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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5953 
The first take on the new room. 5947 
New Room, a first shot. 5946 
Wonderful 5946 
Adopted 5945 
The first relaxed night with the room 5943 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5942 
The listening room is ready. 5941 
New Room, a First Shot 5939 
Continue to work with the room 5939 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5939 
Room 5938 
I think it will take another month. 5938 
The Buttressing 5938 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5937 
The new place and the new noises. 5937 
Big listening room 5936 
Screw the "big" rooms 5936 
Big listening rooms 5936 
First reflection points 5935 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5935 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5932 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5931 
Squeezing the floor 5931 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5931 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5931 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5930 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5930 
The new room, the very first listening. 5930 
The 14.5 foot. 5929 
Again… 5928 
Romy's new Playground 5928 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5928 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5928 
For the uninitiated ... 5927 
NH guy 5927 
Room 5927 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5926 
The first base is done 5926 
Reentry time alignment. 5925 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5924 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5924 
Mid bass horn. 5924 
Guess is only a guess… 5924 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5924 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5923 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5923 
Diffusors 5923 
Diffuse injection 5923 
Let analyse why it so 5923 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5923 
Wheel and Deal 5923 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5923 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5923 
I Must Be Missing Something 5923 
I put sliders under my speakers 5922 
ROOM 5921 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5921 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5921 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5921 
No concerns 5921 
Speakers and room 5921 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5920 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5920 
Diaphram 5920 
Phram 5920 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5920 
Perfect piston 5920 
Decorater 5919 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5919 
New morning 5918 
The first take on the room with RTA 5917 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5917 
Axiomatic 5917 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5916 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5916 
The size of the bass. 5916 
Bass Factory 5916 
Crude Level, or something more? 5916 
I will play with it this week…. 5916 
Rent-A 5916 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5916 
Corner horns 5916 
Cheating from below 5916 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5916 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5915 
A possibly overly simplified view 5915 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5915 
Iceberg 5915 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5915 
Why not horn 5915 
A correction…. 5915 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5915 
They are just not related things at all. 5915 
Fertin 5913 
Low resonance is good... 5913 
Et tu, Brute? 5912 
The Room response at LF 5911 
Life On The Ground Floor 5911 
Bass arrays 5911 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5911 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5911 
The super sucks. 5911 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5911 
You may also try 5910 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5910 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5910 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5910 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5910 
60 Hz Resonance 5910 
No notching… so far. 5910 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5909 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5909 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5909 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5909 
Power to the People 5909 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5909 
Aura 5909 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5909 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5909 
All class D is the same 5909 
Interpreting the LF results. 5908 
The Halibut 5908 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5908 
The Big Picture 5908 
Power & ULF channels 5908 
The big picture indeed. 5908 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5908 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5908 
The Power and the Glory 5907 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5907 
I guess I did not get this memo 5907 
French LF drivers 5907 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5907 
(another) French LF approach 5906 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5906 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5906 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5906 
Limpschtick 5906 
Symmetry 5906 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5905 
Room correction 5905 
It migh be more complicated. 5905 
Bass EQ ? 5905 
Agree and not. 5905 
Two "diseases" 5905 
Parametric filters 5905 
Ceiling arrays 5905 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5905 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5905 
The Middle of the Room. 5905 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5905 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5905 
Stop! 5905 
Appendectomy 5905 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5904 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5904 
No Isolation 5904 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5901 
Potential contenders? 5900 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5900 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5900 
Those Crazy Canucks 5896 
Mo' Better Bass 5890 
Bird in the Hand? 5890 
A wet listening spot? 5883 
Storm 5880 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5880 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5866 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5836 
Polar Opposite ULF 5835 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5823 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5821 
Differently but the same. 5820 
PVC 5819 
The sail test try. 5819 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5819 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5819 
Trial 5818 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5818 
Some explanations 5818 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5817 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5816 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5815 
Acrylate 5814 
Magic blanket 5814 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5813 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5813 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5813 
I have a few options. 5813 
Foam color 5813 
Strange things with upperbass 5813 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5812 
Teatro reform. . . 5812 
The foaming room dilemma. 5811 
Melamine Foam 5811 
Foaming up the cat house 5811 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5811 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5811 
Acoustic revisions… 5810 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5807 
Surprises so far in the new room 5806 
The upperbass in the new room. 5806 
Slight change of hart. 5805 
Camco supply of Boston 5803 
Room acoustics 5803 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5762 
I need to kill dust first. 5762 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5760 
To feed the leeches? 5760 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5759 
Yh 5759 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5759 
DPOLs? 5759 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5759 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5756 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5756 
A HalfPipe solution? 5756 
I absolutely love it. 5756 
Piper work 5755 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5755 
Absorption 5755 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5754 
Cats life ? 5754 
Call me Pussy. 5754 
More about traps 5754 
Acoustic impedance? 5754 
You maybe right 5754 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5754 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5753 
Heavy Curtain 5753 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5752 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5752 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5752 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5749 
Fix speaker move chair? 5748 
Back and forth ceremony 5748 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5747 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5746 
Glass windows 5745 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5744 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5743 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5741 
How to use basement jacks? 5741 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5741 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5741 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5740 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5740 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5739 
Sore eyes... 5738 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5738 
The harvesting week! 5736 
I need an inspiration… 5735 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5734 
Like this? 5734 
Dramatically randomize MF 5734 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5733 
The room eats dynamic 5733 
Diffusers 5733 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5732 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5717 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5716 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5716 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5716 
About Width-Importance balance. 5714 
Letting the music scale up 5713 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5713 
To finish my house décor… 5709 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5708 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5707 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5707 
Calling the gods of music 5707 
Absolutely 5707 
Phase manipulation 5707 
No relation. 5707 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5707 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5707 
Dynamical mismatch 5706 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5706 
Stradiwinerius? 5703 
Dealing with the glass. 5702 
Boston 5702 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5702 
Added mass 5702 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5702 
It is about moderation…. 5702 
To hell with the wine... 5702 
Also for other surafaces 5701 
LEAD 5701 
LEAD & GLASS 5701 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5701 
Read carefully 5701 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5701 
Crooks and morons 5701 
Magiscopios 5700 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5680 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5680 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5679 
The LP setup in the new home. 5628 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5623 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5623 
Pianochord will do! 5623 
Spanyi heaven 5623 
I see no conflict at all. 5623 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5623 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5623 
A year after closing 5615 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5615 
Traveling antimatter 5608 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5602 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5601 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5575 
Cast Iron fireplace 5574 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5574 
The hardcore way 5574 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5538 
This is How It's Done 5537 
Listening room during summer. 5525 
What about those... 5524 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5524 
Reducing A/C Noise 5524 
HVAC the Cat 5524 
Big Ass fan 5523 
Variac dimmers 5523 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5523 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5523 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5455 
Some winter observations. 5346 
That Asian man…. 5315 
The Franz Schubert morning 5289 
Spring.... 5238 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5188 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5159 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5159 
Just good photography? 5159 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5159 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5159 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5158 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5158 
Sports car 5158 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5158 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5158 
Train Positioning 5158 
Kind of what I want 5158 
The lap listening… 5158 
Family Room 5158 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5155 
A super audio room. 5151 
Time Warp! 5151 
A piano in a listening room 5130 
Pianissimo 5130 
The plan in blue. 5130 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5130 
My doubts 5130 
It is exactly what I worry. 5129 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5129 
Musicians at home 5129 
Piano Measurements 5128 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5123 
The next step. 5109 
Midbass horns missing?? 5108 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5098 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5098 
Baby Grand 5097 
Wood floor 5097 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5097 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5097 
Amy’s baby. 5095 
Improvement 5095 
Agree with Scott 5095 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5083 
Integrated casters 5083 
Very nice, thanks. 5083 
Customization 5083 
Sliders 5083 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5076 
Congratulations 5076 
Holes in the floor... 5076 
Tubes and kids 5076 
Sweet spot enlargement 5076 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5074 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5073 
Wood Floors and Water 5073 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5068 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5067 
WAF is for Losers 5067 
WAF: it depends. 5067 
Integration 5066 
Here and there. 5066 
Life after WWIII 5066 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5066 
Cables management. 5064 
Featurizing 5064 
Kids and tubes cont. 5061 
Kid magnet 5061 
Kids and audio 5060 
Radars 5060 
Wow, what the days! 5056 
The comming weekend 5052 
It all was worth it! 5049 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5044 
Here is how it is look. 5044 
Resolving the carpet issue 5044 
Bonfire 5044 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5044 
Proof of concept? 5044 
Geometry 5044 
A view from listening position. 5044 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5044 
Some feedback 5044 
Evening 5044 
I wonder why. 5043 
Rugs and things 5043 
In defense… 5043 
I can’t get it. 5040 
Haze. 5039 
Front wall 5039 
It is very possible. 5039 
It is nice to be back. 5036 
My comfy corner. 5033 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4673 
WMD in house. 4495 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4398 
The third listening spot. 4377 
For sure a very different experience. 4339 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4334 
It's Jfretch's system. 4334 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4333 
Domestic games 4287 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4148 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4148 
Dynamic screening 4148 
Actually this is very good idea! 4148 
Volcanic fabric 4148 
I should have done this. 4146 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4142 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4111 
No worries 4111 
Awesome memories 4111 
Optimization of space 4111 
Child-ish considerations 4108 
Finding peace.... 4102 
"Fencing"? 4101 
I need to build something custom 4101 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4101 
Stressed Skin 4101 
NYC elevators 4101 
Kids toys and quantities. 4101 
Everything is completely reversible 4100 
Racks and things 4100 
Now it looks even more promising! 4100 
Quantity of rods 4100 
Avoiding diagonals 4098 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4097 
That's not fair! 4097 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4097 
Discrimination? 4092 
Vertical configuration 4085 
Impresive ! 4014 
Did you read the site? 4014 
Contact 4014 
Company's name is Rixrax 4014 
Stand 4013 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3969 
End of life headphone system 3969 
Something like this? 3969 
The "Second Living Room" 3969 
Mixing urban & suburban 3969 
Late night listening 3969 
Moving life... 3967 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3967 
A true listening room. 3943 
It started… 3928 
Levels of Interest 3928 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3928 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3928 
I can't not to post it.... 3928 
Do not leave him unattended. 3928 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3928 
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