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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6003 
The first take on the new room. 5997 
New Room, a first shot. 5996 
Wonderful 5996 
Adopted 5995 
The first relaxed night with the room 5993 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5992 
The listening room is ready. 5991 
New Room, a First Shot 5989 
Continue to work with the room 5989 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5989 
Room 5988 
I think it will take another month. 5988 
The Buttressing 5988 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5987 
The new place and the new noises. 5987 
Big listening room 5986 
Screw the "big" rooms 5986 
Big listening rooms 5986 
First reflection points 5985 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5985 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5982 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5981 
Squeezing the floor 5981 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5981 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5981 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5980 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5980 
The new room, the very first listening. 5980 
The 14.5 foot. 5979 
Again… 5978 
Romy's new Playground 5978 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5978 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5978 
For the uninitiated ... 5977 
NH guy 5977 
Room 5977 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5976 
The first base is done 5976 
Reentry time alignment. 5975 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5974 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5974 
Mid bass horn. 5974 
Guess is only a guess… 5974 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5974 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5973 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5973 
Diffusors 5973 
Diffuse injection 5973 
Let analyse why it so 5973 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5973 
Wheel and Deal 5973 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5973 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5973 
I Must Be Missing Something 5973 
I put sliders under my speakers 5972 
ROOM 5971 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5971 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5971 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5971 
No concerns 5971 
Speakers and room 5971 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5970 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5970 
Diaphram 5970 
Phram 5970 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5970 
Perfect piston 5970 
Decorater 5969 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5969 
New morning 5968 
The first take on the room with RTA 5967 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5967 
Axiomatic 5967 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5966 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5966 
The size of the bass. 5966 
Bass Factory 5966 
Crude Level, or something more? 5966 
I will play with it this week…. 5966 
Rent-A 5966 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5966 
Corner horns 5966 
Cheating from below 5966 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5966 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5965 
A possibly overly simplified view 5965 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5965 
Iceberg 5965 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5965 
Why not horn 5965 
A correction…. 5965 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5965 
They are just not related things at all. 5965 
Fertin 5963 
Low resonance is good... 5963 
Et tu, Brute? 5962 
The Room response at LF 5961 
Life On The Ground Floor 5961 
Bass arrays 5961 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5961 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5961 
The super sucks. 5961 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5961 
You may also try 5960 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5960 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5960 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5960 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5960 
60 Hz Resonance 5960 
No notching… so far. 5960 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5959 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5959 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5959 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5959 
Power to the People 5959 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5959 
Aura 5959 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5959 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5959 
All class D is the same 5959 
Interpreting the LF results. 5958 
The Halibut 5958 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5958 
The Big Picture 5958 
Power & ULF channels 5958 
The big picture indeed. 5958 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5958 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5958 
The Power and the Glory 5957 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5957 
I guess I did not get this memo 5957 
French LF drivers 5957 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5957 
(another) French LF approach 5956 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5956 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5956 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5956 
Limpschtick 5956 
Symmetry 5956 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5955 
Room correction 5955 
It migh be more complicated. 5955 
Bass EQ ? 5955 
Agree and not. 5955 
Two "diseases" 5955 
Parametric filters 5955 
Ceiling arrays 5955 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5955 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5955 
The Middle of the Room. 5955 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5955 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5955 
Stop! 5955 
Appendectomy 5955 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5954 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5954 
No Isolation 5954 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5951 
Potential contenders? 5950 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5950 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5950 
Those Crazy Canucks 5946 
Mo' Better Bass 5940 
Bird in the Hand? 5940 
A wet listening spot? 5933 
Storm 5930 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5930 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5916 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5886 
Polar Opposite ULF 5885 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5873 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5871 
Differently but the same. 5870 
PVC 5869 
The sail test try. 5869 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5869 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5869 
Trial 5868 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5868 
Some explanations 5868 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5867 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5866 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5865 
Acrylate 5864 
Magic blanket 5864 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5863 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5863 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5863 
I have a few options. 5863 
Foam color 5863 
Strange things with upperbass 5863 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5862 
Teatro reform. . . 5862 
The foaming room dilemma. 5861 
Melamine Foam 5861 
Foaming up the cat house 5861 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5861 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5861 
Acoustic revisions… 5860 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5857 
Surprises so far in the new room 5856 
The upperbass in the new room. 5856 
Slight change of hart. 5855 
Camco supply of Boston 5853 
Room acoustics 5853 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5812 
I need to kill dust first. 5812 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5810 
To feed the leeches? 5810 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5809 
Yh 5809 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5809 
DPOLs? 5809 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5809 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5806 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5806 
A HalfPipe solution? 5806 
I absolutely love it. 5806 
Piper work 5805 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5805 
Absorption 5805 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5804 
Cats life ? 5804 
Call me Pussy. 5804 
More about traps 5804 
Acoustic impedance? 5804 
You maybe right 5804 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5804 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5803 
Heavy Curtain 5803 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5802 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5802 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5802 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5799 
Fix speaker move chair? 5798 
Back and forth ceremony 5798 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5797 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5796 
Glass windows 5795 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5794 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5793 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5791 
How to use basement jacks? 5791 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5791 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5791 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5790 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5790 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5789 
Sore eyes... 5788 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5788 
The harvesting week! 5786 
I need an inspiration… 5785 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5784 
Like this? 5784 
Dramatically randomize MF 5784 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5783 
The room eats dynamic 5783 
Diffusers 5783 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5782 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5767 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5766 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5766 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5766 
About Width-Importance balance. 5764 
Letting the music scale up 5763 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5763 
To finish my house décor… 5759 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5758 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5757 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5757 
Calling the gods of music 5757 
Absolutely 5757 
Phase manipulation 5757 
No relation. 5757 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5757 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5757 
Dynamical mismatch 5756 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5756 
Stradiwinerius? 5753 
Dealing with the glass. 5752 
Boston 5752 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5752 
Added mass 5752 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5752 
It is about moderation…. 5752 
To hell with the wine... 5752 
Also for other surafaces 5751 
LEAD 5751 
LEAD & GLASS 5751 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5751 
Read carefully 5751 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5751 
Crooks and morons 5751 
Magiscopios 5750 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5730 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5730 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5729 
The LP setup in the new home. 5678 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5673 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5673 
Pianochord will do! 5673 
Spanyi heaven 5673 
I see no conflict at all. 5673 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5673 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5673 
A year after closing 5665 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5665 
Traveling antimatter 5658 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5652 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5651 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5625 
Cast Iron fireplace 5624 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5624 
The hardcore way 5624 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5588 
This is How It's Done 5587 
Listening room during summer. 5575 
What about those... 5574 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5574 
Reducing A/C Noise 5574 
HVAC the Cat 5574 
Big Ass fan 5573 
Variac dimmers 5573 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5573 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5573 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5505 
Some winter observations. 5396 
That Asian man…. 5365 
The Franz Schubert morning 5339 
Spring.... 5288 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5238 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5209 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5209 
Just good photography? 5209 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5209 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5209 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5208 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5208 
Sports car 5208 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5208 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5208 
Train Positioning 5208 
Kind of what I want 5208 
The lap listening… 5208 
Family Room 5208 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5205 
A super audio room. 5201 
Time Warp! 5201 
A piano in a listening room 5180 
Pianissimo 5180 
The plan in blue. 5180 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5180 
My doubts 5180 
It is exactly what I worry. 5179 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5179 
Musicians at home 5179 
Piano Measurements 5178 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5173 
The next step. 5159 
Midbass horns missing?? 5158 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5148 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5148 
Baby Grand 5147 
Wood floor 5147 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5147 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5147 
Amy’s baby. 5145 
Improvement 5145 
Agree with Scott 5145 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5133 
Integrated casters 5133 
Very nice, thanks. 5133 
Customization 5133 
Sliders 5133 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5126 
Congratulations 5126 
Holes in the floor... 5126 
Tubes and kids 5126 
Sweet spot enlargement 5126 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5124 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5123 
Wood Floors and Water 5123 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5118 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5117 
WAF is for Losers 5117 
WAF: it depends. 5117 
Integration 5116 
Here and there. 5116 
Life after WWIII 5116 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5116 
Cables management. 5114 
Featurizing 5114 
Kids and tubes cont. 5111 
Kid magnet 5111 
Kids and audio 5110 
Radars 5110 
Wow, what the days! 5106 
The comming weekend 5102 
It all was worth it! 5099 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5094 
Here is how it is look. 5094 
Resolving the carpet issue 5094 
Bonfire 5094 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5094 
Proof of concept? 5094 
Geometry 5094 
A view from listening position. 5094 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5094 
Some feedback 5094 
Evening 5094 
I wonder why. 5093 
Rugs and things 5093 
In defense… 5093 
I can’t get it. 5090 
Haze. 5089 
Front wall 5089 
It is very possible. 5089 
It is nice to be back. 5086 
My comfy corner. 5083 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4723 
WMD in house. 4545 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4448 
The third listening spot. 4427 
For sure a very different experience. 4389 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4384 
It's Jfretch's system. 4384 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4383 
Domestic games 4337 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4198 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4198 
Dynamic screening 4198 
Actually this is very good idea! 4198 
Volcanic fabric 4198 
I should have done this. 4196 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4192 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4161 
No worries 4161 
Awesome memories 4161 
Optimization of space 4161 
Child-ish considerations 4158 
Finding peace.... 4152 
"Fencing"? 4151 
I need to build something custom 4151 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4151 
Stressed Skin 4151 
NYC elevators 4151 
Kids toys and quantities. 4151 
Everything is completely reversible 4150 
Racks and things 4150 
Now it looks even more promising! 4150 
Quantity of rods 4150 
Avoiding diagonals 4148 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4147 
That's not fair! 4147 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4147 
Discrimination? 4142 
Vertical configuration 4135 
Impresive ! 4064 
Did you read the site? 4064 
Contact 4064 
Company's name is Rixrax 4064 
Stand 4063 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4019 
End of life headphone system 4019 
Something like this? 4019 
The "Second Living Room" 4019 
Mixing urban & suburban 4019 
Late night listening 4019 
Moving life... 4017 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4017 
A true listening room. 3993 
It started… 3978 
Levels of Interest 3978 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3978 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3978 
I can't not to post it.... 3978 
Do not leave him unattended. 3978 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3978 
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