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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6014 
The first take on the new room. 6008 
New Room, a first shot. 6007 
Wonderful 6007 
Adopted 6006 
The first relaxed night with the room 6004 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6003 
The listening room is ready. 6002 
New Room, a First Shot 6000 
Continue to work with the room 6000 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6000 
Room 5999 
I think it will take another month. 5999 
The Buttressing 5999 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5998 
The new place and the new noises. 5998 
Big listening room 5997 
Screw the "big" rooms 5997 
Big listening rooms 5997 
First reflection points 5996 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5996 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5993 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5992 
Squeezing the floor 5992 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5992 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5992 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5991 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5991 
The new room, the very first listening. 5991 
The 14.5 foot. 5990 
Again… 5989 
Romy's new Playground 5989 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5989 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5989 
For the uninitiated ... 5988 
NH guy 5988 
Room 5988 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5987 
The first base is done 5987 
Reentry time alignment. 5986 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5985 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5985 
Mid bass horn. 5985 
Guess is only a guess… 5985 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5985 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5984 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5984 
Diffusors 5984 
Diffuse injection 5984 
Let analyse why it so 5984 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5984 
Wheel and Deal 5984 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5984 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5984 
I Must Be Missing Something 5984 
I put sliders under my speakers 5983 
ROOM 5982 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5982 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5982 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5982 
No concerns 5982 
Speakers and room 5982 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5981 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5981 
Diaphram 5981 
Phram 5981 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5981 
Perfect piston 5981 
Decorater 5980 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5980 
New morning 5979 
The first take on the room with RTA 5978 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5978 
Axiomatic 5978 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5977 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5977 
The size of the bass. 5977 
Bass Factory 5977 
Crude Level, or something more? 5977 
I will play with it this week…. 5977 
Rent-A 5977 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5977 
Corner horns 5977 
Cheating from below 5977 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5977 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5976 
A possibly overly simplified view 5976 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5976 
Iceberg 5976 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5976 
Why not horn 5976 
A correction…. 5976 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5976 
They are just not related things at all. 5976 
Fertin 5974 
Low resonance is good... 5974 
Et tu, Brute? 5973 
The Room response at LF 5972 
Life On The Ground Floor 5972 
Bass arrays 5972 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5972 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5972 
The super sucks. 5972 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5972 
You may also try 5971 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5971 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5971 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5971 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5971 
60 Hz Resonance 5971 
No notching… so far. 5971 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5970 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5970 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5970 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5970 
Power to the People 5970 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5970 
Aura 5970 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5970 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5970 
All class D is the same 5970 
Interpreting the LF results. 5969 
The Halibut 5969 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5969 
The Big Picture 5969 
Power & ULF channels 5969 
The big picture indeed. 5969 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5969 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5969 
The Power and the Glory 5968 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5968 
I guess I did not get this memo 5968 
French LF drivers 5968 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5968 
(another) French LF approach 5967 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5967 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5967 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5967 
Limpschtick 5967 
Symmetry 5967 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5966 
Room correction 5966 
It migh be more complicated. 5966 
Bass EQ ? 5966 
Agree and not. 5966 
Two "diseases" 5966 
Parametric filters 5966 
Ceiling arrays 5966 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5966 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5966 
The Middle of the Room. 5966 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5966 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5966 
Stop! 5966 
Appendectomy 5966 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5965 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5965 
No Isolation 5965 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5962 
Potential contenders? 5961 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5961 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5961 
Those Crazy Canucks 5957 
Mo' Better Bass 5951 
Bird in the Hand? 5951 
A wet listening spot? 5944 
Storm 5941 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5941 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5927 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5897 
Polar Opposite ULF 5896 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5884 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5882 
Differently but the same. 5881 
PVC 5880 
The sail test try. 5880 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5880 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5880 
Trial 5879 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5879 
Some explanations 5879 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5878 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5877 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5876 
Acrylate 5875 
Magic blanket 5875 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5874 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5874 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5874 
I have a few options. 5874 
Foam color 5874 
Strange things with upperbass 5874 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5873 
Teatro reform. . . 5873 
The foaming room dilemma. 5872 
Melamine Foam 5872 
Foaming up the cat house 5872 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5872 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5872 
Acoustic revisions… 5871 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5868 
Surprises so far in the new room 5867 
The upperbass in the new room. 5867 
Slight change of hart. 5866 
Camco supply of Boston 5864 
Room acoustics 5864 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5823 
I need to kill dust first. 5823 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5821 
To feed the leeches? 5821 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5820 
Yh 5820 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5820 
DPOLs? 5820 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5820 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5817 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5817 
A HalfPipe solution? 5817 
I absolutely love it. 5817 
Piper work 5816 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5816 
Absorption 5816 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5815 
Cats life ? 5815 
Call me Pussy. 5815 
More about traps 5815 
Acoustic impedance? 5815 
You maybe right 5815 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5815 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5814 
Heavy Curtain 5814 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5813 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5813 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5813 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5810 
Fix speaker move chair? 5809 
Back and forth ceremony 5809 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5808 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5807 
Glass windows 5806 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5805 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5804 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5802 
How to use basement jacks? 5802 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5802 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5802 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5801 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5801 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5800 
Sore eyes... 5799 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5799 
The harvesting week! 5797 
I need an inspiration… 5796 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5795 
Like this? 5795 
Dramatically randomize MF 5795 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5794 
The room eats dynamic 5794 
Diffusers 5794 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5793 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5778 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5777 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5777 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5777 
About Width-Importance balance. 5775 
Letting the music scale up 5774 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5774 
To finish my house décor… 5770 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5769 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5768 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5768 
Calling the gods of music 5768 
Absolutely 5768 
Phase manipulation 5768 
No relation. 5768 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5768 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5768 
Dynamical mismatch 5767 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5767 
Stradiwinerius? 5764 
Dealing with the glass. 5763 
Boston 5763 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5763 
Added mass 5763 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5763 
It is about moderation…. 5763 
To hell with the wine... 5763 
Also for other surafaces 5762 
LEAD 5762 
LEAD & GLASS 5762 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5762 
Read carefully 5762 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5762 
Crooks and morons 5762 
Magiscopios 5761 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5741 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5741 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5740 
The LP setup in the new home. 5689 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5684 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5684 
Pianochord will do! 5684 
Spanyi heaven 5684 
I see no conflict at all. 5684 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5684 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5684 
A year after closing 5676 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5676 
Traveling antimatter 5669 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5663 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5662 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5636 
Cast Iron fireplace 5635 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5635 
The hardcore way 5635 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5599 
This is How It's Done 5598 
Listening room during summer. 5586 
What about those... 5585 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5585 
Reducing A/C Noise 5585 
HVAC the Cat 5585 
Big Ass fan 5584 
Variac dimmers 5584 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5584 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5584 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5516 
Some winter observations. 5407 
That Asian man…. 5376 
The Franz Schubert morning 5350 
Spring.... 5299 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5249 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5220 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5220 
Just good photography? 5220 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5220 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5220 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5219 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5219 
Sports car 5219 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5219 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5219 
Train Positioning 5219 
Kind of what I want 5219 
The lap listening… 5219 
Family Room 5219 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5216 
A super audio room. 5212 
Time Warp! 5212 
A piano in a listening room 5191 
Pianissimo 5191 
The plan in blue. 5191 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5191 
My doubts 5191 
It is exactly what I worry. 5190 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5190 
Musicians at home 5190 
Piano Measurements 5189 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5184 
The next step. 5170 
Midbass horns missing?? 5169 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5159 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5159 
Baby Grand 5158 
Wood floor 5158 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5158 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5158 
Amy’s baby. 5156 
Improvement 5156 
Agree with Scott 5156 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5144 
Integrated casters 5144 
Very nice, thanks. 5144 
Customization 5144 
Sliders 5144 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5137 
Congratulations 5137 
Holes in the floor... 5137 
Tubes and kids 5137 
Sweet spot enlargement 5137 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5135 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5134 
Wood Floors and Water 5134 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5129 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5128 
WAF is for Losers 5128 
WAF: it depends. 5128 
Integration 5127 
Here and there. 5127 
Life after WWIII 5127 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5127 
Cables management. 5125 
Featurizing 5125 
Kids and tubes cont. 5122 
Kid magnet 5122 
Kids and audio 5121 
Radars 5121 
Wow, what the days! 5117 
The comming weekend 5113 
It all was worth it! 5110 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5105 
Here is how it is look. 5105 
Resolving the carpet issue 5105 
Bonfire 5105 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5105 
Proof of concept? 5105 
Geometry 5105 
A view from listening position. 5105 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5105 
Some feedback 5105 
Evening 5105 
I wonder why. 5104 
Rugs and things 5104 
In defense… 5104 
I can’t get it. 5101 
Haze. 5100 
Front wall 5100 
It is very possible. 5100 
It is nice to be back. 5097 
My comfy corner. 5094 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4734 
WMD in house. 4556 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4459 
The third listening spot. 4438 
For sure a very different experience. 4400 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4395 
It's Jfretch's system. 4395 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4394 
Domestic games 4348 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4209 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4209 
Dynamic screening 4209 
Actually this is very good idea! 4209 
Volcanic fabric 4209 
I should have done this. 4207 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4203 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4172 
No worries 4172 
Awesome memories 4172 
Optimization of space 4172 
Child-ish considerations 4169 
Finding peace.... 4163 
"Fencing"? 4162 
I need to build something custom 4162 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4162 
Stressed Skin 4162 
NYC elevators 4162 
Kids toys and quantities. 4162 
Everything is completely reversible 4161 
Racks and things 4161 
Now it looks even more promising! 4161 
Quantity of rods 4161 
Avoiding diagonals 4159 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4158 
That's not fair! 4158 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4158 
Discrimination? 4153 
Vertical configuration 4146 
Impresive ! 4075 
Did you read the site? 4075 
Contact 4075 
Company's name is Rixrax 4075 
Stand 4074 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4030 
End of life headphone system 4030 
Something like this? 4030 
The "Second Living Room" 4030 
Mixing urban & suburban 4030 
Late night listening 4030 
Moving life... 4028 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4028 
A true listening room. 4004 
It started… 3989 
Levels of Interest 3989 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3989 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3989 
I can't not to post it.... 3989 
Do not leave him unattended. 3989 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3989 
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