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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5179 
The first take on the new room. 5173 
New Room, a first shot. 5172 
Wonderful 5172 
Adopted 5171 
The first relaxed night with the room 5169 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5168 
The listening room is ready. 5167 
New Room, a First Shot 5165 
Continue to work with the room 5165 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5165 
Room 5164 
I think it will take another month. 5164 
The Buttressing 5164 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5163 
The new place and the new noises. 5163 
Big listening room 5162 
Screw the "big" rooms 5162 
Big listening rooms 5162 
First reflection points 5161 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5161 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5158 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5157 
Squeezing the floor 5157 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5157 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5157 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5156 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5156 
The new room, the very first listening. 5156 
The 14.5 foot. 5155 
Again… 5154 
Romy's new Playground 5154 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5154 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5154 
For the uninitiated ... 5153 
NH guy 5153 
Room 5153 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5152 
The first base is done 5152 
Reentry time alignment. 5151 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5150 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5150 
Mid bass horn. 5150 
Guess is only a guess… 5150 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5150 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5149 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5149 
Diffusors 5149 
Diffuse injection 5149 
Let analyse why it so 5149 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5149 
Wheel and Deal 5149 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5149 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5149 
I Must Be Missing Something 5149 
I put sliders under my speakers 5148 
ROOM 5147 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5147 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5147 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5147 
No concerns 5147 
Speakers and room 5147 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5146 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5146 
Diaphram 5146 
Phram 5146 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5146 
Perfect piston 5146 
Decorater 5145 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5145 
New morning 5144 
The first take on the room with RTA 5143 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5143 
Axiomatic 5143 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5142 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5142 
The size of the bass. 5142 
Bass Factory 5142 
Crude Level, or something more? 5142 
I will play with it this week…. 5142 
Rent-A 5142 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5142 
Corner horns 5142 
Cheating from below 5142 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5142 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5141 
A possibly overly simplified view 5141 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5141 
Iceberg 5141 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5141 
Why not horn 5141 
A correction…. 5141 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5141 
They are just not related things at all. 5141 
Fertin 5139 
Low resonance is good... 5139 
Et tu, Brute? 5138 
The Room response at LF 5137 
Life On The Ground Floor 5137 
Bass arrays 5137 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5137 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5137 
The super sucks. 5137 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5137 
You may also try 5136 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5136 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5136 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5136 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5136 
60 Hz Resonance 5136 
No notching… so far. 5136 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5135 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5135 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5135 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5135 
Power to the People 5135 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5135 
Aura 5135 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5135 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5135 
All class D is the same 5135 
Interpreting the LF results. 5134 
The Halibut 5134 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5134 
The Big Picture 5134 
Power & ULF channels 5134 
The big picture indeed. 5134 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5134 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5134 
The Power and the Glory 5133 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5133 
I guess I did not get this memo 5133 
French LF drivers 5133 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5133 
(another) French LF approach 5132 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5132 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5132 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5132 
Limpschtick 5132 
Symmetry 5132 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5131 
Room correction 5131 
It migh be more complicated. 5131 
Bass EQ ? 5131 
Agree and not. 5131 
Two "diseases" 5131 
Parametric filters 5131 
Ceiling arrays 5131 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5131 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5131 
The Middle of the Room. 5131 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5131 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5131 
Stop! 5131 
Appendectomy 5131 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5130 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5130 
No Isolation 5130 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5127 
Potential contenders? 5126 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5126 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5126 
Those Crazy Canucks 5122 
Mo' Better Bass 5116 
Bird in the Hand? 5116 
A wet listening spot? 5109 
Storm 5106 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5106 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5092 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5062 
Polar Opposite ULF 5061 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5049 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5047 
Differently but the same. 5046 
PVC 5045 
The sail test try. 5045 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5045 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5045 
Trial 5044 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5044 
Some explanations 5044 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5043 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5042 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5041 
Acrylate 5040 
Magic blanket 5040 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5039 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5039 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5039 
I have a few options. 5039 
Foam color 5039 
Strange things with upperbass 5039 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5038 
Teatro reform. . . 5038 
The foaming room dilemma. 5037 
Melamine Foam 5037 
Foaming up the cat house 5037 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5037 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5037 
Acoustic revisions… 5036 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5033 
Surprises so far in the new room 5032 
The upperbass in the new room. 5032 
Slight change of hart. 5031 
Camco supply of Boston 5029 
Room acoustics 5029 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 4988 
I need to kill dust first. 4988 
Ahh, the echo chamber 4986 
To feed the leeches? 4986 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 4985 
Yh 4985 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 4985 
DPOLs? 4985 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 4985 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 4982 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 4982 
A HalfPipe solution? 4982 
I absolutely love it. 4982 
Piper work 4981 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 4981 
Absorption 4981 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 4980 
Cats life ? 4980 
Call me Pussy. 4980 
More about traps 4980 
Acoustic impedance? 4980 
You maybe right 4980 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 4980 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 4979 
Heavy Curtain 4979 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 4978 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 4978 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 4978 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 4975 
Fix speaker move chair? 4974 
Back and forth ceremony 4974 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 4973 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 4972 
Glass windows 4971 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 4970 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 4969 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 4967 
How to use basement jacks? 4967 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 4967 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 4967 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 4966 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 4966 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 4965 
Sore eyes... 4964 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 4964 
The harvesting week! 4962 
I need an inspiration… 4961 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 4960 
Like this? 4960 
Dramatically randomize MF 4960 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 4959 
The room eats dynamic 4959 
Diffusers 4959 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 4958 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 4943 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 4942 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 4942 
A typical midday in my new listening room 4942 
About Width-Importance balance. 4940 
Letting the music scale up 4939 
Constant-width vs. active-width 4939 
To finish my house décor… 4935 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 4934 
Phase nuances – the last liability 4933 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 4933 
Calling the gods of music 4933 
Absolutely 4933 
Phase manipulation 4933 
No relation. 4933 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 4933 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 4933 
Dynamical mismatch 4932 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 4932 
Stradiwinerius? 4929 
Dealing with the glass. 4928 
Boston 4928 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 4928 
Added mass 4928 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 4928 
It is about moderation…. 4928 
To hell with the wine... 4928 
Also for other surafaces 4927 
LEAD 4927 
LEAD & GLASS 4927 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 4927 
Read carefully 4927 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 4927 
Crooks and morons 4927 
Magiscopios 4926 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 4906 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 4906 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 4905 
The LP setup in the new home. 4854 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 4849 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 4849 
Pianochord will do! 4849 
Spanyi heaven 4849 
I see no conflict at all. 4849 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 4849 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 4849 
A year after closing 4841 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 4841 
Traveling antimatter 4834 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 4828 
The fiberglass aggravations. 4827 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 4801 
Cast Iron fireplace 4800 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 4800 
The hardcore way 4800 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 4764 
This is How It's Done 4763 
Listening room during summer. 4751 
What about those... 4750 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 4750 
Reducing A/C Noise 4750 
HVAC the Cat 4750 
Big Ass fan 4749 
Variac dimmers 4749 
Ceiling fan speed controls 4749 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 4749 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 4681 
Some winter observations. 4572 
That Asian man…. 4541 
The Franz Schubert morning 4515 
Spring.... 4464 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4414 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4385 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4385 
Just good photography? 4385 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4385 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4385 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4384 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4384 
Sports car 4384 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4384 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4384 
Train Positioning 4384 
Kind of what I want 4384 
The lap listening… 4384 
Family Room 4384 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4381 
A super audio room. 4377 
Time Warp! 4377 
A piano in a listening room 4356 
Pianissimo 4356 
The plan in blue. 4356 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4356 
My doubts 4356 
It is exactly what I worry. 4355 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4355 
Musicians at home 4355 
Piano Measurements 4354 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4349 
The next step. 4335 
Midbass horns missing?? 4334 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4324 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4324 
Baby Grand 4323 
Wood floor 4323 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4323 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4323 
Amy’s baby. 4321 
Improvement 4321 
Agree with Scott 4321 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4309 
Integrated casters 4309 
Very nice, thanks. 4309 
Customization 4309 
Sliders 4309 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4302 
Congratulations 4302 
Holes in the floor... 4302 
Tubes and kids 4302 
Sweet spot enlargement 4302 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4300 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4299 
Wood Floors and Water 4299 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4294 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4293 
WAF is for Losers 4293 
WAF: it depends. 4293 
Integration 4292 
Here and there. 4292 
Life after WWIII 4292 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4292 
Cables management. 4290 
Featurizing 4290 
Kids and tubes cont. 4287 
Kid magnet 4287 
Kids and audio 4286 
Radars 4286 
Wow, what the days! 4282 
The comming weekend 4278 
It all was worth it! 4275 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4270 
Here is how it is look. 4270 
Resolving the carpet issue 4270 
Bonfire 4270 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4270 
Proof of concept? 4270 
Geometry 4270 
A view from listening position. 4270 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4270 
Some feedback 4270 
Evening 4270 
I wonder why. 4269 
Rugs and things 4269 
In defense… 4269 
I can’t get it. 4266 
Haze. 4265 
Front wall 4265 
It is very possible. 4265 
It is nice to be back. 4262 
My comfy corner. 4259 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 3899 
WMD in house. 3721 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 3624 
The third listening spot. 3603 
For sure a very different experience. 3565 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 3560 
It's Jfretch's system. 3560 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 3559 
Domestic games 3513 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3374 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3374 
Dynamic screening 3374 
Actually this is very good idea! 3374 
Volcanic fabric 3374 
I should have done this. 3372 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3368 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3337 
No worries 3337 
Awesome memories 3337 
Optimization of space 3337 
Child-ish considerations 3334 
Finding peace.... 3328 
"Fencing"? 3327 
I need to build something custom 3327 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3327 
Stressed Skin 3327 
NYC elevators 3327 
Kids toys and quantities. 3327 
Everything is completely reversible 3326 
Racks and things 3326 
Now it looks even more promising! 3326 
Quantity of rods 3326 
Avoiding diagonals 3324 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3323 
That's not fair! 3323 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3323 
Discrimination? 3318 
Vertical configuration 3311 
Impresive ! 3240 
Did you read the site? 3240 
Contact 3240 
Company's name is Rixrax 3240 
Stand 3239 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3195 
End of life headphone system 3195 
Something like this? 3195 
The "Second Living Room" 3195 
Mixing urban & suburban 3195 
Late night listening 3195 
Moving life... 3193 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3193 
A true listening room. 3169 
It started… 3154 
Levels of Interest 3154 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3154 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3154 
I can't not to post it.... 3154 
Do not leave him unattended. 3154 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3154 
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