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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5985 
The first take on the new room. 5979 
New Room, a first shot. 5978 
Wonderful 5978 
Adopted 5977 
The first relaxed night with the room 5975 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5974 
The listening room is ready. 5973 
New Room, a First Shot 5971 
Continue to work with the room 5971 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5971 
Room 5970 
I think it will take another month. 5970 
The Buttressing 5970 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5969 
The new place and the new noises. 5969 
Big listening room 5968 
Screw the "big" rooms 5968 
Big listening rooms 5968 
First reflection points 5967 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5967 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5964 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5963 
Squeezing the floor 5963 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5963 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5963 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5962 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5962 
The new room, the very first listening. 5962 
The 14.5 foot. 5961 
Again… 5960 
Romy's new Playground 5960 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5960 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5960 
For the uninitiated ... 5959 
NH guy 5959 
Room 5959 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5958 
The first base is done 5958 
Reentry time alignment. 5957 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5956 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5956 
Mid bass horn. 5956 
Guess is only a guess… 5956 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5956 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5955 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5955 
Diffusors 5955 
Diffuse injection 5955 
Let analyse why it so 5955 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5955 
Wheel and Deal 5955 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5955 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5955 
I Must Be Missing Something 5955 
I put sliders under my speakers 5954 
ROOM 5953 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5953 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5953 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5953 
No concerns 5953 
Speakers and room 5953 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5952 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5952 
Diaphram 5952 
Phram 5952 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5952 
Perfect piston 5952 
Decorater 5951 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5951 
New morning 5950 
The first take on the room with RTA 5949 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5949 
Axiomatic 5949 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5948 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5948 
The size of the bass. 5948 
Bass Factory 5948 
Crude Level, or something more? 5948 
I will play with it this week…. 5948 
Rent-A 5948 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5948 
Corner horns 5948 
Cheating from below 5948 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5948 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5947 
A possibly overly simplified view 5947 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5947 
Iceberg 5947 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5947 
Why not horn 5947 
A correction…. 5947 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5947 
They are just not related things at all. 5947 
Fertin 5945 
Low resonance is good... 5945 
Et tu, Brute? 5944 
The Room response at LF 5943 
Life On The Ground Floor 5943 
Bass arrays 5943 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5943 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5943 
The super sucks. 5943 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5943 
You may also try 5942 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5942 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5942 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5942 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5942 
60 Hz Resonance 5942 
No notching… so far. 5942 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5941 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5941 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5941 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5941 
Power to the People 5941 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5941 
Aura 5941 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5941 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5941 
All class D is the same 5941 
Interpreting the LF results. 5940 
The Halibut 5940 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5940 
The Big Picture 5940 
Power & ULF channels 5940 
The big picture indeed. 5940 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5940 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5940 
The Power and the Glory 5939 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5939 
I guess I did not get this memo 5939 
French LF drivers 5939 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5939 
(another) French LF approach 5938 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5938 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5938 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5938 
Limpschtick 5938 
Symmetry 5938 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5937 
Room correction 5937 
It migh be more complicated. 5937 
Bass EQ ? 5937 
Agree and not. 5937 
Two "diseases" 5937 
Parametric filters 5937 
Ceiling arrays 5937 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5937 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5937 
The Middle of the Room. 5937 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5937 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5937 
Stop! 5937 
Appendectomy 5937 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5936 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5936 
No Isolation 5936 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5933 
Potential contenders? 5932 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5932 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5932 
Those Crazy Canucks 5928 
Mo' Better Bass 5922 
Bird in the Hand? 5922 
A wet listening spot? 5915 
Storm 5912 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5912 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5898 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5868 
Polar Opposite ULF 5867 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5855 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5853 
Differently but the same. 5852 
PVC 5851 
The sail test try. 5851 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5851 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5851 
Trial 5850 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5850 
Some explanations 5850 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5849 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5848 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5847 
Acrylate 5846 
Magic blanket 5846 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5845 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5845 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5845 
I have a few options. 5845 
Foam color 5845 
Strange things with upperbass 5845 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5844 
Teatro reform. . . 5844 
The foaming room dilemma. 5843 
Melamine Foam 5843 
Foaming up the cat house 5843 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5843 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5843 
Acoustic revisions… 5842 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5839 
Surprises so far in the new room 5838 
The upperbass in the new room. 5838 
Slight change of hart. 5837 
Camco supply of Boston 5835 
Room acoustics 5835 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5794 
I need to kill dust first. 5794 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5792 
To feed the leeches? 5792 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5791 
Yh 5791 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5791 
DPOLs? 5791 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5791 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5788 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5788 
A HalfPipe solution? 5788 
I absolutely love it. 5788 
Piper work 5787 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5787 
Absorption 5787 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5786 
Cats life ? 5786 
Call me Pussy. 5786 
More about traps 5786 
Acoustic impedance? 5786 
You maybe right 5786 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5786 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5785 
Heavy Curtain 5785 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5784 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5784 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5784 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5781 
Fix speaker move chair? 5780 
Back and forth ceremony 5780 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5779 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5778 
Glass windows 5777 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5776 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5775 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5773 
How to use basement jacks? 5773 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5773 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5773 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5772 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5772 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5771 
Sore eyes... 5770 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5770 
The harvesting week! 5768 
I need an inspiration… 5767 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5766 
Like this? 5766 
Dramatically randomize MF 5766 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5765 
The room eats dynamic 5765 
Diffusers 5765 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5764 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5749 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5748 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5748 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5748 
About Width-Importance balance. 5746 
Letting the music scale up 5745 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5745 
To finish my house décor… 5741 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5740 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5739 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5739 
Calling the gods of music 5739 
Absolutely 5739 
Phase manipulation 5739 
No relation. 5739 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5739 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5739 
Dynamical mismatch 5738 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5738 
Stradiwinerius? 5735 
Dealing with the glass. 5734 
Boston 5734 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5734 
Added mass 5734 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5734 
It is about moderation…. 5734 
To hell with the wine... 5734 
Also for other surafaces 5733 
LEAD 5733 
LEAD & GLASS 5733 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5733 
Read carefully 5733 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5733 
Crooks and morons 5733 
Magiscopios 5732 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5712 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5712 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5711 
The LP setup in the new home. 5660 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5655 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5655 
Pianochord will do! 5655 
Spanyi heaven 5655 
I see no conflict at all. 5655 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5655 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5655 
A year after closing 5647 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5647 
Traveling antimatter 5640 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5634 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5633 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5607 
Cast Iron fireplace 5606 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5606 
The hardcore way 5606 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5570 
This is How It's Done 5569 
Listening room during summer. 5557 
What about those... 5556 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5556 
Reducing A/C Noise 5556 
HVAC the Cat 5556 
Big Ass fan 5555 
Variac dimmers 5555 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5555 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5555 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5487 
Some winter observations. 5378 
That Asian man…. 5347 
The Franz Schubert morning 5321 
Spring.... 5270 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5220 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5191 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5191 
Just good photography? 5191 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5191 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5191 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5190 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5190 
Sports car 5190 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5190 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5190 
Train Positioning 5190 
Kind of what I want 5190 
The lap listening… 5190 
Family Room 5190 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5187 
A super audio room. 5183 
Time Warp! 5183 
A piano in a listening room 5162 
Pianissimo 5162 
The plan in blue. 5162 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5162 
My doubts 5162 
It is exactly what I worry. 5161 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5161 
Musicians at home 5161 
Piano Measurements 5160 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5155 
The next step. 5141 
Midbass horns missing?? 5140 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5130 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5130 
Baby Grand 5129 
Wood floor 5129 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5129 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5129 
Amy’s baby. 5127 
Improvement 5127 
Agree with Scott 5127 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5115 
Integrated casters 5115 
Very nice, thanks. 5115 
Customization 5115 
Sliders 5115 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5108 
Congratulations 5108 
Holes in the floor... 5108 
Tubes and kids 5108 
Sweet spot enlargement 5108 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5106 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5105 
Wood Floors and Water 5105 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5100 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5099 
WAF is for Losers 5099 
WAF: it depends. 5099 
Integration 5098 
Here and there. 5098 
Life after WWIII 5098 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5098 
Cables management. 5096 
Featurizing 5096 
Kids and tubes cont. 5093 
Kid magnet 5093 
Kids and audio 5092 
Radars 5092 
Wow, what the days! 5088 
The comming weekend 5084 
It all was worth it! 5081 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5076 
Here is how it is look. 5076 
Resolving the carpet issue 5076 
Bonfire 5076 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5076 
Proof of concept? 5076 
Geometry 5076 
A view from listening position. 5076 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5076 
Some feedback 5076 
Evening 5076 
I wonder why. 5075 
Rugs and things 5075 
In defense… 5075 
I can’t get it. 5072 
Haze. 5071 
Front wall 5071 
It is very possible. 5071 
It is nice to be back. 5068 
My comfy corner. 5065 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4705 
WMD in house. 4527 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4430 
The third listening spot. 4409 
For sure a very different experience. 4371 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4366 
It's Jfretch's system. 4366 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4365 
Domestic games 4319 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4180 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4180 
Dynamic screening 4180 
Actually this is very good idea! 4180 
Volcanic fabric 4180 
I should have done this. 4178 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4174 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4143 
No worries 4143 
Awesome memories 4143 
Optimization of space 4143 
Child-ish considerations 4140 
Finding peace.... 4134 
"Fencing"? 4133 
I need to build something custom 4133 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4133 
Stressed Skin 4133 
NYC elevators 4133 
Kids toys and quantities. 4133 
Everything is completely reversible 4132 
Racks and things 4132 
Now it looks even more promising! 4132 
Quantity of rods 4132 
Avoiding diagonals 4130 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4129 
That's not fair! 4129 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4129 
Discrimination? 4124 
Vertical configuration 4117 
Impresive ! 4046 
Did you read the site? 4046 
Contact 4046 
Company's name is Rixrax 4046 
Stand 4045 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4001 
End of life headphone system 4001 
Something like this? 4001 
The "Second Living Room" 4001 
Mixing urban & suburban 4001 
Late night listening 4001 
Moving life... 3999 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3999 
A true listening room. 3975 
It started… 3960 
Levels of Interest 3960 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3960 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3960 
I can't not to post it.... 3960 
Do not leave him unattended. 3960 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3960 
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