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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5730 
The first take on the new room. 5724 
New Room, a first shot. 5723 
Wonderful 5723 
Adopted 5722 
The first relaxed night with the room 5720 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5719 
The listening room is ready. 5718 
New Room, a First Shot 5716 
Continue to work with the room 5716 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5716 
Room 5715 
I think it will take another month. 5715 
The Buttressing 5715 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5714 
The new place and the new noises. 5714 
Big listening room 5713 
Screw the "big" rooms 5713 
Big listening rooms 5713 
First reflection points 5712 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5712 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5709 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5708 
Squeezing the floor 5708 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5708 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5708 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5707 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5707 
The new room, the very first listening. 5707 
The 14.5 foot. 5706 
Again… 5705 
Romy's new Playground 5705 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5705 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5705 
For the uninitiated ... 5704 
NH guy 5704 
Room 5704 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5703 
The first base is done 5703 
Reentry time alignment. 5702 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5701 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5701 
Mid bass horn. 5701 
Guess is only a guess… 5701 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5701 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5700 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5700 
Diffusors 5700 
Diffuse injection 5700 
Let analyse why it so 5700 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5700 
Wheel and Deal 5700 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5700 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5700 
I Must Be Missing Something 5700 
I put sliders under my speakers 5699 
ROOM 5698 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5698 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5698 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5698 
No concerns 5698 
Speakers and room 5698 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5697 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5697 
Diaphram 5697 
Phram 5697 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5697 
Perfect piston 5697 
Decorater 5696 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5696 
New morning 5695 
The first take on the room with RTA 5694 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5694 
Axiomatic 5694 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5693 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5693 
The size of the bass. 5693 
Bass Factory 5693 
Crude Level, or something more? 5693 
I will play with it this week…. 5693 
Rent-A 5693 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5693 
Corner horns 5693 
Cheating from below 5693 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5693 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5692 
A possibly overly simplified view 5692 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5692 
Iceberg 5692 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5692 
Why not horn 5692 
A correction…. 5692 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5692 
They are just not related things at all. 5692 
Fertin 5690 
Low resonance is good... 5690 
Et tu, Brute? 5689 
The Room response at LF 5688 
Life On The Ground Floor 5688 
Bass arrays 5688 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5688 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5688 
The super sucks. 5688 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5688 
You may also try 5687 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5687 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5687 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5687 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5687 
60 Hz Resonance 5687 
No notching… so far. 5687 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5686 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5686 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5686 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5686 
Power to the People 5686 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5686 
Aura 5686 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5686 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5686 
All class D is the same 5686 
Interpreting the LF results. 5685 
The Halibut 5685 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5685 
The Big Picture 5685 
Power & ULF channels 5685 
The big picture indeed. 5685 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5685 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5685 
The Power and the Glory 5684 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5684 
I guess I did not get this memo 5684 
French LF drivers 5684 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5684 
(another) French LF approach 5683 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5683 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5683 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5683 
Limpschtick 5683 
Symmetry 5683 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5682 
Room correction 5682 
It migh be more complicated. 5682 
Bass EQ ? 5682 
Agree and not. 5682 
Two "diseases" 5682 
Parametric filters 5682 
Ceiling arrays 5682 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5682 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5682 
The Middle of the Room. 5682 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5682 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5682 
Stop! 5682 
Appendectomy 5682 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5681 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5681 
No Isolation 5681 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5678 
Potential contenders? 5677 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5677 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5677 
Those Crazy Canucks 5673 
Mo' Better Bass 5667 
Bird in the Hand? 5667 
A wet listening spot? 5660 
Storm 5657 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5657 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5643 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5613 
Polar Opposite ULF 5612 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5600 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5598 
Differently but the same. 5597 
PVC 5596 
The sail test try. 5596 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5596 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5596 
Trial 5595 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5595 
Some explanations 5595 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5594 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5593 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5592 
Acrylate 5591 
Magic blanket 5591 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5590 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5590 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5590 
I have a few options. 5590 
Foam color 5590 
Strange things with upperbass 5590 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5589 
Teatro reform. . . 5589 
The foaming room dilemma. 5588 
Melamine Foam 5588 
Foaming up the cat house 5588 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5588 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5588 
Acoustic revisions… 5587 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5584 
Surprises so far in the new room 5583 
The upperbass in the new room. 5583 
Slight change of hart. 5582 
Camco supply of Boston 5580 
Room acoustics 5580 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5539 
I need to kill dust first. 5539 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5537 
To feed the leeches? 5537 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5536 
Yh 5536 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5536 
DPOLs? 5536 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5536 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5533 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5533 
A HalfPipe solution? 5533 
I absolutely love it. 5533 
Piper work 5532 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5532 
Absorption 5532 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5531 
Cats life ? 5531 
Call me Pussy. 5531 
More about traps 5531 
Acoustic impedance? 5531 
You maybe right 5531 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5531 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5530 
Heavy Curtain 5530 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5529 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5529 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5529 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5526 
Fix speaker move chair? 5525 
Back and forth ceremony 5525 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5524 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5523 
Glass windows 5522 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5521 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5520 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5518 
How to use basement jacks? 5518 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5518 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5518 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5517 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5517 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5516 
Sore eyes... 5515 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5515 
The harvesting week! 5513 
I need an inspiration… 5512 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5511 
Like this? 5511 
Dramatically randomize MF 5511 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5510 
The room eats dynamic 5510 
Diffusers 5510 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5509 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5494 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5493 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5493 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5493 
About Width-Importance balance. 5491 
Letting the music scale up 5490 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5490 
To finish my house décor… 5486 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5485 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5484 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5484 
Calling the gods of music 5484 
Absolutely 5484 
Phase manipulation 5484 
No relation. 5484 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5484 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5484 
Dynamical mismatch 5483 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5483 
Stradiwinerius? 5480 
Dealing with the glass. 5479 
Boston 5479 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5479 
Added mass 5479 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5479 
It is about moderation…. 5479 
To hell with the wine... 5479 
Also for other surafaces 5478 
LEAD 5478 
LEAD & GLASS 5478 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5478 
Read carefully 5478 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5478 
Crooks and morons 5478 
Magiscopios 5477 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5457 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5457 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5456 
The LP setup in the new home. 5405 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5400 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5400 
Pianochord will do! 5400 
Spanyi heaven 5400 
I see no conflict at all. 5400 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5400 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5400 
A year after closing 5392 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5392 
Traveling antimatter 5385 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5379 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5378 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5352 
Cast Iron fireplace 5351 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5351 
The hardcore way 5351 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5315 
This is How It's Done 5314 
Listening room during summer. 5302 
What about those... 5301 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5301 
Reducing A/C Noise 5301 
HVAC the Cat 5301 
Big Ass fan 5300 
Variac dimmers 5300 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5300 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5300 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5232 
Some winter observations. 5123 
That Asian man…. 5092 
The Franz Schubert morning 5066 
Spring.... 5015 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4965 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4936 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4936 
Just good photography? 4936 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4936 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4936 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4935 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4935 
Sports car 4935 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4935 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4935 
Train Positioning 4935 
Kind of what I want 4935 
The lap listening… 4935 
Family Room 4935 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4932 
A super audio room. 4928 
Time Warp! 4928 
A piano in a listening room 4907 
Pianissimo 4907 
The plan in blue. 4907 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4907 
My doubts 4907 
It is exactly what I worry. 4906 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4906 
Musicians at home 4906 
Piano Measurements 4905 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4900 
The next step. 4886 
Midbass horns missing?? 4885 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4875 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4875 
Baby Grand 4874 
Wood floor 4874 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4874 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4874 
Amy’s baby. 4872 
Improvement 4872 
Agree with Scott 4872 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4860 
Integrated casters 4860 
Very nice, thanks. 4860 
Customization 4860 
Sliders 4860 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4853 
Congratulations 4853 
Holes in the floor... 4853 
Tubes and kids 4853 
Sweet spot enlargement 4853 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4851 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4850 
Wood Floors and Water 4850 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4845 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4844 
WAF is for Losers 4844 
WAF: it depends. 4844 
Integration 4843 
Here and there. 4843 
Life after WWIII 4843 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4843 
Cables management. 4841 
Featurizing 4841 
Kids and tubes cont. 4838 
Kid magnet 4838 
Kids and audio 4837 
Radars 4837 
Wow, what the days! 4833 
The comming weekend 4829 
It all was worth it! 4826 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4821 
Here is how it is look. 4821 
Resolving the carpet issue 4821 
Bonfire 4821 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4821 
Proof of concept? 4821 
Geometry 4821 
A view from listening position. 4821 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4821 
Some feedback 4821 
Evening 4821 
I wonder why. 4820 
Rugs and things 4820 
In defense… 4820 
I can’t get it. 4817 
Haze. 4816 
Front wall 4816 
It is very possible. 4816 
It is nice to be back. 4813 
My comfy corner. 4810 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4450 
WMD in house. 4272 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4175 
The third listening spot. 4154 
For sure a very different experience. 4116 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4111 
It's Jfretch's system. 4111 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4110 
Domestic games 4064 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3925 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3925 
Dynamic screening 3925 
Actually this is very good idea! 3925 
Volcanic fabric 3925 
I should have done this. 3923 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3919 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3888 
No worries 3888 
Awesome memories 3888 
Optimization of space 3888 
Child-ish considerations 3885 
Finding peace.... 3879 
"Fencing"? 3878 
I need to build something custom 3878 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3878 
Stressed Skin 3878 
NYC elevators 3878 
Kids toys and quantities. 3878 
Everything is completely reversible 3877 
Racks and things 3877 
Now it looks even more promising! 3877 
Quantity of rods 3877 
Avoiding diagonals 3875 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3874 
That's not fair! 3874 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3874 
Discrimination? 3869 
Vertical configuration 3862 
Impresive ! 3791 
Did you read the site? 3791 
Contact 3791 
Company's name is Rixrax 3791 
Stand 3790 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3746 
End of life headphone system 3746 
Something like this? 3746 
The "Second Living Room" 3746 
Mixing urban & suburban 3746 
Late night listening 3746 
Moving life... 3744 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3744 
A true listening room. 3720 
It started… 3705 
Levels of Interest 3705 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3705 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3705 
I can't not to post it.... 3705 
Do not leave him unattended. 3705 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3705 
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