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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5930 
The first take on the new room. 5924 
New Room, a first shot. 5923 
Wonderful 5923 
Adopted 5922 
The first relaxed night with the room 5920 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5919 
The listening room is ready. 5918 
New Room, a First Shot 5916 
Continue to work with the room 5916 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5916 
Room 5915 
I think it will take another month. 5915 
The Buttressing 5915 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5914 
The new place and the new noises. 5914 
Big listening room 5913 
Screw the "big" rooms 5913 
Big listening rooms 5913 
First reflection points 5912 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5912 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5909 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5908 
Squeezing the floor 5908 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5908 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5908 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5907 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5907 
The new room, the very first listening. 5907 
The 14.5 foot. 5906 
Again… 5905 
Romy's new Playground 5905 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5905 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5905 
For the uninitiated ... 5904 
NH guy 5904 
Room 5904 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5903 
The first base is done 5903 
Reentry time alignment. 5902 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5901 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5901 
Mid bass horn. 5901 
Guess is only a guess… 5901 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5901 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5900 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5900 
Diffusors 5900 
Diffuse injection 5900 
Let analyse why it so 5900 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5900 
Wheel and Deal 5900 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5900 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5900 
I Must Be Missing Something 5900 
I put sliders under my speakers 5899 
ROOM 5898 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5898 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5898 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5898 
No concerns 5898 
Speakers and room 5898 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5897 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5897 
Diaphram 5897 
Phram 5897 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5897 
Perfect piston 5897 
Decorater 5896 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5896 
New morning 5895 
The first take on the room with RTA 5894 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5894 
Axiomatic 5894 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5893 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5893 
The size of the bass. 5893 
Bass Factory 5893 
Crude Level, or something more? 5893 
I will play with it this week…. 5893 
Rent-A 5893 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5893 
Corner horns 5893 
Cheating from below 5893 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5893 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5892 
A possibly overly simplified view 5892 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5892 
Iceberg 5892 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5892 
Why not horn 5892 
A correction…. 5892 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5892 
They are just not related things at all. 5892 
Fertin 5890 
Low resonance is good... 5890 
Et tu, Brute? 5889 
The Room response at LF 5888 
Life On The Ground Floor 5888 
Bass arrays 5888 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5888 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5888 
The super sucks. 5888 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5888 
You may also try 5887 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5887 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5887 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5887 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5887 
60 Hz Resonance 5887 
No notching… so far. 5887 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5886 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5886 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5886 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5886 
Power to the People 5886 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5886 
Aura 5886 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5886 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5886 
All class D is the same 5886 
Interpreting the LF results. 5885 
The Halibut 5885 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5885 
The Big Picture 5885 
Power & ULF channels 5885 
The big picture indeed. 5885 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5885 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5885 
The Power and the Glory 5884 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5884 
I guess I did not get this memo 5884 
French LF drivers 5884 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5884 
(another) French LF approach 5883 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5883 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5883 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5883 
Limpschtick 5883 
Symmetry 5883 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5882 
Room correction 5882 
It migh be more complicated. 5882 
Bass EQ ? 5882 
Agree and not. 5882 
Two "diseases" 5882 
Parametric filters 5882 
Ceiling arrays 5882 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5882 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5882 
The Middle of the Room. 5882 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5882 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5882 
Stop! 5882 
Appendectomy 5882 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5881 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5881 
No Isolation 5881 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5878 
Potential contenders? 5877 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5877 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5877 
Those Crazy Canucks 5873 
Mo' Better Bass 5867 
Bird in the Hand? 5867 
A wet listening spot? 5860 
Storm 5857 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5857 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5843 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5813 
Polar Opposite ULF 5812 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5800 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5798 
Differently but the same. 5797 
PVC 5796 
The sail test try. 5796 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5796 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5796 
Trial 5795 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5795 
Some explanations 5795 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5794 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5793 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5792 
Acrylate 5791 
Magic blanket 5791 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5790 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5790 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5790 
I have a few options. 5790 
Foam color 5790 
Strange things with upperbass 5790 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5789 
Teatro reform. . . 5789 
The foaming room dilemma. 5788 
Melamine Foam 5788 
Foaming up the cat house 5788 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5788 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5788 
Acoustic revisions… 5787 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5784 
Surprises so far in the new room 5783 
The upperbass in the new room. 5783 
Slight change of hart. 5782 
Camco supply of Boston 5780 
Room acoustics 5780 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5739 
I need to kill dust first. 5739 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5737 
To feed the leeches? 5737 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5736 
Yh 5736 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5736 
DPOLs? 5736 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5736 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5733 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5733 
A HalfPipe solution? 5733 
I absolutely love it. 5733 
Piper work 5732 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5732 
Absorption 5732 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5731 
Cats life ? 5731 
Call me Pussy. 5731 
More about traps 5731 
Acoustic impedance? 5731 
You maybe right 5731 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5731 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5730 
Heavy Curtain 5730 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5729 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5729 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5729 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5726 
Fix speaker move chair? 5725 
Back and forth ceremony 5725 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5724 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5723 
Glass windows 5722 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5721 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5720 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5718 
How to use basement jacks? 5718 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5718 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5718 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5717 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5717 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5716 
Sore eyes... 5715 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5715 
The harvesting week! 5713 
I need an inspiration… 5712 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5711 
Like this? 5711 
Dramatically randomize MF 5711 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5710 
The room eats dynamic 5710 
Diffusers 5710 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5709 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5694 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5693 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5693 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5693 
About Width-Importance balance. 5691 
Letting the music scale up 5690 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5690 
To finish my house décor… 5686 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5685 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5684 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5684 
Calling the gods of music 5684 
Absolutely 5684 
Phase manipulation 5684 
No relation. 5684 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5684 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5684 
Dynamical mismatch 5683 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5683 
Stradiwinerius? 5680 
Dealing with the glass. 5679 
Boston 5679 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5679 
Added mass 5679 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5679 
It is about moderation…. 5679 
To hell with the wine... 5679 
Also for other surafaces 5678 
LEAD 5678 
LEAD & GLASS 5678 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5678 
Read carefully 5678 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5678 
Crooks and morons 5678 
Magiscopios 5677 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5657 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5657 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5656 
The LP setup in the new home. 5605 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5600 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5600 
Pianochord will do! 5600 
Spanyi heaven 5600 
I see no conflict at all. 5600 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5600 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5600 
A year after closing 5592 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5592 
Traveling antimatter 5585 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5579 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5578 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5552 
Cast Iron fireplace 5551 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5551 
The hardcore way 5551 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5515 
This is How It's Done 5514 
Listening room during summer. 5502 
What about those... 5501 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5501 
Reducing A/C Noise 5501 
HVAC the Cat 5501 
Big Ass fan 5500 
Variac dimmers 5500 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5500 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5500 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5432 
Some winter observations. 5323 
That Asian man…. 5292 
The Franz Schubert morning 5266 
Spring.... 5215 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5165 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5136 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5136 
Just good photography? 5136 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5136 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5136 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5135 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5135 
Sports car 5135 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5135 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5135 
Train Positioning 5135 
Kind of what I want 5135 
The lap listening… 5135 
Family Room 5135 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5132 
A super audio room. 5128 
Time Warp! 5128 
A piano in a listening room 5107 
Pianissimo 5107 
The plan in blue. 5107 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5107 
My doubts 5107 
It is exactly what I worry. 5106 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5106 
Musicians at home 5106 
Piano Measurements 5105 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5100 
The next step. 5086 
Midbass horns missing?? 5085 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5075 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5075 
Baby Grand 5074 
Wood floor 5074 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5074 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5074 
Amy’s baby. 5072 
Improvement 5072 
Agree with Scott 5072 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5060 
Integrated casters 5060 
Very nice, thanks. 5060 
Customization 5060 
Sliders 5060 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5053 
Congratulations 5053 
Holes in the floor... 5053 
Tubes and kids 5053 
Sweet spot enlargement 5053 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5051 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5050 
Wood Floors and Water 5050 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5045 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5044 
WAF is for Losers 5044 
WAF: it depends. 5044 
Integration 5043 
Here and there. 5043 
Life after WWIII 5043 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5043 
Cables management. 5041 
Featurizing 5041 
Kids and tubes cont. 5038 
Kid magnet 5038 
Kids and audio 5037 
Radars 5037 
Wow, what the days! 5033 
The comming weekend 5029 
It all was worth it! 5026 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5021 
Here is how it is look. 5021 
Resolving the carpet issue 5021 
Bonfire 5021 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5021 
Proof of concept? 5021 
Geometry 5021 
A view from listening position. 5021 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5021 
Some feedback 5021 
Evening 5021 
I wonder why. 5020 
Rugs and things 5020 
In defense… 5020 
I can’t get it. 5017 
Haze. 5016 
Front wall 5016 
It is very possible. 5016 
It is nice to be back. 5013 
My comfy corner. 5010 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4650 
WMD in house. 4472 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4375 
The third listening spot. 4354 
For sure a very different experience. 4316 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4311 
It's Jfretch's system. 4311 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4310 
Domestic games 4264 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4125 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4125 
Dynamic screening 4125 
Actually this is very good idea! 4125 
Volcanic fabric 4125 
I should have done this. 4123 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4119 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4088 
No worries 4088 
Awesome memories 4088 
Optimization of space 4088 
Child-ish considerations 4085 
Finding peace.... 4079 
"Fencing"? 4078 
I need to build something custom 4078 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4078 
Stressed Skin 4078 
NYC elevators 4078 
Kids toys and quantities. 4078 
Everything is completely reversible 4077 
Racks and things 4077 
Now it looks even more promising! 4077 
Quantity of rods 4077 
Avoiding diagonals 4075 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4074 
That's not fair! 4074 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4074 
Discrimination? 4069 
Vertical configuration 4062 
Impresive ! 3991 
Did you read the site? 3991 
Contact 3991 
Company's name is Rixrax 3991 
Stand 3990 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3946 
End of life headphone system 3946 
Something like this? 3946 
The "Second Living Room" 3946 
Mixing urban & suburban 3946 
Late night listening 3946 
Moving life... 3944 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3944 
A true listening room. 3920 
It started… 3905 
Levels of Interest 3905 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3905 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3905 
I can't not to post it.... 3905 
Do not leave him unattended. 3905 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3905 
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