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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6053 
The first take on the new room. 6047 
New Room, a first shot. 6046 
Wonderful 6046 
Adopted 6045 
The first relaxed night with the room 6043 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6042 
The listening room is ready. 6041 
New Room, a First Shot 6039 
Continue to work with the room 6039 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6039 
Room 6038 
I think it will take another month. 6038 
The Buttressing 6038 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6037 
The new place and the new noises. 6037 
Big listening room 6036 
Screw the "big" rooms 6036 
Big listening rooms 6036 
First reflection points 6035 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6035 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6032 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6031 
Squeezing the floor 6031 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6031 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6031 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6030 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6030 
The new room, the very first listening. 6030 
The 14.5 foot. 6029 
Again… 6028 
Romy's new Playground 6028 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6028 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6028 
For the uninitiated ... 6027 
NH guy 6027 
Room 6027 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6026 
The first base is done 6026 
Reentry time alignment. 6025 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6024 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6024 
Mid bass horn. 6024 
Guess is only a guess… 6024 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6024 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6023 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6023 
Diffusors 6023 
Diffuse injection 6023 
Let analyse why it so 6023 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6023 
Wheel and Deal 6023 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6023 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6023 
I Must Be Missing Something 6023 
I put sliders under my speakers 6022 
ROOM 6021 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6021 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6021 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6021 
No concerns 6021 
Speakers and room 6021 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6020 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6020 
Diaphram 6020 
Phram 6020 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6020 
Perfect piston 6020 
Decorater 6019 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6019 
New morning 6018 
The first take on the room with RTA 6017 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6017 
Axiomatic 6017 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6016 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6016 
The size of the bass. 6016 
Bass Factory 6016 
Crude Level, or something more? 6016 
I will play with it this week…. 6016 
Rent-A 6016 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6016 
Corner horns 6016 
Cheating from below 6016 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6016 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6015 
A possibly overly simplified view 6015 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6015 
Iceberg 6015 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6015 
Why not horn 6015 
A correction…. 6015 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6015 
They are just not related things at all. 6015 
Fertin 6013 
Low resonance is good... 6013 
Et tu, Brute? 6012 
The Room response at LF 6011 
Life On The Ground Floor 6011 
Bass arrays 6011 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6011 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6011 
The super sucks. 6011 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6011 
You may also try 6010 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6010 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6010 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6010 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6010 
60 Hz Resonance 6010 
No notching… so far. 6010 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6009 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6009 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6009 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6009 
Power to the People 6009 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6009 
Aura 6009 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6009 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6009 
All class D is the same 6009 
Interpreting the LF results. 6008 
The Halibut 6008 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6008 
The Big Picture 6008 
Power & ULF channels 6008 
The big picture indeed. 6008 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6008 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6008 
The Power and the Glory 6007 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6007 
I guess I did not get this memo 6007 
French LF drivers 6007 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6007 
(another) French LF approach 6006 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6006 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6006 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6006 
Limpschtick 6006 
Symmetry 6006 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6005 
Room correction 6005 
It migh be more complicated. 6005 
Bass EQ ? 6005 
Agree and not. 6005 
Two "diseases" 6005 
Parametric filters 6005 
Ceiling arrays 6005 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6005 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6005 
The Middle of the Room. 6005 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6005 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6005 
Stop! 6005 
Appendectomy 6005 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6004 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6004 
No Isolation 6004 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6001 
Potential contenders? 6000 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6000 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6000 
Those Crazy Canucks 5996 
Mo' Better Bass 5990 
Bird in the Hand? 5990 
A wet listening spot? 5983 
Storm 5980 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5980 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5966 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5936 
Polar Opposite ULF 5935 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5923 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5921 
Differently but the same. 5920 
PVC 5919 
The sail test try. 5919 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5919 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5919 
Trial 5918 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5918 
Some explanations 5918 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5917 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5916 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5915 
Acrylate 5914 
Magic blanket 5914 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5913 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5913 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5913 
I have a few options. 5913 
Foam color 5913 
Strange things with upperbass 5913 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5912 
Teatro reform. . . 5912 
The foaming room dilemma. 5911 
Melamine Foam 5911 
Foaming up the cat house 5911 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5911 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5911 
Acoustic revisions… 5910 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5907 
Surprises so far in the new room 5906 
The upperbass in the new room. 5906 
Slight change of hart. 5905 
Camco supply of Boston 5903 
Room acoustics 5903 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5862 
I need to kill dust first. 5862 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5860 
To feed the leeches? 5860 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5859 
Yh 5859 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5859 
DPOLs? 5859 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5859 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5856 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5856 
A HalfPipe solution? 5856 
I absolutely love it. 5856 
Piper work 5855 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5855 
Absorption 5855 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5854 
Cats life ? 5854 
Call me Pussy. 5854 
More about traps 5854 
Acoustic impedance? 5854 
You maybe right 5854 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5854 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5853 
Heavy Curtain 5853 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5852 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5852 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5852 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5849 
Fix speaker move chair? 5848 
Back and forth ceremony 5848 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5847 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5846 
Glass windows 5845 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5844 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5843 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5841 
How to use basement jacks? 5841 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5841 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5841 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5840 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5840 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5839 
Sore eyes... 5838 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5838 
The harvesting week! 5836 
I need an inspiration… 5835 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5834 
Like this? 5834 
Dramatically randomize MF 5834 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5833 
The room eats dynamic 5833 
Diffusers 5833 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5832 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5817 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5816 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5816 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5816 
About Width-Importance balance. 5814 
Letting the music scale up 5813 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5813 
To finish my house décor… 5809 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5808 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5807 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5807 
Calling the gods of music 5807 
Absolutely 5807 
Phase manipulation 5807 
No relation. 5807 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5807 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5807 
Dynamical mismatch 5806 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5806 
Stradiwinerius? 5803 
Dealing with the glass. 5802 
Boston 5802 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5802 
Added mass 5802 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5802 
It is about moderation…. 5802 
To hell with the wine... 5802 
Also for other surafaces 5801 
LEAD 5801 
LEAD & GLASS 5801 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5801 
Read carefully 5801 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5801 
Crooks and morons 5801 
Magiscopios 5800 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5780 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5780 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5779 
The LP setup in the new home. 5728 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5723 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5723 
Pianochord will do! 5723 
Spanyi heaven 5723 
I see no conflict at all. 5723 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5723 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5723 
A year after closing 5715 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5715 
Traveling antimatter 5708 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5702 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5701 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5675 
Cast Iron fireplace 5674 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5674 
The hardcore way 5674 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5638 
This is How It's Done 5637 
Listening room during summer. 5625 
What about those... 5624 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5624 
Reducing A/C Noise 5624 
HVAC the Cat 5624 
Big Ass fan 5623 
Variac dimmers 5623 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5623 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5623 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5555 
Some winter observations. 5446 
That Asian man…. 5415 
The Franz Schubert morning 5389 
Spring.... 5338 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5288 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5259 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5259 
Just good photography? 5259 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5259 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5259 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5258 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5258 
Sports car 5258 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5258 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5258 
Train Positioning 5258 
Kind of what I want 5258 
The lap listening… 5258 
Family Room 5258 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5255 
A super audio room. 5251 
Time Warp! 5251 
A piano in a listening room 5230 
Pianissimo 5230 
The plan in blue. 5230 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5230 
My doubts 5230 
It is exactly what I worry. 5229 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5229 
Musicians at home 5229 
Piano Measurements 5228 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5223 
The next step. 5209 
Midbass horns missing?? 5208 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5198 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5198 
Baby Grand 5197 
Wood floor 5197 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5197 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5197 
Amy’s baby. 5195 
Improvement 5195 
Agree with Scott 5195 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5183 
Integrated casters 5183 
Very nice, thanks. 5183 
Customization 5183 
Sliders 5183 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5176 
Congratulations 5176 
Holes in the floor... 5176 
Tubes and kids 5176 
Sweet spot enlargement 5176 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5174 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5173 
Wood Floors and Water 5173 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5168 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5167 
WAF is for Losers 5167 
WAF: it depends. 5167 
Integration 5166 
Here and there. 5166 
Life after WWIII 5166 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5166 
Cables management. 5164 
Featurizing 5164 
Kids and tubes cont. 5161 
Kid magnet 5161 
Kids and audio 5160 
Radars 5160 
Wow, what the days! 5156 
The comming weekend 5152 
It all was worth it! 5149 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5144 
Here is how it is look. 5144 
Resolving the carpet issue 5144 
Bonfire 5144 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5144 
Proof of concept? 5144 
Geometry 5144 
A view from listening position. 5144 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5144 
Some feedback 5144 
Evening 5144 
I wonder why. 5143 
Rugs and things 5143 
In defense… 5143 
I can’t get it. 5140 
Haze. 5139 
Front wall 5139 
It is very possible. 5139 
It is nice to be back. 5136 
My comfy corner. 5133 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4773 
WMD in house. 4595 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4498 
The third listening spot. 4477 
For sure a very different experience. 4439 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4434 
It's Jfretch's system. 4434 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4433 
Domestic games 4387 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4248 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4248 
Dynamic screening 4248 
Actually this is very good idea! 4248 
Volcanic fabric 4248 
I should have done this. 4246 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4242 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4211 
No worries 4211 
Awesome memories 4211 
Optimization of space 4211 
Child-ish considerations 4208 
Finding peace.... 4202 
"Fencing"? 4201 
I need to build something custom 4201 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4201 
Stressed Skin 4201 
NYC elevators 4201 
Kids toys and quantities. 4201 
Everything is completely reversible 4200 
Racks and things 4200 
Now it looks even more promising! 4200 
Quantity of rods 4200 
Avoiding diagonals 4198 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4197 
That's not fair! 4197 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4197 
Discrimination? 4192 
Vertical configuration 4185 
Impresive ! 4114 
Did you read the site? 4114 
Contact 4114 
Company's name is Rixrax 4114 
Stand 4113 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4069 
End of life headphone system 4069 
Something like this? 4069 
The "Second Living Room" 4069 
Mixing urban & suburban 4069 
Late night listening 4069 
Moving life... 4067 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4067 
A true listening room. 4043 
It started… 4028 
Levels of Interest 4028 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4028 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4028 
I can't not to post it.... 4028 
Do not leave him unattended. 4028 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4028 
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