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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5906 
The first take on the new room. 5900 
New Room, a first shot. 5899 
Wonderful 5899 
Adopted 5898 
The first relaxed night with the room 5896 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5895 
The listening room is ready. 5894 
New Room, a First Shot 5892 
Continue to work with the room 5892 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5892 
Room 5891 
I think it will take another month. 5891 
The Buttressing 5891 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5890 
The new place and the new noises. 5890 
Big listening room 5889 
Screw the "big" rooms 5889 
Big listening rooms 5889 
First reflection points 5888 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5888 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5885 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5884 
Squeezing the floor 5884 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5884 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5884 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5883 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5883 
The new room, the very first listening. 5883 
The 14.5 foot. 5882 
Again… 5881 
Romy's new Playground 5881 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5881 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5881 
For the uninitiated ... 5880 
NH guy 5880 
Room 5880 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5879 
The first base is done 5879 
Reentry time alignment. 5878 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5877 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5877 
Mid bass horn. 5877 
Guess is only a guess… 5877 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5877 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5876 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5876 
Diffusors 5876 
Diffuse injection 5876 
Let analyse why it so 5876 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5876 
Wheel and Deal 5876 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5876 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5876 
I Must Be Missing Something 5876 
I put sliders under my speakers 5875 
ROOM 5874 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5874 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5874 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5874 
No concerns 5874 
Speakers and room 5874 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5873 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5873 
Diaphram 5873 
Phram 5873 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5873 
Perfect piston 5873 
Decorater 5872 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5872 
New morning 5871 
The first take on the room with RTA 5870 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5870 
Axiomatic 5870 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5869 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5869 
The size of the bass. 5869 
Bass Factory 5869 
Crude Level, or something more? 5869 
I will play with it this week…. 5869 
Rent-A 5869 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5869 
Corner horns 5869 
Cheating from below 5869 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5869 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5868 
A possibly overly simplified view 5868 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5868 
Iceberg 5868 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5868 
Why not horn 5868 
A correction…. 5868 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5868 
They are just not related things at all. 5868 
Fertin 5866 
Low resonance is good... 5866 
Et tu, Brute? 5865 
The Room response at LF 5864 
Life On The Ground Floor 5864 
Bass arrays 5864 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5864 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5864 
The super sucks. 5864 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5864 
You may also try 5863 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5863 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5863 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5863 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5863 
60 Hz Resonance 5863 
No notching… so far. 5863 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5862 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5862 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5862 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5862 
Power to the People 5862 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5862 
Aura 5862 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5862 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5862 
All class D is the same 5862 
Interpreting the LF results. 5861 
The Halibut 5861 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5861 
The Big Picture 5861 
Power & ULF channels 5861 
The big picture indeed. 5861 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5861 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5861 
The Power and the Glory 5860 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5860 
I guess I did not get this memo 5860 
French LF drivers 5860 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5860 
(another) French LF approach 5859 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5859 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5859 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5859 
Limpschtick 5859 
Symmetry 5859 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5858 
Room correction 5858 
It migh be more complicated. 5858 
Bass EQ ? 5858 
Agree and not. 5858 
Two "diseases" 5858 
Parametric filters 5858 
Ceiling arrays 5858 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5858 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5858 
The Middle of the Room. 5858 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5858 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5858 
Stop! 5858 
Appendectomy 5858 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5857 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5857 
No Isolation 5857 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5854 
Potential contenders? 5853 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5853 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5853 
Those Crazy Canucks 5849 
Mo' Better Bass 5843 
Bird in the Hand? 5843 
A wet listening spot? 5836 
Storm 5833 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5833 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5819 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5789 
Polar Opposite ULF 5788 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5776 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5774 
Differently but the same. 5773 
PVC 5772 
The sail test try. 5772 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5772 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5772 
Trial 5771 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5771 
Some explanations 5771 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5770 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5769 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5768 
Acrylate 5767 
Magic blanket 5767 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5766 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5766 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5766 
I have a few options. 5766 
Foam color 5766 
Strange things with upperbass 5766 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5765 
Teatro reform. . . 5765 
The foaming room dilemma. 5764 
Melamine Foam 5764 
Foaming up the cat house 5764 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5764 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5764 
Acoustic revisions… 5763 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5760 
Surprises so far in the new room 5759 
The upperbass in the new room. 5759 
Slight change of hart. 5758 
Camco supply of Boston 5756 
Room acoustics 5756 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5715 
I need to kill dust first. 5715 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5713 
To feed the leeches? 5713 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5712 
Yh 5712 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5712 
DPOLs? 5712 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5712 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5709 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5709 
A HalfPipe solution? 5709 
I absolutely love it. 5709 
Piper work 5708 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5708 
Absorption 5708 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5707 
Cats life ? 5707 
Call me Pussy. 5707 
More about traps 5707 
Acoustic impedance? 5707 
You maybe right 5707 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5707 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5706 
Heavy Curtain 5706 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5705 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5705 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5705 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5702 
Fix speaker move chair? 5701 
Back and forth ceremony 5701 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5700 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5699 
Glass windows 5698 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5697 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5696 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5694 
How to use basement jacks? 5694 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5694 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5694 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5693 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5693 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5692 
Sore eyes... 5691 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5691 
The harvesting week! 5689 
I need an inspiration… 5688 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5687 
Like this? 5687 
Dramatically randomize MF 5687 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5686 
The room eats dynamic 5686 
Diffusers 5686 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5685 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5670 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5669 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5669 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5669 
About Width-Importance balance. 5667 
Letting the music scale up 5666 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5666 
To finish my house décor… 5662 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5661 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5660 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5660 
Calling the gods of music 5660 
Absolutely 5660 
Phase manipulation 5660 
No relation. 5660 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5660 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5660 
Dynamical mismatch 5659 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5659 
Stradiwinerius? 5656 
Dealing with the glass. 5655 
Boston 5655 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5655 
Added mass 5655 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5655 
It is about moderation…. 5655 
To hell with the wine... 5655 
Also for other surafaces 5654 
LEAD 5654 
LEAD & GLASS 5654 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5654 
Read carefully 5654 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5654 
Crooks and morons 5654 
Magiscopios 5653 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5633 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5633 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5632 
The LP setup in the new home. 5581 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5576 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5576 
Pianochord will do! 5576 
Spanyi heaven 5576 
I see no conflict at all. 5576 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5576 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5576 
A year after closing 5568 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5568 
Traveling antimatter 5561 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5555 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5554 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5528 
Cast Iron fireplace 5527 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5527 
The hardcore way 5527 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5491 
This is How It's Done 5490 
Listening room during summer. 5478 
What about those... 5477 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5477 
Reducing A/C Noise 5477 
HVAC the Cat 5477 
Big Ass fan 5476 
Variac dimmers 5476 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5476 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5476 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5408 
Some winter observations. 5299 
That Asian man…. 5268 
The Franz Schubert morning 5242 
Spring.... 5191 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5141 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5112 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5112 
Just good photography? 5112 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5112 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5112 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5111 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5111 
Sports car 5111 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5111 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5111 
Train Positioning 5111 
Kind of what I want 5111 
The lap listening… 5111 
Family Room 5111 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5108 
A super audio room. 5104 
Time Warp! 5104 
A piano in a listening room 5083 
Pianissimo 5083 
The plan in blue. 5083 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5083 
My doubts 5083 
It is exactly what I worry. 5082 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5082 
Musicians at home 5082 
Piano Measurements 5081 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5076 
The next step. 5062 
Midbass horns missing?? 5061 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5051 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5051 
Baby Grand 5050 
Wood floor 5050 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5050 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5050 
Amy’s baby. 5048 
Improvement 5048 
Agree with Scott 5048 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5036 
Integrated casters 5036 
Very nice, thanks. 5036 
Customization 5036 
Sliders 5036 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5029 
Congratulations 5029 
Holes in the floor... 5029 
Tubes and kids 5029 
Sweet spot enlargement 5029 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5027 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5026 
Wood Floors and Water 5026 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5021 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5020 
WAF is for Losers 5020 
WAF: it depends. 5020 
Integration 5019 
Here and there. 5019 
Life after WWIII 5019 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5019 
Cables management. 5017 
Featurizing 5017 
Kids and tubes cont. 5014 
Kid magnet 5014 
Kids and audio 5013 
Radars 5013 
Wow, what the days! 5009 
The comming weekend 5005 
It all was worth it! 5002 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4997 
Here is how it is look. 4997 
Resolving the carpet issue 4997 
Bonfire 4997 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4997 
Proof of concept? 4997 
Geometry 4997 
A view from listening position. 4997 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4997 
Some feedback 4997 
Evening 4997 
I wonder why. 4996 
Rugs and things 4996 
In defense… 4996 
I can’t get it. 4993 
Haze. 4992 
Front wall 4992 
It is very possible. 4992 
It is nice to be back. 4989 
My comfy corner. 4986 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4626 
WMD in house. 4448 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4351 
The third listening spot. 4330 
For sure a very different experience. 4292 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4287 
It's Jfretch's system. 4287 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4286 
Domestic games 4240 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4101 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4101 
Dynamic screening 4101 
Actually this is very good idea! 4101 
Volcanic fabric 4101 
I should have done this. 4099 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4095 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4064 
No worries 4064 
Awesome memories 4064 
Optimization of space 4064 
Child-ish considerations 4061 
Finding peace.... 4055 
"Fencing"? 4054 
I need to build something custom 4054 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4054 
Stressed Skin 4054 
NYC elevators 4054 
Kids toys and quantities. 4054 
Everything is completely reversible 4053 
Racks and things 4053 
Now it looks even more promising! 4053 
Quantity of rods 4053 
Avoiding diagonals 4051 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4050 
That's not fair! 4050 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4050 
Discrimination? 4045 
Vertical configuration 4038 
Impresive ! 3967 
Did you read the site? 3967 
Contact 3967 
Company's name is Rixrax 3967 
Stand 3966 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3922 
End of life headphone system 3922 
Something like this? 3922 
The "Second Living Room" 3922 
Mixing urban & suburban 3922 
Late night listening 3922 
Moving life... 3920 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3920 
A true listening room. 3896 
It started… 3881 
Levels of Interest 3881 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3881 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3881 
I can't not to post it.... 3881 
Do not leave him unattended. 3881 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3881 
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