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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5993 
The first take on the new room. 5987 
New Room, a first shot. 5986 
Wonderful 5986 
Adopted 5985 
The first relaxed night with the room 5983 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5982 
The listening room is ready. 5981 
New Room, a First Shot 5979 
Continue to work with the room 5979 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5979 
Room 5978 
I think it will take another month. 5978 
The Buttressing 5978 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5977 
The new place and the new noises. 5977 
Big listening room 5976 
Screw the "big" rooms 5976 
Big listening rooms 5976 
First reflection points 5975 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5975 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5972 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5971 
Squeezing the floor 5971 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5971 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5971 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5970 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5970 
The new room, the very first listening. 5970 
The 14.5 foot. 5969 
Again… 5968 
Romy's new Playground 5968 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5968 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5968 
For the uninitiated ... 5967 
NH guy 5967 
Room 5967 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5966 
The first base is done 5966 
Reentry time alignment. 5965 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5964 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5964 
Mid bass horn. 5964 
Guess is only a guess… 5964 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5964 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5963 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5963 
Diffusors 5963 
Diffuse injection 5963 
Let analyse why it so 5963 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5963 
Wheel and Deal 5963 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5963 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5963 
I Must Be Missing Something 5963 
I put sliders under my speakers 5962 
ROOM 5961 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5961 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5961 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5961 
No concerns 5961 
Speakers and room 5961 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5960 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5960 
Diaphram 5960 
Phram 5960 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5960 
Perfect piston 5960 
Decorater 5959 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5959 
New morning 5958 
The first take on the room with RTA 5957 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5957 
Axiomatic 5957 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5956 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5956 
The size of the bass. 5956 
Bass Factory 5956 
Crude Level, or something more? 5956 
I will play with it this week…. 5956 
Rent-A 5956 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5956 
Corner horns 5956 
Cheating from below 5956 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5956 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5955 
A possibly overly simplified view 5955 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5955 
Iceberg 5955 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5955 
Why not horn 5955 
A correction…. 5955 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5955 
They are just not related things at all. 5955 
Fertin 5953 
Low resonance is good... 5953 
Et tu, Brute? 5952 
The Room response at LF 5951 
Life On The Ground Floor 5951 
Bass arrays 5951 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5951 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5951 
The super sucks. 5951 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5951 
You may also try 5950 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5950 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5950 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5950 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5950 
60 Hz Resonance 5950 
No notching… so far. 5950 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5949 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5949 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5949 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5949 
Power to the People 5949 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5949 
Aura 5949 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5949 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5949 
All class D is the same 5949 
Interpreting the LF results. 5948 
The Halibut 5948 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5948 
The Big Picture 5948 
Power & ULF channels 5948 
The big picture indeed. 5948 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5948 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5948 
The Power and the Glory 5947 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5947 
I guess I did not get this memo 5947 
French LF drivers 5947 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5947 
(another) French LF approach 5946 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5946 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5946 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5946 
Limpschtick 5946 
Symmetry 5946 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5945 
Room correction 5945 
It migh be more complicated. 5945 
Bass EQ ? 5945 
Agree and not. 5945 
Two "diseases" 5945 
Parametric filters 5945 
Ceiling arrays 5945 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5945 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5945 
The Middle of the Room. 5945 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5945 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5945 
Stop! 5945 
Appendectomy 5945 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5944 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5944 
No Isolation 5944 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5941 
Potential contenders? 5940 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5940 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5940 
Those Crazy Canucks 5936 
Mo' Better Bass 5930 
Bird in the Hand? 5930 
A wet listening spot? 5923 
Storm 5920 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5920 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5906 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5876 
Polar Opposite ULF 5875 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5863 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5861 
Differently but the same. 5860 
PVC 5859 
The sail test try. 5859 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5859 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5859 
Trial 5858 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5858 
Some explanations 5858 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5857 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5856 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5855 
Acrylate 5854 
Magic blanket 5854 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5853 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5853 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5853 
I have a few options. 5853 
Foam color 5853 
Strange things with upperbass 5853 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5852 
Teatro reform. . . 5852 
The foaming room dilemma. 5851 
Melamine Foam 5851 
Foaming up the cat house 5851 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5851 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5851 
Acoustic revisions… 5850 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5847 
Surprises so far in the new room 5846 
The upperbass in the new room. 5846 
Slight change of hart. 5845 
Camco supply of Boston 5843 
Room acoustics 5843 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5802 
I need to kill dust first. 5802 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5800 
To feed the leeches? 5800 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5799 
Yh 5799 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5799 
DPOLs? 5799 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5799 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5796 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5796 
A HalfPipe solution? 5796 
I absolutely love it. 5796 
Piper work 5795 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5795 
Absorption 5795 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5794 
Cats life ? 5794 
Call me Pussy. 5794 
More about traps 5794 
Acoustic impedance? 5794 
You maybe right 5794 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5794 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5793 
Heavy Curtain 5793 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5792 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5792 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5792 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5789 
Fix speaker move chair? 5788 
Back and forth ceremony 5788 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5787 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5786 
Glass windows 5785 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5784 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5783 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5781 
How to use basement jacks? 5781 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5781 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5781 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5780 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5780 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5779 
Sore eyes... 5778 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5778 
The harvesting week! 5776 
I need an inspiration… 5775 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5774 
Like this? 5774 
Dramatically randomize MF 5774 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5773 
The room eats dynamic 5773 
Diffusers 5773 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5772 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5757 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5756 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5756 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5756 
About Width-Importance balance. 5754 
Letting the music scale up 5753 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5753 
To finish my house décor… 5749 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5748 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5747 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5747 
Calling the gods of music 5747 
Absolutely 5747 
Phase manipulation 5747 
No relation. 5747 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5747 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5747 
Dynamical mismatch 5746 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5746 
Stradiwinerius? 5743 
Dealing with the glass. 5742 
Boston 5742 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5742 
Added mass 5742 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5742 
It is about moderation…. 5742 
To hell with the wine... 5742 
Also for other surafaces 5741 
LEAD 5741 
LEAD & GLASS 5741 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5741 
Read carefully 5741 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5741 
Crooks and morons 5741 
Magiscopios 5740 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5720 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5720 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5719 
The LP setup in the new home. 5668 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5663 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5663 
Pianochord will do! 5663 
Spanyi heaven 5663 
I see no conflict at all. 5663 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5663 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5663 
A year after closing 5655 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5655 
Traveling antimatter 5648 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5642 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5641 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5615 
Cast Iron fireplace 5614 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5614 
The hardcore way 5614 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5578 
This is How It's Done 5577 
Listening room during summer. 5565 
What about those... 5564 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5564 
Reducing A/C Noise 5564 
HVAC the Cat 5564 
Big Ass fan 5563 
Variac dimmers 5563 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5563 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5563 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5495 
Some winter observations. 5386 
That Asian man…. 5355 
The Franz Schubert morning 5329 
Spring.... 5278 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5228 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5199 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5199 
Just good photography? 5199 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5199 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5199 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5198 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5198 
Sports car 5198 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5198 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5198 
Train Positioning 5198 
Kind of what I want 5198 
The lap listening… 5198 
Family Room 5198 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5195 
A super audio room. 5191 
Time Warp! 5191 
A piano in a listening room 5170 
Pianissimo 5170 
The plan in blue. 5170 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5170 
My doubts 5170 
It is exactly what I worry. 5169 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5169 
Musicians at home 5169 
Piano Measurements 5168 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5163 
The next step. 5149 
Midbass horns missing?? 5148 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5138 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5138 
Baby Grand 5137 
Wood floor 5137 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5137 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5137 
Amy’s baby. 5135 
Improvement 5135 
Agree with Scott 5135 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5123 
Integrated casters 5123 
Very nice, thanks. 5123 
Customization 5123 
Sliders 5123 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5116 
Congratulations 5116 
Holes in the floor... 5116 
Tubes and kids 5116 
Sweet spot enlargement 5116 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5114 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5113 
Wood Floors and Water 5113 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5108 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5107 
WAF is for Losers 5107 
WAF: it depends. 5107 
Integration 5106 
Here and there. 5106 
Life after WWIII 5106 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5106 
Cables management. 5104 
Featurizing 5104 
Kids and tubes cont. 5101 
Kid magnet 5101 
Kids and audio 5100 
Radars 5100 
Wow, what the days! 5096 
The comming weekend 5092 
It all was worth it! 5089 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5084 
Here is how it is look. 5084 
Resolving the carpet issue 5084 
Bonfire 5084 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5084 
Proof of concept? 5084 
Geometry 5084 
A view from listening position. 5084 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5084 
Some feedback 5084 
Evening 5084 
I wonder why. 5083 
Rugs and things 5083 
In defense… 5083 
I can’t get it. 5080 
Haze. 5079 
Front wall 5079 
It is very possible. 5079 
It is nice to be back. 5076 
My comfy corner. 5073 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4713 
WMD in house. 4535 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4438 
The third listening spot. 4417 
For sure a very different experience. 4379 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4374 
It's Jfretch's system. 4374 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4373 
Domestic games 4327 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4188 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4188 
Dynamic screening 4188 
Actually this is very good idea! 4188 
Volcanic fabric 4188 
I should have done this. 4186 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4182 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4151 
No worries 4151 
Awesome memories 4151 
Optimization of space 4151 
Child-ish considerations 4148 
Finding peace.... 4142 
"Fencing"? 4141 
I need to build something custom 4141 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4141 
Stressed Skin 4141 
NYC elevators 4141 
Kids toys and quantities. 4141 
Everything is completely reversible 4140 
Racks and things 4140 
Now it looks even more promising! 4140 
Quantity of rods 4140 
Avoiding diagonals 4138 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4137 
That's not fair! 4137 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4137 
Discrimination? 4132 
Vertical configuration 4125 
Impresive ! 4054 
Did you read the site? 4054 
Contact 4054 
Company's name is Rixrax 4054 
Stand 4053 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4009 
End of life headphone system 4009 
Something like this? 4009 
The "Second Living Room" 4009 
Mixing urban & suburban 4009 
Late night listening 4009 
Moving life... 4007 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4007 
A true listening room. 3983 
It started… 3968 
Levels of Interest 3968 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3968 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3968 
I can't not to post it.... 3968 
Do not leave him unattended. 3968 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3968 
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