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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6060 
The first take on the new room. 6054 
New Room, a first shot. 6053 
Wonderful 6053 
Adopted 6052 
The first relaxed night with the room 6050 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6049 
The listening room is ready. 6048 
New Room, a First Shot 6046 
Continue to work with the room 6046 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6046 
Room 6045 
I think it will take another month. 6045 
The Buttressing 6045 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6044 
The new place and the new noises. 6044 
Big listening room 6043 
Screw the "big" rooms 6043 
Big listening rooms 6043 
First reflection points 6042 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6042 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6039 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6038 
Squeezing the floor 6038 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6038 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6038 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6037 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6037 
The new room, the very first listening. 6037 
The 14.5 foot. 6036 
Again… 6035 
Romy's new Playground 6035 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6035 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6035 
For the uninitiated ... 6034 
NH guy 6034 
Room 6034 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6033 
The first base is done 6033 
Reentry time alignment. 6032 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6031 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6031 
Mid bass horn. 6031 
Guess is only a guess… 6031 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6031 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6030 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6030 
Diffusors 6030 
Diffuse injection 6030 
Let analyse why it so 6030 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6030 
Wheel and Deal 6030 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6030 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6030 
I Must Be Missing Something 6030 
I put sliders under my speakers 6029 
ROOM 6028 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6028 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6028 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6028 
No concerns 6028 
Speakers and room 6028 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6027 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6027 
Diaphram 6027 
Phram 6027 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6027 
Perfect piston 6027 
Decorater 6026 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6026 
New morning 6025 
The first take on the room with RTA 6024 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6024 
Axiomatic 6024 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6023 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6023 
The size of the bass. 6023 
Bass Factory 6023 
Crude Level, or something more? 6023 
I will play with it this week…. 6023 
Rent-A 6023 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6023 
Corner horns 6023 
Cheating from below 6023 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6023 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6022 
A possibly overly simplified view 6022 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6022 
Iceberg 6022 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6022 
Why not horn 6022 
A correction…. 6022 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6022 
They are just not related things at all. 6022 
Fertin 6020 
Low resonance is good... 6020 
Et tu, Brute? 6019 
The Room response at LF 6018 
Life On The Ground Floor 6018 
Bass arrays 6018 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6018 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6018 
The super sucks. 6018 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6018 
You may also try 6017 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6017 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6017 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6017 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6017 
60 Hz Resonance 6017 
No notching… so far. 6017 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6016 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6016 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6016 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6016 
Power to the People 6016 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6016 
Aura 6016 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6016 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6016 
All class D is the same 6016 
Interpreting the LF results. 6015 
The Halibut 6015 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6015 
The Big Picture 6015 
Power & ULF channels 6015 
The big picture indeed. 6015 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6015 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6015 
The Power and the Glory 6014 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6014 
I guess I did not get this memo 6014 
French LF drivers 6014 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6014 
(another) French LF approach 6013 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6013 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6013 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6013 
Limpschtick 6013 
Symmetry 6013 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6012 
Room correction 6012 
It migh be more complicated. 6012 
Bass EQ ? 6012 
Agree and not. 6012 
Two "diseases" 6012 
Parametric filters 6012 
Ceiling arrays 6012 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6012 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6012 
The Middle of the Room. 6012 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6012 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6012 
Stop! 6012 
Appendectomy 6012 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6011 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6011 
No Isolation 6011 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6008 
Potential contenders? 6007 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6007 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6007 
Those Crazy Canucks 6003 
Mo' Better Bass 5997 
Bird in the Hand? 5997 
A wet listening spot? 5990 
Storm 5987 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5987 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5973 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5943 
Polar Opposite ULF 5942 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5930 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5928 
Differently but the same. 5927 
PVC 5926 
The sail test try. 5926 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5926 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5926 
Trial 5925 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5925 
Some explanations 5925 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5924 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5923 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5922 
Acrylate 5921 
Magic blanket 5921 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5920 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5920 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5920 
I have a few options. 5920 
Foam color 5920 
Strange things with upperbass 5920 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5919 
Teatro reform. . . 5919 
The foaming room dilemma. 5918 
Melamine Foam 5918 
Foaming up the cat house 5918 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5918 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5918 
Acoustic revisions… 5917 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5914 
Surprises so far in the new room 5913 
The upperbass in the new room. 5913 
Slight change of hart. 5912 
Camco supply of Boston 5910 
Room acoustics 5910 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5869 
I need to kill dust first. 5869 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5867 
To feed the leeches? 5867 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5866 
Yh 5866 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5866 
DPOLs? 5866 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5866 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5863 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5863 
A HalfPipe solution? 5863 
I absolutely love it. 5863 
Piper work 5862 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5862 
Absorption 5862 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5861 
Cats life ? 5861 
Call me Pussy. 5861 
More about traps 5861 
Acoustic impedance? 5861 
You maybe right 5861 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5861 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5860 
Heavy Curtain 5860 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5859 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5859 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5859 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5856 
Fix speaker move chair? 5855 
Back and forth ceremony 5855 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5854 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5853 
Glass windows 5852 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5851 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5850 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5848 
How to use basement jacks? 5848 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5848 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5848 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5847 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5847 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5846 
Sore eyes... 5845 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5845 
The harvesting week! 5843 
I need an inspiration… 5842 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5841 
Like this? 5841 
Dramatically randomize MF 5841 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5840 
The room eats dynamic 5840 
Diffusers 5840 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5839 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5824 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5823 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5823 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5823 
About Width-Importance balance. 5821 
Letting the music scale up 5820 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5820 
To finish my house décor… 5816 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5815 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5814 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5814 
Calling the gods of music 5814 
Absolutely 5814 
Phase manipulation 5814 
No relation. 5814 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5814 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5814 
Dynamical mismatch 5813 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5813 
Stradiwinerius? 5810 
Dealing with the glass. 5809 
Boston 5809 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5809 
Added mass 5809 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5809 
It is about moderation…. 5809 
To hell with the wine... 5809 
Also for other surafaces 5808 
LEAD 5808 
LEAD & GLASS 5808 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5808 
Read carefully 5808 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5808 
Crooks and morons 5808 
Magiscopios 5807 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5787 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5787 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5786 
The LP setup in the new home. 5735 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5730 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5730 
Pianochord will do! 5730 
Spanyi heaven 5730 
I see no conflict at all. 5730 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5730 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5730 
A year after closing 5722 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5722 
Traveling antimatter 5715 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5709 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5708 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5682 
Cast Iron fireplace 5681 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5681 
The hardcore way 5681 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5645 
This is How It's Done 5644 
Listening room during summer. 5632 
What about those... 5631 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5631 
Reducing A/C Noise 5631 
HVAC the Cat 5631 
Big Ass fan 5630 
Variac dimmers 5630 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5630 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5630 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5562 
Some winter observations. 5453 
That Asian man…. 5422 
The Franz Schubert morning 5396 
Spring.... 5345 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5295 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5266 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5266 
Just good photography? 5266 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5266 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5266 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5265 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5265 
Sports car 5265 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5265 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5265 
Train Positioning 5265 
Kind of what I want 5265 
The lap listening… 5265 
Family Room 5265 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5262 
A super audio room. 5258 
Time Warp! 5258 
A piano in a listening room 5237 
Pianissimo 5237 
The plan in blue. 5237 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5237 
My doubts 5237 
It is exactly what I worry. 5236 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5236 
Musicians at home 5236 
Piano Measurements 5235 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5230 
The next step. 5216 
Midbass horns missing?? 5215 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5205 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5205 
Baby Grand 5204 
Wood floor 5204 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5204 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5204 
Amy’s baby. 5202 
Improvement 5202 
Agree with Scott 5202 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5190 
Integrated casters 5190 
Very nice, thanks. 5190 
Customization 5190 
Sliders 5190 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5183 
Congratulations 5183 
Holes in the floor... 5183 
Tubes and kids 5183 
Sweet spot enlargement 5183 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5181 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5180 
Wood Floors and Water 5180 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5175 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5174 
WAF is for Losers 5174 
WAF: it depends. 5174 
Integration 5173 
Here and there. 5173 
Life after WWIII 5173 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5173 
Cables management. 5171 
Featurizing 5171 
Kids and tubes cont. 5168 
Kid magnet 5168 
Kids and audio 5167 
Radars 5167 
Wow, what the days! 5163 
The comming weekend 5159 
It all was worth it! 5156 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5151 
Here is how it is look. 5151 
Resolving the carpet issue 5151 
Bonfire 5151 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5151 
Proof of concept? 5151 
Geometry 5151 
A view from listening position. 5151 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5151 
Some feedback 5151 
Evening 5151 
I wonder why. 5150 
Rugs and things 5150 
In defense… 5150 
I can’t get it. 5147 
Haze. 5146 
Front wall 5146 
It is very possible. 5146 
It is nice to be back. 5143 
My comfy corner. 5140 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4780 
WMD in house. 4602 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4505 
The third listening spot. 4484 
For sure a very different experience. 4446 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4441 
It's Jfretch's system. 4441 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4440 
Domestic games 4394 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4255 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4255 
Dynamic screening 4255 
Actually this is very good idea! 4255 
Volcanic fabric 4255 
I should have done this. 4253 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4249 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4218 
No worries 4218 
Awesome memories 4218 
Optimization of space 4218 
Child-ish considerations 4215 
Finding peace.... 4209 
"Fencing"? 4208 
I need to build something custom 4208 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4208 
Stressed Skin 4208 
NYC elevators 4208 
Kids toys and quantities. 4208 
Everything is completely reversible 4207 
Racks and things 4207 
Now it looks even more promising! 4207 
Quantity of rods 4207 
Avoiding diagonals 4205 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4204 
That's not fair! 4204 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4204 
Discrimination? 4199 
Vertical configuration 4192 
Impresive ! 4121 
Did you read the site? 4121 
Contact 4121 
Company's name is Rixrax 4121 
Stand 4120 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4076 
End of life headphone system 4076 
Something like this? 4076 
The "Second Living Room" 4076 
Mixing urban & suburban 4076 
Late night listening 4076 
Moving life... 4074 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4074 
A true listening room. 4050 
It started… 4035 
Levels of Interest 4035 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4035 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4035 
I can't not to post it.... 4035 
Do not leave him unattended. 4035 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4035 
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