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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5919 
The first take on the new room. 5913 
New Room, a first shot. 5912 
Wonderful 5912 
Adopted 5911 
The first relaxed night with the room 5909 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5908 
The listening room is ready. 5907 
New Room, a First Shot 5905 
Continue to work with the room 5905 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5905 
Room 5904 
I think it will take another month. 5904 
The Buttressing 5904 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5903 
The new place and the new noises. 5903 
Big listening room 5902 
Screw the "big" rooms 5902 
Big listening rooms 5902 
First reflection points 5901 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5901 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5898 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5897 
Squeezing the floor 5897 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5897 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5897 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5896 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5896 
The new room, the very first listening. 5896 
The 14.5 foot. 5895 
Again… 5894 
Romy's new Playground 5894 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5894 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5894 
For the uninitiated ... 5893 
NH guy 5893 
Room 5893 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5892 
The first base is done 5892 
Reentry time alignment. 5891 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5890 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5890 
Mid bass horn. 5890 
Guess is only a guess… 5890 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5890 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5889 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5889 
Diffusors 5889 
Diffuse injection 5889 
Let analyse why it so 5889 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5889 
Wheel and Deal 5889 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5889 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5889 
I Must Be Missing Something 5889 
I put sliders under my speakers 5888 
ROOM 5887 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5887 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5887 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5887 
No concerns 5887 
Speakers and room 5887 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5886 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5886 
Diaphram 5886 
Phram 5886 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5886 
Perfect piston 5886 
Decorater 5885 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5885 
New morning 5884 
The first take on the room with RTA 5883 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5883 
Axiomatic 5883 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5882 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5882 
The size of the bass. 5882 
Bass Factory 5882 
Crude Level, or something more? 5882 
I will play with it this week…. 5882 
Rent-A 5882 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5882 
Corner horns 5882 
Cheating from below 5882 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5882 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5881 
A possibly overly simplified view 5881 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5881 
Iceberg 5881 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5881 
Why not horn 5881 
A correction…. 5881 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5881 
They are just not related things at all. 5881 
Fertin 5879 
Low resonance is good... 5879 
Et tu, Brute? 5878 
The Room response at LF 5877 
Life On The Ground Floor 5877 
Bass arrays 5877 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5877 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5877 
The super sucks. 5877 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5877 
You may also try 5876 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5876 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5876 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5876 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5876 
60 Hz Resonance 5876 
No notching… so far. 5876 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5875 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5875 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5875 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5875 
Power to the People 5875 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5875 
Aura 5875 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5875 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5875 
All class D is the same 5875 
Interpreting the LF results. 5874 
The Halibut 5874 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5874 
The Big Picture 5874 
Power & ULF channels 5874 
The big picture indeed. 5874 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5874 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5874 
The Power and the Glory 5873 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5873 
I guess I did not get this memo 5873 
French LF drivers 5873 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5873 
(another) French LF approach 5872 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5872 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5872 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5872 
Limpschtick 5872 
Symmetry 5872 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5871 
Room correction 5871 
It migh be more complicated. 5871 
Bass EQ ? 5871 
Agree and not. 5871 
Two "diseases" 5871 
Parametric filters 5871 
Ceiling arrays 5871 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5871 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5871 
The Middle of the Room. 5871 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5871 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5871 
Stop! 5871 
Appendectomy 5871 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5870 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5870 
No Isolation 5870 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5867 
Potential contenders? 5866 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5866 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5866 
Those Crazy Canucks 5862 
Mo' Better Bass 5856 
Bird in the Hand? 5856 
A wet listening spot? 5849 
Storm 5846 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5846 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5832 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5802 
Polar Opposite ULF 5801 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5789 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5787 
Differently but the same. 5786 
PVC 5785 
The sail test try. 5785 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5785 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5785 
Trial 5784 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5784 
Some explanations 5784 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5783 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5782 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5781 
Acrylate 5780 
Magic blanket 5780 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5779 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5779 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5779 
I have a few options. 5779 
Foam color 5779 
Strange things with upperbass 5779 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5778 
Teatro reform. . . 5778 
The foaming room dilemma. 5777 
Melamine Foam 5777 
Foaming up the cat house 5777 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5777 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5777 
Acoustic revisions… 5776 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5773 
Surprises so far in the new room 5772 
The upperbass in the new room. 5772 
Slight change of hart. 5771 
Camco supply of Boston 5769 
Room acoustics 5769 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5728 
I need to kill dust first. 5728 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5726 
To feed the leeches? 5726 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5725 
Yh 5725 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5725 
DPOLs? 5725 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5725 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5722 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5722 
A HalfPipe solution? 5722 
I absolutely love it. 5722 
Piper work 5721 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5721 
Absorption 5721 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5720 
Cats life ? 5720 
Call me Pussy. 5720 
More about traps 5720 
Acoustic impedance? 5720 
You maybe right 5720 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5720 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5719 
Heavy Curtain 5719 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5718 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5718 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5718 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5715 
Fix speaker move chair? 5714 
Back and forth ceremony 5714 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5713 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5712 
Glass windows 5711 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5710 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5709 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5707 
How to use basement jacks? 5707 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5707 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5707 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5706 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5706 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5705 
Sore eyes... 5704 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5704 
The harvesting week! 5702 
I need an inspiration… 5701 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5700 
Like this? 5700 
Dramatically randomize MF 5700 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5699 
The room eats dynamic 5699 
Diffusers 5699 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5698 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5683 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5682 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5682 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5682 
About Width-Importance balance. 5680 
Letting the music scale up 5679 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5679 
To finish my house décor… 5675 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5674 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5673 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5673 
Calling the gods of music 5673 
Absolutely 5673 
Phase manipulation 5673 
No relation. 5673 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5673 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5673 
Dynamical mismatch 5672 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5672 
Stradiwinerius? 5669 
Dealing with the glass. 5668 
Boston 5668 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5668 
Added mass 5668 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5668 
It is about moderation…. 5668 
To hell with the wine... 5668 
Also for other surafaces 5667 
LEAD 5667 
LEAD & GLASS 5667 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5667 
Read carefully 5667 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5667 
Crooks and morons 5667 
Magiscopios 5666 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5646 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5646 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5645 
The LP setup in the new home. 5594 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5589 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5589 
Pianochord will do! 5589 
Spanyi heaven 5589 
I see no conflict at all. 5589 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5589 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5589 
A year after closing 5581 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5581 
Traveling antimatter 5574 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5568 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5567 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5541 
Cast Iron fireplace 5540 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5540 
The hardcore way 5540 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5504 
This is How It's Done 5503 
Listening room during summer. 5491 
What about those... 5490 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5490 
Reducing A/C Noise 5490 
HVAC the Cat 5490 
Big Ass fan 5489 
Variac dimmers 5489 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5489 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5489 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5421 
Some winter observations. 5312 
That Asian man…. 5281 
The Franz Schubert morning 5255 
Spring.... 5204 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5154 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5125 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5125 
Just good photography? 5125 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5125 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5125 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5124 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5124 
Sports car 5124 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5124 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5124 
Train Positioning 5124 
Kind of what I want 5124 
The lap listening… 5124 
Family Room 5124 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5121 
A super audio room. 5117 
Time Warp! 5117 
A piano in a listening room 5096 
Pianissimo 5096 
The plan in blue. 5096 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5096 
My doubts 5096 
It is exactly what I worry. 5095 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5095 
Musicians at home 5095 
Piano Measurements 5094 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5089 
The next step. 5075 
Midbass horns missing?? 5074 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5064 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5064 
Baby Grand 5063 
Wood floor 5063 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5063 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5063 
Amy’s baby. 5061 
Improvement 5061 
Agree with Scott 5061 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5049 
Integrated casters 5049 
Very nice, thanks. 5049 
Customization 5049 
Sliders 5049 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5042 
Congratulations 5042 
Holes in the floor... 5042 
Tubes and kids 5042 
Sweet spot enlargement 5042 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5040 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5039 
Wood Floors and Water 5039 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5034 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5033 
WAF is for Losers 5033 
WAF: it depends. 5033 
Integration 5032 
Here and there. 5032 
Life after WWIII 5032 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5032 
Cables management. 5030 
Featurizing 5030 
Kids and tubes cont. 5027 
Kid magnet 5027 
Kids and audio 5026 
Radars 5026 
Wow, what the days! 5022 
The comming weekend 5018 
It all was worth it! 5015 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5010 
Here is how it is look. 5010 
Resolving the carpet issue 5010 
Bonfire 5010 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5010 
Proof of concept? 5010 
Geometry 5010 
A view from listening position. 5010 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5010 
Some feedback 5010 
Evening 5010 
I wonder why. 5009 
Rugs and things 5009 
In defense… 5009 
I can’t get it. 5006 
Haze. 5005 
Front wall 5005 
It is very possible. 5005 
It is nice to be back. 5002 
My comfy corner. 4999 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4639 
WMD in house. 4461 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4364 
The third listening spot. 4343 
For sure a very different experience. 4305 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4300 
It's Jfretch's system. 4300 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4299 
Domestic games 4253 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4114 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4114 
Dynamic screening 4114 
Actually this is very good idea! 4114 
Volcanic fabric 4114 
I should have done this. 4112 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4108 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4077 
No worries 4077 
Awesome memories 4077 
Optimization of space 4077 
Child-ish considerations 4074 
Finding peace.... 4068 
"Fencing"? 4067 
I need to build something custom 4067 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4067 
Stressed Skin 4067 
NYC elevators 4067 
Kids toys and quantities. 4067 
Everything is completely reversible 4066 
Racks and things 4066 
Now it looks even more promising! 4066 
Quantity of rods 4066 
Avoiding diagonals 4064 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4063 
That's not fair! 4063 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4063 
Discrimination? 4058 
Vertical configuration 4051 
Impresive ! 3980 
Did you read the site? 3980 
Contact 3980 
Company's name is Rixrax 3980 
Stand 3979 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3935 
End of life headphone system 3935 
Something like this? 3935 
The "Second Living Room" 3935 
Mixing urban & suburban 3935 
Late night listening 3935 
Moving life... 3933 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3933 
A true listening room. 3909 
It started… 3894 
Levels of Interest 3894 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3894 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3894 
I can't not to post it.... 3894 
Do not leave him unattended. 3894 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3894 
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