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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6055 
The first take on the new room. 6049 
New Room, a first shot. 6048 
Wonderful 6048 
Adopted 6047 
The first relaxed night with the room 6045 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6044 
The listening room is ready. 6043 
New Room, a First Shot 6041 
Continue to work with the room 6041 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6041 
Room 6040 
I think it will take another month. 6040 
The Buttressing 6040 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6039 
The new place and the new noises. 6039 
Big listening room 6038 
Screw the "big" rooms 6038 
Big listening rooms 6038 
First reflection points 6037 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6037 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6034 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6033 
Squeezing the floor 6033 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6033 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6033 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6032 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6032 
The new room, the very first listening. 6032 
The 14.5 foot. 6031 
Again… 6030 
Romy's new Playground 6030 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6030 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6030 
For the uninitiated ... 6029 
NH guy 6029 
Room 6029 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6028 
The first base is done 6028 
Reentry time alignment. 6027 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6026 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6026 
Mid bass horn. 6026 
Guess is only a guess… 6026 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6026 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6025 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6025 
Diffusors 6025 
Diffuse injection 6025 
Let analyse why it so 6025 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6025 
Wheel and Deal 6025 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6025 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6025 
I Must Be Missing Something 6025 
I put sliders under my speakers 6024 
ROOM 6023 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6023 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6023 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6023 
No concerns 6023 
Speakers and room 6023 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6022 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6022 
Diaphram 6022 
Phram 6022 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6022 
Perfect piston 6022 
Decorater 6021 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6021 
New morning 6020 
The first take on the room with RTA 6019 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6019 
Axiomatic 6019 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6018 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6018 
The size of the bass. 6018 
Bass Factory 6018 
Crude Level, or something more? 6018 
I will play with it this week…. 6018 
Rent-A 6018 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6018 
Corner horns 6018 
Cheating from below 6018 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6018 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6017 
A possibly overly simplified view 6017 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6017 
Iceberg 6017 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6017 
Why not horn 6017 
A correction…. 6017 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6017 
They are just not related things at all. 6017 
Fertin 6015 
Low resonance is good... 6015 
Et tu, Brute? 6014 
The Room response at LF 6013 
Life On The Ground Floor 6013 
Bass arrays 6013 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6013 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6013 
The super sucks. 6013 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6013 
You may also try 6012 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6012 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6012 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6012 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6012 
60 Hz Resonance 6012 
No notching… so far. 6012 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6011 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6011 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6011 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6011 
Power to the People 6011 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6011 
Aura 6011 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6011 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6011 
All class D is the same 6011 
Interpreting the LF results. 6010 
The Halibut 6010 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6010 
The Big Picture 6010 
Power & ULF channels 6010 
The big picture indeed. 6010 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6010 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6010 
The Power and the Glory 6009 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6009 
I guess I did not get this memo 6009 
French LF drivers 6009 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6009 
(another) French LF approach 6008 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6008 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6008 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6008 
Limpschtick 6008 
Symmetry 6008 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6007 
Room correction 6007 
It migh be more complicated. 6007 
Bass EQ ? 6007 
Agree and not. 6007 
Two "diseases" 6007 
Parametric filters 6007 
Ceiling arrays 6007 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6007 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6007 
The Middle of the Room. 6007 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6007 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6007 
Stop! 6007 
Appendectomy 6007 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6006 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6006 
No Isolation 6006 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6003 
Potential contenders? 6002 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6002 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6002 
Those Crazy Canucks 5998 
Mo' Better Bass 5992 
Bird in the Hand? 5992 
A wet listening spot? 5985 
Storm 5982 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5982 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5968 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5938 
Polar Opposite ULF 5937 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5925 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5923 
Differently but the same. 5922 
PVC 5921 
The sail test try. 5921 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5921 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5921 
Trial 5920 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5920 
Some explanations 5920 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5919 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5918 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5917 
Acrylate 5916 
Magic blanket 5916 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5915 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5915 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5915 
I have a few options. 5915 
Foam color 5915 
Strange things with upperbass 5915 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5914 
Teatro reform. . . 5914 
The foaming room dilemma. 5913 
Melamine Foam 5913 
Foaming up the cat house 5913 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5913 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5913 
Acoustic revisions… 5912 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5909 
Surprises so far in the new room 5908 
The upperbass in the new room. 5908 
Slight change of hart. 5907 
Camco supply of Boston 5905 
Room acoustics 5905 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5864 
I need to kill dust first. 5864 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5862 
To feed the leeches? 5862 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5861 
Yh 5861 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5861 
DPOLs? 5861 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5861 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5858 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5858 
A HalfPipe solution? 5858 
I absolutely love it. 5858 
Piper work 5857 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5857 
Absorption 5857 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5856 
Cats life ? 5856 
Call me Pussy. 5856 
More about traps 5856 
Acoustic impedance? 5856 
You maybe right 5856 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5856 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5855 
Heavy Curtain 5855 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5854 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5854 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5854 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5851 
Fix speaker move chair? 5850 
Back and forth ceremony 5850 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5849 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5848 
Glass windows 5847 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5846 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5845 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5843 
How to use basement jacks? 5843 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5843 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5843 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5842 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5842 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5841 
Sore eyes... 5840 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5840 
The harvesting week! 5838 
I need an inspiration… 5837 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5836 
Like this? 5836 
Dramatically randomize MF 5836 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5835 
The room eats dynamic 5835 
Diffusers 5835 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5834 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5819 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5818 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5818 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5818 
About Width-Importance balance. 5816 
Letting the music scale up 5815 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5815 
To finish my house décor… 5811 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5810 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5809 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5809 
Calling the gods of music 5809 
Absolutely 5809 
Phase manipulation 5809 
No relation. 5809 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5809 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5809 
Dynamical mismatch 5808 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5808 
Stradiwinerius? 5805 
Dealing with the glass. 5804 
Boston 5804 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5804 
Added mass 5804 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5804 
It is about moderation…. 5804 
To hell with the wine... 5804 
Also for other surafaces 5803 
LEAD 5803 
LEAD & GLASS 5803 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5803 
Read carefully 5803 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5803 
Crooks and morons 5803 
Magiscopios 5802 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5782 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5782 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5781 
The LP setup in the new home. 5730 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5725 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5725 
Pianochord will do! 5725 
Spanyi heaven 5725 
I see no conflict at all. 5725 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5725 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5725 
A year after closing 5717 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5717 
Traveling antimatter 5710 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5704 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5703 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5677 
Cast Iron fireplace 5676 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5676 
The hardcore way 5676 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5640 
This is How It's Done 5639 
Listening room during summer. 5627 
What about those... 5626 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5626 
Reducing A/C Noise 5626 
HVAC the Cat 5626 
Big Ass fan 5625 
Variac dimmers 5625 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5625 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5625 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5557 
Some winter observations. 5448 
That Asian man…. 5417 
The Franz Schubert morning 5391 
Spring.... 5340 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5290 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5261 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5261 
Just good photography? 5261 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5261 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5261 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5260 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5260 
Sports car 5260 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5260 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5260 
Train Positioning 5260 
Kind of what I want 5260 
The lap listening… 5260 
Family Room 5260 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5257 
A super audio room. 5253 
Time Warp! 5253 
A piano in a listening room 5232 
Pianissimo 5232 
The plan in blue. 5232 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5232 
My doubts 5232 
It is exactly what I worry. 5231 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5231 
Musicians at home 5231 
Piano Measurements 5230 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5225 
The next step. 5211 
Midbass horns missing?? 5210 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5200 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5200 
Baby Grand 5199 
Wood floor 5199 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5199 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5199 
Amy’s baby. 5197 
Improvement 5197 
Agree with Scott 5197 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5185 
Integrated casters 5185 
Very nice, thanks. 5185 
Customization 5185 
Sliders 5185 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5178 
Congratulations 5178 
Holes in the floor... 5178 
Tubes and kids 5178 
Sweet spot enlargement 5178 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5176 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5175 
Wood Floors and Water 5175 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5170 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5169 
WAF is for Losers 5169 
WAF: it depends. 5169 
Integration 5168 
Here and there. 5168 
Life after WWIII 5168 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5168 
Cables management. 5166 
Featurizing 5166 
Kids and tubes cont. 5163 
Kid magnet 5163 
Kids and audio 5162 
Radars 5162 
Wow, what the days! 5158 
The comming weekend 5154 
It all was worth it! 5151 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5146 
Here is how it is look. 5146 
Resolving the carpet issue 5146 
Bonfire 5146 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5146 
Proof of concept? 5146 
Geometry 5146 
A view from listening position. 5146 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5146 
Some feedback 5146 
Evening 5146 
I wonder why. 5145 
Rugs and things 5145 
In defense… 5145 
I can’t get it. 5142 
Haze. 5141 
Front wall 5141 
It is very possible. 5141 
It is nice to be back. 5138 
My comfy corner. 5135 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4775 
WMD in house. 4597 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4500 
The third listening spot. 4479 
For sure a very different experience. 4441 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4436 
It's Jfretch's system. 4436 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4435 
Domestic games 4389 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4250 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4250 
Dynamic screening 4250 
Actually this is very good idea! 4250 
Volcanic fabric 4250 
I should have done this. 4248 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4244 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4213 
No worries 4213 
Awesome memories 4213 
Optimization of space 4213 
Child-ish considerations 4210 
Finding peace.... 4204 
"Fencing"? 4203 
I need to build something custom 4203 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4203 
Stressed Skin 4203 
NYC elevators 4203 
Kids toys and quantities. 4203 
Everything is completely reversible 4202 
Racks and things 4202 
Now it looks even more promising! 4202 
Quantity of rods 4202 
Avoiding diagonals 4200 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4199 
That's not fair! 4199 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4199 
Discrimination? 4194 
Vertical configuration 4187 
Impresive ! 4116 
Did you read the site? 4116 
Contact 4116 
Company's name is Rixrax 4116 
Stand 4115 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4071 
End of life headphone system 4071 
Something like this? 4071 
The "Second Living Room" 4071 
Mixing urban & suburban 4071 
Late night listening 4071 
Moving life... 4069 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4069 
A true listening room. 4045 
It started… 4030 
Levels of Interest 4030 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4030 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4030 
I can't not to post it.... 4030 
Do not leave him unattended. 4030 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4030 
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