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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5914 
The first take on the new room. 5908 
New Room, a first shot. 5907 
Wonderful 5907 
Adopted 5906 
The first relaxed night with the room 5904 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5903 
The listening room is ready. 5902 
New Room, a First Shot 5900 
Continue to work with the room 5900 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5900 
Room 5899 
I think it will take another month. 5899 
The Buttressing 5899 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5898 
The new place and the new noises. 5898 
Big listening room 5897 
Screw the "big" rooms 5897 
Big listening rooms 5897 
First reflection points 5896 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5896 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5893 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5892 
Squeezing the floor 5892 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5892 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5892 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5891 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5891 
The new room, the very first listening. 5891 
The 14.5 foot. 5890 
Again… 5889 
Romy's new Playground 5889 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5889 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5889 
For the uninitiated ... 5888 
NH guy 5888 
Room 5888 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5887 
The first base is done 5887 
Reentry time alignment. 5886 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5885 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5885 
Mid bass horn. 5885 
Guess is only a guess… 5885 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5885 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5884 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5884 
Diffusors 5884 
Diffuse injection 5884 
Let analyse why it so 5884 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5884 
Wheel and Deal 5884 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5884 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5884 
I Must Be Missing Something 5884 
I put sliders under my speakers 5883 
ROOM 5882 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5882 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5882 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5882 
No concerns 5882 
Speakers and room 5882 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5881 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5881 
Diaphram 5881 
Phram 5881 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5881 
Perfect piston 5881 
Decorater 5880 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5880 
New morning 5879 
The first take on the room with RTA 5878 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5878 
Axiomatic 5878 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5877 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5877 
The size of the bass. 5877 
Bass Factory 5877 
Crude Level, or something more? 5877 
I will play with it this week…. 5877 
Rent-A 5877 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5877 
Corner horns 5877 
Cheating from below 5877 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5877 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5876 
A possibly overly simplified view 5876 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5876 
Iceberg 5876 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5876 
Why not horn 5876 
A correction…. 5876 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5876 
They are just not related things at all. 5876 
Fertin 5874 
Low resonance is good... 5874 
Et tu, Brute? 5873 
The Room response at LF 5872 
Life On The Ground Floor 5872 
Bass arrays 5872 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5872 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5872 
The super sucks. 5872 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5872 
You may also try 5871 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5871 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5871 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5871 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5871 
60 Hz Resonance 5871 
No notching… so far. 5871 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5870 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5870 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5870 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5870 
Power to the People 5870 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5870 
Aura 5870 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5870 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5870 
All class D is the same 5870 
Interpreting the LF results. 5869 
The Halibut 5869 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5869 
The Big Picture 5869 
Power & ULF channels 5869 
The big picture indeed. 5869 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5869 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5869 
The Power and the Glory 5868 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5868 
I guess I did not get this memo 5868 
French LF drivers 5868 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5868 
(another) French LF approach 5867 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5867 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5867 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5867 
Limpschtick 5867 
Symmetry 5867 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5866 
Room correction 5866 
It migh be more complicated. 5866 
Bass EQ ? 5866 
Agree and not. 5866 
Two "diseases" 5866 
Parametric filters 5866 
Ceiling arrays 5866 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5866 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5866 
The Middle of the Room. 5866 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5866 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5866 
Stop! 5866 
Appendectomy 5866 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5865 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5865 
No Isolation 5865 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5862 
Potential contenders? 5861 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5861 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5861 
Those Crazy Canucks 5857 
Mo' Better Bass 5851 
Bird in the Hand? 5851 
A wet listening spot? 5844 
Storm 5841 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5841 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5827 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5797 
Polar Opposite ULF 5796 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5784 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5782 
Differently but the same. 5781 
PVC 5780 
The sail test try. 5780 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5780 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5780 
Trial 5779 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5779 
Some explanations 5779 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5778 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5777 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5776 
Acrylate 5775 
Magic blanket 5775 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5774 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5774 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5774 
I have a few options. 5774 
Foam color 5774 
Strange things with upperbass 5774 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5773 
Teatro reform. . . 5773 
The foaming room dilemma. 5772 
Melamine Foam 5772 
Foaming up the cat house 5772 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5772 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5772 
Acoustic revisions… 5771 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5768 
Surprises so far in the new room 5767 
The upperbass in the new room. 5767 
Slight change of hart. 5766 
Camco supply of Boston 5764 
Room acoustics 5764 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5723 
I need to kill dust first. 5723 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5721 
To feed the leeches? 5721 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5720 
Yh 5720 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5720 
DPOLs? 5720 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5720 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5717 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5717 
A HalfPipe solution? 5717 
I absolutely love it. 5717 
Piper work 5716 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5716 
Absorption 5716 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5715 
Cats life ? 5715 
Call me Pussy. 5715 
More about traps 5715 
Acoustic impedance? 5715 
You maybe right 5715 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5715 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5714 
Heavy Curtain 5714 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5713 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5713 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5713 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5710 
Fix speaker move chair? 5709 
Back and forth ceremony 5709 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5708 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5707 
Glass windows 5706 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5705 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5704 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5702 
How to use basement jacks? 5702 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5702 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5702 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5701 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5701 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5700 
Sore eyes... 5699 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5699 
The harvesting week! 5697 
I need an inspiration… 5696 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5695 
Like this? 5695 
Dramatically randomize MF 5695 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5694 
The room eats dynamic 5694 
Diffusers 5694 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5693 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5678 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5677 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5677 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5677 
About Width-Importance balance. 5675 
Letting the music scale up 5674 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5674 
To finish my house décor… 5670 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5669 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5668 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5668 
Calling the gods of music 5668 
Absolutely 5668 
Phase manipulation 5668 
No relation. 5668 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5668 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5668 
Dynamical mismatch 5667 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5667 
Stradiwinerius? 5664 
Dealing with the glass. 5663 
Boston 5663 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5663 
Added mass 5663 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5663 
It is about moderation…. 5663 
To hell with the wine... 5663 
Also for other surafaces 5662 
LEAD 5662 
LEAD & GLASS 5662 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5662 
Read carefully 5662 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5662 
Crooks and morons 5662 
Magiscopios 5661 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5641 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5641 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5640 
The LP setup in the new home. 5589 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5584 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5584 
Pianochord will do! 5584 
Spanyi heaven 5584 
I see no conflict at all. 5584 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5584 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5584 
A year after closing 5576 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5576 
Traveling antimatter 5569 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5563 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5562 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5536 
Cast Iron fireplace 5535 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5535 
The hardcore way 5535 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5499 
This is How It's Done 5498 
Listening room during summer. 5486 
What about those... 5485 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5485 
Reducing A/C Noise 5485 
HVAC the Cat 5485 
Big Ass fan 5484 
Variac dimmers 5484 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5484 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5484 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5416 
Some winter observations. 5307 
That Asian man…. 5276 
The Franz Schubert morning 5250 
Spring.... 5199 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5149 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5120 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5120 
Just good photography? 5120 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5120 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5120 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5119 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5119 
Sports car 5119 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5119 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5119 
Train Positioning 5119 
Kind of what I want 5119 
The lap listening… 5119 
Family Room 5119 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5116 
A super audio room. 5112 
Time Warp! 5112 
A piano in a listening room 5091 
Pianissimo 5091 
The plan in blue. 5091 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5091 
My doubts 5091 
It is exactly what I worry. 5090 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5090 
Musicians at home 5090 
Piano Measurements 5089 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5084 
The next step. 5070 
Midbass horns missing?? 5069 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5059 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5059 
Baby Grand 5058 
Wood floor 5058 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5058 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5058 
Amy’s baby. 5056 
Improvement 5056 
Agree with Scott 5056 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5044 
Integrated casters 5044 
Very nice, thanks. 5044 
Customization 5044 
Sliders 5044 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5037 
Congratulations 5037 
Holes in the floor... 5037 
Tubes and kids 5037 
Sweet spot enlargement 5037 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5035 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5034 
Wood Floors and Water 5034 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5029 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5028 
WAF is for Losers 5028 
WAF: it depends. 5028 
Integration 5027 
Here and there. 5027 
Life after WWIII 5027 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5027 
Cables management. 5025 
Featurizing 5025 
Kids and tubes cont. 5022 
Kid magnet 5022 
Kids and audio 5021 
Radars 5021 
Wow, what the days! 5017 
The comming weekend 5013 
It all was worth it! 5010 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5005 
Here is how it is look. 5005 
Resolving the carpet issue 5005 
Bonfire 5005 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5005 
Proof of concept? 5005 
Geometry 5005 
A view from listening position. 5005 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5005 
Some feedback 5005 
Evening 5005 
I wonder why. 5004 
Rugs and things 5004 
In defense… 5004 
I can’t get it. 5001 
Haze. 5000 
Front wall 5000 
It is very possible. 5000 
It is nice to be back. 4997 
My comfy corner. 4994 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4634 
WMD in house. 4456 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4359 
The third listening spot. 4338 
For sure a very different experience. 4300 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4295 
It's Jfretch's system. 4295 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4294 
Domestic games 4248 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4109 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4109 
Dynamic screening 4109 
Actually this is very good idea! 4109 
Volcanic fabric 4109 
I should have done this. 4107 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4103 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4072 
No worries 4072 
Awesome memories 4072 
Optimization of space 4072 
Child-ish considerations 4069 
Finding peace.... 4063 
"Fencing"? 4062 
I need to build something custom 4062 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4062 
Stressed Skin 4062 
NYC elevators 4062 
Kids toys and quantities. 4062 
Everything is completely reversible 4061 
Racks and things 4061 
Now it looks even more promising! 4061 
Quantity of rods 4061 
Avoiding diagonals 4059 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4058 
That's not fair! 4058 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4058 
Discrimination? 4053 
Vertical configuration 4046 
Impresive ! 3975 
Did you read the site? 3975 
Contact 3975 
Company's name is Rixrax 3975 
Stand 3974 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3930 
End of life headphone system 3930 
Something like this? 3930 
The "Second Living Room" 3930 
Mixing urban & suburban 3930 
Late night listening 3930 
Moving life... 3928 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3928 
A true listening room. 3904 
It started… 3889 
Levels of Interest 3889 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3889 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3889 
I can't not to post it.... 3889 
Do not leave him unattended. 3889 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3889 
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