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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5903 
The first take on the new room. 5897 
New Room, a first shot. 5896 
Wonderful 5896 
Adopted 5895 
The first relaxed night with the room 5893 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5892 
The listening room is ready. 5891 
New Room, a First Shot 5889 
Continue to work with the room 5889 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5889 
Room 5888 
I think it will take another month. 5888 
The Buttressing 5888 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5887 
The new place and the new noises. 5887 
Big listening room 5886 
Screw the "big" rooms 5886 
Big listening rooms 5886 
First reflection points 5885 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5885 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5882 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5881 
Squeezing the floor 5881 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5881 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5881 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5880 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5880 
The new room, the very first listening. 5880 
The 14.5 foot. 5879 
Again… 5878 
Romy's new Playground 5878 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5878 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5878 
For the uninitiated ... 5877 
NH guy 5877 
Room 5877 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5876 
The first base is done 5876 
Reentry time alignment. 5875 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5874 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5874 
Mid bass horn. 5874 
Guess is only a guess… 5874 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5874 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5873 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5873 
Diffusors 5873 
Diffuse injection 5873 
Let analyse why it so 5873 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5873 
Wheel and Deal 5873 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5873 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5873 
I Must Be Missing Something 5873 
I put sliders under my speakers 5872 
ROOM 5871 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5871 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5871 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5871 
No concerns 5871 
Speakers and room 5871 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5870 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5870 
Diaphram 5870 
Phram 5870 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5870 
Perfect piston 5870 
Decorater 5869 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5869 
New morning 5868 
The first take on the room with RTA 5867 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5867 
Axiomatic 5867 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5866 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5866 
The size of the bass. 5866 
Bass Factory 5866 
Crude Level, or something more? 5866 
I will play with it this week…. 5866 
Rent-A 5866 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5866 
Corner horns 5866 
Cheating from below 5866 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5866 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5865 
A possibly overly simplified view 5865 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5865 
Iceberg 5865 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5865 
Why not horn 5865 
A correction…. 5865 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5865 
They are just not related things at all. 5865 
Fertin 5863 
Low resonance is good... 5863 
Et tu, Brute? 5862 
The Room response at LF 5861 
Life On The Ground Floor 5861 
Bass arrays 5861 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5861 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5861 
The super sucks. 5861 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5861 
You may also try 5860 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5860 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5860 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5860 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5860 
60 Hz Resonance 5860 
No notching… so far. 5860 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5859 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5859 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5859 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5859 
Power to the People 5859 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5859 
Aura 5859 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5859 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5859 
All class D is the same 5859 
Interpreting the LF results. 5858 
The Halibut 5858 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5858 
The Big Picture 5858 
Power & ULF channels 5858 
The big picture indeed. 5858 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5858 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5858 
The Power and the Glory 5857 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5857 
I guess I did not get this memo 5857 
French LF drivers 5857 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5857 
(another) French LF approach 5856 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5856 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5856 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5856 
Limpschtick 5856 
Symmetry 5856 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5855 
Room correction 5855 
It migh be more complicated. 5855 
Bass EQ ? 5855 
Agree and not. 5855 
Two "diseases" 5855 
Parametric filters 5855 
Ceiling arrays 5855 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5855 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5855 
The Middle of the Room. 5855 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5855 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5855 
Stop! 5855 
Appendectomy 5855 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5854 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5854 
No Isolation 5854 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5851 
Potential contenders? 5850 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5850 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5850 
Those Crazy Canucks 5846 
Mo' Better Bass 5840 
Bird in the Hand? 5840 
A wet listening spot? 5833 
Storm 5830 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5830 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5816 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5786 
Polar Opposite ULF 5785 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5773 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5771 
Differently but the same. 5770 
PVC 5769 
The sail test try. 5769 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5769 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5769 
Trial 5768 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5768 
Some explanations 5768 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5767 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5766 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5765 
Acrylate 5764 
Magic blanket 5764 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5763 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5763 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5763 
I have a few options. 5763 
Foam color 5763 
Strange things with upperbass 5763 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5762 
Teatro reform. . . 5762 
The foaming room dilemma. 5761 
Melamine Foam 5761 
Foaming up the cat house 5761 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5761 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5761 
Acoustic revisions… 5760 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5757 
Surprises so far in the new room 5756 
The upperbass in the new room. 5756 
Slight change of hart. 5755 
Camco supply of Boston 5753 
Room acoustics 5753 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5712 
I need to kill dust first. 5712 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5710 
To feed the leeches? 5710 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5709 
Yh 5709 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5709 
DPOLs? 5709 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5709 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5706 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5706 
A HalfPipe solution? 5706 
I absolutely love it. 5706 
Piper work 5705 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5705 
Absorption 5705 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5704 
Cats life ? 5704 
Call me Pussy. 5704 
More about traps 5704 
Acoustic impedance? 5704 
You maybe right 5704 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5704 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5703 
Heavy Curtain 5703 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5702 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5702 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5702 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5699 
Fix speaker move chair? 5698 
Back and forth ceremony 5698 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5697 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5696 
Glass windows 5695 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5694 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5693 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5691 
How to use basement jacks? 5691 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5691 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5691 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5690 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5690 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5689 
Sore eyes... 5688 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5688 
The harvesting week! 5686 
I need an inspiration… 5685 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5684 
Like this? 5684 
Dramatically randomize MF 5684 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5683 
The room eats dynamic 5683 
Diffusers 5683 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5682 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5667 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5666 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5666 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5666 
About Width-Importance balance. 5664 
Letting the music scale up 5663 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5663 
To finish my house décor… 5659 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5658 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5657 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5657 
Calling the gods of music 5657 
Absolutely 5657 
Phase manipulation 5657 
No relation. 5657 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5657 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5657 
Dynamical mismatch 5656 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5656 
Stradiwinerius? 5653 
Dealing with the glass. 5652 
Boston 5652 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5652 
Added mass 5652 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5652 
It is about moderation…. 5652 
To hell with the wine... 5652 
Also for other surafaces 5651 
LEAD 5651 
LEAD & GLASS 5651 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5651 
Read carefully 5651 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5651 
Crooks and morons 5651 
Magiscopios 5650 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5630 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5630 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5629 
The LP setup in the new home. 5578 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5573 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5573 
Pianochord will do! 5573 
Spanyi heaven 5573 
I see no conflict at all. 5573 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5573 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5573 
A year after closing 5565 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5565 
Traveling antimatter 5558 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5552 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5551 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5525 
Cast Iron fireplace 5524 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5524 
The hardcore way 5524 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5488 
This is How It's Done 5487 
Listening room during summer. 5475 
What about those... 5474 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5474 
Reducing A/C Noise 5474 
HVAC the Cat 5474 
Big Ass fan 5473 
Variac dimmers 5473 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5473 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5473 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5405 
Some winter observations. 5296 
That Asian man…. 5265 
The Franz Schubert morning 5239 
Spring.... 5188 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5138 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5109 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5109 
Just good photography? 5109 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5109 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5109 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5108 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5108 
Sports car 5108 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5108 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5108 
Train Positioning 5108 
Kind of what I want 5108 
The lap listening… 5108 
Family Room 5108 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5105 
A super audio room. 5101 
Time Warp! 5101 
A piano in a listening room 5080 
Pianissimo 5080 
The plan in blue. 5080 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5080 
My doubts 5080 
It is exactly what I worry. 5079 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5079 
Musicians at home 5079 
Piano Measurements 5078 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5073 
The next step. 5059 
Midbass horns missing?? 5058 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5048 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5048 
Baby Grand 5047 
Wood floor 5047 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5047 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5047 
Amy’s baby. 5045 
Improvement 5045 
Agree with Scott 5045 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5033 
Integrated casters 5033 
Very nice, thanks. 5033 
Customization 5033 
Sliders 5033 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5026 
Congratulations 5026 
Holes in the floor... 5026 
Tubes and kids 5026 
Sweet spot enlargement 5026 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5024 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5023 
Wood Floors and Water 5023 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5018 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5017 
WAF is for Losers 5017 
WAF: it depends. 5017 
Integration 5016 
Here and there. 5016 
Life after WWIII 5016 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5016 
Cables management. 5014 
Featurizing 5014 
Kids and tubes cont. 5011 
Kid magnet 5011 
Kids and audio 5010 
Radars 5010 
Wow, what the days! 5006 
The comming weekend 5002 
It all was worth it! 4999 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4994 
Here is how it is look. 4994 
Resolving the carpet issue 4994 
Bonfire 4994 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4994 
Proof of concept? 4994 
Geometry 4994 
A view from listening position. 4994 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4994 
Some feedback 4994 
Evening 4994 
I wonder why. 4993 
Rugs and things 4993 
In defense… 4993 
I can’t get it. 4990 
Haze. 4989 
Front wall 4989 
It is very possible. 4989 
It is nice to be back. 4986 
My comfy corner. 4983 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4623 
WMD in house. 4445 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4348 
The third listening spot. 4327 
For sure a very different experience. 4289 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4284 
It's Jfretch's system. 4284 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4283 
Domestic games 4237 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4098 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4098 
Dynamic screening 4098 
Actually this is very good idea! 4098 
Volcanic fabric 4098 
I should have done this. 4096 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4092 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4061 
No worries 4061 
Awesome memories 4061 
Optimization of space 4061 
Child-ish considerations 4058 
Finding peace.... 4052 
"Fencing"? 4051 
I need to build something custom 4051 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4051 
Stressed Skin 4051 
NYC elevators 4051 
Kids toys and quantities. 4051 
Everything is completely reversible 4050 
Racks and things 4050 
Now it looks even more promising! 4050 
Quantity of rods 4050 
Avoiding diagonals 4048 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4047 
That's not fair! 4047 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4047 
Discrimination? 4042 
Vertical configuration 4035 
Impresive ! 3964 
Did you read the site? 3964 
Contact 3964 
Company's name is Rixrax 3964 
Stand 3963 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3919 
End of life headphone system 3919 
Something like this? 3919 
The "Second Living Room" 3919 
Mixing urban & suburban 3919 
Late night listening 3919 
Moving life... 3917 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3917 
A true listening room. 3893 
It started… 3878 
Levels of Interest 3878 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3878 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3878 
I can't not to post it.... 3878 
Do not leave him unattended. 3878 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3878 
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