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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5947 
The first take on the new room. 5941 
New Room, a first shot. 5940 
Wonderful 5940 
Adopted 5939 
The first relaxed night with the room 5937 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5936 
The listening room is ready. 5935 
New Room, a First Shot 5933 
Continue to work with the room 5933 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5933 
Room 5932 
I think it will take another month. 5932 
The Buttressing 5932 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5931 
The new place and the new noises. 5931 
Big listening room 5930 
Screw the "big" rooms 5930 
Big listening rooms 5930 
First reflection points 5929 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5929 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5926 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5925 
Squeezing the floor 5925 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5925 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5925 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5924 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5924 
The new room, the very first listening. 5924 
The 14.5 foot. 5923 
Again… 5922 
Romy's new Playground 5922 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5922 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5922 
For the uninitiated ... 5921 
NH guy 5921 
Room 5921 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5920 
The first base is done 5920 
Reentry time alignment. 5919 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5918 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5918 
Mid bass horn. 5918 
Guess is only a guess… 5918 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5918 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5917 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5917 
Diffusors 5917 
Diffuse injection 5917 
Let analyse why it so 5917 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5917 
Wheel and Deal 5917 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5917 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5917 
I Must Be Missing Something 5917 
I put sliders under my speakers 5916 
ROOM 5915 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5915 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5915 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5915 
No concerns 5915 
Speakers and room 5915 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5914 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5914 
Diaphram 5914 
Phram 5914 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5914 
Perfect piston 5914 
Decorater 5913 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5913 
New morning 5912 
The first take on the room with RTA 5911 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5911 
Axiomatic 5911 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5910 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5910 
The size of the bass. 5910 
Bass Factory 5910 
Crude Level, or something more? 5910 
I will play with it this week…. 5910 
Rent-A 5910 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5910 
Corner horns 5910 
Cheating from below 5910 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5910 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5909 
A possibly overly simplified view 5909 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5909 
Iceberg 5909 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5909 
Why not horn 5909 
A correction…. 5909 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5909 
They are just not related things at all. 5909 
Fertin 5907 
Low resonance is good... 5907 
Et tu, Brute? 5906 
The Room response at LF 5905 
Life On The Ground Floor 5905 
Bass arrays 5905 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5905 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5905 
The super sucks. 5905 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5905 
You may also try 5904 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5904 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5904 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5904 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5904 
60 Hz Resonance 5904 
No notching… so far. 5904 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5903 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5903 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5903 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5903 
Power to the People 5903 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5903 
Aura 5903 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5903 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5903 
All class D is the same 5903 
Interpreting the LF results. 5902 
The Halibut 5902 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5902 
The Big Picture 5902 
Power & ULF channels 5902 
The big picture indeed. 5902 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5902 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5902 
The Power and the Glory 5901 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5901 
I guess I did not get this memo 5901 
French LF drivers 5901 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5901 
(another) French LF approach 5900 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5900 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5900 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5900 
Limpschtick 5900 
Symmetry 5900 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5899 
Room correction 5899 
It migh be more complicated. 5899 
Bass EQ ? 5899 
Agree and not. 5899 
Two "diseases" 5899 
Parametric filters 5899 
Ceiling arrays 5899 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5899 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5899 
The Middle of the Room. 5899 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5899 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5899 
Stop! 5899 
Appendectomy 5899 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5898 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5898 
No Isolation 5898 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5895 
Potential contenders? 5894 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5894 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5894 
Those Crazy Canucks 5890 
Mo' Better Bass 5884 
Bird in the Hand? 5884 
A wet listening spot? 5877 
Storm 5874 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5874 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5860 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5830 
Polar Opposite ULF 5829 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5817 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5815 
Differently but the same. 5814 
PVC 5813 
The sail test try. 5813 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5813 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5813 
Trial 5812 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5812 
Some explanations 5812 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5811 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5810 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5809 
Acrylate 5808 
Magic blanket 5808 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5807 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5807 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5807 
I have a few options. 5807 
Foam color 5807 
Strange things with upperbass 5807 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5806 
Teatro reform. . . 5806 
The foaming room dilemma. 5805 
Melamine Foam 5805 
Foaming up the cat house 5805 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5805 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5805 
Acoustic revisions… 5804 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5801 
Surprises so far in the new room 5800 
The upperbass in the new room. 5800 
Slight change of hart. 5799 
Camco supply of Boston 5797 
Room acoustics 5797 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5756 
I need to kill dust first. 5756 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5754 
To feed the leeches? 5754 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5753 
Yh 5753 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5753 
DPOLs? 5753 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5753 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5750 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5750 
A HalfPipe solution? 5750 
I absolutely love it. 5750 
Piper work 5749 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5749 
Absorption 5749 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5748 
Cats life ? 5748 
Call me Pussy. 5748 
More about traps 5748 
Acoustic impedance? 5748 
You maybe right 5748 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5748 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5747 
Heavy Curtain 5747 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5746 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5746 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5746 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5743 
Fix speaker move chair? 5742 
Back and forth ceremony 5742 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5741 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5740 
Glass windows 5739 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5738 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5737 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5735 
How to use basement jacks? 5735 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5735 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5735 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5734 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5734 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5733 
Sore eyes... 5732 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5732 
The harvesting week! 5730 
I need an inspiration… 5729 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5728 
Like this? 5728 
Dramatically randomize MF 5728 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5727 
The room eats dynamic 5727 
Diffusers 5727 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5726 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5711 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5710 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5710 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5710 
About Width-Importance balance. 5708 
Letting the music scale up 5707 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5707 
To finish my house décor… 5703 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5702 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5701 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5701 
Calling the gods of music 5701 
Absolutely 5701 
Phase manipulation 5701 
No relation. 5701 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5701 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5701 
Dynamical mismatch 5700 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5700 
Stradiwinerius? 5697 
Dealing with the glass. 5696 
Boston 5696 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5696 
Added mass 5696 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5696 
It is about moderation…. 5696 
To hell with the wine... 5696 
Also for other surafaces 5695 
LEAD 5695 
LEAD & GLASS 5695 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5695 
Read carefully 5695 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5695 
Crooks and morons 5695 
Magiscopios 5694 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5674 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5674 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5673 
The LP setup in the new home. 5622 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5617 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5617 
Pianochord will do! 5617 
Spanyi heaven 5617 
I see no conflict at all. 5617 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5617 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5617 
A year after closing 5609 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5609 
Traveling antimatter 5602 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5596 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5595 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5569 
Cast Iron fireplace 5568 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5568 
The hardcore way 5568 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5532 
This is How It's Done 5531 
Listening room during summer. 5519 
What about those... 5518 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5518 
Reducing A/C Noise 5518 
HVAC the Cat 5518 
Big Ass fan 5517 
Variac dimmers 5517 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5517 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5517 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5449 
Some winter observations. 5340 
That Asian man…. 5309 
The Franz Schubert morning 5283 
Spring.... 5232 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5182 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5153 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5153 
Just good photography? 5153 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5153 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5153 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5152 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5152 
Sports car 5152 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5152 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5152 
Train Positioning 5152 
Kind of what I want 5152 
The lap listening… 5152 
Family Room 5152 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5149 
A super audio room. 5145 
Time Warp! 5145 
A piano in a listening room 5124 
Pianissimo 5124 
The plan in blue. 5124 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5124 
My doubts 5124 
It is exactly what I worry. 5123 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5123 
Musicians at home 5123 
Piano Measurements 5122 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5117 
The next step. 5103 
Midbass horns missing?? 5102 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5092 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5092 
Baby Grand 5091 
Wood floor 5091 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5091 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5091 
Amy’s baby. 5089 
Improvement 5089 
Agree with Scott 5089 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5077 
Integrated casters 5077 
Very nice, thanks. 5077 
Customization 5077 
Sliders 5077 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5070 
Congratulations 5070 
Holes in the floor... 5070 
Tubes and kids 5070 
Sweet spot enlargement 5070 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5068 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5067 
Wood Floors and Water 5067 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5062 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5061 
WAF is for Losers 5061 
WAF: it depends. 5061 
Integration 5060 
Here and there. 5060 
Life after WWIII 5060 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5060 
Cables management. 5058 
Featurizing 5058 
Kids and tubes cont. 5055 
Kid magnet 5055 
Kids and audio 5054 
Radars 5054 
Wow, what the days! 5050 
The comming weekend 5046 
It all was worth it! 5043 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5038 
Here is how it is look. 5038 
Resolving the carpet issue 5038 
Bonfire 5038 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5038 
Proof of concept? 5038 
Geometry 5038 
A view from listening position. 5038 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5038 
Some feedback 5038 
Evening 5038 
I wonder why. 5037 
Rugs and things 5037 
In defense… 5037 
I can’t get it. 5034 
Haze. 5033 
Front wall 5033 
It is very possible. 5033 
It is nice to be back. 5030 
My comfy corner. 5027 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4667 
WMD in house. 4489 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4392 
The third listening spot. 4371 
For sure a very different experience. 4333 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4328 
It's Jfretch's system. 4328 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4327 
Domestic games 4281 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4142 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4142 
Dynamic screening 4142 
Actually this is very good idea! 4142 
Volcanic fabric 4142 
I should have done this. 4140 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4136 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4105 
No worries 4105 
Awesome memories 4105 
Optimization of space 4105 
Child-ish considerations 4102 
Finding peace.... 4096 
"Fencing"? 4095 
I need to build something custom 4095 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4095 
Stressed Skin 4095 
NYC elevators 4095 
Kids toys and quantities. 4095 
Everything is completely reversible 4094 
Racks and things 4094 
Now it looks even more promising! 4094 
Quantity of rods 4094 
Avoiding diagonals 4092 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4091 
That's not fair! 4091 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4091 
Discrimination? 4086 
Vertical configuration 4079 
Impresive ! 4008 
Did you read the site? 4008 
Contact 4008 
Company's name is Rixrax 4008 
Stand 4007 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3963 
End of life headphone system 3963 
Something like this? 3963 
The "Second Living Room" 3963 
Mixing urban & suburban 3963 
Late night listening 3963 
Moving life... 3961 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3961 
A true listening room. 3937 
It started… 3922 
Levels of Interest 3922 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3922 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3922 
I can't not to post it.... 3922 
Do not leave him unattended. 3922 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3922 
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