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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6039 
The first take on the new room. 6033 
New Room, a first shot. 6032 
Wonderful 6032 
Adopted 6031 
The first relaxed night with the room 6029 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6028 
The listening room is ready. 6027 
New Room, a First Shot 6025 
Continue to work with the room 6025 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6025 
Room 6024 
I think it will take another month. 6024 
The Buttressing 6024 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6023 
The new place and the new noises. 6023 
Big listening room 6022 
Screw the "big" rooms 6022 
Big listening rooms 6022 
First reflection points 6021 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6021 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6018 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6017 
Squeezing the floor 6017 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6017 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6017 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6016 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6016 
The new room, the very first listening. 6016 
The 14.5 foot. 6015 
Again… 6014 
Romy's new Playground 6014 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6014 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6014 
For the uninitiated ... 6013 
NH guy 6013 
Room 6013 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6012 
The first base is done 6012 
Reentry time alignment. 6011 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6010 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6010 
Mid bass horn. 6010 
Guess is only a guess… 6010 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6010 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6009 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6009 
Diffusors 6009 
Diffuse injection 6009 
Let analyse why it so 6009 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6009 
Wheel and Deal 6009 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6009 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6009 
I Must Be Missing Something 6009 
I put sliders under my speakers 6008 
ROOM 6007 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6007 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6007 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6007 
No concerns 6007 
Speakers and room 6007 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6006 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6006 
Diaphram 6006 
Phram 6006 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6006 
Perfect piston 6006 
Decorater 6005 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6005 
New morning 6004 
The first take on the room with RTA 6003 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6003 
Axiomatic 6003 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6002 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6002 
The size of the bass. 6002 
Bass Factory 6002 
Crude Level, or something more? 6002 
I will play with it this week…. 6002 
Rent-A 6002 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6002 
Corner horns 6002 
Cheating from below 6002 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6002 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6001 
A possibly overly simplified view 6001 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6001 
Iceberg 6001 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6001 
Why not horn 6001 
A correction…. 6001 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6001 
They are just not related things at all. 6001 
Fertin 5999 
Low resonance is good... 5999 
Et tu, Brute? 5998 
The Room response at LF 5997 
Life On The Ground Floor 5997 
Bass arrays 5997 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5997 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5997 
The super sucks. 5997 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5997 
You may also try 5996 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5996 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5996 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5996 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5996 
60 Hz Resonance 5996 
No notching… so far. 5996 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5995 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5995 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5995 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5995 
Power to the People 5995 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5995 
Aura 5995 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5995 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5995 
All class D is the same 5995 
Interpreting the LF results. 5994 
The Halibut 5994 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5994 
The Big Picture 5994 
Power & ULF channels 5994 
The big picture indeed. 5994 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5994 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5994 
The Power and the Glory 5993 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5993 
I guess I did not get this memo 5993 
French LF drivers 5993 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5993 
(another) French LF approach 5992 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5992 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5992 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5992 
Limpschtick 5992 
Symmetry 5992 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5991 
Room correction 5991 
It migh be more complicated. 5991 
Bass EQ ? 5991 
Agree and not. 5991 
Two "diseases" 5991 
Parametric filters 5991 
Ceiling arrays 5991 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5991 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5991 
The Middle of the Room. 5991 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5991 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5991 
Stop! 5991 
Appendectomy 5991 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5990 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5990 
No Isolation 5990 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5987 
Potential contenders? 5986 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5986 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5986 
Those Crazy Canucks 5982 
Mo' Better Bass 5976 
Bird in the Hand? 5976 
A wet listening spot? 5969 
Storm 5966 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5966 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5952 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5922 
Polar Opposite ULF 5921 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5909 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5907 
Differently but the same. 5906 
PVC 5905 
The sail test try. 5905 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5905 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5905 
Trial 5904 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5904 
Some explanations 5904 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5903 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5902 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5901 
Acrylate 5900 
Magic blanket 5900 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5899 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5899 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5899 
I have a few options. 5899 
Foam color 5899 
Strange things with upperbass 5899 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5898 
Teatro reform. . . 5898 
The foaming room dilemma. 5897 
Melamine Foam 5897 
Foaming up the cat house 5897 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5897 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5897 
Acoustic revisions… 5896 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5893 
Surprises so far in the new room 5892 
The upperbass in the new room. 5892 
Slight change of hart. 5891 
Camco supply of Boston 5889 
Room acoustics 5889 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5848 
I need to kill dust first. 5848 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5846 
To feed the leeches? 5846 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5845 
Yh 5845 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5845 
DPOLs? 5845 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5845 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5842 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5842 
A HalfPipe solution? 5842 
I absolutely love it. 5842 
Piper work 5841 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5841 
Absorption 5841 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5840 
Cats life ? 5840 
Call me Pussy. 5840 
More about traps 5840 
Acoustic impedance? 5840 
You maybe right 5840 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5840 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5839 
Heavy Curtain 5839 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5838 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5838 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5838 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5835 
Fix speaker move chair? 5834 
Back and forth ceremony 5834 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5833 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5832 
Glass windows 5831 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5830 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5829 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5827 
How to use basement jacks? 5827 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5827 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5827 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5826 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5826 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5825 
Sore eyes... 5824 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5824 
The harvesting week! 5822 
I need an inspiration… 5821 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5820 
Like this? 5820 
Dramatically randomize MF 5820 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5819 
The room eats dynamic 5819 
Diffusers 5819 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5818 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5803 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5802 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5802 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5802 
About Width-Importance balance. 5800 
Letting the music scale up 5799 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5799 
To finish my house décor… 5795 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5794 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5793 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5793 
Calling the gods of music 5793 
Absolutely 5793 
Phase manipulation 5793 
No relation. 5793 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5793 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5793 
Dynamical mismatch 5792 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5792 
Stradiwinerius? 5789 
Dealing with the glass. 5788 
Boston 5788 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5788 
Added mass 5788 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5788 
It is about moderation…. 5788 
To hell with the wine... 5788 
Also for other surafaces 5787 
LEAD 5787 
LEAD & GLASS 5787 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5787 
Read carefully 5787 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5787 
Crooks and morons 5787 
Magiscopios 5786 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5766 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5766 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5765 
The LP setup in the new home. 5714 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5709 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5709 
Pianochord will do! 5709 
Spanyi heaven 5709 
I see no conflict at all. 5709 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5709 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5709 
A year after closing 5701 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5701 
Traveling antimatter 5694 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5688 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5687 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5661 
Cast Iron fireplace 5660 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5660 
The hardcore way 5660 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5624 
This is How It's Done 5623 
Listening room during summer. 5611 
What about those... 5610 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5610 
Reducing A/C Noise 5610 
HVAC the Cat 5610 
Big Ass fan 5609 
Variac dimmers 5609 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5609 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5609 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5541 
Some winter observations. 5432 
That Asian man…. 5401 
The Franz Schubert morning 5375 
Spring.... 5324 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5274 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5245 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5245 
Just good photography? 5245 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5245 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5245 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5244 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5244 
Sports car 5244 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5244 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5244 
Train Positioning 5244 
Kind of what I want 5244 
The lap listening… 5244 
Family Room 5244 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5241 
A super audio room. 5237 
Time Warp! 5237 
A piano in a listening room 5216 
Pianissimo 5216 
The plan in blue. 5216 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5216 
My doubts 5216 
It is exactly what I worry. 5215 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5215 
Musicians at home 5215 
Piano Measurements 5214 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5209 
The next step. 5195 
Midbass horns missing?? 5194 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5184 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5184 
Baby Grand 5183 
Wood floor 5183 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5183 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5183 
Amy’s baby. 5181 
Improvement 5181 
Agree with Scott 5181 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5169 
Integrated casters 5169 
Very nice, thanks. 5169 
Customization 5169 
Sliders 5169 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5162 
Congratulations 5162 
Holes in the floor... 5162 
Tubes and kids 5162 
Sweet spot enlargement 5162 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5160 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5159 
Wood Floors and Water 5159 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5154 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5153 
WAF is for Losers 5153 
WAF: it depends. 5153 
Integration 5152 
Here and there. 5152 
Life after WWIII 5152 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5152 
Cables management. 5150 
Featurizing 5150 
Kids and tubes cont. 5147 
Kid magnet 5147 
Kids and audio 5146 
Radars 5146 
Wow, what the days! 5142 
The comming weekend 5138 
It all was worth it! 5135 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5130 
Here is how it is look. 5130 
Resolving the carpet issue 5130 
Bonfire 5130 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5130 
Proof of concept? 5130 
Geometry 5130 
A view from listening position. 5130 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5130 
Some feedback 5130 
Evening 5130 
I wonder why. 5129 
Rugs and things 5129 
In defense… 5129 
I can’t get it. 5126 
Haze. 5125 
Front wall 5125 
It is very possible. 5125 
It is nice to be back. 5122 
My comfy corner. 5119 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4759 
WMD in house. 4581 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4484 
The third listening spot. 4463 
For sure a very different experience. 4425 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4420 
It's Jfretch's system. 4420 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4419 
Domestic games 4373 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4234 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4234 
Dynamic screening 4234 
Actually this is very good idea! 4234 
Volcanic fabric 4234 
I should have done this. 4232 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4228 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4197 
No worries 4197 
Awesome memories 4197 
Optimization of space 4197 
Child-ish considerations 4194 
Finding peace.... 4188 
"Fencing"? 4187 
I need to build something custom 4187 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4187 
Stressed Skin 4187 
NYC elevators 4187 
Kids toys and quantities. 4187 
Everything is completely reversible 4186 
Racks and things 4186 
Now it looks even more promising! 4186 
Quantity of rods 4186 
Avoiding diagonals 4184 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4183 
That's not fair! 4183 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4183 
Discrimination? 4178 
Vertical configuration 4171 
Impresive ! 4100 
Did you read the site? 4100 
Contact 4100 
Company's name is Rixrax 4100 
Stand 4099 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4055 
End of life headphone system 4055 
Something like this? 4055 
The "Second Living Room" 4055 
Mixing urban & suburban 4055 
Late night listening 4055 
Moving life... 4053 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4053 
A true listening room. 4029 
It started… 4014 
Levels of Interest 4014 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4014 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4014 
I can't not to post it.... 4014 
Do not leave him unattended. 4014 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4014 
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