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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6017 
The first take on the new room. 6011 
New Room, a first shot. 6010 
Wonderful 6010 
Adopted 6009 
The first relaxed night with the room 6007 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6006 
The listening room is ready. 6005 
New Room, a First Shot 6003 
Continue to work with the room 6003 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6003 
Room 6002 
I think it will take another month. 6002 
The Buttressing 6002 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6001 
The new place and the new noises. 6001 
Big listening room 6000 
Screw the "big" rooms 6000 
Big listening rooms 6000 
First reflection points 5999 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5999 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5996 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5995 
Squeezing the floor 5995 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5995 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5995 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5994 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5994 
The new room, the very first listening. 5994 
The 14.5 foot. 5993 
Again… 5992 
Romy's new Playground 5992 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5992 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5992 
For the uninitiated ... 5991 
NH guy 5991 
Room 5991 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5990 
The first base is done 5990 
Reentry time alignment. 5989 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5988 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5988 
Mid bass horn. 5988 
Guess is only a guess… 5988 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5988 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5987 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5987 
Diffusors 5987 
Diffuse injection 5987 
Let analyse why it so 5987 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5987 
Wheel and Deal 5987 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5987 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5987 
I Must Be Missing Something 5987 
I put sliders under my speakers 5986 
ROOM 5985 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5985 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5985 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5985 
No concerns 5985 
Speakers and room 5985 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5984 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5984 
Diaphram 5984 
Phram 5984 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5984 
Perfect piston 5984 
Decorater 5983 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5983 
New morning 5982 
The first take on the room with RTA 5981 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5981 
Axiomatic 5981 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5980 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5980 
The size of the bass. 5980 
Bass Factory 5980 
Crude Level, or something more? 5980 
I will play with it this week…. 5980 
Rent-A 5980 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5980 
Corner horns 5980 
Cheating from below 5980 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5980 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5979 
A possibly overly simplified view 5979 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5979 
Iceberg 5979 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5979 
Why not horn 5979 
A correction…. 5979 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5979 
They are just not related things at all. 5979 
Fertin 5977 
Low resonance is good... 5977 
Et tu, Brute? 5976 
The Room response at LF 5975 
Life On The Ground Floor 5975 
Bass arrays 5975 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5975 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5975 
The super sucks. 5975 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5975 
You may also try 5974 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5974 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5974 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5974 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5974 
60 Hz Resonance 5974 
No notching… so far. 5974 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5973 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5973 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5973 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5973 
Power to the People 5973 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5973 
Aura 5973 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5973 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5973 
All class D is the same 5973 
Interpreting the LF results. 5972 
The Halibut 5972 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5972 
The Big Picture 5972 
Power & ULF channels 5972 
The big picture indeed. 5972 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5972 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5972 
The Power and the Glory 5971 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5971 
I guess I did not get this memo 5971 
French LF drivers 5971 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5971 
(another) French LF approach 5970 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5970 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5970 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5970 
Limpschtick 5970 
Symmetry 5970 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5969 
Room correction 5969 
It migh be more complicated. 5969 
Bass EQ ? 5969 
Agree and not. 5969 
Two "diseases" 5969 
Parametric filters 5969 
Ceiling arrays 5969 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5969 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5969 
The Middle of the Room. 5969 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5969 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5969 
Stop! 5969 
Appendectomy 5969 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5968 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5968 
No Isolation 5968 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5965 
Potential contenders? 5964 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5964 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5964 
Those Crazy Canucks 5960 
Mo' Better Bass 5954 
Bird in the Hand? 5954 
A wet listening spot? 5947 
Storm 5944 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5944 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5930 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5900 
Polar Opposite ULF 5899 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5887 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5885 
Differently but the same. 5884 
PVC 5883 
The sail test try. 5883 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5883 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5883 
Trial 5882 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5882 
Some explanations 5882 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5881 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5880 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5879 
Acrylate 5878 
Magic blanket 5878 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5877 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5877 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5877 
I have a few options. 5877 
Foam color 5877 
Strange things with upperbass 5877 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5876 
Teatro reform. . . 5876 
The foaming room dilemma. 5875 
Melamine Foam 5875 
Foaming up the cat house 5875 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5875 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5875 
Acoustic revisions… 5874 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5871 
Surprises so far in the new room 5870 
The upperbass in the new room. 5870 
Slight change of hart. 5869 
Camco supply of Boston 5867 
Room acoustics 5867 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5826 
I need to kill dust first. 5826 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5824 
To feed the leeches? 5824 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5823 
Yh 5823 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5823 
DPOLs? 5823 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5823 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5820 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5820 
A HalfPipe solution? 5820 
I absolutely love it. 5820 
Piper work 5819 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5819 
Absorption 5819 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5818 
Cats life ? 5818 
Call me Pussy. 5818 
More about traps 5818 
Acoustic impedance? 5818 
You maybe right 5818 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5818 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5817 
Heavy Curtain 5817 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5816 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5816 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5816 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5813 
Fix speaker move chair? 5812 
Back and forth ceremony 5812 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5811 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5810 
Glass windows 5809 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5808 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5807 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5805 
How to use basement jacks? 5805 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5805 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5805 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5804 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5804 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5803 
Sore eyes... 5802 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5802 
The harvesting week! 5800 
I need an inspiration… 5799 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5798 
Like this? 5798 
Dramatically randomize MF 5798 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5797 
The room eats dynamic 5797 
Diffusers 5797 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5796 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5781 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5780 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5780 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5780 
About Width-Importance balance. 5778 
Letting the music scale up 5777 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5777 
To finish my house décor… 5773 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5772 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5771 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5771 
Calling the gods of music 5771 
Absolutely 5771 
Phase manipulation 5771 
No relation. 5771 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5771 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5771 
Dynamical mismatch 5770 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5770 
Stradiwinerius? 5767 
Dealing with the glass. 5766 
Boston 5766 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5766 
Added mass 5766 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5766 
It is about moderation…. 5766 
To hell with the wine... 5766 
Also for other surafaces 5765 
LEAD 5765 
LEAD & GLASS 5765 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5765 
Read carefully 5765 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5765 
Crooks and morons 5765 
Magiscopios 5764 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5744 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5744 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5743 
The LP setup in the new home. 5692 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5687 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5687 
Pianochord will do! 5687 
Spanyi heaven 5687 
I see no conflict at all. 5687 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5687 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5687 
A year after closing 5679 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5679 
Traveling antimatter 5672 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5666 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5665 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5639 
Cast Iron fireplace 5638 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5638 
The hardcore way 5638 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5602 
This is How It's Done 5601 
Listening room during summer. 5589 
What about those... 5588 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5588 
Reducing A/C Noise 5588 
HVAC the Cat 5588 
Big Ass fan 5587 
Variac dimmers 5587 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5587 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5587 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5519 
Some winter observations. 5410 
That Asian man…. 5379 
The Franz Schubert morning 5353 
Spring.... 5302 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5252 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5223 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5223 
Just good photography? 5223 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5223 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5223 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5222 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5222 
Sports car 5222 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5222 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5222 
Train Positioning 5222 
Kind of what I want 5222 
The lap listening… 5222 
Family Room 5222 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5219 
A super audio room. 5215 
Time Warp! 5215 
A piano in a listening room 5194 
Pianissimo 5194 
The plan in blue. 5194 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5194 
My doubts 5194 
It is exactly what I worry. 5193 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5193 
Musicians at home 5193 
Piano Measurements 5192 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5187 
The next step. 5173 
Midbass horns missing?? 5172 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5162 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5162 
Baby Grand 5161 
Wood floor 5161 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5161 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5161 
Amy’s baby. 5159 
Improvement 5159 
Agree with Scott 5159 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5147 
Integrated casters 5147 
Very nice, thanks. 5147 
Customization 5147 
Sliders 5147 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5140 
Congratulations 5140 
Holes in the floor... 5140 
Tubes and kids 5140 
Sweet spot enlargement 5140 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5138 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5137 
Wood Floors and Water 5137 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5132 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5131 
WAF is for Losers 5131 
WAF: it depends. 5131 
Integration 5130 
Here and there. 5130 
Life after WWIII 5130 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5130 
Cables management. 5128 
Featurizing 5128 
Kids and tubes cont. 5125 
Kid magnet 5125 
Kids and audio 5124 
Radars 5124 
Wow, what the days! 5120 
The comming weekend 5116 
It all was worth it! 5113 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5108 
Here is how it is look. 5108 
Resolving the carpet issue 5108 
Bonfire 5108 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5108 
Proof of concept? 5108 
Geometry 5108 
A view from listening position. 5108 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5108 
Some feedback 5108 
Evening 5108 
I wonder why. 5107 
Rugs and things 5107 
In defense… 5107 
I can’t get it. 5104 
Haze. 5103 
Front wall 5103 
It is very possible. 5103 
It is nice to be back. 5100 
My comfy corner. 5097 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4737 
WMD in house. 4559 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4462 
The third listening spot. 4441 
For sure a very different experience. 4403 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4398 
It's Jfretch's system. 4398 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4397 
Domestic games 4351 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4212 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4212 
Dynamic screening 4212 
Actually this is very good idea! 4212 
Volcanic fabric 4212 
I should have done this. 4210 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4206 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4175 
No worries 4175 
Awesome memories 4175 
Optimization of space 4175 
Child-ish considerations 4172 
Finding peace.... 4166 
"Fencing"? 4165 
I need to build something custom 4165 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4165 
Stressed Skin 4165 
NYC elevators 4165 
Kids toys and quantities. 4165 
Everything is completely reversible 4164 
Racks and things 4164 
Now it looks even more promising! 4164 
Quantity of rods 4164 
Avoiding diagonals 4162 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4161 
That's not fair! 4161 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4161 
Discrimination? 4156 
Vertical configuration 4149 
Impresive ! 4078 
Did you read the site? 4078 
Contact 4078 
Company's name is Rixrax 4078 
Stand 4077 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4033 
End of life headphone system 4033 
Something like this? 4033 
The "Second Living Room" 4033 
Mixing urban & suburban 4033 
Late night listening 4033 
Moving life... 4031 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4031 
A true listening room. 4007 
It started… 3992 
Levels of Interest 3992 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3992 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3992 
I can't not to post it.... 3992 
Do not leave him unattended. 3992 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3992 
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