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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6012 
The first take on the new room. 6006 
New Room, a first shot. 6005 
Wonderful 6005 
Adopted 6004 
The first relaxed night with the room 6002 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6001 
The listening room is ready. 6000 
New Room, a First Shot 5998 
Continue to work with the room 5998 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5998 
Room 5997 
I think it will take another month. 5997 
The Buttressing 5997 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5996 
The new place and the new noises. 5996 
Big listening room 5995 
Screw the "big" rooms 5995 
Big listening rooms 5995 
First reflection points 5994 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5994 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5991 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5990 
Squeezing the floor 5990 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5990 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5990 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5989 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5989 
The new room, the very first listening. 5989 
The 14.5 foot. 5988 
Again… 5987 
Romy's new Playground 5987 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5987 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5987 
For the uninitiated ... 5986 
NH guy 5986 
Room 5986 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5985 
The first base is done 5985 
Reentry time alignment. 5984 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5983 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5983 
Mid bass horn. 5983 
Guess is only a guess… 5983 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5983 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5982 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5982 
Diffusors 5982 
Diffuse injection 5982 
Let analyse why it so 5982 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5982 
Wheel and Deal 5982 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5982 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5982 
I Must Be Missing Something 5982 
I put sliders under my speakers 5981 
ROOM 5980 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5980 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5980 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5980 
No concerns 5980 
Speakers and room 5980 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5979 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5979 
Diaphram 5979 
Phram 5979 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5979 
Perfect piston 5979 
Decorater 5978 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5978 
New morning 5977 
The first take on the room with RTA 5976 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5976 
Axiomatic 5976 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5975 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5975 
The size of the bass. 5975 
Bass Factory 5975 
Crude Level, or something more? 5975 
I will play with it this week…. 5975 
Rent-A 5975 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5975 
Corner horns 5975 
Cheating from below 5975 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5975 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5974 
A possibly overly simplified view 5974 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5974 
Iceberg 5974 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5974 
Why not horn 5974 
A correction…. 5974 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5974 
They are just not related things at all. 5974 
Fertin 5972 
Low resonance is good... 5972 
Et tu, Brute? 5971 
The Room response at LF 5970 
Life On The Ground Floor 5970 
Bass arrays 5970 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5970 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5970 
The super sucks. 5970 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5970 
You may also try 5969 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5969 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5969 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5969 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5969 
60 Hz Resonance 5969 
No notching… so far. 5969 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5968 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5968 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5968 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5968 
Power to the People 5968 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5968 
Aura 5968 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5968 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5968 
All class D is the same 5968 
Interpreting the LF results. 5967 
The Halibut 5967 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5967 
The Big Picture 5967 
Power & ULF channels 5967 
The big picture indeed. 5967 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5967 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5967 
The Power and the Glory 5966 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5966 
I guess I did not get this memo 5966 
French LF drivers 5966 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5966 
(another) French LF approach 5965 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5965 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5965 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5965 
Limpschtick 5965 
Symmetry 5965 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5964 
Room correction 5964 
It migh be more complicated. 5964 
Bass EQ ? 5964 
Agree and not. 5964 
Two "diseases" 5964 
Parametric filters 5964 
Ceiling arrays 5964 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5964 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5964 
The Middle of the Room. 5964 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5964 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5964 
Stop! 5964 
Appendectomy 5964 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5963 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5963 
No Isolation 5963 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5960 
Potential contenders? 5959 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5959 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5959 
Those Crazy Canucks 5955 
Mo' Better Bass 5949 
Bird in the Hand? 5949 
A wet listening spot? 5942 
Storm 5939 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5939 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5925 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5895 
Polar Opposite ULF 5894 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5882 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5880 
Differently but the same. 5879 
PVC 5878 
The sail test try. 5878 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5878 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5878 
Trial 5877 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5877 
Some explanations 5877 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5876 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5875 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5874 
Acrylate 5873 
Magic blanket 5873 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5872 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5872 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5872 
I have a few options. 5872 
Foam color 5872 
Strange things with upperbass 5872 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5871 
Teatro reform. . . 5871 
The foaming room dilemma. 5870 
Melamine Foam 5870 
Foaming up the cat house 5870 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5870 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5870 
Acoustic revisions… 5869 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5866 
Surprises so far in the new room 5865 
The upperbass in the new room. 5865 
Slight change of hart. 5864 
Camco supply of Boston 5862 
Room acoustics 5862 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5821 
I need to kill dust first. 5821 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5819 
To feed the leeches? 5819 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5818 
Yh 5818 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5818 
DPOLs? 5818 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5818 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5815 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5815 
A HalfPipe solution? 5815 
I absolutely love it. 5815 
Piper work 5814 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5814 
Absorption 5814 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5813 
Cats life ? 5813 
Call me Pussy. 5813 
More about traps 5813 
Acoustic impedance? 5813 
You maybe right 5813 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5813 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5812 
Heavy Curtain 5812 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5811 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5811 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5811 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5808 
Fix speaker move chair? 5807 
Back and forth ceremony 5807 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5806 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5805 
Glass windows 5804 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5803 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5802 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5800 
How to use basement jacks? 5800 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5800 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5800 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5799 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5799 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5798 
Sore eyes... 5797 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5797 
The harvesting week! 5795 
I need an inspiration… 5794 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5793 
Like this? 5793 
Dramatically randomize MF 5793 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5792 
The room eats dynamic 5792 
Diffusers 5792 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5791 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5776 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5775 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5775 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5775 
About Width-Importance balance. 5773 
Letting the music scale up 5772 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5772 
To finish my house décor… 5768 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5767 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5766 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5766 
Calling the gods of music 5766 
Absolutely 5766 
Phase manipulation 5766 
No relation. 5766 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5766 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5766 
Dynamical mismatch 5765 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5765 
Stradiwinerius? 5762 
Dealing with the glass. 5761 
Boston 5761 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5761 
Added mass 5761 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5761 
It is about moderation…. 5761 
To hell with the wine... 5761 
Also for other surafaces 5760 
LEAD 5760 
LEAD & GLASS 5760 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5760 
Read carefully 5760 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5760 
Crooks and morons 5760 
Magiscopios 5759 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5739 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5739 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5738 
The LP setup in the new home. 5687 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5682 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5682 
Pianochord will do! 5682 
Spanyi heaven 5682 
I see no conflict at all. 5682 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5682 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5682 
A year after closing 5674 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5674 
Traveling antimatter 5667 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5661 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5660 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5634 
Cast Iron fireplace 5633 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5633 
The hardcore way 5633 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5597 
This is How It's Done 5596 
Listening room during summer. 5584 
What about those... 5583 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5583 
Reducing A/C Noise 5583 
HVAC the Cat 5583 
Big Ass fan 5582 
Variac dimmers 5582 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5582 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5582 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5514 
Some winter observations. 5405 
That Asian man…. 5374 
The Franz Schubert morning 5348 
Spring.... 5297 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5247 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5218 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5218 
Just good photography? 5218 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5218 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5218 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5217 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5217 
Sports car 5217 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5217 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5217 
Train Positioning 5217 
Kind of what I want 5217 
The lap listening… 5217 
Family Room 5217 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5214 
A super audio room. 5210 
Time Warp! 5210 
A piano in a listening room 5189 
Pianissimo 5189 
The plan in blue. 5189 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5189 
My doubts 5189 
It is exactly what I worry. 5188 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5188 
Musicians at home 5188 
Piano Measurements 5187 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5182 
The next step. 5168 
Midbass horns missing?? 5167 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5157 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5157 
Baby Grand 5156 
Wood floor 5156 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5156 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5156 
Amy’s baby. 5154 
Improvement 5154 
Agree with Scott 5154 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5142 
Integrated casters 5142 
Very nice, thanks. 5142 
Customization 5142 
Sliders 5142 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5135 
Congratulations 5135 
Holes in the floor... 5135 
Tubes and kids 5135 
Sweet spot enlargement 5135 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5133 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5132 
Wood Floors and Water 5132 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5127 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5126 
WAF is for Losers 5126 
WAF: it depends. 5126 
Integration 5125 
Here and there. 5125 
Life after WWIII 5125 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5125 
Cables management. 5123 
Featurizing 5123 
Kids and tubes cont. 5120 
Kid magnet 5120 
Kids and audio 5119 
Radars 5119 
Wow, what the days! 5115 
The comming weekend 5111 
It all was worth it! 5108 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5103 
Here is how it is look. 5103 
Resolving the carpet issue 5103 
Bonfire 5103 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5103 
Proof of concept? 5103 
Geometry 5103 
A view from listening position. 5103 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5103 
Some feedback 5103 
Evening 5103 
I wonder why. 5102 
Rugs and things 5102 
In defense… 5102 
I can’t get it. 5099 
Haze. 5098 
Front wall 5098 
It is very possible. 5098 
It is nice to be back. 5095 
My comfy corner. 5092 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4732 
WMD in house. 4554 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4457 
The third listening spot. 4436 
For sure a very different experience. 4398 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4393 
It's Jfretch's system. 4393 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4392 
Domestic games 4346 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4207 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4207 
Dynamic screening 4207 
Actually this is very good idea! 4207 
Volcanic fabric 4207 
I should have done this. 4205 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4201 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4170 
No worries 4170 
Awesome memories 4170 
Optimization of space 4170 
Child-ish considerations 4167 
Finding peace.... 4161 
"Fencing"? 4160 
I need to build something custom 4160 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4160 
Stressed Skin 4160 
NYC elevators 4160 
Kids toys and quantities. 4160 
Everything is completely reversible 4159 
Racks and things 4159 
Now it looks even more promising! 4159 
Quantity of rods 4159 
Avoiding diagonals 4157 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4156 
That's not fair! 4156 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4156 
Discrimination? 4151 
Vertical configuration 4144 
Impresive ! 4073 
Did you read the site? 4073 
Contact 4073 
Company's name is Rixrax 4073 
Stand 4072 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4028 
End of life headphone system 4028 
Something like this? 4028 
The "Second Living Room" 4028 
Mixing urban & suburban 4028 
Late night listening 4028 
Moving life... 4026 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4026 
A true listening room. 4002 
It started… 3987 
Levels of Interest 3987 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3987 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3987 
I can't not to post it.... 3987 
Do not leave him unattended. 3987 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3987 
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