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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6045 
The first take on the new room. 6039 
New Room, a first shot. 6038 
Wonderful 6038 
Adopted 6037 
The first relaxed night with the room 6035 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6034 
The listening room is ready. 6033 
New Room, a First Shot 6031 
Continue to work with the room 6031 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6031 
Room 6030 
I think it will take another month. 6030 
The Buttressing 6030 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6029 
The new place and the new noises. 6029 
Big listening room 6028 
Screw the "big" rooms 6028 
Big listening rooms 6028 
First reflection points 6027 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6027 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6024 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6023 
Squeezing the floor 6023 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6023 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6023 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6022 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6022 
The new room, the very first listening. 6022 
The 14.5 foot. 6021 
Again… 6020 
Romy's new Playground 6020 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6020 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6020 
For the uninitiated ... 6019 
NH guy 6019 
Room 6019 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6018 
The first base is done 6018 
Reentry time alignment. 6017 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6016 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6016 
Mid bass horn. 6016 
Guess is only a guess… 6016 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6016 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6015 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6015 
Diffusors 6015 
Diffuse injection 6015 
Let analyse why it so 6015 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6015 
Wheel and Deal 6015 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6015 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6015 
I Must Be Missing Something 6015 
I put sliders under my speakers 6014 
ROOM 6013 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6013 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6013 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6013 
No concerns 6013 
Speakers and room 6013 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6012 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6012 
Diaphram 6012 
Phram 6012 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6012 
Perfect piston 6012 
Decorater 6011 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6011 
New morning 6010 
The first take on the room with RTA 6009 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6009 
Axiomatic 6009 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6008 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6008 
The size of the bass. 6008 
Bass Factory 6008 
Crude Level, or something more? 6008 
I will play with it this week…. 6008 
Rent-A 6008 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6008 
Corner horns 6008 
Cheating from below 6008 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6008 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6007 
A possibly overly simplified view 6007 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6007 
Iceberg 6007 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6007 
Why not horn 6007 
A correction…. 6007 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6007 
They are just not related things at all. 6007 
Fertin 6005 
Low resonance is good... 6005 
Et tu, Brute? 6004 
The Room response at LF 6003 
Life On The Ground Floor 6003 
Bass arrays 6003 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6003 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6003 
The super sucks. 6003 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6003 
You may also try 6002 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6002 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6002 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6002 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6002 
60 Hz Resonance 6002 
No notching… so far. 6002 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6001 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6001 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6001 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6001 
Power to the People 6001 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6001 
Aura 6001 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6001 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6001 
All class D is the same 6001 
Interpreting the LF results. 6000 
The Halibut 6000 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6000 
The Big Picture 6000 
Power & ULF channels 6000 
The big picture indeed. 6000 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6000 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6000 
The Power and the Glory 5999 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5999 
I guess I did not get this memo 5999 
French LF drivers 5999 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5999 
(another) French LF approach 5998 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5998 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5998 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5998 
Limpschtick 5998 
Symmetry 5998 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5997 
Room correction 5997 
It migh be more complicated. 5997 
Bass EQ ? 5997 
Agree and not. 5997 
Two "diseases" 5997 
Parametric filters 5997 
Ceiling arrays 5997 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5997 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5997 
The Middle of the Room. 5997 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5997 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5997 
Stop! 5997 
Appendectomy 5997 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5996 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5996 
No Isolation 5996 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5993 
Potential contenders? 5992 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5992 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5992 
Those Crazy Canucks 5988 
Mo' Better Bass 5982 
Bird in the Hand? 5982 
A wet listening spot? 5975 
Storm 5972 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5972 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5958 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5928 
Polar Opposite ULF 5927 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5915 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5913 
Differently but the same. 5912 
PVC 5911 
The sail test try. 5911 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5911 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5911 
Trial 5910 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5910 
Some explanations 5910 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5909 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5908 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5907 
Acrylate 5906 
Magic blanket 5906 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5905 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5905 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5905 
I have a few options. 5905 
Foam color 5905 
Strange things with upperbass 5905 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5904 
Teatro reform. . . 5904 
The foaming room dilemma. 5903 
Melamine Foam 5903 
Foaming up the cat house 5903 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5903 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5903 
Acoustic revisions… 5902 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5899 
Surprises so far in the new room 5898 
The upperbass in the new room. 5898 
Slight change of hart. 5897 
Camco supply of Boston 5895 
Room acoustics 5895 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5854 
I need to kill dust first. 5854 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5852 
To feed the leeches? 5852 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5851 
Yh 5851 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5851 
DPOLs? 5851 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5851 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5848 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5848 
A HalfPipe solution? 5848 
I absolutely love it. 5848 
Piper work 5847 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5847 
Absorption 5847 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5846 
Cats life ? 5846 
Call me Pussy. 5846 
More about traps 5846 
Acoustic impedance? 5846 
You maybe right 5846 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5846 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5845 
Heavy Curtain 5845 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5844 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5844 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5844 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5841 
Fix speaker move chair? 5840 
Back and forth ceremony 5840 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5839 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5838 
Glass windows 5837 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5836 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5835 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5833 
How to use basement jacks? 5833 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5833 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5833 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5832 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5832 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5831 
Sore eyes... 5830 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5830 
The harvesting week! 5828 
I need an inspiration… 5827 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5826 
Like this? 5826 
Dramatically randomize MF 5826 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5825 
The room eats dynamic 5825 
Diffusers 5825 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5824 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5809 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5808 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5808 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5808 
About Width-Importance balance. 5806 
Letting the music scale up 5805 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5805 
To finish my house décor… 5801 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5800 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5799 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5799 
Calling the gods of music 5799 
Absolutely 5799 
Phase manipulation 5799 
No relation. 5799 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5799 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5799 
Dynamical mismatch 5798 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5798 
Stradiwinerius? 5795 
Dealing with the glass. 5794 
Boston 5794 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5794 
Added mass 5794 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5794 
It is about moderation…. 5794 
To hell with the wine... 5794 
Also for other surafaces 5793 
LEAD 5793 
LEAD & GLASS 5793 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5793 
Read carefully 5793 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5793 
Crooks and morons 5793 
Magiscopios 5792 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5772 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5772 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5771 
The LP setup in the new home. 5720 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5715 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5715 
Pianochord will do! 5715 
Spanyi heaven 5715 
I see no conflict at all. 5715 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5715 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5715 
A year after closing 5707 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5707 
Traveling antimatter 5700 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5694 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5693 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5667 
Cast Iron fireplace 5666 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5666 
The hardcore way 5666 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5630 
This is How It's Done 5629 
Listening room during summer. 5617 
What about those... 5616 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5616 
Reducing A/C Noise 5616 
HVAC the Cat 5616 
Big Ass fan 5615 
Variac dimmers 5615 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5615 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5615 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5547 
Some winter observations. 5438 
That Asian man…. 5407 
The Franz Schubert morning 5381 
Spring.... 5330 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5280 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5251 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5251 
Just good photography? 5251 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5251 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5251 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5250 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5250 
Sports car 5250 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5250 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5250 
Train Positioning 5250 
Kind of what I want 5250 
The lap listening… 5250 
Family Room 5250 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5247 
A super audio room. 5243 
Time Warp! 5243 
A piano in a listening room 5222 
Pianissimo 5222 
The plan in blue. 5222 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5222 
My doubts 5222 
It is exactly what I worry. 5221 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5221 
Musicians at home 5221 
Piano Measurements 5220 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5215 
The next step. 5201 
Midbass horns missing?? 5200 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5190 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5190 
Baby Grand 5189 
Wood floor 5189 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5189 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5189 
Amy’s baby. 5187 
Improvement 5187 
Agree with Scott 5187 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5175 
Integrated casters 5175 
Very nice, thanks. 5175 
Customization 5175 
Sliders 5175 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5168 
Congratulations 5168 
Holes in the floor... 5168 
Tubes and kids 5168 
Sweet spot enlargement 5168 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5166 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5165 
Wood Floors and Water 5165 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5160 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5159 
WAF is for Losers 5159 
WAF: it depends. 5159 
Integration 5158 
Here and there. 5158 
Life after WWIII 5158 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5158 
Cables management. 5156 
Featurizing 5156 
Kids and tubes cont. 5153 
Kid magnet 5153 
Kids and audio 5152 
Radars 5152 
Wow, what the days! 5148 
The comming weekend 5144 
It all was worth it! 5141 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5136 
Here is how it is look. 5136 
Resolving the carpet issue 5136 
Bonfire 5136 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5136 
Proof of concept? 5136 
Geometry 5136 
A view from listening position. 5136 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5136 
Some feedback 5136 
Evening 5136 
I wonder why. 5135 
Rugs and things 5135 
In defense… 5135 
I can’t get it. 5132 
Haze. 5131 
Front wall 5131 
It is very possible. 5131 
It is nice to be back. 5128 
My comfy corner. 5125 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4765 
WMD in house. 4587 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4490 
The third listening spot. 4469 
For sure a very different experience. 4431 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4426 
It's Jfretch's system. 4426 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4425 
Domestic games 4379 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4240 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4240 
Dynamic screening 4240 
Actually this is very good idea! 4240 
Volcanic fabric 4240 
I should have done this. 4238 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4234 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4203 
No worries 4203 
Awesome memories 4203 
Optimization of space 4203 
Child-ish considerations 4200 
Finding peace.... 4194 
"Fencing"? 4193 
I need to build something custom 4193 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4193 
Stressed Skin 4193 
NYC elevators 4193 
Kids toys and quantities. 4193 
Everything is completely reversible 4192 
Racks and things 4192 
Now it looks even more promising! 4192 
Quantity of rods 4192 
Avoiding diagonals 4190 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4189 
That's not fair! 4189 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4189 
Discrimination? 4184 
Vertical configuration 4177 
Impresive ! 4106 
Did you read the site? 4106 
Contact 4106 
Company's name is Rixrax 4106 
Stand 4105 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4061 
End of life headphone system 4061 
Something like this? 4061 
The "Second Living Room" 4061 
Mixing urban & suburban 4061 
Late night listening 4061 
Moving life... 4059 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4059 
A true listening room. 4035 
It started… 4020 
Levels of Interest 4020 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4020 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4020 
I can't not to post it.... 4020 
Do not leave him unattended. 4020 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4020 
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