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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5934 
The first take on the new room. 5928 
New Room, a first shot. 5927 
Wonderful 5927 
Adopted 5926 
The first relaxed night with the room 5924 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5923 
The listening room is ready. 5922 
New Room, a First Shot 5920 
Continue to work with the room 5920 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5920 
Room 5919 
I think it will take another month. 5919 
The Buttressing 5919 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5918 
The new place and the new noises. 5918 
Big listening room 5917 
Screw the "big" rooms 5917 
Big listening rooms 5917 
First reflection points 5916 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5916 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5913 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5912 
Squeezing the floor 5912 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5912 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5912 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5911 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5911 
The new room, the very first listening. 5911 
The 14.5 foot. 5910 
Again… 5909 
Romy's new Playground 5909 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5909 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5909 
For the uninitiated ... 5908 
NH guy 5908 
Room 5908 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5907 
The first base is done 5907 
Reentry time alignment. 5906 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5905 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5905 
Mid bass horn. 5905 
Guess is only a guess… 5905 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5905 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5904 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5904 
Diffusors 5904 
Diffuse injection 5904 
Let analyse why it so 5904 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5904 
Wheel and Deal 5904 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5904 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5904 
I Must Be Missing Something 5904 
I put sliders under my speakers 5903 
ROOM 5902 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5902 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5902 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5902 
No concerns 5902 
Speakers and room 5902 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5901 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5901 
Diaphram 5901 
Phram 5901 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5901 
Perfect piston 5901 
Decorater 5900 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5900 
New morning 5899 
The first take on the room with RTA 5898 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5898 
Axiomatic 5898 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5897 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5897 
The size of the bass. 5897 
Bass Factory 5897 
Crude Level, or something more? 5897 
I will play with it this week…. 5897 
Rent-A 5897 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5897 
Corner horns 5897 
Cheating from below 5897 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5897 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5896 
A possibly overly simplified view 5896 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5896 
Iceberg 5896 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5896 
Why not horn 5896 
A correction…. 5896 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5896 
They are just not related things at all. 5896 
Fertin 5894 
Low resonance is good... 5894 
Et tu, Brute? 5893 
The Room response at LF 5892 
Life On The Ground Floor 5892 
Bass arrays 5892 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5892 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5892 
The super sucks. 5892 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5892 
You may also try 5891 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5891 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5891 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5891 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5891 
60 Hz Resonance 5891 
No notching… so far. 5891 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5890 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5890 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5890 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5890 
Power to the People 5890 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5890 
Aura 5890 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5890 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5890 
All class D is the same 5890 
Interpreting the LF results. 5889 
The Halibut 5889 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5889 
The Big Picture 5889 
Power & ULF channels 5889 
The big picture indeed. 5889 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5889 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5889 
The Power and the Glory 5888 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5888 
I guess I did not get this memo 5888 
French LF drivers 5888 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5888 
(another) French LF approach 5887 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5887 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5887 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5887 
Limpschtick 5887 
Symmetry 5887 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5886 
Room correction 5886 
It migh be more complicated. 5886 
Bass EQ ? 5886 
Agree and not. 5886 
Two "diseases" 5886 
Parametric filters 5886 
Ceiling arrays 5886 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5886 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5886 
The Middle of the Room. 5886 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5886 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5886 
Stop! 5886 
Appendectomy 5886 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5885 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5885 
No Isolation 5885 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5882 
Potential contenders? 5881 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5881 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5881 
Those Crazy Canucks 5877 
Mo' Better Bass 5871 
Bird in the Hand? 5871 
A wet listening spot? 5864 
Storm 5861 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5861 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5847 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5817 
Polar Opposite ULF 5816 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5804 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5802 
Differently but the same. 5801 
PVC 5800 
The sail test try. 5800 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5800 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5800 
Trial 5799 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5799 
Some explanations 5799 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5798 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5797 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5796 
Acrylate 5795 
Magic blanket 5795 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5794 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5794 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5794 
I have a few options. 5794 
Foam color 5794 
Strange things with upperbass 5794 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5793 
Teatro reform. . . 5793 
The foaming room dilemma. 5792 
Melamine Foam 5792 
Foaming up the cat house 5792 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5792 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5792 
Acoustic revisions… 5791 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5788 
Surprises so far in the new room 5787 
The upperbass in the new room. 5787 
Slight change of hart. 5786 
Camco supply of Boston 5784 
Room acoustics 5784 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5743 
I need to kill dust first. 5743 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5741 
To feed the leeches? 5741 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5740 
Yh 5740 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5740 
DPOLs? 5740 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5740 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5737 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5737 
A HalfPipe solution? 5737 
I absolutely love it. 5737 
Piper work 5736 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5736 
Absorption 5736 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5735 
Cats life ? 5735 
Call me Pussy. 5735 
More about traps 5735 
Acoustic impedance? 5735 
You maybe right 5735 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5735 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5734 
Heavy Curtain 5734 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5733 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5733 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5733 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5730 
Fix speaker move chair? 5729 
Back and forth ceremony 5729 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5728 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5727 
Glass windows 5726 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5725 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5724 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5722 
How to use basement jacks? 5722 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5722 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5722 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5721 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5721 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5720 
Sore eyes... 5719 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5719 
The harvesting week! 5717 
I need an inspiration… 5716 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5715 
Like this? 5715 
Dramatically randomize MF 5715 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5714 
The room eats dynamic 5714 
Diffusers 5714 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5713 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5698 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5697 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5697 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5697 
About Width-Importance balance. 5695 
Letting the music scale up 5694 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5694 
To finish my house décor… 5690 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5689 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5688 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5688 
Calling the gods of music 5688 
Absolutely 5688 
Phase manipulation 5688 
No relation. 5688 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5688 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5688 
Dynamical mismatch 5687 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5687 
Stradiwinerius? 5684 
Dealing with the glass. 5683 
Boston 5683 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5683 
Added mass 5683 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5683 
It is about moderation…. 5683 
To hell with the wine... 5683 
Also for other surafaces 5682 
LEAD 5682 
LEAD & GLASS 5682 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5682 
Read carefully 5682 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5682 
Crooks and morons 5682 
Magiscopios 5681 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5661 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5661 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5660 
The LP setup in the new home. 5609 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5604 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5604 
Pianochord will do! 5604 
Spanyi heaven 5604 
I see no conflict at all. 5604 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5604 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5604 
A year after closing 5596 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5596 
Traveling antimatter 5589 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5583 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5582 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5556 
Cast Iron fireplace 5555 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5555 
The hardcore way 5555 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5519 
This is How It's Done 5518 
Listening room during summer. 5506 
What about those... 5505 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5505 
Reducing A/C Noise 5505 
HVAC the Cat 5505 
Big Ass fan 5504 
Variac dimmers 5504 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5504 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5504 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5436 
Some winter observations. 5327 
That Asian man…. 5296 
The Franz Schubert morning 5270 
Spring.... 5219 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5169 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5140 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5140 
Just good photography? 5140 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5140 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5140 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5139 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5139 
Sports car 5139 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5139 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5139 
Train Positioning 5139 
Kind of what I want 5139 
The lap listening… 5139 
Family Room 5139 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5136 
A super audio room. 5132 
Time Warp! 5132 
A piano in a listening room 5111 
Pianissimo 5111 
The plan in blue. 5111 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5111 
My doubts 5111 
It is exactly what I worry. 5110 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5110 
Musicians at home 5110 
Piano Measurements 5109 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5104 
The next step. 5090 
Midbass horns missing?? 5089 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5079 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5079 
Baby Grand 5078 
Wood floor 5078 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5078 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5078 
Amy’s baby. 5076 
Improvement 5076 
Agree with Scott 5076 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5064 
Integrated casters 5064 
Very nice, thanks. 5064 
Customization 5064 
Sliders 5064 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5057 
Congratulations 5057 
Holes in the floor... 5057 
Tubes and kids 5057 
Sweet spot enlargement 5057 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5055 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5054 
Wood Floors and Water 5054 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5049 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5048 
WAF is for Losers 5048 
WAF: it depends. 5048 
Integration 5047 
Here and there. 5047 
Life after WWIII 5047 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5047 
Cables management. 5045 
Featurizing 5045 
Kids and tubes cont. 5042 
Kid magnet 5042 
Kids and audio 5041 
Radars 5041 
Wow, what the days! 5037 
The comming weekend 5033 
It all was worth it! 5030 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5025 
Here is how it is look. 5025 
Resolving the carpet issue 5025 
Bonfire 5025 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5025 
Proof of concept? 5025 
Geometry 5025 
A view from listening position. 5025 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5025 
Some feedback 5025 
Evening 5025 
I wonder why. 5024 
Rugs and things 5024 
In defense… 5024 
I can’t get it. 5021 
Haze. 5020 
Front wall 5020 
It is very possible. 5020 
It is nice to be back. 5017 
My comfy corner. 5014 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4654 
WMD in house. 4476 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4379 
The third listening spot. 4358 
For sure a very different experience. 4320 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4315 
It's Jfretch's system. 4315 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4314 
Domestic games 4268 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4129 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4129 
Dynamic screening 4129 
Actually this is very good idea! 4129 
Volcanic fabric 4129 
I should have done this. 4127 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4123 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4092 
No worries 4092 
Awesome memories 4092 
Optimization of space 4092 
Child-ish considerations 4089 
Finding peace.... 4083 
"Fencing"? 4082 
I need to build something custom 4082 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4082 
Stressed Skin 4082 
NYC elevators 4082 
Kids toys and quantities. 4082 
Everything is completely reversible 4081 
Racks and things 4081 
Now it looks even more promising! 4081 
Quantity of rods 4081 
Avoiding diagonals 4079 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4078 
That's not fair! 4078 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4078 
Discrimination? 4073 
Vertical configuration 4066 
Impresive ! 3995 
Did you read the site? 3995 
Contact 3995 
Company's name is Rixrax 3995 
Stand 3994 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3950 
End of life headphone system 3950 
Something like this? 3950 
The "Second Living Room" 3950 
Mixing urban & suburban 3950 
Late night listening 3950 
Moving life... 3948 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3948 
A true listening room. 3924 
It started… 3909 
Levels of Interest 3909 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3909 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3909 
I can't not to post it.... 3909 
Do not leave him unattended. 3909 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3909 
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