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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5978 
The first take on the new room. 5972 
New Room, a first shot. 5971 
Wonderful 5971 
Adopted 5970 
The first relaxed night with the room 5968 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5967 
The listening room is ready. 5966 
New Room, a First Shot 5964 
Continue to work with the room 5964 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5964 
Room 5963 
I think it will take another month. 5963 
The Buttressing 5963 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5962 
The new place and the new noises. 5962 
Big listening room 5961 
Screw the "big" rooms 5961 
Big listening rooms 5961 
First reflection points 5960 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5960 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5957 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5956 
Squeezing the floor 5956 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5956 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5956 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5955 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5955 
The new room, the very first listening. 5955 
The 14.5 foot. 5954 
Again… 5953 
Romy's new Playground 5953 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5953 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5953 
For the uninitiated ... 5952 
NH guy 5952 
Room 5952 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5951 
The first base is done 5951 
Reentry time alignment. 5950 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5949 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5949 
Mid bass horn. 5949 
Guess is only a guess… 5949 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5949 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5948 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5948 
Diffusors 5948 
Diffuse injection 5948 
Let analyse why it so 5948 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5948 
Wheel and Deal 5948 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5948 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5948 
I Must Be Missing Something 5948 
I put sliders under my speakers 5947 
ROOM 5946 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5946 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5946 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5946 
No concerns 5946 
Speakers and room 5946 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5945 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5945 
Diaphram 5945 
Phram 5945 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5945 
Perfect piston 5945 
Decorater 5944 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5944 
New morning 5943 
The first take on the room with RTA 5942 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5942 
Axiomatic 5942 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5941 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5941 
The size of the bass. 5941 
Bass Factory 5941 
Crude Level, or something more? 5941 
I will play with it this week…. 5941 
Rent-A 5941 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5941 
Corner horns 5941 
Cheating from below 5941 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5941 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5940 
A possibly overly simplified view 5940 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5940 
Iceberg 5940 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5940 
Why not horn 5940 
A correction…. 5940 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5940 
They are just not related things at all. 5940 
Fertin 5938 
Low resonance is good... 5938 
Et tu, Brute? 5937 
The Room response at LF 5936 
Life On The Ground Floor 5936 
Bass arrays 5936 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5936 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5936 
The super sucks. 5936 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5936 
You may also try 5935 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5935 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5935 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5935 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5935 
60 Hz Resonance 5935 
No notching… so far. 5935 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5934 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5934 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5934 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5934 
Power to the People 5934 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5934 
Aura 5934 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5934 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5934 
All class D is the same 5934 
Interpreting the LF results. 5933 
The Halibut 5933 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5933 
The Big Picture 5933 
Power & ULF channels 5933 
The big picture indeed. 5933 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5933 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5933 
The Power and the Glory 5932 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5932 
I guess I did not get this memo 5932 
French LF drivers 5932 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5932 
(another) French LF approach 5931 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5931 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5931 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5931 
Limpschtick 5931 
Symmetry 5931 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5930 
Room correction 5930 
It migh be more complicated. 5930 
Bass EQ ? 5930 
Agree and not. 5930 
Two "diseases" 5930 
Parametric filters 5930 
Ceiling arrays 5930 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5930 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5930 
The Middle of the Room. 5930 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5930 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5930 
Stop! 5930 
Appendectomy 5930 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5929 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5929 
No Isolation 5929 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5926 
Potential contenders? 5925 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5925 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5925 
Those Crazy Canucks 5921 
Mo' Better Bass 5915 
Bird in the Hand? 5915 
A wet listening spot? 5908 
Storm 5905 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5905 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5891 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5861 
Polar Opposite ULF 5860 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5848 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5846 
Differently but the same. 5845 
PVC 5844 
The sail test try. 5844 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5844 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5844 
Trial 5843 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5843 
Some explanations 5843 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5842 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5841 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5840 
Acrylate 5839 
Magic blanket 5839 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5838 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5838 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5838 
I have a few options. 5838 
Foam color 5838 
Strange things with upperbass 5838 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5837 
Teatro reform. . . 5837 
The foaming room dilemma. 5836 
Melamine Foam 5836 
Foaming up the cat house 5836 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5836 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5836 
Acoustic revisions… 5835 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5832 
Surprises so far in the new room 5831 
The upperbass in the new room. 5831 
Slight change of hart. 5830 
Camco supply of Boston 5828 
Room acoustics 5828 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5787 
I need to kill dust first. 5787 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5785 
To feed the leeches? 5785 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5784 
Yh 5784 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5784 
DPOLs? 5784 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5784 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5781 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5781 
A HalfPipe solution? 5781 
I absolutely love it. 5781 
Piper work 5780 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5780 
Absorption 5780 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5779 
Cats life ? 5779 
Call me Pussy. 5779 
More about traps 5779 
Acoustic impedance? 5779 
You maybe right 5779 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5779 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5778 
Heavy Curtain 5778 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5777 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5777 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5777 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5774 
Fix speaker move chair? 5773 
Back and forth ceremony 5773 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5772 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5771 
Glass windows 5770 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5769 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5768 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5766 
How to use basement jacks? 5766 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5766 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5766 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5765 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5765 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5764 
Sore eyes... 5763 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5763 
The harvesting week! 5761 
I need an inspiration… 5760 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5759 
Like this? 5759 
Dramatically randomize MF 5759 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5758 
The room eats dynamic 5758 
Diffusers 5758 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5757 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5742 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5741 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5741 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5741 
About Width-Importance balance. 5739 
Letting the music scale up 5738 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5738 
To finish my house décor… 5734 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5733 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5732 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5732 
Calling the gods of music 5732 
Absolutely 5732 
Phase manipulation 5732 
No relation. 5732 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5732 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5732 
Dynamical mismatch 5731 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5731 
Stradiwinerius? 5728 
Dealing with the glass. 5727 
Boston 5727 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5727 
Added mass 5727 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5727 
It is about moderation…. 5727 
To hell with the wine... 5727 
Also for other surafaces 5726 
LEAD 5726 
LEAD & GLASS 5726 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5726 
Read carefully 5726 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5726 
Crooks and morons 5726 
Magiscopios 5725 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5705 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5705 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5704 
The LP setup in the new home. 5653 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5648 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5648 
Pianochord will do! 5648 
Spanyi heaven 5648 
I see no conflict at all. 5648 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5648 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5648 
A year after closing 5640 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5640 
Traveling antimatter 5633 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5627 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5626 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5600 
Cast Iron fireplace 5599 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5599 
The hardcore way 5599 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5563 
This is How It's Done 5562 
Listening room during summer. 5550 
What about those... 5549 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5549 
Reducing A/C Noise 5549 
HVAC the Cat 5549 
Big Ass fan 5548 
Variac dimmers 5548 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5548 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5548 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5480 
Some winter observations. 5371 
That Asian man…. 5340 
The Franz Schubert morning 5314 
Spring.... 5263 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5213 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5184 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5184 
Just good photography? 5184 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5184 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5184 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5183 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5183 
Sports car 5183 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5183 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5183 
Train Positioning 5183 
Kind of what I want 5183 
The lap listening… 5183 
Family Room 5183 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5180 
A super audio room. 5176 
Time Warp! 5176 
A piano in a listening room 5155 
Pianissimo 5155 
The plan in blue. 5155 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5155 
My doubts 5155 
It is exactly what I worry. 5154 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5154 
Musicians at home 5154 
Piano Measurements 5153 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5148 
The next step. 5134 
Midbass horns missing?? 5133 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5123 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5123 
Baby Grand 5122 
Wood floor 5122 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5122 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5122 
Amy’s baby. 5120 
Improvement 5120 
Agree with Scott 5120 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5108 
Integrated casters 5108 
Very nice, thanks. 5108 
Customization 5108 
Sliders 5108 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5101 
Congratulations 5101 
Holes in the floor... 5101 
Tubes and kids 5101 
Sweet spot enlargement 5101 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5099 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5098 
Wood Floors and Water 5098 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5093 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5092 
WAF is for Losers 5092 
WAF: it depends. 5092 
Integration 5091 
Here and there. 5091 
Life after WWIII 5091 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5091 
Cables management. 5089 
Featurizing 5089 
Kids and tubes cont. 5086 
Kid magnet 5086 
Kids and audio 5085 
Radars 5085 
Wow, what the days! 5081 
The comming weekend 5077 
It all was worth it! 5074 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5069 
Here is how it is look. 5069 
Resolving the carpet issue 5069 
Bonfire 5069 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5069 
Proof of concept? 5069 
Geometry 5069 
A view from listening position. 5069 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5069 
Some feedback 5069 
Evening 5069 
I wonder why. 5068 
Rugs and things 5068 
In defense… 5068 
I can’t get it. 5065 
Haze. 5064 
Front wall 5064 
It is very possible. 5064 
It is nice to be back. 5061 
My comfy corner. 5058 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4698 
WMD in house. 4520 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4423 
The third listening spot. 4402 
For sure a very different experience. 4364 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4359 
It's Jfretch's system. 4359 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4358 
Domestic games 4312 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4173 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4173 
Dynamic screening 4173 
Actually this is very good idea! 4173 
Volcanic fabric 4173 
I should have done this. 4171 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4167 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4136 
No worries 4136 
Awesome memories 4136 
Optimization of space 4136 
Child-ish considerations 4133 
Finding peace.... 4127 
"Fencing"? 4126 
I need to build something custom 4126 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4126 
Stressed Skin 4126 
NYC elevators 4126 
Kids toys and quantities. 4126 
Everything is completely reversible 4125 
Racks and things 4125 
Now it looks even more promising! 4125 
Quantity of rods 4125 
Avoiding diagonals 4123 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4122 
That's not fair! 4122 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4122 
Discrimination? 4117 
Vertical configuration 4110 
Impresive ! 4039 
Did you read the site? 4039 
Contact 4039 
Company's name is Rixrax 4039 
Stand 4038 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3994 
End of life headphone system 3994 
Something like this? 3994 
The "Second Living Room" 3994 
Mixing urban & suburban 3994 
Late night listening 3994 
Moving life... 3992 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3992 
A true listening room. 3968 
It started… 3953 
Levels of Interest 3953 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3953 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3953 
I can't not to post it.... 3953 
Do not leave him unattended. 3953 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3953 
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