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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6050 
The first take on the new room. 6044 
New Room, a first shot. 6043 
Wonderful 6043 
Adopted 6042 
The first relaxed night with the room 6040 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6039 
The listening room is ready. 6038 
New Room, a First Shot 6036 
Continue to work with the room 6036 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6036 
Room 6035 
I think it will take another month. 6035 
The Buttressing 6035 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6034 
The new place and the new noises. 6034 
Big listening room 6033 
Screw the "big" rooms 6033 
Big listening rooms 6033 
First reflection points 6032 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6032 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6029 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6028 
Squeezing the floor 6028 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6028 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6028 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6027 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6027 
The new room, the very first listening. 6027 
The 14.5 foot. 6026 
Again… 6025 
Romy's new Playground 6025 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6025 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6025 
For the uninitiated ... 6024 
NH guy 6024 
Room 6024 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6023 
The first base is done 6023 
Reentry time alignment. 6022 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6021 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6021 
Mid bass horn. 6021 
Guess is only a guess… 6021 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6021 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6020 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6020 
Diffusors 6020 
Diffuse injection 6020 
Let analyse why it so 6020 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6020 
Wheel and Deal 6020 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6020 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6020 
I Must Be Missing Something 6020 
I put sliders under my speakers 6019 
ROOM 6018 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6018 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6018 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6018 
No concerns 6018 
Speakers and room 6018 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6017 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6017 
Diaphram 6017 
Phram 6017 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6017 
Perfect piston 6017 
Decorater 6016 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6016 
New morning 6015 
The first take on the room with RTA 6014 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6014 
Axiomatic 6014 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6013 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6013 
The size of the bass. 6013 
Bass Factory 6013 
Crude Level, or something more? 6013 
I will play with it this week…. 6013 
Rent-A 6013 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6013 
Corner horns 6013 
Cheating from below 6013 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6013 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6012 
A possibly overly simplified view 6012 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6012 
Iceberg 6012 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6012 
Why not horn 6012 
A correction…. 6012 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6012 
They are just not related things at all. 6012 
Fertin 6010 
Low resonance is good... 6010 
Et tu, Brute? 6009 
The Room response at LF 6008 
Life On The Ground Floor 6008 
Bass arrays 6008 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6008 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6008 
The super sucks. 6008 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6008 
You may also try 6007 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6007 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6007 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6007 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6007 
60 Hz Resonance 6007 
No notching… so far. 6007 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6006 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6006 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6006 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6006 
Power to the People 6006 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6006 
Aura 6006 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6006 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6006 
All class D is the same 6006 
Interpreting the LF results. 6005 
The Halibut 6005 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6005 
The Big Picture 6005 
Power & ULF channels 6005 
The big picture indeed. 6005 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6005 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6005 
The Power and the Glory 6004 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6004 
I guess I did not get this memo 6004 
French LF drivers 6004 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6004 
(another) French LF approach 6003 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6003 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6003 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6003 
Limpschtick 6003 
Symmetry 6003 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6002 
Room correction 6002 
It migh be more complicated. 6002 
Bass EQ ? 6002 
Agree and not. 6002 
Two "diseases" 6002 
Parametric filters 6002 
Ceiling arrays 6002 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6002 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6002 
The Middle of the Room. 6002 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6002 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6002 
Stop! 6002 
Appendectomy 6002 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6001 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6001 
No Isolation 6001 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5998 
Potential contenders? 5997 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5997 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5997 
Those Crazy Canucks 5993 
Mo' Better Bass 5987 
Bird in the Hand? 5987 
A wet listening spot? 5980 
Storm 5977 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5977 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5963 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5933 
Polar Opposite ULF 5932 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5920 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5918 
Differently but the same. 5917 
PVC 5916 
The sail test try. 5916 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5916 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5916 
Trial 5915 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5915 
Some explanations 5915 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5914 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5913 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5912 
Acrylate 5911 
Magic blanket 5911 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5910 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5910 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5910 
I have a few options. 5910 
Foam color 5910 
Strange things with upperbass 5910 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5909 
Teatro reform. . . 5909 
The foaming room dilemma. 5908 
Melamine Foam 5908 
Foaming up the cat house 5908 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5908 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5908 
Acoustic revisions… 5907 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5904 
Surprises so far in the new room 5903 
The upperbass in the new room. 5903 
Slight change of hart. 5902 
Camco supply of Boston 5900 
Room acoustics 5900 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5859 
I need to kill dust first. 5859 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5857 
To feed the leeches? 5857 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5856 
Yh 5856 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5856 
DPOLs? 5856 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5856 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5853 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5853 
A HalfPipe solution? 5853 
I absolutely love it. 5853 
Piper work 5852 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5852 
Absorption 5852 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5851 
Cats life ? 5851 
Call me Pussy. 5851 
More about traps 5851 
Acoustic impedance? 5851 
You maybe right 5851 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5851 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5850 
Heavy Curtain 5850 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5849 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5849 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5849 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5846 
Fix speaker move chair? 5845 
Back and forth ceremony 5845 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5844 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5843 
Glass windows 5842 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5841 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5840 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5838 
How to use basement jacks? 5838 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5838 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5838 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5837 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5837 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5836 
Sore eyes... 5835 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5835 
The harvesting week! 5833 
I need an inspiration… 5832 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5831 
Like this? 5831 
Dramatically randomize MF 5831 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5830 
The room eats dynamic 5830 
Diffusers 5830 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5829 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5814 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5813 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5813 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5813 
About Width-Importance balance. 5811 
Letting the music scale up 5810 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5810 
To finish my house décor… 5806 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5805 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5804 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5804 
Calling the gods of music 5804 
Absolutely 5804 
Phase manipulation 5804 
No relation. 5804 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5804 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5804 
Dynamical mismatch 5803 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5803 
Stradiwinerius? 5800 
Dealing with the glass. 5799 
Boston 5799 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5799 
Added mass 5799 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5799 
It is about moderation…. 5799 
To hell with the wine... 5799 
Also for other surafaces 5798 
LEAD 5798 
LEAD & GLASS 5798 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5798 
Read carefully 5798 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5798 
Crooks and morons 5798 
Magiscopios 5797 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5777 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5777 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5776 
The LP setup in the new home. 5725 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5720 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5720 
Pianochord will do! 5720 
Spanyi heaven 5720 
I see no conflict at all. 5720 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5720 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5720 
A year after closing 5712 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5712 
Traveling antimatter 5705 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5699 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5698 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5672 
Cast Iron fireplace 5671 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5671 
The hardcore way 5671 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5635 
This is How It's Done 5634 
Listening room during summer. 5622 
What about those... 5621 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5621 
Reducing A/C Noise 5621 
HVAC the Cat 5621 
Big Ass fan 5620 
Variac dimmers 5620 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5620 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5620 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5552 
Some winter observations. 5443 
That Asian man…. 5412 
The Franz Schubert morning 5386 
Spring.... 5335 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5285 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5256 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5256 
Just good photography? 5256 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5256 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5256 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5255 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5255 
Sports car 5255 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5255 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5255 
Train Positioning 5255 
Kind of what I want 5255 
The lap listening… 5255 
Family Room 5255 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5252 
A super audio room. 5248 
Time Warp! 5248 
A piano in a listening room 5227 
Pianissimo 5227 
The plan in blue. 5227 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5227 
My doubts 5227 
It is exactly what I worry. 5226 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5226 
Musicians at home 5226 
Piano Measurements 5225 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5220 
The next step. 5206 
Midbass horns missing?? 5205 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5195 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5195 
Baby Grand 5194 
Wood floor 5194 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5194 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5194 
Amy’s baby. 5192 
Improvement 5192 
Agree with Scott 5192 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5180 
Integrated casters 5180 
Very nice, thanks. 5180 
Customization 5180 
Sliders 5180 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5173 
Congratulations 5173 
Holes in the floor... 5173 
Tubes and kids 5173 
Sweet spot enlargement 5173 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5171 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5170 
Wood Floors and Water 5170 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5165 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5164 
WAF is for Losers 5164 
WAF: it depends. 5164 
Integration 5163 
Here and there. 5163 
Life after WWIII 5163 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5163 
Cables management. 5161 
Featurizing 5161 
Kids and tubes cont. 5158 
Kid magnet 5158 
Kids and audio 5157 
Radars 5157 
Wow, what the days! 5153 
The comming weekend 5149 
It all was worth it! 5146 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5141 
Here is how it is look. 5141 
Resolving the carpet issue 5141 
Bonfire 5141 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5141 
Proof of concept? 5141 
Geometry 5141 
A view from listening position. 5141 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5141 
Some feedback 5141 
Evening 5141 
I wonder why. 5140 
Rugs and things 5140 
In defense… 5140 
I can’t get it. 5137 
Haze. 5136 
Front wall 5136 
It is very possible. 5136 
It is nice to be back. 5133 
My comfy corner. 5130 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4770 
WMD in house. 4592 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4495 
The third listening spot. 4474 
For sure a very different experience. 4436 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4431 
It's Jfretch's system. 4431 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4430 
Domestic games 4384 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4245 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4245 
Dynamic screening 4245 
Actually this is very good idea! 4245 
Volcanic fabric 4245 
I should have done this. 4243 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4239 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4208 
No worries 4208 
Awesome memories 4208 
Optimization of space 4208 
Child-ish considerations 4205 
Finding peace.... 4199 
"Fencing"? 4198 
I need to build something custom 4198 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4198 
Stressed Skin 4198 
NYC elevators 4198 
Kids toys and quantities. 4198 
Everything is completely reversible 4197 
Racks and things 4197 
Now it looks even more promising! 4197 
Quantity of rods 4197 
Avoiding diagonals 4195 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4194 
That's not fair! 4194 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4194 
Discrimination? 4189 
Vertical configuration 4182 
Impresive ! 4111 
Did you read the site? 4111 
Contact 4111 
Company's name is Rixrax 4111 
Stand 4110 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4066 
End of life headphone system 4066 
Something like this? 4066 
The "Second Living Room" 4066 
Mixing urban & suburban 4066 
Late night listening 4066 
Moving life... 4064 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4064 
A true listening room. 4040 
It started… 4025 
Levels of Interest 4025 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4025 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4025 
I can't not to post it.... 4025 
Do not leave him unattended. 4025 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4025 
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