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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6015 
The first take on the new room. 6009 
New Room, a first shot. 6008 
Wonderful 6008 
Adopted 6007 
The first relaxed night with the room 6005 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6004 
The listening room is ready. 6003 
New Room, a First Shot 6001 
Continue to work with the room 6001 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6001 
Room 6000 
I think it will take another month. 6000 
The Buttressing 6000 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5999 
The new place and the new noises. 5999 
Big listening room 5998 
Screw the "big" rooms 5998 
Big listening rooms 5998 
First reflection points 5997 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5997 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5994 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5993 
Squeezing the floor 5993 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5993 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5993 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5992 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5992 
The new room, the very first listening. 5992 
The 14.5 foot. 5991 
Again… 5990 
Romy's new Playground 5990 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5990 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5990 
For the uninitiated ... 5989 
NH guy 5989 
Room 5989 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5988 
The first base is done 5988 
Reentry time alignment. 5987 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5986 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5986 
Mid bass horn. 5986 
Guess is only a guess… 5986 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5986 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5985 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5985 
Diffusors 5985 
Diffuse injection 5985 
Let analyse why it so 5985 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5985 
Wheel and Deal 5985 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5985 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5985 
I Must Be Missing Something 5985 
I put sliders under my speakers 5984 
ROOM 5983 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5983 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5983 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5983 
No concerns 5983 
Speakers and room 5983 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5982 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5982 
Diaphram 5982 
Phram 5982 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5982 
Perfect piston 5982 
Decorater 5981 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5981 
New morning 5980 
The first take on the room with RTA 5979 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5979 
Axiomatic 5979 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5978 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5978 
The size of the bass. 5978 
Bass Factory 5978 
Crude Level, or something more? 5978 
I will play with it this week…. 5978 
Rent-A 5978 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5978 
Corner horns 5978 
Cheating from below 5978 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5978 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5977 
A possibly overly simplified view 5977 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5977 
Iceberg 5977 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5977 
Why not horn 5977 
A correction…. 5977 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5977 
They are just not related things at all. 5977 
Fertin 5975 
Low resonance is good... 5975 
Et tu, Brute? 5974 
The Room response at LF 5973 
Life On The Ground Floor 5973 
Bass arrays 5973 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5973 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5973 
The super sucks. 5973 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5973 
You may also try 5972 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5972 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5972 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5972 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5972 
60 Hz Resonance 5972 
No notching… so far. 5972 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5971 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5971 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5971 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5971 
Power to the People 5971 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5971 
Aura 5971 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5971 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5971 
All class D is the same 5971 
Interpreting the LF results. 5970 
The Halibut 5970 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5970 
The Big Picture 5970 
Power & ULF channels 5970 
The big picture indeed. 5970 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5970 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5970 
The Power and the Glory 5969 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5969 
I guess I did not get this memo 5969 
French LF drivers 5969 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5969 
(another) French LF approach 5968 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5968 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5968 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5968 
Limpschtick 5968 
Symmetry 5968 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5967 
Room correction 5967 
It migh be more complicated. 5967 
Bass EQ ? 5967 
Agree and not. 5967 
Two "diseases" 5967 
Parametric filters 5967 
Ceiling arrays 5967 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5967 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5967 
The Middle of the Room. 5967 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5967 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5967 
Stop! 5967 
Appendectomy 5967 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5966 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5966 
No Isolation 5966 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5963 
Potential contenders? 5962 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5962 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5962 
Those Crazy Canucks 5958 
Mo' Better Bass 5952 
Bird in the Hand? 5952 
A wet listening spot? 5945 
Storm 5942 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5942 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5928 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5898 
Polar Opposite ULF 5897 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5885 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5883 
Differently but the same. 5882 
PVC 5881 
The sail test try. 5881 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5881 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5881 
Trial 5880 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5880 
Some explanations 5880 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5879 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5878 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5877 
Acrylate 5876 
Magic blanket 5876 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5875 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5875 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5875 
I have a few options. 5875 
Foam color 5875 
Strange things with upperbass 5875 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5874 
Teatro reform. . . 5874 
The foaming room dilemma. 5873 
Melamine Foam 5873 
Foaming up the cat house 5873 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5873 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5873 
Acoustic revisions… 5872 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5869 
Surprises so far in the new room 5868 
The upperbass in the new room. 5868 
Slight change of hart. 5867 
Camco supply of Boston 5865 
Room acoustics 5865 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5824 
I need to kill dust first. 5824 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5822 
To feed the leeches? 5822 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5821 
Yh 5821 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5821 
DPOLs? 5821 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5821 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5818 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5818 
A HalfPipe solution? 5818 
I absolutely love it. 5818 
Piper work 5817 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5817 
Absorption 5817 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5816 
Cats life ? 5816 
Call me Pussy. 5816 
More about traps 5816 
Acoustic impedance? 5816 
You maybe right 5816 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5816 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5815 
Heavy Curtain 5815 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5814 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5814 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5814 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5811 
Fix speaker move chair? 5810 
Back and forth ceremony 5810 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5809 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5808 
Glass windows 5807 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5806 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5805 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5803 
How to use basement jacks? 5803 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5803 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5803 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5802 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5802 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5801 
Sore eyes... 5800 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5800 
The harvesting week! 5798 
I need an inspiration… 5797 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5796 
Like this? 5796 
Dramatically randomize MF 5796 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5795 
The room eats dynamic 5795 
Diffusers 5795 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5794 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5779 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5778 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5778 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5778 
About Width-Importance balance. 5776 
Letting the music scale up 5775 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5775 
To finish my house décor… 5771 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5770 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5769 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5769 
Calling the gods of music 5769 
Absolutely 5769 
Phase manipulation 5769 
No relation. 5769 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5769 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5769 
Dynamical mismatch 5768 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5768 
Stradiwinerius? 5765 
Dealing with the glass. 5764 
Boston 5764 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5764 
Added mass 5764 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5764 
It is about moderation…. 5764 
To hell with the wine... 5764 
Also for other surafaces 5763 
LEAD 5763 
LEAD & GLASS 5763 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5763 
Read carefully 5763 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5763 
Crooks and morons 5763 
Magiscopios 5762 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5742 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5742 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5741 
The LP setup in the new home. 5690 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5685 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5685 
Pianochord will do! 5685 
Spanyi heaven 5685 
I see no conflict at all. 5685 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5685 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5685 
A year after closing 5677 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5677 
Traveling antimatter 5670 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5664 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5663 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5637 
Cast Iron fireplace 5636 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5636 
The hardcore way 5636 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5600 
This is How It's Done 5599 
Listening room during summer. 5587 
What about those... 5586 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5586 
Reducing A/C Noise 5586 
HVAC the Cat 5586 
Big Ass fan 5585 
Variac dimmers 5585 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5585 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5585 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5517 
Some winter observations. 5408 
That Asian man…. 5377 
The Franz Schubert morning 5351 
Spring.... 5300 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5250 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5221 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5221 
Just good photography? 5221 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5221 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5221 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5220 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5220 
Sports car 5220 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5220 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5220 
Train Positioning 5220 
Kind of what I want 5220 
The lap listening… 5220 
Family Room 5220 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5217 
A super audio room. 5213 
Time Warp! 5213 
A piano in a listening room 5192 
Pianissimo 5192 
The plan in blue. 5192 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5192 
My doubts 5192 
It is exactly what I worry. 5191 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5191 
Musicians at home 5191 
Piano Measurements 5190 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5185 
The next step. 5171 
Midbass horns missing?? 5170 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5160 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5160 
Baby Grand 5159 
Wood floor 5159 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5159 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5159 
Amy’s baby. 5157 
Improvement 5157 
Agree with Scott 5157 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5145 
Integrated casters 5145 
Very nice, thanks. 5145 
Customization 5145 
Sliders 5145 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5138 
Congratulations 5138 
Holes in the floor... 5138 
Tubes and kids 5138 
Sweet spot enlargement 5138 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5136 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5135 
Wood Floors and Water 5135 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5130 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5129 
WAF is for Losers 5129 
WAF: it depends. 5129 
Integration 5128 
Here and there. 5128 
Life after WWIII 5128 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5128 
Cables management. 5126 
Featurizing 5126 
Kids and tubes cont. 5123 
Kid magnet 5123 
Kids and audio 5122 
Radars 5122 
Wow, what the days! 5118 
The comming weekend 5114 
It all was worth it! 5111 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5106 
Here is how it is look. 5106 
Resolving the carpet issue 5106 
Bonfire 5106 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5106 
Proof of concept? 5106 
Geometry 5106 
A view from listening position. 5106 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5106 
Some feedback 5106 
Evening 5106 
I wonder why. 5105 
Rugs and things 5105 
In defense… 5105 
I can’t get it. 5102 
Haze. 5101 
Front wall 5101 
It is very possible. 5101 
It is nice to be back. 5098 
My comfy corner. 5095 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4735 
WMD in house. 4557 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4460 
The third listening spot. 4439 
For sure a very different experience. 4401 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4396 
It's Jfretch's system. 4396 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4395 
Domestic games 4349 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4210 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4210 
Dynamic screening 4210 
Actually this is very good idea! 4210 
Volcanic fabric 4210 
I should have done this. 4208 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4204 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4173 
No worries 4173 
Awesome memories 4173 
Optimization of space 4173 
Child-ish considerations 4170 
Finding peace.... 4164 
"Fencing"? 4163 
I need to build something custom 4163 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4163 
Stressed Skin 4163 
NYC elevators 4163 
Kids toys and quantities. 4163 
Everything is completely reversible 4162 
Racks and things 4162 
Now it looks even more promising! 4162 
Quantity of rods 4162 
Avoiding diagonals 4160 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4159 
That's not fair! 4159 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4159 
Discrimination? 4154 
Vertical configuration 4147 
Impresive ! 4076 
Did you read the site? 4076 
Contact 4076 
Company's name is Rixrax 4076 
Stand 4075 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4031 
End of life headphone system 4031 
Something like this? 4031 
The "Second Living Room" 4031 
Mixing urban & suburban 4031 
Late night listening 4031 
Moving life... 4029 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4029 
A true listening room. 4005 
It started… 3990 
Levels of Interest 3990 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3990 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3990 
I can't not to post it.... 3990 
Do not leave him unattended. 3990 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3990 
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