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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5999 
The first take on the new room. 5993 
New Room, a first shot. 5992 
Wonderful 5992 
Adopted 5991 
The first relaxed night with the room 5989 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5988 
The listening room is ready. 5987 
New Room, a First Shot 5985 
Continue to work with the room 5985 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5985 
Room 5984 
I think it will take another month. 5984 
The Buttressing 5984 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5983 
The new place and the new noises. 5983 
Big listening room 5982 
Screw the "big" rooms 5982 
Big listening rooms 5982 
First reflection points 5981 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5981 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5978 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5977 
Squeezing the floor 5977 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5977 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5977 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5976 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5976 
The new room, the very first listening. 5976 
The 14.5 foot. 5975 
Again… 5974 
Romy's new Playground 5974 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5974 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5974 
For the uninitiated ... 5973 
NH guy 5973 
Room 5973 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5972 
The first base is done 5972 
Reentry time alignment. 5971 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5970 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5970 
Mid bass horn. 5970 
Guess is only a guess… 5970 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5970 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5969 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5969 
Diffusors 5969 
Diffuse injection 5969 
Let analyse why it so 5969 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5969 
Wheel and Deal 5969 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5969 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5969 
I Must Be Missing Something 5969 
I put sliders under my speakers 5968 
ROOM 5967 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5967 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5967 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5967 
No concerns 5967 
Speakers and room 5967 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5966 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5966 
Diaphram 5966 
Phram 5966 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5966 
Perfect piston 5966 
Decorater 5965 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5965 
New morning 5964 
The first take on the room with RTA 5963 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5963 
Axiomatic 5963 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5962 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5962 
The size of the bass. 5962 
Bass Factory 5962 
Crude Level, or something more? 5962 
I will play with it this week…. 5962 
Rent-A 5962 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5962 
Corner horns 5962 
Cheating from below 5962 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5962 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5961 
A possibly overly simplified view 5961 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5961 
Iceberg 5961 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5961 
Why not horn 5961 
A correction…. 5961 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5961 
They are just not related things at all. 5961 
Fertin 5959 
Low resonance is good... 5959 
Et tu, Brute? 5958 
The Room response at LF 5957 
Life On The Ground Floor 5957 
Bass arrays 5957 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5957 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5957 
The super sucks. 5957 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5957 
You may also try 5956 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5956 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5956 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5956 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5956 
60 Hz Resonance 5956 
No notching… so far. 5956 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5955 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5955 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5955 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5955 
Power to the People 5955 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5955 
Aura 5955 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5955 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5955 
All class D is the same 5955 
Interpreting the LF results. 5954 
The Halibut 5954 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5954 
The Big Picture 5954 
Power & ULF channels 5954 
The big picture indeed. 5954 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5954 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5954 
The Power and the Glory 5953 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5953 
I guess I did not get this memo 5953 
French LF drivers 5953 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5953 
(another) French LF approach 5952 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5952 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5952 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5952 
Limpschtick 5952 
Symmetry 5952 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5951 
Room correction 5951 
It migh be more complicated. 5951 
Bass EQ ? 5951 
Agree and not. 5951 
Two "diseases" 5951 
Parametric filters 5951 
Ceiling arrays 5951 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5951 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5951 
The Middle of the Room. 5951 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5951 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5951 
Stop! 5951 
Appendectomy 5951 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5950 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5950 
No Isolation 5950 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5947 
Potential contenders? 5946 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5946 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5946 
Those Crazy Canucks 5942 
Mo' Better Bass 5936 
Bird in the Hand? 5936 
A wet listening spot? 5929 
Storm 5926 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5926 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5912 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5882 
Polar Opposite ULF 5881 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5869 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5867 
Differently but the same. 5866 
PVC 5865 
The sail test try. 5865 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5865 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5865 
Trial 5864 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5864 
Some explanations 5864 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5863 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5862 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5861 
Acrylate 5860 
Magic blanket 5860 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5859 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5859 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5859 
I have a few options. 5859 
Foam color 5859 
Strange things with upperbass 5859 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5858 
Teatro reform. . . 5858 
The foaming room dilemma. 5857 
Melamine Foam 5857 
Foaming up the cat house 5857 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5857 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5857 
Acoustic revisions… 5856 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5853 
Surprises so far in the new room 5852 
The upperbass in the new room. 5852 
Slight change of hart. 5851 
Camco supply of Boston 5849 
Room acoustics 5849 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5808 
I need to kill dust first. 5808 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5806 
To feed the leeches? 5806 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5805 
Yh 5805 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5805 
DPOLs? 5805 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5805 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5802 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5802 
A HalfPipe solution? 5802 
I absolutely love it. 5802 
Piper work 5801 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5801 
Absorption 5801 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5800 
Cats life ? 5800 
Call me Pussy. 5800 
More about traps 5800 
Acoustic impedance? 5800 
You maybe right 5800 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5800 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5799 
Heavy Curtain 5799 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5798 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5798 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5798 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5795 
Fix speaker move chair? 5794 
Back and forth ceremony 5794 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5793 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5792 
Glass windows 5791 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5790 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5789 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5787 
How to use basement jacks? 5787 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5787 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5787 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5786 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5786 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5785 
Sore eyes... 5784 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5784 
The harvesting week! 5782 
I need an inspiration… 5781 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5780 
Like this? 5780 
Dramatically randomize MF 5780 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5779 
The room eats dynamic 5779 
Diffusers 5779 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5778 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5763 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5762 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5762 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5762 
About Width-Importance balance. 5760 
Letting the music scale up 5759 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5759 
To finish my house décor… 5755 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5754 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5753 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5753 
Calling the gods of music 5753 
Absolutely 5753 
Phase manipulation 5753 
No relation. 5753 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5753 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5753 
Dynamical mismatch 5752 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5752 
Stradiwinerius? 5749 
Dealing with the glass. 5748 
Boston 5748 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5748 
Added mass 5748 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5748 
It is about moderation…. 5748 
To hell with the wine... 5748 
Also for other surafaces 5747 
LEAD 5747 
LEAD & GLASS 5747 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5747 
Read carefully 5747 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5747 
Crooks and morons 5747 
Magiscopios 5746 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5726 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5726 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5725 
The LP setup in the new home. 5674 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5669 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5669 
Pianochord will do! 5669 
Spanyi heaven 5669 
I see no conflict at all. 5669 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5669 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5669 
A year after closing 5661 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5661 
Traveling antimatter 5654 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5648 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5647 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5621 
Cast Iron fireplace 5620 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5620 
The hardcore way 5620 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5584 
This is How It's Done 5583 
Listening room during summer. 5571 
What about those... 5570 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5570 
Reducing A/C Noise 5570 
HVAC the Cat 5570 
Big Ass fan 5569 
Variac dimmers 5569 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5569 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5569 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5501 
Some winter observations. 5392 
That Asian man…. 5361 
The Franz Schubert morning 5335 
Spring.... 5284 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5234 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5205 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5205 
Just good photography? 5205 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5205 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5205 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5204 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5204 
Sports car 5204 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5204 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5204 
Train Positioning 5204 
Kind of what I want 5204 
The lap listening… 5204 
Family Room 5204 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5201 
A super audio room. 5197 
Time Warp! 5197 
A piano in a listening room 5176 
Pianissimo 5176 
The plan in blue. 5176 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5176 
My doubts 5176 
It is exactly what I worry. 5175 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5175 
Musicians at home 5175 
Piano Measurements 5174 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5169 
The next step. 5155 
Midbass horns missing?? 5154 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5144 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5144 
Baby Grand 5143 
Wood floor 5143 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5143 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5143 
Amy’s baby. 5141 
Improvement 5141 
Agree with Scott 5141 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5129 
Integrated casters 5129 
Very nice, thanks. 5129 
Customization 5129 
Sliders 5129 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5122 
Congratulations 5122 
Holes in the floor... 5122 
Tubes and kids 5122 
Sweet spot enlargement 5122 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5120 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5119 
Wood Floors and Water 5119 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5114 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5113 
WAF is for Losers 5113 
WAF: it depends. 5113 
Integration 5112 
Here and there. 5112 
Life after WWIII 5112 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5112 
Cables management. 5110 
Featurizing 5110 
Kids and tubes cont. 5107 
Kid magnet 5107 
Kids and audio 5106 
Radars 5106 
Wow, what the days! 5102 
The comming weekend 5098 
It all was worth it! 5095 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5090 
Here is how it is look. 5090 
Resolving the carpet issue 5090 
Bonfire 5090 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5090 
Proof of concept? 5090 
Geometry 5090 
A view from listening position. 5090 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5090 
Some feedback 5090 
Evening 5090 
I wonder why. 5089 
Rugs and things 5089 
In defense… 5089 
I can’t get it. 5086 
Haze. 5085 
Front wall 5085 
It is very possible. 5085 
It is nice to be back. 5082 
My comfy corner. 5079 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4719 
WMD in house. 4541 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4444 
The third listening spot. 4423 
For sure a very different experience. 4385 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4380 
It's Jfretch's system. 4380 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4379 
Domestic games 4333 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4194 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4194 
Dynamic screening 4194 
Actually this is very good idea! 4194 
Volcanic fabric 4194 
I should have done this. 4192 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4188 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4157 
No worries 4157 
Awesome memories 4157 
Optimization of space 4157 
Child-ish considerations 4154 
Finding peace.... 4148 
"Fencing"? 4147 
I need to build something custom 4147 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4147 
Stressed Skin 4147 
NYC elevators 4147 
Kids toys and quantities. 4147 
Everything is completely reversible 4146 
Racks and things 4146 
Now it looks even more promising! 4146 
Quantity of rods 4146 
Avoiding diagonals 4144 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4143 
That's not fair! 4143 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4143 
Discrimination? 4138 
Vertical configuration 4131 
Impresive ! 4060 
Did you read the site? 4060 
Contact 4060 
Company's name is Rixrax 4060 
Stand 4059 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4015 
End of life headphone system 4015 
Something like this? 4015 
The "Second Living Room" 4015 
Mixing urban & suburban 4015 
Late night listening 4015 
Moving life... 4013 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4013 
A true listening room. 3989 
It started… 3974 
Levels of Interest 3974 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3974 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3974 
I can't not to post it.... 3974 
Do not leave him unattended. 3974 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3974 
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