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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6068 
The first take on the new room. 6062 
New Room, a first shot. 6061 
Wonderful 6061 
Adopted 6060 
The first relaxed night with the room 6058 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6057 
The listening room is ready. 6056 
New Room, a First Shot 6054 
Continue to work with the room 6054 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6054 
Room 6053 
I think it will take another month. 6053 
The Buttressing 6053 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6052 
The new place and the new noises. 6052 
Big listening room 6051 
Screw the "big" rooms 6051 
Big listening rooms 6051 
First reflection points 6050 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6050 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6047 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6046 
Squeezing the floor 6046 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6046 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6046 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6045 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6045 
The new room, the very first listening. 6045 
The 14.5 foot. 6044 
Again… 6043 
Romy's new Playground 6043 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6043 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6043 
For the uninitiated ... 6042 
NH guy 6042 
Room 6042 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6041 
The first base is done 6041 
Reentry time alignment. 6040 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6039 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6039 
Mid bass horn. 6039 
Guess is only a guess… 6039 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6039 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6038 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6038 
Diffusors 6038 
Diffuse injection 6038 
Let analyse why it so 6038 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6038 
Wheel and Deal 6038 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6038 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6038 
I Must Be Missing Something 6038 
I put sliders under my speakers 6037 
ROOM 6036 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6036 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6036 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6036 
No concerns 6036 
Speakers and room 6036 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6035 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6035 
Diaphram 6035 
Phram 6035 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6035 
Perfect piston 6035 
Decorater 6034 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6034 
New morning 6033 
The first take on the room with RTA 6032 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6032 
Axiomatic 6032 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6031 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6031 
The size of the bass. 6031 
Bass Factory 6031 
Crude Level, or something more? 6031 
I will play with it this week…. 6031 
Rent-A 6031 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6031 
Corner horns 6031 
Cheating from below 6031 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6031 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6030 
A possibly overly simplified view 6030 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6030 
Iceberg 6030 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6030 
Why not horn 6030 
A correction…. 6030 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6030 
They are just not related things at all. 6030 
Fertin 6028 
Low resonance is good... 6028 
Et tu, Brute? 6027 
The Room response at LF 6026 
Life On The Ground Floor 6026 
Bass arrays 6026 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6026 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6026 
The super sucks. 6026 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6026 
You may also try 6025 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6025 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6025 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6025 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6025 
60 Hz Resonance 6025 
No notching… so far. 6025 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6024 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6024 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6024 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6024 
Power to the People 6024 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6024 
Aura 6024 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6024 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6024 
All class D is the same 6024 
Interpreting the LF results. 6023 
The Halibut 6023 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6023 
The Big Picture 6023 
Power & ULF channels 6023 
The big picture indeed. 6023 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6023 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6023 
The Power and the Glory 6022 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6022 
I guess I did not get this memo 6022 
French LF drivers 6022 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6022 
(another) French LF approach 6021 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6021 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6021 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6021 
Limpschtick 6021 
Symmetry 6021 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6020 
Room correction 6020 
It migh be more complicated. 6020 
Bass EQ ? 6020 
Agree and not. 6020 
Two "diseases" 6020 
Parametric filters 6020 
Ceiling arrays 6020 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6020 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6020 
The Middle of the Room. 6020 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6020 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6020 
Stop! 6020 
Appendectomy 6020 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6019 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6019 
No Isolation 6019 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6016 
Potential contenders? 6015 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6015 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6015 
Those Crazy Canucks 6011 
Mo' Better Bass 6005 
Bird in the Hand? 6005 
A wet listening spot? 5998 
Storm 5995 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5995 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5981 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5951 
Polar Opposite ULF 5950 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5938 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5936 
Differently but the same. 5935 
PVC 5934 
The sail test try. 5934 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5934 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5934 
Trial 5933 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5933 
Some explanations 5933 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5932 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5931 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5930 
Acrylate 5929 
Magic blanket 5929 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5928 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5928 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5928 
I have a few options. 5928 
Foam color 5928 
Strange things with upperbass 5928 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5927 
Teatro reform. . . 5927 
The foaming room dilemma. 5926 
Melamine Foam 5926 
Foaming up the cat house 5926 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5926 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5926 
Acoustic revisions… 5925 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5922 
Surprises so far in the new room 5921 
The upperbass in the new room. 5921 
Slight change of hart. 5920 
Camco supply of Boston 5918 
Room acoustics 5918 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5877 
I need to kill dust first. 5877 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5875 
To feed the leeches? 5875 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5874 
Yh 5874 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5874 
DPOLs? 5874 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5874 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5871 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5871 
A HalfPipe solution? 5871 
I absolutely love it. 5871 
Piper work 5870 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5870 
Absorption 5870 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5869 
Cats life ? 5869 
Call me Pussy. 5869 
More about traps 5869 
Acoustic impedance? 5869 
You maybe right 5869 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5869 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5868 
Heavy Curtain 5868 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5867 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5867 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5867 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5864 
Fix speaker move chair? 5863 
Back and forth ceremony 5863 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5862 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5861 
Glass windows 5860 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5859 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5858 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5856 
How to use basement jacks? 5856 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5856 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5856 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5855 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5855 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5854 
Sore eyes... 5853 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5853 
The harvesting week! 5851 
I need an inspiration… 5850 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5849 
Like this? 5849 
Dramatically randomize MF 5849 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5848 
The room eats dynamic 5848 
Diffusers 5848 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5847 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5832 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5831 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5831 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5831 
About Width-Importance balance. 5829 
Letting the music scale up 5828 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5828 
To finish my house décor… 5824 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5823 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5822 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5822 
Calling the gods of music 5822 
Absolutely 5822 
Phase manipulation 5822 
No relation. 5822 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5822 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5822 
Dynamical mismatch 5821 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5821 
Stradiwinerius? 5818 
Dealing with the glass. 5817 
Boston 5817 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5817 
Added mass 5817 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5817 
It is about moderation…. 5817 
To hell with the wine... 5817 
Also for other surafaces 5816 
LEAD 5816 
LEAD & GLASS 5816 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5816 
Read carefully 5816 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5816 
Crooks and morons 5816 
Magiscopios 5815 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5795 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5795 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5794 
The LP setup in the new home. 5743 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5738 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5738 
Pianochord will do! 5738 
Spanyi heaven 5738 
I see no conflict at all. 5738 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5738 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5738 
A year after closing 5730 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5730 
Traveling antimatter 5723 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5717 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5716 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5690 
Cast Iron fireplace 5689 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5689 
The hardcore way 5689 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5653 
This is How It's Done 5652 
Listening room during summer. 5640 
What about those... 5639 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5639 
Reducing A/C Noise 5639 
HVAC the Cat 5639 
Big Ass fan 5638 
Variac dimmers 5638 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5638 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5638 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5570 
Some winter observations. 5461 
That Asian man…. 5430 
The Franz Schubert morning 5404 
Spring.... 5353 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5303 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5274 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5274 
Just good photography? 5274 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5274 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5274 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5273 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5273 
Sports car 5273 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5273 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5273 
Train Positioning 5273 
Kind of what I want 5273 
The lap listening… 5273 
Family Room 5273 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5270 
A super audio room. 5266 
Time Warp! 5266 
A piano in a listening room 5245 
Pianissimo 5245 
The plan in blue. 5245 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5245 
My doubts 5245 
It is exactly what I worry. 5244 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5244 
Musicians at home 5244 
Piano Measurements 5243 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5238 
The next step. 5224 
Midbass horns missing?? 5223 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5213 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5213 
Baby Grand 5212 
Wood floor 5212 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5212 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5212 
Amy’s baby. 5210 
Improvement 5210 
Agree with Scott 5210 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5198 
Integrated casters 5198 
Very nice, thanks. 5198 
Customization 5198 
Sliders 5198 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5191 
Congratulations 5191 
Holes in the floor... 5191 
Tubes and kids 5191 
Sweet spot enlargement 5191 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5189 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5188 
Wood Floors and Water 5188 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5183 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5182 
WAF is for Losers 5182 
WAF: it depends. 5182 
Integration 5181 
Here and there. 5181 
Life after WWIII 5181 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5181 
Cables management. 5179 
Featurizing 5179 
Kids and tubes cont. 5176 
Kid magnet 5176 
Kids and audio 5175 
Radars 5175 
Wow, what the days! 5171 
The comming weekend 5167 
It all was worth it! 5164 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5159 
Here is how it is look. 5159 
Resolving the carpet issue 5159 
Bonfire 5159 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5159 
Proof of concept? 5159 
Geometry 5159 
A view from listening position. 5159 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5159 
Some feedback 5159 
Evening 5159 
I wonder why. 5158 
Rugs and things 5158 
In defense… 5158 
I can’t get it. 5155 
Haze. 5154 
Front wall 5154 
It is very possible. 5154 
It is nice to be back. 5151 
My comfy corner. 5148 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4788 
WMD in house. 4610 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4513 
The third listening spot. 4492 
For sure a very different experience. 4454 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4449 
It's Jfretch's system. 4449 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4448 
Domestic games 4402 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4263 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4263 
Dynamic screening 4263 
Actually this is very good idea! 4263 
Volcanic fabric 4263 
I should have done this. 4261 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4257 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4226 
No worries 4226 
Awesome memories 4226 
Optimization of space 4226 
Child-ish considerations 4223 
Finding peace.... 4217 
"Fencing"? 4216 
I need to build something custom 4216 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4216 
Stressed Skin 4216 
NYC elevators 4216 
Kids toys and quantities. 4216 
Everything is completely reversible 4215 
Racks and things 4215 
Now it looks even more promising! 4215 
Quantity of rods 4215 
Avoiding diagonals 4213 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4212 
That's not fair! 4212 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4212 
Discrimination? 4207 
Vertical configuration 4200 
Impresive ! 4129 
Did you read the site? 4129 
Contact 4129 
Company's name is Rixrax 4129 
Stand 4128 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4084 
End of life headphone system 4084 
Something like this? 4084 
The "Second Living Room" 4084 
Mixing urban & suburban 4084 
Late night listening 4084 
Moving life... 4082 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4082 
A true listening room. 4058 
It started… 4043 
Levels of Interest 4043 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4043 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4043 
I can't not to post it.... 4043 
Do not leave him unattended. 4043 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4043 
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