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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5840 
The first take on the new room. 5834 
New Room, a first shot. 5833 
Wonderful 5833 
Adopted 5832 
The first relaxed night with the room 5830 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5829 
The listening room is ready. 5828 
New Room, a First Shot 5826 
Continue to work with the room 5826 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5826 
Room 5825 
I think it will take another month. 5825 
The Buttressing 5825 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5824 
The new place and the new noises. 5824 
Big listening room 5823 
Screw the "big" rooms 5823 
Big listening rooms 5823 
First reflection points 5822 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5822 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5819 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5818 
Squeezing the floor 5818 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5818 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5818 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5817 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5817 
The new room, the very first listening. 5817 
The 14.5 foot. 5816 
Again… 5815 
Romy's new Playground 5815 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5815 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5815 
For the uninitiated ... 5814 
NH guy 5814 
Room 5814 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5813 
The first base is done 5813 
Reentry time alignment. 5812 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5811 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5811 
Mid bass horn. 5811 
Guess is only a guess… 5811 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5811 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5810 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5810 
Diffusors 5810 
Diffuse injection 5810 
Let analyse why it so 5810 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5810 
Wheel and Deal 5810 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5810 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5810 
I Must Be Missing Something 5810 
I put sliders under my speakers 5809 
ROOM 5808 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5808 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5808 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5808 
No concerns 5808 
Speakers and room 5808 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5807 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5807 
Diaphram 5807 
Phram 5807 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5807 
Perfect piston 5807 
Decorater 5806 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5806 
New morning 5805 
The first take on the room with RTA 5804 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5804 
Axiomatic 5804 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5803 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5803 
The size of the bass. 5803 
Bass Factory 5803 
Crude Level, or something more? 5803 
I will play with it this week…. 5803 
Rent-A 5803 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5803 
Corner horns 5803 
Cheating from below 5803 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5803 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5802 
A possibly overly simplified view 5802 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5802 
Iceberg 5802 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5802 
Why not horn 5802 
A correction…. 5802 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5802 
They are just not related things at all. 5802 
Fertin 5800 
Low resonance is good... 5800 
Et tu, Brute? 5799 
The Room response at LF 5798 
Life On The Ground Floor 5798 
Bass arrays 5798 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5798 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5798 
The super sucks. 5798 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5798 
You may also try 5797 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5797 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5797 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5797 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5797 
60 Hz Resonance 5797 
No notching… so far. 5797 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5796 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5796 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5796 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5796 
Power to the People 5796 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5796 
Aura 5796 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5796 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5796 
All class D is the same 5796 
Interpreting the LF results. 5795 
The Halibut 5795 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5795 
The Big Picture 5795 
Power & ULF channels 5795 
The big picture indeed. 5795 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5795 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5795 
The Power and the Glory 5794 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5794 
I guess I did not get this memo 5794 
French LF drivers 5794 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5794 
(another) French LF approach 5793 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5793 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5793 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5793 
Limpschtick 5793 
Symmetry 5793 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5792 
Room correction 5792 
It migh be more complicated. 5792 
Bass EQ ? 5792 
Agree and not. 5792 
Two "diseases" 5792 
Parametric filters 5792 
Ceiling arrays 5792 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5792 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5792 
The Middle of the Room. 5792 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5792 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5792 
Stop! 5792 
Appendectomy 5792 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5791 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5791 
No Isolation 5791 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5788 
Potential contenders? 5787 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5787 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5787 
Those Crazy Canucks 5783 
Mo' Better Bass 5777 
Bird in the Hand? 5777 
A wet listening spot? 5770 
Storm 5767 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5767 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5753 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5723 
Polar Opposite ULF 5722 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5710 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5708 
Differently but the same. 5707 
PVC 5706 
The sail test try. 5706 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5706 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5706 
Trial 5705 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5705 
Some explanations 5705 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5704 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5703 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5702 
Acrylate 5701 
Magic blanket 5701 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5700 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5700 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5700 
I have a few options. 5700 
Foam color 5700 
Strange things with upperbass 5700 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5699 
Teatro reform. . . 5699 
The foaming room dilemma. 5698 
Melamine Foam 5698 
Foaming up the cat house 5698 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5698 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5698 
Acoustic revisions… 5697 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5694 
Surprises so far in the new room 5693 
The upperbass in the new room. 5693 
Slight change of hart. 5692 
Camco supply of Boston 5690 
Room acoustics 5690 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5649 
I need to kill dust first. 5649 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5647 
To feed the leeches? 5647 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5646 
Yh 5646 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5646 
DPOLs? 5646 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5646 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5643 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5643 
A HalfPipe solution? 5643 
I absolutely love it. 5643 
Piper work 5642 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5642 
Absorption 5642 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5641 
Cats life ? 5641 
Call me Pussy. 5641 
More about traps 5641 
Acoustic impedance? 5641 
You maybe right 5641 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5641 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5640 
Heavy Curtain 5640 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5639 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5639 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5639 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5636 
Fix speaker move chair? 5635 
Back and forth ceremony 5635 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5634 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5633 
Glass windows 5632 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5631 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5630 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5628 
How to use basement jacks? 5628 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5628 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5628 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5627 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5627 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5626 
Sore eyes... 5625 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5625 
The harvesting week! 5623 
I need an inspiration… 5622 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5621 
Like this? 5621 
Dramatically randomize MF 5621 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5620 
The room eats dynamic 5620 
Diffusers 5620 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5619 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5604 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5603 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5603 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5603 
About Width-Importance balance. 5601 
Letting the music scale up 5600 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5600 
To finish my house décor… 5596 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5595 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5594 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5594 
Calling the gods of music 5594 
Absolutely 5594 
Phase manipulation 5594 
No relation. 5594 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5594 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5594 
Dynamical mismatch 5593 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5593 
Stradiwinerius? 5590 
Dealing with the glass. 5589 
Boston 5589 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5589 
Added mass 5589 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5589 
It is about moderation…. 5589 
To hell with the wine... 5589 
Also for other surafaces 5588 
LEAD 5588 
LEAD & GLASS 5588 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5588 
Read carefully 5588 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5588 
Crooks and morons 5588 
Magiscopios 5587 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5567 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5567 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5566 
The LP setup in the new home. 5515 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5510 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5510 
Pianochord will do! 5510 
Spanyi heaven 5510 
I see no conflict at all. 5510 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5510 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5510 
A year after closing 5502 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5502 
Traveling antimatter 5495 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5489 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5488 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5462 
Cast Iron fireplace 5461 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5461 
The hardcore way 5461 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5425 
This is How It's Done 5424 
Listening room during summer. 5412 
What about those... 5411 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5411 
Reducing A/C Noise 5411 
HVAC the Cat 5411 
Big Ass fan 5410 
Variac dimmers 5410 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5410 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5410 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5342 
Some winter observations. 5233 
That Asian man…. 5202 
The Franz Schubert morning 5176 
Spring.... 5125 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5075 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5046 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5046 
Just good photography? 5046 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5046 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5046 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5045 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5045 
Sports car 5045 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5045 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5045 
Train Positioning 5045 
Kind of what I want 5045 
The lap listening… 5045 
Family Room 5045 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5042 
A super audio room. 5038 
Time Warp! 5038 
A piano in a listening room 5017 
Pianissimo 5017 
The plan in blue. 5017 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5017 
My doubts 5017 
It is exactly what I worry. 5016 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5016 
Musicians at home 5016 
Piano Measurements 5015 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5010 
The next step. 4996 
Midbass horns missing?? 4995 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4985 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4985 
Baby Grand 4984 
Wood floor 4984 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4984 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4984 
Amy’s baby. 4982 
Improvement 4982 
Agree with Scott 4982 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4970 
Integrated casters 4970 
Very nice, thanks. 4970 
Customization 4970 
Sliders 4970 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4963 
Congratulations 4963 
Holes in the floor... 4963 
Tubes and kids 4963 
Sweet spot enlargement 4963 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4961 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4960 
Wood Floors and Water 4960 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4955 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4954 
WAF is for Losers 4954 
WAF: it depends. 4954 
Integration 4953 
Here and there. 4953 
Life after WWIII 4953 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4953 
Cables management. 4951 
Featurizing 4951 
Kids and tubes cont. 4948 
Kid magnet 4948 
Kids and audio 4947 
Radars 4947 
Wow, what the days! 4943 
The comming weekend 4939 
It all was worth it! 4936 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4931 
Here is how it is look. 4931 
Resolving the carpet issue 4931 
Bonfire 4931 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4931 
Proof of concept? 4931 
Geometry 4931 
A view from listening position. 4931 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4931 
Some feedback 4931 
Evening 4931 
I wonder why. 4930 
Rugs and things 4930 
In defense… 4930 
I can’t get it. 4927 
Haze. 4926 
Front wall 4926 
It is very possible. 4926 
It is nice to be back. 4923 
My comfy corner. 4920 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4560 
WMD in house. 4382 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4285 
The third listening spot. 4264 
For sure a very different experience. 4226 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4221 
It's Jfretch's system. 4221 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4220 
Domestic games 4174 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4035 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4035 
Dynamic screening 4035 
Actually this is very good idea! 4035 
Volcanic fabric 4035 
I should have done this. 4033 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4029 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3998 
No worries 3998 
Awesome memories 3998 
Optimization of space 3998 
Child-ish considerations 3995 
Finding peace.... 3989 
"Fencing"? 3988 
I need to build something custom 3988 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3988 
Stressed Skin 3988 
NYC elevators 3988 
Kids toys and quantities. 3988 
Everything is completely reversible 3987 
Racks and things 3987 
Now it looks even more promising! 3987 
Quantity of rods 3987 
Avoiding diagonals 3985 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3984 
That's not fair! 3984 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3984 
Discrimination? 3979 
Vertical configuration 3972 
Impresive ! 3901 
Did you read the site? 3901 
Contact 3901 
Company's name is Rixrax 3901 
Stand 3900 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3856 
End of life headphone system 3856 
Something like this? 3856 
The "Second Living Room" 3856 
Mixing urban & suburban 3856 
Late night listening 3856 
Moving life... 3854 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3854 
A true listening room. 3830 
It started… 3815 
Levels of Interest 3815 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3815 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3815 
I can't not to post it.... 3815 
Do not leave him unattended. 3815 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3815 
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