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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6032 
The first take on the new room. 6026 
New Room, a first shot. 6025 
Wonderful 6025 
Adopted 6024 
The first relaxed night with the room 6022 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6021 
The listening room is ready. 6020 
New Room, a First Shot 6018 
Continue to work with the room 6018 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6018 
Room 6017 
I think it will take another month. 6017 
The Buttressing 6017 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6016 
The new place and the new noises. 6016 
Big listening room 6015 
Screw the "big" rooms 6015 
Big listening rooms 6015 
First reflection points 6014 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6014 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6011 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6010 
Squeezing the floor 6010 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6010 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6010 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6009 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6009 
The new room, the very first listening. 6009 
The 14.5 foot. 6008 
Again… 6007 
Romy's new Playground 6007 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6007 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6007 
For the uninitiated ... 6006 
NH guy 6006 
Room 6006 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6005 
The first base is done 6005 
Reentry time alignment. 6004 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6003 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6003 
Mid bass horn. 6003 
Guess is only a guess… 6003 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6003 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6002 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6002 
Diffusors 6002 
Diffuse injection 6002 
Let analyse why it so 6002 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6002 
Wheel and Deal 6002 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6002 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6002 
I Must Be Missing Something 6002 
I put sliders under my speakers 6001 
ROOM 6000 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6000 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6000 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6000 
No concerns 6000 
Speakers and room 6000 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5999 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5999 
Diaphram 5999 
Phram 5999 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5999 
Perfect piston 5999 
Decorater 5998 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5998 
New morning 5997 
The first take on the room with RTA 5996 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5996 
Axiomatic 5996 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5995 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5995 
The size of the bass. 5995 
Bass Factory 5995 
Crude Level, or something more? 5995 
I will play with it this week…. 5995 
Rent-A 5995 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5995 
Corner horns 5995 
Cheating from below 5995 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5995 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5994 
A possibly overly simplified view 5994 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5994 
Iceberg 5994 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5994 
Why not horn 5994 
A correction…. 5994 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5994 
They are just not related things at all. 5994 
Fertin 5992 
Low resonance is good... 5992 
Et tu, Brute? 5991 
The Room response at LF 5990 
Life On The Ground Floor 5990 
Bass arrays 5990 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5990 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5990 
The super sucks. 5990 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5990 
You may also try 5989 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5989 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5989 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5989 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5989 
60 Hz Resonance 5989 
No notching… so far. 5989 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5988 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5988 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5988 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5988 
Power to the People 5988 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5988 
Aura 5988 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5988 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5988 
All class D is the same 5988 
Interpreting the LF results. 5987 
The Halibut 5987 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5987 
The Big Picture 5987 
Power & ULF channels 5987 
The big picture indeed. 5987 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5987 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5987 
The Power and the Glory 5986 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5986 
I guess I did not get this memo 5986 
French LF drivers 5986 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5986 
(another) French LF approach 5985 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5985 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5985 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5985 
Limpschtick 5985 
Symmetry 5985 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5984 
Room correction 5984 
It migh be more complicated. 5984 
Bass EQ ? 5984 
Agree and not. 5984 
Two "diseases" 5984 
Parametric filters 5984 
Ceiling arrays 5984 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5984 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5984 
The Middle of the Room. 5984 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5984 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5984 
Stop! 5984 
Appendectomy 5984 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5983 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5983 
No Isolation 5983 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5980 
Potential contenders? 5979 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5979 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5979 
Those Crazy Canucks 5975 
Mo' Better Bass 5969 
Bird in the Hand? 5969 
A wet listening spot? 5962 
Storm 5959 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5959 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5945 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5915 
Polar Opposite ULF 5914 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5902 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5900 
Differently but the same. 5899 
PVC 5898 
The sail test try. 5898 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5898 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5898 
Trial 5897 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5897 
Some explanations 5897 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5896 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5895 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5894 
Acrylate 5893 
Magic blanket 5893 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5892 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5892 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5892 
I have a few options. 5892 
Foam color 5892 
Strange things with upperbass 5892 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5891 
Teatro reform. . . 5891 
The foaming room dilemma. 5890 
Melamine Foam 5890 
Foaming up the cat house 5890 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5890 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5890 
Acoustic revisions… 5889 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5886 
Surprises so far in the new room 5885 
The upperbass in the new room. 5885 
Slight change of hart. 5884 
Camco supply of Boston 5882 
Room acoustics 5882 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5841 
I need to kill dust first. 5841 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5839 
To feed the leeches? 5839 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5838 
Yh 5838 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5838 
DPOLs? 5838 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5838 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5835 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5835 
A HalfPipe solution? 5835 
I absolutely love it. 5835 
Piper work 5834 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5834 
Absorption 5834 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5833 
Cats life ? 5833 
Call me Pussy. 5833 
More about traps 5833 
Acoustic impedance? 5833 
You maybe right 5833 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5833 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5832 
Heavy Curtain 5832 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5831 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5831 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5831 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5828 
Fix speaker move chair? 5827 
Back and forth ceremony 5827 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5826 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5825 
Glass windows 5824 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5823 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5822 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5820 
How to use basement jacks? 5820 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5820 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5820 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5819 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5819 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5818 
Sore eyes... 5817 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5817 
The harvesting week! 5815 
I need an inspiration… 5814 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5813 
Like this? 5813 
Dramatically randomize MF 5813 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5812 
The room eats dynamic 5812 
Diffusers 5812 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5811 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5796 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5795 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5795 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5795 
About Width-Importance balance. 5793 
Letting the music scale up 5792 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5792 
To finish my house décor… 5788 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5787 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5786 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5786 
Calling the gods of music 5786 
Absolutely 5786 
Phase manipulation 5786 
No relation. 5786 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5786 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5786 
Dynamical mismatch 5785 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5785 
Stradiwinerius? 5782 
Dealing with the glass. 5781 
Boston 5781 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5781 
Added mass 5781 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5781 
It is about moderation…. 5781 
To hell with the wine... 5781 
Also for other surafaces 5780 
LEAD 5780 
LEAD & GLASS 5780 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5780 
Read carefully 5780 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5780 
Crooks and morons 5780 
Magiscopios 5779 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5759 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5759 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5758 
The LP setup in the new home. 5707 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5702 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5702 
Pianochord will do! 5702 
Spanyi heaven 5702 
I see no conflict at all. 5702 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5702 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5702 
A year after closing 5694 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5694 
Traveling antimatter 5687 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5681 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5680 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5654 
Cast Iron fireplace 5653 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5653 
The hardcore way 5653 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5617 
This is How It's Done 5616 
Listening room during summer. 5604 
What about those... 5603 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5603 
Reducing A/C Noise 5603 
HVAC the Cat 5603 
Big Ass fan 5602 
Variac dimmers 5602 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5602 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5602 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5534 
Some winter observations. 5425 
That Asian man…. 5394 
The Franz Schubert morning 5368 
Spring.... 5317 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5267 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5238 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5238 
Just good photography? 5238 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5238 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5238 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5237 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5237 
Sports car 5237 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5237 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5237 
Train Positioning 5237 
Kind of what I want 5237 
The lap listening… 5237 
Family Room 5237 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5234 
A super audio room. 5230 
Time Warp! 5230 
A piano in a listening room 5209 
Pianissimo 5209 
The plan in blue. 5209 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5209 
My doubts 5209 
It is exactly what I worry. 5208 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5208 
Musicians at home 5208 
Piano Measurements 5207 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5202 
The next step. 5188 
Midbass horns missing?? 5187 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5177 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5177 
Baby Grand 5176 
Wood floor 5176 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5176 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5176 
Amy’s baby. 5174 
Improvement 5174 
Agree with Scott 5174 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5162 
Integrated casters 5162 
Very nice, thanks. 5162 
Customization 5162 
Sliders 5162 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5155 
Congratulations 5155 
Holes in the floor... 5155 
Tubes and kids 5155 
Sweet spot enlargement 5155 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5153 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5152 
Wood Floors and Water 5152 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5147 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5146 
WAF is for Losers 5146 
WAF: it depends. 5146 
Integration 5145 
Here and there. 5145 
Life after WWIII 5145 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5145 
Cables management. 5143 
Featurizing 5143 
Kids and tubes cont. 5140 
Kid magnet 5140 
Kids and audio 5139 
Radars 5139 
Wow, what the days! 5135 
The comming weekend 5131 
It all was worth it! 5128 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5123 
Here is how it is look. 5123 
Resolving the carpet issue 5123 
Bonfire 5123 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5123 
Proof of concept? 5123 
Geometry 5123 
A view from listening position. 5123 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5123 
Some feedback 5123 
Evening 5123 
I wonder why. 5122 
Rugs and things 5122 
In defense… 5122 
I can’t get it. 5119 
Haze. 5118 
Front wall 5118 
It is very possible. 5118 
It is nice to be back. 5115 
My comfy corner. 5112 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4752 
WMD in house. 4574 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4477 
The third listening spot. 4456 
For sure a very different experience. 4418 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4413 
It's Jfretch's system. 4413 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4412 
Domestic games 4366 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4227 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4227 
Dynamic screening 4227 
Actually this is very good idea! 4227 
Volcanic fabric 4227 
I should have done this. 4225 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4221 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4190 
No worries 4190 
Awesome memories 4190 
Optimization of space 4190 
Child-ish considerations 4187 
Finding peace.... 4181 
"Fencing"? 4180 
I need to build something custom 4180 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4180 
Stressed Skin 4180 
NYC elevators 4180 
Kids toys and quantities. 4180 
Everything is completely reversible 4179 
Racks and things 4179 
Now it looks even more promising! 4179 
Quantity of rods 4179 
Avoiding diagonals 4177 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4176 
That's not fair! 4176 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4176 
Discrimination? 4171 
Vertical configuration 4164 
Impresive ! 4093 
Did you read the site? 4093 
Contact 4093 
Company's name is Rixrax 4093 
Stand 4092 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4048 
End of life headphone system 4048 
Something like this? 4048 
The "Second Living Room" 4048 
Mixing urban & suburban 4048 
Late night listening 4048 
Moving life... 4046 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4046 
A true listening room. 4022 
It started… 4007 
Levels of Interest 4007 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4007 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4007 
I can't not to post it.... 4007 
Do not leave him unattended. 4007 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4007 
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