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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5996 
The first take on the new room. 5990 
New Room, a first shot. 5989 
Wonderful 5989 
Adopted 5988 
The first relaxed night with the room 5986 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5985 
The listening room is ready. 5984 
New Room, a First Shot 5982 
Continue to work with the room 5982 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5982 
Room 5981 
I think it will take another month. 5981 
The Buttressing 5981 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5980 
The new place and the new noises. 5980 
Big listening room 5979 
Screw the "big" rooms 5979 
Big listening rooms 5979 
First reflection points 5978 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5978 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5975 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5974 
Squeezing the floor 5974 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5974 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5974 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5973 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5973 
The new room, the very first listening. 5973 
The 14.5 foot. 5972 
Again… 5971 
Romy's new Playground 5971 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5971 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5971 
For the uninitiated ... 5970 
NH guy 5970 
Room 5970 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5969 
The first base is done 5969 
Reentry time alignment. 5968 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5967 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5967 
Mid bass horn. 5967 
Guess is only a guess… 5967 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5967 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5966 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5966 
Diffusors 5966 
Diffuse injection 5966 
Let analyse why it so 5966 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5966 
Wheel and Deal 5966 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5966 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5966 
I Must Be Missing Something 5966 
I put sliders under my speakers 5965 
ROOM 5964 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5964 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5964 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5964 
No concerns 5964 
Speakers and room 5964 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5963 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5963 
Diaphram 5963 
Phram 5963 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5963 
Perfect piston 5963 
Decorater 5962 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5962 
New morning 5961 
The first take on the room with RTA 5960 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5960 
Axiomatic 5960 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5959 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5959 
The size of the bass. 5959 
Bass Factory 5959 
Crude Level, or something more? 5959 
I will play with it this week…. 5959 
Rent-A 5959 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5959 
Corner horns 5959 
Cheating from below 5959 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5959 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5958 
A possibly overly simplified view 5958 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5958 
Iceberg 5958 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5958 
Why not horn 5958 
A correction…. 5958 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5958 
They are just not related things at all. 5958 
Fertin 5956 
Low resonance is good... 5956 
Et tu, Brute? 5955 
The Room response at LF 5954 
Life On The Ground Floor 5954 
Bass arrays 5954 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5954 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5954 
The super sucks. 5954 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5954 
You may also try 5953 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5953 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5953 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5953 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5953 
60 Hz Resonance 5953 
No notching… so far. 5953 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5952 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5952 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5952 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5952 
Power to the People 5952 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5952 
Aura 5952 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5952 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5952 
All class D is the same 5952 
Interpreting the LF results. 5951 
The Halibut 5951 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5951 
The Big Picture 5951 
Power & ULF channels 5951 
The big picture indeed. 5951 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5951 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5951 
The Power and the Glory 5950 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5950 
I guess I did not get this memo 5950 
French LF drivers 5950 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5950 
(another) French LF approach 5949 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5949 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5949 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5949 
Limpschtick 5949 
Symmetry 5949 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5948 
Room correction 5948 
It migh be more complicated. 5948 
Bass EQ ? 5948 
Agree and not. 5948 
Two "diseases" 5948 
Parametric filters 5948 
Ceiling arrays 5948 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5948 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5948 
The Middle of the Room. 5948 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5948 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5948 
Stop! 5948 
Appendectomy 5948 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5947 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5947 
No Isolation 5947 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5944 
Potential contenders? 5943 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5943 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5943 
Those Crazy Canucks 5939 
Mo' Better Bass 5933 
Bird in the Hand? 5933 
A wet listening spot? 5926 
Storm 5923 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5923 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5909 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5879 
Polar Opposite ULF 5878 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5866 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5864 
Differently but the same. 5863 
PVC 5862 
The sail test try. 5862 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5862 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5862 
Trial 5861 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5861 
Some explanations 5861 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5860 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5859 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5858 
Acrylate 5857 
Magic blanket 5857 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5856 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5856 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5856 
I have a few options. 5856 
Foam color 5856 
Strange things with upperbass 5856 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5855 
Teatro reform. . . 5855 
The foaming room dilemma. 5854 
Melamine Foam 5854 
Foaming up the cat house 5854 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5854 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5854 
Acoustic revisions… 5853 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5850 
Surprises so far in the new room 5849 
The upperbass in the new room. 5849 
Slight change of hart. 5848 
Camco supply of Boston 5846 
Room acoustics 5846 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5805 
I need to kill dust first. 5805 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5803 
To feed the leeches? 5803 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5802 
Yh 5802 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5802 
DPOLs? 5802 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5802 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5799 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5799 
A HalfPipe solution? 5799 
I absolutely love it. 5799 
Piper work 5798 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5798 
Absorption 5798 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5797 
Cats life ? 5797 
Call me Pussy. 5797 
More about traps 5797 
Acoustic impedance? 5797 
You maybe right 5797 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5797 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5796 
Heavy Curtain 5796 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5795 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5795 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5795 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5792 
Fix speaker move chair? 5791 
Back and forth ceremony 5791 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5790 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5789 
Glass windows 5788 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5787 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5786 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5784 
How to use basement jacks? 5784 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5784 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5784 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5783 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5783 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5782 
Sore eyes... 5781 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5781 
The harvesting week! 5779 
I need an inspiration… 5778 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5777 
Like this? 5777 
Dramatically randomize MF 5777 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5776 
The room eats dynamic 5776 
Diffusers 5776 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5775 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5760 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5759 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5759 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5759 
About Width-Importance balance. 5757 
Letting the music scale up 5756 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5756 
To finish my house décor… 5752 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5751 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5750 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5750 
Calling the gods of music 5750 
Absolutely 5750 
Phase manipulation 5750 
No relation. 5750 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5750 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5750 
Dynamical mismatch 5749 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5749 
Stradiwinerius? 5746 
Dealing with the glass. 5745 
Boston 5745 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5745 
Added mass 5745 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5745 
It is about moderation…. 5745 
To hell with the wine... 5745 
Also for other surafaces 5744 
LEAD 5744 
LEAD & GLASS 5744 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5744 
Read carefully 5744 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5744 
Crooks and morons 5744 
Magiscopios 5743 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5723 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5723 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5722 
The LP setup in the new home. 5671 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5666 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5666 
Pianochord will do! 5666 
Spanyi heaven 5666 
I see no conflict at all. 5666 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5666 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5666 
A year after closing 5658 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5658 
Traveling antimatter 5651 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5645 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5644 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5618 
Cast Iron fireplace 5617 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5617 
The hardcore way 5617 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5581 
This is How It's Done 5580 
Listening room during summer. 5568 
What about those... 5567 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5567 
Reducing A/C Noise 5567 
HVAC the Cat 5567 
Big Ass fan 5566 
Variac dimmers 5566 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5566 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5566 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5498 
Some winter observations. 5389 
That Asian man…. 5358 
The Franz Schubert morning 5332 
Spring.... 5281 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5231 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5202 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5202 
Just good photography? 5202 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5202 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5202 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5201 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5201 
Sports car 5201 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5201 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5201 
Train Positioning 5201 
Kind of what I want 5201 
The lap listening… 5201 
Family Room 5201 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5198 
A super audio room. 5194 
Time Warp! 5194 
A piano in a listening room 5173 
Pianissimo 5173 
The plan in blue. 5173 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5173 
My doubts 5173 
It is exactly what I worry. 5172 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5172 
Musicians at home 5172 
Piano Measurements 5171 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5166 
The next step. 5152 
Midbass horns missing?? 5151 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5141 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5141 
Baby Grand 5140 
Wood floor 5140 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5140 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5140 
Amy’s baby. 5138 
Improvement 5138 
Agree with Scott 5138 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5126 
Integrated casters 5126 
Very nice, thanks. 5126 
Customization 5126 
Sliders 5126 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5119 
Congratulations 5119 
Holes in the floor... 5119 
Tubes and kids 5119 
Sweet spot enlargement 5119 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5117 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5116 
Wood Floors and Water 5116 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5111 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5110 
WAF is for Losers 5110 
WAF: it depends. 5110 
Integration 5109 
Here and there. 5109 
Life after WWIII 5109 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5109 
Cables management. 5107 
Featurizing 5107 
Kids and tubes cont. 5104 
Kid magnet 5104 
Kids and audio 5103 
Radars 5103 
Wow, what the days! 5099 
The comming weekend 5095 
It all was worth it! 5092 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5087 
Here is how it is look. 5087 
Resolving the carpet issue 5087 
Bonfire 5087 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5087 
Proof of concept? 5087 
Geometry 5087 
A view from listening position. 5087 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5087 
Some feedback 5087 
Evening 5087 
I wonder why. 5086 
Rugs and things 5086 
In defense… 5086 
I can’t get it. 5083 
Haze. 5082 
Front wall 5082 
It is very possible. 5082 
It is nice to be back. 5079 
My comfy corner. 5076 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4716 
WMD in house. 4538 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4441 
The third listening spot. 4420 
For sure a very different experience. 4382 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4377 
It's Jfretch's system. 4377 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4376 
Domestic games 4330 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4191 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4191 
Dynamic screening 4191 
Actually this is very good idea! 4191 
Volcanic fabric 4191 
I should have done this. 4189 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4185 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4154 
No worries 4154 
Awesome memories 4154 
Optimization of space 4154 
Child-ish considerations 4151 
Finding peace.... 4145 
"Fencing"? 4144 
I need to build something custom 4144 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4144 
Stressed Skin 4144 
NYC elevators 4144 
Kids toys and quantities. 4144 
Everything is completely reversible 4143 
Racks and things 4143 
Now it looks even more promising! 4143 
Quantity of rods 4143 
Avoiding diagonals 4141 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4140 
That's not fair! 4140 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4140 
Discrimination? 4135 
Vertical configuration 4128 
Impresive ! 4057 
Did you read the site? 4057 
Contact 4057 
Company's name is Rixrax 4057 
Stand 4056 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4012 
End of life headphone system 4012 
Something like this? 4012 
The "Second Living Room" 4012 
Mixing urban & suburban 4012 
Late night listening 4012 
Moving life... 4010 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4010 
A true listening room. 3986 
It started… 3971 
Levels of Interest 3971 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3971 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3971 
I can't not to post it.... 3971 
Do not leave him unattended. 3971 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3971 
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