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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5804 
The first take on the new room. 5798 
New Room, a first shot. 5797 
Wonderful 5797 
Adopted 5796 
The first relaxed night with the room 5794 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5793 
The listening room is ready. 5792 
New Room, a First Shot 5790 
Continue to work with the room 5790 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5790 
Room 5789 
I think it will take another month. 5789 
The Buttressing 5789 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5788 
The new place and the new noises. 5788 
Big listening room 5787 
Screw the "big" rooms 5787 
Big listening rooms 5787 
First reflection points 5786 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5786 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5783 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5782 
Squeezing the floor 5782 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5782 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5782 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5781 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5781 
The new room, the very first listening. 5781 
The 14.5 foot. 5780 
Again… 5779 
Romy's new Playground 5779 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5779 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5779 
For the uninitiated ... 5778 
NH guy 5778 
Room 5778 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5777 
The first base is done 5777 
Reentry time alignment. 5776 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5775 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5775 
Mid bass horn. 5775 
Guess is only a guess… 5775 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5775 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5774 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5774 
Diffusors 5774 
Diffuse injection 5774 
Let analyse why it so 5774 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5774 
Wheel and Deal 5774 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5774 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5774 
I Must Be Missing Something 5774 
I put sliders under my speakers 5773 
ROOM 5772 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5772 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5772 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5772 
No concerns 5772 
Speakers and room 5772 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5771 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5771 
Diaphram 5771 
Phram 5771 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5771 
Perfect piston 5771 
Decorater 5770 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5770 
New morning 5769 
The first take on the room with RTA 5768 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5768 
Axiomatic 5768 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5767 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5767 
The size of the bass. 5767 
Bass Factory 5767 
Crude Level, or something more? 5767 
I will play with it this week…. 5767 
Rent-A 5767 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5767 
Corner horns 5767 
Cheating from below 5767 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5767 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5766 
A possibly overly simplified view 5766 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5766 
Iceberg 5766 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5766 
Why not horn 5766 
A correction…. 5766 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5766 
They are just not related things at all. 5766 
Fertin 5764 
Low resonance is good... 5764 
Et tu, Brute? 5763 
The Room response at LF 5762 
Life On The Ground Floor 5762 
Bass arrays 5762 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5762 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5762 
The super sucks. 5762 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5762 
You may also try 5761 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5761 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5761 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5761 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5761 
60 Hz Resonance 5761 
No notching… so far. 5761 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5760 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5760 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5760 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5760 
Power to the People 5760 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5760 
Aura 5760 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5760 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5760 
All class D is the same 5760 
Interpreting the LF results. 5759 
The Halibut 5759 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5759 
The Big Picture 5759 
Power & ULF channels 5759 
The big picture indeed. 5759 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5759 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5759 
The Power and the Glory 5758 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5758 
I guess I did not get this memo 5758 
French LF drivers 5758 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5758 
(another) French LF approach 5757 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5757 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5757 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5757 
Limpschtick 5757 
Symmetry 5757 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5756 
Room correction 5756 
It migh be more complicated. 5756 
Bass EQ ? 5756 
Agree and not. 5756 
Two "diseases" 5756 
Parametric filters 5756 
Ceiling arrays 5756 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5756 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5756 
The Middle of the Room. 5756 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5756 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5756 
Stop! 5756 
Appendectomy 5756 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5755 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5755 
No Isolation 5755 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5752 
Potential contenders? 5751 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5751 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5751 
Those Crazy Canucks 5747 
Mo' Better Bass 5741 
Bird in the Hand? 5741 
A wet listening spot? 5734 
Storm 5731 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5731 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5717 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5687 
Polar Opposite ULF 5686 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5674 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5672 
Differently but the same. 5671 
PVC 5670 
The sail test try. 5670 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5670 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5670 
Trial 5669 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5669 
Some explanations 5669 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5668 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5667 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5666 
Acrylate 5665 
Magic blanket 5665 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5664 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5664 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5664 
I have a few options. 5664 
Foam color 5664 
Strange things with upperbass 5664 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5663 
Teatro reform. . . 5663 
The foaming room dilemma. 5662 
Melamine Foam 5662 
Foaming up the cat house 5662 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5662 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5662 
Acoustic revisions… 5661 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5658 
Surprises so far in the new room 5657 
The upperbass in the new room. 5657 
Slight change of hart. 5656 
Camco supply of Boston 5654 
Room acoustics 5654 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5613 
I need to kill dust first. 5613 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5611 
To feed the leeches? 5611 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5610 
Yh 5610 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5610 
DPOLs? 5610 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5610 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5607 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5607 
A HalfPipe solution? 5607 
I absolutely love it. 5607 
Piper work 5606 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5606 
Absorption 5606 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5605 
Cats life ? 5605 
Call me Pussy. 5605 
More about traps 5605 
Acoustic impedance? 5605 
You maybe right 5605 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5605 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5604 
Heavy Curtain 5604 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5603 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5603 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5603 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5600 
Fix speaker move chair? 5599 
Back and forth ceremony 5599 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5598 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5597 
Glass windows 5596 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5595 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5594 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5592 
How to use basement jacks? 5592 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5592 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5592 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5591 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5591 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5590 
Sore eyes... 5589 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5589 
The harvesting week! 5587 
I need an inspiration… 5586 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5585 
Like this? 5585 
Dramatically randomize MF 5585 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5584 
The room eats dynamic 5584 
Diffusers 5584 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5583 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5568 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5567 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5567 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5567 
About Width-Importance balance. 5565 
Letting the music scale up 5564 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5564 
To finish my house décor… 5560 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5559 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5558 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5558 
Calling the gods of music 5558 
Absolutely 5558 
Phase manipulation 5558 
No relation. 5558 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5558 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5558 
Dynamical mismatch 5557 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5557 
Stradiwinerius? 5554 
Dealing with the glass. 5553 
Boston 5553 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5553 
Added mass 5553 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5553 
It is about moderation…. 5553 
To hell with the wine... 5553 
Also for other surafaces 5552 
LEAD 5552 
LEAD & GLASS 5552 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5552 
Read carefully 5552 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5552 
Crooks and morons 5552 
Magiscopios 5551 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5531 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5531 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5530 
The LP setup in the new home. 5479 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5474 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5474 
Pianochord will do! 5474 
Spanyi heaven 5474 
I see no conflict at all. 5474 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5474 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5474 
A year after closing 5466 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5466 
Traveling antimatter 5459 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5453 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5452 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5426 
Cast Iron fireplace 5425 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5425 
The hardcore way 5425 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5389 
This is How It's Done 5388 
Listening room during summer. 5376 
What about those... 5375 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5375 
Reducing A/C Noise 5375 
HVAC the Cat 5375 
Big Ass fan 5374 
Variac dimmers 5374 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5374 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5374 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5306 
Some winter observations. 5197 
That Asian man…. 5166 
The Franz Schubert morning 5140 
Spring.... 5089 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5039 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5010 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5010 
Just good photography? 5010 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5010 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5010 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5009 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5009 
Sports car 5009 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5009 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5009 
Train Positioning 5009 
Kind of what I want 5009 
The lap listening… 5009 
Family Room 5009 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5006 
A super audio room. 5002 
Time Warp! 5002 
A piano in a listening room 4981 
Pianissimo 4981 
The plan in blue. 4981 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4981 
My doubts 4981 
It is exactly what I worry. 4980 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4980 
Musicians at home 4980 
Piano Measurements 4979 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4974 
The next step. 4960 
Midbass horns missing?? 4959 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4949 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4949 
Baby Grand 4948 
Wood floor 4948 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4948 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4948 
Amy’s baby. 4946 
Improvement 4946 
Agree with Scott 4946 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4934 
Integrated casters 4934 
Very nice, thanks. 4934 
Customization 4934 
Sliders 4934 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4927 
Congratulations 4927 
Holes in the floor... 4927 
Tubes and kids 4927 
Sweet spot enlargement 4927 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4925 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4924 
Wood Floors and Water 4924 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4919 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4918 
WAF is for Losers 4918 
WAF: it depends. 4918 
Integration 4917 
Here and there. 4917 
Life after WWIII 4917 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4917 
Cables management. 4915 
Featurizing 4915 
Kids and tubes cont. 4912 
Kid magnet 4912 
Kids and audio 4911 
Radars 4911 
Wow, what the days! 4907 
The comming weekend 4903 
It all was worth it! 4900 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4895 
Here is how it is look. 4895 
Resolving the carpet issue 4895 
Bonfire 4895 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4895 
Proof of concept? 4895 
Geometry 4895 
A view from listening position. 4895 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4895 
Some feedback 4895 
Evening 4895 
I wonder why. 4894 
Rugs and things 4894 
In defense… 4894 
I can’t get it. 4891 
Haze. 4890 
Front wall 4890 
It is very possible. 4890 
It is nice to be back. 4887 
My comfy corner. 4884 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4524 
WMD in house. 4346 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4249 
The third listening spot. 4228 
For sure a very different experience. 4190 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4185 
It's Jfretch's system. 4185 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4184 
Domestic games 4138 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3999 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3999 
Dynamic screening 3999 
Actually this is very good idea! 3999 
Volcanic fabric 3999 
I should have done this. 3997 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3993 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3962 
No worries 3962 
Awesome memories 3962 
Optimization of space 3962 
Child-ish considerations 3959 
Finding peace.... 3953 
"Fencing"? 3952 
I need to build something custom 3952 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3952 
Stressed Skin 3952 
NYC elevators 3952 
Kids toys and quantities. 3952 
Everything is completely reversible 3951 
Racks and things 3951 
Now it looks even more promising! 3951 
Quantity of rods 3951 
Avoiding diagonals 3949 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3948 
That's not fair! 3948 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3948 
Discrimination? 3943 
Vertical configuration 3936 
Impresive ! 3865 
Did you read the site? 3865 
Contact 3865 
Company's name is Rixrax 3865 
Stand 3864 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3820 
End of life headphone system 3820 
Something like this? 3820 
The "Second Living Room" 3820 
Mixing urban & suburban 3820 
Late night listening 3820 
Moving life... 3818 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3818 
A true listening room. 3794 
It started… 3779 
Levels of Interest 3779 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3779 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3779 
I can't not to post it.... 3779 
Do not leave him unattended. 3779 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3779 
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