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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5933 
The first take on the new room. 5927 
New Room, a first shot. 5926 
Wonderful 5926 
Adopted 5925 
The first relaxed night with the room 5923 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5922 
The listening room is ready. 5921 
New Room, a First Shot 5919 
Continue to work with the room 5919 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5919 
Room 5918 
I think it will take another month. 5918 
The Buttressing 5918 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5917 
The new place and the new noises. 5917 
Big listening room 5916 
Screw the "big" rooms 5916 
Big listening rooms 5916 
First reflection points 5915 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5915 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5912 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5911 
Squeezing the floor 5911 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5911 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5911 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5910 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5910 
The new room, the very first listening. 5910 
The 14.5 foot. 5909 
Again… 5908 
Romy's new Playground 5908 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5908 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5908 
For the uninitiated ... 5907 
NH guy 5907 
Room 5907 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5906 
The first base is done 5906 
Reentry time alignment. 5905 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5904 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5904 
Mid bass horn. 5904 
Guess is only a guess… 5904 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5904 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5903 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5903 
Diffusors 5903 
Diffuse injection 5903 
Let analyse why it so 5903 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5903 
Wheel and Deal 5903 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5903 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5903 
I Must Be Missing Something 5903 
I put sliders under my speakers 5902 
ROOM 5901 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5901 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5901 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5901 
No concerns 5901 
Speakers and room 5901 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5900 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5900 
Diaphram 5900 
Phram 5900 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5900 
Perfect piston 5900 
Decorater 5899 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5899 
New morning 5898 
The first take on the room with RTA 5897 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5897 
Axiomatic 5897 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5896 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5896 
The size of the bass. 5896 
Bass Factory 5896 
Crude Level, or something more? 5896 
I will play with it this week…. 5896 
Rent-A 5896 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5896 
Corner horns 5896 
Cheating from below 5896 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5896 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5895 
A possibly overly simplified view 5895 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5895 
Iceberg 5895 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5895 
Why not horn 5895 
A correction…. 5895 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5895 
They are just not related things at all. 5895 
Fertin 5893 
Low resonance is good... 5893 
Et tu, Brute? 5892 
The Room response at LF 5891 
Life On The Ground Floor 5891 
Bass arrays 5891 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5891 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5891 
The super sucks. 5891 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5891 
You may also try 5890 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5890 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5890 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5890 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5890 
60 Hz Resonance 5890 
No notching… so far. 5890 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5889 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5889 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5889 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5889 
Power to the People 5889 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5889 
Aura 5889 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5889 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5889 
All class D is the same 5889 
Interpreting the LF results. 5888 
The Halibut 5888 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5888 
The Big Picture 5888 
Power & ULF channels 5888 
The big picture indeed. 5888 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5888 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5888 
The Power and the Glory 5887 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5887 
I guess I did not get this memo 5887 
French LF drivers 5887 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5887 
(another) French LF approach 5886 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5886 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5886 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5886 
Limpschtick 5886 
Symmetry 5886 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5885 
Room correction 5885 
It migh be more complicated. 5885 
Bass EQ ? 5885 
Agree and not. 5885 
Two "diseases" 5885 
Parametric filters 5885 
Ceiling arrays 5885 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5885 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5885 
The Middle of the Room. 5885 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5885 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5885 
Stop! 5885 
Appendectomy 5885 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5884 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5884 
No Isolation 5884 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5881 
Potential contenders? 5880 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5880 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5880 
Those Crazy Canucks 5876 
Mo' Better Bass 5870 
Bird in the Hand? 5870 
A wet listening spot? 5863 
Storm 5860 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5860 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5846 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5816 
Polar Opposite ULF 5815 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5803 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5801 
Differently but the same. 5800 
PVC 5799 
The sail test try. 5799 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5799 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5799 
Trial 5798 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5798 
Some explanations 5798 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5797 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5796 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5795 
Acrylate 5794 
Magic blanket 5794 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5793 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5793 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5793 
I have a few options. 5793 
Foam color 5793 
Strange things with upperbass 5793 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5792 
Teatro reform. . . 5792 
The foaming room dilemma. 5791 
Melamine Foam 5791 
Foaming up the cat house 5791 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5791 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5791 
Acoustic revisions… 5790 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5787 
Surprises so far in the new room 5786 
The upperbass in the new room. 5786 
Slight change of hart. 5785 
Camco supply of Boston 5783 
Room acoustics 5783 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5742 
I need to kill dust first. 5742 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5740 
To feed the leeches? 5740 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5739 
Yh 5739 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5739 
DPOLs? 5739 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5739 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5736 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5736 
A HalfPipe solution? 5736 
I absolutely love it. 5736 
Piper work 5735 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5735 
Absorption 5735 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5734 
Cats life ? 5734 
Call me Pussy. 5734 
More about traps 5734 
Acoustic impedance? 5734 
You maybe right 5734 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5734 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5733 
Heavy Curtain 5733 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5732 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5732 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5732 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5729 
Fix speaker move chair? 5728 
Back and forth ceremony 5728 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5727 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5726 
Glass windows 5725 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5724 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5723 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5721 
How to use basement jacks? 5721 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5721 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5721 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5720 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5720 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5719 
Sore eyes... 5718 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5718 
The harvesting week! 5716 
I need an inspiration… 5715 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5714 
Like this? 5714 
Dramatically randomize MF 5714 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5713 
The room eats dynamic 5713 
Diffusers 5713 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5712 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5697 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5696 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5696 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5696 
About Width-Importance balance. 5694 
Letting the music scale up 5693 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5693 
To finish my house décor… 5689 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5688 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5687 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5687 
Calling the gods of music 5687 
Absolutely 5687 
Phase manipulation 5687 
No relation. 5687 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5687 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5687 
Dynamical mismatch 5686 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5686 
Stradiwinerius? 5683 
Dealing with the glass. 5682 
Boston 5682 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5682 
Added mass 5682 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5682 
It is about moderation…. 5682 
To hell with the wine... 5682 
Also for other surafaces 5681 
LEAD 5681 
LEAD & GLASS 5681 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5681 
Read carefully 5681 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5681 
Crooks and morons 5681 
Magiscopios 5680 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5660 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5660 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5659 
The LP setup in the new home. 5608 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5603 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5603 
Pianochord will do! 5603 
Spanyi heaven 5603 
I see no conflict at all. 5603 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5603 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5603 
A year after closing 5595 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5595 
Traveling antimatter 5588 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5582 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5581 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5555 
Cast Iron fireplace 5554 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5554 
The hardcore way 5554 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5518 
This is How It's Done 5517 
Listening room during summer. 5505 
What about those... 5504 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5504 
Reducing A/C Noise 5504 
HVAC the Cat 5504 
Big Ass fan 5503 
Variac dimmers 5503 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5503 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5503 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5435 
Some winter observations. 5326 
That Asian man…. 5295 
The Franz Schubert morning 5269 
Spring.... 5218 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5168 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5139 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5139 
Just good photography? 5139 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5139 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5139 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5138 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5138 
Sports car 5138 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5138 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5138 
Train Positioning 5138 
Kind of what I want 5138 
The lap listening… 5138 
Family Room 5138 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5135 
A super audio room. 5131 
Time Warp! 5131 
A piano in a listening room 5110 
Pianissimo 5110 
The plan in blue. 5110 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5110 
My doubts 5110 
It is exactly what I worry. 5109 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5109 
Musicians at home 5109 
Piano Measurements 5108 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5103 
The next step. 5089 
Midbass horns missing?? 5088 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5078 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5078 
Baby Grand 5077 
Wood floor 5077 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5077 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5077 
Amy’s baby. 5075 
Improvement 5075 
Agree with Scott 5075 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5063 
Integrated casters 5063 
Very nice, thanks. 5063 
Customization 5063 
Sliders 5063 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5056 
Congratulations 5056 
Holes in the floor... 5056 
Tubes and kids 5056 
Sweet spot enlargement 5056 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5054 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5053 
Wood Floors and Water 5053 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5048 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5047 
WAF is for Losers 5047 
WAF: it depends. 5047 
Integration 5046 
Here and there. 5046 
Life after WWIII 5046 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5046 
Cables management. 5044 
Featurizing 5044 
Kids and tubes cont. 5041 
Kid magnet 5041 
Kids and audio 5040 
Radars 5040 
Wow, what the days! 5036 
The comming weekend 5032 
It all was worth it! 5029 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5024 
Here is how it is look. 5024 
Resolving the carpet issue 5024 
Bonfire 5024 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5024 
Proof of concept? 5024 
Geometry 5024 
A view from listening position. 5024 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5024 
Some feedback 5024 
Evening 5024 
I wonder why. 5023 
Rugs and things 5023 
In defense… 5023 
I can’t get it. 5020 
Haze. 5019 
Front wall 5019 
It is very possible. 5019 
It is nice to be back. 5016 
My comfy corner. 5013 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4653 
WMD in house. 4475 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4378 
The third listening spot. 4357 
For sure a very different experience. 4319 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4314 
It's Jfretch's system. 4314 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4313 
Domestic games 4267 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4128 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4128 
Dynamic screening 4128 
Actually this is very good idea! 4128 
Volcanic fabric 4128 
I should have done this. 4126 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4122 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4091 
No worries 4091 
Awesome memories 4091 
Optimization of space 4091 
Child-ish considerations 4088 
Finding peace.... 4082 
"Fencing"? 4081 
I need to build something custom 4081 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4081 
Stressed Skin 4081 
NYC elevators 4081 
Kids toys and quantities. 4081 
Everything is completely reversible 4080 
Racks and things 4080 
Now it looks even more promising! 4080 
Quantity of rods 4080 
Avoiding diagonals 4078 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4077 
That's not fair! 4077 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4077 
Discrimination? 4072 
Vertical configuration 4065 
Impresive ! 3994 
Did you read the site? 3994 
Contact 3994 
Company's name is Rixrax 3994 
Stand 3993 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3949 
End of life headphone system 3949 
Something like this? 3949 
The "Second Living Room" 3949 
Mixing urban & suburban 3949 
Late night listening 3949 
Moving life... 3947 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3947 
A true listening room. 3923 
It started… 3908 
Levels of Interest 3908 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3908 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3908 
I can't not to post it.... 3908 
Do not leave him unattended. 3908 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3908 
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