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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6033 
The first take on the new room. 6027 
New Room, a first shot. 6026 
Wonderful 6026 
Adopted 6025 
The first relaxed night with the room 6023 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6022 
The listening room is ready. 6021 
New Room, a First Shot 6019 
Continue to work with the room 6019 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6019 
Room 6018 
I think it will take another month. 6018 
The Buttressing 6018 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6017 
The new place and the new noises. 6017 
Big listening room 6016 
Screw the "big" rooms 6016 
Big listening rooms 6016 
First reflection points 6015 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6015 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6012 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6011 
Squeezing the floor 6011 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6011 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6011 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6010 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6010 
The new room, the very first listening. 6010 
The 14.5 foot. 6009 
Again… 6008 
Romy's new Playground 6008 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6008 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6008 
For the uninitiated ... 6007 
NH guy 6007 
Room 6007 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6006 
The first base is done 6006 
Reentry time alignment. 6005 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6004 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6004 
Mid bass horn. 6004 
Guess is only a guess… 6004 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6004 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6003 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6003 
Diffusors 6003 
Diffuse injection 6003 
Let analyse why it so 6003 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6003 
Wheel and Deal 6003 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6003 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6003 
I Must Be Missing Something 6003 
I put sliders under my speakers 6002 
ROOM 6001 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6001 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6001 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6001 
No concerns 6001 
Speakers and room 6001 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6000 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6000 
Diaphram 6000 
Phram 6000 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6000 
Perfect piston 6000 
Decorater 5999 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5999 
New morning 5998 
The first take on the room with RTA 5997 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5997 
Axiomatic 5997 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5996 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5996 
The size of the bass. 5996 
Bass Factory 5996 
Crude Level, or something more? 5996 
I will play with it this week…. 5996 
Rent-A 5996 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5996 
Corner horns 5996 
Cheating from below 5996 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5996 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5995 
A possibly overly simplified view 5995 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5995 
Iceberg 5995 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5995 
Why not horn 5995 
A correction…. 5995 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5995 
They are just not related things at all. 5995 
Fertin 5993 
Low resonance is good... 5993 
Et tu, Brute? 5992 
The Room response at LF 5991 
Life On The Ground Floor 5991 
Bass arrays 5991 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5991 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5991 
The super sucks. 5991 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5991 
You may also try 5990 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5990 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5990 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5990 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5990 
60 Hz Resonance 5990 
No notching… so far. 5990 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5989 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5989 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5989 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5989 
Power to the People 5989 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5989 
Aura 5989 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5989 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5989 
All class D is the same 5989 
Interpreting the LF results. 5988 
The Halibut 5988 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5988 
The Big Picture 5988 
Power & ULF channels 5988 
The big picture indeed. 5988 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5988 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5988 
The Power and the Glory 5987 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5987 
I guess I did not get this memo 5987 
French LF drivers 5987 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5987 
(another) French LF approach 5986 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5986 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5986 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5986 
Limpschtick 5986 
Symmetry 5986 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5985 
Room correction 5985 
It migh be more complicated. 5985 
Bass EQ ? 5985 
Agree and not. 5985 
Two "diseases" 5985 
Parametric filters 5985 
Ceiling arrays 5985 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5985 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5985 
The Middle of the Room. 5985 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5985 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5985 
Stop! 5985 
Appendectomy 5985 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5984 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5984 
No Isolation 5984 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5981 
Potential contenders? 5980 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5980 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5980 
Those Crazy Canucks 5976 
Mo' Better Bass 5970 
Bird in the Hand? 5970 
A wet listening spot? 5963 
Storm 5960 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5960 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5946 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5916 
Polar Opposite ULF 5915 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5903 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5901 
Differently but the same. 5900 
PVC 5899 
The sail test try. 5899 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5899 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5899 
Trial 5898 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5898 
Some explanations 5898 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5897 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5896 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5895 
Acrylate 5894 
Magic blanket 5894 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5893 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5893 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5893 
I have a few options. 5893 
Foam color 5893 
Strange things with upperbass 5893 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5892 
Teatro reform. . . 5892 
The foaming room dilemma. 5891 
Melamine Foam 5891 
Foaming up the cat house 5891 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5891 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5891 
Acoustic revisions… 5890 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5887 
Surprises so far in the new room 5886 
The upperbass in the new room. 5886 
Slight change of hart. 5885 
Camco supply of Boston 5883 
Room acoustics 5883 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5842 
I need to kill dust first. 5842 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5840 
To feed the leeches? 5840 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5839 
Yh 5839 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5839 
DPOLs? 5839 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5839 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5836 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5836 
A HalfPipe solution? 5836 
I absolutely love it. 5836 
Piper work 5835 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5835 
Absorption 5835 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5834 
Cats life ? 5834 
Call me Pussy. 5834 
More about traps 5834 
Acoustic impedance? 5834 
You maybe right 5834 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5834 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5833 
Heavy Curtain 5833 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5832 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5832 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5832 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5829 
Fix speaker move chair? 5828 
Back and forth ceremony 5828 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5827 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5826 
Glass windows 5825 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5824 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5823 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5821 
How to use basement jacks? 5821 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5821 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5821 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5820 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5820 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5819 
Sore eyes... 5818 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5818 
The harvesting week! 5816 
I need an inspiration… 5815 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5814 
Like this? 5814 
Dramatically randomize MF 5814 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5813 
The room eats dynamic 5813 
Diffusers 5813 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5812 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5797 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5796 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5796 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5796 
About Width-Importance balance. 5794 
Letting the music scale up 5793 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5793 
To finish my house décor… 5789 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5788 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5787 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5787 
Calling the gods of music 5787 
Absolutely 5787 
Phase manipulation 5787 
No relation. 5787 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5787 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5787 
Dynamical mismatch 5786 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5786 
Stradiwinerius? 5783 
Dealing with the glass. 5782 
Boston 5782 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5782 
Added mass 5782 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5782 
It is about moderation…. 5782 
To hell with the wine... 5782 
Also for other surafaces 5781 
LEAD 5781 
LEAD & GLASS 5781 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5781 
Read carefully 5781 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5781 
Crooks and morons 5781 
Magiscopios 5780 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5760 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5760 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5759 
The LP setup in the new home. 5708 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5703 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5703 
Pianochord will do! 5703 
Spanyi heaven 5703 
I see no conflict at all. 5703 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5703 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5703 
A year after closing 5695 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5695 
Traveling antimatter 5688 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5682 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5681 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5655 
Cast Iron fireplace 5654 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5654 
The hardcore way 5654 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5618 
This is How It's Done 5617 
Listening room during summer. 5605 
What about those... 5604 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5604 
Reducing A/C Noise 5604 
HVAC the Cat 5604 
Big Ass fan 5603 
Variac dimmers 5603 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5603 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5603 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5535 
Some winter observations. 5426 
That Asian man…. 5395 
The Franz Schubert morning 5369 
Spring.... 5318 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5268 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5239 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5239 
Just good photography? 5239 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5239 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5239 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5238 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5238 
Sports car 5238 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5238 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5238 
Train Positioning 5238 
Kind of what I want 5238 
The lap listening… 5238 
Family Room 5238 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5235 
A super audio room. 5231 
Time Warp! 5231 
A piano in a listening room 5210 
Pianissimo 5210 
The plan in blue. 5210 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5210 
My doubts 5210 
It is exactly what I worry. 5209 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5209 
Musicians at home 5209 
Piano Measurements 5208 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5203 
The next step. 5189 
Midbass horns missing?? 5188 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5178 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5178 
Baby Grand 5177 
Wood floor 5177 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5177 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5177 
Amy’s baby. 5175 
Improvement 5175 
Agree with Scott 5175 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5163 
Integrated casters 5163 
Very nice, thanks. 5163 
Customization 5163 
Sliders 5163 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5156 
Congratulations 5156 
Holes in the floor... 5156 
Tubes and kids 5156 
Sweet spot enlargement 5156 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5154 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5153 
Wood Floors and Water 5153 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5148 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5147 
WAF is for Losers 5147 
WAF: it depends. 5147 
Integration 5146 
Here and there. 5146 
Life after WWIII 5146 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5146 
Cables management. 5144 
Featurizing 5144 
Kids and tubes cont. 5141 
Kid magnet 5141 
Kids and audio 5140 
Radars 5140 
Wow, what the days! 5136 
The comming weekend 5132 
It all was worth it! 5129 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5124 
Here is how it is look. 5124 
Resolving the carpet issue 5124 
Bonfire 5124 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5124 
Proof of concept? 5124 
Geometry 5124 
A view from listening position. 5124 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5124 
Some feedback 5124 
Evening 5124 
I wonder why. 5123 
Rugs and things 5123 
In defense… 5123 
I can’t get it. 5120 
Haze. 5119 
Front wall 5119 
It is very possible. 5119 
It is nice to be back. 5116 
My comfy corner. 5113 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4753 
WMD in house. 4575 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4478 
The third listening spot. 4457 
For sure a very different experience. 4419 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4414 
It's Jfretch's system. 4414 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4413 
Domestic games 4367 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4228 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4228 
Dynamic screening 4228 
Actually this is very good idea! 4228 
Volcanic fabric 4228 
I should have done this. 4226 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4222 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4191 
No worries 4191 
Awesome memories 4191 
Optimization of space 4191 
Child-ish considerations 4188 
Finding peace.... 4182 
"Fencing"? 4181 
I need to build something custom 4181 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4181 
Stressed Skin 4181 
NYC elevators 4181 
Kids toys and quantities. 4181 
Everything is completely reversible 4180 
Racks and things 4180 
Now it looks even more promising! 4180 
Quantity of rods 4180 
Avoiding diagonals 4178 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4177 
That's not fair! 4177 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4177 
Discrimination? 4172 
Vertical configuration 4165 
Impresive ! 4094 
Did you read the site? 4094 
Contact 4094 
Company's name is Rixrax 4094 
Stand 4093 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4049 
End of life headphone system 4049 
Something like this? 4049 
The "Second Living Room" 4049 
Mixing urban & suburban 4049 
Late night listening 4049 
Moving life... 4047 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4047 
A true listening room. 4023 
It started… 4008 
Levels of Interest 4008 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4008 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4008 
I can't not to post it.... 4008 
Do not leave him unattended. 4008 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4008 
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