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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5893 
The first take on the new room. 5887 
New Room, a first shot. 5886 
Wonderful 5886 
Adopted 5885 
The first relaxed night with the room 5883 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5882 
The listening room is ready. 5881 
New Room, a First Shot 5879 
Continue to work with the room 5879 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5879 
Room 5878 
I think it will take another month. 5878 
The Buttressing 5878 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5877 
The new place and the new noises. 5877 
Big listening room 5876 
Screw the "big" rooms 5876 
Big listening rooms 5876 
First reflection points 5875 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5875 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5872 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5871 
Squeezing the floor 5871 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5871 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5871 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5870 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5870 
The new room, the very first listening. 5870 
The 14.5 foot. 5869 
Again… 5868 
Romy's new Playground 5868 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5868 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5868 
For the uninitiated ... 5867 
NH guy 5867 
Room 5867 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5866 
The first base is done 5866 
Reentry time alignment. 5865 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5864 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5864 
Mid bass horn. 5864 
Guess is only a guess… 5864 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5864 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5863 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5863 
Diffusors 5863 
Diffuse injection 5863 
Let analyse why it so 5863 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5863 
Wheel and Deal 5863 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5863 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5863 
I Must Be Missing Something 5863 
I put sliders under my speakers 5862 
ROOM 5861 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5861 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5861 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5861 
No concerns 5861 
Speakers and room 5861 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5860 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5860 
Diaphram 5860 
Phram 5860 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5860 
Perfect piston 5860 
Decorater 5859 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5859 
New morning 5858 
The first take on the room with RTA 5857 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5857 
Axiomatic 5857 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5856 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5856 
The size of the bass. 5856 
Bass Factory 5856 
Crude Level, or something more? 5856 
I will play with it this week…. 5856 
Rent-A 5856 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5856 
Corner horns 5856 
Cheating from below 5856 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5856 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5855 
A possibly overly simplified view 5855 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5855 
Iceberg 5855 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5855 
Why not horn 5855 
A correction…. 5855 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5855 
They are just not related things at all. 5855 
Fertin 5853 
Low resonance is good... 5853 
Et tu, Brute? 5852 
The Room response at LF 5851 
Life On The Ground Floor 5851 
Bass arrays 5851 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5851 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5851 
The super sucks. 5851 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5851 
You may also try 5850 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5850 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5850 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5850 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5850 
60 Hz Resonance 5850 
No notching… so far. 5850 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5849 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5849 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5849 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5849 
Power to the People 5849 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5849 
Aura 5849 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5849 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5849 
All class D is the same 5849 
Interpreting the LF results. 5848 
The Halibut 5848 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5848 
The Big Picture 5848 
Power & ULF channels 5848 
The big picture indeed. 5848 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5848 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5848 
The Power and the Glory 5847 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5847 
I guess I did not get this memo 5847 
French LF drivers 5847 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5847 
(another) French LF approach 5846 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5846 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5846 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5846 
Limpschtick 5846 
Symmetry 5846 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5845 
Room correction 5845 
It migh be more complicated. 5845 
Bass EQ ? 5845 
Agree and not. 5845 
Two "diseases" 5845 
Parametric filters 5845 
Ceiling arrays 5845 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5845 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5845 
The Middle of the Room. 5845 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5845 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5845 
Stop! 5845 
Appendectomy 5845 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5844 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5844 
No Isolation 5844 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5841 
Potential contenders? 5840 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5840 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5840 
Those Crazy Canucks 5836 
Mo' Better Bass 5830 
Bird in the Hand? 5830 
A wet listening spot? 5823 
Storm 5820 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5820 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5806 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5776 
Polar Opposite ULF 5775 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5763 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5761 
Differently but the same. 5760 
PVC 5759 
The sail test try. 5759 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5759 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5759 
Trial 5758 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5758 
Some explanations 5758 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5757 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5756 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5755 
Acrylate 5754 
Magic blanket 5754 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5753 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5753 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5753 
I have a few options. 5753 
Foam color 5753 
Strange things with upperbass 5753 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5752 
Teatro reform. . . 5752 
The foaming room dilemma. 5751 
Melamine Foam 5751 
Foaming up the cat house 5751 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5751 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5751 
Acoustic revisions… 5750 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5747 
Surprises so far in the new room 5746 
The upperbass in the new room. 5746 
Slight change of hart. 5745 
Camco supply of Boston 5743 
Room acoustics 5743 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5702 
I need to kill dust first. 5702 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5700 
To feed the leeches? 5700 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5699 
Yh 5699 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5699 
DPOLs? 5699 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5699 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5696 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5696 
A HalfPipe solution? 5696 
I absolutely love it. 5696 
Piper work 5695 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5695 
Absorption 5695 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5694 
Cats life ? 5694 
Call me Pussy. 5694 
More about traps 5694 
Acoustic impedance? 5694 
You maybe right 5694 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5694 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5693 
Heavy Curtain 5693 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5692 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5692 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5692 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5689 
Fix speaker move chair? 5688 
Back and forth ceremony 5688 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5687 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5686 
Glass windows 5685 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5684 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5683 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5681 
How to use basement jacks? 5681 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5681 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5681 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5680 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5680 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5679 
Sore eyes... 5678 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5678 
The harvesting week! 5676 
I need an inspiration… 5675 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5674 
Like this? 5674 
Dramatically randomize MF 5674 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5673 
The room eats dynamic 5673 
Diffusers 5673 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5672 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5657 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5656 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5656 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5656 
About Width-Importance balance. 5654 
Letting the music scale up 5653 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5653 
To finish my house décor… 5649 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5648 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5647 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5647 
Calling the gods of music 5647 
Absolutely 5647 
Phase manipulation 5647 
No relation. 5647 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5647 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5647 
Dynamical mismatch 5646 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5646 
Stradiwinerius? 5643 
Dealing with the glass. 5642 
Boston 5642 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5642 
Added mass 5642 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5642 
It is about moderation…. 5642 
To hell with the wine... 5642 
Also for other surafaces 5641 
LEAD 5641 
LEAD & GLASS 5641 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5641 
Read carefully 5641 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5641 
Crooks and morons 5641 
Magiscopios 5640 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5620 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5620 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5619 
The LP setup in the new home. 5568 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5563 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5563 
Pianochord will do! 5563 
Spanyi heaven 5563 
I see no conflict at all. 5563 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5563 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5563 
A year after closing 5555 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5555 
Traveling antimatter 5548 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5542 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5541 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5515 
Cast Iron fireplace 5514 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5514 
The hardcore way 5514 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5478 
This is How It's Done 5477 
Listening room during summer. 5465 
What about those... 5464 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5464 
Reducing A/C Noise 5464 
HVAC the Cat 5464 
Big Ass fan 5463 
Variac dimmers 5463 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5463 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5463 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5395 
Some winter observations. 5286 
That Asian man…. 5255 
The Franz Schubert morning 5229 
Spring.... 5178 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5128 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5099 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5099 
Just good photography? 5099 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5099 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5099 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5098 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5098 
Sports car 5098 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5098 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5098 
Train Positioning 5098 
Kind of what I want 5098 
The lap listening… 5098 
Family Room 5098 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5095 
A super audio room. 5091 
Time Warp! 5091 
A piano in a listening room 5070 
Pianissimo 5070 
The plan in blue. 5070 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5070 
My doubts 5070 
It is exactly what I worry. 5069 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5069 
Musicians at home 5069 
Piano Measurements 5068 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5063 
The next step. 5049 
Midbass horns missing?? 5048 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5038 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5038 
Baby Grand 5037 
Wood floor 5037 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5037 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5037 
Amy’s baby. 5035 
Improvement 5035 
Agree with Scott 5035 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5023 
Integrated casters 5023 
Very nice, thanks. 5023 
Customization 5023 
Sliders 5023 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5016 
Congratulations 5016 
Holes in the floor... 5016 
Tubes and kids 5016 
Sweet spot enlargement 5016 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5014 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5013 
Wood Floors and Water 5013 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5008 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5007 
WAF is for Losers 5007 
WAF: it depends. 5007 
Integration 5006 
Here and there. 5006 
Life after WWIII 5006 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5006 
Cables management. 5004 
Featurizing 5004 
Kids and tubes cont. 5001 
Kid magnet 5001 
Kids and audio 5000 
Radars 5000 
Wow, what the days! 4996 
The comming weekend 4992 
It all was worth it! 4989 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4984 
Here is how it is look. 4984 
Resolving the carpet issue 4984 
Bonfire 4984 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4984 
Proof of concept? 4984 
Geometry 4984 
A view from listening position. 4984 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4984 
Some feedback 4984 
Evening 4984 
I wonder why. 4983 
Rugs and things 4983 
In defense… 4983 
I can’t get it. 4980 
Haze. 4979 
Front wall 4979 
It is very possible. 4979 
It is nice to be back. 4976 
My comfy corner. 4973 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4613 
WMD in house. 4435 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4338 
The third listening spot. 4317 
For sure a very different experience. 4279 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4274 
It's Jfretch's system. 4274 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4273 
Domestic games 4227 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4088 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4088 
Dynamic screening 4088 
Actually this is very good idea! 4088 
Volcanic fabric 4088 
I should have done this. 4086 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4082 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4051 
No worries 4051 
Awesome memories 4051 
Optimization of space 4051 
Child-ish considerations 4048 
Finding peace.... 4042 
"Fencing"? 4041 
I need to build something custom 4041 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4041 
Stressed Skin 4041 
NYC elevators 4041 
Kids toys and quantities. 4041 
Everything is completely reversible 4040 
Racks and things 4040 
Now it looks even more promising! 4040 
Quantity of rods 4040 
Avoiding diagonals 4038 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4037 
That's not fair! 4037 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4037 
Discrimination? 4032 
Vertical configuration 4025 
Impresive ! 3954 
Did you read the site? 3954 
Contact 3954 
Company's name is Rixrax 3954 
Stand 3953 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3909 
End of life headphone system 3909 
Something like this? 3909 
The "Second Living Room" 3909 
Mixing urban & suburban 3909 
Late night listening 3909 
Moving life... 3907 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3907 
A true listening room. 3883 
It started… 3868 
Levels of Interest 3868 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3868 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3868 
I can't not to post it.... 3868 
Do not leave him unattended. 3868 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3868 
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