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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5907 
The first take on the new room. 5901 
New Room, a first shot. 5900 
Wonderful 5900 
Adopted 5899 
The first relaxed night with the room 5897 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5896 
The listening room is ready. 5895 
New Room, a First Shot 5893 
Continue to work with the room 5893 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5893 
Room 5892 
I think it will take another month. 5892 
The Buttressing 5892 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5891 
The new place and the new noises. 5891 
Big listening room 5890 
Screw the "big" rooms 5890 
Big listening rooms 5890 
First reflection points 5889 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5889 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5886 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5885 
Squeezing the floor 5885 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5885 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5885 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5884 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5884 
The new room, the very first listening. 5884 
The 14.5 foot. 5883 
Again… 5882 
Romy's new Playground 5882 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5882 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5882 
For the uninitiated ... 5881 
NH guy 5881 
Room 5881 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5880 
The first base is done 5880 
Reentry time alignment. 5879 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5878 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5878 
Mid bass horn. 5878 
Guess is only a guess… 5878 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5878 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5877 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5877 
Diffusors 5877 
Diffuse injection 5877 
Let analyse why it so 5877 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5877 
Wheel and Deal 5877 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5877 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5877 
I Must Be Missing Something 5877 
I put sliders under my speakers 5876 
ROOM 5875 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5875 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5875 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5875 
No concerns 5875 
Speakers and room 5875 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5874 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5874 
Diaphram 5874 
Phram 5874 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5874 
Perfect piston 5874 
Decorater 5873 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5873 
New morning 5872 
The first take on the room with RTA 5871 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5871 
Axiomatic 5871 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5870 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5870 
The size of the bass. 5870 
Bass Factory 5870 
Crude Level, or something more? 5870 
I will play with it this week…. 5870 
Rent-A 5870 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5870 
Corner horns 5870 
Cheating from below 5870 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5870 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5869 
A possibly overly simplified view 5869 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5869 
Iceberg 5869 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5869 
Why not horn 5869 
A correction…. 5869 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5869 
They are just not related things at all. 5869 
Fertin 5867 
Low resonance is good... 5867 
Et tu, Brute? 5866 
The Room response at LF 5865 
Life On The Ground Floor 5865 
Bass arrays 5865 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5865 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5865 
The super sucks. 5865 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5865 
You may also try 5864 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5864 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5864 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5864 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5864 
60 Hz Resonance 5864 
No notching… so far. 5864 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5863 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5863 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5863 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5863 
Power to the People 5863 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5863 
Aura 5863 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5863 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5863 
All class D is the same 5863 
Interpreting the LF results. 5862 
The Halibut 5862 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5862 
The Big Picture 5862 
Power & ULF channels 5862 
The big picture indeed. 5862 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5862 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5862 
The Power and the Glory 5861 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5861 
I guess I did not get this memo 5861 
French LF drivers 5861 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5861 
(another) French LF approach 5860 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5860 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5860 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5860 
Limpschtick 5860 
Symmetry 5860 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5859 
Room correction 5859 
It migh be more complicated. 5859 
Bass EQ ? 5859 
Agree and not. 5859 
Two "diseases" 5859 
Parametric filters 5859 
Ceiling arrays 5859 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5859 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5859 
The Middle of the Room. 5859 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5859 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5859 
Stop! 5859 
Appendectomy 5859 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5858 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5858 
No Isolation 5858 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5855 
Potential contenders? 5854 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5854 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5854 
Those Crazy Canucks 5850 
Mo' Better Bass 5844 
Bird in the Hand? 5844 
A wet listening spot? 5837 
Storm 5834 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5834 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5820 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5790 
Polar Opposite ULF 5789 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5777 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5775 
Differently but the same. 5774 
PVC 5773 
The sail test try. 5773 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5773 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5773 
Trial 5772 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5772 
Some explanations 5772 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5771 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5770 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5769 
Acrylate 5768 
Magic blanket 5768 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5767 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5767 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5767 
I have a few options. 5767 
Foam color 5767 
Strange things with upperbass 5767 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5766 
Teatro reform. . . 5766 
The foaming room dilemma. 5765 
Melamine Foam 5765 
Foaming up the cat house 5765 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5765 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5765 
Acoustic revisions… 5764 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5761 
Surprises so far in the new room 5760 
The upperbass in the new room. 5760 
Slight change of hart. 5759 
Camco supply of Boston 5757 
Room acoustics 5757 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5716 
I need to kill dust first. 5716 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5714 
To feed the leeches? 5714 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5713 
Yh 5713 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5713 
DPOLs? 5713 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5713 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5710 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5710 
A HalfPipe solution? 5710 
I absolutely love it. 5710 
Piper work 5709 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5709 
Absorption 5709 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5708 
Cats life ? 5708 
Call me Pussy. 5708 
More about traps 5708 
Acoustic impedance? 5708 
You maybe right 5708 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5708 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5707 
Heavy Curtain 5707 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5706 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5706 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5706 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5703 
Fix speaker move chair? 5702 
Back and forth ceremony 5702 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5701 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5700 
Glass windows 5699 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5698 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5697 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5695 
How to use basement jacks? 5695 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5695 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5695 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5694 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5694 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5693 
Sore eyes... 5692 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5692 
The harvesting week! 5690 
I need an inspiration… 5689 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5688 
Like this? 5688 
Dramatically randomize MF 5688 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5687 
The room eats dynamic 5687 
Diffusers 5687 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5686 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5671 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5670 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5670 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5670 
About Width-Importance balance. 5668 
Letting the music scale up 5667 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5667 
To finish my house décor… 5663 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5662 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5661 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5661 
Calling the gods of music 5661 
Absolutely 5661 
Phase manipulation 5661 
No relation. 5661 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5661 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5661 
Dynamical mismatch 5660 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5660 
Stradiwinerius? 5657 
Dealing with the glass. 5656 
Boston 5656 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5656 
Added mass 5656 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5656 
It is about moderation…. 5656 
To hell with the wine... 5656 
Also for other surafaces 5655 
LEAD 5655 
LEAD & GLASS 5655 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5655 
Read carefully 5655 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5655 
Crooks and morons 5655 
Magiscopios 5654 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5634 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5634 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5633 
The LP setup in the new home. 5582 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5577 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5577 
Pianochord will do! 5577 
Spanyi heaven 5577 
I see no conflict at all. 5577 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5577 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5577 
A year after closing 5569 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5569 
Traveling antimatter 5562 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5556 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5555 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5529 
Cast Iron fireplace 5528 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5528 
The hardcore way 5528 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5492 
This is How It's Done 5491 
Listening room during summer. 5479 
What about those... 5478 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5478 
Reducing A/C Noise 5478 
HVAC the Cat 5478 
Big Ass fan 5477 
Variac dimmers 5477 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5477 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5477 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5409 
Some winter observations. 5300 
That Asian man…. 5269 
The Franz Schubert morning 5243 
Spring.... 5192 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5142 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5113 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5113 
Just good photography? 5113 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5113 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5113 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5112 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5112 
Sports car 5112 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5112 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5112 
Train Positioning 5112 
Kind of what I want 5112 
The lap listening… 5112 
Family Room 5112 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5109 
A super audio room. 5105 
Time Warp! 5105 
A piano in a listening room 5084 
Pianissimo 5084 
The plan in blue. 5084 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5084 
My doubts 5084 
It is exactly what I worry. 5083 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5083 
Musicians at home 5083 
Piano Measurements 5082 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5077 
The next step. 5063 
Midbass horns missing?? 5062 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5052 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5052 
Baby Grand 5051 
Wood floor 5051 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5051 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5051 
Amy’s baby. 5049 
Improvement 5049 
Agree with Scott 5049 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5037 
Integrated casters 5037 
Very nice, thanks. 5037 
Customization 5037 
Sliders 5037 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5030 
Congratulations 5030 
Holes in the floor... 5030 
Tubes and kids 5030 
Sweet spot enlargement 5030 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5028 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5027 
Wood Floors and Water 5027 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5022 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5021 
WAF is for Losers 5021 
WAF: it depends. 5021 
Integration 5020 
Here and there. 5020 
Life after WWIII 5020 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5020 
Cables management. 5018 
Featurizing 5018 
Kids and tubes cont. 5015 
Kid magnet 5015 
Kids and audio 5014 
Radars 5014 
Wow, what the days! 5010 
The comming weekend 5006 
It all was worth it! 5003 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4998 
Here is how it is look. 4998 
Resolving the carpet issue 4998 
Bonfire 4998 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4998 
Proof of concept? 4998 
Geometry 4998 
A view from listening position. 4998 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4998 
Some feedback 4998 
Evening 4998 
I wonder why. 4997 
Rugs and things 4997 
In defense… 4997 
I can’t get it. 4994 
Haze. 4993 
Front wall 4993 
It is very possible. 4993 
It is nice to be back. 4990 
My comfy corner. 4987 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4627 
WMD in house. 4449 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4352 
The third listening spot. 4331 
For sure a very different experience. 4293 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4288 
It's Jfretch's system. 4288 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4287 
Domestic games 4241 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4102 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4102 
Dynamic screening 4102 
Actually this is very good idea! 4102 
Volcanic fabric 4102 
I should have done this. 4100 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4096 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4065 
No worries 4065 
Awesome memories 4065 
Optimization of space 4065 
Child-ish considerations 4062 
Finding peace.... 4056 
"Fencing"? 4055 
I need to build something custom 4055 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4055 
Stressed Skin 4055 
NYC elevators 4055 
Kids toys and quantities. 4055 
Everything is completely reversible 4054 
Racks and things 4054 
Now it looks even more promising! 4054 
Quantity of rods 4054 
Avoiding diagonals 4052 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4051 
That's not fair! 4051 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4051 
Discrimination? 4046 
Vertical configuration 4039 
Impresive ! 3968 
Did you read the site? 3968 
Contact 3968 
Company's name is Rixrax 3968 
Stand 3967 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3923 
End of life headphone system 3923 
Something like this? 3923 
The "Second Living Room" 3923 
Mixing urban & suburban 3923 
Late night listening 3923 
Moving life... 3921 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3921 
A true listening room. 3897 
It started… 3882 
Levels of Interest 3882 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3882 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3882 
I can't not to post it.... 3882 
Do not leave him unattended. 3882 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3882 
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