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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5779 
The first take on the new room. 5773 
New Room, a first shot. 5772 
Wonderful 5772 
Adopted 5771 
The first relaxed night with the room 5769 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5768 
The listening room is ready. 5767 
New Room, a First Shot 5765 
Continue to work with the room 5765 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5765 
Room 5764 
I think it will take another month. 5764 
The Buttressing 5764 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5763 
The new place and the new noises. 5763 
Big listening room 5762 
Screw the "big" rooms 5762 
Big listening rooms 5762 
First reflection points 5761 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5761 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5758 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5757 
Squeezing the floor 5757 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5757 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5757 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5756 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5756 
The new room, the very first listening. 5756 
The 14.5 foot. 5755 
Again… 5754 
Romy's new Playground 5754 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5754 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5754 
For the uninitiated ... 5753 
NH guy 5753 
Room 5753 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5752 
The first base is done 5752 
Reentry time alignment. 5751 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5750 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5750 
Mid bass horn. 5750 
Guess is only a guess… 5750 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5750 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5749 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5749 
Diffusors 5749 
Diffuse injection 5749 
Let analyse why it so 5749 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5749 
Wheel and Deal 5749 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5749 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5749 
I Must Be Missing Something 5749 
I put sliders under my speakers 5748 
ROOM 5747 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5747 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5747 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5747 
No concerns 5747 
Speakers and room 5747 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5746 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5746 
Diaphram 5746 
Phram 5746 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5746 
Perfect piston 5746 
Decorater 5745 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5745 
New morning 5744 
The first take on the room with RTA 5743 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5743 
Axiomatic 5743 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5742 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5742 
The size of the bass. 5742 
Bass Factory 5742 
Crude Level, or something more? 5742 
I will play with it this week…. 5742 
Rent-A 5742 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5742 
Corner horns 5742 
Cheating from below 5742 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5742 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5741 
A possibly overly simplified view 5741 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5741 
Iceberg 5741 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5741 
Why not horn 5741 
A correction…. 5741 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5741 
They are just not related things at all. 5741 
Fertin 5739 
Low resonance is good... 5739 
Et tu, Brute? 5738 
The Room response at LF 5737 
Life On The Ground Floor 5737 
Bass arrays 5737 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5737 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5737 
The super sucks. 5737 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5737 
You may also try 5736 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5736 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5736 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5736 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5736 
60 Hz Resonance 5736 
No notching… so far. 5736 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5735 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5735 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5735 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5735 
Power to the People 5735 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5735 
Aura 5735 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5735 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5735 
All class D is the same 5735 
Interpreting the LF results. 5734 
The Halibut 5734 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5734 
The Big Picture 5734 
Power & ULF channels 5734 
The big picture indeed. 5734 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5734 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5734 
The Power and the Glory 5733 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5733 
I guess I did not get this memo 5733 
French LF drivers 5733 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5733 
(another) French LF approach 5732 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5732 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5732 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5732 
Limpschtick 5732 
Symmetry 5732 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5731 
Room correction 5731 
It migh be more complicated. 5731 
Bass EQ ? 5731 
Agree and not. 5731 
Two "diseases" 5731 
Parametric filters 5731 
Ceiling arrays 5731 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5731 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5731 
The Middle of the Room. 5731 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5731 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5731 
Stop! 5731 
Appendectomy 5731 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5730 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5730 
No Isolation 5730 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5727 
Potential contenders? 5726 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5726 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5726 
Those Crazy Canucks 5722 
Mo' Better Bass 5716 
Bird in the Hand? 5716 
A wet listening spot? 5709 
Storm 5706 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5706 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5692 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5662 
Polar Opposite ULF 5661 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5649 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5647 
Differently but the same. 5646 
PVC 5645 
The sail test try. 5645 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5645 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5645 
Trial 5644 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5644 
Some explanations 5644 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5643 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5642 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5641 
Acrylate 5640 
Magic blanket 5640 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5639 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5639 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5639 
I have a few options. 5639 
Foam color 5639 
Strange things with upperbass 5639 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5638 
Teatro reform. . . 5638 
The foaming room dilemma. 5637 
Melamine Foam 5637 
Foaming up the cat house 5637 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5637 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5637 
Acoustic revisions… 5636 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5633 
Surprises so far in the new room 5632 
The upperbass in the new room. 5632 
Slight change of hart. 5631 
Camco supply of Boston 5629 
Room acoustics 5629 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5588 
I need to kill dust first. 5588 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5586 
To feed the leeches? 5586 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5585 
Yh 5585 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5585 
DPOLs? 5585 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5585 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5582 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5582 
A HalfPipe solution? 5582 
I absolutely love it. 5582 
Piper work 5581 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5581 
Absorption 5581 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5580 
Cats life ? 5580 
Call me Pussy. 5580 
More about traps 5580 
Acoustic impedance? 5580 
You maybe right 5580 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5580 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5579 
Heavy Curtain 5579 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5578 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5578 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5578 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5575 
Fix speaker move chair? 5574 
Back and forth ceremony 5574 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5573 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5572 
Glass windows 5571 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5570 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5569 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5567 
How to use basement jacks? 5567 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5567 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5567 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5566 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5566 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5565 
Sore eyes... 5564 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5564 
The harvesting week! 5562 
I need an inspiration… 5561 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5560 
Like this? 5560 
Dramatically randomize MF 5560 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5559 
The room eats dynamic 5559 
Diffusers 5559 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5558 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5543 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5542 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5542 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5542 
About Width-Importance balance. 5540 
Letting the music scale up 5539 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5539 
To finish my house décor… 5535 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5534 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5533 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5533 
Calling the gods of music 5533 
Absolutely 5533 
Phase manipulation 5533 
No relation. 5533 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5533 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5533 
Dynamical mismatch 5532 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5532 
Stradiwinerius? 5529 
Dealing with the glass. 5528 
Boston 5528 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5528 
Added mass 5528 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5528 
It is about moderation…. 5528 
To hell with the wine... 5528 
Also for other surafaces 5527 
LEAD 5527 
LEAD & GLASS 5527 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5527 
Read carefully 5527 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5527 
Crooks and morons 5527 
Magiscopios 5526 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5506 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5506 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5505 
The LP setup in the new home. 5454 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5449 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5449 
Pianochord will do! 5449 
Spanyi heaven 5449 
I see no conflict at all. 5449 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5449 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5449 
A year after closing 5441 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5441 
Traveling antimatter 5434 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5428 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5427 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5401 
Cast Iron fireplace 5400 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5400 
The hardcore way 5400 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5364 
This is How It's Done 5363 
Listening room during summer. 5351 
What about those... 5350 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5350 
Reducing A/C Noise 5350 
HVAC the Cat 5350 
Big Ass fan 5349 
Variac dimmers 5349 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5349 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5349 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5281 
Some winter observations. 5172 
That Asian man…. 5141 
The Franz Schubert morning 5115 
Spring.... 5064 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5014 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4985 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4985 
Just good photography? 4985 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4985 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4985 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4984 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4984 
Sports car 4984 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4984 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4984 
Train Positioning 4984 
Kind of what I want 4984 
The lap listening… 4984 
Family Room 4984 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4981 
A super audio room. 4977 
Time Warp! 4977 
A piano in a listening room 4956 
Pianissimo 4956 
The plan in blue. 4956 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4956 
My doubts 4956 
It is exactly what I worry. 4955 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4955 
Musicians at home 4955 
Piano Measurements 4954 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4949 
The next step. 4935 
Midbass horns missing?? 4934 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4924 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4924 
Baby Grand 4923 
Wood floor 4923 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4923 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4923 
Amy’s baby. 4921 
Improvement 4921 
Agree with Scott 4921 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4909 
Integrated casters 4909 
Very nice, thanks. 4909 
Customization 4909 
Sliders 4909 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4902 
Congratulations 4902 
Holes in the floor... 4902 
Tubes and kids 4902 
Sweet spot enlargement 4902 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4900 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4899 
Wood Floors and Water 4899 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4894 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4893 
WAF is for Losers 4893 
WAF: it depends. 4893 
Integration 4892 
Here and there. 4892 
Life after WWIII 4892 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4892 
Cables management. 4890 
Featurizing 4890 
Kids and tubes cont. 4887 
Kid magnet 4887 
Kids and audio 4886 
Radars 4886 
Wow, what the days! 4882 
The comming weekend 4878 
It all was worth it! 4875 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4870 
Here is how it is look. 4870 
Resolving the carpet issue 4870 
Bonfire 4870 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4870 
Proof of concept? 4870 
Geometry 4870 
A view from listening position. 4870 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4870 
Some feedback 4870 
Evening 4870 
I wonder why. 4869 
Rugs and things 4869 
In defense… 4869 
I can’t get it. 4866 
Haze. 4865 
Front wall 4865 
It is very possible. 4865 
It is nice to be back. 4862 
My comfy corner. 4859 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4499 
WMD in house. 4321 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4224 
The third listening spot. 4203 
For sure a very different experience. 4165 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4160 
It's Jfretch's system. 4160 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4159 
Domestic games 4113 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3974 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3974 
Dynamic screening 3974 
Actually this is very good idea! 3974 
Volcanic fabric 3974 
I should have done this. 3972 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3968 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3937 
No worries 3937 
Awesome memories 3937 
Optimization of space 3937 
Child-ish considerations 3934 
Finding peace.... 3928 
"Fencing"? 3927 
I need to build something custom 3927 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3927 
Stressed Skin 3927 
NYC elevators 3927 
Kids toys and quantities. 3927 
Everything is completely reversible 3926 
Racks and things 3926 
Now it looks even more promising! 3926 
Quantity of rods 3926 
Avoiding diagonals 3924 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3923 
That's not fair! 3923 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3923 
Discrimination? 3918 
Vertical configuration 3911 
Impresive ! 3840 
Did you read the site? 3840 
Contact 3840 
Company's name is Rixrax 3840 
Stand 3839 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3795 
End of life headphone system 3795 
Something like this? 3795 
The "Second Living Room" 3795 
Mixing urban & suburban 3795 
Late night listening 3795 
Moving life... 3793 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3793 
A true listening room. 3769 
It started… 3754 
Levels of Interest 3754 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3754 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3754 
I can't not to post it.... 3754 
Do not leave him unattended. 3754 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3754 
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