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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5838 
The first take on the new room. 5832 
New Room, a first shot. 5831 
Wonderful 5831 
Adopted 5830 
The first relaxed night with the room 5828 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5827 
The listening room is ready. 5826 
New Room, a First Shot 5824 
Continue to work with the room 5824 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5824 
Room 5823 
I think it will take another month. 5823 
The Buttressing 5823 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5822 
The new place and the new noises. 5822 
Big listening room 5821 
Screw the "big" rooms 5821 
Big listening rooms 5821 
First reflection points 5820 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5820 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5817 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5816 
Squeezing the floor 5816 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5816 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5816 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5815 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5815 
The new room, the very first listening. 5815 
The 14.5 foot. 5814 
Again… 5813 
Romy's new Playground 5813 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5813 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5813 
For the uninitiated ... 5812 
NH guy 5812 
Room 5812 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5811 
The first base is done 5811 
Reentry time alignment. 5810 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5809 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5809 
Mid bass horn. 5809 
Guess is only a guess… 5809 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5809 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5808 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5808 
Diffusors 5808 
Diffuse injection 5808 
Let analyse why it so 5808 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5808 
Wheel and Deal 5808 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5808 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5808 
I Must Be Missing Something 5808 
I put sliders under my speakers 5807 
ROOM 5806 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5806 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5806 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5806 
No concerns 5806 
Speakers and room 5806 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5805 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5805 
Diaphram 5805 
Phram 5805 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5805 
Perfect piston 5805 
Decorater 5804 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5804 
New morning 5803 
The first take on the room with RTA 5802 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5802 
Axiomatic 5802 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5801 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5801 
The size of the bass. 5801 
Bass Factory 5801 
Crude Level, or something more? 5801 
I will play with it this week…. 5801 
Rent-A 5801 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5801 
Corner horns 5801 
Cheating from below 5801 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5801 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5800 
A possibly overly simplified view 5800 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5800 
Iceberg 5800 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5800 
Why not horn 5800 
A correction…. 5800 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5800 
They are just not related things at all. 5800 
Fertin 5798 
Low resonance is good... 5798 
Et tu, Brute? 5797 
The Room response at LF 5796 
Life On The Ground Floor 5796 
Bass arrays 5796 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5796 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5796 
The super sucks. 5796 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5796 
You may also try 5795 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5795 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5795 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5795 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5795 
60 Hz Resonance 5795 
No notching… so far. 5795 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5794 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5794 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5794 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5794 
Power to the People 5794 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5794 
Aura 5794 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5794 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5794 
All class D is the same 5794 
Interpreting the LF results. 5793 
The Halibut 5793 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5793 
The Big Picture 5793 
Power & ULF channels 5793 
The big picture indeed. 5793 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5793 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5793 
The Power and the Glory 5792 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5792 
I guess I did not get this memo 5792 
French LF drivers 5792 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5792 
(another) French LF approach 5791 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5791 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5791 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5791 
Limpschtick 5791 
Symmetry 5791 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5790 
Room correction 5790 
It migh be more complicated. 5790 
Bass EQ ? 5790 
Agree and not. 5790 
Two "diseases" 5790 
Parametric filters 5790 
Ceiling arrays 5790 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5790 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5790 
The Middle of the Room. 5790 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5790 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5790 
Stop! 5790 
Appendectomy 5790 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5789 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5789 
No Isolation 5789 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5786 
Potential contenders? 5785 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5785 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5785 
Those Crazy Canucks 5781 
Mo' Better Bass 5775 
Bird in the Hand? 5775 
A wet listening spot? 5768 
Storm 5765 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5765 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5751 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5721 
Polar Opposite ULF 5720 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5708 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5706 
Differently but the same. 5705 
PVC 5704 
The sail test try. 5704 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5704 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5704 
Trial 5703 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5703 
Some explanations 5703 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5702 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5701 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5700 
Acrylate 5699 
Magic blanket 5699 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5698 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5698 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5698 
I have a few options. 5698 
Foam color 5698 
Strange things with upperbass 5698 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5697 
Teatro reform. . . 5697 
The foaming room dilemma. 5696 
Melamine Foam 5696 
Foaming up the cat house 5696 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5696 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5696 
Acoustic revisions… 5695 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5692 
Surprises so far in the new room 5691 
The upperbass in the new room. 5691 
Slight change of hart. 5690 
Camco supply of Boston 5688 
Room acoustics 5688 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5647 
I need to kill dust first. 5647 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5645 
To feed the leeches? 5645 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5644 
Yh 5644 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5644 
DPOLs? 5644 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5644 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5641 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5641 
A HalfPipe solution? 5641 
I absolutely love it. 5641 
Piper work 5640 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5640 
Absorption 5640 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5639 
Cats life ? 5639 
Call me Pussy. 5639 
More about traps 5639 
Acoustic impedance? 5639 
You maybe right 5639 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5639 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5638 
Heavy Curtain 5638 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5637 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5637 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5637 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5634 
Fix speaker move chair? 5633 
Back and forth ceremony 5633 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5632 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5631 
Glass windows 5630 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5629 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5628 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5626 
How to use basement jacks? 5626 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5626 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5626 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5625 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5625 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5624 
Sore eyes... 5623 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5623 
The harvesting week! 5621 
I need an inspiration… 5620 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5619 
Like this? 5619 
Dramatically randomize MF 5619 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5618 
The room eats dynamic 5618 
Diffusers 5618 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5617 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5602 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5601 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5601 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5601 
About Width-Importance balance. 5599 
Letting the music scale up 5598 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5598 
To finish my house décor… 5594 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5593 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5592 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5592 
Calling the gods of music 5592 
Absolutely 5592 
Phase manipulation 5592 
No relation. 5592 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5592 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5592 
Dynamical mismatch 5591 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5591 
Stradiwinerius? 5588 
Dealing with the glass. 5587 
Boston 5587 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5587 
Added mass 5587 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5587 
It is about moderation…. 5587 
To hell with the wine... 5587 
Also for other surafaces 5586 
LEAD 5586 
LEAD & GLASS 5586 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5586 
Read carefully 5586 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5586 
Crooks and morons 5586 
Magiscopios 5585 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5565 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5565 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5564 
The LP setup in the new home. 5513 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5508 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5508 
Pianochord will do! 5508 
Spanyi heaven 5508 
I see no conflict at all. 5508 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5508 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5508 
A year after closing 5500 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5500 
Traveling antimatter 5493 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5487 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5486 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5460 
Cast Iron fireplace 5459 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5459 
The hardcore way 5459 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5423 
This is How It's Done 5422 
Listening room during summer. 5410 
What about those... 5409 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5409 
Reducing A/C Noise 5409 
HVAC the Cat 5409 
Big Ass fan 5408 
Variac dimmers 5408 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5408 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5408 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5340 
Some winter observations. 5231 
That Asian man…. 5200 
The Franz Schubert morning 5174 
Spring.... 5123 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5073 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5044 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5044 
Just good photography? 5044 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5044 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5044 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5043 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5043 
Sports car 5043 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5043 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5043 
Train Positioning 5043 
Kind of what I want 5043 
The lap listening… 5043 
Family Room 5043 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5040 
A super audio room. 5036 
Time Warp! 5036 
A piano in a listening room 5015 
Pianissimo 5015 
The plan in blue. 5015 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5015 
My doubts 5015 
It is exactly what I worry. 5014 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5014 
Musicians at home 5014 
Piano Measurements 5013 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5008 
The next step. 4994 
Midbass horns missing?? 4993 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4983 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4983 
Baby Grand 4982 
Wood floor 4982 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4982 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4982 
Amy’s baby. 4980 
Improvement 4980 
Agree with Scott 4980 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4968 
Integrated casters 4968 
Very nice, thanks. 4968 
Customization 4968 
Sliders 4968 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4961 
Congratulations 4961 
Holes in the floor... 4961 
Tubes and kids 4961 
Sweet spot enlargement 4961 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4959 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4958 
Wood Floors and Water 4958 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4953 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4952 
WAF is for Losers 4952 
WAF: it depends. 4952 
Integration 4951 
Here and there. 4951 
Life after WWIII 4951 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4951 
Cables management. 4949 
Featurizing 4949 
Kids and tubes cont. 4946 
Kid magnet 4946 
Kids and audio 4945 
Radars 4945 
Wow, what the days! 4941 
The comming weekend 4937 
It all was worth it! 4934 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4929 
Here is how it is look. 4929 
Resolving the carpet issue 4929 
Bonfire 4929 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4929 
Proof of concept? 4929 
Geometry 4929 
A view from listening position. 4929 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4929 
Some feedback 4929 
Evening 4929 
I wonder why. 4928 
Rugs and things 4928 
In defense… 4928 
I can’t get it. 4925 
Haze. 4924 
Front wall 4924 
It is very possible. 4924 
It is nice to be back. 4921 
My comfy corner. 4918 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4558 
WMD in house. 4380 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4283 
The third listening spot. 4262 
For sure a very different experience. 4224 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4219 
It's Jfretch's system. 4219 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4218 
Domestic games 4172 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4033 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4033 
Dynamic screening 4033 
Actually this is very good idea! 4033 
Volcanic fabric 4033 
I should have done this. 4031 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4027 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3996 
No worries 3996 
Awesome memories 3996 
Optimization of space 3996 
Child-ish considerations 3993 
Finding peace.... 3987 
"Fencing"? 3986 
I need to build something custom 3986 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3986 
Stressed Skin 3986 
NYC elevators 3986 
Kids toys and quantities. 3986 
Everything is completely reversible 3985 
Racks and things 3985 
Now it looks even more promising! 3985 
Quantity of rods 3985 
Avoiding diagonals 3983 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3982 
That's not fair! 3982 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3982 
Discrimination? 3977 
Vertical configuration 3970 
Impresive ! 3899 
Did you read the site? 3899 
Contact 3899 
Company's name is Rixrax 3899 
Stand 3898 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3854 
End of life headphone system 3854 
Something like this? 3854 
The "Second Living Room" 3854 
Mixing urban & suburban 3854 
Late night listening 3854 
Moving life... 3852 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3852 
A true listening room. 3828 
It started… 3813 
Levels of Interest 3813 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3813 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3813 
I can't not to post it.... 3813 
Do not leave him unattended. 3813 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3813 
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