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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6027 
The first take on the new room. 6021 
New Room, a first shot. 6020 
Wonderful 6020 
Adopted 6019 
The first relaxed night with the room 6017 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6016 
The listening room is ready. 6015 
New Room, a First Shot 6013 
Continue to work with the room 6013 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6013 
Room 6012 
I think it will take another month. 6012 
The Buttressing 6012 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6011 
The new place and the new noises. 6011 
Big listening room 6010 
Screw the "big" rooms 6010 
Big listening rooms 6010 
First reflection points 6009 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6009 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6006 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6005 
Squeezing the floor 6005 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6005 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6005 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6004 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6004 
The new room, the very first listening. 6004 
The 14.5 foot. 6003 
Again… 6002 
Romy's new Playground 6002 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6002 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6002 
For the uninitiated ... 6001 
NH guy 6001 
Room 6001 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6000 
The first base is done 6000 
Reentry time alignment. 5999 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5998 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5998 
Mid bass horn. 5998 
Guess is only a guess… 5998 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5998 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5997 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5997 
Diffusors 5997 
Diffuse injection 5997 
Let analyse why it so 5997 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5997 
Wheel and Deal 5997 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5997 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5997 
I Must Be Missing Something 5997 
I put sliders under my speakers 5996 
ROOM 5995 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5995 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5995 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5995 
No concerns 5995 
Speakers and room 5995 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5994 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5994 
Diaphram 5994 
Phram 5994 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5994 
Perfect piston 5994 
Decorater 5993 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5993 
New morning 5992 
The first take on the room with RTA 5991 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5991 
Axiomatic 5991 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5990 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5990 
The size of the bass. 5990 
Bass Factory 5990 
Crude Level, or something more? 5990 
I will play with it this week…. 5990 
Rent-A 5990 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5990 
Corner horns 5990 
Cheating from below 5990 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5990 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5989 
A possibly overly simplified view 5989 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5989 
Iceberg 5989 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5989 
Why not horn 5989 
A correction…. 5989 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5989 
They are just not related things at all. 5989 
Fertin 5987 
Low resonance is good... 5987 
Et tu, Brute? 5986 
The Room response at LF 5985 
Life On The Ground Floor 5985 
Bass arrays 5985 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5985 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5985 
The super sucks. 5985 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5985 
You may also try 5984 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5984 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5984 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5984 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5984 
60 Hz Resonance 5984 
No notching… so far. 5984 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5983 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5983 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5983 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5983 
Power to the People 5983 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5983 
Aura 5983 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5983 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5983 
All class D is the same 5983 
Interpreting the LF results. 5982 
The Halibut 5982 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5982 
The Big Picture 5982 
Power & ULF channels 5982 
The big picture indeed. 5982 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5982 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5982 
The Power and the Glory 5981 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5981 
I guess I did not get this memo 5981 
French LF drivers 5981 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5981 
(another) French LF approach 5980 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5980 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5980 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5980 
Limpschtick 5980 
Symmetry 5980 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5979 
Room correction 5979 
It migh be more complicated. 5979 
Bass EQ ? 5979 
Agree and not. 5979 
Two "diseases" 5979 
Parametric filters 5979 
Ceiling arrays 5979 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5979 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5979 
The Middle of the Room. 5979 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5979 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5979 
Stop! 5979 
Appendectomy 5979 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5978 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5978 
No Isolation 5978 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5975 
Potential contenders? 5974 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5974 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5974 
Those Crazy Canucks 5970 
Mo' Better Bass 5964 
Bird in the Hand? 5964 
A wet listening spot? 5957 
Storm 5954 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5954 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5940 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5910 
Polar Opposite ULF 5909 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5897 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5895 
Differently but the same. 5894 
PVC 5893 
The sail test try. 5893 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5893 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5893 
Trial 5892 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5892 
Some explanations 5892 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5891 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5890 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5889 
Acrylate 5888 
Magic blanket 5888 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5887 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5887 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5887 
I have a few options. 5887 
Foam color 5887 
Strange things with upperbass 5887 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5886 
Teatro reform. . . 5886 
The foaming room dilemma. 5885 
Melamine Foam 5885 
Foaming up the cat house 5885 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5885 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5885 
Acoustic revisions… 5884 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5881 
Surprises so far in the new room 5880 
The upperbass in the new room. 5880 
Slight change of hart. 5879 
Camco supply of Boston 5877 
Room acoustics 5877 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5836 
I need to kill dust first. 5836 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5834 
To feed the leeches? 5834 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5833 
Yh 5833 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5833 
DPOLs? 5833 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5833 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5830 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5830 
A HalfPipe solution? 5830 
I absolutely love it. 5830 
Piper work 5829 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5829 
Absorption 5829 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5828 
Cats life ? 5828 
Call me Pussy. 5828 
More about traps 5828 
Acoustic impedance? 5828 
You maybe right 5828 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5828 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5827 
Heavy Curtain 5827 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5826 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5826 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5826 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5823 
Fix speaker move chair? 5822 
Back and forth ceremony 5822 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5821 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5820 
Glass windows 5819 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5818 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5817 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5815 
How to use basement jacks? 5815 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5815 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5815 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5814 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5814 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5813 
Sore eyes... 5812 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5812 
The harvesting week! 5810 
I need an inspiration… 5809 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5808 
Like this? 5808 
Dramatically randomize MF 5808 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5807 
The room eats dynamic 5807 
Diffusers 5807 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5806 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5791 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5790 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5790 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5790 
About Width-Importance balance. 5788 
Letting the music scale up 5787 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5787 
To finish my house décor… 5783 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5782 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5781 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5781 
Calling the gods of music 5781 
Absolutely 5781 
Phase manipulation 5781 
No relation. 5781 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5781 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5781 
Dynamical mismatch 5780 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5780 
Stradiwinerius? 5777 
Dealing with the glass. 5776 
Boston 5776 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5776 
Added mass 5776 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5776 
It is about moderation…. 5776 
To hell with the wine... 5776 
Also for other surafaces 5775 
LEAD 5775 
LEAD & GLASS 5775 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5775 
Read carefully 5775 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5775 
Crooks and morons 5775 
Magiscopios 5774 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5754 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5754 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5753 
The LP setup in the new home. 5702 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5697 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5697 
Pianochord will do! 5697 
Spanyi heaven 5697 
I see no conflict at all. 5697 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5697 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5697 
A year after closing 5689 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5689 
Traveling antimatter 5682 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5676 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5675 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5649 
Cast Iron fireplace 5648 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5648 
The hardcore way 5648 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5612 
This is How It's Done 5611 
Listening room during summer. 5599 
What about those... 5598 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5598 
Reducing A/C Noise 5598 
HVAC the Cat 5598 
Big Ass fan 5597 
Variac dimmers 5597 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5597 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5597 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5529 
Some winter observations. 5420 
That Asian man…. 5389 
The Franz Schubert morning 5363 
Spring.... 5312 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5262 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5233 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5233 
Just good photography? 5233 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5233 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5233 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5232 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5232 
Sports car 5232 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5232 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5232 
Train Positioning 5232 
Kind of what I want 5232 
The lap listening… 5232 
Family Room 5232 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5229 
A super audio room. 5225 
Time Warp! 5225 
A piano in a listening room 5204 
Pianissimo 5204 
The plan in blue. 5204 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5204 
My doubts 5204 
It is exactly what I worry. 5203 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5203 
Musicians at home 5203 
Piano Measurements 5202 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5197 
The next step. 5183 
Midbass horns missing?? 5182 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5172 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5172 
Baby Grand 5171 
Wood floor 5171 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5171 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5171 
Amy’s baby. 5169 
Improvement 5169 
Agree with Scott 5169 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5157 
Integrated casters 5157 
Very nice, thanks. 5157 
Customization 5157 
Sliders 5157 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5150 
Congratulations 5150 
Holes in the floor... 5150 
Tubes and kids 5150 
Sweet spot enlargement 5150 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5148 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5147 
Wood Floors and Water 5147 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5142 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5141 
WAF is for Losers 5141 
WAF: it depends. 5141 
Integration 5140 
Here and there. 5140 
Life after WWIII 5140 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5140 
Cables management. 5138 
Featurizing 5138 
Kids and tubes cont. 5135 
Kid magnet 5135 
Kids and audio 5134 
Radars 5134 
Wow, what the days! 5130 
The comming weekend 5126 
It all was worth it! 5123 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5118 
Here is how it is look. 5118 
Resolving the carpet issue 5118 
Bonfire 5118 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5118 
Proof of concept? 5118 
Geometry 5118 
A view from listening position. 5118 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5118 
Some feedback 5118 
Evening 5118 
I wonder why. 5117 
Rugs and things 5117 
In defense… 5117 
I can’t get it. 5114 
Haze. 5113 
Front wall 5113 
It is very possible. 5113 
It is nice to be back. 5110 
My comfy corner. 5107 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4747 
WMD in house. 4569 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4472 
The third listening spot. 4451 
For sure a very different experience. 4413 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4408 
It's Jfretch's system. 4408 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4407 
Domestic games 4361 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4222 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4222 
Dynamic screening 4222 
Actually this is very good idea! 4222 
Volcanic fabric 4222 
I should have done this. 4220 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4216 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4185 
No worries 4185 
Awesome memories 4185 
Optimization of space 4185 
Child-ish considerations 4182 
Finding peace.... 4176 
"Fencing"? 4175 
I need to build something custom 4175 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4175 
Stressed Skin 4175 
NYC elevators 4175 
Kids toys and quantities. 4175 
Everything is completely reversible 4174 
Racks and things 4174 
Now it looks even more promising! 4174 
Quantity of rods 4174 
Avoiding diagonals 4172 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4171 
That's not fair! 4171 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4171 
Discrimination? 4166 
Vertical configuration 4159 
Impresive ! 4088 
Did you read the site? 4088 
Contact 4088 
Company's name is Rixrax 4088 
Stand 4087 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4043 
End of life headphone system 4043 
Something like this? 4043 
The "Second Living Room" 4043 
Mixing urban & suburban 4043 
Late night listening 4043 
Moving life... 4041 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4041 
A true listening room. 4017 
It started… 4002 
Levels of Interest 4002 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4002 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4002 
I can't not to post it.... 4002 
Do not leave him unattended. 4002 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4002 
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