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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5725 
The first take on the new room. 5719 
New Room, a first shot. 5718 
Wonderful 5718 
Adopted 5717 
The first relaxed night with the room 5715 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5714 
The listening room is ready. 5713 
New Room, a First Shot 5711 
Continue to work with the room 5711 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5711 
Room 5710 
I think it will take another month. 5710 
The Buttressing 5710 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5709 
The new place and the new noises. 5709 
Big listening room 5708 
Screw the "big" rooms 5708 
Big listening rooms 5708 
First reflection points 5707 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5707 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5704 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5703 
Squeezing the floor 5703 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5703 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5703 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5702 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5702 
The new room, the very first listening. 5702 
The 14.5 foot. 5701 
Again… 5700 
Romy's new Playground 5700 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5700 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5700 
For the uninitiated ... 5699 
NH guy 5699 
Room 5699 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5698 
The first base is done 5698 
Reentry time alignment. 5697 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5696 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5696 
Mid bass horn. 5696 
Guess is only a guess… 5696 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5696 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5695 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5695 
Diffusors 5695 
Diffuse injection 5695 
Let analyse why it so 5695 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5695 
Wheel and Deal 5695 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5695 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5695 
I Must Be Missing Something 5695 
I put sliders under my speakers 5694 
ROOM 5693 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5693 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5693 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5693 
No concerns 5693 
Speakers and room 5693 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5692 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5692 
Diaphram 5692 
Phram 5692 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5692 
Perfect piston 5692 
Decorater 5691 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5691 
New morning 5690 
The first take on the room with RTA 5689 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5689 
Axiomatic 5689 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5688 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5688 
The size of the bass. 5688 
Bass Factory 5688 
Crude Level, or something more? 5688 
I will play with it this week…. 5688 
Rent-A 5688 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5688 
Corner horns 5688 
Cheating from below 5688 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5688 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5687 
A possibly overly simplified view 5687 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5687 
Iceberg 5687 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5687 
Why not horn 5687 
A correction…. 5687 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5687 
They are just not related things at all. 5687 
Fertin 5685 
Low resonance is good... 5685 
Et tu, Brute? 5684 
The Room response at LF 5683 
Life On The Ground Floor 5683 
Bass arrays 5683 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5683 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5683 
The super sucks. 5683 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5683 
You may also try 5682 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5682 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5682 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5682 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5682 
60 Hz Resonance 5682 
No notching… so far. 5682 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5681 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5681 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5681 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5681 
Power to the People 5681 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5681 
Aura 5681 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5681 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5681 
All class D is the same 5681 
Interpreting the LF results. 5680 
The Halibut 5680 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5680 
The Big Picture 5680 
Power & ULF channels 5680 
The big picture indeed. 5680 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5680 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5680 
The Power and the Glory 5679 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5679 
I guess I did not get this memo 5679 
French LF drivers 5679 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5679 
(another) French LF approach 5678 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5678 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5678 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5678 
Limpschtick 5678 
Symmetry 5678 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5677 
Room correction 5677 
It migh be more complicated. 5677 
Bass EQ ? 5677 
Agree and not. 5677 
Two "diseases" 5677 
Parametric filters 5677 
Ceiling arrays 5677 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5677 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5677 
The Middle of the Room. 5677 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5677 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5677 
Stop! 5677 
Appendectomy 5677 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5676 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5676 
No Isolation 5676 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5673 
Potential contenders? 5672 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5672 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5672 
Those Crazy Canucks 5668 
Mo' Better Bass 5662 
Bird in the Hand? 5662 
A wet listening spot? 5655 
Storm 5652 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5652 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5638 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5608 
Polar Opposite ULF 5607 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5595 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5593 
Differently but the same. 5592 
PVC 5591 
The sail test try. 5591 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5591 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5591 
Trial 5590 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5590 
Some explanations 5590 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5589 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5588 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5587 
Acrylate 5586 
Magic blanket 5586 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5585 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5585 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5585 
I have a few options. 5585 
Foam color 5585 
Strange things with upperbass 5585 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5584 
Teatro reform. . . 5584 
The foaming room dilemma. 5583 
Melamine Foam 5583 
Foaming up the cat house 5583 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5583 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5583 
Acoustic revisions… 5582 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5579 
Surprises so far in the new room 5578 
The upperbass in the new room. 5578 
Slight change of hart. 5577 
Camco supply of Boston 5575 
Room acoustics 5575 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5534 
I need to kill dust first. 5534 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5532 
To feed the leeches? 5532 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5531 
Yh 5531 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5531 
DPOLs? 5531 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5531 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5528 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5528 
A HalfPipe solution? 5528 
I absolutely love it. 5528 
Piper work 5527 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5527 
Absorption 5527 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5526 
Cats life ? 5526 
Call me Pussy. 5526 
More about traps 5526 
Acoustic impedance? 5526 
You maybe right 5526 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5526 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5525 
Heavy Curtain 5525 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5524 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5524 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5524 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5521 
Fix speaker move chair? 5520 
Back and forth ceremony 5520 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5519 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5518 
Glass windows 5517 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5516 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5515 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5513 
How to use basement jacks? 5513 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5513 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5513 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5512 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5512 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5511 
Sore eyes... 5510 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5510 
The harvesting week! 5508 
I need an inspiration… 5507 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5506 
Like this? 5506 
Dramatically randomize MF 5506 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5505 
The room eats dynamic 5505 
Diffusers 5505 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5504 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5489 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5488 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5488 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5488 
About Width-Importance balance. 5486 
Letting the music scale up 5485 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5485 
To finish my house décor… 5481 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5480 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5479 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5479 
Calling the gods of music 5479 
Absolutely 5479 
Phase manipulation 5479 
No relation. 5479 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5479 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5479 
Dynamical mismatch 5478 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5478 
Stradiwinerius? 5475 
Dealing with the glass. 5474 
Boston 5474 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5474 
Added mass 5474 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5474 
It is about moderation…. 5474 
To hell with the wine... 5474 
Also for other surafaces 5473 
LEAD 5473 
LEAD & GLASS 5473 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5473 
Read carefully 5473 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5473 
Crooks and morons 5473 
Magiscopios 5472 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5452 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5452 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5451 
The LP setup in the new home. 5400 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5395 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5395 
Pianochord will do! 5395 
Spanyi heaven 5395 
I see no conflict at all. 5395 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5395 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5395 
A year after closing 5387 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5387 
Traveling antimatter 5380 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5374 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5373 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5347 
Cast Iron fireplace 5346 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5346 
The hardcore way 5346 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5310 
This is How It's Done 5309 
Listening room during summer. 5297 
What about those... 5296 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5296 
Reducing A/C Noise 5296 
HVAC the Cat 5296 
Big Ass fan 5295 
Variac dimmers 5295 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5295 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5295 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5227 
Some winter observations. 5118 
That Asian man…. 5087 
The Franz Schubert morning 5061 
Spring.... 5010 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4960 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4931 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4931 
Just good photography? 4931 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4931 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4931 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4930 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4930 
Sports car 4930 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4930 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4930 
Train Positioning 4930 
Kind of what I want 4930 
The lap listening… 4930 
Family Room 4930 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4927 
A super audio room. 4923 
Time Warp! 4923 
A piano in a listening room 4902 
Pianissimo 4902 
The plan in blue. 4902 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4902 
My doubts 4902 
It is exactly what I worry. 4901 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4901 
Musicians at home 4901 
Piano Measurements 4900 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4895 
The next step. 4881 
Midbass horns missing?? 4880 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4870 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4870 
Baby Grand 4869 
Wood floor 4869 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4869 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4869 
Amy’s baby. 4867 
Improvement 4867 
Agree with Scott 4867 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4855 
Integrated casters 4855 
Very nice, thanks. 4855 
Customization 4855 
Sliders 4855 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4848 
Congratulations 4848 
Holes in the floor... 4848 
Tubes and kids 4848 
Sweet spot enlargement 4848 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4846 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4845 
Wood Floors and Water 4845 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4840 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4839 
WAF is for Losers 4839 
WAF: it depends. 4839 
Integration 4838 
Here and there. 4838 
Life after WWIII 4838 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4838 
Cables management. 4836 
Featurizing 4836 
Kids and tubes cont. 4833 
Kid magnet 4833 
Kids and audio 4832 
Radars 4832 
Wow, what the days! 4828 
The comming weekend 4824 
It all was worth it! 4821 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4816 
Here is how it is look. 4816 
Resolving the carpet issue 4816 
Bonfire 4816 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4816 
Proof of concept? 4816 
Geometry 4816 
A view from listening position. 4816 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4816 
Some feedback 4816 
Evening 4816 
I wonder why. 4815 
Rugs and things 4815 
In defense… 4815 
I can’t get it. 4812 
Haze. 4811 
Front wall 4811 
It is very possible. 4811 
It is nice to be back. 4808 
My comfy corner. 4805 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4445 
WMD in house. 4267 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4170 
The third listening spot. 4149 
For sure a very different experience. 4111 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4106 
It's Jfretch's system. 4106 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4105 
Domestic games 4059 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3920 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3920 
Dynamic screening 3920 
Actually this is very good idea! 3920 
Volcanic fabric 3920 
I should have done this. 3918 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3914 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3883 
No worries 3883 
Awesome memories 3883 
Optimization of space 3883 
Child-ish considerations 3880 
Finding peace.... 3874 
"Fencing"? 3873 
I need to build something custom 3873 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3873 
Stressed Skin 3873 
NYC elevators 3873 
Kids toys and quantities. 3873 
Everything is completely reversible 3872 
Racks and things 3872 
Now it looks even more promising! 3872 
Quantity of rods 3872 
Avoiding diagonals 3870 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3869 
That's not fair! 3869 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3869 
Discrimination? 3864 
Vertical configuration 3857 
Impresive ! 3786 
Did you read the site? 3786 
Contact 3786 
Company's name is Rixrax 3786 
Stand 3785 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3741 
End of life headphone system 3741 
Something like this? 3741 
The "Second Living Room" 3741 
Mixing urban & suburban 3741 
Late night listening 3741 
Moving life... 3739 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3739 
A true listening room. 3715 
It started… 3700 
Levels of Interest 3700 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3700 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3700 
I can't not to post it.... 3700 
Do not leave him unattended. 3700 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3700 
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