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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5920 
The first take on the new room. 5914 
New Room, a first shot. 5913 
Wonderful 5913 
Adopted 5912 
The first relaxed night with the room 5910 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5909 
The listening room is ready. 5908 
New Room, a First Shot 5906 
Continue to work with the room 5906 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5906 
Room 5905 
I think it will take another month. 5905 
The Buttressing 5905 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5904 
The new place and the new noises. 5904 
Big listening room 5903 
Screw the "big" rooms 5903 
Big listening rooms 5903 
First reflection points 5902 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5902 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5899 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5898 
Squeezing the floor 5898 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5898 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5898 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5897 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5897 
The new room, the very first listening. 5897 
The 14.5 foot. 5896 
Again… 5895 
Romy's new Playground 5895 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5895 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5895 
For the uninitiated ... 5894 
NH guy 5894 
Room 5894 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5893 
The first base is done 5893 
Reentry time alignment. 5892 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5891 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5891 
Mid bass horn. 5891 
Guess is only a guess… 5891 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5891 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5890 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5890 
Diffusors 5890 
Diffuse injection 5890 
Let analyse why it so 5890 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5890 
Wheel and Deal 5890 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5890 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5890 
I Must Be Missing Something 5890 
I put sliders under my speakers 5889 
ROOM 5888 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5888 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5888 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5888 
No concerns 5888 
Speakers and room 5888 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5887 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5887 
Diaphram 5887 
Phram 5887 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5887 
Perfect piston 5887 
Decorater 5886 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5886 
New morning 5885 
The first take on the room with RTA 5884 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5884 
Axiomatic 5884 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5883 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5883 
The size of the bass. 5883 
Bass Factory 5883 
Crude Level, or something more? 5883 
I will play with it this week…. 5883 
Rent-A 5883 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5883 
Corner horns 5883 
Cheating from below 5883 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5883 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5882 
A possibly overly simplified view 5882 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5882 
Iceberg 5882 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5882 
Why not horn 5882 
A correction…. 5882 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5882 
They are just not related things at all. 5882 
Fertin 5880 
Low resonance is good... 5880 
Et tu, Brute? 5879 
The Room response at LF 5878 
Life On The Ground Floor 5878 
Bass arrays 5878 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5878 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5878 
The super sucks. 5878 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5878 
You may also try 5877 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5877 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5877 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5877 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5877 
60 Hz Resonance 5877 
No notching… so far. 5877 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5876 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5876 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5876 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5876 
Power to the People 5876 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5876 
Aura 5876 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5876 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5876 
All class D is the same 5876 
Interpreting the LF results. 5875 
The Halibut 5875 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5875 
The Big Picture 5875 
Power & ULF channels 5875 
The big picture indeed. 5875 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5875 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5875 
The Power and the Glory 5874 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5874 
I guess I did not get this memo 5874 
French LF drivers 5874 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5874 
(another) French LF approach 5873 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5873 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5873 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5873 
Limpschtick 5873 
Symmetry 5873 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5872 
Room correction 5872 
It migh be more complicated. 5872 
Bass EQ ? 5872 
Agree and not. 5872 
Two "diseases" 5872 
Parametric filters 5872 
Ceiling arrays 5872 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5872 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5872 
The Middle of the Room. 5872 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5872 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5872 
Stop! 5872 
Appendectomy 5872 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5871 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5871 
No Isolation 5871 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5868 
Potential contenders? 5867 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5867 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5867 
Those Crazy Canucks 5863 
Mo' Better Bass 5857 
Bird in the Hand? 5857 
A wet listening spot? 5850 
Storm 5847 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5847 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5833 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5803 
Polar Opposite ULF 5802 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5790 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5788 
Differently but the same. 5787 
PVC 5786 
The sail test try. 5786 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5786 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5786 
Trial 5785 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5785 
Some explanations 5785 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5784 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5783 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5782 
Acrylate 5781 
Magic blanket 5781 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5780 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5780 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5780 
I have a few options. 5780 
Foam color 5780 
Strange things with upperbass 5780 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5779 
Teatro reform. . . 5779 
The foaming room dilemma. 5778 
Melamine Foam 5778 
Foaming up the cat house 5778 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5778 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5778 
Acoustic revisions… 5777 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5774 
Surprises so far in the new room 5773 
The upperbass in the new room. 5773 
Slight change of hart. 5772 
Camco supply of Boston 5770 
Room acoustics 5770 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5729 
I need to kill dust first. 5729 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5727 
To feed the leeches? 5727 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5726 
Yh 5726 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5726 
DPOLs? 5726 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5726 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5723 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5723 
A HalfPipe solution? 5723 
I absolutely love it. 5723 
Piper work 5722 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5722 
Absorption 5722 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5721 
Cats life ? 5721 
Call me Pussy. 5721 
More about traps 5721 
Acoustic impedance? 5721 
You maybe right 5721 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5721 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5720 
Heavy Curtain 5720 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5719 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5719 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5719 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5716 
Fix speaker move chair? 5715 
Back and forth ceremony 5715 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5714 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5713 
Glass windows 5712 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5711 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5710 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5708 
How to use basement jacks? 5708 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5708 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5708 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5707 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5707 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5706 
Sore eyes... 5705 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5705 
The harvesting week! 5703 
I need an inspiration… 5702 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5701 
Like this? 5701 
Dramatically randomize MF 5701 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5700 
The room eats dynamic 5700 
Diffusers 5700 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5699 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5684 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5683 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5683 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5683 
About Width-Importance balance. 5681 
Letting the music scale up 5680 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5680 
To finish my house décor… 5676 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5675 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5674 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5674 
Calling the gods of music 5674 
Absolutely 5674 
Phase manipulation 5674 
No relation. 5674 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5674 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5674 
Dynamical mismatch 5673 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5673 
Stradiwinerius? 5670 
Dealing with the glass. 5669 
Boston 5669 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5669 
Added mass 5669 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5669 
It is about moderation…. 5669 
To hell with the wine... 5669 
Also for other surafaces 5668 
LEAD 5668 
LEAD & GLASS 5668 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5668 
Read carefully 5668 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5668 
Crooks and morons 5668 
Magiscopios 5667 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5647 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5647 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5646 
The LP setup in the new home. 5595 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5590 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5590 
Pianochord will do! 5590 
Spanyi heaven 5590 
I see no conflict at all. 5590 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5590 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5590 
A year after closing 5582 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5582 
Traveling antimatter 5575 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5569 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5568 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5542 
Cast Iron fireplace 5541 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5541 
The hardcore way 5541 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5505 
This is How It's Done 5504 
Listening room during summer. 5492 
What about those... 5491 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5491 
Reducing A/C Noise 5491 
HVAC the Cat 5491 
Big Ass fan 5490 
Variac dimmers 5490 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5490 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5490 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5422 
Some winter observations. 5313 
That Asian man…. 5282 
The Franz Schubert morning 5256 
Spring.... 5205 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5155 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5126 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5126 
Just good photography? 5126 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5126 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5126 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5125 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5125 
Sports car 5125 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5125 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5125 
Train Positioning 5125 
Kind of what I want 5125 
The lap listening… 5125 
Family Room 5125 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5122 
A super audio room. 5118 
Time Warp! 5118 
A piano in a listening room 5097 
Pianissimo 5097 
The plan in blue. 5097 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5097 
My doubts 5097 
It is exactly what I worry. 5096 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5096 
Musicians at home 5096 
Piano Measurements 5095 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5090 
The next step. 5076 
Midbass horns missing?? 5075 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5065 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5065 
Baby Grand 5064 
Wood floor 5064 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5064 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5064 
Amy’s baby. 5062 
Improvement 5062 
Agree with Scott 5062 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5050 
Integrated casters 5050 
Very nice, thanks. 5050 
Customization 5050 
Sliders 5050 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5043 
Congratulations 5043 
Holes in the floor... 5043 
Tubes and kids 5043 
Sweet spot enlargement 5043 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5041 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5040 
Wood Floors and Water 5040 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5035 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5034 
WAF is for Losers 5034 
WAF: it depends. 5034 
Integration 5033 
Here and there. 5033 
Life after WWIII 5033 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5033 
Cables management. 5031 
Featurizing 5031 
Kids and tubes cont. 5028 
Kid magnet 5028 
Kids and audio 5027 
Radars 5027 
Wow, what the days! 5023 
The comming weekend 5019 
It all was worth it! 5016 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5011 
Here is how it is look. 5011 
Resolving the carpet issue 5011 
Bonfire 5011 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5011 
Proof of concept? 5011 
Geometry 5011 
A view from listening position. 5011 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5011 
Some feedback 5011 
Evening 5011 
I wonder why. 5010 
Rugs and things 5010 
In defense… 5010 
I can’t get it. 5007 
Haze. 5006 
Front wall 5006 
It is very possible. 5006 
It is nice to be back. 5003 
My comfy corner. 5000 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4640 
WMD in house. 4462 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4365 
The third listening spot. 4344 
For sure a very different experience. 4306 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4301 
It's Jfretch's system. 4301 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4300 
Domestic games 4254 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4115 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4115 
Dynamic screening 4115 
Actually this is very good idea! 4115 
Volcanic fabric 4115 
I should have done this. 4113 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4109 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4078 
No worries 4078 
Awesome memories 4078 
Optimization of space 4078 
Child-ish considerations 4075 
Finding peace.... 4069 
"Fencing"? 4068 
I need to build something custom 4068 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4068 
Stressed Skin 4068 
NYC elevators 4068 
Kids toys and quantities. 4068 
Everything is completely reversible 4067 
Racks and things 4067 
Now it looks even more promising! 4067 
Quantity of rods 4067 
Avoiding diagonals 4065 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4064 
That's not fair! 4064 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4064 
Discrimination? 4059 
Vertical configuration 4052 
Impresive ! 3981 
Did you read the site? 3981 
Contact 3981 
Company's name is Rixrax 3981 
Stand 3980 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3936 
End of life headphone system 3936 
Something like this? 3936 
The "Second Living Room" 3936 
Mixing urban & suburban 3936 
Late night listening 3936 
Moving life... 3934 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3934 
A true listening room. 3910 
It started… 3895 
Levels of Interest 3895 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3895 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3895 
I can't not to post it.... 3895 
Do not leave him unattended. 3895 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3895 
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