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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6022 
The first take on the new room. 6016 
New Room, a first shot. 6015 
Wonderful 6015 
Adopted 6014 
The first relaxed night with the room 6012 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6011 
The listening room is ready. 6010 
New Room, a First Shot 6008 
Continue to work with the room 6008 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6008 
Room 6007 
I think it will take another month. 6007 
The Buttressing 6007 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6006 
The new place and the new noises. 6006 
Big listening room 6005 
Screw the "big" rooms 6005 
Big listening rooms 6005 
First reflection points 6004 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6004 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6001 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6000 
Squeezing the floor 6000 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6000 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6000 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5999 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5999 
The new room, the very first listening. 5999 
The 14.5 foot. 5998 
Again… 5997 
Romy's new Playground 5997 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5997 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5997 
For the uninitiated ... 5996 
NH guy 5996 
Room 5996 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5995 
The first base is done 5995 
Reentry time alignment. 5994 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5993 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5993 
Mid bass horn. 5993 
Guess is only a guess… 5993 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5993 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5992 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5992 
Diffusors 5992 
Diffuse injection 5992 
Let analyse why it so 5992 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5992 
Wheel and Deal 5992 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5992 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5992 
I Must Be Missing Something 5992 
I put sliders under my speakers 5991 
ROOM 5990 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5990 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5990 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5990 
No concerns 5990 
Speakers and room 5990 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5989 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5989 
Diaphram 5989 
Phram 5989 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5989 
Perfect piston 5989 
Decorater 5988 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5988 
New morning 5987 
The first take on the room with RTA 5986 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5986 
Axiomatic 5986 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5985 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5985 
The size of the bass. 5985 
Bass Factory 5985 
Crude Level, or something more? 5985 
I will play with it this week…. 5985 
Rent-A 5985 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5985 
Corner horns 5985 
Cheating from below 5985 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5985 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5984 
A possibly overly simplified view 5984 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5984 
Iceberg 5984 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5984 
Why not horn 5984 
A correction…. 5984 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5984 
They are just not related things at all. 5984 
Fertin 5982 
Low resonance is good... 5982 
Et tu, Brute? 5981 
The Room response at LF 5980 
Life On The Ground Floor 5980 
Bass arrays 5980 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5980 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5980 
The super sucks. 5980 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5980 
You may also try 5979 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5979 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5979 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5979 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5979 
60 Hz Resonance 5979 
No notching… so far. 5979 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5978 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5978 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5978 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5978 
Power to the People 5978 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5978 
Aura 5978 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5978 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5978 
All class D is the same 5978 
Interpreting the LF results. 5977 
The Halibut 5977 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5977 
The Big Picture 5977 
Power & ULF channels 5977 
The big picture indeed. 5977 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5977 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5977 
The Power and the Glory 5976 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5976 
I guess I did not get this memo 5976 
French LF drivers 5976 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5976 
(another) French LF approach 5975 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5975 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5975 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5975 
Limpschtick 5975 
Symmetry 5975 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5974 
Room correction 5974 
It migh be more complicated. 5974 
Bass EQ ? 5974 
Agree and not. 5974 
Two "diseases" 5974 
Parametric filters 5974 
Ceiling arrays 5974 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5974 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5974 
The Middle of the Room. 5974 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5974 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5974 
Stop! 5974 
Appendectomy 5974 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5973 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5973 
No Isolation 5973 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5970 
Potential contenders? 5969 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5969 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5969 
Those Crazy Canucks 5965 
Mo' Better Bass 5959 
Bird in the Hand? 5959 
A wet listening spot? 5952 
Storm 5949 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5949 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5935 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5905 
Polar Opposite ULF 5904 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5892 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5890 
Differently but the same. 5889 
PVC 5888 
The sail test try. 5888 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5888 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5888 
Trial 5887 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5887 
Some explanations 5887 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5886 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5885 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5884 
Acrylate 5883 
Magic blanket 5883 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5882 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5882 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5882 
I have a few options. 5882 
Foam color 5882 
Strange things with upperbass 5882 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5881 
Teatro reform. . . 5881 
The foaming room dilemma. 5880 
Melamine Foam 5880 
Foaming up the cat house 5880 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5880 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5880 
Acoustic revisions… 5879 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5876 
Surprises so far in the new room 5875 
The upperbass in the new room. 5875 
Slight change of hart. 5874 
Camco supply of Boston 5872 
Room acoustics 5872 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5831 
I need to kill dust first. 5831 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5829 
To feed the leeches? 5829 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5828 
Yh 5828 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5828 
DPOLs? 5828 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5828 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5825 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5825 
A HalfPipe solution? 5825 
I absolutely love it. 5825 
Piper work 5824 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5824 
Absorption 5824 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5823 
Cats life ? 5823 
Call me Pussy. 5823 
More about traps 5823 
Acoustic impedance? 5823 
You maybe right 5823 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5823 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5822 
Heavy Curtain 5822 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5821 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5821 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5821 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5818 
Fix speaker move chair? 5817 
Back and forth ceremony 5817 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5816 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5815 
Glass windows 5814 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5813 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5812 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5810 
How to use basement jacks? 5810 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5810 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5810 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5809 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5809 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5808 
Sore eyes... 5807 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5807 
The harvesting week! 5805 
I need an inspiration… 5804 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5803 
Like this? 5803 
Dramatically randomize MF 5803 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5802 
The room eats dynamic 5802 
Diffusers 5802 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5801 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5786 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5785 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5785 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5785 
About Width-Importance balance. 5783 
Letting the music scale up 5782 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5782 
To finish my house décor… 5778 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5777 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5776 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5776 
Calling the gods of music 5776 
Absolutely 5776 
Phase manipulation 5776 
No relation. 5776 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5776 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5776 
Dynamical mismatch 5775 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5775 
Stradiwinerius? 5772 
Dealing with the glass. 5771 
Boston 5771 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5771 
Added mass 5771 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5771 
It is about moderation…. 5771 
To hell with the wine... 5771 
Also for other surafaces 5770 
LEAD 5770 
LEAD & GLASS 5770 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5770 
Read carefully 5770 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5770 
Crooks and morons 5770 
Magiscopios 5769 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5749 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5749 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5748 
The LP setup in the new home. 5697 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5692 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5692 
Pianochord will do! 5692 
Spanyi heaven 5692 
I see no conflict at all. 5692 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5692 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5692 
A year after closing 5684 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5684 
Traveling antimatter 5677 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5671 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5670 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5644 
Cast Iron fireplace 5643 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5643 
The hardcore way 5643 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5607 
This is How It's Done 5606 
Listening room during summer. 5594 
What about those... 5593 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5593 
Reducing A/C Noise 5593 
HVAC the Cat 5593 
Big Ass fan 5592 
Variac dimmers 5592 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5592 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5592 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5524 
Some winter observations. 5415 
That Asian man…. 5384 
The Franz Schubert morning 5358 
Spring.... 5307 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5257 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5228 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5228 
Just good photography? 5228 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5228 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5228 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5227 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5227 
Sports car 5227 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5227 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5227 
Train Positioning 5227 
Kind of what I want 5227 
The lap listening… 5227 
Family Room 5227 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5224 
A super audio room. 5220 
Time Warp! 5220 
A piano in a listening room 5199 
Pianissimo 5199 
The plan in blue. 5199 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5199 
My doubts 5199 
It is exactly what I worry. 5198 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5198 
Musicians at home 5198 
Piano Measurements 5197 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5192 
The next step. 5178 
Midbass horns missing?? 5177 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5167 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5167 
Baby Grand 5166 
Wood floor 5166 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5166 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5166 
Amy’s baby. 5164 
Improvement 5164 
Agree with Scott 5164 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5152 
Integrated casters 5152 
Very nice, thanks. 5152 
Customization 5152 
Sliders 5152 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5145 
Congratulations 5145 
Holes in the floor... 5145 
Tubes and kids 5145 
Sweet spot enlargement 5145 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5143 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5142 
Wood Floors and Water 5142 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5137 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5136 
WAF is for Losers 5136 
WAF: it depends. 5136 
Integration 5135 
Here and there. 5135 
Life after WWIII 5135 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5135 
Cables management. 5133 
Featurizing 5133 
Kids and tubes cont. 5130 
Kid magnet 5130 
Kids and audio 5129 
Radars 5129 
Wow, what the days! 5125 
The comming weekend 5121 
It all was worth it! 5118 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5113 
Here is how it is look. 5113 
Resolving the carpet issue 5113 
Bonfire 5113 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5113 
Proof of concept? 5113 
Geometry 5113 
A view from listening position. 5113 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5113 
Some feedback 5113 
Evening 5113 
I wonder why. 5112 
Rugs and things 5112 
In defense… 5112 
I can’t get it. 5109 
Haze. 5108 
Front wall 5108 
It is very possible. 5108 
It is nice to be back. 5105 
My comfy corner. 5102 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4742 
WMD in house. 4564 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4467 
The third listening spot. 4446 
For sure a very different experience. 4408 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4403 
It's Jfretch's system. 4403 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4402 
Domestic games 4356 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4217 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4217 
Dynamic screening 4217 
Actually this is very good idea! 4217 
Volcanic fabric 4217 
I should have done this. 4215 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4211 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4180 
No worries 4180 
Awesome memories 4180 
Optimization of space 4180 
Child-ish considerations 4177 
Finding peace.... 4171 
"Fencing"? 4170 
I need to build something custom 4170 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4170 
Stressed Skin 4170 
NYC elevators 4170 
Kids toys and quantities. 4170 
Everything is completely reversible 4169 
Racks and things 4169 
Now it looks even more promising! 4169 
Quantity of rods 4169 
Avoiding diagonals 4167 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4166 
That's not fair! 4166 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4166 
Discrimination? 4161 
Vertical configuration 4154 
Impresive ! 4083 
Did you read the site? 4083 
Contact 4083 
Company's name is Rixrax 4083 
Stand 4082 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4038 
End of life headphone system 4038 
Something like this? 4038 
The "Second Living Room" 4038 
Mixing urban & suburban 4038 
Late night listening 4038 
Moving life... 4036 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4036 
A true listening room. 4012 
It started… 3997 
Levels of Interest 3997 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3997 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3997 
I can't not to post it.... 3997 
Do not leave him unattended. 3997 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3997 
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