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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5924 
The first take on the new room. 5918 
New Room, a first shot. 5917 
Wonderful 5917 
Adopted 5916 
The first relaxed night with the room 5914 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5913 
The listening room is ready. 5912 
New Room, a First Shot 5910 
Continue to work with the room 5910 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5910 
Room 5909 
I think it will take another month. 5909 
The Buttressing 5909 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5908 
The new place and the new noises. 5908 
Big listening room 5907 
Screw the "big" rooms 5907 
Big listening rooms 5907 
First reflection points 5906 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5906 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5903 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5902 
Squeezing the floor 5902 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5902 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5902 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5901 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5901 
The new room, the very first listening. 5901 
The 14.5 foot. 5900 
Again… 5899 
Romy's new Playground 5899 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5899 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5899 
For the uninitiated ... 5898 
NH guy 5898 
Room 5898 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5897 
The first base is done 5897 
Reentry time alignment. 5896 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5895 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5895 
Mid bass horn. 5895 
Guess is only a guess… 5895 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5895 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5894 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5894 
Diffusors 5894 
Diffuse injection 5894 
Let analyse why it so 5894 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5894 
Wheel and Deal 5894 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5894 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5894 
I Must Be Missing Something 5894 
I put sliders under my speakers 5893 
ROOM 5892 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5892 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5892 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5892 
No concerns 5892 
Speakers and room 5892 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5891 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5891 
Diaphram 5891 
Phram 5891 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5891 
Perfect piston 5891 
Decorater 5890 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5890 
New morning 5889 
The first take on the room with RTA 5888 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5888 
Axiomatic 5888 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5887 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5887 
The size of the bass. 5887 
Bass Factory 5887 
Crude Level, or something more? 5887 
I will play with it this week…. 5887 
Rent-A 5887 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5887 
Corner horns 5887 
Cheating from below 5887 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5887 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5886 
A possibly overly simplified view 5886 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5886 
Iceberg 5886 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5886 
Why not horn 5886 
A correction…. 5886 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5886 
They are just not related things at all. 5886 
Fertin 5884 
Low resonance is good... 5884 
Et tu, Brute? 5883 
The Room response at LF 5882 
Life On The Ground Floor 5882 
Bass arrays 5882 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5882 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5882 
The super sucks. 5882 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5882 
You may also try 5881 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5881 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5881 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5881 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5881 
60 Hz Resonance 5881 
No notching… so far. 5881 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5880 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5880 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5880 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5880 
Power to the People 5880 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5880 
Aura 5880 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5880 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5880 
All class D is the same 5880 
Interpreting the LF results. 5879 
The Halibut 5879 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5879 
The Big Picture 5879 
Power & ULF channels 5879 
The big picture indeed. 5879 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5879 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5879 
The Power and the Glory 5878 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5878 
I guess I did not get this memo 5878 
French LF drivers 5878 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5878 
(another) French LF approach 5877 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5877 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5877 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5877 
Limpschtick 5877 
Symmetry 5877 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5876 
Room correction 5876 
It migh be more complicated. 5876 
Bass EQ ? 5876 
Agree and not. 5876 
Two "diseases" 5876 
Parametric filters 5876 
Ceiling arrays 5876 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5876 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5876 
The Middle of the Room. 5876 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5876 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5876 
Stop! 5876 
Appendectomy 5876 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5875 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5875 
No Isolation 5875 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5872 
Potential contenders? 5871 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5871 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5871 
Those Crazy Canucks 5867 
Mo' Better Bass 5861 
Bird in the Hand? 5861 
A wet listening spot? 5854 
Storm 5851 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5851 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5837 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5807 
Polar Opposite ULF 5806 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5794 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5792 
Differently but the same. 5791 
PVC 5790 
The sail test try. 5790 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5790 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5790 
Trial 5789 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5789 
Some explanations 5789 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5788 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5787 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5786 
Acrylate 5785 
Magic blanket 5785 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5784 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5784 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5784 
I have a few options. 5784 
Foam color 5784 
Strange things with upperbass 5784 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5783 
Teatro reform. . . 5783 
The foaming room dilemma. 5782 
Melamine Foam 5782 
Foaming up the cat house 5782 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5782 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5782 
Acoustic revisions… 5781 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5778 
Surprises so far in the new room 5777 
The upperbass in the new room. 5777 
Slight change of hart. 5776 
Camco supply of Boston 5774 
Room acoustics 5774 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5733 
I need to kill dust first. 5733 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5731 
To feed the leeches? 5731 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5730 
Yh 5730 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5730 
DPOLs? 5730 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5730 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5727 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5727 
A HalfPipe solution? 5727 
I absolutely love it. 5727 
Piper work 5726 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5726 
Absorption 5726 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5725 
Cats life ? 5725 
Call me Pussy. 5725 
More about traps 5725 
Acoustic impedance? 5725 
You maybe right 5725 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5725 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5724 
Heavy Curtain 5724 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5723 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5723 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5723 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5720 
Fix speaker move chair? 5719 
Back and forth ceremony 5719 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5718 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5717 
Glass windows 5716 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5715 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5714 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5712 
How to use basement jacks? 5712 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5712 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5712 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5711 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5711 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5710 
Sore eyes... 5709 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5709 
The harvesting week! 5707 
I need an inspiration… 5706 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5705 
Like this? 5705 
Dramatically randomize MF 5705 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5704 
The room eats dynamic 5704 
Diffusers 5704 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5703 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5688 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5687 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5687 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5687 
About Width-Importance balance. 5685 
Letting the music scale up 5684 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5684 
To finish my house décor… 5680 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5679 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5678 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5678 
Calling the gods of music 5678 
Absolutely 5678 
Phase manipulation 5678 
No relation. 5678 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5678 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5678 
Dynamical mismatch 5677 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5677 
Stradiwinerius? 5674 
Dealing with the glass. 5673 
Boston 5673 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5673 
Added mass 5673 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5673 
It is about moderation…. 5673 
To hell with the wine... 5673 
Also for other surafaces 5672 
LEAD 5672 
LEAD & GLASS 5672 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5672 
Read carefully 5672 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5672 
Crooks and morons 5672 
Magiscopios 5671 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5651 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5651 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5650 
The LP setup in the new home. 5599 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5594 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5594 
Pianochord will do! 5594 
Spanyi heaven 5594 
I see no conflict at all. 5594 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5594 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5594 
A year after closing 5586 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5586 
Traveling antimatter 5579 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5573 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5572 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5546 
Cast Iron fireplace 5545 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5545 
The hardcore way 5545 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5509 
This is How It's Done 5508 
Listening room during summer. 5496 
What about those... 5495 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5495 
Reducing A/C Noise 5495 
HVAC the Cat 5495 
Big Ass fan 5494 
Variac dimmers 5494 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5494 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5494 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5426 
Some winter observations. 5317 
That Asian man…. 5286 
The Franz Schubert morning 5260 
Spring.... 5209 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5159 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5130 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5130 
Just good photography? 5130 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5130 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5130 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5129 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5129 
Sports car 5129 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5129 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5129 
Train Positioning 5129 
Kind of what I want 5129 
The lap listening… 5129 
Family Room 5129 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5126 
A super audio room. 5122 
Time Warp! 5122 
A piano in a listening room 5101 
Pianissimo 5101 
The plan in blue. 5101 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5101 
My doubts 5101 
It is exactly what I worry. 5100 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5100 
Musicians at home 5100 
Piano Measurements 5099 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5094 
The next step. 5080 
Midbass horns missing?? 5079 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5069 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5069 
Baby Grand 5068 
Wood floor 5068 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5068 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5068 
Amy’s baby. 5066 
Improvement 5066 
Agree with Scott 5066 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5054 
Integrated casters 5054 
Very nice, thanks. 5054 
Customization 5054 
Sliders 5054 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5047 
Congratulations 5047 
Holes in the floor... 5047 
Tubes and kids 5047 
Sweet spot enlargement 5047 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5045 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5044 
Wood Floors and Water 5044 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5039 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5038 
WAF is for Losers 5038 
WAF: it depends. 5038 
Integration 5037 
Here and there. 5037 
Life after WWIII 5037 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5037 
Cables management. 5035 
Featurizing 5035 
Kids and tubes cont. 5032 
Kid magnet 5032 
Kids and audio 5031 
Radars 5031 
Wow, what the days! 5027 
The comming weekend 5023 
It all was worth it! 5020 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5015 
Here is how it is look. 5015 
Resolving the carpet issue 5015 
Bonfire 5015 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5015 
Proof of concept? 5015 
Geometry 5015 
A view from listening position. 5015 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5015 
Some feedback 5015 
Evening 5015 
I wonder why. 5014 
Rugs and things 5014 
In defense… 5014 
I can’t get it. 5011 
Haze. 5010 
Front wall 5010 
It is very possible. 5010 
It is nice to be back. 5007 
My comfy corner. 5004 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4644 
WMD in house. 4466 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4369 
The third listening spot. 4348 
For sure a very different experience. 4310 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4305 
It's Jfretch's system. 4305 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4304 
Domestic games 4258 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4119 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4119 
Dynamic screening 4119 
Actually this is very good idea! 4119 
Volcanic fabric 4119 
I should have done this. 4117 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4113 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4082 
No worries 4082 
Awesome memories 4082 
Optimization of space 4082 
Child-ish considerations 4079 
Finding peace.... 4073 
"Fencing"? 4072 
I need to build something custom 4072 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4072 
Stressed Skin 4072 
NYC elevators 4072 
Kids toys and quantities. 4072 
Everything is completely reversible 4071 
Racks and things 4071 
Now it looks even more promising! 4071 
Quantity of rods 4071 
Avoiding diagonals 4069 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4068 
That's not fair! 4068 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4068 
Discrimination? 4063 
Vertical configuration 4056 
Impresive ! 3985 
Did you read the site? 3985 
Contact 3985 
Company's name is Rixrax 3985 
Stand 3984 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3940 
End of life headphone system 3940 
Something like this? 3940 
The "Second Living Room" 3940 
Mixing urban & suburban 3940 
Late night listening 3940 
Moving life... 3938 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3938 
A true listening room. 3914 
It started… 3899 
Levels of Interest 3899 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3899 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3899 
I can't not to post it.... 3899 
Do not leave him unattended. 3899 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3899 
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