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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5980 
The first take on the new room. 5974 
New Room, a first shot. 5973 
Wonderful 5973 
Adopted 5972 
The first relaxed night with the room 5970 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5969 
The listening room is ready. 5968 
New Room, a First Shot 5966 
Continue to work with the room 5966 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5966 
Room 5965 
I think it will take another month. 5965 
The Buttressing 5965 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5964 
The new place and the new noises. 5964 
Big listening room 5963 
Screw the "big" rooms 5963 
Big listening rooms 5963 
First reflection points 5962 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5962 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5959 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5958 
Squeezing the floor 5958 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5958 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5958 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5957 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5957 
The new room, the very first listening. 5957 
The 14.5 foot. 5956 
Again… 5955 
Romy's new Playground 5955 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5955 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5955 
For the uninitiated ... 5954 
NH guy 5954 
Room 5954 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5953 
The first base is done 5953 
Reentry time alignment. 5952 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5951 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5951 
Mid bass horn. 5951 
Guess is only a guess… 5951 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5951 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5950 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5950 
Diffusors 5950 
Diffuse injection 5950 
Let analyse why it so 5950 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5950 
Wheel and Deal 5950 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5950 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5950 
I Must Be Missing Something 5950 
I put sliders under my speakers 5949 
ROOM 5948 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5948 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5948 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5948 
No concerns 5948 
Speakers and room 5948 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5947 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5947 
Diaphram 5947 
Phram 5947 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5947 
Perfect piston 5947 
Decorater 5946 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5946 
New morning 5945 
The first take on the room with RTA 5944 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5944 
Axiomatic 5944 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5943 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5943 
The size of the bass. 5943 
Bass Factory 5943 
Crude Level, or something more? 5943 
I will play with it this week…. 5943 
Rent-A 5943 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5943 
Corner horns 5943 
Cheating from below 5943 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5943 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5942 
A possibly overly simplified view 5942 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5942 
Iceberg 5942 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5942 
Why not horn 5942 
A correction…. 5942 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5942 
They are just not related things at all. 5942 
Fertin 5940 
Low resonance is good... 5940 
Et tu, Brute? 5939 
The Room response at LF 5938 
Life On The Ground Floor 5938 
Bass arrays 5938 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5938 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5938 
The super sucks. 5938 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5938 
You may also try 5937 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5937 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5937 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5937 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5937 
60 Hz Resonance 5937 
No notching… so far. 5937 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5936 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5936 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5936 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5936 
Power to the People 5936 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5936 
Aura 5936 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5936 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5936 
All class D is the same 5936 
Interpreting the LF results. 5935 
The Halibut 5935 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5935 
The Big Picture 5935 
Power & ULF channels 5935 
The big picture indeed. 5935 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5935 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5935 
The Power and the Glory 5934 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5934 
I guess I did not get this memo 5934 
French LF drivers 5934 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5934 
(another) French LF approach 5933 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5933 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5933 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5933 
Limpschtick 5933 
Symmetry 5933 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5932 
Room correction 5932 
It migh be more complicated. 5932 
Bass EQ ? 5932 
Agree and not. 5932 
Two "diseases" 5932 
Parametric filters 5932 
Ceiling arrays 5932 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5932 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5932 
The Middle of the Room. 5932 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5932 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5932 
Stop! 5932 
Appendectomy 5932 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5931 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5931 
No Isolation 5931 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5928 
Potential contenders? 5927 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5927 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5927 
Those Crazy Canucks 5923 
Mo' Better Bass 5917 
Bird in the Hand? 5917 
A wet listening spot? 5910 
Storm 5907 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5907 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5893 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5863 
Polar Opposite ULF 5862 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5850 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5848 
Differently but the same. 5847 
PVC 5846 
The sail test try. 5846 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5846 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5846 
Trial 5845 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5845 
Some explanations 5845 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5844 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5843 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5842 
Acrylate 5841 
Magic blanket 5841 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5840 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5840 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5840 
I have a few options. 5840 
Foam color 5840 
Strange things with upperbass 5840 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5839 
Teatro reform. . . 5839 
The foaming room dilemma. 5838 
Melamine Foam 5838 
Foaming up the cat house 5838 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5838 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5838 
Acoustic revisions… 5837 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5834 
Surprises so far in the new room 5833 
The upperbass in the new room. 5833 
Slight change of hart. 5832 
Camco supply of Boston 5830 
Room acoustics 5830 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5789 
I need to kill dust first. 5789 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5787 
To feed the leeches? 5787 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5786 
Yh 5786 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5786 
DPOLs? 5786 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5786 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5783 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5783 
A HalfPipe solution? 5783 
I absolutely love it. 5783 
Piper work 5782 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5782 
Absorption 5782 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5781 
Cats life ? 5781 
Call me Pussy. 5781 
More about traps 5781 
Acoustic impedance? 5781 
You maybe right 5781 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5781 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5780 
Heavy Curtain 5780 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5779 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5779 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5779 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5776 
Fix speaker move chair? 5775 
Back and forth ceremony 5775 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5774 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5773 
Glass windows 5772 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5771 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5770 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5768 
How to use basement jacks? 5768 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5768 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5768 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5767 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5767 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5766 
Sore eyes... 5765 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5765 
The harvesting week! 5763 
I need an inspiration… 5762 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5761 
Like this? 5761 
Dramatically randomize MF 5761 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5760 
The room eats dynamic 5760 
Diffusers 5760 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5759 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5744 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5743 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5743 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5743 
About Width-Importance balance. 5741 
Letting the music scale up 5740 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5740 
To finish my house décor… 5736 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5735 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5734 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5734 
Calling the gods of music 5734 
Absolutely 5734 
Phase manipulation 5734 
No relation. 5734 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5734 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5734 
Dynamical mismatch 5733 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5733 
Stradiwinerius? 5730 
Dealing with the glass. 5729 
Boston 5729 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5729 
Added mass 5729 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5729 
It is about moderation…. 5729 
To hell with the wine... 5729 
Also for other surafaces 5728 
LEAD 5728 
LEAD & GLASS 5728 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5728 
Read carefully 5728 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5728 
Crooks and morons 5728 
Magiscopios 5727 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5707 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5707 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5706 
The LP setup in the new home. 5655 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5650 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5650 
Pianochord will do! 5650 
Spanyi heaven 5650 
I see no conflict at all. 5650 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5650 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5650 
A year after closing 5642 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5642 
Traveling antimatter 5635 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5629 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5628 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5602 
Cast Iron fireplace 5601 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5601 
The hardcore way 5601 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5565 
This is How It's Done 5564 
Listening room during summer. 5552 
What about those... 5551 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5551 
Reducing A/C Noise 5551 
HVAC the Cat 5551 
Big Ass fan 5550 
Variac dimmers 5550 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5550 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5550 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5482 
Some winter observations. 5373 
That Asian man…. 5342 
The Franz Schubert morning 5316 
Spring.... 5265 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5215 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5186 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5186 
Just good photography? 5186 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5186 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5186 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5185 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5185 
Sports car 5185 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5185 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5185 
Train Positioning 5185 
Kind of what I want 5185 
The lap listening… 5185 
Family Room 5185 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5182 
A super audio room. 5178 
Time Warp! 5178 
A piano in a listening room 5157 
Pianissimo 5157 
The plan in blue. 5157 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5157 
My doubts 5157 
It is exactly what I worry. 5156 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5156 
Musicians at home 5156 
Piano Measurements 5155 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5150 
The next step. 5136 
Midbass horns missing?? 5135 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5125 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5125 
Baby Grand 5124 
Wood floor 5124 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5124 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5124 
Amy’s baby. 5122 
Improvement 5122 
Agree with Scott 5122 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5110 
Integrated casters 5110 
Very nice, thanks. 5110 
Customization 5110 
Sliders 5110 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5103 
Congratulations 5103 
Holes in the floor... 5103 
Tubes and kids 5103 
Sweet spot enlargement 5103 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5101 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5100 
Wood Floors and Water 5100 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5095 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5094 
WAF is for Losers 5094 
WAF: it depends. 5094 
Integration 5093 
Here and there. 5093 
Life after WWIII 5093 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5093 
Cables management. 5091 
Featurizing 5091 
Kids and tubes cont. 5088 
Kid magnet 5088 
Kids and audio 5087 
Radars 5087 
Wow, what the days! 5083 
The comming weekend 5079 
It all was worth it! 5076 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5071 
Here is how it is look. 5071 
Resolving the carpet issue 5071 
Bonfire 5071 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5071 
Proof of concept? 5071 
Geometry 5071 
A view from listening position. 5071 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5071 
Some feedback 5071 
Evening 5071 
I wonder why. 5070 
Rugs and things 5070 
In defense… 5070 
I can’t get it. 5067 
Haze. 5066 
Front wall 5066 
It is very possible. 5066 
It is nice to be back. 5063 
My comfy corner. 5060 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4700 
WMD in house. 4522 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4425 
The third listening spot. 4404 
For sure a very different experience. 4366 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4361 
It's Jfretch's system. 4361 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4360 
Domestic games 4314 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4175 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4175 
Dynamic screening 4175 
Actually this is very good idea! 4175 
Volcanic fabric 4175 
I should have done this. 4173 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4169 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4138 
No worries 4138 
Awesome memories 4138 
Optimization of space 4138 
Child-ish considerations 4135 
Finding peace.... 4129 
"Fencing"? 4128 
I need to build something custom 4128 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4128 
Stressed Skin 4128 
NYC elevators 4128 
Kids toys and quantities. 4128 
Everything is completely reversible 4127 
Racks and things 4127 
Now it looks even more promising! 4127 
Quantity of rods 4127 
Avoiding diagonals 4125 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4124 
That's not fair! 4124 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4124 
Discrimination? 4119 
Vertical configuration 4112 
Impresive ! 4041 
Did you read the site? 4041 
Contact 4041 
Company's name is Rixrax 4041 
Stand 4040 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3996 
End of life headphone system 3996 
Something like this? 3996 
The "Second Living Room" 3996 
Mixing urban & suburban 3996 
Late night listening 3996 
Moving life... 3994 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3994 
A true listening room. 3970 
It started… 3955 
Levels of Interest 3955 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3955 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3955 
I can't not to post it.... 3955 
Do not leave him unattended. 3955 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3955 
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