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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5974 
The first take on the new room. 5968 
New Room, a first shot. 5967 
Wonderful 5967 
Adopted 5966 
The first relaxed night with the room 5964 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5963 
The listening room is ready. 5962 
New Room, a First Shot 5960 
Continue to work with the room 5960 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5960 
Room 5959 
I think it will take another month. 5959 
The Buttressing 5959 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5958 
The new place and the new noises. 5958 
Big listening room 5957 
Screw the "big" rooms 5957 
Big listening rooms 5957 
First reflection points 5956 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5956 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5953 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5952 
Squeezing the floor 5952 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5952 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5952 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5951 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5951 
The new room, the very first listening. 5951 
The 14.5 foot. 5950 
Again… 5949 
Romy's new Playground 5949 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5949 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5949 
For the uninitiated ... 5948 
NH guy 5948 
Room 5948 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5947 
The first base is done 5947 
Reentry time alignment. 5946 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5945 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5945 
Mid bass horn. 5945 
Guess is only a guess… 5945 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5945 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5944 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5944 
Diffusors 5944 
Diffuse injection 5944 
Let analyse why it so 5944 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5944 
Wheel and Deal 5944 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5944 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5944 
I Must Be Missing Something 5944 
I put sliders under my speakers 5943 
ROOM 5942 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5942 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5942 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5942 
No concerns 5942 
Speakers and room 5942 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5941 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5941 
Diaphram 5941 
Phram 5941 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5941 
Perfect piston 5941 
Decorater 5940 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5940 
New morning 5939 
The first take on the room with RTA 5938 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5938 
Axiomatic 5938 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5937 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5937 
The size of the bass. 5937 
Bass Factory 5937 
Crude Level, or something more? 5937 
I will play with it this week…. 5937 
Rent-A 5937 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5937 
Corner horns 5937 
Cheating from below 5937 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5937 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5936 
A possibly overly simplified view 5936 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5936 
Iceberg 5936 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5936 
Why not horn 5936 
A correction…. 5936 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5936 
They are just not related things at all. 5936 
Fertin 5934 
Low resonance is good... 5934 
Et tu, Brute? 5933 
The Room response at LF 5932 
Life On The Ground Floor 5932 
Bass arrays 5932 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5932 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5932 
The super sucks. 5932 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5932 
You may also try 5931 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5931 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5931 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5931 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5931 
60 Hz Resonance 5931 
No notching… so far. 5931 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5930 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5930 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5930 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5930 
Power to the People 5930 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5930 
Aura 5930 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5930 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5930 
All class D is the same 5930 
Interpreting the LF results. 5929 
The Halibut 5929 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5929 
The Big Picture 5929 
Power & ULF channels 5929 
The big picture indeed. 5929 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5929 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5929 
The Power and the Glory 5928 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5928 
I guess I did not get this memo 5928 
French LF drivers 5928 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5928 
(another) French LF approach 5927 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5927 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5927 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5927 
Limpschtick 5927 
Symmetry 5927 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5926 
Room correction 5926 
It migh be more complicated. 5926 
Bass EQ ? 5926 
Agree and not. 5926 
Two "diseases" 5926 
Parametric filters 5926 
Ceiling arrays 5926 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5926 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5926 
The Middle of the Room. 5926 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5926 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5926 
Stop! 5926 
Appendectomy 5926 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5925 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5925 
No Isolation 5925 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5922 
Potential contenders? 5921 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5921 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5921 
Those Crazy Canucks 5917 
Mo' Better Bass 5911 
Bird in the Hand? 5911 
A wet listening spot? 5904 
Storm 5901 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5901 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5887 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5857 
Polar Opposite ULF 5856 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5844 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5842 
Differently but the same. 5841 
PVC 5840 
The sail test try. 5840 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5840 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5840 
Trial 5839 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5839 
Some explanations 5839 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5838 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5837 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5836 
Acrylate 5835 
Magic blanket 5835 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5834 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5834 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5834 
I have a few options. 5834 
Foam color 5834 
Strange things with upperbass 5834 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5833 
Teatro reform. . . 5833 
The foaming room dilemma. 5832 
Melamine Foam 5832 
Foaming up the cat house 5832 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5832 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5832 
Acoustic revisions… 5831 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5828 
Surprises so far in the new room 5827 
The upperbass in the new room. 5827 
Slight change of hart. 5826 
Camco supply of Boston 5824 
Room acoustics 5824 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5783 
I need to kill dust first. 5783 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5781 
To feed the leeches? 5781 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5780 
Yh 5780 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5780 
DPOLs? 5780 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5780 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5777 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5777 
A HalfPipe solution? 5777 
I absolutely love it. 5777 
Piper work 5776 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5776 
Absorption 5776 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5775 
Cats life ? 5775 
Call me Pussy. 5775 
More about traps 5775 
Acoustic impedance? 5775 
You maybe right 5775 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5775 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5774 
Heavy Curtain 5774 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5773 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5773 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5773 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5770 
Fix speaker move chair? 5769 
Back and forth ceremony 5769 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5768 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5767 
Glass windows 5766 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5765 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5764 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5762 
How to use basement jacks? 5762 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5762 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5762 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5761 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5761 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5760 
Sore eyes... 5759 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5759 
The harvesting week! 5757 
I need an inspiration… 5756 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5755 
Like this? 5755 
Dramatically randomize MF 5755 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5754 
The room eats dynamic 5754 
Diffusers 5754 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5753 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5738 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5737 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5737 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5737 
About Width-Importance balance. 5735 
Letting the music scale up 5734 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5734 
To finish my house décor… 5730 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5729 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5728 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5728 
Calling the gods of music 5728 
Absolutely 5728 
Phase manipulation 5728 
No relation. 5728 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5728 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5728 
Dynamical mismatch 5727 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5727 
Stradiwinerius? 5724 
Dealing with the glass. 5723 
Boston 5723 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5723 
Added mass 5723 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5723 
It is about moderation…. 5723 
To hell with the wine... 5723 
Also for other surafaces 5722 
LEAD 5722 
LEAD & GLASS 5722 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5722 
Read carefully 5722 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5722 
Crooks and morons 5722 
Magiscopios 5721 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5701 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5701 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5700 
The LP setup in the new home. 5649 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5644 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5644 
Pianochord will do! 5644 
Spanyi heaven 5644 
I see no conflict at all. 5644 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5644 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5644 
A year after closing 5636 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5636 
Traveling antimatter 5629 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5623 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5622 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5596 
Cast Iron fireplace 5595 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5595 
The hardcore way 5595 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5559 
This is How It's Done 5558 
Listening room during summer. 5546 
What about those... 5545 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5545 
Reducing A/C Noise 5545 
HVAC the Cat 5545 
Big Ass fan 5544 
Variac dimmers 5544 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5544 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5544 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5476 
Some winter observations. 5367 
That Asian man…. 5336 
The Franz Schubert morning 5310 
Spring.... 5259 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5209 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5180 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5180 
Just good photography? 5180 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5180 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5180 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5179 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5179 
Sports car 5179 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5179 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5179 
Train Positioning 5179 
Kind of what I want 5179 
The lap listening… 5179 
Family Room 5179 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5176 
A super audio room. 5172 
Time Warp! 5172 
A piano in a listening room 5151 
Pianissimo 5151 
The plan in blue. 5151 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5151 
My doubts 5151 
It is exactly what I worry. 5150 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5150 
Musicians at home 5150 
Piano Measurements 5149 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5144 
The next step. 5130 
Midbass horns missing?? 5129 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5119 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5119 
Baby Grand 5118 
Wood floor 5118 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5118 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5118 
Amy’s baby. 5116 
Improvement 5116 
Agree with Scott 5116 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5104 
Integrated casters 5104 
Very nice, thanks. 5104 
Customization 5104 
Sliders 5104 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5097 
Congratulations 5097 
Holes in the floor... 5097 
Tubes and kids 5097 
Sweet spot enlargement 5097 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5095 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5094 
Wood Floors and Water 5094 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5089 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5088 
WAF is for Losers 5088 
WAF: it depends. 5088 
Integration 5087 
Here and there. 5087 
Life after WWIII 5087 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5087 
Cables management. 5085 
Featurizing 5085 
Kids and tubes cont. 5082 
Kid magnet 5082 
Kids and audio 5081 
Radars 5081 
Wow, what the days! 5077 
The comming weekend 5073 
It all was worth it! 5070 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5065 
Here is how it is look. 5065 
Resolving the carpet issue 5065 
Bonfire 5065 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5065 
Proof of concept? 5065 
Geometry 5065 
A view from listening position. 5065 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5065 
Some feedback 5065 
Evening 5065 
I wonder why. 5064 
Rugs and things 5064 
In defense… 5064 
I can’t get it. 5061 
Haze. 5060 
Front wall 5060 
It is very possible. 5060 
It is nice to be back. 5057 
My comfy corner. 5054 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4694 
WMD in house. 4516 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4419 
The third listening spot. 4398 
For sure a very different experience. 4360 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4355 
It's Jfretch's system. 4355 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4354 
Domestic games 4308 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4169 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4169 
Dynamic screening 4169 
Actually this is very good idea! 4169 
Volcanic fabric 4169 
I should have done this. 4167 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4163 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4132 
No worries 4132 
Awesome memories 4132 
Optimization of space 4132 
Child-ish considerations 4129 
Finding peace.... 4123 
"Fencing"? 4122 
I need to build something custom 4122 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4122 
Stressed Skin 4122 
NYC elevators 4122 
Kids toys and quantities. 4122 
Everything is completely reversible 4121 
Racks and things 4121 
Now it looks even more promising! 4121 
Quantity of rods 4121 
Avoiding diagonals 4119 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4118 
That's not fair! 4118 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4118 
Discrimination? 4113 
Vertical configuration 4106 
Impresive ! 4035 
Did you read the site? 4035 
Contact 4035 
Company's name is Rixrax 4035 
Stand 4034 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3990 
End of life headphone system 3990 
Something like this? 3990 
The "Second Living Room" 3990 
Mixing urban & suburban 3990 
Late night listening 3990 
Moving life... 3988 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3988 
A true listening room. 3964 
It started… 3949 
Levels of Interest 3949 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3949 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3949 
I can't not to post it.... 3949 
Do not leave him unattended. 3949 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3949 
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