5205 
My doubts 5205 
It is exactly what I worry. 5204 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5204 
Musicians at home 5204 
Piano Measurements 5203 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5198 
The next step. 5184 
Midbass horns missing?? 5183 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5173 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5173 
Baby Grand 5172 
Wood floor 5172 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5172 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5172 
Amy’s baby. 5170 
Improvement 5170 
Agree with Scott 5170 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5158 
Integrated casters 5158 
Very nice, thanks. 5158 
Customization 5158 
Sliders 5158 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5151 
Congratulations 5151 
Holes in the floor... 5151 
Tubes and kids 5151 
Sweet spot enlargement 5151 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5149 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5148 
Wood Floors and Water 5148 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5143 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5142 
WAF is for Losers 5142 
WAF: it depends. 5142 
Integration 5141 
Here and there. 5141 
Life after WWIII 5141 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5141 
Cables management. 5139 
Featurizing 5139 
Kids and tubes cont. 5136 
Kid magnet 5136 
Kids and audio 5135 
Radars 5135 
Wow, what the days! 5131 
The comming weekend 5127 
It all was worth it! 5124 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5119 
Here is how it is look. 5119 
Resolving the carpet issue 5119 
Bonfire 5119 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5119 
Proof of concept? 5119 
Geometry 5119 
A view from listening position. 5119 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5119 
Some feedback 5119 
Evening 5119 
I wonder why. 5118 
Rugs and things 5118 
In defense… 5118 
I can’t get it. 5115 
Haze. 5114 
Front wall 5114 
It is very possible. 5114 
It is nice to be back. 5111 
My comfy corner. 5108 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4748 
WMD in house. 4570 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4473 
The third listening spot. 4452 
For sure a very different experience. 4414 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4409 
It's Jfretch's system. 4409 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4408 
Domestic games 4362 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4223 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4223 
Dynamic screening 4223 
Actually this is very good idea! 4223 
Volcanic fabric 4223 
I should have done this. 4221 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4217 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4186 
No worries 4186 
Awesome memories 4186 
Optimization of space 4186 
Child-ish considerations 4183 
Finding peace.... 4177 
"Fencing"? 4176 
I need to build something custom 4176 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4176 
Stressed Skin 4176 
NYC elevators 4176 
Kids toys and quantities. 4176 
Everything is completely reversible 4175 
Racks and things 4175 
Now it looks even more promising! 4175 
Quantity of rods 4175 
Avoiding diagonals 4173 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4172 
That's not fair! 4172 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4172 
Discrimination? 4167 
Vertical configuration 4160 
Impresive ! 4089 
Did you read the site? 4089 
Contact 4089 
Company's name is Rixrax 4089 
Stand 4088 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4044 
End of life headphone system 4044 
Something like this? 4044 
The "Second Living Room" 4044 
Mixing urban & suburban 4044 
Late night listening 4044 
Moving life... 4042 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4042 
A true listening room. 4018 
It started… 4003 
Levels of Interest 4003 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4003 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4003 
I can't not to post it.... 4003 
Do not leave him unattended. 4003 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4003 
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