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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5803 
The first take on the new room. 5797 
New Room, a first shot. 5796 
Wonderful 5796 
Adopted 5795 
The first relaxed night with the room 5793 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5792 
The listening room is ready. 5791 
New Room, a First Shot 5789 
Continue to work with the room 5789 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5789 
Room 5788 
I think it will take another month. 5788 
The Buttressing 5788 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5787 
The new place and the new noises. 5787 
Big listening room 5786 
Screw the "big" rooms 5786 
Big listening rooms 5786 
First reflection points 5785 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5785 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5782 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5781 
Squeezing the floor 5781 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5781 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5781 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5780 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5780 
The new room, the very first listening. 5780 
The 14.5 foot. 5779 
Again… 5778 
Romy's new Playground 5778 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5778 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5778 
For the uninitiated ... 5777 
NH guy 5777 
Room 5777 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5776 
The first base is done 5776 
Reentry time alignment. 5775 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5774 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5774 
Mid bass horn. 5774 
Guess is only a guess… 5774 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5774 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5773 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5773 
Diffusors 5773 
Diffuse injection 5773 
Let analyse why it so 5773 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5773 
Wheel and Deal 5773 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5773 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5773 
I Must Be Missing Something 5773 
I put sliders under my speakers 5772 
ROOM 5771 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5771 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5771 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5771 
No concerns 5771 
Speakers and room 5771 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5770 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5770 
Diaphram 5770 
Phram 5770 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5770 
Perfect piston 5770 
Decorater 5769 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5769 
New morning 5768 
The first take on the room with RTA 5767 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5767 
Axiomatic 5767 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5766 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5766 
The size of the bass. 5766 
Bass Factory 5766 
Crude Level, or something more? 5766 
I will play with it this week…. 5766 
Rent-A 5766 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5766 
Corner horns 5766 
Cheating from below 5766 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5766 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5765 
A possibly overly simplified view 5765 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5765 
Iceberg 5765 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5765 
Why not horn 5765 
A correction…. 5765 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5765 
They are just not related things at all. 5765 
Fertin 5763 
Low resonance is good... 5763 
Et tu, Brute? 5762 
The Room response at LF 5761 
Life On The Ground Floor 5761 
Bass arrays 5761 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5761 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5761 
The super sucks. 5761 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5761 
You may also try 5760 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5760 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5760 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5760 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5760 
60 Hz Resonance 5760 
No notching… so far. 5760 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5759 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5759 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5759 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5759 
Power to the People 5759 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5759 
Aura 5759 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5759 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5759 
All class D is the same 5759 
Interpreting the LF results. 5758 
The Halibut 5758 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5758 
The Big Picture 5758 
Power & ULF channels 5758 
The big picture indeed. 5758 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5758 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5758 
The Power and the Glory 5757 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5757 
I guess I did not get this memo 5757 
French LF drivers 5757 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5757 
(another) French LF approach 5756 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5756 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5756 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5756 
Limpschtick 5756 
Symmetry 5756 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5755 
Room correction 5755 
It migh be more complicated. 5755 
Bass EQ ? 5755 
Agree and not. 5755 
Two "diseases" 5755 
Parametric filters 5755 
Ceiling arrays 5755 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5755 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5755 
The Middle of the Room. 5755 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5755 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5755 
Stop! 5755 
Appendectomy 5755 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5754 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5754 
No Isolation 5754 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5751 
Potential contenders? 5750 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5750 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5750 
Those Crazy Canucks 5746 
Mo' Better Bass 5740 
Bird in the Hand? 5740 
A wet listening spot? 5733 
Storm 5730 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5730 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5716 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5686 
Polar Opposite ULF 5685 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5673 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5671 
Differently but the same. 5670 
PVC 5669 
The sail test try. 5669 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5669 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5669 
Trial 5668 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5668 
Some explanations 5668 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5667 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5666 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5665 
Acrylate 5664 
Magic blanket 5664 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5663 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5663 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5663 
I have a few options. 5663 
Foam color 5663 
Strange things with upperbass 5663 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5662 
Teatro reform. . . 5662 
The foaming room dilemma. 5661 
Melamine Foam 5661 
Foaming up the cat house 5661 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5661 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5661 
Acoustic revisions… 5660 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5657 
Surprises so far in the new room 5656 
The upperbass in the new room. 5656 
Slight change of hart. 5655 
Camco supply of Boston 5653 
Room acoustics 5653 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5612 
I need to kill dust first. 5612 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5610 
To feed the leeches? 5610 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5609 
Yh 5609 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5609 
DPOLs? 5609 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5609 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5606 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5606 
A HalfPipe solution? 5606 
I absolutely love it. 5606 
Piper work 5605 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5605 
Absorption 5605 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5604 
Cats life ? 5604 
Call me Pussy. 5604 
More about traps 5604 
Acoustic impedance? 5604 
You maybe right 5604 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5604 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5603 
Heavy Curtain 5603 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5602 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5602 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5602 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5599 
Fix speaker move chair? 5598 
Back and forth ceremony 5598 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5597 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5596 
Glass windows 5595 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5594 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5593 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5591 
How to use basement jacks? 5591 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5591 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5591 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5590 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5590 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5589 
Sore eyes... 5588 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5588 
The harvesting week! 5586 
I need an inspiration… 5585 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5584 
Like this? 5584 
Dramatically randomize MF 5584 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5583 
The room eats dynamic 5583 
Diffusers 5583 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5582 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5567 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5566 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5566 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5566 
About Width-Importance balance. 5564 
Letting the music scale up 5563 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5563 
To finish my house décor… 5559 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5558 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5557 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5557 
Calling the gods of music 5557 
Absolutely 5557 
Phase manipulation 5557 
No relation. 5557 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5557 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5557 
Dynamical mismatch 5556 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5556 
Stradiwinerius? 5553 
Dealing with the glass. 5552 
Boston 5552 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5552 
Added mass 5552 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5552 
It is about moderation…. 5552 
To hell with the wine... 5552 
Also for other surafaces 5551 
LEAD 5551 
LEAD & GLASS 5551 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5551 
Read carefully 5551 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5551 
Crooks and morons 5551 
Magiscopios 5550 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5530 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5530 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5529 
The LP setup in the new home. 5478 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5473 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5473 
Pianochord will do! 5473 
Spanyi heaven 5473 
I see no conflict at all. 5473 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5473 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5473 
A year after closing 5465 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5465 
Traveling antimatter 5458 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5452 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5451 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5425 
Cast Iron fireplace 5424 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5424 
The hardcore way 5424 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5388 
This is How It's Done 5387 
Listening room during summer. 5375 
What about those... 5374 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5374 
Reducing A/C Noise 5374 
HVAC the Cat 5374 
Big Ass fan 5373 
Variac dimmers 5373 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5373 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5373 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5305 
Some winter observations. 5196 
That Asian man…. 5165 
The Franz Schubert morning 5139 
Spring.... 5088 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5038 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5009 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5009 
Just good photography? 5009 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5009 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5009 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5008 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5008 
Sports car 5008 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5008 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5008 
Train Positioning 5008 
Kind of what I want 5008 
The lap listening… 5008 
Family Room 5008 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5005 
A super audio room. 5001 
Time Warp! 5001 
A piano in a listening room 4980 
Pianissimo 4980 
The plan in blue. 4980 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4980 
My doubts 4980 
It is exactly what I worry. 4979 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4979 
Musicians at home 4979 
Piano Measurements 4978 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4973 
The next step. 4959 
Midbass horns missing?? 4958 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4948 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4948 
Baby Grand 4947 
Wood floor 4947 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4947 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4947 
Amy’s baby. 4945 
Improvement 4945 
Agree with Scott 4945 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4933 
Integrated casters 4933 
Very nice, thanks. 4933 
Customization 4933 
Sliders 4933 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4926 
Congratulations 4926 
Holes in the floor... 4926 
Tubes and kids 4926 
Sweet spot enlargement 4926 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4924 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4923 
Wood Floors and Water 4923 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4918 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4917 
WAF is for Losers 4917 
WAF: it depends. 4917 
Integration 4916 
Here and there. 4916 
Life after WWIII 4916 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4916 
Cables management. 4914 
Featurizing 4914 
Kids and tubes cont. 4911 
Kid magnet 4911 
Kids and audio 4910 
Radars 4910 
Wow, what the days! 4906 
The comming weekend 4902 
It all was worth it! 4899 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4894 
Here is how it is look. 4894 
Resolving the carpet issue 4894 
Bonfire 4894 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4894 
Proof of concept? 4894 
Geometry 4894 
A view from listening position. 4894 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4894 
Some feedback 4894 
Evening 4894 
I wonder why. 4893 
Rugs and things 4893 
In defense… 4893 
I can’t get it. 4890 
Haze. 4889 
Front wall 4889 
It is very possible. 4889 
It is nice to be back. 4886 
My comfy corner. 4883 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4523 
WMD in house. 4345 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4248 
The third listening spot. 4227 
For sure a very different experience. 4189 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4184 
It's Jfretch's system. 4184 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4183 
Domestic games 4137 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3998 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3998 
Dynamic screening 3998 
Actually this is very good idea! 3998 
Volcanic fabric 3998 
I should have done this. 3996 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3992 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3961 
No worries 3961 
Awesome memories 3961 
Optimization of space 3961 
Child-ish considerations 3958 
Finding peace.... 3952 
"Fencing"? 3951 
I need to build something custom 3951 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3951 
Stressed Skin 3951 
NYC elevators 3951 
Kids toys and quantities. 3951 
Everything is completely reversible 3950 
Racks and things 3950 
Now it looks even more promising! 3950 
Quantity of rods 3950 
Avoiding diagonals 3948 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3947 
That's not fair! 3947 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3947 
Discrimination? 3942 
Vertical configuration 3935 
Impresive ! 3864 
Did you read the site? 3864 
Contact 3864 
Company's name is Rixrax 3864 
Stand 3863 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3819 
End of life headphone system 3819 
Something like this? 3819 
The "Second Living Room" 3819 
Mixing urban & suburban 3819 
Late night listening 3819 
Moving life... 3817 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3817 
A true listening room. 3793 
It started… 3778 
Levels of Interest 3778 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3778 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3778 
I can't not to post it.... 3778 
Do not leave him unattended. 3778 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3778 
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