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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6002 
The first take on the new room. 5996 
New Room, a first shot. 5995 
Wonderful 5995 
Adopted 5994 
The first relaxed night with the room 5992 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5991 
The listening room is ready. 5990 
New Room, a First Shot 5988 
Continue to work with the room 5988 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5988 
Room 5987 
I think it will take another month. 5987 
The Buttressing 5987 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5986 
The new place and the new noises. 5986 
Big listening room 5985 
Screw the "big" rooms 5985 
Big listening rooms 5985 
First reflection points 5984 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5984 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5981 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5980 
Squeezing the floor 5980 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5980 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5980 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5979 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5979 
The new room, the very first listening. 5979 
The 14.5 foot. 5978 
Again… 5977 
Romy's new Playground 5977 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5977 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5977 
For the uninitiated ... 5976 
NH guy 5976 
Room 5976 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5975 
The first base is done 5975 
Reentry time alignment. 5974 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5973 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5973 
Mid bass horn. 5973 
Guess is only a guess… 5973 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5973 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5972 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5972 
Diffusors 5972 
Diffuse injection 5972 
Let analyse why it so 5972 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5972 
Wheel and Deal 5972 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5972 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5972 
I Must Be Missing Something 5972 
I put sliders under my speakers 5971 
ROOM 5970 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5970 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5970 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5970 
No concerns 5970 
Speakers and room 5970 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5969 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5969 
Diaphram 5969 
Phram 5969 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5969 
Perfect piston 5969 
Decorater 5968 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5968 
New morning 5967 
The first take on the room with RTA 5966 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5966 
Axiomatic 5966 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5965 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5965 
The size of the bass. 5965 
Bass Factory 5965 
Crude Level, or something more? 5965 
I will play with it this week…. 5965 
Rent-A 5965 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5965 
Corner horns 5965 
Cheating from below 5965 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5965 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5964 
A possibly overly simplified view 5964 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5964 
Iceberg 5964 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5964 
Why not horn 5964 
A correction…. 5964 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5964 
They are just not related things at all. 5964 
Fertin 5962 
Low resonance is good... 5962 
Et tu, Brute? 5961 
The Room response at LF 5960 
Life On The Ground Floor 5960 
Bass arrays 5960 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5960 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5960 
The super sucks. 5960 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5960 
You may also try 5959 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5959 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5959 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5959 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5959 
60 Hz Resonance 5959 
No notching… so far. 5959 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5958 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5958 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5958 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5958 
Power to the People 5958 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5958 
Aura 5958 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5958 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5958 
All class D is the same 5958 
Interpreting the LF results. 5957 
The Halibut 5957 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5957 
The Big Picture 5957 
Power & ULF channels 5957 
The big picture indeed. 5957 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5957 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5957 
The Power and the Glory 5956 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5956 
I guess I did not get this memo 5956 
French LF drivers 5956 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5956 
(another) French LF approach 5955 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5955 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5955 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5955 
Limpschtick 5955 
Symmetry 5955 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5954 
Room correction 5954 
It migh be more complicated. 5954 
Bass EQ ? 5954 
Agree and not. 5954 
Two "diseases" 5954 
Parametric filters 5954 
Ceiling arrays 5954 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5954 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5954 
The Middle of the Room. 5954 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5954 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5954 
Stop! 5954 
Appendectomy 5954 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5953 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5953 
No Isolation 5953 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5950 
Potential contenders? 5949 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5949 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5949 
Those Crazy Canucks 5945 
Mo' Better Bass 5939 
Bird in the Hand? 5939 
A wet listening spot? 5932 
Storm 5929 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5929 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5915 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5885 
Polar Opposite ULF 5884 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5872 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5870 
Differently but the same. 5869 
PVC 5868 
The sail test try. 5868 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5868 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5868 
Trial 5867 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5867 
Some explanations 5867 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5866 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5865 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5864 
Acrylate 5863 
Magic blanket 5863 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5862 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5862 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5862 
I have a few options. 5862 
Foam color 5862 
Strange things with upperbass 5862 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5861 
Teatro reform. . . 5861 
The foaming room dilemma. 5860 
Melamine Foam 5860 
Foaming up the cat house 5860 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5860 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5860 
Acoustic revisions… 5859 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5856 
Surprises so far in the new room 5855 
The upperbass in the new room. 5855 
Slight change of hart. 5854 
Camco supply of Boston 5852 
Room acoustics 5852 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5811 
I need to kill dust first. 5811 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5809 
To feed the leeches? 5809 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5808 
Yh 5808 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5808 
DPOLs? 5808 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5808 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5805 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5805 
A HalfPipe solution? 5805 
I absolutely love it. 5805 
Piper work 5804 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5804 
Absorption 5804 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5803 
Cats life ? 5803 
Call me Pussy. 5803 
More about traps 5803 
Acoustic impedance? 5803 
You maybe right 5803 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5803 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5802 
Heavy Curtain 5802 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5801 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5801 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5801 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5798 
Fix speaker move chair? 5797 
Back and forth ceremony 5797 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5796 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5795 
Glass windows 5794 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5793 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5792 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5790 
How to use basement jacks? 5790 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5790 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5790 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5789 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5789 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5788 
Sore eyes... 5787 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5787 
The harvesting week! 5785 
I need an inspiration… 5784 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5783 
Like this? 5783 
Dramatically randomize MF 5783 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5782 
The room eats dynamic 5782 
Diffusers 5782 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5781 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5766 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5765 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5765 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5765 
About Width-Importance balance. 5763 
Letting the music scale up 5762 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5762 
To finish my house décor… 5758 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5757 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5756 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5756 
Calling the gods of music 5756 
Absolutely 5756 
Phase manipulation 5756 
No relation. 5756 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5756 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5756 
Dynamical mismatch 5755 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5755 
Stradiwinerius? 5752 
Dealing with the glass. 5751 
Boston 5751 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5751 
Added mass 5751 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5751 
It is about moderation…. 5751 
To hell with the wine... 5751 
Also for other surafaces 5750 
LEAD 5750 
LEAD & GLASS 5750 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5750 
Read carefully 5750 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5750 
Crooks and morons 5750 
Magiscopios 5749 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5729 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5729 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5728 
The LP setup in the new home. 5677 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5672 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5672 
Pianochord will do! 5672 
Spanyi heaven 5672 
I see no conflict at all. 5672 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5672 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5672 
A year after closing 5664 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5664 
Traveling antimatter 5657 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5651 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5650 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5624 
Cast Iron fireplace 5623 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5623 
The hardcore way 5623 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5587 
This is How It's Done 5586 
Listening room during summer. 5574 
What about those... 5573 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5573 
Reducing A/C Noise 5573 
HVAC the Cat 5573 
Big Ass fan 5572 
Variac dimmers 5572 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5572 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5572 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5504 
Some winter observations. 5395 
That Asian man…. 5364 
The Franz Schubert morning 5338 
Spring.... 5287 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5237 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5208 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5208 
Just good photography? 5208 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5208 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5208 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5207 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5207 
Sports car 5207 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5207 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5207 
Train Positioning 5207 
Kind of what I want 5207 
The lap listening… 5207 
Family Room 5207 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5204 
A super audio room. 5200 
Time Warp! 5200 
A piano in a listening room 5179 
Pianissimo 5179 
The plan in blue. 5179 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5179 
My doubts 5179 
It is exactly what I worry. 5178 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5178 
Musicians at home 5178 
Piano Measurements 5177 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5172 
The next step. 5158 
Midbass horns missing?? 5157 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5147 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5147 
Baby Grand 5146 
Wood floor 5146 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5146 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5146 
Amy’s baby. 5144 
Improvement 5144 
Agree with Scott 5144 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5132 
Integrated casters 5132 
Very nice, thanks. 5132 
Customization 5132 
Sliders 5132 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5125 
Congratulations 5125 
Holes in the floor... 5125 
Tubes and kids 5125 
Sweet spot enlargement 5125 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5123 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5122 
Wood Floors and Water 5122 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5117 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5116 
WAF is for Losers 5116 
WAF: it depends. 5116 
Integration 5115 
Here and there. 5115 
Life after WWIII 5115 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5115 
Cables management. 5113 
Featurizing 5113 
Kids and tubes cont. 5110 
Kid magnet 5110 
Kids and audio 5109 
Radars 5109 
Wow, what the days! 5105 
The comming weekend 5101 
It all was worth it! 5098 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5093 
Here is how it is look. 5093 
Resolving the carpet issue 5093 
Bonfire 5093 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5093 
Proof of concept? 5093 
Geometry 5093 
A view from listening position. 5093 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5093 
Some feedback 5093 
Evening 5093 
I wonder why. 5092 
Rugs and things 5092 
In defense… 5092 
I can’t get it. 5089 
Haze. 5088 
Front wall 5088 
It is very possible. 5088 
It is nice to be back. 5085 
My comfy corner. 5082 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4722 
WMD in house. 4544 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4447 
The third listening spot. 4426 
For sure a very different experience. 4388 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4383 
It's Jfretch's system. 4383 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4382 
Domestic games 4336 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4197 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4197 
Dynamic screening 4197 
Actually this is very good idea! 4197 
Volcanic fabric 4197 
I should have done this. 4195 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4191 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4160 
No worries 4160 
Awesome memories 4160 
Optimization of space 4160 
Child-ish considerations 4157 
Finding peace.... 4151 
"Fencing"? 4150 
I need to build something custom 4150 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4150 
Stressed Skin 4150 
NYC elevators 4150 
Kids toys and quantities. 4150 
Everything is completely reversible 4149 
Racks and things 4149 
Now it looks even more promising! 4149 
Quantity of rods 4149 
Avoiding diagonals 4147 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4146 
That's not fair! 4146 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4146 
Discrimination? 4141 
Vertical configuration 4134 
Impresive ! 4063 
Did you read the site? 4063 
Contact 4063 
Company's name is Rixrax 4063 
Stand 4062 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4018 
End of life headphone system 4018 
Something like this? 4018 
The "Second Living Room" 4018 
Mixing urban & suburban 4018 
Late night listening 4018 
Moving life... 4016 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4016 
A true listening room. 3992 
It started… 3977 
Levels of Interest 3977 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3977 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3977 
I can't not to post it.... 3977 
Do not leave him unattended. 3977 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3977 
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