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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5912 
The first take on the new room. 5906 
New Room, a first shot. 5905 
Wonderful 5905 
Adopted 5904 
The first relaxed night with the room 5902 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5901 
The listening room is ready. 5900 
New Room, a First Shot 5898 
Continue to work with the room 5898 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5898 
Room 5897 
I think it will take another month. 5897 
The Buttressing 5897 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5896 
The new place and the new noises. 5896 
Big listening room 5895 
Screw the "big" rooms 5895 
Big listening rooms 5895 
First reflection points 5894 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5894 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5891 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5890 
Squeezing the floor 5890 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5890 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5890 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5889 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5889 
The new room, the very first listening. 5889 
The 14.5 foot. 5888 
Again… 5887 
Romy's new Playground 5887 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5887 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5887 
For the uninitiated ... 5886 
NH guy 5886 
Room 5886 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5885 
The first base is done 5885 
Reentry time alignment. 5884 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5883 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5883 
Mid bass horn. 5883 
Guess is only a guess… 5883 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5883 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5882 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5882 
Diffusors 5882 
Diffuse injection 5882 
Let analyse why it so 5882 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5882 
Wheel and Deal 5882 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5882 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5882 
I Must Be Missing Something 5882 
I put sliders under my speakers 5881 
ROOM 5880 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5880 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5880 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5880 
No concerns 5880 
Speakers and room 5880 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5879 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5879 
Diaphram 5879 
Phram 5879 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5879 
Perfect piston 5879 
Decorater 5878 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5878 
New morning 5877 
The first take on the room with RTA 5876 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5876 
Axiomatic 5876 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5875 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5875 
The size of the bass. 5875 
Bass Factory 5875 
Crude Level, or something more? 5875 
I will play with it this week…. 5875 
Rent-A 5875 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5875 
Corner horns 5875 
Cheating from below 5875 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5875 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5874 
A possibly overly simplified view 5874 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5874 
Iceberg 5874 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5874 
Why not horn 5874 
A correction…. 5874 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5874 
They are just not related things at all. 5874 
Fertin 5872 
Low resonance is good... 5872 
Et tu, Brute? 5871 
The Room response at LF 5870 
Life On The Ground Floor 5870 
Bass arrays 5870 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5870 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5870 
The super sucks. 5870 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5870 
You may also try 5869 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5869 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5869 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5869 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5869 
60 Hz Resonance 5869 
No notching… so far. 5869 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5868 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5868 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5868 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5868 
Power to the People 5868 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5868 
Aura 5868 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5868 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5868 
All class D is the same 5868 
Interpreting the LF results. 5867 
The Halibut 5867 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5867 
The Big Picture 5867 
Power & ULF channels 5867 
The big picture indeed. 5867 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5867 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5867 
The Power and the Glory 5866 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5866 
I guess I did not get this memo 5866 
French LF drivers 5866 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5866 
(another) French LF approach 5865 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5865 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5865 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5865 
Limpschtick 5865 
Symmetry 5865 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5864 
Room correction 5864 
It migh be more complicated. 5864 
Bass EQ ? 5864 
Agree and not. 5864 
Two "diseases" 5864 
Parametric filters 5864 
Ceiling arrays 5864 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5864 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5864 
The Middle of the Room. 5864 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5864 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5864 
Stop! 5864 
Appendectomy 5864 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5863 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5863 
No Isolation 5863 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5860 
Potential contenders? 5859 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5859 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5859 
Those Crazy Canucks 5855 
Mo' Better Bass 5849 
Bird in the Hand? 5849 
A wet listening spot? 5842 
Storm 5839 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5839 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5825 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5795 
Polar Opposite ULF 5794 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5782 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5780 
Differently but the same. 5779 
PVC 5778 
The sail test try. 5778 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5778 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5778 
Trial 5777 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5777 
Some explanations 5777 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5776 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5775 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5774 
Acrylate 5773 
Magic blanket 5773 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5772 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5772 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5772 
I have a few options. 5772 
Foam color 5772 
Strange things with upperbass 5772 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5771 
Teatro reform. . . 5771 
The foaming room dilemma. 5770 
Melamine Foam 5770 
Foaming up the cat house 5770 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5770 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5770 
Acoustic revisions… 5769 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5766 
Surprises so far in the new room 5765 
The upperbass in the new room. 5765 
Slight change of hart. 5764 
Camco supply of Boston 5762 
Room acoustics 5762 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5721 
I need to kill dust first. 5721 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5719 
To feed the leeches? 5719 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5718 
Yh 5718 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5718 
DPOLs? 5718 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5718 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5715 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5715 
A HalfPipe solution? 5715 
I absolutely love it. 5715 
Piper work 5714 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5714 
Absorption 5714 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5713 
Cats life ? 5713 
Call me Pussy. 5713 
More about traps 5713 
Acoustic impedance? 5713 
You maybe right 5713 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5713 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5712 
Heavy Curtain 5712 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5711 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5711 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5711 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5708 
Fix speaker move chair? 5707 
Back and forth ceremony 5707 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5706 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5705 
Glass windows 5704 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5703 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5702 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5700 
How to use basement jacks? 5700 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5700 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5700 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5699 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5699 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5698 
Sore eyes... 5697 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5697 
The harvesting week! 5695 
I need an inspiration… 5694 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5693 
Like this? 5693 
Dramatically randomize MF 5693 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5692 
The room eats dynamic 5692 
Diffusers 5692 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5691 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5676 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5675 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5675 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5675 
About Width-Importance balance. 5673 
Letting the music scale up 5672 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5672 
To finish my house décor… 5668 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5667 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5666 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5666 
Calling the gods of music 5666 
Absolutely 5666 
Phase manipulation 5666 
No relation. 5666 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5666 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5666 
Dynamical mismatch 5665 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5665 
Stradiwinerius? 5662 
Dealing with the glass. 5661 
Boston 5661 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5661 
Added mass 5661 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5661 
It is about moderation…. 5661 
To hell with the wine... 5661 
Also for other surafaces 5660 
LEAD 5660 
LEAD & GLASS 5660 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5660 
Read carefully 5660 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5660 
Crooks and morons 5660 
Magiscopios 5659 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5639 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5639 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5638 
The LP setup in the new home. 5587 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5582 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5582 
Pianochord will do! 5582 
Spanyi heaven 5582 
I see no conflict at all. 5582 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5582 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5582 
A year after closing 5574 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5574 
Traveling antimatter 5567 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5561 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5560 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5534 
Cast Iron fireplace 5533 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5533 
The hardcore way 5533 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5497 
This is How It's Done 5496 
Listening room during summer. 5484 
What about those... 5483 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5483 
Reducing A/C Noise 5483 
HVAC the Cat 5483 
Big Ass fan 5482 
Variac dimmers 5482 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5482 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5482 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5414 
Some winter observations. 5305 
That Asian man…. 5274 
The Franz Schubert morning 5248 
Spring.... 5197 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5147 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5118 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5118 
Just good photography? 5118 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5118 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5118 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5117 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5117 
Sports car 5117 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5117 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5117 
Train Positioning 5117 
Kind of what I want 5117 
The lap listening… 5117 
Family Room 5117 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5114 
A super audio room. 5110 
Time Warp! 5110 
A piano in a listening room 5089 
Pianissimo 5089 
The plan in blue. 5089 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5089 
My doubts 5089 
It is exactly what I worry. 5088 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5088 
Musicians at home 5088 
Piano Measurements 5087 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5082 
The next step. 5068 
Midbass horns missing?? 5067 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5057 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5057 
Baby Grand 5056 
Wood floor 5056 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5056 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5056 
Amy’s baby. 5054 
Improvement 5054 
Agree with Scott 5054 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5042 
Integrated casters 5042 
Very nice, thanks. 5042 
Customization 5042 
Sliders 5042 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5035 
Congratulations 5035 
Holes in the floor... 5035 
Tubes and kids 5035 
Sweet spot enlargement 5035 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5033 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5032 
Wood Floors and Water 5032 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5027 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5026 
WAF is for Losers 5026 
WAF: it depends. 5026 
Integration 5025 
Here and there. 5025 
Life after WWIII 5025 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5025 
Cables management. 5023 
Featurizing 5023 
Kids and tubes cont. 5020 
Kid magnet 5020 
Kids and audio 5019 
Radars 5019 
Wow, what the days! 5015 
The comming weekend 5011 
It all was worth it! 5008 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5003 
Here is how it is look. 5003 
Resolving the carpet issue 5003 
Bonfire 5003 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5003 
Proof of concept? 5003 
Geometry 5003 
A view from listening position. 5003 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5003 
Some feedback 5003 
Evening 5003 
I wonder why. 5002 
Rugs and things 5002 
In defense… 5002 
I can’t get it. 4999 
Haze. 4998 
Front wall 4998 
It is very possible. 4998 
It is nice to be back. 4995 
My comfy corner. 4992 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4632 
WMD in house. 4454 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4357 
The third listening spot. 4336 
For sure a very different experience. 4298 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4293 
It's Jfretch's system. 4293 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4292 
Domestic games 4246 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4107 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4107 
Dynamic screening 4107 
Actually this is very good idea! 4107 
Volcanic fabric 4107 
I should have done this. 4105 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4101 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4070 
No worries 4070 
Awesome memories 4070 
Optimization of space 4070 
Child-ish considerations 4067 
Finding peace.... 4061 
"Fencing"? 4060 
I need to build something custom 4060 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4060 
Stressed Skin 4060 
NYC elevators 4060 
Kids toys and quantities. 4060 
Everything is completely reversible 4059 
Racks and things 4059 
Now it looks even more promising! 4059 
Quantity of rods 4059 
Avoiding diagonals 4057 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4056 
That's not fair! 4056 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4056 
Discrimination? 4051 
Vertical configuration 4044 
Impresive ! 3973 
Did you read the site? 3973 
Contact 3973 
Company's name is Rixrax 3973 
Stand 3972 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3928 
End of life headphone system 3928 
Something like this? 3928 
The "Second Living Room" 3928 
Mixing urban & suburban 3928 
Late night listening 3928 
Moving life... 3926 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3926 
A true listening room. 3902 
It started… 3887 
Levels of Interest 3887 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3887 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3887 
I can't not to post it.... 3887 
Do not leave him unattended. 3887 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3887 
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