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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5898 
The first take on the new room. 5892 
New Room, a first shot. 5891 
Wonderful 5891 
Adopted 5890 
The first relaxed night with the room 5888 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5887 
The listening room is ready. 5886 
New Room, a First Shot 5884 
Continue to work with the room 5884 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5884 
Room 5883 
I think it will take another month. 5883 
The Buttressing 5883 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5882 
The new place and the new noises. 5882 
Big listening room 5881 
Screw the "big" rooms 5881 
Big listening rooms 5881 
First reflection points 5880 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5880 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5877 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5876 
Squeezing the floor 5876 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5876 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5876 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5875 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5875 
The new room, the very first listening. 5875 
The 14.5 foot. 5874 
Again… 5873 
Romy's new Playground 5873 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5873 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5873 
For the uninitiated ... 5872 
NH guy 5872 
Room 5872 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5871 
The first base is done 5871 
Reentry time alignment. 5870 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5869 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5869 
Mid bass horn. 5869 
Guess is only a guess… 5869 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5869 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5868 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5868 
Diffusors 5868 
Diffuse injection 5868 
Let analyse why it so 5868 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5868 
Wheel and Deal 5868 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5868 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5868 
I Must Be Missing Something 5868 
I put sliders under my speakers 5867 
ROOM 5866 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5866 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5866 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5866 
No concerns 5866 
Speakers and room 5866 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5865 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5865 
Diaphram 5865 
Phram 5865 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5865 
Perfect piston 5865 
Decorater 5864 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5864 
New morning 5863 
The first take on the room with RTA 5862 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5862 
Axiomatic 5862 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5861 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5861 
The size of the bass. 5861 
Bass Factory 5861 
Crude Level, or something more? 5861 
I will play with it this week…. 5861 
Rent-A 5861 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5861 
Corner horns 5861 
Cheating from below 5861 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5861 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5860 
A possibly overly simplified view 5860 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5860 
Iceberg 5860 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5860 
Why not horn 5860 
A correction…. 5860 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5860 
They are just not related things at all. 5860 
Fertin 5858 
Low resonance is good... 5858 
Et tu, Brute? 5857 
The Room response at LF 5856 
Life On The Ground Floor 5856 
Bass arrays 5856 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5856 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5856 
The super sucks. 5856 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5856 
You may also try 5855 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5855 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5855 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5855 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5855 
60 Hz Resonance 5855 
No notching… so far. 5855 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5854 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5854 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5854 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5854 
Power to the People 5854 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5854 
Aura 5854 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5854 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5854 
All class D is the same 5854 
Interpreting the LF results. 5853 
The Halibut 5853 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5853 
The Big Picture 5853 
Power & ULF channels 5853 
The big picture indeed. 5853 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5853 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5853 
The Power and the Glory 5852 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5852 
I guess I did not get this memo 5852 
French LF drivers 5852 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5852 
(another) French LF approach 5851 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5851 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5851 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5851 
Limpschtick 5851 
Symmetry 5851 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5850 
Room correction 5850 
It migh be more complicated. 5850 
Bass EQ ? 5850 
Agree and not. 5850 
Two "diseases" 5850 
Parametric filters 5850 
Ceiling arrays 5850 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5850 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5850 
The Middle of the Room. 5850 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5850 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5850 
Stop! 5850 
Appendectomy 5850 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5849 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5849 
No Isolation 5849 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5846 
Potential contenders? 5845 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5845 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5845 
Those Crazy Canucks 5841 
Mo' Better Bass 5835 
Bird in the Hand? 5835 
A wet listening spot? 5828 
Storm 5825 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5825 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5811 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5781 
Polar Opposite ULF 5780 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5768 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5766 
Differently but the same. 5765 
PVC 5764 
The sail test try. 5764 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5764 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5764 
Trial 5763 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5763 
Some explanations 5763 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5762 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5761 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5760 
Acrylate 5759 
Magic blanket 5759 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5758 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5758 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5758 
I have a few options. 5758 
Foam color 5758 
Strange things with upperbass 5758 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5757 
Teatro reform. . . 5757 
The foaming room dilemma. 5756 
Melamine Foam 5756 
Foaming up the cat house 5756 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5756 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5756 
Acoustic revisions… 5755 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5752 
Surprises so far in the new room 5751 
The upperbass in the new room. 5751 
Slight change of hart. 5750 
Camco supply of Boston 5748 
Room acoustics 5748 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5707 
I need to kill dust first. 5707 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5705 
To feed the leeches? 5705 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5704 
Yh 5704 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5704 
DPOLs? 5704 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5704 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5701 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5701 
A HalfPipe solution? 5701 
I absolutely love it. 5701 
Piper work 5700 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5700 
Absorption 5700 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5699 
Cats life ? 5699 
Call me Pussy. 5699 
More about traps 5699 
Acoustic impedance? 5699 
You maybe right 5699 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5699 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5698 
Heavy Curtain 5698 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5697 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5697 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5697 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5694 
Fix speaker move chair? 5693 
Back and forth ceremony 5693 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5692 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5691 
Glass windows 5690 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5689 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5688 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5686 
How to use basement jacks? 5686 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5686 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5686 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5685 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5685 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5684 
Sore eyes... 5683 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5683 
The harvesting week! 5681 
I need an inspiration… 5680 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5679 
Like this? 5679 
Dramatically randomize MF 5679 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5678 
The room eats dynamic 5678 
Diffusers 5678 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5677 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5662 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5661 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5661 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5661 
About Width-Importance balance. 5659 
Letting the music scale up 5658 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5658 
To finish my house décor… 5654 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5653 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5652 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5652 
Calling the gods of music 5652 
Absolutely 5652 
Phase manipulation 5652 
No relation. 5652 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5652 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5652 
Dynamical mismatch 5651 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5651 
Stradiwinerius? 5648 
Dealing with the glass. 5647 
Boston 5647 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5647 
Added mass 5647 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5647 
It is about moderation…. 5647 
To hell with the wine... 5647 
Also for other surafaces 5646 
LEAD 5646 
LEAD & GLASS 5646 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5646 
Read carefully 5646 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5646 
Crooks and morons 5646 
Magiscopios 5645 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5625 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5625 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5624 
The LP setup in the new home. 5573 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5568 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5568 
Pianochord will do! 5568 
Spanyi heaven 5568 
I see no conflict at all. 5568 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5568 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5568 
A year after closing 5560 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5560 
Traveling antimatter 5553 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5547 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5546 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5520 
Cast Iron fireplace 5519 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5519 
The hardcore way 5519 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5483 
This is How It's Done 5482 
Listening room during summer. 5470 
What about those... 5469 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5469 
Reducing A/C Noise 5469 
HVAC the Cat 5469 
Big Ass fan 5468 
Variac dimmers 5468 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5468 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5468 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5400 
Some winter observations. 5291 
That Asian man…. 5260 
The Franz Schubert morning 5234 
Spring.... 5183 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5133 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5104 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5104 
Just good photography? 5104 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5104 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5104 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5103 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5103 
Sports car 5103 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5103 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5103 
Train Positioning 5103 
Kind of what I want 5103 
The lap listening… 5103 
Family Room 5103 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5100 
A super audio room. 5096 
Time Warp! 5096 
A piano in a listening room 5075 
Pianissimo 5075 
The plan in blue. 5075 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5075 
My doubts 5075 
It is exactly what I worry. 5074 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5074 
Musicians at home 5074 
Piano Measurements 5073 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5068 
The next step. 5054 
Midbass horns missing?? 5053 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5043 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5043 
Baby Grand 5042 
Wood floor 5042 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5042 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5042 
Amy’s baby. 5040 
Improvement 5040 
Agree with Scott 5040 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5028 
Integrated casters 5028 
Very nice, thanks. 5028 
Customization 5028 
Sliders 5028 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5021 
Congratulations 5021 
Holes in the floor... 5021 
Tubes and kids 5021 
Sweet spot enlargement 5021 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5019 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5018 
Wood Floors and Water 5018 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5013 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5012 
WAF is for Losers 5012 
WAF: it depends. 5012 
Integration 5011 
Here and there. 5011 
Life after WWIII 5011 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5011 
Cables management. 5009 
Featurizing 5009 
Kids and tubes cont. 5006 
Kid magnet 5006 
Kids and audio 5005 
Radars 5005 
Wow, what the days! 5001 
The comming weekend 4997 
It all was worth it! 4994 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4989 
Here is how it is look. 4989 
Resolving the carpet issue 4989 
Bonfire 4989 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4989 
Proof of concept? 4989 
Geometry 4989 
A view from listening position. 4989 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4989 
Some feedback 4989 
Evening 4989 
I wonder why. 4988 
Rugs and things 4988 
In defense… 4988 
I can’t get it. 4985 
Haze. 4984 
Front wall 4984 
It is very possible. 4984 
It is nice to be back. 4981 
My comfy corner. 4978 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4618 
WMD in house. 4440 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4343 
The third listening spot. 4322 
For sure a very different experience. 4284 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4279 
It's Jfretch's system. 4279 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4278 
Domestic games 4232 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4093 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4093 
Dynamic screening 4093 
Actually this is very good idea! 4093 
Volcanic fabric 4093 
I should have done this. 4091 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4087 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4056 
No worries 4056 
Awesome memories 4056 
Optimization of space 4056 
Child-ish considerations 4053 
Finding peace.... 4047 
"Fencing"? 4046 
I need to build something custom 4046 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4046 
Stressed Skin 4046 
NYC elevators 4046 
Kids toys and quantities. 4046 
Everything is completely reversible 4045 
Racks and things 4045 
Now it looks even more promising! 4045 
Quantity of rods 4045 
Avoiding diagonals 4043 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4042 
That's not fair! 4042 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4042 
Discrimination? 4037 
Vertical configuration 4030 
Impresive ! 3959 
Did you read the site? 3959 
Contact 3959 
Company's name is Rixrax 3959 
Stand 3958 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3914 
End of life headphone system 3914 
Something like this? 3914 
The "Second Living Room" 3914 
Mixing urban & suburban 3914 
Late night listening 3914 
Moving life... 3912 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3912 
A true listening room. 3888 
It started… 3873 
Levels of Interest 3873 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3873 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3873 
I can't not to post it.... 3873 
Do not leave him unattended. 3873 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3873 
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