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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5908 
The first take on the new room. 5902 
New Room, a first shot. 5901 
Wonderful 5901 
Adopted 5900 
The first relaxed night with the room 5898 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5897 
The listening room is ready. 5896 
New Room, a First Shot 5894 
Continue to work with the room 5894 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5894 
Room 5893 
I think it will take another month. 5893 
The Buttressing 5893 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5892 
The new place and the new noises. 5892 
Big listening room 5891 
Screw the "big" rooms 5891 
Big listening rooms 5891 
First reflection points 5890 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5890 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5887 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5886 
Squeezing the floor 5886 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5886 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5886 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5885 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5885 
The new room, the very first listening. 5885 
The 14.5 foot. 5884 
Again… 5883 
Romy's new Playground 5883 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5883 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5883 
For the uninitiated ... 5882 
NH guy 5882 
Room 5882 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5881 
The first base is done 5881 
Reentry time alignment. 5880 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5879 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5879 
Mid bass horn. 5879 
Guess is only a guess… 5879 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5879 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5878 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5878 
Diffusors 5878 
Diffuse injection 5878 
Let analyse why it so 5878 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5878 
Wheel and Deal 5878 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5878 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5878 
I Must Be Missing Something 5878 
I put sliders under my speakers 5877 
ROOM 5876 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5876 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5876 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5876 
No concerns 5876 
Speakers and room 5876 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5875 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5875 
Diaphram 5875 
Phram 5875 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5875 
Perfect piston 5875 
Decorater 5874 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5874 
New morning 5873 
The first take on the room with RTA 5872 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5872 
Axiomatic 5872 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5871 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5871 
The size of the bass. 5871 
Bass Factory 5871 
Crude Level, or something more? 5871 
I will play with it this week…. 5871 
Rent-A 5871 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5871 
Corner horns 5871 
Cheating from below 5871 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5871 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5870 
A possibly overly simplified view 5870 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5870 
Iceberg 5870 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5870 
Why not horn 5870 
A correction…. 5870 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5870 
They are just not related things at all. 5870 
Fertin 5868 
Low resonance is good... 5868 
Et tu, Brute? 5867 
The Room response at LF 5866 
Life On The Ground Floor 5866 
Bass arrays 5866 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5866 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5866 
The super sucks. 5866 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5866 
You may also try 5865 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5865 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5865 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5865 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5865 
60 Hz Resonance 5865 
No notching… so far. 5865 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5864 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5864 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5864 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5864 
Power to the People 5864 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5864 
Aura 5864 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5864 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5864 
All class D is the same 5864 
Interpreting the LF results. 5863 
The Halibut 5863 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5863 
The Big Picture 5863 
Power & ULF channels 5863 
The big picture indeed. 5863 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5863 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5863 
The Power and the Glory 5862 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5862 
I guess I did not get this memo 5862 
French LF drivers 5862 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5862 
(another) French LF approach 5861 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5861 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5861 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5861 
Limpschtick 5861 
Symmetry 5861 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5860 
Room correction 5860 
It migh be more complicated. 5860 
Bass EQ ? 5860 
Agree and not. 5860 
Two "diseases" 5860 
Parametric filters 5860 
Ceiling arrays 5860 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5860 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5860 
The Middle of the Room. 5860 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5860 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5860 
Stop! 5860 
Appendectomy 5860 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5859 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5859 
No Isolation 5859 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5856 
Potential contenders? 5855 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5855 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5855 
Those Crazy Canucks 5851 
Mo' Better Bass 5845 
Bird in the Hand? 5845 
A wet listening spot? 5838 
Storm 5835 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5835 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5821 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5791 
Polar Opposite ULF 5790 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5778 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5776 
Differently but the same. 5775 
PVC 5774 
The sail test try. 5774 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5774 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5774 
Trial 5773 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5773 
Some explanations 5773 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5772 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5771 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5770 
Acrylate 5769 
Magic blanket 5769 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5768 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5768 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5768 
I have a few options. 5768 
Foam color 5768 
Strange things with upperbass 5768 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5767 
Teatro reform. . . 5767 
The foaming room dilemma. 5766 
Melamine Foam 5766 
Foaming up the cat house 5766 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5766 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5766 
Acoustic revisions… 5765 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5762 
Surprises so far in the new room 5761 
The upperbass in the new room. 5761 
Slight change of hart. 5760 
Camco supply of Boston 5758 
Room acoustics 5758 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5717 
I need to kill dust first. 5717 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5715 
To feed the leeches? 5715 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5714 
Yh 5714 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5714 
DPOLs? 5714 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5714 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5711 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5711 
A HalfPipe solution? 5711 
I absolutely love it. 5711 
Piper work 5710 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5710 
Absorption 5710 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5709 
Cats life ? 5709 
Call me Pussy. 5709 
More about traps 5709 
Acoustic impedance? 5709 
You maybe right 5709 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5709 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5708 
Heavy Curtain 5708 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5707 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5707 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5707 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5704 
Fix speaker move chair? 5703 
Back and forth ceremony 5703 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5702 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5701 
Glass windows 5700 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5699 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5698 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5696 
How to use basement jacks? 5696 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5696 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5696 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5695 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5695 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5694 
Sore eyes... 5693 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5693 
The harvesting week! 5691 
I need an inspiration… 5690 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5689 
Like this? 5689 
Dramatically randomize MF 5689 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5688 
The room eats dynamic 5688 
Diffusers 5688 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5687 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5672 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5671 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5671 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5671 
About Width-Importance balance. 5669 
Letting the music scale up 5668 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5668 
To finish my house décor… 5664 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5663 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5662 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5662 
Calling the gods of music 5662 
Absolutely 5662 
Phase manipulation 5662 
No relation. 5662 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5662 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5662 
Dynamical mismatch 5661 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5661 
Stradiwinerius? 5658 
Dealing with the glass. 5657 
Boston 5657 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5657 
Added mass 5657 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5657 
It is about moderation…. 5657 
To hell with the wine... 5657 
Also for other surafaces 5656 
LEAD 5656 
LEAD & GLASS 5656 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5656 
Read carefully 5656 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5656 
Crooks and morons 5656 
Magiscopios 5655 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5635 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5635 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5634 
The LP setup in the new home. 5583 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5578 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5578 
Pianochord will do! 5578 
Spanyi heaven 5578 
I see no conflict at all. 5578 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5578 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5578 
A year after closing 5570 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5570 
Traveling antimatter 5563 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5557 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5556 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5530 
Cast Iron fireplace 5529 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5529 
The hardcore way 5529 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5493 
This is How It's Done 5492 
Listening room during summer. 5480 
What about those... 5479 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5479 
Reducing A/C Noise 5479 
HVAC the Cat 5479 
Big Ass fan 5478 
Variac dimmers 5478 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5478 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5478 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5410 
Some winter observations. 5301 
That Asian man…. 5270 
The Franz Schubert morning 5244 
Spring.... 5193 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5143 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5114 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5114 
Just good photography? 5114 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5114 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5114 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5113 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5113 
Sports car 5113 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5113 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5113 
Train Positioning 5113 
Kind of what I want 5113 
The lap listening… 5113 
Family Room 5113 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5110 
A super audio room. 5106 
Time Warp! 5106 
A piano in a listening room 5085 
Pianissimo 5085 
The plan in blue. 5085 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5085 
My doubts 5085 
It is exactly what I worry. 5084 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5084 
Musicians at home 5084 
Piano Measurements 5083 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5078 
The next step. 5064 
Midbass horns missing?? 5063 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5053 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5053 
Baby Grand 5052 
Wood floor 5052 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5052 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5052 
Amy’s baby. 5050 
Improvement 5050 
Agree with Scott 5050 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5038 
Integrated casters 5038 
Very nice, thanks. 5038 
Customization 5038 
Sliders 5038 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5031 
Congratulations 5031 
Holes in the floor... 5031 
Tubes and kids 5031 
Sweet spot enlargement 5031 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5029 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5028 
Wood Floors and Water 5028 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5023 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5022 
WAF is for Losers 5022 
WAF: it depends. 5022 
Integration 5021 
Here and there. 5021 
Life after WWIII 5021 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5021 
Cables management. 5019 
Featurizing 5019 
Kids and tubes cont. 5016 
Kid magnet 5016 
Kids and audio 5015 
Radars 5015 
Wow, what the days! 5011 
The comming weekend 5007 
It all was worth it! 5004 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4999 
Here is how it is look. 4999 
Resolving the carpet issue 4999 
Bonfire 4999 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4999 
Proof of concept? 4999 
Geometry 4999 
A view from listening position. 4999 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4999 
Some feedback 4999 
Evening 4999 
I wonder why. 4998 
Rugs and things 4998 
In defense… 4998 
I can’t get it. 4995 
Haze. 4994 
Front wall 4994 
It is very possible. 4994 
It is nice to be back. 4991 
My comfy corner. 4988 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4628 
WMD in house. 4450 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4353 
The third listening spot. 4332 
For sure a very different experience. 4294 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4289 
It's Jfretch's system. 4289 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4288 
Domestic games 4242 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4103 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4103 
Dynamic screening 4103 
Actually this is very good idea! 4103 
Volcanic fabric 4103 
I should have done this. 4101 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4097 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4066 
No worries 4066 
Awesome memories 4066 
Optimization of space 4066 
Child-ish considerations 4063 
Finding peace.... 4057 
"Fencing"? 4056 
I need to build something custom 4056 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4056 
Stressed Skin 4056 
NYC elevators 4056 
Kids toys and quantities. 4056 
Everything is completely reversible 4055 
Racks and things 4055 
Now it looks even more promising! 4055 
Quantity of rods 4055 
Avoiding diagonals 4053 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4052 
That's not fair! 4052 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4052 
Discrimination? 4047 
Vertical configuration 4040 
Impresive ! 3969 
Did you read the site? 3969 
Contact 3969 
Company's name is Rixrax 3969 
Stand 3968 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3924 
End of life headphone system 3924 
Something like this? 3924 
The "Second Living Room" 3924 
Mixing urban & suburban 3924 
Late night listening 3924 
Moving life... 3922 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3922 
A true listening room. 3898 
It started… 3883 
Levels of Interest 3883 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3883 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3883 
I can't not to post it.... 3883 
Do not leave him unattended. 3883 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3883 
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