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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5921 
The first take on the new room. 5915 
New Room, a first shot. 5914 
Wonderful 5914 
Adopted 5913 
The first relaxed night with the room 5911 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5910 
The listening room is ready. 5909 
New Room, a First Shot 5907 
Continue to work with the room 5907 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5907 
Room 5906 
I think it will take another month. 5906 
The Buttressing 5906 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5905 
The new place and the new noises. 5905 
Big listening room 5904 
Screw the "big" rooms 5904 
Big listening rooms 5904 
First reflection points 5903 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5903 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5900 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5899 
Squeezing the floor 5899 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5899 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5899 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5898 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5898 
The new room, the very first listening. 5898 
The 14.5 foot. 5897 
Again… 5896 
Romy's new Playground 5896 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5896 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5896 
For the uninitiated ... 5895 
NH guy 5895 
Room 5895 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5894 
The first base is done 5894 
Reentry time alignment. 5893 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5892 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5892 
Mid bass horn. 5892 
Guess is only a guess… 5892 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5892 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5891 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5891 
Diffusors 5891 
Diffuse injection 5891 
Let analyse why it so 5891 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5891 
Wheel and Deal 5891 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5891 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5891 
I Must Be Missing Something 5891 
I put sliders under my speakers 5890 
ROOM 5889 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5889 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5889 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5889 
No concerns 5889 
Speakers and room 5889 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5888 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5888 
Diaphram 5888 
Phram 5888 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5888 
Perfect piston 5888 
Decorater 5887 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5887 
New morning 5886 
The first take on the room with RTA 5885 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5885 
Axiomatic 5885 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5884 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5884 
The size of the bass. 5884 
Bass Factory 5884 
Crude Level, or something more? 5884 
I will play with it this week…. 5884 
Rent-A 5884 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5884 
Corner horns 5884 
Cheating from below 5884 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5884 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5883 
A possibly overly simplified view 5883 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5883 
Iceberg 5883 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5883 
Why not horn 5883 
A correction…. 5883 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5883 
They are just not related things at all. 5883 
Fertin 5881 
Low resonance is good... 5881 
Et tu, Brute? 5880 
The Room response at LF 5879 
Life On The Ground Floor 5879 
Bass arrays 5879 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5879 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5879 
The super sucks. 5879 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5879 
You may also try 5878 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5878 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5878 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5878 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5878 
60 Hz Resonance 5878 
No notching… so far. 5878 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5877 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5877 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5877 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5877 
Power to the People 5877 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5877 
Aura 5877 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5877 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5877 
All class D is the same 5877 
Interpreting the LF results. 5876 
The Halibut 5876 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5876 
The Big Picture 5876 
Power & ULF channels 5876 
The big picture indeed. 5876 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5876 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5876 
The Power and the Glory 5875 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5875 
I guess I did not get this memo 5875 
French LF drivers 5875 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5875 
(another) French LF approach 5874 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5874 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5874 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5874 
Limpschtick 5874 
Symmetry 5874 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5873 
Room correction 5873 
It migh be more complicated. 5873 
Bass EQ ? 5873 
Agree and not. 5873 
Two "diseases" 5873 
Parametric filters 5873 
Ceiling arrays 5873 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5873 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5873 
The Middle of the Room. 5873 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5873 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5873 
Stop! 5873 
Appendectomy 5873 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5872 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5872 
No Isolation 5872 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5869 
Potential contenders? 5868 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5868 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5868 
Those Crazy Canucks 5864 
Mo' Better Bass 5858 
Bird in the Hand? 5858 
A wet listening spot? 5851 
Storm 5848 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5848 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5834 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5804 
Polar Opposite ULF 5803 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5791 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5789 
Differently but the same. 5788 
PVC 5787 
The sail test try. 5787 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5787 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5787 
Trial 5786 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5786 
Some explanations 5786 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5785 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5784 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5783 
Acrylate 5782 
Magic blanket 5782 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5781 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5781 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5781 
I have a few options. 5781 
Foam color 5781 
Strange things with upperbass 5781 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5780 
Teatro reform. . . 5780 
The foaming room dilemma. 5779 
Melamine Foam 5779 
Foaming up the cat house 5779 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5779 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5779 
Acoustic revisions… 5778 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5775 
Surprises so far in the new room 5774 
The upperbass in the new room. 5774 
Slight change of hart. 5773 
Camco supply of Boston 5771 
Room acoustics 5771 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5730 
I need to kill dust first. 5730 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5728 
To feed the leeches? 5728 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5727 
Yh 5727 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5727 
DPOLs? 5727 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5727 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5724 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5724 
A HalfPipe solution? 5724 
I absolutely love it. 5724 
Piper work 5723 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5723 
Absorption 5723 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5722 
Cats life ? 5722 
Call me Pussy. 5722 
More about traps 5722 
Acoustic impedance? 5722 
You maybe right 5722 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5722 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5721 
Heavy Curtain 5721 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5720 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5720 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5720 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5717 
Fix speaker move chair? 5716 
Back and forth ceremony 5716 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5715 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5714 
Glass windows 5713 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5712 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5711 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5709 
How to use basement jacks? 5709 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5709 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5709 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5708 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5708 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5707 
Sore eyes... 5706 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5706 
The harvesting week! 5704 
I need an inspiration… 5703 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5702 
Like this? 5702 
Dramatically randomize MF 5702 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5701 
The room eats dynamic 5701 
Diffusers 5701 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5700 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5685 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5684 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5684 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5684 
About Width-Importance balance. 5682 
Letting the music scale up 5681 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5681 
To finish my house décor… 5677 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5676 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5675 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5675 
Calling the gods of music 5675 
Absolutely 5675 
Phase manipulation 5675 
No relation. 5675 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5675 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5675 
Dynamical mismatch 5674 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5674 
Stradiwinerius? 5671 
Dealing with the glass. 5670 
Boston 5670 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5670 
Added mass 5670 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5670 
It is about moderation…. 5670 
To hell with the wine... 5670 
Also for other surafaces 5669 
LEAD 5669 
LEAD & GLASS 5669 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5669 
Read carefully 5669 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5669 
Crooks and morons 5669 
Magiscopios 5668 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5648 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5648 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5647 
The LP setup in the new home. 5596 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5591 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5591 
Pianochord will do! 5591 
Spanyi heaven 5591 
I see no conflict at all. 5591 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5591 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5591 
A year after closing 5583 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5583 
Traveling antimatter 5576 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5570 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5569 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5543 
Cast Iron fireplace 5542 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5542 
The hardcore way 5542 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5506 
This is How It's Done 5505 
Listening room during summer. 5493 
What about those... 5492 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5492 
Reducing A/C Noise 5492 
HVAC the Cat 5492 
Big Ass fan 5491 
Variac dimmers 5491 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5491 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5491 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5423 
Some winter observations. 5314 
That Asian man…. 5283 
The Franz Schubert morning 5257 
Spring.... 5206 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5156 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5127 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5127 
Just good photography? 5127 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5127 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5127 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5126 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5126 
Sports car 5126 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5126 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5126 
Train Positioning 5126 
Kind of what I want 5126 
The lap listening… 5126 
Family Room 5126 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5123 
A super audio room. 5119 
Time Warp! 5119 
A piano in a listening room 5098 
Pianissimo 5098 
The plan in blue. 5098 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5098 
My doubts 5098 
It is exactly what I worry. 5097 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5097 
Musicians at home 5097 
Piano Measurements 5096 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5091 
The next step. 5077 
Midbass horns missing?? 5076 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5066 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5066 
Baby Grand 5065 
Wood floor 5065 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5065 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5065 
Amy’s baby. 5063 
Improvement 5063 
Agree with Scott 5063 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5051 
Integrated casters 5051 
Very nice, thanks. 5051 
Customization 5051 
Sliders 5051 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5044 
Congratulations 5044 
Holes in the floor... 5044 
Tubes and kids 5044 
Sweet spot enlargement 5044 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5042 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5041 
Wood Floors and Water 5041 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5036 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5035 
WAF is for Losers 5035 
WAF: it depends. 5035 
Integration 5034 
Here and there. 5034 
Life after WWIII 5034 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5034 
Cables management. 5032 
Featurizing 5032 
Kids and tubes cont. 5029 
Kid magnet 5029 
Kids and audio 5028 
Radars 5028 
Wow, what the days! 5024 
The comming weekend 5020 
It all was worth it! 5017 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5012 
Here is how it is look. 5012 
Resolving the carpet issue 5012 
Bonfire 5012 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5012 
Proof of concept? 5012 
Geometry 5012 
A view from listening position. 5012 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5012 
Some feedback 5012 
Evening 5012 
I wonder why. 5011 
Rugs and things 5011 
In defense… 5011 
I can’t get it. 5008 
Haze. 5007 
Front wall 5007 
It is very possible. 5007 
It is nice to be back. 5004 
My comfy corner. 5001 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4641 
WMD in house. 4463 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4366 
The third listening spot. 4345 
For sure a very different experience. 4307 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4302 
It's Jfretch's system. 4302 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4301 
Domestic games 4255 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4116 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4116 
Dynamic screening 4116 
Actually this is very good idea! 4116 
Volcanic fabric 4116 
I should have done this. 4114 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4110 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4079 
No worries 4079 
Awesome memories 4079 
Optimization of space 4079 
Child-ish considerations 4076 
Finding peace.... 4070 
"Fencing"? 4069 
I need to build something custom 4069 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4069 
Stressed Skin 4069 
NYC elevators 4069 
Kids toys and quantities. 4069 
Everything is completely reversible 4068 
Racks and things 4068 
Now it looks even more promising! 4068 
Quantity of rods 4068 
Avoiding diagonals 4066 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4065 
That's not fair! 4065 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4065 
Discrimination? 4060 
Vertical configuration 4053 
Impresive ! 3982 
Did you read the site? 3982 
Contact 3982 
Company's name is Rixrax 3982 
Stand 3981 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3937 
End of life headphone system 3937 
Something like this? 3937 
The "Second Living Room" 3937 
Mixing urban & suburban 3937 
Late night listening 3937 
Moving life... 3935 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3935 
A true listening room. 3911 
It started… 3896 
Levels of Interest 3896 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3896 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3896 
I can't not to post it.... 3896 
Do not leave him unattended. 3896 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3896 
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