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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5896 
The first take on the new room. 5890 
New Room, a first shot. 5889 
Wonderful 5889 
Adopted 5888 
The first relaxed night with the room 5886 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5885 
The listening room is ready. 5884 
New Room, a First Shot 5882 
Continue to work with the room 5882 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5882 
Room 5881 
I think it will take another month. 5881 
The Buttressing 5881 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5880 
The new place and the new noises. 5880 
Big listening room 5879 
Screw the "big" rooms 5879 
Big listening rooms 5879 
First reflection points 5878 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5878 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5875 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5874 
Squeezing the floor 5874 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5874 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5874 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5873 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5873 
The new room, the very first listening. 5873 
The 14.5 foot. 5872 
Again… 5871 
Romy's new Playground 5871 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5871 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5871 
For the uninitiated ... 5870 
NH guy 5870 
Room 5870 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5869 
The first base is done 5869 
Reentry time alignment. 5868 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5867 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5867 
Mid bass horn. 5867 
Guess is only a guess… 5867 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5867 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5866 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5866 
Diffusors 5866 
Diffuse injection 5866 
Let analyse why it so 5866 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5866 
Wheel and Deal 5866 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5866 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5866 
I Must Be Missing Something 5866 
I put sliders under my speakers 5865 
ROOM 5864 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5864 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5864 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5864 
No concerns 5864 
Speakers and room 5864 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5863 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5863 
Diaphram 5863 
Phram 5863 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5863 
Perfect piston 5863 
Decorater 5862 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5862 
New morning 5861 
The first take on the room with RTA 5860 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5860 
Axiomatic 5860 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5859 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5859 
The size of the bass. 5859 
Bass Factory 5859 
Crude Level, or something more? 5859 
I will play with it this week…. 5859 
Rent-A 5859 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5859 
Corner horns 5859 
Cheating from below 5859 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5859 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5858 
A possibly overly simplified view 5858 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5858 
Iceberg 5858 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5858 
Why not horn 5858 
A correction…. 5858 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5858 
They are just not related things at all. 5858 
Fertin 5856 
Low resonance is good... 5856 
Et tu, Brute? 5855 
The Room response at LF 5854 
Life On The Ground Floor 5854 
Bass arrays 5854 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5854 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5854 
The super sucks. 5854 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5854 
You may also try 5853 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5853 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5853 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5853 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5853 
60 Hz Resonance 5853 
No notching… so far. 5853 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5852 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5852 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5852 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5852 
Power to the People 5852 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5852 
Aura 5852 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5852 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5852 
All class D is the same 5852 
Interpreting the LF results. 5851 
The Halibut 5851 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5851 
The Big Picture 5851 
Power & ULF channels 5851 
The big picture indeed. 5851 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5851 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5851 
The Power and the Glory 5850 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5850 
I guess I did not get this memo 5850 
French LF drivers 5850 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5850 
(another) French LF approach 5849 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5849 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5849 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5849 
Limpschtick 5849 
Symmetry 5849 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5848 
Room correction 5848 
It migh be more complicated. 5848 
Bass EQ ? 5848 
Agree and not. 5848 
Two "diseases" 5848 
Parametric filters 5848 
Ceiling arrays 5848 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5848 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5848 
The Middle of the Room. 5848 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5848 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5848 
Stop! 5848 
Appendectomy 5848 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5847 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5847 
No Isolation 5847 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5844 
Potential contenders? 5843 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5843 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5843 
Those Crazy Canucks 5839 
Mo' Better Bass 5833 
Bird in the Hand? 5833 
A wet listening spot? 5826 
Storm 5823 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5823 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5809 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5779 
Polar Opposite ULF 5778 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5766 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5764 
Differently but the same. 5763 
PVC 5762 
The sail test try. 5762 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5762 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5762 
Trial 5761 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5761 
Some explanations 5761 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5760 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5759 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5758 
Acrylate 5757 
Magic blanket 5757 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5756 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5756 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5756 
I have a few options. 5756 
Foam color 5756 
Strange things with upperbass 5756 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5755 
Teatro reform. . . 5755 
The foaming room dilemma. 5754 
Melamine Foam 5754 
Foaming up the cat house 5754 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5754 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5754 
Acoustic revisions… 5753 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5750 
Surprises so far in the new room 5749 
The upperbass in the new room. 5749 
Slight change of hart. 5748 
Camco supply of Boston 5746 
Room acoustics 5746 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5705 
I need to kill dust first. 5705 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5703 
To feed the leeches? 5703 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5702 
Yh 5702 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5702 
DPOLs? 5702 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5702 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5699 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5699 
A HalfPipe solution? 5699 
I absolutely love it. 5699 
Piper work 5698 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5698 
Absorption 5698 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5697 
Cats life ? 5697 
Call me Pussy. 5697 
More about traps 5697 
Acoustic impedance? 5697 
You maybe right 5697 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5697 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5696 
Heavy Curtain 5696 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5695 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5695 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5695 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5692 
Fix speaker move chair? 5691 
Back and forth ceremony 5691 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5690 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5689 
Glass windows 5688 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5687 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5686 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5684 
How to use basement jacks? 5684 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5684 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5684 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5683 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5683 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5682 
Sore eyes... 5681 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5681 
The harvesting week! 5679 
I need an inspiration… 5678 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5677 
Like this? 5677 
Dramatically randomize MF 5677 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5676 
The room eats dynamic 5676 
Diffusers 5676 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5675 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5660 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5659 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5659 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5659 
About Width-Importance balance. 5657 
Letting the music scale up 5656 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5656 
To finish my house décor… 5652 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5651 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5650 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5650 
Calling the gods of music 5650 
Absolutely 5650 
Phase manipulation 5650 
No relation. 5650 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5650 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5650 
Dynamical mismatch 5649 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5649 
Stradiwinerius? 5646 
Dealing with the glass. 5645 
Boston 5645 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5645 
Added mass 5645 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5645 
It is about moderation…. 5645 
To hell with the wine... 5645 
Also for other surafaces 5644 
LEAD 5644 
LEAD & GLASS 5644 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5644 
Read carefully 5644 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5644 
Crooks and morons 5644 
Magiscopios 5643 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5623 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5623 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5622 
The LP setup in the new home. 5571 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5566 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5566 
Pianochord will do! 5566 
Spanyi heaven 5566 
I see no conflict at all. 5566 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5566 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5566 
A year after closing 5558 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5558 
Traveling antimatter 5551 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5545 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5544 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5518 
Cast Iron fireplace 5517 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5517 
The hardcore way 5517 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5481 
This is How It's Done 5480 
Listening room during summer. 5468 
What about those... 5467 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5467 
Reducing A/C Noise 5467 
HVAC the Cat 5467 
Big Ass fan 5466 
Variac dimmers 5466 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5466 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5466 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5398 
Some winter observations. 5289 
That Asian man…. 5258 
The Franz Schubert morning 5232 
Spring.... 5181 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5131 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5102 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5102 
Just good photography? 5102 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5102 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5102 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5101 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5101 
Sports car 5101 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5101 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5101 
Train Positioning 5101 
Kind of what I want 5101 
The lap listening… 5101 
Family Room 5101 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5098 
A super audio room. 5094 
Time Warp! 5094 
A piano in a listening room 5073 
Pianissimo 5073 
The plan in blue. 5073 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5073 
My doubts 5073 
It is exactly what I worry. 5072 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5072 
Musicians at home 5072 
Piano Measurements 5071 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5066 
The next step. 5052 
Midbass horns missing?? 5051 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5041 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5041 
Baby Grand 5040 
Wood floor 5040 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5040 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5040 
Amy’s baby. 5038 
Improvement 5038 
Agree with Scott 5038 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5026 
Integrated casters 5026 
Very nice, thanks. 5026 
Customization 5026 
Sliders 5026 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5019 
Congratulations 5019 
Holes in the floor... 5019 
Tubes and kids 5019 
Sweet spot enlargement 5019 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5017 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5016 
Wood Floors and Water 5016 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5011 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5010 
WAF is for Losers 5010 
WAF: it depends. 5010 
Integration 5009 
Here and there. 5009 
Life after WWIII 5009 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5009 
Cables management. 5007 
Featurizing 5007 
Kids and tubes cont. 5004 
Kid magnet 5004 
Kids and audio 5003 
Radars 5003 
Wow, what the days! 4999 
The comming weekend 4995 
It all was worth it! 4992 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4987 
Here is how it is look. 4987 
Resolving the carpet issue 4987 
Bonfire 4987 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4987 
Proof of concept? 4987 
Geometry 4987 
A view from listening position. 4987 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4987 
Some feedback 4987 
Evening 4987 
I wonder why. 4986 
Rugs and things 4986 
In defense… 4986 
I can’t get it. 4983 
Haze. 4982 
Front wall 4982 
It is very possible. 4982 
It is nice to be back. 4979 
My comfy corner. 4976 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4616 
WMD in house. 4438 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4341 
The third listening spot. 4320 
For sure a very different experience. 4282 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4277 
It's Jfretch's system. 4277 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4276 
Domestic games 4230 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4091 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4091 
Dynamic screening 4091 
Actually this is very good idea! 4091 
Volcanic fabric 4091 
I should have done this. 4089 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4085 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4054 
No worries 4054 
Awesome memories 4054 
Optimization of space 4054 
Child-ish considerations 4051 
Finding peace.... 4045 
"Fencing"? 4044 
I need to build something custom 4044 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4044 
Stressed Skin 4044 
NYC elevators 4044 
Kids toys and quantities. 4044 
Everything is completely reversible 4043 
Racks and things 4043 
Now it looks even more promising! 4043 
Quantity of rods 4043 
Avoiding diagonals 4041 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4040 
That's not fair! 4040 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4040 
Discrimination? 4035 
Vertical configuration 4028 
Impresive ! 3957 
Did you read the site? 3957 
Contact 3957 
Company's name is Rixrax 3957 
Stand 3956 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3912 
End of life headphone system 3912 
Something like this? 3912 
The "Second Living Room" 3912 
Mixing urban & suburban 3912 
Late night listening 3912 
Moving life... 3910 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3910 
A true listening room. 3886 
It started… 3871 
Levels of Interest 3871 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3871 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3871 
I can't not to post it.... 3871 
Do not leave him unattended. 3871 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3871 
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