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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5140 
The first take on the new room. 5134 
New Room, a first shot. 5133 
Wonderful 5133 
Adopted 5132 
The first relaxed night with the room 5130 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5129 
The listening room is ready. 5128 
New Room, a First Shot 5126 
Continue to work with the room 5126 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5126 
Room 5125 
I think it will take another month. 5125 
The Buttressing 5125 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5124 
The new place and the new noises. 5124 
Big listening room 5123 
Screw the "big" rooms 5123 
Big listening rooms 5123 
First reflection points 5122 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5122 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5119 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5118 
Squeezing the floor 5118 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5118 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5118 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5117 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5117 
The new room, the very first listening. 5117 
The 14.5 foot. 5116 
Again… 5115 
Romy's new Playground 5115 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5115 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5115 
For the uninitiated ... 5114 
NH guy 5114 
Room 5114 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5113 
The first base is done 5113 
Reentry time alignment. 5112 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5111 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5111 
Mid bass horn. 5111 
Guess is only a guess… 5111 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5111 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5110 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5110 
Diffusors 5110 
Diffuse injection 5110 
Let analyse why it so 5110 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5110 
Wheel and Deal 5110 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5110 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5110 
I Must Be Missing Something 5110 
I put sliders under my speakers 5109 
ROOM 5108 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5108 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5108 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5108 
No concerns 5108 
Speakers and room 5108 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5107 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5107 
Diaphram 5107 
Phram 5107 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5107 
Perfect piston 5107 
Decorater 5106 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5106 
New morning 5105 
The first take on the room with RTA 5104 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5104 
Axiomatic 5104 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5103 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5103 
The size of the bass. 5103 
Bass Factory 5103 
Crude Level, or something more? 5103 
I will play with it this week…. 5103 
Rent-A 5103 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5103 
Corner horns 5103 
Cheating from below 5103 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5103 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5102 
A possibly overly simplified view 5102 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5102 
Iceberg 5102 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5102 
Why not horn 5102 
A correction…. 5102 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5102 
They are just not related things at all. 5102 
Fertin 5100 
Low resonance is good... 5100 
Et tu, Brute? 5099 
The Room response at LF 5098 
Life On The Ground Floor 5098 
Bass arrays 5098 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5098 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5098 
The super sucks. 5098 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5098 
You may also try 5097 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5097 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5097 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5097 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5097 
60 Hz Resonance 5097 
No notching… so far. 5097 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5096 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5096 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5096 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5096 
Power to the People 5096 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5096 
Aura 5096 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5096 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5096 
All class D is the same 5096 
Interpreting the LF results. 5095 
The Halibut 5095 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5095 
The Big Picture 5095 
Power & ULF channels 5095 
The big picture indeed. 5095 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5095 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5095 
The Power and the Glory 5094 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5094 
I guess I did not get this memo 5094 
French LF drivers 5094 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5094 
(another) French LF approach 5093 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5093 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5093 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5093 
Limpschtick 5093 
Symmetry 5093 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5092 
Room correction 5092 
It migh be more complicated. 5092 
Bass EQ ? 5092 
Agree and not. 5092 
Two "diseases" 5092 
Parametric filters 5092 
Ceiling arrays 5092 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5092 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5092 
The Middle of the Room. 5092 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5092 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5092 
Stop! 5092 
Appendectomy 5092 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5091 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5091 
No Isolation 5091 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5088 
Potential contenders? 5087 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5087 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5087 
Those Crazy Canucks 5083 
Mo' Better Bass 5077 
Bird in the Hand? 5077 
A wet listening spot? 5070 
Storm 5067 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5067 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5053 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5023 
Polar Opposite ULF 5022 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5010 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5008 
Differently but the same. 5007 
PVC 5006 
The sail test try. 5006 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5006 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5006 
Trial 5005 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5005 
Some explanations 5005 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5004 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5003 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5002 
Acrylate 5001 
Magic blanket 5001 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5000 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5000 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5000 
I have a few options. 5000 
Foam color 5000 
Strange things with upperbass 5000 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 4999 
Teatro reform. . . 4999 
The foaming room dilemma. 4998 
Melamine Foam 4998 
Foaming up the cat house 4998 
The ASC Sound Panels. 4998 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 4998 
Acoustic revisions… 4997 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 4994 
Surprises so far in the new room 4993 
The upperbass in the new room. 4993 
Slight change of hart. 4992 
Camco supply of Boston 4990 
Room acoustics 4990 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 4949 
I need to kill dust first. 4949 
Ahh, the echo chamber 4947 
To feed the leeches? 4947 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 4946 
Yh 4946 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 4946 
DPOLs? 4946 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 4946 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 4943 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 4943 
A HalfPipe solution? 4943 
I absolutely love it. 4943 
Piper work 4942 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 4942 
Absorption 4942 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 4941 
Cats life ? 4941 
Call me Pussy. 4941 
More about traps 4941 
Acoustic impedance? 4941 
You maybe right 4941 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 4941 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 4940 
Heavy Curtain 4940 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 4939 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 4939 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 4939 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 4936 
Fix speaker move chair? 4935 
Back and forth ceremony 4935 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 4934 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 4933 
Glass windows 4932 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 4931 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 4930 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 4928 
How to use basement jacks? 4928 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 4928 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 4928 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 4927 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 4927 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 4926 
Sore eyes... 4925 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 4925 
The harvesting week! 4923 
I need an inspiration… 4922 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 4921 
Like this? 4921 
Dramatically randomize MF 4921 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 4920 
The room eats dynamic 4920 
Diffusers 4920 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 4919 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 4904 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 4903 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 4903 
A typical midday in my new listening room 4903 
About Width-Importance balance. 4901 
Letting the music scale up 4900 
Constant-width vs. active-width 4900 
To finish my house décor… 4896 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 4895 
Phase nuances – the last liability 4894 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 4894 
Calling the gods of music 4894 
Absolutely 4894 
Phase manipulation 4894 
No relation. 4894 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 4894 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 4894 
Dynamical mismatch 4893 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 4893 
Stradiwinerius? 4890 
Dealing with the glass. 4889 
Boston 4889 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 4889 
Added mass 4889 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 4889 
It is about moderation…. 4889 
To hell with the wine... 4889 
Also for other surafaces 4888 
LEAD 4888 
LEAD & GLASS 4888 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 4888 
Read carefully 4888 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 4888 
Crooks and morons 4888 
Magiscopios 4887 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 4867 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 4867 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 4866 
The LP setup in the new home. 4815 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 4810 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 4810 
Pianochord will do! 4810 
Spanyi heaven 4810 
I see no conflict at all. 4810 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 4810 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 4810 
A year after closing 4802 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 4802 
Traveling antimatter 4795 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 4789 
The fiberglass aggravations. 4788 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 4762 
Cast Iron fireplace 4761 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 4761 
The hardcore way 4761 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 4725 
This is How It's Done 4724 
Listening room during summer. 4712 
What about those... 4711 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 4711 
Reducing A/C Noise 4711 
HVAC the Cat 4711 
Big Ass fan 4710 
Variac dimmers 4710 
Ceiling fan speed controls 4710 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 4710 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 4642 
Some winter observations. 4533 
That Asian man…. 4502 
The Franz Schubert morning 4476 
Spring.... 4425 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4375 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4346 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4346 
Just good photography? 4346 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4346 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4346 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4345 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4345 
Sports car 4345 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4345 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4345 
Train Positioning 4345 
Kind of what I want 4345 
The lap listening… 4345 
Family Room 4345 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4342 
A super audio room. 4338 
Time Warp! 4338 
A piano in a listening room 4317 
Pianissimo 4317 
The plan in blue. 4317 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4317 
My doubts 4317 
It is exactly what I worry. 4316 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4316 
Musicians at home 4316 
Piano Measurements 4315 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4310 
The next step. 4296 
Midbass horns missing?? 4295 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4285 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4285 
Baby Grand 4284 
Wood floor 4284 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4284 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4284 
Amy’s baby. 4282 
Improvement 4282 
Agree with Scott 4282 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4270 
Integrated casters 4270 
Very nice, thanks. 4270 
Customization 4270 
Sliders 4270 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4263 
Congratulations 4263 
Holes in the floor... 4263 
Tubes and kids 4263 
Sweet spot enlargement 4263 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4261 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4260 
Wood Floors and Water 4260 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4255 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4254 
WAF is for Losers 4254 
WAF: it depends. 4254 
Integration 4253 
Here and there. 4253 
Life after WWIII 4253 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4253 
Cables management. 4251 
Featurizing 4251 
Kids and tubes cont. 4248 
Kid magnet 4248 
Kids and audio 4247 
Radars 4247 
Wow, what the days! 4243 
The comming weekend 4239 
It all was worth it! 4236 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4231 
Here is how it is look. 4231 
Resolving the carpet issue 4231 
Bonfire 4231 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4231 
Proof of concept? 4231 
Geometry 4231 
A view from listening position. 4231 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4231 
Some feedback 4231 
Evening 4231 
I wonder why. 4230 
Rugs and things 4230 
In defense… 4230 
I can’t get it. 4227 
Haze. 4226 
Front wall 4226 
It is very possible. 4226 
It is nice to be back. 4223 
My comfy corner. 4220 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 3860 
WMD in house. 3682 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 3585 
The third listening spot. 3564 
For sure a very different experience. 3526 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 3521 
It's Jfretch's system. 3521 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 3520 
Domestic games 3474 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3335 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3335 
Dynamic screening 3335 
Actually this is very good idea! 3335 
Volcanic fabric 3335 
I should have done this. 3333 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3329 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3298 
No worries 3298 
Awesome memories 3298 
Optimization of space 3298 
Child-ish considerations 3295 
Finding peace.... 3289 
"Fencing"? 3288 
I need to build something custom 3288 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3288 
Stressed Skin 3288 
NYC elevators 3288 
Kids toys and quantities. 3288 
Everything is completely reversible 3287 
Racks and things 3287 
Now it looks even more promising! 3287 
Quantity of rods 3287 
Avoiding diagonals 3285 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3284 
That's not fair! 3284 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3284 
Discrimination? 3279 
Vertical configuration 3272 
Impresive ! 3201 
Did you read the site? 3201 
Contact 3201 
Company's name is Rixrax 3201 
Stand 3200 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3156 
End of life headphone system 3156 
Something like this? 3156 
The "Second Living Room" 3156 
Mixing urban & suburban 3156 
Late night listening 3156 
Moving life... 3154 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3154 
A true listening room. 3130 
It started… 3115 
Levels of Interest 3115 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3115 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3115 
I can't not to post it.... 3115 
Do not leave him unattended. 3115 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3115 
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