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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5899 
The first take on the new room. 5893 
New Room, a first shot. 5892 
Wonderful 5892 
Adopted 5891 
The first relaxed night with the room 5889 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5888 
The listening room is ready. 5887 
New Room, a First Shot 5885 
Continue to work with the room 5885 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5885 
Room 5884 
I think it will take another month. 5884 
The Buttressing 5884 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5883 
The new place and the new noises. 5883 
Big listening room 5882 
Screw the "big" rooms 5882 
Big listening rooms 5882 
First reflection points 5881 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5881 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5878 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5877 
Squeezing the floor 5877 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5877 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5877 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5876 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5876 
The new room, the very first listening. 5876 
The 14.5 foot. 5875 
Again… 5874 
Romy's new Playground 5874 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5874 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5874 
For the uninitiated ... 5873 
NH guy 5873 
Room 5873 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5872 
The first base is done 5872 
Reentry time alignment. 5871 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5870 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5870 
Mid bass horn. 5870 
Guess is only a guess… 5870 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5870 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5869 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5869 
Diffusors 5869 
Diffuse injection 5869 
Let analyse why it so 5869 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5869 
Wheel and Deal 5869 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5869 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5869 
I Must Be Missing Something 5869 
I put sliders under my speakers 5868 
ROOM 5867 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5867 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5867 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5867 
No concerns 5867 
Speakers and room 5867 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5866 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5866 
Diaphram 5866 
Phram 5866 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5866 
Perfect piston 5866 
Decorater 5865 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5865 
New morning 5864 
The first take on the room with RTA 5863 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5863 
Axiomatic 5863 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5862 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5862 
The size of the bass. 5862 
Bass Factory 5862 
Crude Level, or something more? 5862 
I will play with it this week…. 5862 
Rent-A 5862 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5862 
Corner horns 5862 
Cheating from below 5862 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5862 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5861 
A possibly overly simplified view 5861 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5861 
Iceberg 5861 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5861 
Why not horn 5861 
A correction…. 5861 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5861 
They are just not related things at all. 5861 
Fertin 5859 
Low resonance is good... 5859 
Et tu, Brute? 5858 
The Room response at LF 5857 
Life On The Ground Floor 5857 
Bass arrays 5857 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5857 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5857 
The super sucks. 5857 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5857 
You may also try 5856 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5856 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5856 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5856 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5856 
60 Hz Resonance 5856 
No notching… so far. 5856 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5855 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5855 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5855 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5855 
Power to the People 5855 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5855 
Aura 5855 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5855 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5855 
All class D is the same 5855 
Interpreting the LF results. 5854 
The Halibut 5854 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5854 
The Big Picture 5854 
Power & ULF channels 5854 
The big picture indeed. 5854 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5854 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5854 
The Power and the Glory 5853 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5853 
I guess I did not get this memo 5853 
French LF drivers 5853 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5853 
(another) French LF approach 5852 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5852 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5852 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5852 
Limpschtick 5852 
Symmetry 5852 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5851 
Room correction 5851 
It migh be more complicated. 5851 
Bass EQ ? 5851 
Agree and not. 5851 
Two "diseases" 5851 
Parametric filters 5851 
Ceiling arrays 5851 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5851 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5851 
The Middle of the Room. 5851 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5851 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5851 
Stop! 5851 
Appendectomy 5851 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5850 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5850 
No Isolation 5850 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5847 
Potential contenders? 5846 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5846 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5846 
Those Crazy Canucks 5842 
Mo' Better Bass 5836 
Bird in the Hand? 5836 
A wet listening spot? 5829 
Storm 5826 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5826 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5812 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5782 
Polar Opposite ULF 5781 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5769 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5767 
Differently but the same. 5766 
PVC 5765 
The sail test try. 5765 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5765 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5765 
Trial 5764 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5764 
Some explanations 5764 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5763 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5762 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5761 
Acrylate 5760 
Magic blanket 5760 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5759 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5759 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5759 
I have a few options. 5759 
Foam color 5759 
Strange things with upperbass 5759 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5758 
Teatro reform. . . 5758 
The foaming room dilemma. 5757 
Melamine Foam 5757 
Foaming up the cat house 5757 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5757 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5757 
Acoustic revisions… 5756 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5753 
Surprises so far in the new room 5752 
The upperbass in the new room. 5752 
Slight change of hart. 5751 
Camco supply of Boston 5749 
Room acoustics 5749 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5708 
I need to kill dust first. 5708 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5706 
To feed the leeches? 5706 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5705 
Yh 5705 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5705 
DPOLs? 5705 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5705 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5702 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5702 
A HalfPipe solution? 5702 
I absolutely love it. 5702 
Piper work 5701 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5701 
Absorption 5701 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5700 
Cats life ? 5700 
Call me Pussy. 5700 
More about traps 5700 
Acoustic impedance? 5700 
You maybe right 5700 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5700 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5699 
Heavy Curtain 5699 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5698 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5698 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5698 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5695 
Fix speaker move chair? 5694 
Back and forth ceremony 5694 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5693 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5692 
Glass windows 5691 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5690 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5689 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5687 
How to use basement jacks? 5687 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5687 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5687 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5686 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5686 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5685 
Sore eyes... 5684 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5684 
The harvesting week! 5682 
I need an inspiration… 5681 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5680 
Like this? 5680 
Dramatically randomize MF 5680 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5679 
The room eats dynamic 5679 
Diffusers 5679 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5678 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5663 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5662 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5662 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5662 
About Width-Importance balance. 5660 
Letting the music scale up 5659 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5659 
To finish my house décor… 5655 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5654 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5653 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5653 
Calling the gods of music 5653 
Absolutely 5653 
Phase manipulation 5653 
No relation. 5653 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5653 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5653 
Dynamical mismatch 5652 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5652 
Stradiwinerius? 5649 
Dealing with the glass. 5648 
Boston 5648 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5648 
Added mass 5648 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5648 
It is about moderation…. 5648 
To hell with the wine... 5648 
Also for other surafaces 5647 
LEAD 5647 
LEAD & GLASS 5647 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5647 
Read carefully 5647 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5647 
Crooks and morons 5647 
Magiscopios 5646 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5626 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5626 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5625 
The LP setup in the new home. 5574 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5569 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5569 
Pianochord will do! 5569 
Spanyi heaven 5569 
I see no conflict at all. 5569 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5569 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5569 
A year after closing 5561 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5561 
Traveling antimatter 5554 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5548 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5547 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5521 
Cast Iron fireplace 5520 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5520 
The hardcore way 5520 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5484 
This is How It's Done 5483 
Listening room during summer. 5471 
What about those... 5470 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5470 
Reducing A/C Noise 5470 
HVAC the Cat 5470 
Big Ass fan 5469 
Variac dimmers 5469 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5469 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5469 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5401 
Some winter observations. 5292 
That Asian man…. 5261 
The Franz Schubert morning 5235 
Spring.... 5184 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5134 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5105 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5105 
Just good photography? 5105 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5105 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5105 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5104 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5104 
Sports car 5104 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5104 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5104 
Train Positioning 5104 
Kind of what I want 5104 
The lap listening… 5104 
Family Room 5104 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5101 
A super audio room. 5097 
Time Warp! 5097 
A piano in a listening room 5076 
Pianissimo 5076 
The plan in blue. 5076 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5076 
My doubts 5076 
It is exactly what I worry. 5075 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5075 
Musicians at home 5075 
Piano Measurements 5074 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5069 
The next step. 5055 
Midbass horns missing?? 5054 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5044 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5044 
Baby Grand 5043 
Wood floor 5043 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5043 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5043 
Amy’s baby. 5041 
Improvement 5041 
Agree with Scott 5041 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5029 
Integrated casters 5029 
Very nice, thanks. 5029 
Customization 5029 
Sliders 5029 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5022 
Congratulations 5022 
Holes in the floor... 5022 
Tubes and kids 5022 
Sweet spot enlargement 5022 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5020 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5019 
Wood Floors and Water 5019 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5014 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5013 
WAF is for Losers 5013 
WAF: it depends. 5013 
Integration 5012 
Here and there. 5012 
Life after WWIII 5012 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5012 
Cables management. 5010 
Featurizing 5010 
Kids and tubes cont. 5007 
Kid magnet 5007 
Kids and audio 5006 
Radars 5006 
Wow, what the days! 5002 
The comming weekend 4998 
It all was worth it! 4995 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4990 
Here is how it is look. 4990 
Resolving the carpet issue 4990 
Bonfire 4990 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4990 
Proof of concept? 4990 
Geometry 4990 
A view from listening position. 4990 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4990 
Some feedback 4990 
Evening 4990 
I wonder why. 4989 
Rugs and things 4989 
In defense… 4989 
I can’t get it. 4986 
Haze. 4985 
Front wall 4985 
It is very possible. 4985 
It is nice to be back. 4982 
My comfy corner. 4979 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4619 
WMD in house. 4441 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4344 
The third listening spot. 4323 
For sure a very different experience. 4285 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4280 
It's Jfretch's system. 4280 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4279 
Domestic games 4233 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4094 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4094 
Dynamic screening 4094 
Actually this is very good idea! 4094 
Volcanic fabric 4094 
I should have done this. 4092 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4088 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4057 
No worries 4057 
Awesome memories 4057 
Optimization of space 4057 
Child-ish considerations 4054 
Finding peace.... 4048 
"Fencing"? 4047 
I need to build something custom 4047 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4047 
Stressed Skin 4047 
NYC elevators 4047 
Kids toys and quantities. 4047 
Everything is completely reversible 4046 
Racks and things 4046 
Now it looks even more promising! 4046 
Quantity of rods 4046 
Avoiding diagonals 4044 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4043 
That's not fair! 4043 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4043 
Discrimination? 4038 
Vertical configuration 4031 
Impresive ! 3960 
Did you read the site? 3960 
Contact 3960 
Company's name is Rixrax 3960 
Stand 3959 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3915 
End of life headphone system 3915 
Something like this? 3915 
The "Second Living Room" 3915 
Mixing urban & suburban 3915 
Late night listening 3915 
Moving life... 3913 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3913 
A true listening room. 3889 
It started… 3874 
Levels of Interest 3874 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3874 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3874 
I can't not to post it.... 3874 
Do not leave him unattended. 3874 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3874 
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