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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5892 
The first take on the new room. 5886 
New Room, a first shot. 5885 
Wonderful 5885 
Adopted 5884 
The first relaxed night with the room 5882 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5881 
The listening room is ready. 5880 
New Room, a First Shot 5878 
Continue to work with the room 5878 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5878 
Room 5877 
I think it will take another month. 5877 
The Buttressing 5877 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5876 
The new place and the new noises. 5876 
Big listening room 5875 
Screw the "big" rooms 5875 
Big listening rooms 5875 
First reflection points 5874 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5874 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5871 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5870 
Squeezing the floor 5870 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5870 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5870 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5869 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5869 
The new room, the very first listening. 5869 
The 14.5 foot. 5868 
Again… 5867 
Romy's new Playground 5867 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5867 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5867 
For the uninitiated ... 5866 
NH guy 5866 
Room 5866 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5865 
The first base is done 5865 
Reentry time alignment. 5864 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5863 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5863 
Mid bass horn. 5863 
Guess is only a guess… 5863 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5863 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5862 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5862 
Diffusors 5862 
Diffuse injection 5862 
Let analyse why it so 5862 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5862 
Wheel and Deal 5862 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5862 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5862 
I Must Be Missing Something 5862 
I put sliders under my speakers 5861 
ROOM 5860 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5860 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5860 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5860 
No concerns 5860 
Speakers and room 5860 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5859 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5859 
Diaphram 5859 
Phram 5859 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5859 
Perfect piston 5859 
Decorater 5858 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5858 
New morning 5857 
The first take on the room with RTA 5856 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5856 
Axiomatic 5856 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5855 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5855 
The size of the bass. 5855 
Bass Factory 5855 
Crude Level, or something more? 5855 
I will play with it this week…. 5855 
Rent-A 5855 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5855 
Corner horns 5855 
Cheating from below 5855 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5855 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5854 
A possibly overly simplified view 5854 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5854 
Iceberg 5854 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5854 
Why not horn 5854 
A correction…. 5854 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5854 
They are just not related things at all. 5854 
Fertin 5852 
Low resonance is good... 5852 
Et tu, Brute? 5851 
The Room response at LF 5850 
Life On The Ground Floor 5850 
Bass arrays 5850 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5850 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5850 
The super sucks. 5850 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5850 
You may also try 5849 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5849 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5849 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5849 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5849 
60 Hz Resonance 5849 
No notching… so far. 5849 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5848 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5848 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5848 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5848 
Power to the People 5848 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5848 
Aura 5848 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5848 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5848 
All class D is the same 5848 
Interpreting the LF results. 5847 
The Halibut 5847 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5847 
The Big Picture 5847 
Power & ULF channels 5847 
The big picture indeed. 5847 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5847 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5847 
The Power and the Glory 5846 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5846 
I guess I did not get this memo 5846 
French LF drivers 5846 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5846 
(another) French LF approach 5845 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5845 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5845 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5845 
Limpschtick 5845 
Symmetry 5845 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5844 
Room correction 5844 
It migh be more complicated. 5844 
Bass EQ ? 5844 
Agree and not. 5844 
Two "diseases" 5844 
Parametric filters 5844 
Ceiling arrays 5844 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5844 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5844 
The Middle of the Room. 5844 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5844 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5844 
Stop! 5844 
Appendectomy 5844 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5843 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5843 
No Isolation 5843 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5840 
Potential contenders? 5839 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5839 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5839 
Those Crazy Canucks 5835 
Mo' Better Bass 5829 
Bird in the Hand? 5829 
A wet listening spot? 5822 
Storm 5819 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5819 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5805 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5775 
Polar Opposite ULF 5774 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5762 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5760 
Differently but the same. 5759 
PVC 5758 
The sail test try. 5758 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5758 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5758 
Trial 5757 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5757 
Some explanations 5757 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5756 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5755 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5754 
Acrylate 5753 
Magic blanket 5753 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5752 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5752 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5752 
I have a few options. 5752 
Foam color 5752 
Strange things with upperbass 5752 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5751 
Teatro reform. . . 5751 
The foaming room dilemma. 5750 
Melamine Foam 5750 
Foaming up the cat house 5750 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5750 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5750 
Acoustic revisions… 5749 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5746 
Surprises so far in the new room 5745 
The upperbass in the new room. 5745 
Slight change of hart. 5744 
Camco supply of Boston 5742 
Room acoustics 5742 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5701 
I need to kill dust first. 5701 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5699 
To feed the leeches? 5699 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5698 
Yh 5698 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5698 
DPOLs? 5698 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5698 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5695 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5695 
A HalfPipe solution? 5695 
I absolutely love it. 5695 
Piper work 5694 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5694 
Absorption 5694 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5693 
Cats life ? 5693 
Call me Pussy. 5693 
More about traps 5693 
Acoustic impedance? 5693 
You maybe right 5693 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5693 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5692 
Heavy Curtain 5692 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5691 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5691 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5691 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5688 
Fix speaker move chair? 5687 
Back and forth ceremony 5687 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5686 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5685 
Glass windows 5684 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5683 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5682 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5680 
How to use basement jacks? 5680 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5680 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5680 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5679 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5679 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5678 
Sore eyes... 5677 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5677 
The harvesting week! 5675 
I need an inspiration… 5674 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5673 
Like this? 5673 
Dramatically randomize MF 5673 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5672 
The room eats dynamic 5672 
Diffusers 5672 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5671 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5656 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5655 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5655 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5655 
About Width-Importance balance. 5653 
Letting the music scale up 5652 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5652 
To finish my house décor… 5648 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5647 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5646 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5646 
Calling the gods of music 5646 
Absolutely 5646 
Phase manipulation 5646 
No relation. 5646 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5646 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5646 
Dynamical mismatch 5645 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5645 
Stradiwinerius? 5642 
Dealing with the glass. 5641 
Boston 5641 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5641 
Added mass 5641 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5641 
It is about moderation…. 5641 
To hell with the wine... 5641 
Also for other surafaces 5640 
LEAD 5640 
LEAD & GLASS 5640 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5640 
Read carefully 5640 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5640 
Crooks and morons 5640 
Magiscopios 5639 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5619 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5619 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5618 
The LP setup in the new home. 5567 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5562 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5562 
Pianochord will do! 5562 
Spanyi heaven 5562 
I see no conflict at all. 5562 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5562 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5562 
A year after closing 5554 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5554 
Traveling antimatter 5547 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5541 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5540 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5514 
Cast Iron fireplace 5513 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5513 
The hardcore way 5513 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5477 
This is How It's Done 5476 
Listening room during summer. 5464 
What about those... 5463 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5463 
Reducing A/C Noise 5463 
HVAC the Cat 5463 
Big Ass fan 5462 
Variac dimmers 5462 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5462 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5462 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5394 
Some winter observations. 5285 
That Asian man…. 5254 
The Franz Schubert morning 5228 
Spring.... 5177 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5127 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5098 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5098 
Just good photography? 5098 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5098 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5098 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5097 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5097 
Sports car 5097 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5097 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5097 
Train Positioning 5097 
Kind of what I want 5097 
The lap listening… 5097 
Family Room 5097 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5094 
A super audio room. 5090 
Time Warp! 5090 
A piano in a listening room 5069 
Pianissimo 5069 
The plan in blue. 5069 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5069 
My doubts 5069 
It is exactly what I worry. 5068 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5068 
Musicians at home 5068 
Piano Measurements 5067 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5062 
The next step. 5048 
Midbass horns missing?? 5047 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5037 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5037 
Baby Grand 5036 
Wood floor 5036 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5036 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5036 
Amy’s baby. 5034 
Improvement 5034 
Agree with Scott 5034 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5022 
Integrated casters 5022 
Very nice, thanks. 5022 
Customization 5022 
Sliders 5022 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5015 
Congratulations 5015 
Holes in the floor... 5015 
Tubes and kids 5015 
Sweet spot enlargement 5015 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5013 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5012 
Wood Floors and Water 5012 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5007 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5006 
WAF is for Losers 5006 
WAF: it depends. 5006 
Integration 5005 
Here and there. 5005 
Life after WWIII 5005 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5005 
Cables management. 5003 
Featurizing 5003 
Kids and tubes cont. 5000 
Kid magnet 5000 
Kids and audio 4999 
Radars 4999 
Wow, what the days! 4995 
The comming weekend 4991 
It all was worth it! 4988 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4983 
Here is how it is look. 4983 
Resolving the carpet issue 4983 
Bonfire 4983 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4983 
Proof of concept? 4983 
Geometry 4983 
A view from listening position. 4983 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4983 
Some feedback 4983 
Evening 4983 
I wonder why. 4982 
Rugs and things 4982 
In defense… 4982 
I can’t get it. 4979 
Haze. 4978 
Front wall 4978 
It is very possible. 4978 
It is nice to be back. 4975 
My comfy corner. 4972 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4612 
WMD in house. 4434 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4337 
The third listening spot. 4316 
For sure a very different experience. 4278 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4273 
It's Jfretch's system. 4273 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4272 
Domestic games 4226 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4087 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4087 
Dynamic screening 4087 
Actually this is very good idea! 4087 
Volcanic fabric 4087 
I should have done this. 4085 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4081 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4050 
No worries 4050 
Awesome memories 4050 
Optimization of space 4050 
Child-ish considerations 4047 
Finding peace.... 4041 
"Fencing"? 4040 
I need to build something custom 4040 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4040 
Stressed Skin 4040 
NYC elevators 4040 
Kids toys and quantities. 4040 
Everything is completely reversible 4039 
Racks and things 4039 
Now it looks even more promising! 4039 
Quantity of rods 4039 
Avoiding diagonals 4037 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4036 
That's not fair! 4036 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4036 
Discrimination? 4031 
Vertical configuration 4024 
Impresive ! 3953 
Did you read the site? 3953 
Contact 3953 
Company's name is Rixrax 3953 
Stand 3952 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3908 
End of life headphone system 3908 
Something like this? 3908 
The "Second Living Room" 3908 
Mixing urban & suburban 3908 
Late night listening 3908 
Moving life... 3906 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3906 
A true listening room. 3882 
It started… 3867 
Levels of Interest 3867 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3867 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3867 
I can't not to post it.... 3867 
Do not leave him unattended. 3867 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3867 
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