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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5950 
The first take on the new room. 5944 
New Room, a first shot. 5943 
Wonderful 5943 
Adopted 5942 
The first relaxed night with the room 5940 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5939 
The listening room is ready. 5938 
New Room, a First Shot 5936 
Continue to work with the room 5936 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5936 
Room 5935 
I think it will take another month. 5935 
The Buttressing 5935 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5934 
The new place and the new noises. 5934 
Big listening room 5933 
Screw the "big" rooms 5933 
Big listening rooms 5933 
First reflection points 5932 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5932 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5929 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5928 
Squeezing the floor 5928 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5928 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5928 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5927 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5927 
The new room, the very first listening. 5927 
The 14.5 foot. 5926 
Again… 5925 
Romy's new Playground 5925 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5925 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5925 
For the uninitiated ... 5924 
NH guy 5924 
Room 5924 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5923 
The first base is done 5923 
Reentry time alignment. 5922 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5921 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5921 
Mid bass horn. 5921 
Guess is only a guess… 5921 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5921 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5920 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5920 
Diffusors 5920 
Diffuse injection 5920 
Let analyse why it so 5920 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5920 
Wheel and Deal 5920 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5920 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5920 
I Must Be Missing Something 5920 
I put sliders under my speakers 5919 
ROOM 5918 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5918 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5918 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5918 
No concerns 5918 
Speakers and room 5918 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5917 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5917 
Diaphram 5917 
Phram 5917 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5917 
Perfect piston 5917 
Decorater 5916 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5916 
New morning 5915 
The first take on the room with RTA 5914 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5914 
Axiomatic 5914 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5913 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5913 
The size of the bass. 5913 
Bass Factory 5913 
Crude Level, or something more? 5913 
I will play with it this week…. 5913 
Rent-A 5913 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5913 
Corner horns 5913 
Cheating from below 5913 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5913 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5912 
A possibly overly simplified view 5912 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5912 
Iceberg 5912 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5912 
Why not horn 5912 
A correction…. 5912 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5912 
They are just not related things at all. 5912 
Fertin 5910 
Low resonance is good... 5910 
Et tu, Brute? 5909 
The Room response at LF 5908 
Life On The Ground Floor 5908 
Bass arrays 5908 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5908 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5908 
The super sucks. 5908 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5908 
You may also try 5907 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5907 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5907 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5907 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5907 
60 Hz Resonance 5907 
No notching… so far. 5907 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5906 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5906 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5906 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5906 
Power to the People 5906 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5906 
Aura 5906 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5906 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5906 
All class D is the same 5906 
Interpreting the LF results. 5905 
The Halibut 5905 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5905 
The Big Picture 5905 
Power & ULF channels 5905 
The big picture indeed. 5905 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5905 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5905 
The Power and the Glory 5904 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5904 
I guess I did not get this memo 5904 
French LF drivers 5904 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5904 
(another) French LF approach 5903 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5903 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5903 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5903 
Limpschtick 5903 
Symmetry 5903 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5902 
Room correction 5902 
It migh be more complicated. 5902 
Bass EQ ? 5902 
Agree and not. 5902 
Two "diseases" 5902 
Parametric filters 5902 
Ceiling arrays 5902 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5902 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5902 
The Middle of the Room. 5902 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5902 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5902 
Stop! 5902 
Appendectomy 5902 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5901 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5901 
No Isolation 5901 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5898 
Potential contenders? 5897 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5897 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5897 
Those Crazy Canucks 5893 
Mo' Better Bass 5887 
Bird in the Hand? 5887 
A wet listening spot? 5880 
Storm 5877 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5877 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5863 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5833 
Polar Opposite ULF 5832 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5820 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5818 
Differently but the same. 5817 
PVC 5816 
The sail test try. 5816 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5816 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5816 
Trial 5815 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5815 
Some explanations 5815 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5814 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5813 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5812 
Acrylate 5811 
Magic blanket 5811 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5810 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5810 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5810 
I have a few options. 5810 
Foam color 5810 
Strange things with upperbass 5810 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5809 
Teatro reform. . . 5809 
The foaming room dilemma. 5808 
Melamine Foam 5808 
Foaming up the cat house 5808 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5808 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5808 
Acoustic revisions… 5807 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5804 
Surprises so far in the new room 5803 
The upperbass in the new room. 5803 
Slight change of hart. 5802 
Camco supply of Boston 5800 
Room acoustics 5800 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5759 
I need to kill dust first. 5759 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5757 
To feed the leeches? 5757 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5756 
Yh 5756 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5756 
DPOLs? 5756 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5756 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5753 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5753 
A HalfPipe solution? 5753 
I absolutely love it. 5753 
Piper work 5752 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5752 
Absorption 5752 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5751 
Cats life ? 5751 
Call me Pussy. 5751 
More about traps 5751 
Acoustic impedance? 5751 
You maybe right 5751 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5751 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5750 
Heavy Curtain 5750 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5749 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5749 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5749 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5746 
Fix speaker move chair? 5745 
Back and forth ceremony 5745 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5744 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5743 
Glass windows 5742 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5741 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5740 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5738 
How to use basement jacks? 5738 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5738 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5738 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5737 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5737 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5736 
Sore eyes... 5735 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5735 
The harvesting week! 5733 
I need an inspiration… 5732 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5731 
Like this? 5731 
Dramatically randomize MF 5731 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5730 
The room eats dynamic 5730 
Diffusers 5730 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5729 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5714 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5713 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5713 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5713 
About Width-Importance balance. 5711 
Letting the music scale up 5710 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5710 
To finish my house décor… 5706 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5705 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5704 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5704 
Calling the gods of music 5704 
Absolutely 5704 
Phase manipulation 5704 
No relation. 5704 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5704 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5704 
Dynamical mismatch 5703 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5703 
Stradiwinerius? 5700 
Dealing with the glass. 5699 
Boston 5699 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5699 
Added mass 5699 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5699 
It is about moderation…. 5699 
To hell with the wine... 5699 
Also for other surafaces 5698 
LEAD 5698 
LEAD & GLASS 5698 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5698 
Read carefully 5698 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5698 
Crooks and morons 5698 
Magiscopios 5697 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5677 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5677 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5676 
The LP setup in the new home. 5625 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5620 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5620 
Pianochord will do! 5620 
Spanyi heaven 5620 
I see no conflict at all. 5620 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5620 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5620 
A year after closing 5612 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5612 
Traveling antimatter 5605 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5599 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5598 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5572 
Cast Iron fireplace 5571 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5571 
The hardcore way 5571 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5535 
This is How It's Done 5534 
Listening room during summer. 5522 
What about those... 5521 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5521 
Reducing A/C Noise 5521 
HVAC the Cat 5521 
Big Ass fan 5520 
Variac dimmers 5520 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5520 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5520 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5452 
Some winter observations. 5343 
That Asian man…. 5312 
The Franz Schubert morning 5286 
Spring.... 5235 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5185 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5156 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5156 
Just good photography? 5156 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5156 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5156 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5155 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5155 
Sports car 5155 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5155 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5155 
Train Positioning 5155 
Kind of what I want 5155 
The lap listening… 5155 
Family Room 5155 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5152 
A super audio room. 5148 
Time Warp! 5148 
A piano in a listening room 5127 
Pianissimo 5127 
The plan in blue. 5127 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5127 
My doubts 5127 
It is exactly what I worry. 5126 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5126 
Musicians at home 5126 
Piano Measurements 5125 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5120 
The next step. 5106 
Midbass horns missing?? 5105 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5095 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5095 
Baby Grand 5094 
Wood floor 5094 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5094 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5094 
Amy’s baby. 5092 
Improvement 5092 
Agree with Scott 5092 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5080 
Integrated casters 5080 
Very nice, thanks. 5080 
Customization 5080 
Sliders 5080 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5073 
Congratulations 5073 
Holes in the floor... 5073 
Tubes and kids 5073 
Sweet spot enlargement 5073 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5071 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5070 
Wood Floors and Water 5070 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5065 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5064 
WAF is for Losers 5064 
WAF: it depends. 5064 
Integration 5063 
Here and there. 5063 
Life after WWIII 5063 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5063 
Cables management. 5061 
Featurizing 5061 
Kids and tubes cont. 5058 
Kid magnet 5058 
Kids and audio 5057 
Radars 5057 
Wow, what the days! 5053 
The comming weekend 5049 
It all was worth it! 5046 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5041 
Here is how it is look. 5041 
Resolving the carpet issue 5041 
Bonfire 5041 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5041 
Proof of concept? 5041 
Geometry 5041 
A view from listening position. 5041 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5041 
Some feedback 5041 
Evening 5041 
I wonder why. 5040 
Rugs and things 5040 
In defense… 5040 
I can’t get it. 5037 
Haze. 5036 
Front wall 5036 
It is very possible. 5036 
It is nice to be back. 5033 
My comfy corner. 5030 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4670 
WMD in house. 4492 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4395 
The third listening spot. 4374 
For sure a very different experience. 4336 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4331 
It's Jfretch's system. 4331 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4330 
Domestic games 4284 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4145 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4145 
Dynamic screening 4145 
Actually this is very good idea! 4145 
Volcanic fabric 4145 
I should have done this. 4143 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4139 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4108 
No worries 4108 
Awesome memories 4108 
Optimization of space 4108 
Child-ish considerations 4105 
Finding peace.... 4099 
"Fencing"? 4098 
I need to build something custom 4098 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4098 
Stressed Skin 4098 
NYC elevators 4098 
Kids toys and quantities. 4098 
Everything is completely reversible 4097 
Racks and things 4097 
Now it looks even more promising! 4097 
Quantity of rods 4097 
Avoiding diagonals 4095 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4094 
That's not fair! 4094 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4094 
Discrimination? 4089 
Vertical configuration 4082 
Impresive ! 4011 
Did you read the site? 4011 
Contact 4011 
Company's name is Rixrax 4011 
Stand 4010 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3966 
End of life headphone system 3966 
Something like this? 3966 
The "Second Living Room" 3966 
Mixing urban & suburban 3966 
Late night listening 3966 
Moving life... 3964 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3964 
A true listening room. 3940 
It started… 3925 
Levels of Interest 3925 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3925 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3925 
I can't not to post it.... 3925 
Do not leave him unattended. 3925 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3925 
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