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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5932 
The first take on the new room. 5926 
New Room, a first shot. 5925 
Wonderful 5925 
Adopted 5924 
The first relaxed night with the room 5922 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5921 
The listening room is ready. 5920 
New Room, a First Shot 5918 
Continue to work with the room 5918 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5918 
Room 5917 
I think it will take another month. 5917 
The Buttressing 5917 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5916 
The new place and the new noises. 5916 
Big listening room 5915 
Screw the "big" rooms 5915 
Big listening rooms 5915 
First reflection points 5914 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5914 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5911 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5910 
Squeezing the floor 5910 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5910 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5910 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5909 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5909 
The new room, the very first listening. 5909 
The 14.5 foot. 5908 
Again… 5907 
Romy's new Playground 5907 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5907 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5907 
For the uninitiated ... 5906 
NH guy 5906 
Room 5906 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5905 
The first base is done 5905 
Reentry time alignment. 5904 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5903 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5903 
Mid bass horn. 5903 
Guess is only a guess… 5903 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5903 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5902 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5902 
Diffusors 5902 
Diffuse injection 5902 
Let analyse why it so 5902 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5902 
Wheel and Deal 5902 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5902 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5902 
I Must Be Missing Something 5902 
I put sliders under my speakers 5901 
ROOM 5900 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5900 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5900 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5900 
No concerns 5900 
Speakers and room 5900 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5899 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5899 
Diaphram 5899 
Phram 5899 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5899 
Perfect piston 5899 
Decorater 5898 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5898 
New morning 5897 
The first take on the room with RTA 5896 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5896 
Axiomatic 5896 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5895 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5895 
The size of the bass. 5895 
Bass Factory 5895 
Crude Level, or something more? 5895 
I will play with it this week…. 5895 
Rent-A 5895 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5895 
Corner horns 5895 
Cheating from below 5895 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5895 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5894 
A possibly overly simplified view 5894 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5894 
Iceberg 5894 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5894 
Why not horn 5894 
A correction…. 5894 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5894 
They are just not related things at all. 5894 
Fertin 5892 
Low resonance is good... 5892 
Et tu, Brute? 5891 
The Room response at LF 5890 
Life On The Ground Floor 5890 
Bass arrays 5890 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5890 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5890 
The super sucks. 5890 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5890 
You may also try 5889 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5889 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5889 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5889 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5889 
60 Hz Resonance 5889 
No notching… so far. 5889 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5888 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5888 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5888 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5888 
Power to the People 5888 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5888 
Aura 5888 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5888 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5888 
All class D is the same 5888 
Interpreting the LF results. 5887 
The Halibut 5887 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5887 
The Big Picture 5887 
Power & ULF channels 5887 
The big picture indeed. 5887 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5887 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5887 
The Power and the Glory 5886 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5886 
I guess I did not get this memo 5886 
French LF drivers 5886 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5886 
(another) French LF approach 5885 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5885 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5885 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5885 
Limpschtick 5885 
Symmetry 5885 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5884 
Room correction 5884 
It migh be more complicated. 5884 
Bass EQ ? 5884 
Agree and not. 5884 
Two "diseases" 5884 
Parametric filters 5884 
Ceiling arrays 5884 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5884 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5884 
The Middle of the Room. 5884 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5884 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5884 
Stop! 5884 
Appendectomy 5884 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5883 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5883 
No Isolation 5883 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5880 
Potential contenders? 5879 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5879 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5879 
Those Crazy Canucks 5875 
Mo' Better Bass 5869 
Bird in the Hand? 5869 
A wet listening spot? 5862 
Storm 5859 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5859 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5845 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5815 
Polar Opposite ULF 5814 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5802 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5800 
Differently but the same. 5799 
PVC 5798 
The sail test try. 5798 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5798 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5798 
Trial 5797 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5797 
Some explanations 5797 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5796 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5795 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5794 
Acrylate 5793 
Magic blanket 5793 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5792 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5792 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5792 
I have a few options. 5792 
Foam color 5792 
Strange things with upperbass 5792 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5791 
Teatro reform. . . 5791 
The foaming room dilemma. 5790 
Melamine Foam 5790 
Foaming up the cat house 5790 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5790 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5790 
Acoustic revisions… 5789 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5786 
Surprises so far in the new room 5785 
The upperbass in the new room. 5785 
Slight change of hart. 5784 
Camco supply of Boston 5782 
Room acoustics 5782 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5741 
I need to kill dust first. 5741 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5739 
To feed the leeches? 5739 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5738 
Yh 5738 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5738 
DPOLs? 5738 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5738 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5735 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5735 
A HalfPipe solution? 5735 
I absolutely love it. 5735 
Piper work 5734 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5734 
Absorption 5734 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5733 
Cats life ? 5733 
Call me Pussy. 5733 
More about traps 5733 
Acoustic impedance? 5733 
You maybe right 5733 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5733 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5732 
Heavy Curtain 5732 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5731 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5731 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5731 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5728 
Fix speaker move chair? 5727 
Back and forth ceremony 5727 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5726 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5725 
Glass windows 5724 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5723 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5722 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5720 
How to use basement jacks? 5720 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5720 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5720 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5719 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5719 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5718 
Sore eyes... 5717 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5717 
The harvesting week! 5715 
I need an inspiration… 5714 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5713 
Like this? 5713 
Dramatically randomize MF 5713 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5712 
The room eats dynamic 5712 
Diffusers 5712 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5711 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5696 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5695 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5695 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5695 
About Width-Importance balance. 5693 
Letting the music scale up 5692 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5692 
To finish my house décor… 5688 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5687 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5686 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5686 
Calling the gods of music 5686 
Absolutely 5686 
Phase manipulation 5686 
No relation. 5686 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5686 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5686 
Dynamical mismatch 5685 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5685 
Stradiwinerius? 5682 
Dealing with the glass. 5681 
Boston 5681 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5681 
Added mass 5681 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5681 
It is about moderation…. 5681 
To hell with the wine... 5681 
Also for other surafaces 5680 
LEAD 5680 
LEAD & GLASS 5680 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5680 
Read carefully 5680 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5680 
Crooks and morons 5680 
Magiscopios 5679 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5659 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5659 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5658 
The LP setup in the new home. 5607 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5602 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5602 
Pianochord will do! 5602 
Spanyi heaven 5602 
I see no conflict at all. 5602 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5602 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5602 
A year after closing 5594 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5594 
Traveling antimatter 5587 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5581 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5580 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5554 
Cast Iron fireplace 5553 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5553 
The hardcore way 5553 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5517 
This is How It's Done 5516 
Listening room during summer. 5504 
What about those... 5503 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5503 
Reducing A/C Noise 5503 
HVAC the Cat 5503 
Big Ass fan 5502 
Variac dimmers 5502 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5502 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5502 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5434 
Some winter observations. 5325 
That Asian man…. 5294 
The Franz Schubert morning 5268 
Spring.... 5217 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5167 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5138 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5138 
Just good photography? 5138 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5138 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5138 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5137 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5137 
Sports car 5137 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5137 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5137 
Train Positioning 5137 
Kind of what I want 5137 
The lap listening… 5137 
Family Room 5137 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5134 
A super audio room. 5130 
Time Warp! 5130 
A piano in a listening room 5109 
Pianissimo 5109 
The plan in blue. 5109 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5109 
My doubts 5109 
It is exactly what I worry. 5108 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5108 
Musicians at home 5108 
Piano Measurements 5107 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5102 
The next step. 5088 
Midbass horns missing?? 5087 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5077 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5077 
Baby Grand 5076 
Wood floor 5076 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5076 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5076 
Amy’s baby. 5074 
Improvement 5074 
Agree with Scott 5074 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5062 
Integrated casters 5062 
Very nice, thanks. 5062 
Customization 5062 
Sliders 5062 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5055 
Congratulations 5055 
Holes in the floor... 5055 
Tubes and kids 5055 
Sweet spot enlargement 5055 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5053 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5052 
Wood Floors and Water 5052 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5047 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5046 
WAF is for Losers 5046 
WAF: it depends. 5046 
Integration 5045 
Here and there. 5045 
Life after WWIII 5045 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5045 
Cables management. 5043 
Featurizing 5043 
Kids and tubes cont. 5040 
Kid magnet 5040 
Kids and audio 5039 
Radars 5039 
Wow, what the days! 5035 
The comming weekend 5031 
It all was worth it! 5028 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5023 
Here is how it is look. 5023 
Resolving the carpet issue 5023 
Bonfire 5023 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5023 
Proof of concept? 5023 
Geometry 5023 
A view from listening position. 5023 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5023 
Some feedback 5023 
Evening 5023 
I wonder why. 5022 
Rugs and things 5022 
In defense… 5022 
I can’t get it. 5019 
Haze. 5018 
Front wall 5018 
It is very possible. 5018 
It is nice to be back. 5015 
My comfy corner. 5012 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4652 
WMD in house. 4474 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4377 
The third listening spot. 4356 
For sure a very different experience. 4318 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4313 
It's Jfretch's system. 4313 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4312 
Domestic games 4266 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4127 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4127 
Dynamic screening 4127 
Actually this is very good idea! 4127 
Volcanic fabric 4127 
I should have done this. 4125 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4121 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4090 
No worries 4090 
Awesome memories 4090 
Optimization of space 4090 
Child-ish considerations 4087 
Finding peace.... 4081 
"Fencing"? 4080 
I need to build something custom 4080 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4080 
Stressed Skin 4080 
NYC elevators 4080 
Kids toys and quantities. 4080 
Everything is completely reversible 4079 
Racks and things 4079 
Now it looks even more promising! 4079 
Quantity of rods 4079 
Avoiding diagonals 4077 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4076 
That's not fair! 4076 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4076 
Discrimination? 4071 
Vertical configuration 4064 
Impresive ! 3993 
Did you read the site? 3993 
Contact 3993 
Company's name is Rixrax 3993 
Stand 3992 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3948 
End of life headphone system 3948 
Something like this? 3948 
The "Second Living Room" 3948 
Mixing urban & suburban 3948 
Late night listening 3948 
Moving life... 3946 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3946 
A true listening room. 3922 
It started… 3907 
Levels of Interest 3907 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3907 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3907 
I can't not to post it.... 3907 
Do not leave him unattended. 3907 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3907 
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