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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5783 
The first take on the new room. 5777 
New Room, a first shot. 5776 
Wonderful 5776 
Adopted 5775 
The first relaxed night with the room 5773 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5772 
The listening room is ready. 5771 
New Room, a First Shot 5769 
Continue to work with the room 5769 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5769 
Room 5768 
I think it will take another month. 5768 
The Buttressing 5768 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5767 
The new place and the new noises. 5767 
Big listening room 5766 
Screw the "big" rooms 5766 
Big listening rooms 5766 
First reflection points 5765 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5765 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5762 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5761 
Squeezing the floor 5761 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5761 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5761 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5760 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5760 
The new room, the very first listening. 5760 
The 14.5 foot. 5759 
Again… 5758 
Romy's new Playground 5758 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5758 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5758 
For the uninitiated ... 5757 
NH guy 5757 
Room 5757 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5756 
The first base is done 5756 
Reentry time alignment. 5755 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5754 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5754 
Mid bass horn. 5754 
Guess is only a guess… 5754 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5754 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5753 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5753 
Diffusors 5753 
Diffuse injection 5753 
Let analyse why it so 5753 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5753 
Wheel and Deal 5753 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5753 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5753 
I Must Be Missing Something 5753 
I put sliders under my speakers 5752 
ROOM 5751 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5751 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5751 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5751 
No concerns 5751 
Speakers and room 5751 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5750 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5750 
Diaphram 5750 
Phram 5750 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5750 
Perfect piston 5750 
Decorater 5749 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5749 
New morning 5748 
The first take on the room with RTA 5747 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5747 
Axiomatic 5747 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5746 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5746 
The size of the bass. 5746 
Bass Factory 5746 
Crude Level, or something more? 5746 
I will play with it this week…. 5746 
Rent-A 5746 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5746 
Corner horns 5746 
Cheating from below 5746 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5746 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5745 
A possibly overly simplified view 5745 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5745 
Iceberg 5745 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5745 
Why not horn 5745 
A correction…. 5745 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5745 
They are just not related things at all. 5745 
Fertin 5743 
Low resonance is good... 5743 
Et tu, Brute? 5742 
The Room response at LF 5741 
Life On The Ground Floor 5741 
Bass arrays 5741 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5741 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5741 
The super sucks. 5741 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5741 
You may also try 5740 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5740 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5740 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5740 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5740 
60 Hz Resonance 5740 
No notching… so far. 5740 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5739 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5739 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5739 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5739 
Power to the People 5739 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5739 
Aura 5739 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5739 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5739 
All class D is the same 5739 
Interpreting the LF results. 5738 
The Halibut 5738 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5738 
The Big Picture 5738 
Power & ULF channels 5738 
The big picture indeed. 5738 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5738 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5738 
The Power and the Glory 5737 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5737 
I guess I did not get this memo 5737 
French LF drivers 5737 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5737 
(another) French LF approach 5736 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5736 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5736 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5736 
Limpschtick 5736 
Symmetry 5736 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5735 
Room correction 5735 
It migh be more complicated. 5735 
Bass EQ ? 5735 
Agree and not. 5735 
Two "diseases" 5735 
Parametric filters 5735 
Ceiling arrays 5735 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5735 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5735 
The Middle of the Room. 5735 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5735 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5735 
Stop! 5735 
Appendectomy 5735 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5734 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5734 
No Isolation 5734 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5731 
Potential contenders? 5730 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5730 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5730 
Those Crazy Canucks 5726 
Mo' Better Bass 5720 
Bird in the Hand? 5720 
A wet listening spot? 5713 
Storm 5710 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5710 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5696 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5666 
Polar Opposite ULF 5665 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5653 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5651 
Differently but the same. 5650 
PVC 5649 
The sail test try. 5649 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5649 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5649 
Trial 5648 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5648 
Some explanations 5648 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5647 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5646 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5645 
Acrylate 5644 
Magic blanket 5644 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5643 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5643 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5643 
I have a few options. 5643 
Foam color 5643 
Strange things with upperbass 5643 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5642 
Teatro reform. . . 5642 
The foaming room dilemma. 5641 
Melamine Foam 5641 
Foaming up the cat house 5641 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5641 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5641 
Acoustic revisions… 5640 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5637 
Surprises so far in the new room 5636 
The upperbass in the new room. 5636 
Slight change of hart. 5635 
Camco supply of Boston 5633 
Room acoustics 5633 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5592 
I need to kill dust first. 5592 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5590 
To feed the leeches? 5590 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5589 
Yh 5589 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5589 
DPOLs? 5589 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5589 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5586 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5586 
A HalfPipe solution? 5586 
I absolutely love it. 5586 
Piper work 5585 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5585 
Absorption 5585 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5584 
Cats life ? 5584 
Call me Pussy. 5584 
More about traps 5584 
Acoustic impedance? 5584 
You maybe right 5584 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5584 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5583 
Heavy Curtain 5583 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5582 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5582 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5582 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5579 
Fix speaker move chair? 5578 
Back and forth ceremony 5578 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5577 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5576 
Glass windows 5575 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5574 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5573 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5571 
How to use basement jacks? 5571 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5571 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5571 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5570 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5570 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5569 
Sore eyes... 5568 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5568 
The harvesting week! 5566 
I need an inspiration… 5565 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5564 
Like this? 5564 
Dramatically randomize MF 5564 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5563 
The room eats dynamic 5563 
Diffusers 5563 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5562 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5547 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5546 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5546 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5546 
About Width-Importance balance. 5544 
Letting the music scale up 5543 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5543 
To finish my house décor… 5539 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5538 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5537 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5537 
Calling the gods of music 5537 
Absolutely 5537 
Phase manipulation 5537 
No relation. 5537 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5537 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5537 
Dynamical mismatch 5536 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5536 
Stradiwinerius? 5533 
Dealing with the glass. 5532 
Boston 5532 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5532 
Added mass 5532 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5532 
It is about moderation…. 5532 
To hell with the wine... 5532 
Also for other surafaces 5531 
LEAD 5531 
LEAD & GLASS 5531 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5531 
Read carefully 5531 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5531 
Crooks and morons 5531 
Magiscopios 5530 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5510 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5510 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5509 
The LP setup in the new home. 5458 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5453 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5453 
Pianochord will do! 5453 
Spanyi heaven 5453 
I see no conflict at all. 5453 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5453 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5453 
A year after closing 5445 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5445 
Traveling antimatter 5438 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5432 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5431 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5405 
Cast Iron fireplace 5404 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5404 
The hardcore way 5404 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5368 
This is How It's Done 5367 
Listening room during summer. 5355 
What about those... 5354 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5354 
Reducing A/C Noise 5354 
HVAC the Cat 5354 
Big Ass fan 5353 
Variac dimmers 5353 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5353 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5353 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5285 
Some winter observations. 5176 
That Asian man…. 5145 
The Franz Schubert morning 5119 
Spring.... 5068 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5018 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4989 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4989 
Just good photography? 4989 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4989 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4989 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4988 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4988 
Sports car 4988 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4988 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4988 
Train Positioning 4988 
Kind of what I want 4988 
The lap listening… 4988 
Family Room 4988 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4985 
A super audio room. 4981 
Time Warp! 4981 
A piano in a listening room 4960 
Pianissimo 4960 
The plan in blue. 4960 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4960 
My doubts 4960 
It is exactly what I worry. 4959 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4959 
Musicians at home 4959 
Piano Measurements 4958 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4953 
The next step. 4939 
Midbass horns missing?? 4938 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4928 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4928 
Baby Grand 4927 
Wood floor 4927 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4927 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4927 
Amy’s baby. 4925 
Improvement 4925 
Agree with Scott 4925 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4913 
Integrated casters 4913 
Very nice, thanks. 4913 
Customization 4913 
Sliders 4913 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4906 
Congratulations 4906 
Holes in the floor... 4906 
Tubes and kids 4906 
Sweet spot enlargement 4906 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4904 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4903 
Wood Floors and Water 4903 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4898 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4897 
WAF is for Losers 4897 
WAF: it depends. 4897 
Integration 4896 
Here and there. 4896 
Life after WWIII 4896 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4896 
Cables management. 4894 
Featurizing 4894 
Kids and tubes cont. 4891 
Kid magnet 4891 
Kids and audio 4890 
Radars 4890 
Wow, what the days! 4886 
The comming weekend 4882 
It all was worth it! 4879 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4874 
Here is how it is look. 4874 
Resolving the carpet issue 4874 
Bonfire 4874 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4874 
Proof of concept? 4874 
Geometry 4874 
A view from listening position. 4874 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4874 
Some feedback 4874 
Evening 4874 
I wonder why. 4873 
Rugs and things 4873 
In defense… 4873 
I can’t get it. 4870 
Haze. 4869 
Front wall 4869 
It is very possible. 4869 
It is nice to be back. 4866 
My comfy corner. 4863 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4503 
WMD in house. 4325 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4228 
The third listening spot. 4207 
For sure a very different experience. 4169 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4164 
It's Jfretch's system. 4164 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4163 
Domestic games 4117 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3978 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3978 
Dynamic screening 3978 
Actually this is very good idea! 3978 
Volcanic fabric 3978 
I should have done this. 3976 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3972 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3941 
No worries 3941 
Awesome memories 3941 
Optimization of space 3941 
Child-ish considerations 3938 
Finding peace.... 3932 
"Fencing"? 3931 
I need to build something custom 3931 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3931 
Stressed Skin 3931 
NYC elevators 3931 
Kids toys and quantities. 3931 
Everything is completely reversible 3930 
Racks and things 3930 
Now it looks even more promising! 3930 
Quantity of rods 3930 
Avoiding diagonals 3928 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3927 
That's not fair! 3927 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3927 
Discrimination? 3922 
Vertical configuration 3915 
Impresive ! 3844 
Did you read the site? 3844 
Contact 3844 
Company's name is Rixrax 3844 
Stand 3843 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3799 
End of life headphone system 3799 
Something like this? 3799 
The "Second Living Room" 3799 
Mixing urban & suburban 3799 
Late night listening 3799 
Moving life... 3797 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3797 
A true listening room. 3773 
It started… 3758 
Levels of Interest 3758 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3758 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3758 
I can't not to post it.... 3758 
Do not leave him unattended. 3758 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3758 
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