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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5142 
The first take on the new room. 5136 
New Room, a first shot. 5135 
Wonderful 5135 
Adopted 5134 
The first relaxed night with the room 5132 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5131 
The listening room is ready. 5130 
New Room, a First Shot 5128 
Continue to work with the room 5128 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5128 
Room 5127 
I think it will take another month. 5127 
The Buttressing 5127 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5126 
The new place and the new noises. 5126 
Big listening room 5125 
Screw the "big" rooms 5125 
Big listening rooms 5125 
First reflection points 5124 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5124 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5121 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5120 
Squeezing the floor 5120 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5120 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5120 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5119 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5119 
The new room, the very first listening. 5119 
The 14.5 foot. 5118 
Again… 5117 
Romy's new Playground 5117 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5117 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5117 
For the uninitiated ... 5116 
NH guy 5116 
Room 5116 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5115 
The first base is done 5115 
Reentry time alignment. 5114 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5113 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5113 
Mid bass horn. 5113 
Guess is only a guess… 5113 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5113 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5112 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5112 
Diffusors 5112 
Diffuse injection 5112 
Let analyse why it so 5112 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5112 
Wheel and Deal 5112 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5112 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5112 
I Must Be Missing Something 5112 
I put sliders under my speakers 5111 
ROOM 5110 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5110 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5110 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5110 
No concerns 5110 
Speakers and room 5110 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5109 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5109 
Diaphram 5109 
Phram 5109 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5109 
Perfect piston 5109 
Decorater 5108 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5108 
New morning 5107 
The first take on the room with RTA 5106 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5106 
Axiomatic 5106 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5105 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5105 
The size of the bass. 5105 
Bass Factory 5105 
Crude Level, or something more? 5105 
I will play with it this week…. 5105 
Rent-A 5105 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5105 
Corner horns 5105 
Cheating from below 5105 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5105 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5104 
A possibly overly simplified view 5104 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5104 
Iceberg 5104 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5104 
Why not horn 5104 
A correction…. 5104 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5104 
They are just not related things at all. 5104 
Fertin 5102 
Low resonance is good... 5102 
Et tu, Brute? 5101 
The Room response at LF 5100 
Life On The Ground Floor 5100 
Bass arrays 5100 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5100 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5100 
The super sucks. 5100 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5100 
You may also try 5099 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5099 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5099 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5099 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5099 
60 Hz Resonance 5099 
No notching… so far. 5099 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5098 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5098 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5098 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5098 
Power to the People 5098 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5098 
Aura 5098 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5098 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5098 
All class D is the same 5098 
Interpreting the LF results. 5097 
The Halibut 5097 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5097 
The Big Picture 5097 
Power & ULF channels 5097 
The big picture indeed. 5097 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5097 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5097 
The Power and the Glory 5096 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5096 
I guess I did not get this memo 5096 
French LF drivers 5096 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5096 
(another) French LF approach 5095 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5095 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5095 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5095 
Limpschtick 5095 
Symmetry 5095 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5094 
Room correction 5094 
It migh be more complicated. 5094 
Bass EQ ? 5094 
Agree and not. 5094 
Two "diseases" 5094 
Parametric filters 5094 
Ceiling arrays 5094 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5094 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5094 
The Middle of the Room. 5094 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5094 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5094 
Stop! 5094 
Appendectomy 5094 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5093 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5093 
No Isolation 5093 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5090 
Potential contenders? 5089 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5089 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5089 
Those Crazy Canucks 5085 
Mo' Better Bass 5079 
Bird in the Hand? 5079 
A wet listening spot? 5072 
Storm 5069 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5069 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5055 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5025 
Polar Opposite ULF 5024 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5012 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5010 
Differently but the same. 5009 
PVC 5008 
The sail test try. 5008 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5008 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5008 
Trial 5007 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5007 
Some explanations 5007 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5006 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5005 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5004 
Acrylate 5003 
Magic blanket 5003 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5002 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5002 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5002 
I have a few options. 5002 
Foam color 5002 
Strange things with upperbass 5002 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5001 
Teatro reform. . . 5001 
The foaming room dilemma. 5000 
Melamine Foam 5000 
Foaming up the cat house 5000 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5000 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5000 
Acoustic revisions… 4999 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 4996 
Surprises so far in the new room 4995 
The upperbass in the new room. 4995 
Slight change of hart. 4994 
Camco supply of Boston 4992 
Room acoustics 4992 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 4951 
I need to kill dust first. 4951 
Ahh, the echo chamber 4949 
To feed the leeches? 4949 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 4948 
Yh 4948 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 4948 
DPOLs? 4948 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 4948 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 4945 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 4945 
A HalfPipe solution? 4945 
I absolutely love it. 4945 
Piper work 4944 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 4944 
Absorption 4944 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 4943 
Cats life ? 4943 
Call me Pussy. 4943 
More about traps 4943 
Acoustic impedance? 4943 
You maybe right 4943 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 4943 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 4942 
Heavy Curtain 4942 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 4941 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 4941 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 4941 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 4938 
Fix speaker move chair? 4937 
Back and forth ceremony 4937 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 4936 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 4935 
Glass windows 4934 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 4933 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 4932 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 4930 
How to use basement jacks? 4930 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 4930 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 4930 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 4929 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 4929 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 4928 
Sore eyes... 4927 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 4927 
The harvesting week! 4925 
I need an inspiration… 4924 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 4923 
Like this? 4923 
Dramatically randomize MF 4923 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 4922 
The room eats dynamic 4922 
Diffusers 4922 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 4921 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 4906 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 4905 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 4905 
A typical midday in my new listening room 4905 
About Width-Importance balance. 4903 
Letting the music scale up 4902 
Constant-width vs. active-width 4902 
To finish my house décor… 4898 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 4897 
Phase nuances – the last liability 4896 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 4896 
Calling the gods of music 4896 
Absolutely 4896 
Phase manipulation 4896 
No relation. 4896 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 4896 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 4896 
Dynamical mismatch 4895 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 4895 
Stradiwinerius? 4892 
Dealing with the glass. 4891 
Boston 4891 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 4891 
Added mass 4891 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 4891 
It is about moderation…. 4891 
To hell with the wine... 4891 
Also for other surafaces 4890 
LEAD 4890 
LEAD & GLASS 4890 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 4890 
Read carefully 4890 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 4890 
Crooks and morons 4890 
Magiscopios 4889 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 4869 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 4869 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 4868 
The LP setup in the new home. 4817 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 4812 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 4812 
Pianochord will do! 4812 
Spanyi heaven 4812 
I see no conflict at all. 4812 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 4812 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 4812 
A year after closing 4804 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 4804 
Traveling antimatter 4797 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 4791 
The fiberglass aggravations. 4790 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 4764 
Cast Iron fireplace 4763 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 4763 
The hardcore way 4763 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 4727 
This is How It's Done 4726 
Listening room during summer. 4714 
What about those... 4713 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 4713 
Reducing A/C Noise 4713 
HVAC the Cat 4713 
Big Ass fan 4712 
Variac dimmers 4712 
Ceiling fan speed controls 4712 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 4712 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 4644 
Some winter observations. 4535 
That Asian man…. 4504 
The Franz Schubert morning 4478 
Spring.... 4427 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4377 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4348 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4348 
Just good photography? 4348 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4348 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4348 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4347 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4347 
Sports car 4347 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4347 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4347 
Train Positioning 4347 
Kind of what I want 4347 
The lap listening… 4347 
Family Room 4347 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4344 
A super audio room. 4340 
Time Warp! 4340 
A piano in a listening room 4319 
Pianissimo 4319 
The plan in blue. 4319 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4319 
My doubts 4319 
It is exactly what I worry. 4318 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4318 
Musicians at home 4318 
Piano Measurements 4317 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4312 
The next step. 4298 
Midbass horns missing?? 4297 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4287 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4287 
Baby Grand 4286 
Wood floor 4286 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4286 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4286 
Amy’s baby. 4284 
Improvement 4284 
Agree with Scott 4284 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4272 
Integrated casters 4272 
Very nice, thanks. 4272 
Customization 4272 
Sliders 4272 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4265 
Congratulations 4265 
Holes in the floor... 4265 
Tubes and kids 4265 
Sweet spot enlargement 4265 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4263 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4262 
Wood Floors and Water 4262 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4257 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4256 
WAF is for Losers 4256 
WAF: it depends. 4256 
Integration 4255 
Here and there. 4255 
Life after WWIII 4255 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4255 
Cables management. 4253 
Featurizing 4253 
Kids and tubes cont. 4250 
Kid magnet 4250 
Kids and audio 4249 
Radars 4249 
Wow, what the days! 4245 
The comming weekend 4241 
It all was worth it! 4238 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4233 
Here is how it is look. 4233 
Resolving the carpet issue 4233 
Bonfire 4233 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4233 
Proof of concept? 4233 
Geometry 4233 
A view from listening position. 4233 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4233 
Some feedback 4233 
Evening 4233 
I wonder why. 4232 
Rugs and things 4232 
In defense… 4232 
I can’t get it. 4229 
Haze. 4228 
Front wall 4228 
It is very possible. 4228 
It is nice to be back. 4225 
My comfy corner. 4222 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 3862 
WMD in house. 3684 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 3587 
The third listening spot. 3566 
For sure a very different experience. 3528 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 3523 
It's Jfretch's system. 3523 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 3522 
Domestic games 3476 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3337 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3337 
Dynamic screening 3337 
Actually this is very good idea! 3337 
Volcanic fabric 3337 
I should have done this. 3335 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3331 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3300 
No worries 3300 
Awesome memories 3300 
Optimization of space 3300 
Child-ish considerations 3297 
Finding peace.... 3291 
"Fencing"? 3290 
I need to build something custom 3290 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3290 
Stressed Skin 3290 
NYC elevators 3290 
Kids toys and quantities. 3290 
Everything is completely reversible 3289 
Racks and things 3289 
Now it looks even more promising! 3289 
Quantity of rods 3289 
Avoiding diagonals 3287 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3286 
That's not fair! 3286 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3286 
Discrimination? 3281 
Vertical configuration 3274 
Impresive ! 3203 
Did you read the site? 3203 
Contact 3203 
Company's name is Rixrax 3203 
Stand 3202 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3158 
End of life headphone system 3158 
Something like this? 3158 
The "Second Living Room" 3158 
Mixing urban & suburban 3158 
Late night listening 3158 
Moving life... 3156 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3156 
A true listening room. 3132 
It started… 3117 
Levels of Interest 3117 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3117 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3117 
I can't not to post it.... 3117 
Do not leave him unattended. 3117 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3117 
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