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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5982 
The first take on the new room. 5976 
New Room, a first shot. 5975 
Wonderful 5975 
Adopted 5974 
The first relaxed night with the room 5972 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5971 
The listening room is ready. 5970 
New Room, a First Shot 5968 
Continue to work with the room 5968 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5968 
Room 5967 
I think it will take another month. 5967 
The Buttressing 5967 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5966 
The new place and the new noises. 5966 
Big listening room 5965 
Screw the "big" rooms 5965 
Big listening rooms 5965 
First reflection points 5964 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5964 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5961 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5960 
Squeezing the floor 5960 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5960 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5960 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5959 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5959 
The new room, the very first listening. 5959 
The 14.5 foot. 5958 
Again… 5957 
Romy's new Playground 5957 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5957 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5957 
For the uninitiated ... 5956 
NH guy 5956 
Room 5956 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5955 
The first base is done 5955 
Reentry time alignment. 5954 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5953 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5953 
Mid bass horn. 5953 
Guess is only a guess… 5953 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5953 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5952 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5952 
Diffusors 5952 
Diffuse injection 5952 
Let analyse why it so 5952 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5952 
Wheel and Deal 5952 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5952 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5952 
I Must Be Missing Something 5952 
I put sliders under my speakers 5951 
ROOM 5950 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5950 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5950 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5950 
No concerns 5950 
Speakers and room 5950 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5949 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5949 
Diaphram 5949 
Phram 5949 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5949 
Perfect piston 5949 
Decorater 5948 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5948 
New morning 5947 
The first take on the room with RTA 5946 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5946 
Axiomatic 5946 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5945 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5945 
The size of the bass. 5945 
Bass Factory 5945 
Crude Level, or something more? 5945 
I will play with it this week…. 5945 
Rent-A 5945 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5945 
Corner horns 5945 
Cheating from below 5945 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5945 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5944 
A possibly overly simplified view 5944 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5944 
Iceberg 5944 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5944 
Why not horn 5944 
A correction…. 5944 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5944 
They are just not related things at all. 5944 
Fertin 5942 
Low resonance is good... 5942 
Et tu, Brute? 5941 
The Room response at LF 5940 
Life On The Ground Floor 5940 
Bass arrays 5940 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5940 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5940 
The super sucks. 5940 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5940 
You may also try 5939 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5939 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5939 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5939 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5939 
60 Hz Resonance 5939 
No notching… so far. 5939 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5938 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5938 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5938 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5938 
Power to the People 5938 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5938 
Aura 5938 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5938 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5938 
All class D is the same 5938 
Interpreting the LF results. 5937 
The Halibut 5937 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5937 
The Big Picture 5937 
Power & ULF channels 5937 
The big picture indeed. 5937 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5937 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5937 
The Power and the Glory 5936 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5936 
I guess I did not get this memo 5936 
French LF drivers 5936 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5936 
(another) French LF approach 5935 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5935 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5935 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5935 
Limpschtick 5935 
Symmetry 5935 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5934 
Room correction 5934 
It migh be more complicated. 5934 
Bass EQ ? 5934 
Agree and not. 5934 
Two "diseases" 5934 
Parametric filters 5934 
Ceiling arrays 5934 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5934 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5934 
The Middle of the Room. 5934 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5934 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5934 
Stop! 5934 
Appendectomy 5934 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5933 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5933 
No Isolation 5933 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5930 
Potential contenders? 5929 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5929 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5929 
Those Crazy Canucks 5925 
Mo' Better Bass 5919 
Bird in the Hand? 5919 
A wet listening spot? 5912 
Storm 5909 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5909 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5895 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5865 
Polar Opposite ULF 5864 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5852 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5850 
Differently but the same. 5849 
PVC 5848 
The sail test try. 5848 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5848 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5848 
Trial 5847 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5847 
Some explanations 5847 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5846 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5845 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5844 
Acrylate 5843 
Magic blanket 5843 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5842 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5842 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5842 
I have a few options. 5842 
Foam color 5842 
Strange things with upperbass 5842 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5841 
Teatro reform. . . 5841 
The foaming room dilemma. 5840 
Melamine Foam 5840 
Foaming up the cat house 5840 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5840 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5840 
Acoustic revisions… 5839 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5836 
Surprises so far in the new room 5835 
The upperbass in the new room. 5835 
Slight change of hart. 5834 
Camco supply of Boston 5832 
Room acoustics 5832 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5791 
I need to kill dust first. 5791 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5789 
To feed the leeches? 5789 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5788 
Yh 5788 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5788 
DPOLs? 5788 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5788 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5785 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5785 
A HalfPipe solution? 5785 
I absolutely love it. 5785 
Piper work 5784 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5784 
Absorption 5784 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5783 
Cats life ? 5783 
Call me Pussy. 5783 
More about traps 5783 
Acoustic impedance? 5783 
You maybe right 5783 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5783 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5782 
Heavy Curtain 5782 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5781 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5781 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5781 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5778 
Fix speaker move chair? 5777 
Back and forth ceremony 5777 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5776 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5775 
Glass windows 5774 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5773 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5772 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5770 
How to use basement jacks? 5770 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5770 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5770 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5769 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5769 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5768 
Sore eyes... 5767 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5767 
The harvesting week! 5765 
I need an inspiration… 5764 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5763 
Like this? 5763 
Dramatically randomize MF 5763 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5762 
The room eats dynamic 5762 
Diffusers 5762 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5761 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5746 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5745 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5745 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5745 
About Width-Importance balance. 5743 
Letting the music scale up 5742 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5742 
To finish my house décor… 5738 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5737 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5736 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5736 
Calling the gods of music 5736 
Absolutely 5736 
Phase manipulation 5736 
No relation. 5736 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5736 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5736 
Dynamical mismatch 5735 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5735 
Stradiwinerius? 5732 
Dealing with the glass. 5731 
Boston 5731 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5731 
Added mass 5731 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5731 
It is about moderation…. 5731 
To hell with the wine... 5731 
Also for other surafaces 5730 
LEAD 5730 
LEAD & GLASS 5730 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5730 
Read carefully 5730 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5730 
Crooks and morons 5730 
Magiscopios 5729 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5709 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5709 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5708 
The LP setup in the new home. 5657 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5652 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5652 
Pianochord will do! 5652 
Spanyi heaven 5652 
I see no conflict at all. 5652 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5652 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5652 
A year after closing 5644 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5644 
Traveling antimatter 5637 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5631 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5630 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5604 
Cast Iron fireplace 5603 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5603 
The hardcore way 5603 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5567 
This is How It's Done 5566 
Listening room during summer. 5554 
What about those... 5553 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5553 
Reducing A/C Noise 5553 
HVAC the Cat 5553 
Big Ass fan 5552 
Variac dimmers 5552 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5552 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5552 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5484 
Some winter observations. 5375 
That Asian man…. 5344 
The Franz Schubert morning 5318 
Spring.... 5267 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5217 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5188 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5188 
Just good photography? 5188 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5188 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5188 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5187 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5187 
Sports car 5187 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5187 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5187 
Train Positioning 5187 
Kind of what I want 5187 
The lap listening… 5187 
Family Room 5187 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5184 
A super audio room. 5180 
Time Warp! 5180 
A piano in a listening room 5159 
Pianissimo 5159 
The plan in blue. 5159 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5159 
My doubts 5159 
It is exactly what I worry. 5158 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5158 
Musicians at home 5158 
Piano Measurements 5157 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5152 
The next step. 5138 
Midbass horns missing?? 5137 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5127 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5127 
Baby Grand 5126 
Wood floor 5126 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5126 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5126 
Amy’s baby. 5124 
Improvement 5124 
Agree with Scott 5124 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5112 
Integrated casters 5112 
Very nice, thanks. 5112 
Customization 5112 
Sliders 5112 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5105 
Congratulations 5105 
Holes in the floor... 5105 
Tubes and kids 5105 
Sweet spot enlargement 5105 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5103 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5102 
Wood Floors and Water 5102 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5097 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5096 
WAF is for Losers 5096 
WAF: it depends. 5096 
Integration 5095 
Here and there. 5095 
Life after WWIII 5095 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5095 
Cables management. 5093 
Featurizing 5093 
Kids and tubes cont. 5090 
Kid magnet 5090 
Kids and audio 5089 
Radars 5089 
Wow, what the days! 5085 
The comming weekend 5081 
It all was worth it! 5078 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5073 
Here is how it is look. 5073 
Resolving the carpet issue 5073 
Bonfire 5073 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5073 
Proof of concept? 5073 
Geometry 5073 
A view from listening position. 5073 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5073 
Some feedback 5073 
Evening 5073 
I wonder why. 5072 
Rugs and things 5072 
In defense… 5072 
I can’t get it. 5069 
Haze. 5068 
Front wall 5068 
It is very possible. 5068 
It is nice to be back. 5065 
My comfy corner. 5062 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4702 
WMD in house. 4524 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4427 
The third listening spot. 4406 
For sure a very different experience. 4368 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4363 
It's Jfretch's system. 4363 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4362 
Domestic games 4316 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4177 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4177 
Dynamic screening 4177 
Actually this is very good idea! 4177 
Volcanic fabric 4177 
I should have done this. 4175 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4171 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4140 
No worries 4140 
Awesome memories 4140 
Optimization of space 4140 
Child-ish considerations 4137 
Finding peace.... 4131 
"Fencing"? 4130 
I need to build something custom 4130 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4130 
Stressed Skin 4130 
NYC elevators 4130 
Kids toys and quantities. 4130 
Everything is completely reversible 4129 
Racks and things 4129 
Now it looks even more promising! 4129 
Quantity of rods 4129 
Avoiding diagonals 4127 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4126 
That's not fair! 4126 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4126 
Discrimination? 4121 
Vertical configuration 4114 
Impresive ! 4043 
Did you read the site? 4043 
Contact 4043 
Company's name is Rixrax 4043 
Stand 4042 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3998 
End of life headphone system 3998 
Something like this? 3998 
The "Second Living Room" 3998 
Mixing urban & suburban 3998 
Late night listening 3998 
Moving life... 3996 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3996 
A true listening room. 3972 
It started… 3957 
Levels of Interest 3957 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3957 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3957 
I can't not to post it.... 3957 
Do not leave him unattended. 3957 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3957 
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