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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6048 
The first take on the new room. 6042 
New Room, a first shot. 6041 
Wonderful 6041 
Adopted 6040 
The first relaxed night with the room 6038 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6037 
The listening room is ready. 6036 
New Room, a First Shot 6034 
Continue to work with the room 6034 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6034 
Room 6033 
I think it will take another month. 6033 
The Buttressing 6033 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6032 
The new place and the new noises. 6032 
Big listening room 6031 
Screw the "big" rooms 6031 
Big listening rooms 6031 
First reflection points 6030 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6030 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6027 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6026 
Squeezing the floor 6026 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6026 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6026 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6025 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6025 
The new room, the very first listening. 6025 
The 14.5 foot. 6024 
Again… 6023 
Romy's new Playground 6023 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6023 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6023 
For the uninitiated ... 6022 
NH guy 6022 
Room 6022 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6021 
The first base is done 6021 
Reentry time alignment. 6020 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6019 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6019 
Mid bass horn. 6019 
Guess is only a guess… 6019 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6019 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6018 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6018 
Diffusors 6018 
Diffuse injection 6018 
Let analyse why it so 6018 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6018 
Wheel and Deal 6018 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6018 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6018 
I Must Be Missing Something 6018 
I put sliders under my speakers 6017 
ROOM 6016 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6016 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6016 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6016 
No concerns 6016 
Speakers and room 6016 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6015 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6015 
Diaphram 6015 
Phram 6015 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6015 
Perfect piston 6015 
Decorater 6014 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6014 
New morning 6013 
The first take on the room with RTA 6012 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6012 
Axiomatic 6012 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6011 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6011 
The size of the bass. 6011 
Bass Factory 6011 
Crude Level, or something more? 6011 
I will play with it this week…. 6011 
Rent-A 6011 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6011 
Corner horns 6011 
Cheating from below 6011 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6011 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6010 
A possibly overly simplified view 6010 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6010 
Iceberg 6010 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6010 
Why not horn 6010 
A correction…. 6010 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6010 
They are just not related things at all. 6010 
Fertin 6008 
Low resonance is good... 6008 
Et tu, Brute? 6007 
The Room response at LF 6006 
Life On The Ground Floor 6006 
Bass arrays 6006 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6006 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6006 
The super sucks. 6006 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6006 
You may also try 6005 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6005 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6005 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6005 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6005 
60 Hz Resonance 6005 
No notching… so far. 6005 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6004 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6004 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6004 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6004 
Power to the People 6004 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6004 
Aura 6004 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6004 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6004 
All class D is the same 6004 
Interpreting the LF results. 6003 
The Halibut 6003 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6003 
The Big Picture 6003 
Power & ULF channels 6003 
The big picture indeed. 6003 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6003 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6003 
The Power and the Glory 6002 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6002 
I guess I did not get this memo 6002 
French LF drivers 6002 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6002 
(another) French LF approach 6001 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6001 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6001 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6001 
Limpschtick 6001 
Symmetry 6001 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6000 
Room correction 6000 
It migh be more complicated. 6000 
Bass EQ ? 6000 
Agree and not. 6000 
Two "diseases" 6000 
Parametric filters 6000 
Ceiling arrays 6000 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6000 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6000 
The Middle of the Room. 6000 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6000 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6000 
Stop! 6000 
Appendectomy 6000 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5999 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5999 
No Isolation 5999 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5996 
Potential contenders? 5995 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5995 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5995 
Those Crazy Canucks 5991 
Mo' Better Bass 5985 
Bird in the Hand? 5985 
A wet listening spot? 5978 
Storm 5975 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5975 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5961 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5931 
Polar Opposite ULF 5930 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5918 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5916 
Differently but the same. 5915 
PVC 5914 
The sail test try. 5914 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5914 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5914 
Trial 5913 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5913 
Some explanations 5913 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5912 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5911 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5910 
Acrylate 5909 
Magic blanket 5909 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5908 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5908 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5908 
I have a few options. 5908 
Foam color 5908 
Strange things with upperbass 5908 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5907 
Teatro reform. . . 5907 
The foaming room dilemma. 5906 
Melamine Foam 5906 
Foaming up the cat house 5906 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5906 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5906 
Acoustic revisions… 5905 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5902 
Surprises so far in the new room 5901 
The upperbass in the new room. 5901 
Slight change of hart. 5900 
Camco supply of Boston 5898 
Room acoustics 5898 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5857 
I need to kill dust first. 5857 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5855 
To feed the leeches? 5855 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5854 
Yh 5854 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5854 
DPOLs? 5854 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5854 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5851 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5851 
A HalfPipe solution? 5851 
I absolutely love it. 5851 
Piper work 5850 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5850 
Absorption 5850 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5849 
Cats life ? 5849 
Call me Pussy. 5849 
More about traps 5849 
Acoustic impedance? 5849 
You maybe right 5849 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5849 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5848 
Heavy Curtain 5848 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5847 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5847 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5847 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5844 
Fix speaker move chair? 5843 
Back and forth ceremony 5843 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5842 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5841 
Glass windows 5840 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5839 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5838 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5836 
How to use basement jacks? 5836 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5836 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5836 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5835 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5835 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5834 
Sore eyes... 5833 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5833 
The harvesting week! 5831 
I need an inspiration… 5830 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5829 
Like this? 5829 
Dramatically randomize MF 5829 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5828 
The room eats dynamic 5828 
Diffusers 5828 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5827 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5812 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5811 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5811 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5811 
About Width-Importance balance. 5809 
Letting the music scale up 5808 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5808 
To finish my house décor… 5804 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5803 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5802 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5802 
Calling the gods of music 5802 
Absolutely 5802 
Phase manipulation 5802 
No relation. 5802 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5802 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5802 
Dynamical mismatch 5801 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5801 
Stradiwinerius? 5798 
Dealing with the glass. 5797 
Boston 5797 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5797 
Added mass 5797 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5797 
It is about moderation…. 5797 
To hell with the wine... 5797 
Also for other surafaces 5796 
LEAD 5796 
LEAD & GLASS 5796 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5796 
Read carefully 5796 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5796 
Crooks and morons 5796 
Magiscopios 5795 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5775 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5775 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5774 
The LP setup in the new home. 5723 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5718 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5718 
Pianochord will do! 5718 
Spanyi heaven 5718 
I see no conflict at all. 5718 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5718 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5718 
A year after closing 5710 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5710 
Traveling antimatter 5703 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5697 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5696 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5670 
Cast Iron fireplace 5669 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5669 
The hardcore way 5669 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5633 
This is How It's Done 5632 
Listening room during summer. 5620 
What about those... 5619 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5619 
Reducing A/C Noise 5619 
HVAC the Cat 5619 
Big Ass fan 5618 
Variac dimmers 5618 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5618 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5618 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5550 
Some winter observations. 5441 
That Asian man…. 5410 
The Franz Schubert morning 5384 
Spring.... 5333 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5283 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5254 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5254 
Just good photography? 5254 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5254 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5254 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5253 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5253 
Sports car 5253 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5253 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5253 
Train Positioning 5253 
Kind of what I want 5253 
The lap listening… 5253 
Family Room 5253 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5250 
A super audio room. 5246 
Time Warp! 5246 
A piano in a listening room 5225 
Pianissimo 5225 
The plan in blue. 5225 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5225 
My doubts 5225 
It is exactly what I worry. 5224 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5224 
Musicians at home 5224 
Piano Measurements 5223 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5218 
The next step. 5204 
Midbass horns missing?? 5203 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5193 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5193 
Baby Grand 5192 
Wood floor 5192 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5192 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5192 
Amy’s baby. 5190 
Improvement 5190 
Agree with Scott 5190 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5178 
Integrated casters 5178 
Very nice, thanks. 5178 
Customization 5178 
Sliders 5178 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5171 
Congratulations 5171 
Holes in the floor... 5171 
Tubes and kids 5171 
Sweet spot enlargement 5171 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5169 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5168 
Wood Floors and Water 5168 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5163 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5162 
WAF is for Losers 5162 
WAF: it depends. 5162 
Integration 5161 
Here and there. 5161 
Life after WWIII 5161 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5161 
Cables management. 5159 
Featurizing 5159 
Kids and tubes cont. 5156 
Kid magnet 5156 
Kids and audio 5155 
Radars 5155 
Wow, what the days! 5151 
The comming weekend 5147 
It all was worth it! 5144 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5139 
Here is how it is look. 5139 
Resolving the carpet issue 5139 
Bonfire 5139 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5139 
Proof of concept? 5139 
Geometry 5139 
A view from listening position. 5139 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5139 
Some feedback 5139 
Evening 5139 
I wonder why. 5138 
Rugs and things 5138 
In defense… 5138 
I can’t get it. 5135 
Haze. 5134 
Front wall 5134 
It is very possible. 5134 
It is nice to be back. 5131 
My comfy corner. 5128 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4768 
WMD in house. 4590 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4493 
The third listening spot. 4472 
For sure a very different experience. 4434 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4429 
It's Jfretch's system. 4429 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4428 
Domestic games 4382 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4243 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4243 
Dynamic screening 4243 
Actually this is very good idea! 4243 
Volcanic fabric 4243 
I should have done this. 4241 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4237 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4206 
No worries 4206 
Awesome memories 4206 
Optimization of space 4206 
Child-ish considerations 4203 
Finding peace.... 4197 
"Fencing"? 4196 
I need to build something custom 4196 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4196 
Stressed Skin 4196 
NYC elevators 4196 
Kids toys and quantities. 4196 
Everything is completely reversible 4195 
Racks and things 4195 
Now it looks even more promising! 4195 
Quantity of rods 4195 
Avoiding diagonals 4193 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4192 
That's not fair! 4192 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4192 
Discrimination? 4187 
Vertical configuration 4180 
Impresive ! 4109 
Did you read the site? 4109 
Contact 4109 
Company's name is Rixrax 4109 
Stand 4108 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4064 
End of life headphone system 4064 
Something like this? 4064 
The "Second Living Room" 4064 
Mixing urban & suburban 4064 
Late night listening 4064 
Moving life... 4062 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4062 
A true listening room. 4038 
It started… 4023 
Levels of Interest 4023 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4023 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4023 
I can't not to post it.... 4023 
Do not leave him unattended. 4023 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4023 
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