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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6056 
The first take on the new room. 6050 
New Room, a first shot. 6049 
Wonderful 6049 
Adopted 6048 
The first relaxed night with the room 6046 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6045 
The listening room is ready. 6044 
New Room, a First Shot 6042 
Continue to work with the room 6042 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6042 
Room 6041 
I think it will take another month. 6041 
The Buttressing 6041 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6040 
The new place and the new noises. 6040 
Big listening room 6039 
Screw the "big" rooms 6039 
Big listening rooms 6039 
First reflection points 6038 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6038 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6035 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6034 
Squeezing the floor 6034 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6034 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6034 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6033 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6033 
The new room, the very first listening. 6033 
The 14.5 foot. 6032 
Again… 6031 
Romy's new Playground 6031 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6031 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6031 
For the uninitiated ... 6030 
NH guy 6030 
Room 6030 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6029 
The first base is done 6029 
Reentry time alignment. 6028 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6027 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6027 
Mid bass horn. 6027 
Guess is only a guess… 6027 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6027 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6026 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6026 
Diffusors 6026 
Diffuse injection 6026 
Let analyse why it so 6026 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6026 
Wheel and Deal 6026 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6026 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6026 
I Must Be Missing Something 6026 
I put sliders under my speakers 6025 
ROOM 6024 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6024 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6024 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6024 
No concerns 6024 
Speakers and room 6024 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6023 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6023 
Diaphram 6023 
Phram 6023 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6023 
Perfect piston 6023 
Decorater 6022 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6022 
New morning 6021 
The first take on the room with RTA 6020 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6020 
Axiomatic 6020 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6019 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6019 
The size of the bass. 6019 
Bass Factory 6019 
Crude Level, or something more? 6019 
I will play with it this week…. 6019 
Rent-A 6019 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6019 
Corner horns 6019 
Cheating from below 6019 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6019 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6018 
A possibly overly simplified view 6018 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6018 
Iceberg 6018 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6018 
Why not horn 6018 
A correction…. 6018 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6018 
They are just not related things at all. 6018 
Fertin 6016 
Low resonance is good... 6016 
Et tu, Brute? 6015 
The Room response at LF 6014 
Life On The Ground Floor 6014 
Bass arrays 6014 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6014 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6014 
The super sucks. 6014 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6014 
You may also try 6013 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6013 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6013 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6013 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6013 
60 Hz Resonance 6013 
No notching… so far. 6013 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6012 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6012 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6012 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6012 
Power to the People 6012 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6012 
Aura 6012 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6012 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6012 
All class D is the same 6012 
Interpreting the LF results. 6011 
The Halibut 6011 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6011 
The Big Picture 6011 
Power & ULF channels 6011 
The big picture indeed. 6011 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6011 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6011 
The Power and the Glory 6010 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6010 
I guess I did not get this memo 6010 
French LF drivers 6010 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6010 
(another) French LF approach 6009 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6009 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6009 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6009 
Limpschtick 6009 
Symmetry 6009 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6008 
Room correction 6008 
It migh be more complicated. 6008 
Bass EQ ? 6008 
Agree and not. 6008 
Two "diseases" 6008 
Parametric filters 6008 
Ceiling arrays 6008 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6008 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6008 
The Middle of the Room. 6008 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6008 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6008 
Stop! 6008 
Appendectomy 6008 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6007 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6007 
No Isolation 6007 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6004 
Potential contenders? 6003 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6003 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6003 
Those Crazy Canucks 5999 
Mo' Better Bass 5993 
Bird in the Hand? 5993 
A wet listening spot? 5986 
Storm 5983 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5983 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5969 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5939 
Polar Opposite ULF 5938 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5926 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5924 
Differently but the same. 5923 
PVC 5922 
The sail test try. 5922 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5922 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5922 
Trial 5921 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5921 
Some explanations 5921 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5920 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5919 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5918 
Acrylate 5917 
Magic blanket 5917 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5916 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5916 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5916 
I have a few options. 5916 
Foam color 5916 
Strange things with upperbass 5916 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5915 
Teatro reform. . . 5915 
The foaming room dilemma. 5914 
Melamine Foam 5914 
Foaming up the cat house 5914 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5914 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5914 
Acoustic revisions… 5913 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5910 
Surprises so far in the new room 5909 
The upperbass in the new room. 5909 
Slight change of hart. 5908 
Camco supply of Boston 5906 
Room acoustics 5906 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5865 
I need to kill dust first. 5865 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5863 
To feed the leeches? 5863 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5862 
Yh 5862 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5862 
DPOLs? 5862 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5862 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5859 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5859 
A HalfPipe solution? 5859 
I absolutely love it. 5859 
Piper work 5858 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5858 
Absorption 5858 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5857 
Cats life ? 5857 
Call me Pussy. 5857 
More about traps 5857 
Acoustic impedance? 5857 
You maybe right 5857 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5857 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5856 
Heavy Curtain 5856 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5855 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5855 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5855 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5852 
Fix speaker move chair? 5851 
Back and forth ceremony 5851 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5850 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5849 
Glass windows 5848 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5847 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5846 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5844 
How to use basement jacks? 5844 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5844 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5844 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5843 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5843 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5842 
Sore eyes... 5841 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5841 
The harvesting week! 5839 
I need an inspiration… 5838 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5837 
Like this? 5837 
Dramatically randomize MF 5837 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5836 
The room eats dynamic 5836 
Diffusers 5836 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5835 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5820 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5819 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5819 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5819 
About Width-Importance balance. 5817 
Letting the music scale up 5816 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5816 
To finish my house décor… 5812 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5811 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5810 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5810 
Calling the gods of music 5810 
Absolutely 5810 
Phase manipulation 5810 
No relation. 5810 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5810 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5810 
Dynamical mismatch 5809 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5809 
Stradiwinerius? 5806 
Dealing with the glass. 5805 
Boston 5805 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5805 
Added mass 5805 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5805 
It is about moderation…. 5805 
To hell with the wine... 5805 
Also for other surafaces 5804 
LEAD 5804 
LEAD & GLASS 5804 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5804 
Read carefully 5804 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5804 
Crooks and morons 5804 
Magiscopios 5803 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5783 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5783 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5782 
The LP setup in the new home. 5731 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5726 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5726 
Pianochord will do! 5726 
Spanyi heaven 5726 
I see no conflict at all. 5726 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5726 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5726 
A year after closing 5718 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5718 
Traveling antimatter 5711 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5705 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5704 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5678 
Cast Iron fireplace 5677 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5677 
The hardcore way 5677 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5641 
This is How It's Done 5640 
Listening room during summer. 5628 
What about those... 5627 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5627 
Reducing A/C Noise 5627 
HVAC the Cat 5627 
Big Ass fan 5626 
Variac dimmers 5626 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5626 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5626 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5558 
Some winter observations. 5449 
That Asian man…. 5418 
The Franz Schubert morning 5392 
Spring.... 5341 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5291 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5262 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5262 
Just good photography? 5262 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5262 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5262 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5261 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5261 
Sports car 5261 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5261 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5261 
Train Positioning 5261 
Kind of what I want 5261 
The lap listening… 5261 
Family Room 5261 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5258 
A super audio room. 5254 
Time Warp! 5254 
A piano in a listening room 5233 
Pianissimo 5233 
The plan in blue. 5233 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5233 
My doubts 5233 
It is exactly what I worry. 5232 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5232 
Musicians at home 5232 
Piano Measurements 5231 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5226 
The next step. 5212 
Midbass horns missing?? 5211 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5201 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5201 
Baby Grand 5200 
Wood floor 5200 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5200 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5200 
Amy’s baby. 5198 
Improvement 5198 
Agree with Scott 5198 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5186 
Integrated casters 5186 
Very nice, thanks. 5186 
Customization 5186 
Sliders 5186 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5179 
Congratulations 5179 
Holes in the floor... 5179 
Tubes and kids 5179 
Sweet spot enlargement 5179 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5177 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5176 
Wood Floors and Water 5176 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5171 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5170 
WAF is for Losers 5170 
WAF: it depends. 5170 
Integration 5169 
Here and there. 5169 
Life after WWIII 5169 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5169 
Cables management. 5167 
Featurizing 5167 
Kids and tubes cont. 5164 
Kid magnet 5164 
Kids and audio 5163 
Radars 5163 
Wow, what the days! 5159 
The comming weekend 5155 
It all was worth it! 5152 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5147 
Here is how it is look. 5147 
Resolving the carpet issue 5147 
Bonfire 5147 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5147 
Proof of concept? 5147 
Geometry 5147 
A view from listening position. 5147 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5147 
Some feedback 5147 
Evening 5147 
I wonder why. 5146 
Rugs and things 5146 
In defense… 5146 
I can’t get it. 5143 
Haze. 5142 
Front wall 5142 
It is very possible. 5142 
It is nice to be back. 5139 
My comfy corner. 5136 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4776 
WMD in house. 4598 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4501 
The third listening spot. 4480 
For sure a very different experience. 4442 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4437 
It's Jfretch's system. 4437 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4436 
Domestic games 4390 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4251 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4251 
Dynamic screening 4251 
Actually this is very good idea! 4251 
Volcanic fabric 4251 
I should have done this. 4249 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4245 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4214 
No worries 4214 
Awesome memories 4214 
Optimization of space 4214 
Child-ish considerations 4211 
Finding peace.... 4205 
"Fencing"? 4204 
I need to build something custom 4204 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4204 
Stressed Skin 4204 
NYC elevators 4204 
Kids toys and quantities. 4204 
Everything is completely reversible 4203 
Racks and things 4203 
Now it looks even more promising! 4203 
Quantity of rods 4203 
Avoiding diagonals 4201 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4200 
That's not fair! 4200 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4200 
Discrimination? 4195 
Vertical configuration 4188 
Impresive ! 4117 
Did you read the site? 4117 
Contact 4117 
Company's name is Rixrax 4117 
Stand 4116 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4072 
End of life headphone system 4072 
Something like this? 4072 
The "Second Living Room" 4072 
Mixing urban & suburban 4072 
Late night listening 4072 
Moving life... 4070 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4070 
A true listening room. 4046 
It started… 4031 
Levels of Interest 4031 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4031 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4031 
I can't not to post it.... 4031 
Do not leave him unattended. 4031 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4031 
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