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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5876 
The first take on the new room. 5870 
New Room, a first shot. 5869 
Wonderful 5869 
Adopted 5868 
The first relaxed night with the room 5866 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5865 
The listening room is ready. 5864 
New Room, a First Shot 5862 
Continue to work with the room 5862 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5862 
Room 5861 
I think it will take another month. 5861 
The Buttressing 5861 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5860 
The new place and the new noises. 5860 
Big listening room 5859 
Screw the "big" rooms 5859 
Big listening rooms 5859 
First reflection points 5858 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5858 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5855 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5854 
Squeezing the floor 5854 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5854 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5854 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5853 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5853 
The new room, the very first listening. 5853 
The 14.5 foot. 5852 
Again… 5851 
Romy's new Playground 5851 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5851 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5851 
For the uninitiated ... 5850 
NH guy 5850 
Room 5850 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5849 
The first base is done 5849 
Reentry time alignment. 5848 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5847 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5847 
Mid bass horn. 5847 
Guess is only a guess… 5847 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5847 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5846 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5846 
Diffusors 5846 
Diffuse injection 5846 
Let analyse why it so 5846 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5846 
Wheel and Deal 5846 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5846 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5846 
I Must Be Missing Something 5846 
I put sliders under my speakers 5845 
ROOM 5844 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5844 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5844 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5844 
No concerns 5844 
Speakers and room 5844 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5843 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5843 
Diaphram 5843 
Phram 5843 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5843 
Perfect piston 5843 
Decorater 5842 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5842 
New morning 5841 
The first take on the room with RTA 5840 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5840 
Axiomatic 5840 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5839 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5839 
The size of the bass. 5839 
Bass Factory 5839 
Crude Level, or something more? 5839 
I will play with it this week…. 5839 
Rent-A 5839 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5839 
Corner horns 5839 
Cheating from below 5839 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5839 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5838 
A possibly overly simplified view 5838 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5838 
Iceberg 5838 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5838 
Why not horn 5838 
A correction…. 5838 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5838 
They are just not related things at all. 5838 
Fertin 5836 
Low resonance is good... 5836 
Et tu, Brute? 5835 
The Room response at LF 5834 
Life On The Ground Floor 5834 
Bass arrays 5834 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5834 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5834 
The super sucks. 5834 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5834 
You may also try 5833 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5833 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5833 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5833 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5833 
60 Hz Resonance 5833 
No notching… so far. 5833 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5832 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5832 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5832 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5832 
Power to the People 5832 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5832 
Aura 5832 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5832 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5832 
All class D is the same 5832 
Interpreting the LF results. 5831 
The Halibut 5831 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5831 
The Big Picture 5831 
Power & ULF channels 5831 
The big picture indeed. 5831 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5831 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5831 
The Power and the Glory 5830 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5830 
I guess I did not get this memo 5830 
French LF drivers 5830 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5830 
(another) French LF approach 5829 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5829 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5829 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5829 
Limpschtick 5829 
Symmetry 5829 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5828 
Room correction 5828 
It migh be more complicated. 5828 
Bass EQ ? 5828 
Agree and not. 5828 
Two "diseases" 5828 
Parametric filters 5828 
Ceiling arrays 5828 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5828 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5828 
The Middle of the Room. 5828 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5828 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5828 
Stop! 5828 
Appendectomy 5828 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5827 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5827 
No Isolation 5827 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5824 
Potential contenders? 5823 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5823 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5823 
Those Crazy Canucks 5819 
Mo' Better Bass 5813 
Bird in the Hand? 5813 
A wet listening spot? 5806 
Storm 5803 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5803 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5789 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5759 
Polar Opposite ULF 5758 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5746 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5744 
Differently but the same. 5743 
PVC 5742 
The sail test try. 5742 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5742 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5742 
Trial 5741 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5741 
Some explanations 5741 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5740 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5739 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5738 
Acrylate 5737 
Magic blanket 5737 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5736 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5736 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5736 
I have a few options. 5736 
Foam color 5736 
Strange things with upperbass 5736 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5735 
Teatro reform. . . 5735 
The foaming room dilemma. 5734 
Melamine Foam 5734 
Foaming up the cat house 5734 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5734 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5734 
Acoustic revisions… 5733 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5730 
Surprises so far in the new room 5729 
The upperbass in the new room. 5729 
Slight change of hart. 5728 
Camco supply of Boston 5726 
Room acoustics 5726 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5685 
I need to kill dust first. 5685 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5683 
To feed the leeches? 5683 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5682 
Yh 5682 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5682 
DPOLs? 5682 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5682 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5679 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5679 
A HalfPipe solution? 5679 
I absolutely love it. 5679 
Piper work 5678 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5678 
Absorption 5678 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5677 
Cats life ? 5677 
Call me Pussy. 5677 
More about traps 5677 
Acoustic impedance? 5677 
You maybe right 5677 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5677 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5676 
Heavy Curtain 5676 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5675 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5675 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5675 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5672 
Fix speaker move chair? 5671 
Back and forth ceremony 5671 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5670 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5669 
Glass windows 5668 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5667 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5666 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5664 
How to use basement jacks? 5664 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5664 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5664 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5663 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5663 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5662 
Sore eyes... 5661 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5661 
The harvesting week! 5659 
I need an inspiration… 5658 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5657 
Like this? 5657 
Dramatically randomize MF 5657 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5656 
The room eats dynamic 5656 
Diffusers 5656 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5655 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5640 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5639 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5639 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5639 
About Width-Importance balance. 5637 
Letting the music scale up 5636 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5636 
To finish my house décor… 5632 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5631 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5630 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5630 
Calling the gods of music 5630 
Absolutely 5630 
Phase manipulation 5630 
No relation. 5630 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5630 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5630 
Dynamical mismatch 5629 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5629 
Stradiwinerius? 5626 
Dealing with the glass. 5625 
Boston 5625 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5625 
Added mass 5625 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5625 
It is about moderation…. 5625 
To hell with the wine... 5625 
Also for other surafaces 5624 
LEAD 5624 
LEAD & GLASS 5624 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5624 
Read carefully 5624 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5624 
Crooks and morons 5624 
Magiscopios 5623 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5603 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5603 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5602 
The LP setup in the new home. 5551 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5546 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5546 
Pianochord will do! 5546 
Spanyi heaven 5546 
I see no conflict at all. 5546 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5546 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5546 
A year after closing 5538 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5538 
Traveling antimatter 5531 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5525 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5524 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5498 
Cast Iron fireplace 5497 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5497 
The hardcore way 5497 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5461 
This is How It's Done 5460 
Listening room during summer. 5448 
What about those... 5447 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5447 
Reducing A/C Noise 5447 
HVAC the Cat 5447 
Big Ass fan 5446 
Variac dimmers 5446 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5446 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5446 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5378 
Some winter observations. 5269 
That Asian man…. 5238 
The Franz Schubert morning 5212 
Spring.... 5161 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5111 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5082 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5082 
Just good photography? 5082 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5082 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5082 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5081 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5081 
Sports car 5081 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5081 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5081 
Train Positioning 5081 
Kind of what I want 5081 
The lap listening… 5081 
Family Room 5081 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5078 
A super audio room. 5074 
Time Warp! 5074 
A piano in a listening room 5053 
Pianissimo 5053 
The plan in blue. 5053 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5053 
My doubts 5053 
It is exactly what I worry. 5052 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5052 
Musicians at home 5052 
Piano Measurements 5051 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5046 
The next step. 5032 
Midbass horns missing?? 5031 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5021 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5021 
Baby Grand 5020 
Wood floor 5020 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5020 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5020 
Amy’s baby. 5018 
Improvement 5018 
Agree with Scott 5018 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5006 
Integrated casters 5006 
Very nice, thanks. 5006 
Customization 5006 
Sliders 5006 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4999 
Congratulations 4999 
Holes in the floor... 4999 
Tubes and kids 4999 
Sweet spot enlargement 4999 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4997 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4996 
Wood Floors and Water 4996 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4991 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4990 
WAF is for Losers 4990 
WAF: it depends. 4990 
Integration 4989 
Here and there. 4989 
Life after WWIII 4989 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4989 
Cables management. 4987 
Featurizing 4987 
Kids and tubes cont. 4984 
Kid magnet 4984 
Kids and audio 4983 
Radars 4983 
Wow, what the days! 4979 
The comming weekend 4975 
It all was worth it! 4972 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4967 
Here is how it is look. 4967 
Resolving the carpet issue 4967 
Bonfire 4967 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4967 
Proof of concept? 4967 
Geometry 4967 
A view from listening position. 4967 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4967 
Some feedback 4967 
Evening 4967 
I wonder why. 4966 
Rugs and things 4966 
In defense… 4966 
I can’t get it. 4963 
Haze. 4962 
Front wall 4962 
It is very possible. 4962 
It is nice to be back. 4959 
My comfy corner. 4956 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4596 
WMD in house. 4418 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4321 
The third listening spot. 4300 
For sure a very different experience. 4262 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4257 
It's Jfretch's system. 4257 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4256 
Domestic games 4210 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4071 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4071 
Dynamic screening 4071 
Actually this is very good idea! 4071 
Volcanic fabric 4071 
I should have done this. 4069 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4065 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4034 
No worries 4034 
Awesome memories 4034 
Optimization of space 4034 
Child-ish considerations 4031 
Finding peace.... 4025 
"Fencing"? 4024 
I need to build something custom 4024 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4024 
Stressed Skin 4024 
NYC elevators 4024 
Kids toys and quantities. 4024 
Everything is completely reversible 4023 
Racks and things 4023 
Now it looks even more promising! 4023 
Quantity of rods 4023 
Avoiding diagonals 4021 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4020 
That's not fair! 4020 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4020 
Discrimination? 4015 
Vertical configuration 4008 
Impresive ! 3937 
Did you read the site? 3937 
Contact 3937 
Company's name is Rixrax 3937 
Stand 3936 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3892 
End of life headphone system 3892 
Something like this? 3892 
The "Second Living Room" 3892 
Mixing urban & suburban 3892 
Late night listening 3892 
Moving life... 3890 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3890 
A true listening room. 3866 
It started… 3851 
Levels of Interest 3851 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3851 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3851 
I can't not to post it.... 3851 
Do not leave him unattended. 3851 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3851 
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