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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6016 
The first take on the new room. 6010 
New Room, a first shot. 6009 
Wonderful 6009 
Adopted 6008 
The first relaxed night with the room 6006 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6005 
The listening room is ready. 6004 
New Room, a First Shot 6002 
Continue to work with the room 6002 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6002 
Room 6001 
I think it will take another month. 6001 
The Buttressing 6001 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6000 
The new place and the new noises. 6000 
Big listening room 5999 
Screw the "big" rooms 5999 
Big listening rooms 5999 
First reflection points 5998 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5998 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5995 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5994 
Squeezing the floor 5994 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5994 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5994 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5993 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5993 
The new room, the very first listening. 5993 
The 14.5 foot. 5992 
Again… 5991 
Romy's new Playground 5991 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5991 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5991 
For the uninitiated ... 5990 
NH guy 5990 
Room 5990 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5989 
The first base is done 5989 
Reentry time alignment. 5988 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5987 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5987 
Mid bass horn. 5987 
Guess is only a guess… 5987 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5987 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5986 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5986 
Diffusors 5986 
Diffuse injection 5986 
Let analyse why it so 5986 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5986 
Wheel and Deal 5986 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5986 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5986 
I Must Be Missing Something 5986 
I put sliders under my speakers 5985 
ROOM 5984 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5984 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5984 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5984 
No concerns 5984 
Speakers and room 5984 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5983 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5983 
Diaphram 5983 
Phram 5983 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5983 
Perfect piston 5983 
Decorater 5982 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5982 
New morning 5981 
The first take on the room with RTA 5980 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5980 
Axiomatic 5980 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5979 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5979 
The size of the bass. 5979 
Bass Factory 5979 
Crude Level, or something more? 5979 
I will play with it this week…. 5979 
Rent-A 5979 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5979 
Corner horns 5979 
Cheating from below 5979 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5979 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5978 
A possibly overly simplified view 5978 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5978 
Iceberg 5978 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5978 
Why not horn 5978 
A correction…. 5978 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5978 
They are just not related things at all. 5978 
Fertin 5976 
Low resonance is good... 5976 
Et tu, Brute? 5975 
The Room response at LF 5974 
Life On The Ground Floor 5974 
Bass arrays 5974 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5974 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5974 
The super sucks. 5974 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5974 
You may also try 5973 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5973 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5973 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5973 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5973 
60 Hz Resonance 5973 
No notching… so far. 5973 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5972 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5972 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5972 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5972 
Power to the People 5972 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5972 
Aura 5972 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5972 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5972 
All class D is the same 5972 
Interpreting the LF results. 5971 
The Halibut 5971 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5971 
The Big Picture 5971 
Power & ULF channels 5971 
The big picture indeed. 5971 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5971 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5971 
The Power and the Glory 5970 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5970 
I guess I did not get this memo 5970 
French LF drivers 5970 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5970 
(another) French LF approach 5969 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5969 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5969 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5969 
Limpschtick 5969 
Symmetry 5969 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5968 
Room correction 5968 
It migh be more complicated. 5968 
Bass EQ ? 5968 
Agree and not. 5968 
Two "diseases" 5968 
Parametric filters 5968 
Ceiling arrays 5968 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5968 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5968 
The Middle of the Room. 5968 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5968 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5968 
Stop! 5968 
Appendectomy 5968 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5967 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5967 
No Isolation 5967 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5964 
Potential contenders? 5963 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5963 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5963 
Those Crazy Canucks 5959 
Mo' Better Bass 5953 
Bird in the Hand? 5953 
A wet listening spot? 5946 
Storm 5943 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5943 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5929 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5899 
Polar Opposite ULF 5898 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5886 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5884 
Differently but the same. 5883 
PVC 5882 
The sail test try. 5882 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5882 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5882 
Trial 5881 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5881 
Some explanations 5881 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5880 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5879 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5878 
Acrylate 5877 
Magic blanket 5877 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5876 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5876 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5876 
I have a few options. 5876 
Foam color 5876 
Strange things with upperbass 5876 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5875 
Teatro reform. . . 5875 
The foaming room dilemma. 5874 
Melamine Foam 5874 
Foaming up the cat house 5874 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5874 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5874 
Acoustic revisions… 5873 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5870 
Surprises so far in the new room 5869 
The upperbass in the new room. 5869 
Slight change of hart. 5868 
Camco supply of Boston 5866 
Room acoustics 5866 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5825 
I need to kill dust first. 5825 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5823 
To feed the leeches? 5823 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5822 
Yh 5822 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5822 
DPOLs? 5822 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5822 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5819 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5819 
A HalfPipe solution? 5819 
I absolutely love it. 5819 
Piper work 5818 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5818 
Absorption 5818 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5817 
Cats life ? 5817 
Call me Pussy. 5817 
More about traps 5817 
Acoustic impedance? 5817 
You maybe right 5817 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5817 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5816 
Heavy Curtain 5816 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5815 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5815 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5815 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5812 
Fix speaker move chair? 5811 
Back and forth ceremony 5811 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5810 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5809 
Glass windows 5808 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5807 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5806 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5804 
How to use basement jacks? 5804 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5804 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5804 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5803 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5803 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5802 
Sore eyes... 5801 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5801 
The harvesting week! 5799 
I need an inspiration… 5798 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5797 
Like this? 5797 
Dramatically randomize MF 5797 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5796 
The room eats dynamic 5796 
Diffusers 5796 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5795 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5780 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5779 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5779 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5779 
About Width-Importance balance. 5777 
Letting the music scale up 5776 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5776 
To finish my house décor… 5772 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5771 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5770 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5770 
Calling the gods of music 5770 
Absolutely 5770 
Phase manipulation 5770 
No relation. 5770 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5770 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5770 
Dynamical mismatch 5769 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5769 
Stradiwinerius? 5766 
Dealing with the glass. 5765 
Boston 5765 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5765 
Added mass 5765 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5765 
It is about moderation…. 5765 
To hell with the wine... 5765 
Also for other surafaces 5764 
LEAD 5764 
LEAD & GLASS 5764 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5764 
Read carefully 5764 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5764 
Crooks and morons 5764 
Magiscopios 5763 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5743 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5743 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5742 
The LP setup in the new home. 5691 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5686 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5686 
Pianochord will do! 5686 
Spanyi heaven 5686 
I see no conflict at all. 5686 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5686 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5686 
A year after closing 5678 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5678 
Traveling antimatter 5671 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5665 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5664 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5638 
Cast Iron fireplace 5637 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5637 
The hardcore way 5637 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5601 
This is How It's Done 5600 
Listening room during summer. 5588 
What about those... 5587 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5587 
Reducing A/C Noise 5587 
HVAC the Cat 5587 
Big Ass fan 5586 
Variac dimmers 5586 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5586 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5586 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5518 
Some winter observations. 5409 
That Asian man…. 5378 
The Franz Schubert morning 5352 
Spring.... 5301 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5251 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5222 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5222 
Just good photography? 5222 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5222 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5222 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5221 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5221 
Sports car 5221 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5221 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5221 
Train Positioning 5221 
Kind of what I want 5221 
The lap listening… 5221 
Family Room 5221 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5218 
A super audio room. 5214 
Time Warp! 5214 
A piano in a listening room 5193 
Pianissimo 5193 
The plan in blue. 5193 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5193 
My doubts 5193 
It is exactly what I worry. 5192 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5192 
Musicians at home 5192 
Piano Measurements 5191 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5186 
The next step. 5172 
Midbass horns missing?? 5171 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5161 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5161 
Baby Grand 5160 
Wood floor 5160 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5160 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5160 
Amy’s baby. 5158 
Improvement 5158 
Agree with Scott 5158 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5146 
Integrated casters 5146 
Very nice, thanks. 5146 
Customization 5146 
Sliders 5146 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5139 
Congratulations 5139 
Holes in the floor... 5139 
Tubes and kids 5139 
Sweet spot enlargement 5139 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5137 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5136 
Wood Floors and Water 5136 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5131 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5130 
WAF is for Losers 5130 
WAF: it depends. 5130 
Integration 5129 
Here and there. 5129 
Life after WWIII 5129 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5129 
Cables management. 5127 
Featurizing 5127 
Kids and tubes cont. 5124 
Kid magnet 5124 
Kids and audio 5123 
Radars 5123 
Wow, what the days! 5119 
The comming weekend 5115 
It all was worth it! 5112 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5107 
Here is how it is look. 5107 
Resolving the carpet issue 5107 
Bonfire 5107 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5107 
Proof of concept? 5107 
Geometry 5107 
A view from listening position. 5107 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5107 
Some feedback 5107 
Evening 5107 
I wonder why. 5106 
Rugs and things 5106 
In defense… 5106 
I can’t get it. 5103 
Haze. 5102 
Front wall 5102 
It is very possible. 5102 
It is nice to be back. 5099 
My comfy corner. 5096 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4736 
WMD in house. 4558 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4461 
The third listening spot. 4440 
For sure a very different experience. 4402 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4397 
It's Jfretch's system. 4397 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4396 
Domestic games 4350 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4211 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4211 
Dynamic screening 4211 
Actually this is very good idea! 4211 
Volcanic fabric 4211 
I should have done this. 4209 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4205 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4174 
No worries 4174 
Awesome memories 4174 
Optimization of space 4174 
Child-ish considerations 4171 
Finding peace.... 4165 
"Fencing"? 4164 
I need to build something custom 4164 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4164 
Stressed Skin 4164 
NYC elevators 4164 
Kids toys and quantities. 4164 
Everything is completely reversible 4163 
Racks and things 4163 
Now it looks even more promising! 4163 
Quantity of rods 4163 
Avoiding diagonals 4161 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4160 
That's not fair! 4160 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4160 
Discrimination? 4155 
Vertical configuration 4148 
Impresive ! 4077 
Did you read the site? 4077 
Contact 4077 
Company's name is Rixrax 4077 
Stand 4076 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4032 
End of life headphone system 4032 
Something like this? 4032 
The "Second Living Room" 4032 
Mixing urban & suburban 4032 
Late night listening 4032 
Moving life... 4030 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4030 
A true listening room. 4006 
It started… 3991 
Levels of Interest 3991 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3991 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3991 
I can't not to post it.... 3991 
Do not leave him unattended. 3991 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3991 
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