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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5938 
The first take on the new room. 5932 
New Room, a first shot. 5931 
Wonderful 5931 
Adopted 5930 
The first relaxed night with the room 5928 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5927 
The listening room is ready. 5926 
New Room, a First Shot 5924 
Continue to work with the room 5924 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5924 
Room 5923 
I think it will take another month. 5923 
The Buttressing 5923 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5922 
The new place and the new noises. 5922 
Big listening room 5921 
Screw the "big" rooms 5921 
Big listening rooms 5921 
First reflection points 5920 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5920 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5917 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5916 
Squeezing the floor 5916 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5916 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5916 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5915 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5915 
The new room, the very first listening. 5915 
The 14.5 foot. 5914 
Again… 5913 
Romy's new Playground 5913 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5913 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5913 
For the uninitiated ... 5912 
NH guy 5912 
Room 5912 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5911 
The first base is done 5911 
Reentry time alignment. 5910 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5909 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5909 
Mid bass horn. 5909 
Guess is only a guess… 5909 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5909 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5908 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5908 
Diffusors 5908 
Diffuse injection 5908 
Let analyse why it so 5908 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5908 
Wheel and Deal 5908 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5908 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5908 
I Must Be Missing Something 5908 
I put sliders under my speakers 5907 
ROOM 5906 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5906 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5906 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5906 
No concerns 5906 
Speakers and room 5906 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5905 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5905 
Diaphram 5905 
Phram 5905 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5905 
Perfect piston 5905 
Decorater 5904 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5904 
New morning 5903 
The first take on the room with RTA 5902 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5902 
Axiomatic 5902 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5901 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5901 
The size of the bass. 5901 
Bass Factory 5901 
Crude Level, or something more? 5901 
I will play with it this week…. 5901 
Rent-A 5901 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5901 
Corner horns 5901 
Cheating from below 5901 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5901 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5900 
A possibly overly simplified view 5900 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5900 
Iceberg 5900 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5900 
Why not horn 5900 
A correction…. 5900 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5900 
They are just not related things at all. 5900 
Fertin 5898 
Low resonance is good... 5898 
Et tu, Brute? 5897 
The Room response at LF 5896 
Life On The Ground Floor 5896 
Bass arrays 5896 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5896 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5896 
The super sucks. 5896 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5896 
You may also try 5895 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5895 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5895 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5895 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5895 
60 Hz Resonance 5895 
No notching… so far. 5895 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5894 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5894 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5894 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5894 
Power to the People 5894 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5894 
Aura 5894 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5894 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5894 
All class D is the same 5894 
Interpreting the LF results. 5893 
The Halibut 5893 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5893 
The Big Picture 5893 
Power & ULF channels 5893 
The big picture indeed. 5893 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5893 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5893 
The Power and the Glory 5892 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5892 
I guess I did not get this memo 5892 
French LF drivers 5892 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5892 
(another) French LF approach 5891 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5891 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5891 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5891 
Limpschtick 5891 
Symmetry 5891 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5890 
Room correction 5890 
It migh be more complicated. 5890 
Bass EQ ? 5890 
Agree and not. 5890 
Two "diseases" 5890 
Parametric filters 5890 
Ceiling arrays 5890 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5890 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5890 
The Middle of the Room. 5890 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5890 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5890 
Stop! 5890 
Appendectomy 5890 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5889 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5889 
No Isolation 5889 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5886 
Potential contenders? 5885 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5885 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5885 
Those Crazy Canucks 5881 
Mo' Better Bass 5875 
Bird in the Hand? 5875 
A wet listening spot? 5868 
Storm 5865 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5865 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5851 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5821 
Polar Opposite ULF 5820 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5808 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5806 
Differently but the same. 5805 
PVC 5804 
The sail test try. 5804 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5804 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5804 
Trial 5803 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5803 
Some explanations 5803 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5802 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5801 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5800 
Acrylate 5799 
Magic blanket 5799 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5798 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5798 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5798 
I have a few options. 5798 
Foam color 5798 
Strange things with upperbass 5798 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5797 
Teatro reform. . . 5797 
The foaming room dilemma. 5796 
Melamine Foam 5796 
Foaming up the cat house 5796 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5796 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5796 
Acoustic revisions… 5795 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5792 
Surprises so far in the new room 5791 
The upperbass in the new room. 5791 
Slight change of hart. 5790 
Camco supply of Boston 5788 
Room acoustics 5788 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5747 
I need to kill dust first. 5747 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5745 
To feed the leeches? 5745 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5744 
Yh 5744 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5744 
DPOLs? 5744 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5744 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5741 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5741 
A HalfPipe solution? 5741 
I absolutely love it. 5741 
Piper work 5740 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5740 
Absorption 5740 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5739 
Cats life ? 5739 
Call me Pussy. 5739 
More about traps 5739 
Acoustic impedance? 5739 
You maybe right 5739 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5739 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5738 
Heavy Curtain 5738 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5737 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5737 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5737 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5734 
Fix speaker move chair? 5733 
Back and forth ceremony 5733 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5732 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5731 
Glass windows 5730 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5729 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5728 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5726 
How to use basement jacks? 5726 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5726 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5726 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5725 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5725 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5724 
Sore eyes... 5723 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5723 
The harvesting week! 5721 
I need an inspiration… 5720 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5719 
Like this? 5719 
Dramatically randomize MF 5719 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5718 
The room eats dynamic 5718 
Diffusers 5718 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5717 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5702 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5701 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5701 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5701 
About Width-Importance balance. 5699 
Letting the music scale up 5698 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5698 
To finish my house décor… 5694 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5693 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5692 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5692 
Calling the gods of music 5692 
Absolutely 5692 
Phase manipulation 5692 
No relation. 5692 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5692 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5692 
Dynamical mismatch 5691 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5691 
Stradiwinerius? 5688 
Dealing with the glass. 5687 
Boston 5687 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5687 
Added mass 5687 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5687 
It is about moderation…. 5687 
To hell with the wine... 5687 
Also for other surafaces 5686 
LEAD 5686 
LEAD & GLASS 5686 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5686 
Read carefully 5686 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5686 
Crooks and morons 5686 
Magiscopios 5685 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5665 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5665 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5664 
The LP setup in the new home. 5613 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5608 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5608 
Pianochord will do! 5608 
Spanyi heaven 5608 
I see no conflict at all. 5608 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5608 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5608 
A year after closing 5600 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5600 
Traveling antimatter 5593 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5587 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5586 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5560 
Cast Iron fireplace 5559 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5559 
The hardcore way 5559 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5523 
This is How It's Done 5522 
Listening room during summer. 5510 
What about those... 5509 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5509 
Reducing A/C Noise 5509 
HVAC the Cat 5509 
Big Ass fan 5508 
Variac dimmers 5508 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5508 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5508 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5440 
Some winter observations. 5331 
That Asian man…. 5300 
The Franz Schubert morning 5274 
Spring.... 5223 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5173 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5144 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5144 
Just good photography? 5144 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5144 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5144 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5143 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5143 
Sports car 5143 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5143 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5143 
Train Positioning 5143 
Kind of what I want 5143 
The lap listening… 5143 
Family Room 5143 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5140 
A super audio room. 5136 
Time Warp! 5136 
A piano in a listening room 5115 
Pianissimo 5115 
The plan in blue. 5115 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5115 
My doubts 5115 
It is exactly what I worry. 5114 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5114 
Musicians at home 5114 
Piano Measurements 5113 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5108 
The next step. 5094 
Midbass horns missing?? 5093 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5083 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5083 
Baby Grand 5082 
Wood floor 5082 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5082 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5082 
Amy’s baby. 5080 
Improvement 5080 
Agree with Scott 5080 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5068 
Integrated casters 5068 
Very nice, thanks. 5068 
Customization 5068 
Sliders 5068 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5061 
Congratulations 5061 
Holes in the floor... 5061 
Tubes and kids 5061 
Sweet spot enlargement 5061 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5059 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5058 
Wood Floors and Water 5058 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5053 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5052 
WAF is for Losers 5052 
WAF: it depends. 5052 
Integration 5051 
Here and there. 5051 
Life after WWIII 5051 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5051 
Cables management. 5049 
Featurizing 5049 
Kids and tubes cont. 5046 
Kid magnet 5046 
Kids and audio 5045 
Radars 5045 
Wow, what the days! 5041 
The comming weekend 5037 
It all was worth it! 5034 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5029 
Here is how it is look. 5029 
Resolving the carpet issue 5029 
Bonfire 5029 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5029 
Proof of concept? 5029 
Geometry 5029 
A view from listening position. 5029 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5029 
Some feedback 5029 
Evening 5029 
I wonder why. 5028 
Rugs and things 5028 
In defense… 5028 
I can’t get it. 5025 
Haze. 5024 
Front wall 5024 
It is very possible. 5024 
It is nice to be back. 5021 
My comfy corner. 5018 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4658 
WMD in house. 4480 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4383 
The third listening spot. 4362 
For sure a very different experience. 4324 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4319 
It's Jfretch's system. 4319 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4318 
Domestic games 4272 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4133 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4133 
Dynamic screening 4133 
Actually this is very good idea! 4133 
Volcanic fabric 4133 
I should have done this. 4131 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4127 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4096 
No worries 4096 
Awesome memories 4096 
Optimization of space 4096 
Child-ish considerations 4093 
Finding peace.... 4087 
"Fencing"? 4086 
I need to build something custom 4086 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4086 
Stressed Skin 4086 
NYC elevators 4086 
Kids toys and quantities. 4086 
Everything is completely reversible 4085 
Racks and things 4085 
Now it looks even more promising! 4085 
Quantity of rods 4085 
Avoiding diagonals 4083 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4082 
That's not fair! 4082 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4082 
Discrimination? 4077 
Vertical configuration 4070 
Impresive ! 3999 
Did you read the site? 3999 
Contact 3999 
Company's name is Rixrax 3999 
Stand 3998 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3954 
End of life headphone system 3954 
Something like this? 3954 
The "Second Living Room" 3954 
Mixing urban & suburban 3954 
Late night listening 3954 
Moving life... 3952 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3952 
A true listening room. 3928 
It started… 3913 
Levels of Interest 3913 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3913 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3913 
I can't not to post it.... 3913 
Do not leave him unattended. 3913 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3913 
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