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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5691 
The first take on the new room. 5685 
New Room, a first shot. 5684 
Wonderful 5684 
Adopted 5683 
The first relaxed night with the room 5681 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5680 
The listening room is ready. 5679 
New Room, a First Shot 5677 
Continue to work with the room 5677 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5677 
Room 5676 
I think it will take another month. 5676 
The Buttressing 5676 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5675 
The new place and the new noises. 5675 
Big listening room 5674 
Screw the "big" rooms 5674 
Big listening rooms 5674 
First reflection points 5673 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5673 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5670 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5669 
Squeezing the floor 5669 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5669 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5669 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5668 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5668 
The new room, the very first listening. 5668 
The 14.5 foot. 5667 
Again… 5666 
Romy's new Playground 5666 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5666 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5666 
For the uninitiated ... 5665 
NH guy 5665 
Room 5665 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5664 
The first base is done 5664 
Reentry time alignment. 5663 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5662 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5662 
Mid bass horn. 5662 
Guess is only a guess… 5662 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5662 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5661 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5661 
Diffusors 5661 
Diffuse injection 5661 
Let analyse why it so 5661 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5661 
Wheel and Deal 5661 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5661 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5661 
I Must Be Missing Something 5661 
I put sliders under my speakers 5660 
ROOM 5659 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5659 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5659 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5659 
No concerns 5659 
Speakers and room 5659 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5658 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5658 
Diaphram 5658 
Phram 5658 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5658 
Perfect piston 5658 
Decorater 5657 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5657 
New morning 5656 
The first take on the room with RTA 5655 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5655 
Axiomatic 5655 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5654 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5654 
The size of the bass. 5654 
Bass Factory 5654 
Crude Level, or something more? 5654 
I will play with it this week…. 5654 
Rent-A 5654 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5654 
Corner horns 5654 
Cheating from below 5654 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5654 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5653 
A possibly overly simplified view 5653 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5653 
Iceberg 5653 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5653 
Why not horn 5653 
A correction…. 5653 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5653 
They are just not related things at all. 5653 
Fertin 5651 
Low resonance is good... 5651 
Et tu, Brute? 5650 
The Room response at LF 5649 
Life On The Ground Floor 5649 
Bass arrays 5649 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5649 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5649 
The super sucks. 5649 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5649 
You may also try 5648 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5648 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5648 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5648 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5648 
60 Hz Resonance 5648 
No notching… so far. 5648 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5647 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5647 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5647 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5647 
Power to the People 5647 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5647 
Aura 5647 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5647 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5647 
All class D is the same 5647 
Interpreting the LF results. 5646 
The Halibut 5646 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5646 
The Big Picture 5646 
Power & ULF channels 5646 
The big picture indeed. 5646 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5646 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5646 
The Power and the Glory 5645 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5645 
I guess I did not get this memo 5645 
French LF drivers 5645 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5645 
(another) French LF approach 5644 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5644 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5644 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5644 
Limpschtick 5644 
Symmetry 5644 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5643 
Room correction 5643 
It migh be more complicated. 5643 
Bass EQ ? 5643 
Agree and not. 5643 
Two "diseases" 5643 
Parametric filters 5643 
Ceiling arrays 5643 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5643 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5643 
The Middle of the Room. 5643 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5643 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5643 
Stop! 5643 
Appendectomy 5643 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5642 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5642 
No Isolation 5642 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5639 
Potential contenders? 5638 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5638 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5638 
Those Crazy Canucks 5634 
Mo' Better Bass 5628 
Bird in the Hand? 5628 
A wet listening spot? 5621 
Storm 5618 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5618 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5604 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5574 
Polar Opposite ULF 5573 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5561 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5559 
Differently but the same. 5558 
PVC 5557 
The sail test try. 5557 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5557 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5557 
Trial 5556 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5556 
Some explanations 5556 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5555 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5554 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5553 
Acrylate 5552 
Magic blanket 5552 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5551 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5551 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5551 
I have a few options. 5551 
Foam color 5551 
Strange things with upperbass 5551 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5550 
Teatro reform. . . 5550 
The foaming room dilemma. 5549 
Melamine Foam 5549 
Foaming up the cat house 5549 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5549 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5549 
Acoustic revisions… 5548 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5545 
Surprises so far in the new room 5544 
The upperbass in the new room. 5544 
Slight change of hart. 5543 
Camco supply of Boston 5541 
Room acoustics 5541 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5500 
I need to kill dust first. 5500 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5498 
To feed the leeches? 5498 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5497 
Yh 5497 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5497 
DPOLs? 5497 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5497 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5494 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5494 
A HalfPipe solution? 5494 
I absolutely love it. 5494 
Piper work 5493 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5493 
Absorption 5493 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5492 
Cats life ? 5492 
Call me Pussy. 5492 
More about traps 5492 
Acoustic impedance? 5492 
You maybe right 5492 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5492 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5491 
Heavy Curtain 5491 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5490 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5490 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5490 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5487 
Fix speaker move chair? 5486 
Back and forth ceremony 5486 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5485 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5484 
Glass windows 5483 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5482 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5481 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5479 
How to use basement jacks? 5479 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5479 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5479 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5478 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5478 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5477 
Sore eyes... 5476 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5476 
The harvesting week! 5474 
I need an inspiration… 5473 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5472 
Like this? 5472 
Dramatically randomize MF 5472 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5471 
The room eats dynamic 5471 
Diffusers 5471 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5470 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5455 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5454 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5454 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5454 
About Width-Importance balance. 5452 
Letting the music scale up 5451 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5451 
To finish my house décor… 5447 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5446 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5445 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5445 
Calling the gods of music 5445 
Absolutely 5445 
Phase manipulation 5445 
No relation. 5445 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5445 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5445 
Dynamical mismatch 5444 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5444 
Stradiwinerius? 5441 
Dealing with the glass. 5440 
Boston 5440 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5440 
Added mass 5440 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5440 
It is about moderation…. 5440 
To hell with the wine... 5440 
Also for other surafaces 5439 
LEAD 5439 
LEAD & GLASS 5439 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5439 
Read carefully 5439 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5439 
Crooks and morons 5439 
Magiscopios 5438 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5418 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5418 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5417 
The LP setup in the new home. 5366 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5361 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5361 
Pianochord will do! 5361 
Spanyi heaven 5361 
I see no conflict at all. 5361 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5361 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5361 
A year after closing 5353 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5353 
Traveling antimatter 5346 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5340 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5339 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5313 
Cast Iron fireplace 5312 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5312 
The hardcore way 5312 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5276 
This is How It's Done 5275 
Listening room during summer. 5263 
What about those... 5262 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5262 
Reducing A/C Noise 5262 
HVAC the Cat 5262 
Big Ass fan 5261 
Variac dimmers 5261 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5261 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5261 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5193 
Some winter observations. 5084 
That Asian man…. 5053 
The Franz Schubert morning 5027 
Spring.... 4976 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4926 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4897 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4897 
Just good photography? 4897 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4897 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4897 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4896 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4896 
Sports car 4896 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4896 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4896 
Train Positioning 4896 
Kind of what I want 4896 
The lap listening… 4896 
Family Room 4896 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4893 
A super audio room. 4889 
Time Warp! 4889 
A piano in a listening room 4868 
Pianissimo 4868 
The plan in blue. 4868 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4868 
My doubts 4868 
It is exactly what I worry. 4867 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4867 
Musicians at home 4867 
Piano Measurements 4866 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4861 
The next step. 4847 
Midbass horns missing?? 4846 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4836 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4836 
Baby Grand 4835 
Wood floor 4835 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4835 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4835 
Amy’s baby. 4833 
Improvement 4833 
Agree with Scott 4833 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4821 
Integrated casters 4821 
Very nice, thanks. 4821 
Customization 4821 
Sliders 4821 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4814 
Congratulations 4814 
Holes in the floor... 4814 
Tubes and kids 4814 
Sweet spot enlargement 4814 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4812 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4811 
Wood Floors and Water 4811 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4806 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4805 
WAF is for Losers 4805 
WAF: it depends. 4805 
Integration 4804 
Here and there. 4804 
Life after WWIII 4804 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4804 
Cables management. 4802 
Featurizing 4802 
Kids and tubes cont. 4799 
Kid magnet 4799 
Kids and audio 4798 
Radars 4798 
Wow, what the days! 4794 
The comming weekend 4790 
It all was worth it! 4787 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4782 
Here is how it is look. 4782 
Resolving the carpet issue 4782 
Bonfire 4782 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4782 
Proof of concept? 4782 
Geometry 4782 
A view from listening position. 4782 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4782 
Some feedback 4782 
Evening 4782 
I wonder why. 4781 
Rugs and things 4781 
In defense… 4781 
I can’t get it. 4778 
Haze. 4777 
Front wall 4777 
It is very possible. 4777 
It is nice to be back. 4774 
My comfy corner. 4771 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4411 
WMD in house. 4233 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4136 
The third listening spot. 4115 
For sure a very different experience. 4077 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4072 
It's Jfretch's system. 4072 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4071 
Domestic games 4025 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3886 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3886 
Dynamic screening 3886 
Actually this is very good idea! 3886 
Volcanic fabric 3886 
I should have done this. 3884 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3880 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3849 
No worries 3849 
Awesome memories 3849 
Optimization of space 3849 
Child-ish considerations 3846 
Finding peace.... 3840 
"Fencing"? 3839 
I need to build something custom 3839 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3839 
Stressed Skin 3839 
NYC elevators 3839 
Kids toys and quantities. 3839 
Everything is completely reversible 3838 
Racks and things 3838 
Now it looks even more promising! 3838 
Quantity of rods 3838 
Avoiding diagonals 3836 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3835 
That's not fair! 3835 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3835 
Discrimination? 3830 
Vertical configuration 3823 
Impresive ! 3752 
Did you read the site? 3752 
Contact 3752 
Company's name is Rixrax 3752 
Stand 3751 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3707 
End of life headphone system 3707 
Something like this? 3707 
The "Second Living Room" 3707 
Mixing urban & suburban 3707 
Late night listening 3707 
Moving life... 3705 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3705 
A true listening room. 3681 
It started… 3666 
Levels of Interest 3666 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3666 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3666 
I can't not to post it.... 3666 
Do not leave him unattended. 3666 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3666 
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