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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5910 
The first take on the new room. 5904 
New Room, a first shot. 5903 
Wonderful 5903 
Adopted 5902 
The first relaxed night with the room 5900 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5899 
The listening room is ready. 5898 
New Room, a First Shot 5896 
Continue to work with the room 5896 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5896 
Room 5895 
I think it will take another month. 5895 
The Buttressing 5895 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5894 
The new place and the new noises. 5894 
Big listening room 5893 
Screw the "big" rooms 5893 
Big listening rooms 5893 
First reflection points 5892 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5892 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5889 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5888 
Squeezing the floor 5888 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5888 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5888 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5887 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5887 
The new room, the very first listening. 5887 
The 14.5 foot. 5886 
Again… 5885 
Romy's new Playground 5885 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5885 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5885 
For the uninitiated ... 5884 
NH guy 5884 
Room 5884 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5883 
The first base is done 5883 
Reentry time alignment. 5882 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5881 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5881 
Mid bass horn. 5881 
Guess is only a guess… 5881 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5881 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5880 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5880 
Diffusors 5880 
Diffuse injection 5880 
Let analyse why it so 5880 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5880 
Wheel and Deal 5880 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5880 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5880 
I Must Be Missing Something 5880 
I put sliders under my speakers 5879 
ROOM 5878 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5878 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5878 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5878 
No concerns 5878 
Speakers and room 5878 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5877 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5877 
Diaphram 5877 
Phram 5877 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5877 
Perfect piston 5877 
Decorater 5876 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5876 
New morning 5875 
The first take on the room with RTA 5874 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5874 
Axiomatic 5874 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5873 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5873 
The size of the bass. 5873 
Bass Factory 5873 
Crude Level, or something more? 5873 
I will play with it this week…. 5873 
Rent-A 5873 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5873 
Corner horns 5873 
Cheating from below 5873 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5873 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5872 
A possibly overly simplified view 5872 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5872 
Iceberg 5872 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5872 
Why not horn 5872 
A correction…. 5872 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5872 
They are just not related things at all. 5872 
Fertin 5870 
Low resonance is good... 5870 
Et tu, Brute? 5869 
The Room response at LF 5868 
Life On The Ground Floor 5868 
Bass arrays 5868 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5868 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5868 
The super sucks. 5868 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5868 
You may also try 5867 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5867 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5867 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5867 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5867 
60 Hz Resonance 5867 
No notching… so far. 5867 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5866 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5866 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5866 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5866 
Power to the People 5866 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5866 
Aura 5866 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5866 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5866 
All class D is the same 5866 
Interpreting the LF results. 5865 
The Halibut 5865 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5865 
The Big Picture 5865 
Power & ULF channels 5865 
The big picture indeed. 5865 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5865 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5865 
The Power and the Glory 5864 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5864 
I guess I did not get this memo 5864 
French LF drivers 5864 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5864 
(another) French LF approach 5863 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5863 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5863 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5863 
Limpschtick 5863 
Symmetry 5863 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5862 
Room correction 5862 
It migh be more complicated. 5862 
Bass EQ ? 5862 
Agree and not. 5862 
Two "diseases" 5862 
Parametric filters 5862 
Ceiling arrays 5862 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5862 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5862 
The Middle of the Room. 5862 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5862 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5862 
Stop! 5862 
Appendectomy 5862 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5861 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5861 
No Isolation 5861 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5858 
Potential contenders? 5857 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5857 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5857 
Those Crazy Canucks 5853 
Mo' Better Bass 5847 
Bird in the Hand? 5847 
A wet listening spot? 5840 
Storm 5837 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5837 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5823 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5793 
Polar Opposite ULF 5792 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5780 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5778 
Differently but the same. 5777 
PVC 5776 
The sail test try. 5776 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5776 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5776 
Trial 5775 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5775 
Some explanations 5775 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5774 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5773 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5772 
Acrylate 5771 
Magic blanket 5771 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5770 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5770 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5770 
I have a few options. 5770 
Foam color 5770 
Strange things with upperbass 5770 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5769 
Teatro reform. . . 5769 
The foaming room dilemma. 5768 
Melamine Foam 5768 
Foaming up the cat house 5768 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5768 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5768 
Acoustic revisions… 5767 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5764 
Surprises so far in the new room 5763 
The upperbass in the new room. 5763 
Slight change of hart. 5762 
Camco supply of Boston 5760 
Room acoustics 5760 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5719 
I need to kill dust first. 5719 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5717 
To feed the leeches? 5717 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5716 
Yh 5716 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5716 
DPOLs? 5716 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5716 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5713 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5713 
A HalfPipe solution? 5713 
I absolutely love it. 5713 
Piper work 5712 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5712 
Absorption 5712 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5711 
Cats life ? 5711 
Call me Pussy. 5711 
More about traps 5711 
Acoustic impedance? 5711 
You maybe right 5711 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5711 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5710 
Heavy Curtain 5710 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5709 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5709 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5709 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5706 
Fix speaker move chair? 5705 
Back and forth ceremony 5705 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5704 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5703 
Glass windows 5702 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5701 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5700 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5698 
How to use basement jacks? 5698 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5698 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5698 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5697 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5697 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5696 
Sore eyes... 5695 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5695 
The harvesting week! 5693 
I need an inspiration… 5692 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5691 
Like this? 5691 
Dramatically randomize MF 5691 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5690 
The room eats dynamic 5690 
Diffusers 5690 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5689 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5674 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5673 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5673 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5673 
About Width-Importance balance. 5671 
Letting the music scale up 5670 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5670 
To finish my house décor… 5666 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5665 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5664 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5664 
Calling the gods of music 5664 
Absolutely 5664 
Phase manipulation 5664 
No relation. 5664 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5664 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5664 
Dynamical mismatch 5663 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5663 
Stradiwinerius? 5660 
Dealing with the glass. 5659 
Boston 5659 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5659 
Added mass 5659 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5659 
It is about moderation…. 5659 
To hell with the wine... 5659 
Also for other surafaces 5658 
LEAD 5658 
LEAD & GLASS 5658 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5658 
Read carefully 5658 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5658 
Crooks and morons 5658 
Magiscopios 5657 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5637 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5637 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5636 
The LP setup in the new home. 5585 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5580 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5580 
Pianochord will do! 5580 
Spanyi heaven 5580 
I see no conflict at all. 5580 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5580 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5580 
A year after closing 5572 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5572 
Traveling antimatter 5565 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5559 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5558 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5532 
Cast Iron fireplace 5531 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5531 
The hardcore way 5531 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5495 
This is How It's Done 5494 
Listening room during summer. 5482 
What about those... 5481 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5481 
Reducing A/C Noise 5481 
HVAC the Cat 5481 
Big Ass fan 5480 
Variac dimmers 5480 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5480 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5480 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5412 
Some winter observations. 5303 
That Asian man…. 5272 
The Franz Schubert morning 5246 
Spring.... 5195 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5145 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5116 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5116 
Just good photography? 5116 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5116 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5116 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5115 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5115 
Sports car 5115 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5115 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5115 
Train Positioning 5115 
Kind of what I want 5115 
The lap listening… 5115 
Family Room 5115 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5112 
A super audio room. 5108 
Time Warp! 5108 
A piano in a listening room 5087 
Pianissimo 5087 
The plan in blue. 5087 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5087 
My doubts 5087 
It is exactly what I worry. 5086 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5086 
Musicians at home 5086 
Piano Measurements 5085 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5080 
The next step. 5066 
Midbass horns missing?? 5065 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5055 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5055 
Baby Grand 5054 
Wood floor 5054 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5054 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5054 
Amy’s baby. 5052 
Improvement 5052 
Agree with Scott 5052 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5040 
Integrated casters 5040 
Very nice, thanks. 5040 
Customization 5040 
Sliders 5040 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5033 
Congratulations 5033 
Holes in the floor... 5033 
Tubes and kids 5033 
Sweet spot enlargement 5033 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5031 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5030 
Wood Floors and Water 5030 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5025 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5024 
WAF is for Losers 5024 
WAF: it depends. 5024 
Integration 5023 
Here and there. 5023 
Life after WWIII 5023 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5023 
Cables management. 5021 
Featurizing 5021 
Kids and tubes cont. 5018 
Kid magnet 5018 
Kids and audio 5017 
Radars 5017 
Wow, what the days! 5013 
The comming weekend 5009 
It all was worth it! 5006 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5001 
Here is how it is look. 5001 
Resolving the carpet issue 5001 
Bonfire 5001 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5001 
Proof of concept? 5001 
Geometry 5001 
A view from listening position. 5001 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5001 
Some feedback 5001 
Evening 5001 
I wonder why. 5000 
Rugs and things 5000 
In defense… 5000 
I can’t get it. 4997 
Haze. 4996 
Front wall 4996 
It is very possible. 4996 
It is nice to be back. 4993 
My comfy corner. 4990 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4630 
WMD in house. 4452 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4355 
The third listening spot. 4334 
For sure a very different experience. 4296 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4291 
It's Jfretch's system. 4291 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4290 
Domestic games 4244 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4105 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4105 
Dynamic screening 4105 
Actually this is very good idea! 4105 
Volcanic fabric 4105 
I should have done this. 4103 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4099 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4068 
No worries 4068 
Awesome memories 4068 
Optimization of space 4068 
Child-ish considerations 4065 
Finding peace.... 4059 
"Fencing"? 4058 
I need to build something custom 4058 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4058 
Stressed Skin 4058 
NYC elevators 4058 
Kids toys and quantities. 4058 
Everything is completely reversible 4057 
Racks and things 4057 
Now it looks even more promising! 4057 
Quantity of rods 4057 
Avoiding diagonals 4055 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4054 
That's not fair! 4054 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4054 
Discrimination? 4049 
Vertical configuration 4042 
Impresive ! 3971 
Did you read the site? 3971 
Contact 3971 
Company's name is Rixrax 3971 
Stand 3970 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3926 
End of life headphone system 3926 
Something like this? 3926 
The "Second Living Room" 3926 
Mixing urban & suburban 3926 
Late night listening 3926 
Moving life... 3924 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3924 
A true listening room. 3900 
It started… 3885 
Levels of Interest 3885 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3885 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3885 
I can't not to post it.... 3885 
Do not leave him unattended. 3885 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3885 
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