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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6074 
The first take on the new room. 6068 
New Room, a first shot. 6067 
Wonderful 6067 
Adopted 6066 
The first relaxed night with the room 6064 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6063 
The listening room is ready. 6062 
New Room, a First Shot 6060 
Continue to work with the room 6060 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6060 
Room 6059 
I think it will take another month. 6059 
The Buttressing 6059 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6058 
The new place and the new noises. 6058 
Big listening room 6057 
Screw the "big" rooms 6057 
Big listening rooms 6057 
First reflection points 6056 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6056 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6053 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6052 
Squeezing the floor 6052 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6052 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6052 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6051 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6051 
The new room, the very first listening. 6051 
The 14.5 foot. 6050 
Again… 6049 
Romy's new Playground 6049 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6049 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6049 
For the uninitiated ... 6048 
NH guy 6048 
Room 6048 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6047 
The first base is done 6047 
Reentry time alignment. 6046 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6045 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6045 
Mid bass horn. 6045 
Guess is only a guess… 6045 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6045 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6044 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6044 
Diffusors 6044 
Diffuse injection 6044 
Let analyse why it so 6044 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6044 
Wheel and Deal 6044 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6044 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6044 
I Must Be Missing Something 6044 
I put sliders under my speakers 6043 
ROOM 6042 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6042 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6042 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6042 
No concerns 6042 
Speakers and room 6042 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6041 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6041 
Diaphram 6041 
Phram 6041 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6041 
Perfect piston 6041 
Decorater 6040 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6040 
New morning 6039 
The first take on the room with RTA 6038 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6038 
Axiomatic 6038 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6037 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6037 
The size of the bass. 6037 
Bass Factory 6037 
Crude Level, or something more? 6037 
I will play with it this week…. 6037 
Rent-A 6037 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6037 
Corner horns 6037 
Cheating from below 6037 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6037 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6036 
A possibly overly simplified view 6036 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6036 
Iceberg 6036 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6036 
Why not horn 6036 
A correction…. 6036 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6036 
They are just not related things at all. 6036 
Fertin 6034 
Low resonance is good... 6034 
Et tu, Brute? 6033 
The Room response at LF 6032 
Life On The Ground Floor 6032 
Bass arrays 6032 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6032 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6032 
The super sucks. 6032 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6032 
You may also try 6031 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6031 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6031 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6031 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6031 
60 Hz Resonance 6031 
No notching… so far. 6031 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6030 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6030 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6030 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6030 
Power to the People 6030 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6030 
Aura 6030 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6030 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6030 
All class D is the same 6030 
Interpreting the LF results. 6029 
The Halibut 6029 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6029 
The Big Picture 6029 
Power & ULF channels 6029 
The big picture indeed. 6029 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6029 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6029 
The Power and the Glory 6028 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6028 
I guess I did not get this memo 6028 
French LF drivers 6028 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6028 
(another) French LF approach 6027 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6027 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6027 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6027 
Limpschtick 6027 
Symmetry 6027 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6026 
Room correction 6026 
It migh be more complicated. 6026 
Bass EQ ? 6026 
Agree and not. 6026 
Two "diseases" 6026 
Parametric filters 6026 
Ceiling arrays 6026 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6026 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6026 
The Middle of the Room. 6026 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6026 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6026 
Stop! 6026 
Appendectomy 6026 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6025 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6025 
No Isolation 6025 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6022 
Potential contenders? 6021 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6021 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6021 
Those Crazy Canucks 6017 
Mo' Better Bass 6011 
Bird in the Hand? 6011 
A wet listening spot? 6004 
Storm 6001 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 6001 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5987 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5957 
Polar Opposite ULF 5956 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5944 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5942 
Differently but the same. 5941 
PVC 5940 
The sail test try. 5940 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5940 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5940 
Trial 5939 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5939 
Some explanations 5939 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5938 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5937 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5936 
Acrylate 5935 
Magic blanket 5935 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5934 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5934 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5934 
I have a few options. 5934 
Foam color 5934 
Strange things with upperbass 5934 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5933 
Teatro reform. . . 5933 
The foaming room dilemma. 5932 
Melamine Foam 5932 
Foaming up the cat house 5932 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5932 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5932 
Acoustic revisions… 5931 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5928 
Surprises so far in the new room 5927 
The upperbass in the new room. 5927 
Slight change of hart. 5926 
Camco supply of Boston 5924 
Room acoustics 5924 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5883 
I need to kill dust first. 5883 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5881 
To feed the leeches? 5881 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5880 
Yh 5880 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5880 
DPOLs? 5880 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5880 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5877 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5877 
A HalfPipe solution? 5877 
I absolutely love it. 5877 
Piper work 5876 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5876 
Absorption 5876 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5875 
Cats life ? 5875 
Call me Pussy. 5875 
More about traps 5875 
Acoustic impedance? 5875 
You maybe right 5875 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5875 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5874 
Heavy Curtain 5874 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5873 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5873 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5873 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5870 
Fix speaker move chair? 5869 
Back and forth ceremony 5869 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5868 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5867 
Glass windows 5866 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5865 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5864 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5862 
How to use basement jacks? 5862 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5862 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5862 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5861 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5861 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5860 
Sore eyes... 5859 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5859 
The harvesting week! 5857 
I need an inspiration… 5856 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5855 
Like this? 5855 
Dramatically randomize MF 5855 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5854 
The room eats dynamic 5854 
Diffusers 5854 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5853 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5838 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5837 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5837 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5837 
About Width-Importance balance. 5835 
Letting the music scale up 5834 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5834 
To finish my house décor… 5830 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5829 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5828 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5828 
Calling the gods of music 5828 
Absolutely 5828 
Phase manipulation 5828 
No relation. 5828 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5828 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5828 
Dynamical mismatch 5827 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5827 
Stradiwinerius? 5824 
Dealing with the glass. 5823 
Boston 5823 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5823 
Added mass 5823 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5823 
It is about moderation…. 5823 
To hell with the wine... 5823 
Also for other surafaces 5822 
LEAD 5822 
LEAD & GLASS 5822 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5822 
Read carefully 5822 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5822 
Crooks and morons 5822 
Magiscopios 5821 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5801 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5801 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5800 
The LP setup in the new home. 5749 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5744 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5744 
Pianochord will do! 5744 
Spanyi heaven 5744 
I see no conflict at all. 5744 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5744 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5744 
A year after closing 5736 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5736 
Traveling antimatter 5729 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5723 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5722 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5696 
Cast Iron fireplace 5695 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5695 
The hardcore way 5695 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5659 
This is How It's Done 5658 
Listening room during summer. 5646 
What about those... 5645 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5645 
Reducing A/C Noise 5645 
HVAC the Cat 5645 
Big Ass fan 5644 
Variac dimmers 5644 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5644 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5644 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5576 
Some winter observations. 5467 
That Asian man…. 5436 
The Franz Schubert morning 5410 
Spring.... 5359 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5309 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5280 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5280 
Just good photography? 5280 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5280 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5280 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5279 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5279 
Sports car 5279 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5279 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5279 
Train Positioning 5279 
Kind of what I want 5279 
The lap listening… 5279 
Family Room 5279 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5276 
A super audio room. 5272 
Time Warp! 5272 
A piano in a listening room 5251 
Pianissimo 5251 
The plan in blue. 5251 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5251 
My doubts 5251 
It is exactly what I worry. 5250 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5250 
Musicians at home 5250 
Piano Measurements 5249 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5244 
The next step. 5230 
Midbass horns missing?? 5229 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5219 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5219 
Baby Grand 5218 
Wood floor 5218 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5218 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5218 
Amy’s baby. 5216 
Improvement 5216 
Agree with Scott 5216 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5204 
Integrated casters 5204 
Very nice, thanks. 5204 
Customization 5204 
Sliders 5204 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5197 
Congratulations 5197 
Holes in the floor... 5197 
Tubes and kids 5197 
Sweet spot enlargement 5197 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5195 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5194 
Wood Floors and Water 5194 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5189 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5188 
WAF is for Losers 5188 
WAF: it depends. 5188 
Integration 5187 
Here and there. 5187 
Life after WWIII 5187 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5187 
Cables management. 5185 
Featurizing 5185 
Kids and tubes cont. 5182 
Kid magnet 5182 
Kids and audio 5181 
Radars 5181 
Wow, what the days! 5177 
The comming weekend 5173 
It all was worth it! 5170 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5165 
Here is how it is look. 5165 
Resolving the carpet issue 5165 
Bonfire 5165 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5165 
Proof of concept? 5165 
Geometry 5165 
A view from listening position. 5165 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5165 
Some feedback 5165 
Evening 5165 
I wonder why. 5164 
Rugs and things 5164 
In defense… 5164 
I can’t get it. 5161 
Haze. 5160 
Front wall 5160 
It is very possible. 5160 
It is nice to be back. 5157 
My comfy corner. 5154 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4794 
WMD in house. 4616 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4519 
The third listening spot. 4498 
For sure a very different experience. 4460 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4455 
It's Jfretch's system. 4455 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4454 
Domestic games 4408 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4269 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4269 
Dynamic screening 4269 
Actually this is very good idea! 4269 
Volcanic fabric 4269 
I should have done this. 4267 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4263 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4232 
No worries 4232 
Awesome memories 4232 
Optimization of space 4232 
Child-ish considerations 4229 
Finding peace.... 4223 
"Fencing"? 4222 
I need to build something custom 4222 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4222 
Stressed Skin 4222 
NYC elevators 4222 
Kids toys and quantities. 4222 
Everything is completely reversible 4221 
Racks and things 4221 
Now it looks even more promising! 4221 
Quantity of rods 4221 
Avoiding diagonals 4219 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4218 
That's not fair! 4218 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4218 
Discrimination? 4213 
Vertical configuration 4206 
Impresive ! 4135 
Did you read the site? 4135 
Contact 4135 
Company's name is Rixrax 4135 
Stand 4134 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4090 
End of life headphone system 4090 
Something like this? 4090 
The "Second Living Room" 4090 
Mixing urban & suburban 4090 
Late night listening 4090 
Moving life... 4088 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4088 
A true listening room. 4064 
It started… 4049 
Levels of Interest 4049 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4049 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4049 
I can't not to post it.... 4049 
Do not leave him unattended. 4049 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4049 
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