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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5988 
The first take on the new room. 5982 
New Room, a first shot. 5981 
Wonderful 5981 
Adopted 5980 
The first relaxed night with the room 5978 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5977 
The listening room is ready. 5976 
New Room, a First Shot 5974 
Continue to work with the room 5974 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5974 
Room 5973 
I think it will take another month. 5973 
The Buttressing 5973 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5972 
The new place and the new noises. 5972 
Big listening room 5971 
Screw the "big" rooms 5971 
Big listening rooms 5971 
First reflection points 5970 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5970 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5967 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5966 
Squeezing the floor 5966 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5966 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5966 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5965 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5965 
The new room, the very first listening. 5965 
The 14.5 foot. 5964 
Again… 5963 
Romy's new Playground 5963 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5963 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5963 
For the uninitiated ... 5962 
NH guy 5962 
Room 5962 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5961 
The first base is done 5961 
Reentry time alignment. 5960 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5959 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5959 
Mid bass horn. 5959 
Guess is only a guess… 5959 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5959 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5958 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5958 
Diffusors 5958 
Diffuse injection 5958 
Let analyse why it so 5958 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5958 
Wheel and Deal 5958 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5958 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5958 
I Must Be Missing Something 5958 
I put sliders under my speakers 5957 
ROOM 5956 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5956 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5956 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5956 
No concerns 5956 
Speakers and room 5956 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5955 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5955 
Diaphram 5955 
Phram 5955 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5955 
Perfect piston 5955 
Decorater 5954 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5954 
New morning 5953 
The first take on the room with RTA 5952 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5952 
Axiomatic 5952 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5951 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5951 
The size of the bass. 5951 
Bass Factory 5951 
Crude Level, or something more? 5951 
I will play with it this week…. 5951 
Rent-A 5951 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5951 
Corner horns 5951 
Cheating from below 5951 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5951 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5950 
A possibly overly simplified view 5950 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5950 
Iceberg 5950 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5950 
Why not horn 5950 
A correction…. 5950 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5950 
They are just not related things at all. 5950 
Fertin 5948 
Low resonance is good... 5948 
Et tu, Brute? 5947 
The Room response at LF 5946 
Life On The Ground Floor 5946 
Bass arrays 5946 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5946 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5946 
The super sucks. 5946 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5946 
You may also try 5945 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5945 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5945 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5945 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5945 
60 Hz Resonance 5945 
No notching… so far. 5945 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5944 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5944 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5944 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5944 
Power to the People 5944 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5944 
Aura 5944 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5944 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5944 
All class D is the same 5944 
Interpreting the LF results. 5943 
The Halibut 5943 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5943 
The Big Picture 5943 
Power & ULF channels 5943 
The big picture indeed. 5943 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5943 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5943 
The Power and the Glory 5942 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5942 
I guess I did not get this memo 5942 
French LF drivers 5942 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5942 
(another) French LF approach 5941 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5941 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5941 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5941 
Limpschtick 5941 
Symmetry 5941 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5940 
Room correction 5940 
It migh be more complicated. 5940 
Bass EQ ? 5940 
Agree and not. 5940 
Two "diseases" 5940 
Parametric filters 5940 
Ceiling arrays 5940 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5940 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5940 
The Middle of the Room. 5940 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5940 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5940 
Stop! 5940 
Appendectomy 5940 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5939 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5939 
No Isolation 5939 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5936 
Potential contenders? 5935 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5935 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5935 
Those Crazy Canucks 5931 
Mo' Better Bass 5925 
Bird in the Hand? 5925 
A wet listening spot? 5918 
Storm 5915 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5915 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5901 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5871 
Polar Opposite ULF 5870 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5858 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5856 
Differently but the same. 5855 
PVC 5854 
The sail test try. 5854 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5854 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5854 
Trial 5853 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5853 
Some explanations 5853 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5852 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5851 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5850 
Acrylate 5849 
Magic blanket 5849 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5848 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5848 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5848 
I have a few options. 5848 
Foam color 5848 
Strange things with upperbass 5848 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5847 
Teatro reform. . . 5847 
The foaming room dilemma. 5846 
Melamine Foam 5846 
Foaming up the cat house 5846 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5846 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5846 
Acoustic revisions… 5845 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5842 
Surprises so far in the new room 5841 
The upperbass in the new room. 5841 
Slight change of hart. 5840 
Camco supply of Boston 5838 
Room acoustics 5838 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5797 
I need to kill dust first. 5797 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5795 
To feed the leeches? 5795 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5794 
Yh 5794 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5794 
DPOLs? 5794 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5794 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5791 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5791 
A HalfPipe solution? 5791 
I absolutely love it. 5791 
Piper work 5790 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5790 
Absorption 5790 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5789 
Cats life ? 5789 
Call me Pussy. 5789 
More about traps 5789 
Acoustic impedance? 5789 
You maybe right 5789 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5789 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5788 
Heavy Curtain 5788 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5787 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5787 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5787 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5784 
Fix speaker move chair? 5783 
Back and forth ceremony 5783 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5782 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5781 
Glass windows 5780 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5779 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5778 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5776 
How to use basement jacks? 5776 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5776 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5776 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5775 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5775 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5774 
Sore eyes... 5773 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5773 
The harvesting week! 5771 
I need an inspiration… 5770 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5769 
Like this? 5769 
Dramatically randomize MF 5769 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5768 
The room eats dynamic 5768 
Diffusers 5768 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5767 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5752 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5751 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5751 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5751 
About Width-Importance balance. 5749 
Letting the music scale up 5748 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5748 
To finish my house décor… 5744 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5743 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5742 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5742 
Calling the gods of music 5742 
Absolutely 5742 
Phase manipulation 5742 
No relation. 5742 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5742 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5742 
Dynamical mismatch 5741 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5741 
Stradiwinerius? 5738 
Dealing with the glass. 5737 
Boston 5737 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5737 
Added mass 5737 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5737 
It is about moderation…. 5737 
To hell with the wine... 5737 
Also for other surafaces 5736 
LEAD 5736 
LEAD & GLASS 5736 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5736 
Read carefully 5736 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5736 
Crooks and morons 5736 
Magiscopios 5735 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5715 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5715 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5714 
The LP setup in the new home. 5663 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5658 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5658 
Pianochord will do! 5658 
Spanyi heaven 5658 
I see no conflict at all. 5658 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5658 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5658 
A year after closing 5650 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5650 
Traveling antimatter 5643 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5637 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5636 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5610 
Cast Iron fireplace 5609 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5609 
The hardcore way 5609 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5573 
This is How It's Done 5572 
Listening room during summer. 5560 
What about those... 5559 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5559 
Reducing A/C Noise 5559 
HVAC the Cat 5559 
Big Ass fan 5558 
Variac dimmers 5558 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5558 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5558 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5490 
Some winter observations. 5381 
That Asian man…. 5350 
The Franz Schubert morning 5324 
Spring.... 5273 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5223 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5194 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5194 
Just good photography? 5194 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5194 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5194 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5193 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5193 
Sports car 5193 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5193 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5193 
Train Positioning 5193 
Kind of what I want 5193 
The lap listening… 5193 
Family Room 5193 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5190 
A super audio room. 5186 
Time Warp! 5186 
A piano in a listening room 5165 
Pianissimo 5165 
The plan in blue. 5165 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5165 
My doubts 5165 
It is exactly what I worry. 5164 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5164 
Musicians at home 5164 
Piano Measurements 5163 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5158 
The next step. 5144 
Midbass horns missing?? 5143 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5133 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5133 
Baby Grand 5132 
Wood floor 5132 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5132 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5132 
Amy’s baby. 5130 
Improvement 5130 
Agree with Scott 5130 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5118 
Integrated casters 5118 
Very nice, thanks. 5118 
Customization 5118 
Sliders 5118 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5111 
Congratulations 5111 
Holes in the floor... 5111 
Tubes and kids 5111 
Sweet spot enlargement 5111 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5109 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5108 
Wood Floors and Water 5108 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5103 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5102 
WAF is for Losers 5102 
WAF: it depends. 5102 
Integration 5101 
Here and there. 5101 
Life after WWIII 5101 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5101 
Cables management. 5099 
Featurizing 5099 
Kids and tubes cont. 5096 
Kid magnet 5096 
Kids and audio 5095 
Radars 5095 
Wow, what the days! 5091 
The comming weekend 5087 
It all was worth it! 5084 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5079 
Here is how it is look. 5079 
Resolving the carpet issue 5079 
Bonfire 5079 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5079 
Proof of concept? 5079 
Geometry 5079 
A view from listening position. 5079 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5079 
Some feedback 5079 
Evening 5079 
I wonder why. 5078 
Rugs and things 5078 
In defense… 5078 
I can’t get it. 5075 
Haze. 5074 
Front wall 5074 
It is very possible. 5074 
It is nice to be back. 5071 
My comfy corner. 5068 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4708 
WMD in house. 4530 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4433 
The third listening spot. 4412 
For sure a very different experience. 4374 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4369 
It's Jfretch's system. 4369 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4368 
Domestic games 4322 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4183 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4183 
Dynamic screening 4183 
Actually this is very good idea! 4183 
Volcanic fabric 4183 
I should have done this. 4181 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4177 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4146 
No worries 4146 
Awesome memories 4146 
Optimization of space 4146 
Child-ish considerations 4143 
Finding peace.... 4137 
"Fencing"? 4136 
I need to build something custom 4136 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4136 
Stressed Skin 4136 
NYC elevators 4136 
Kids toys and quantities. 4136 
Everything is completely reversible 4135 
Racks and things 4135 
Now it looks even more promising! 4135 
Quantity of rods 4135 
Avoiding diagonals 4133 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4132 
That's not fair! 4132 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4132 
Discrimination? 4127 
Vertical configuration 4120 
Impresive ! 4049 
Did you read the site? 4049 
Contact 4049 
Company's name is Rixrax 4049 
Stand 4048 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4004 
End of life headphone system 4004 
Something like this? 4004 
The "Second Living Room" 4004 
Mixing urban & suburban 4004 
Late night listening 4004 
Moving life... 4002 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4002 
A true listening room. 3978 
It started… 3963 
Levels of Interest 3963 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3963 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3963 
I can't not to post it.... 3963 
Do not leave him unattended. 3963 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3963 
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