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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5734 
The first take on the new room. 5728 
New Room, a first shot. 5727 
Wonderful 5727 
Adopted 5726 
The first relaxed night with the room 5724 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5723 
The listening room is ready. 5722 
New Room, a First Shot 5720 
Continue to work with the room 5720 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5720 
Room 5719 
I think it will take another month. 5719 
The Buttressing 5719 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5718 
The new place and the new noises. 5718 
Big listening room 5717 
Screw the "big" rooms 5717 
Big listening rooms 5717 
First reflection points 5716 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5716 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5713 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5712 
Squeezing the floor 5712 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5712 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5712 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5711 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5711 
The new room, the very first listening. 5711 
The 14.5 foot. 5710 
Again… 5709 
Romy's new Playground 5709 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5709 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5709 
For the uninitiated ... 5708 
NH guy 5708 
Room 5708 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5707 
The first base is done 5707 
Reentry time alignment. 5706 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5705 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5705 
Mid bass horn. 5705 
Guess is only a guess… 5705 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5705 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5704 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5704 
Diffusors 5704 
Diffuse injection 5704 
Let analyse why it so 5704 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5704 
Wheel and Deal 5704 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5704 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5704 
I Must Be Missing Something 5704 
I put sliders under my speakers 5703 
ROOM 5702 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5702 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5702 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5702 
No concerns 5702 
Speakers and room 5702 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5701 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5701 
Diaphram 5701 
Phram 5701 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5701 
Perfect piston 5701 
Decorater 5700 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5700 
New morning 5699 
The first take on the room with RTA 5698 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5698 
Axiomatic 5698 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5697 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5697 
The size of the bass. 5697 
Bass Factory 5697 
Crude Level, or something more? 5697 
I will play with it this week…. 5697 
Rent-A 5697 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5697 
Corner horns 5697 
Cheating from below 5697 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5697 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5696 
A possibly overly simplified view 5696 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5696 
Iceberg 5696 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5696 
Why not horn 5696 
A correction…. 5696 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5696 
They are just not related things at all. 5696 
Fertin 5694 
Low resonance is good... 5694 
Et tu, Brute? 5693 
The Room response at LF 5692 
Life On The Ground Floor 5692 
Bass arrays 5692 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5692 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5692 
The super sucks. 5692 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5692 
You may also try 5691 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5691 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5691 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5691 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5691 
60 Hz Resonance 5691 
No notching… so far. 5691 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5690 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5690 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5690 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5690 
Power to the People 5690 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5690 
Aura 5690 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5690 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5690 
All class D is the same 5690 
Interpreting the LF results. 5689 
The Halibut 5689 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5689 
The Big Picture 5689 
Power & ULF channels 5689 
The big picture indeed. 5689 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5689 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5689 
The Power and the Glory 5688 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5688 
I guess I did not get this memo 5688 
French LF drivers 5688 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5688 
(another) French LF approach 5687 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5687 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5687 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5687 
Limpschtick 5687 
Symmetry 5687 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5686 
Room correction 5686 
It migh be more complicated. 5686 
Bass EQ ? 5686 
Agree and not. 5686 
Two "diseases" 5686 
Parametric filters 5686 
Ceiling arrays 5686 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5686 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5686 
The Middle of the Room. 5686 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5686 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5686 
Stop! 5686 
Appendectomy 5686 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5685 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5685 
No Isolation 5685 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5682 
Potential contenders? 5681 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5681 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5681 
Those Crazy Canucks 5677 
Mo' Better Bass 5671 
Bird in the Hand? 5671 
A wet listening spot? 5664 
Storm 5661 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5661 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5647 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5617 
Polar Opposite ULF 5616 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5604 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5602 
Differently but the same. 5601 
PVC 5600 
The sail test try. 5600 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5600 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5600 
Trial 5599 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5599 
Some explanations 5599 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5598 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5597 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5596 
Acrylate 5595 
Magic blanket 5595 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5594 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5594 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5594 
I have a few options. 5594 
Foam color 5594 
Strange things with upperbass 5594 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5593 
Teatro reform. . . 5593 
The foaming room dilemma. 5592 
Melamine Foam 5592 
Foaming up the cat house 5592 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5592 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5592 
Acoustic revisions… 5591 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5588 
Surprises so far in the new room 5587 
The upperbass in the new room. 5587 
Slight change of hart. 5586 
Camco supply of Boston 5584 
Room acoustics 5584 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5543 
I need to kill dust first. 5543 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5541 
To feed the leeches? 5541 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5540 
Yh 5540 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5540 
DPOLs? 5540 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5540 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5537 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5537 
A HalfPipe solution? 5537 
I absolutely love it. 5537 
Piper work 5536 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5536 
Absorption 5536 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5535 
Cats life ? 5535 
Call me Pussy. 5535 
More about traps 5535 
Acoustic impedance? 5535 
You maybe right 5535 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5535 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5534 
Heavy Curtain 5534 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5533 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5533 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5533 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5530 
Fix speaker move chair? 5529 
Back and forth ceremony 5529 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5528 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5527 
Glass windows 5526 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5525 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5524 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5522 
How to use basement jacks? 5522 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5522 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5522 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5521 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5521 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5520 
Sore eyes... 5519 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5519 
The harvesting week! 5517 
I need an inspiration… 5516 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5515 
Like this? 5515 
Dramatically randomize MF 5515 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5514 
The room eats dynamic 5514 
Diffusers 5514 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5513 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5498 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5497 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5497 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5497 
About Width-Importance balance. 5495 
Letting the music scale up 5494 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5494 
To finish my house décor… 5490 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5489 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5488 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5488 
Calling the gods of music 5488 
Absolutely 5488 
Phase manipulation 5488 
No relation. 5488 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5488 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5488 
Dynamical mismatch 5487 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5487 
Stradiwinerius? 5484 
Dealing with the glass. 5483 
Boston 5483 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5483 
Added mass 5483 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5483 
It is about moderation…. 5483 
To hell with the wine... 5483 
Also for other surafaces 5482 
LEAD 5482 
LEAD & GLASS 5482 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5482 
Read carefully 5482 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5482 
Crooks and morons 5482 
Magiscopios 5481 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5461 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5461 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5460 
The LP setup in the new home. 5409 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5404 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5404 
Pianochord will do! 5404 
Spanyi heaven 5404 
I see no conflict at all. 5404 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5404 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5404 
A year after closing 5396 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5396 
Traveling antimatter 5389 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5383 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5382 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5356 
Cast Iron fireplace 5355 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5355 
The hardcore way 5355 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5319 
This is How It's Done 5318 
Listening room during summer. 5306 
What about those... 5305 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5305 
Reducing A/C Noise 5305 
HVAC the Cat 5305 
Big Ass fan 5304 
Variac dimmers 5304 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5304 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5304 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5236 
Some winter observations. 5127 
That Asian man…. 5096 
The Franz Schubert morning 5070 
Spring.... 5019 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4969 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4940 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4940 
Just good photography? 4940 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4940 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4940 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4939 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4939 
Sports car 4939 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4939 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4939 
Train Positioning 4939 
Kind of what I want 4939 
The lap listening… 4939 
Family Room 4939 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4936 
A super audio room. 4932 
Time Warp! 4932 
A piano in a listening room 4911 
Pianissimo 4911 
The plan in blue. 4911 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4911 
My doubts 4911 
It is exactly what I worry. 4910 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4910 
Musicians at home 4910 
Piano Measurements 4909 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4904 
The next step. 4890 
Midbass horns missing?? 4889 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4879 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4879 
Baby Grand 4878 
Wood floor 4878 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4878 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4878 
Amy’s baby. 4876 
Improvement 4876 
Agree with Scott 4876 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4864 
Integrated casters 4864 
Very nice, thanks. 4864 
Customization 4864 
Sliders 4864 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4857 
Congratulations 4857 
Holes in the floor... 4857 
Tubes and kids 4857 
Sweet spot enlargement 4857 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4855 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4854 
Wood Floors and Water 4854 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4849 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4848 
WAF is for Losers 4848 
WAF: it depends. 4848 
Integration 4847 
Here and there. 4847 
Life after WWIII 4847 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4847 
Cables management. 4845 
Featurizing 4845 
Kids and tubes cont. 4842 
Kid magnet 4842 
Kids and audio 4841 
Radars 4841 
Wow, what the days! 4837 
The comming weekend 4833 
It all was worth it! 4830 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4825 
Here is how it is look. 4825 
Resolving the carpet issue 4825 
Bonfire 4825 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4825 
Proof of concept? 4825 
Geometry 4825 
A view from listening position. 4825 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4825 
Some feedback 4825 
Evening 4825 
I wonder why. 4824 
Rugs and things 4824 
In defense… 4824 
I can’t get it. 4821 
Haze. 4820 
Front wall 4820 
It is very possible. 4820 
It is nice to be back. 4817 
My comfy corner. 4814 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4454 
WMD in house. 4276 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4179 
The third listening spot. 4158 
For sure a very different experience. 4120 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4115 
It's Jfretch's system. 4115 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4114 
Domestic games 4068 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3929 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3929 
Dynamic screening 3929 
Actually this is very good idea! 3929 
Volcanic fabric 3929 
I should have done this. 3927 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3923 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3892 
No worries 3892 
Awesome memories 3892 
Optimization of space 3892 
Child-ish considerations 3889 
Finding peace.... 3883 
"Fencing"? 3882 
I need to build something custom 3882 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3882 
Stressed Skin 3882 
NYC elevators 3882 
Kids toys and quantities. 3882 
Everything is completely reversible 3881 
Racks and things 3881 
Now it looks even more promising! 3881 
Quantity of rods 3881 
Avoiding diagonals 3879 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3878 
That's not fair! 3878 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3878 
Discrimination? 3873 
Vertical configuration 3866 
Impresive ! 3795 
Did you read the site? 3795 
Contact 3795 
Company's name is Rixrax 3795 
Stand 3794 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3750 
End of life headphone system 3750 
Something like this? 3750 
The "Second Living Room" 3750 
Mixing urban & suburban 3750 
Late night listening 3750 
Moving life... 3748 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3748 
A true listening room. 3724 
It started… 3709 
Levels of Interest 3709 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3709 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3709 
I can't not to post it.... 3709 
Do not leave him unattended. 3709 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3709 
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