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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5954 
The first take on the new room. 5948 
New Room, a first shot. 5947 
Wonderful 5947 
Adopted 5946 
The first relaxed night with the room 5944 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5943 
The listening room is ready. 5942 
New Room, a First Shot 5940 
Continue to work with the room 5940 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5940 
Room 5939 
I think it will take another month. 5939 
The Buttressing 5939 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5938 
The new place and the new noises. 5938 
Big listening room 5937 
Screw the "big" rooms 5937 
Big listening rooms 5937 
First reflection points 5936 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5936 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5933 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5932 
Squeezing the floor 5932 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5932 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5932 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5931 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5931 
The new room, the very first listening. 5931 
The 14.5 foot. 5930 
Again… 5929 
Romy's new Playground 5929 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5929 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5929 
For the uninitiated ... 5928 
NH guy 5928 
Room 5928 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5927 
The first base is done 5927 
Reentry time alignment. 5926 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5925 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5925 
Mid bass horn. 5925 
Guess is only a guess… 5925 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5925 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5924 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5924 
Diffusors 5924 
Diffuse injection 5924 
Let analyse why it so 5924 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5924 
Wheel and Deal 5924 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5924 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5924 
I Must Be Missing Something 5924 
I put sliders under my speakers 5923 
ROOM 5922 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5922 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5922 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5922 
No concerns 5922 
Speakers and room 5922 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5921 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5921 
Diaphram 5921 
Phram 5921 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5921 
Perfect piston 5921 
Decorater 5920 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5920 
New morning 5919 
The first take on the room with RTA 5918 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5918 
Axiomatic 5918 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5917 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5917 
The size of the bass. 5917 
Bass Factory 5917 
Crude Level, or something more? 5917 
I will play with it this week…. 5917 
Rent-A 5917 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5917 
Corner horns 5917 
Cheating from below 5917 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5917 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5916 
A possibly overly simplified view 5916 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5916 
Iceberg 5916 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5916 
Why not horn 5916 
A correction…. 5916 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5916 
They are just not related things at all. 5916 
Fertin 5914 
Low resonance is good... 5914 
Et tu, Brute? 5913 
The Room response at LF 5912 
Life On The Ground Floor 5912 
Bass arrays 5912 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5912 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5912 
The super sucks. 5912 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5912 
You may also try 5911 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5911 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5911 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5911 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5911 
60 Hz Resonance 5911 
No notching… so far. 5911 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5910 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5910 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5910 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5910 
Power to the People 5910 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5910 
Aura 5910 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5910 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5910 
All class D is the same 5910 
Interpreting the LF results. 5909 
The Halibut 5909 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5909 
The Big Picture 5909 
Power & ULF channels 5909 
The big picture indeed. 5909 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5909 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5909 
The Power and the Glory 5908 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5908 
I guess I did not get this memo 5908 
French LF drivers 5908 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5908 
(another) French LF approach 5907 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5907 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5907 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5907 
Limpschtick 5907 
Symmetry 5907 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5906 
Room correction 5906 
It migh be more complicated. 5906 
Bass EQ ? 5906 
Agree and not. 5906 
Two "diseases" 5906 
Parametric filters 5906 
Ceiling arrays 5906 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5906 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5906 
The Middle of the Room. 5906 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5906 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5906 
Stop! 5906 
Appendectomy 5906 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5905 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5905 
No Isolation 5905 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5902 
Potential contenders? 5901 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5901 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5901 
Those Crazy Canucks 5897 
Mo' Better Bass 5891 
Bird in the Hand? 5891 
A wet listening spot? 5884 
Storm 5881 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5881 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5867 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5837 
Polar Opposite ULF 5836 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5824 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5822 
Differently but the same. 5821 
PVC 5820 
The sail test try. 5820 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5820 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5820 
Trial 5819 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5819 
Some explanations 5819 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5818 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5817 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5816 
Acrylate 5815 
Magic blanket 5815 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5814 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5814 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5814 
I have a few options. 5814 
Foam color 5814 
Strange things with upperbass 5814 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5813 
Teatro reform. . . 5813 
The foaming room dilemma. 5812 
Melamine Foam 5812 
Foaming up the cat house 5812 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5812 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5812 
Acoustic revisions… 5811 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5808 
Surprises so far in the new room 5807 
The upperbass in the new room. 5807 
Slight change of hart. 5806 
Camco supply of Boston 5804 
Room acoustics 5804 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5763 
I need to kill dust first. 5763 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5761 
To feed the leeches? 5761 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5760 
Yh 5760 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5760 
DPOLs? 5760 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5760 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5757 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5757 
A HalfPipe solution? 5757 
I absolutely love it. 5757 
Piper work 5756 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5756 
Absorption 5756 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5755 
Cats life ? 5755 
Call me Pussy. 5755 
More about traps 5755 
Acoustic impedance? 5755 
You maybe right 5755 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5755 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5754 
Heavy Curtain 5754 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5753 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5753 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5753 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5750 
Fix speaker move chair? 5749 
Back and forth ceremony 5749 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5748 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5747 
Glass windows 5746 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5745 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5744 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5742 
How to use basement jacks? 5742 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5742 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5742 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5741 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5741 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5740 
Sore eyes... 5739 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5739 
The harvesting week! 5737 
I need an inspiration… 5736 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5735 
Like this? 5735 
Dramatically randomize MF 5735 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5734 
The room eats dynamic 5734 
Diffusers 5734 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5733 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5718 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5717 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5717 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5717 
About Width-Importance balance. 5715 
Letting the music scale up 5714 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5714 
To finish my house décor… 5710 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5709 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5708 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5708 
Calling the gods of music 5708 
Absolutely 5708 
Phase manipulation 5708 
No relation. 5708 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5708 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5708 
Dynamical mismatch 5707 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5707 
Stradiwinerius? 5704 
Dealing with the glass. 5703 
Boston 5703 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5703 
Added mass 5703 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5703 
It is about moderation…. 5703 
To hell with the wine... 5703 
Also for other surafaces 5702 
LEAD 5702 
LEAD & GLASS 5702 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5702 
Read carefully 5702 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5702 
Crooks and morons 5702 
Magiscopios 5701 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5681 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5681 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5680 
The LP setup in the new home. 5629 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5624 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5624 
Pianochord will do! 5624 
Spanyi heaven 5624 
I see no conflict at all. 5624 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5624 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5624 
A year after closing 5616 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5616 
Traveling antimatter 5609 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5603 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5602 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5576 
Cast Iron fireplace 5575 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5575 
The hardcore way 5575 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5539 
This is How It's Done 5538 
Listening room during summer. 5526 
What about those... 5525 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5525 
Reducing A/C Noise 5525 
HVAC the Cat 5525 
Big Ass fan 5524 
Variac dimmers 5524 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5524 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5524 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5456 
Some winter observations. 5347 
That Asian man…. 5316 
The Franz Schubert morning 5290 
Spring.... 5239 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5189 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5160 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5160 
Just good photography? 5160 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5160 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5160 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5159 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5159 
Sports car 5159 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5159 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5159 
Train Positioning 5159 
Kind of what I want 5159 
The lap listening… 5159 
Family Room 5159 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5156 
A super audio room. 5152 
Time Warp! 5152 
A piano in a listening room 5131 
Pianissimo 5131 
The plan in blue. 5131 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5131 
My doubts 5131 
It is exactly what I worry. 5130 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5130 
Musicians at home 5130 
Piano Measurements 5129 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5124 
The next step. 5110 
Midbass horns missing?? 5109 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5099 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5099 
Baby Grand 5098 
Wood floor 5098 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5098 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5098 
Amy’s baby. 5096 
Improvement 5096 
Agree with Scott 5096 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5084 
Integrated casters 5084 
Very nice, thanks. 5084 
Customization 5084 
Sliders 5084 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5077 
Congratulations 5077 
Holes in the floor... 5077 
Tubes and kids 5077 
Sweet spot enlargement 5077 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5075 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5074 
Wood Floors and Water 5074 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5069 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5068 
WAF is for Losers 5068 
WAF: it depends. 5068 
Integration 5067 
Here and there. 5067 
Life after WWIII 5067 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5067 
Cables management. 5065 
Featurizing 5065 
Kids and tubes cont. 5062 
Kid magnet 5062 
Kids and audio 5061 
Radars 5061 
Wow, what the days! 5057 
The comming weekend 5053 
It all was worth it! 5050 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5045 
Here is how it is look. 5045 
Resolving the carpet issue 5045 
Bonfire 5045 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5045 
Proof of concept? 5045 
Geometry 5045 
A view from listening position. 5045 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5045 
Some feedback 5045 
Evening 5045 
I wonder why. 5044 
Rugs and things 5044 
In defense… 5044 
I can’t get it. 5041 
Haze. 5040 
Front wall 5040 
It is very possible. 5040 
It is nice to be back. 5037 
My comfy corner. 5034 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4674 
WMD in house. 4496 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4399 
The third listening spot. 4378 
For sure a very different experience. 4340 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4335 
It's Jfretch's system. 4335 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4334 
Domestic games 4288 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4149 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4149 
Dynamic screening 4149 
Actually this is very good idea! 4149 
Volcanic fabric 4149 
I should have done this. 4147 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4143 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4112 
No worries 4112 
Awesome memories 4112 
Optimization of space 4112 
Child-ish considerations 4109 
Finding peace.... 4103 
"Fencing"? 4102 
I need to build something custom 4102 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4102 
Stressed Skin 4102 
NYC elevators 4102 
Kids toys and quantities. 4102 
Everything is completely reversible 4101 
Racks and things 4101 
Now it looks even more promising! 4101 
Quantity of rods 4101 
Avoiding diagonals 4099 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4098 
That's not fair! 4098 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4098 
Discrimination? 4093 
Vertical configuration 4086 
Impresive ! 4015 
Did you read the site? 4015 
Contact 4015 
Company's name is Rixrax 4015 
Stand 4014 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3970 
End of life headphone system 3970 
Something like this? 3970 
The "Second Living Room" 3970 
Mixing urban & suburban 3970 
Late night listening 3970 
Moving life... 3968 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3968 
A true listening room. 3944 
It started… 3929 
Levels of Interest 3929 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3929 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3929 
I can't not to post it.... 3929 
Do not leave him unattended. 3929 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3929 
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