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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5895 
The first take on the new room. 5889 
New Room, a first shot. 5888 
Wonderful 5888 
Adopted 5887 
The first relaxed night with the room 5885 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5884 
The listening room is ready. 5883 
New Room, a First Shot 5881 
Continue to work with the room 5881 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5881 
Room 5880 
I think it will take another month. 5880 
The Buttressing 5880 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5879 
The new place and the new noises. 5879 
Big listening room 5878 
Screw the "big" rooms 5878 
Big listening rooms 5878 
First reflection points 5877 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5877 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5874 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5873 
Squeezing the floor 5873 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5873 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5873 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5872 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5872 
The new room, the very first listening. 5872 
The 14.5 foot. 5871 
Again… 5870 
Romy's new Playground 5870 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5870 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5870 
For the uninitiated ... 5869 
NH guy 5869 
Room 5869 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5868 
The first base is done 5868 
Reentry time alignment. 5867 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5866 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5866 
Mid bass horn. 5866 
Guess is only a guess… 5866 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5866 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5865 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5865 
Diffusors 5865 
Diffuse injection 5865 
Let analyse why it so 5865 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5865 
Wheel and Deal 5865 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5865 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5865 
I Must Be Missing Something 5865 
I put sliders under my speakers 5864 
ROOM 5863 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5863 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5863 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5863 
No concerns 5863 
Speakers and room 5863 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5862 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5862 
Diaphram 5862 
Phram 5862 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5862 
Perfect piston 5862 
Decorater 5861 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5861 
New morning 5860 
The first take on the room with RTA 5859 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5859 
Axiomatic 5859 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5858 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5858 
The size of the bass. 5858 
Bass Factory 5858 
Crude Level, or something more? 5858 
I will play with it this week…. 5858 
Rent-A 5858 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5858 
Corner horns 5858 
Cheating from below 5858 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5858 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5857 
A possibly overly simplified view 5857 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5857 
Iceberg 5857 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5857 
Why not horn 5857 
A correction…. 5857 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5857 
They are just not related things at all. 5857 
Fertin 5855 
Low resonance is good... 5855 
Et tu, Brute? 5854 
The Room response at LF 5853 
Life On The Ground Floor 5853 
Bass arrays 5853 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5853 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5853 
The super sucks. 5853 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5853 
You may also try 5852 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5852 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5852 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5852 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5852 
60 Hz Resonance 5852 
No notching… so far. 5852 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5851 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5851 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5851 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5851 
Power to the People 5851 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5851 
Aura 5851 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5851 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5851 
All class D is the same 5851 
Interpreting the LF results. 5850 
The Halibut 5850 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5850 
The Big Picture 5850 
Power & ULF channels 5850 
The big picture indeed. 5850 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5850 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5850 
The Power and the Glory 5849 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5849 
I guess I did not get this memo 5849 
French LF drivers 5849 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5849 
(another) French LF approach 5848 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5848 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5848 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5848 
Limpschtick 5848 
Symmetry 5848 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5847 
Room correction 5847 
It migh be more complicated. 5847 
Bass EQ ? 5847 
Agree and not. 5847 
Two "diseases" 5847 
Parametric filters 5847 
Ceiling arrays 5847 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5847 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5847 
The Middle of the Room. 5847 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5847 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5847 
Stop! 5847 
Appendectomy 5847 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5846 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5846 
No Isolation 5846 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5843 
Potential contenders? 5842 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5842 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5842 
Those Crazy Canucks 5838 
Mo' Better Bass 5832 
Bird in the Hand? 5832 
A wet listening spot? 5825 
Storm 5822 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5822 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5808 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5778 
Polar Opposite ULF 5777 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5765 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5763 
Differently but the same. 5762 
PVC 5761 
The sail test try. 5761 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5761 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5761 
Trial 5760 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5760 
Some explanations 5760 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5759 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5758 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5757 
Acrylate 5756 
Magic blanket 5756 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5755 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5755 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5755 
I have a few options. 5755 
Foam color 5755 
Strange things with upperbass 5755 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5754 
Teatro reform. . . 5754 
The foaming room dilemma. 5753 
Melamine Foam 5753 
Foaming up the cat house 5753 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5753 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5753 
Acoustic revisions… 5752 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5749 
Surprises so far in the new room 5748 
The upperbass in the new room. 5748 
Slight change of hart. 5747 
Camco supply of Boston 5745 
Room acoustics 5745 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5704 
I need to kill dust first. 5704 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5702 
To feed the leeches? 5702 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5701 
Yh 5701 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5701 
DPOLs? 5701 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5701 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5698 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5698 
A HalfPipe solution? 5698 
I absolutely love it. 5698 
Piper work 5697 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5697 
Absorption 5697 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5696 
Cats life ? 5696 
Call me Pussy. 5696 
More about traps 5696 
Acoustic impedance? 5696 
You maybe right 5696 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5696 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5695 
Heavy Curtain 5695 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5694 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5694 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5694 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5691 
Fix speaker move chair? 5690 
Back and forth ceremony 5690 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5689 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5688 
Glass windows 5687 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5686 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5685 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5683 
How to use basement jacks? 5683 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5683 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5683 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5682 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5682 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5681 
Sore eyes... 5680 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5680 
The harvesting week! 5678 
I need an inspiration… 5677 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5676 
Like this? 5676 
Dramatically randomize MF 5676 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5675 
The room eats dynamic 5675 
Diffusers 5675 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5674 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5659 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5658 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5658 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5658 
About Width-Importance balance. 5656 
Letting the music scale up 5655 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5655 
To finish my house décor… 5651 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5650 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5649 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5649 
Calling the gods of music 5649 
Absolutely 5649 
Phase manipulation 5649 
No relation. 5649 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5649 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5649 
Dynamical mismatch 5648 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5648 
Stradiwinerius? 5645 
Dealing with the glass. 5644 
Boston 5644 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5644 
Added mass 5644 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5644 
It is about moderation…. 5644 
To hell with the wine... 5644 
Also for other surafaces 5643 
LEAD 5643 
LEAD & GLASS 5643 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5643 
Read carefully 5643 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5643 
Crooks and morons 5643 
Magiscopios 5642 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5622 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5622 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5621 
The LP setup in the new home. 5570 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5565 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5565 
Pianochord will do! 5565 
Spanyi heaven 5565 
I see no conflict at all. 5565 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5565 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5565 
A year after closing 5557 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5557 
Traveling antimatter 5550 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5544 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5543 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5517 
Cast Iron fireplace 5516 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5516 
The hardcore way 5516 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5480 
This is How It's Done 5479 
Listening room during summer. 5467 
What about those... 5466 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5466 
Reducing A/C Noise 5466 
HVAC the Cat 5466 
Big Ass fan 5465 
Variac dimmers 5465 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5465 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5465 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5397 
Some winter observations. 5288 
That Asian man…. 5257 
The Franz Schubert morning 5231 
Spring.... 5180 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5130 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5101 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5101 
Just good photography? 5101 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5101 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5101 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5100 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5100 
Sports car 5100 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5100 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5100 
Train Positioning 5100 
Kind of what I want 5100 
The lap listening… 5100 
Family Room 5100 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5097 
A super audio room. 5093 
Time Warp! 5093 
A piano in a listening room 5072 
Pianissimo 5072 
The plan in blue. 5072 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5072 
My doubts 5072 
It is exactly what I worry. 5071 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5071 
Musicians at home 5071 
Piano Measurements 5070 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5065 
The next step. 5051 
Midbass horns missing?? 5050 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5040 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5040 
Baby Grand 5039 
Wood floor 5039 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5039 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5039 
Amy’s baby. 5037 
Improvement 5037 
Agree with Scott 5037 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5025 
Integrated casters 5025 
Very nice, thanks. 5025 
Customization 5025 
Sliders 5025 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5018 
Congratulations 5018 
Holes in the floor... 5018 
Tubes and kids 5018 
Sweet spot enlargement 5018 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5016 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5015 
Wood Floors and Water 5015 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5010 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5009 
WAF is for Losers 5009 
WAF: it depends. 5009 
Integration 5008 
Here and there. 5008 
Life after WWIII 5008 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5008 
Cables management. 5006 
Featurizing 5006 
Kids and tubes cont. 5003 
Kid magnet 5003 
Kids and audio 5002 
Radars 5002 
Wow, what the days! 4998 
The comming weekend 4994 
It all was worth it! 4991 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4986 
Here is how it is look. 4986 
Resolving the carpet issue 4986 
Bonfire 4986 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4986 
Proof of concept? 4986 
Geometry 4986 
A view from listening position. 4986 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4986 
Some feedback 4986 
Evening 4986 
I wonder why. 4985 
Rugs and things 4985 
In defense… 4985 
I can’t get it. 4982 
Haze. 4981 
Front wall 4981 
It is very possible. 4981 
It is nice to be back. 4978 
My comfy corner. 4975 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4615 
WMD in house. 4437 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4340 
The third listening spot. 4319 
For sure a very different experience. 4281 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4276 
It's Jfretch's system. 4276 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4275 
Domestic games 4229 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4090 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4090 
Dynamic screening 4090 
Actually this is very good idea! 4090 
Volcanic fabric 4090 
I should have done this. 4088 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4084 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4053 
No worries 4053 
Awesome memories 4053 
Optimization of space 4053 
Child-ish considerations 4050 
Finding peace.... 4044 
"Fencing"? 4043 
I need to build something custom 4043 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4043 
Stressed Skin 4043 
NYC elevators 4043 
Kids toys and quantities. 4043 
Everything is completely reversible 4042 
Racks and things 4042 
Now it looks even more promising! 4042 
Quantity of rods 4042 
Avoiding diagonals 4040 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4039 
That's not fair! 4039 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4039 
Discrimination? 4034 
Vertical configuration 4027 
Impresive ! 3956 
Did you read the site? 3956 
Contact 3956 
Company's name is Rixrax 3956 
Stand 3955 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3911 
End of life headphone system 3911 
Something like this? 3911 
The "Second Living Room" 3911 
Mixing urban & suburban 3911 
Late night listening 3911 
Moving life... 3909 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3909 
A true listening room. 3885 
It started… 3870 
Levels of Interest 3870 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3870 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3870 
I can't not to post it.... 3870 
Do not leave him unattended. 3870 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3870 
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