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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5777 
The first take on the new room. 5771 
New Room, a first shot. 5770 
Wonderful 5770 
Adopted 5769 
The first relaxed night with the room 5767 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5766 
The listening room is ready. 5765 
New Room, a First Shot 5763 
Continue to work with the room 5763 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5763 
Room 5762 
I think it will take another month. 5762 
The Buttressing 5762 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5761 
The new place and the new noises. 5761 
Big listening room 5760 
Screw the "big" rooms 5760 
Big listening rooms 5760 
First reflection points 5759 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5759 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5756 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5755 
Squeezing the floor 5755 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5755 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5755 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5754 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5754 
The new room, the very first listening. 5754 
The 14.5 foot. 5753 
Again… 5752 
Romy's new Playground 5752 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5752 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5752 
For the uninitiated ... 5751 
NH guy 5751 
Room 5751 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5750 
The first base is done 5750 
Reentry time alignment. 5749 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5748 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5748 
Mid bass horn. 5748 
Guess is only a guess… 5748 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5748 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5747 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5747 
Diffusors 5747 
Diffuse injection 5747 
Let analyse why it so 5747 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5747 
Wheel and Deal 5747 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5747 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5747 
I Must Be Missing Something 5747 
I put sliders under my speakers 5746 
ROOM 5745 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5745 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5745 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5745 
No concerns 5745 
Speakers and room 5745 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5744 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5744 
Diaphram 5744 
Phram 5744 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5744 
Perfect piston 5744 
Decorater 5743 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5743 
New morning 5742 
The first take on the room with RTA 5741 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5741 
Axiomatic 5741 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5740 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5740 
The size of the bass. 5740 
Bass Factory 5740 
Crude Level, or something more? 5740 
I will play with it this week…. 5740 
Rent-A 5740 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5740 
Corner horns 5740 
Cheating from below 5740 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5740 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5739 
A possibly overly simplified view 5739 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5739 
Iceberg 5739 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5739 
Why not horn 5739 
A correction…. 5739 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5739 
They are just not related things at all. 5739 
Fertin 5737 
Low resonance is good... 5737 
Et tu, Brute? 5736 
The Room response at LF 5735 
Life On The Ground Floor 5735 
Bass arrays 5735 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5735 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5735 
The super sucks. 5735 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5735 
You may also try 5734 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5734 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5734 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5734 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5734 
60 Hz Resonance 5734 
No notching… so far. 5734 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5733 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5733 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5733 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5733 
Power to the People 5733 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5733 
Aura 5733 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5733 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5733 
All class D is the same 5733 
Interpreting the LF results. 5732 
The Halibut 5732 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5732 
The Big Picture 5732 
Power & ULF channels 5732 
The big picture indeed. 5732 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5732 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5732 
The Power and the Glory 5731 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5731 
I guess I did not get this memo 5731 
French LF drivers 5731 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5731 
(another) French LF approach 5730 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5730 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5730 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5730 
Limpschtick 5730 
Symmetry 5730 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5729 
Room correction 5729 
It migh be more complicated. 5729 
Bass EQ ? 5729 
Agree and not. 5729 
Two "diseases" 5729 
Parametric filters 5729 
Ceiling arrays 5729 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5729 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5729 
The Middle of the Room. 5729 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5729 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5729 
Stop! 5729 
Appendectomy 5729 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5728 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5728 
No Isolation 5728 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5725 
Potential contenders? 5724 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5724 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5724 
Those Crazy Canucks 5720 
Mo' Better Bass 5714 
Bird in the Hand? 5714 
A wet listening spot? 5707 
Storm 5704 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5704 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5690 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5660 
Polar Opposite ULF 5659 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5647 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5645 
Differently but the same. 5644 
PVC 5643 
The sail test try. 5643 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5643 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5643 
Trial 5642 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5642 
Some explanations 5642 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5641 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5640 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5639 
Acrylate 5638 
Magic blanket 5638 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5637 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5637 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5637 
I have a few options. 5637 
Foam color 5637 
Strange things with upperbass 5637 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5636 
Teatro reform. . . 5636 
The foaming room dilemma. 5635 
Melamine Foam 5635 
Foaming up the cat house 5635 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5635 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5635 
Acoustic revisions… 5634 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5631 
Surprises so far in the new room 5630 
The upperbass in the new room. 5630 
Slight change of hart. 5629 
Camco supply of Boston 5627 
Room acoustics 5627 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5586 
I need to kill dust first. 5586 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5584 
To feed the leeches? 5584 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5583 
Yh 5583 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5583 
DPOLs? 5583 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5583 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5580 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5580 
A HalfPipe solution? 5580 
I absolutely love it. 5580 
Piper work 5579 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5579 
Absorption 5579 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5578 
Cats life ? 5578 
Call me Pussy. 5578 
More about traps 5578 
Acoustic impedance? 5578 
You maybe right 5578 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5578 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5577 
Heavy Curtain 5577 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5576 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5576 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5576 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5573 
Fix speaker move chair? 5572 
Back and forth ceremony 5572 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5571 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5570 
Glass windows 5569 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5568 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5567 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5565 
How to use basement jacks? 5565 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5565 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5565 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5564 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5564 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5563 
Sore eyes... 5562 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5562 
The harvesting week! 5560 
I need an inspiration… 5559 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5558 
Like this? 5558 
Dramatically randomize MF 5558 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5557 
The room eats dynamic 5557 
Diffusers 5557 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5556 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5541 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5540 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5540 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5540 
About Width-Importance balance. 5538 
Letting the music scale up 5537 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5537 
To finish my house décor… 5533 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5532 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5531 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5531 
Calling the gods of music 5531 
Absolutely 5531 
Phase manipulation 5531 
No relation. 5531 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5531 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5531 
Dynamical mismatch 5530 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5530 
Stradiwinerius? 5527 
Dealing with the glass. 5526 
Boston 5526 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5526 
Added mass 5526 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5526 
It is about moderation…. 5526 
To hell with the wine... 5526 
Also for other surafaces 5525 
LEAD 5525 
LEAD & GLASS 5525 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5525 
Read carefully 5525 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5525 
Crooks and morons 5525 
Magiscopios 5524 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5504 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5504 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5503 
The LP setup in the new home. 5452 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5447 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5447 
Pianochord will do! 5447 
Spanyi heaven 5447 
I see no conflict at all. 5447 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5447 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5447 
A year after closing 5439 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5439 
Traveling antimatter 5432 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5426 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5425 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5399 
Cast Iron fireplace 5398 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5398 
The hardcore way 5398 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5362 
This is How It's Done 5361 
Listening room during summer. 5349 
What about those... 5348 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5348 
Reducing A/C Noise 5348 
HVAC the Cat 5348 
Big Ass fan 5347 
Variac dimmers 5347 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5347 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5347 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5279 
Some winter observations. 5170 
That Asian man…. 5139 
The Franz Schubert morning 5113 
Spring.... 5062 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5012 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4983 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4983 
Just good photography? 4983 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4983 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4983 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4982 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4982 
Sports car 4982 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4982 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4982 
Train Positioning 4982 
Kind of what I want 4982 
The lap listening… 4982 
Family Room 4982 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4979 
A super audio room. 4975 
Time Warp! 4975 
A piano in a listening room 4954 
Pianissimo 4954 
The plan in blue. 4954 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4954 
My doubts 4954 
It is exactly what I worry. 4953 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4953 
Musicians at home 4953 
Piano Measurements 4952 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4947 
The next step. 4933 
Midbass horns missing?? 4932 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4922 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4922 
Baby Grand 4921 
Wood floor 4921 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4921 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4921 
Amy’s baby. 4919 
Improvement 4919 
Agree with Scott 4919 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4907 
Integrated casters 4907 
Very nice, thanks. 4907 
Customization 4907 
Sliders 4907 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4900 
Congratulations 4900 
Holes in the floor... 4900 
Tubes and kids 4900 
Sweet spot enlargement 4900 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4898 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4897 
Wood Floors and Water 4897 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4892 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4891 
WAF is for Losers 4891 
WAF: it depends. 4891 
Integration 4890 
Here and there. 4890 
Life after WWIII 4890 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4890 
Cables management. 4888 
Featurizing 4888 
Kids and tubes cont. 4885 
Kid magnet 4885 
Kids and audio 4884 
Radars 4884 
Wow, what the days! 4880 
The comming weekend 4876 
It all was worth it! 4873 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4868 
Here is how it is look. 4868 
Resolving the carpet issue 4868 
Bonfire 4868 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4868 
Proof of concept? 4868 
Geometry 4868 
A view from listening position. 4868 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4868 
Some feedback 4868 
Evening 4868 
I wonder why. 4867 
Rugs and things 4867 
In defense… 4867 
I can’t get it. 4864 
Haze. 4863 
Front wall 4863 
It is very possible. 4863 
It is nice to be back. 4860 
My comfy corner. 4857 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4497 
WMD in house. 4319 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4222 
The third listening spot. 4201 
For sure a very different experience. 4163 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4158 
It's Jfretch's system. 4158 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4157 
Domestic games 4111 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3972 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3972 
Dynamic screening 3972 
Actually this is very good idea! 3972 
Volcanic fabric 3972 
I should have done this. 3970 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3966 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3935 
No worries 3935 
Awesome memories 3935 
Optimization of space 3935 
Child-ish considerations 3932 
Finding peace.... 3926 
"Fencing"? 3925 
I need to build something custom 3925 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3925 
Stressed Skin 3925 
NYC elevators 3925 
Kids toys and quantities. 3925 
Everything is completely reversible 3924 
Racks and things 3924 
Now it looks even more promising! 3924 
Quantity of rods 3924 
Avoiding diagonals 3922 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3921 
That's not fair! 3921 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3921 
Discrimination? 3916 
Vertical configuration 3909 
Impresive ! 3838 
Did you read the site? 3838 
Contact 3838 
Company's name is Rixrax 3838 
Stand 3837 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3793 
End of life headphone system 3793 
Something like this? 3793 
The "Second Living Room" 3793 
Mixing urban & suburban 3793 
Late night listening 3793 
Moving life... 3791 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3791 
A true listening room. 3767 
It started… 3752 
Levels of Interest 3752 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3752 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3752 
I can't not to post it.... 3752 
Do not leave him unattended. 3752 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3752 
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