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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6019 
The first take on the new room. 6013 
New Room, a first shot. 6012 
Wonderful 6012 
Adopted 6011 
The first relaxed night with the room 6009 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6008 
The listening room is ready. 6007 
New Room, a First Shot 6005 
Continue to work with the room 6005 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6005 
Room 6004 
I think it will take another month. 6004 
The Buttressing 6004 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6003 
The new place and the new noises. 6003 
Big listening room 6002 
Screw the "big" rooms 6002 
Big listening rooms 6002 
First reflection points 6001 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6001 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5998 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5997 
Squeezing the floor 5997 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5997 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5997 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5996 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5996 
The new room, the very first listening. 5996 
The 14.5 foot. 5995 
Again… 5994 
Romy's new Playground 5994 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5994 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5994 
For the uninitiated ... 5993 
NH guy 5993 
Room 5993 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5992 
The first base is done 5992 
Reentry time alignment. 5991 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5990 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5990 
Mid bass horn. 5990 
Guess is only a guess… 5990 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5990 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5989 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5989 
Diffusors 5989 
Diffuse injection 5989 
Let analyse why it so 5989 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5989 
Wheel and Deal 5989 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5989 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5989 
I Must Be Missing Something 5989 
I put sliders under my speakers 5988 
ROOM 5987 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5987 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5987 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5987 
No concerns 5987 
Speakers and room 5987 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5986 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5986 
Diaphram 5986 
Phram 5986 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5986 
Perfect piston 5986 
Decorater 5985 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5985 
New morning 5984 
The first take on the room with RTA 5983 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5983 
Axiomatic 5983 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5982 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5982 
The size of the bass. 5982 
Bass Factory 5982 
Crude Level, or something more? 5982 
I will play with it this week…. 5982 
Rent-A 5982 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5982 
Corner horns 5982 
Cheating from below 5982 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5982 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5981 
A possibly overly simplified view 5981 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5981 
Iceberg 5981 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5981 
Why not horn 5981 
A correction…. 5981 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5981 
They are just not related things at all. 5981 
Fertin 5979 
Low resonance is good... 5979 
Et tu, Brute? 5978 
The Room response at LF 5977 
Life On The Ground Floor 5977 
Bass arrays 5977 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5977 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5977 
The super sucks. 5977 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5977 
You may also try 5976 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5976 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5976 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5976 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5976 
60 Hz Resonance 5976 
No notching… so far. 5976 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5975 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5975 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5975 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5975 
Power to the People 5975 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5975 
Aura 5975 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5975 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5975 
All class D is the same 5975 
Interpreting the LF results. 5974 
The Halibut 5974 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5974 
The Big Picture 5974 
Power & ULF channels 5974 
The big picture indeed. 5974 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5974 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5974 
The Power and the Glory 5973 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5973 
I guess I did not get this memo 5973 
French LF drivers 5973 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5973 
(another) French LF approach 5972 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5972 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5972 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5972 
Limpschtick 5972 
Symmetry 5972 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5971 
Room correction 5971 
It migh be more complicated. 5971 
Bass EQ ? 5971 
Agree and not. 5971 
Two "diseases" 5971 
Parametric filters 5971 
Ceiling arrays 5971 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5971 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5971 
The Middle of the Room. 5971 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5971 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5971 
Stop! 5971 
Appendectomy 5971 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5970 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5970 
No Isolation 5970 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5967 
Potential contenders? 5966 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5966 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5966 
Those Crazy Canucks 5962 
Mo' Better Bass 5956 
Bird in the Hand? 5956 
A wet listening spot? 5949 
Storm 5946 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5946 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5932 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5902 
Polar Opposite ULF 5901 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5889 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5887 
Differently but the same. 5886 
PVC 5885 
The sail test try. 5885 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5885 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5885 
Trial 5884 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5884 
Some explanations 5884 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5883 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5882 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5881 
Acrylate 5880 
Magic blanket 5880 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5879 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5879 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5879 
I have a few options. 5879 
Foam color 5879 
Strange things with upperbass 5879 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5878 
Teatro reform. . . 5878 
The foaming room dilemma. 5877 
Melamine Foam 5877 
Foaming up the cat house 5877 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5877 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5877 
Acoustic revisions… 5876 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5873 
Surprises so far in the new room 5872 
The upperbass in the new room. 5872 
Slight change of hart. 5871 
Camco supply of Boston 5869 
Room acoustics 5869 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5828 
I need to kill dust first. 5828 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5826 
To feed the leeches? 5826 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5825 
Yh 5825 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5825 
DPOLs? 5825 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5825 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5822 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5822 
A HalfPipe solution? 5822 
I absolutely love it. 5822 
Piper work 5821 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5821 
Absorption 5821 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5820 
Cats life ? 5820 
Call me Pussy. 5820 
More about traps 5820 
Acoustic impedance? 5820 
You maybe right 5820 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5820 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5819 
Heavy Curtain 5819 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5818 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5818 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5818 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5815 
Fix speaker move chair? 5814 
Back and forth ceremony 5814 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5813 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5812 
Glass windows 5811 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5810 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5809 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5807 
How to use basement jacks? 5807 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5807 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5807 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5806 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5806 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5805 
Sore eyes... 5804 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5804 
The harvesting week! 5802 
I need an inspiration… 5801 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5800 
Like this? 5800 
Dramatically randomize MF 5800 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5799 
The room eats dynamic 5799 
Diffusers 5799 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5798 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5783 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5782 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5782 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5782 
About Width-Importance balance. 5780 
Letting the music scale up 5779 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5779 
To finish my house décor… 5775 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5774 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5773 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5773 
Calling the gods of music 5773 
Absolutely 5773 
Phase manipulation 5773 
No relation. 5773 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5773 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5773 
Dynamical mismatch 5772 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5772 
Stradiwinerius? 5769 
Dealing with the glass. 5768 
Boston 5768 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5768 
Added mass 5768 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5768 
It is about moderation…. 5768 
To hell with the wine... 5768 
Also for other surafaces 5767 
LEAD 5767 
LEAD & GLASS 5767 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5767 
Read carefully 5767 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5767 
Crooks and morons 5767 
Magiscopios 5766 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5746 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5746 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5745 
The LP setup in the new home. 5694 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5689 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5689 
Pianochord will do! 5689 
Spanyi heaven 5689 
I see no conflict at all. 5689 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5689 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5689 
A year after closing 5681 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5681 
Traveling antimatter 5674 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5668 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5667 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5641 
Cast Iron fireplace 5640 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5640 
The hardcore way 5640 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5604 
This is How It's Done 5603 
Listening room during summer. 5591 
What about those... 5590 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5590 
Reducing A/C Noise 5590 
HVAC the Cat 5590 
Big Ass fan 5589 
Variac dimmers 5589 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5589 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5589 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5521 
Some winter observations. 5412 
That Asian man…. 5381 
The Franz Schubert morning 5355 
Spring.... 5304 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5254 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5225 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5225 
Just good photography? 5225 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5225 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5225 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5224 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5224 
Sports car 5224 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5224 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5224 
Train Positioning 5224 
Kind of what I want 5224 
The lap listening… 5224 
Family Room 5224 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5221 
A super audio room. 5217 
Time Warp! 5217 
A piano in a listening room 5196 
Pianissimo 5196 
The plan in blue. 5196 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5196 
My doubts 5196 
It is exactly what I worry. 5195 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5195 
Musicians at home 5195 
Piano Measurements 5194 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5189 
The next step. 5175 
Midbass horns missing?? 5174 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5164 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5164 
Baby Grand 5163 
Wood floor 5163 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5163 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5163 
Amy’s baby. 5161 
Improvement 5161 
Agree with Scott 5161 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5149 
Integrated casters 5149 
Very nice, thanks. 5149 
Customization 5149 
Sliders 5149 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5142 
Congratulations 5142 
Holes in the floor... 5142 
Tubes and kids 5142 
Sweet spot enlargement 5142 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5140 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5139 
Wood Floors and Water 5139 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5134 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5133 
WAF is for Losers 5133 
WAF: it depends. 5133 
Integration 5132 
Here and there. 5132 
Life after WWIII 5132 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5132 
Cables management. 5130 
Featurizing 5130 
Kids and tubes cont. 5127 
Kid magnet 5127 
Kids and audio 5126 
Radars 5126 
Wow, what the days! 5122 
The comming weekend 5118 
It all was worth it! 5115 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5110 
Here is how it is look. 5110 
Resolving the carpet issue 5110 
Bonfire 5110 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5110 
Proof of concept? 5110 
Geometry 5110 
A view from listening position. 5110 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5110 
Some feedback 5110 
Evening 5110 
I wonder why. 5109 
Rugs and things 5109 
In defense… 5109 
I can’t get it. 5106 
Haze. 5105 
Front wall 5105 
It is very possible. 5105 
It is nice to be back. 5102 
My comfy corner. 5099 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4739 
WMD in house. 4561 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4464 
The third listening spot. 4443 
For sure a very different experience. 4405 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4400 
It's Jfretch's system. 4400 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4399 
Domestic games 4353 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4214 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4214 
Dynamic screening 4214 
Actually this is very good idea! 4214 
Volcanic fabric 4214 
I should have done this. 4212 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4208 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4177 
No worries 4177 
Awesome memories 4177 
Optimization of space 4177 
Child-ish considerations 4174 
Finding peace.... 4168 
"Fencing"? 4167 
I need to build something custom 4167 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4167 
Stressed Skin 4167 
NYC elevators 4167 
Kids toys and quantities. 4167 
Everything is completely reversible 4166 
Racks and things 4166 
Now it looks even more promising! 4166 
Quantity of rods 4166 
Avoiding diagonals 4164 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4163 
That's not fair! 4163 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4163 
Discrimination? 4158 
Vertical configuration 4151 
Impresive ! 4080 
Did you read the site? 4080 
Contact 4080 
Company's name is Rixrax 4080 
Stand 4079 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4035 
End of life headphone system 4035 
Something like this? 4035 
The "Second Living Room" 4035 
Mixing urban & suburban 4035 
Late night listening 4035 
Moving life... 4033 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4033 
A true listening room. 4009 
It started… 3994 
Levels of Interest 3994 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3994 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3994 
I can't not to post it.... 3994 
Do not leave him unattended. 3994 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3994 
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