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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5991 
The first take on the new room. 5985 
New Room, a first shot. 5984 
Wonderful 5984 
Adopted 5983 
The first relaxed night with the room 5981 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5980 
The listening room is ready. 5979 
New Room, a First Shot 5977 
Continue to work with the room 5977 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5977 
Room 5976 
I think it will take another month. 5976 
The Buttressing 5976 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5975 
The new place and the new noises. 5975 
Big listening room 5974 
Screw the "big" rooms 5974 
Big listening rooms 5974 
First reflection points 5973 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5973 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5970 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5969 
Squeezing the floor 5969 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5969 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5969 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5968 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5968 
The new room, the very first listening. 5968 
The 14.5 foot. 5967 
Again… 5966 
Romy's new Playground 5966 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5966 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5966 
For the uninitiated ... 5965 
NH guy 5965 
Room 5965 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5964 
The first base is done 5964 
Reentry time alignment. 5963 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5962 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5962 
Mid bass horn. 5962 
Guess is only a guess… 5962 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5962 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5961 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5961 
Diffusors 5961 
Diffuse injection 5961 
Let analyse why it so 5961 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5961 
Wheel and Deal 5961 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5961 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5961 
I Must Be Missing Something 5961 
I put sliders under my speakers 5960 
ROOM 5959 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5959 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5959 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5959 
No concerns 5959 
Speakers and room 5959 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5958 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5958 
Diaphram 5958 
Phram 5958 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5958 
Perfect piston 5958 
Decorater 5957 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5957 
New morning 5956 
The first take on the room with RTA 5955 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5955 
Axiomatic 5955 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5954 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5954 
The size of the bass. 5954 
Bass Factory 5954 
Crude Level, or something more? 5954 
I will play with it this week…. 5954 
Rent-A 5954 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5954 
Corner horns 5954 
Cheating from below 5954 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5954 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5953 
A possibly overly simplified view 5953 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5953 
Iceberg 5953 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5953 
Why not horn 5953 
A correction…. 5953 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5953 
They are just not related things at all. 5953 
Fertin 5951 
Low resonance is good... 5951 
Et tu, Brute? 5950 
The Room response at LF 5949 
Life On The Ground Floor 5949 
Bass arrays 5949 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5949 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5949 
The super sucks. 5949 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5949 
You may also try 5948 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5948 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5948 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5948 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5948 
60 Hz Resonance 5948 
No notching… so far. 5948 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5947 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5947 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5947 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5947 
Power to the People 5947 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5947 
Aura 5947 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5947 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5947 
All class D is the same 5947 
Interpreting the LF results. 5946 
The Halibut 5946 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5946 
The Big Picture 5946 
Power & ULF channels 5946 
The big picture indeed. 5946 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5946 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5946 
The Power and the Glory 5945 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5945 
I guess I did not get this memo 5945 
French LF drivers 5945 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5945 
(another) French LF approach 5944 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5944 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5944 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5944 
Limpschtick 5944 
Symmetry 5944 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5943 
Room correction 5943 
It migh be more complicated. 5943 
Bass EQ ? 5943 
Agree and not. 5943 
Two "diseases" 5943 
Parametric filters 5943 
Ceiling arrays 5943 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5943 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5943 
The Middle of the Room. 5943 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5943 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5943 
Stop! 5943 
Appendectomy 5943 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5942 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5942 
No Isolation 5942 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5939 
Potential contenders? 5938 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5938 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5938 
Those Crazy Canucks 5934 
Mo' Better Bass 5928 
Bird in the Hand? 5928 
A wet listening spot? 5921 
Storm 5918 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5918 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5904 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5874 
Polar Opposite ULF 5873 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5861 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5859 
Differently but the same. 5858 
PVC 5857 
The sail test try. 5857 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5857 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5857 
Trial 5856 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5856 
Some explanations 5856 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5855 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5854 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5853 
Acrylate 5852 
Magic blanket 5852 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5851 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5851 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5851 
I have a few options. 5851 
Foam color 5851 
Strange things with upperbass 5851 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5850 
Teatro reform. . . 5850 
The foaming room dilemma. 5849 
Melamine Foam 5849 
Foaming up the cat house 5849 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5849 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5849 
Acoustic revisions… 5848 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5845 
Surprises so far in the new room 5844 
The upperbass in the new room. 5844 
Slight change of hart. 5843 
Camco supply of Boston 5841 
Room acoustics 5841 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5800 
I need to kill dust first. 5800 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5798 
To feed the leeches? 5798 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5797 
Yh 5797 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5797 
DPOLs? 5797 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5797 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5794 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5794 
A HalfPipe solution? 5794 
I absolutely love it. 5794 
Piper work 5793 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5793 
Absorption 5793 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5792 
Cats life ? 5792 
Call me Pussy. 5792 
More about traps 5792 
Acoustic impedance? 5792 
You maybe right 5792 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5792 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5791 
Heavy Curtain 5791 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5790 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5790 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5790 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5787 
Fix speaker move chair? 5786 
Back and forth ceremony 5786 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5785 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5784 
Glass windows 5783 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5782 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5781 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5779 
How to use basement jacks? 5779 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5779 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5779 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5778 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5778 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5777 
Sore eyes... 5776 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5776 
The harvesting week! 5774 
I need an inspiration… 5773 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5772 
Like this? 5772 
Dramatically randomize MF 5772 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5771 
The room eats dynamic 5771 
Diffusers 5771 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5770 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5755 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5754 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5754 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5754 
About Width-Importance balance. 5752 
Letting the music scale up 5751 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5751 
To finish my house décor… 5747 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5746 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5745 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5745 
Calling the gods of music 5745 
Absolutely 5745 
Phase manipulation 5745 
No relation. 5745 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5745 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5745 
Dynamical mismatch 5744 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5744 
Stradiwinerius? 5741 
Dealing with the glass. 5740 
Boston 5740 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5740 
Added mass 5740 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5740 
It is about moderation…. 5740 
To hell with the wine... 5740 
Also for other surafaces 5739 
LEAD 5739 
LEAD & GLASS 5739 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5739 
Read carefully 5739 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5739 
Crooks and morons 5739 
Magiscopios 5738 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5718 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5718 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5717 
The LP setup in the new home. 5666 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5661 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5661 
Pianochord will do! 5661 
Spanyi heaven 5661 
I see no conflict at all. 5661 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5661 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5661 
A year after closing 5653 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5653 
Traveling antimatter 5646 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5640 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5639 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5613 
Cast Iron fireplace 5612 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5612 
The hardcore way 5612 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5576 
This is How It's Done 5575 
Listening room during summer. 5563 
What about those... 5562 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5562 
Reducing A/C Noise 5562 
HVAC the Cat 5562 
Big Ass fan 5561 
Variac dimmers 5561 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5561 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5561 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5493 
Some winter observations. 5384 
That Asian man…. 5353 
The Franz Schubert morning 5327 
Spring.... 5276 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5226 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5197 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5197 
Just good photography? 5197 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5197 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5197 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5196 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5196 
Sports car 5196 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5196 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5196 
Train Positioning 5196 
Kind of what I want 5196 
The lap listening… 5196 
Family Room 5196 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5193 
A super audio room. 5189 
Time Warp! 5189 
A piano in a listening room 5168 
Pianissimo 5168 
The plan in blue. 5168 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5168 
My doubts 5168 
It is exactly what I worry. 5167 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5167 
Musicians at home 5167 
Piano Measurements 5166 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5161 
The next step. 5147 
Midbass horns missing?? 5146 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5136 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5136 
Baby Grand 5135 
Wood floor 5135 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5135 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5135 
Amy’s baby. 5133 
Improvement 5133 
Agree with Scott 5133 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5121 
Integrated casters 5121 
Very nice, thanks. 5121 
Customization 5121 
Sliders 5121 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5114 
Congratulations 5114 
Holes in the floor... 5114 
Tubes and kids 5114 
Sweet spot enlargement 5114 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5112 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5111 
Wood Floors and Water 5111 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5106 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5105 
WAF is for Losers 5105 
WAF: it depends. 5105 
Integration 5104 
Here and there. 5104 
Life after WWIII 5104 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5104 
Cables management. 5102 
Featurizing 5102 
Kids and tubes cont. 5099 
Kid magnet 5099 
Kids and audio 5098 
Radars 5098 
Wow, what the days! 5094 
The comming weekend 5090 
It all was worth it! 5087 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5082 
Here is how it is look. 5082 
Resolving the carpet issue 5082 
Bonfire 5082 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5082 
Proof of concept? 5082 
Geometry 5082 
A view from listening position. 5082 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5082 
Some feedback 5082 
Evening 5082 
I wonder why. 5081 
Rugs and things 5081 
In defense… 5081 
I can’t get it. 5078 
Haze. 5077 
Front wall 5077 
It is very possible. 5077 
It is nice to be back. 5074 
My comfy corner. 5071 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4711 
WMD in house. 4533 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4436 
The third listening spot. 4415 
For sure a very different experience. 4377 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4372 
It's Jfretch's system. 4372 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4371 
Domestic games 4325 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4186 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4186 
Dynamic screening 4186 
Actually this is very good idea! 4186 
Volcanic fabric 4186 
I should have done this. 4184 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4180 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4149 
No worries 4149 
Awesome memories 4149 
Optimization of space 4149 
Child-ish considerations 4146 
Finding peace.... 4140 
"Fencing"? 4139 
I need to build something custom 4139 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4139 
Stressed Skin 4139 
NYC elevators 4139 
Kids toys and quantities. 4139 
Everything is completely reversible 4138 
Racks and things 4138 
Now it looks even more promising! 4138 
Quantity of rods 4138 
Avoiding diagonals 4136 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4135 
That's not fair! 4135 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4135 
Discrimination? 4130 
Vertical configuration 4123 
Impresive ! 4052 
Did you read the site? 4052 
Contact 4052 
Company's name is Rixrax 4052 
Stand 4051 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4007 
End of life headphone system 4007 
Something like this? 4007 
The "Second Living Room" 4007 
Mixing urban & suburban 4007 
Late night listening 4007 
Moving life... 4005 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4005 
A true listening room. 3981 
It started… 3966 
Levels of Interest 3966 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3966 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3966 
I can't not to post it.... 3966 
Do not leave him unattended. 3966 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3966 
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