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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5782 
The first take on the new room. 5776 
New Room, a first shot. 5775 
Wonderful 5775 
Adopted 5774 
The first relaxed night with the room 5772 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5771 
The listening room is ready. 5770 
New Room, a First Shot 5768 
Continue to work with the room 5768 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5768 
Room 5767 
I think it will take another month. 5767 
The Buttressing 5767 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5766 
The new place and the new noises. 5766 
Big listening room 5765 
Screw the "big" rooms 5765 
Big listening rooms 5765 
First reflection points 5764 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5764 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5761 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5760 
Squeezing the floor 5760 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5760 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5760 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5759 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5759 
The new room, the very first listening. 5759 
The 14.5 foot. 5758 
Again… 5757 
Romy's new Playground 5757 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5757 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5757 
For the uninitiated ... 5756 
NH guy 5756 
Room 5756 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5755 
The first base is done 5755 
Reentry time alignment. 5754 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5753 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5753 
Mid bass horn. 5753 
Guess is only a guess… 5753 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5753 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5752 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5752 
Diffusors 5752 
Diffuse injection 5752 
Let analyse why it so 5752 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5752 
Wheel and Deal 5752 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5752 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5752 
I Must Be Missing Something 5752 
I put sliders under my speakers 5751 
ROOM 5750 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5750 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5750 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5750 
No concerns 5750 
Speakers and room 5750 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5749 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5749 
Diaphram 5749 
Phram 5749 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5749 
Perfect piston 5749 
Decorater 5748 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5748 
New morning 5747 
The first take on the room with RTA 5746 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5746 
Axiomatic 5746 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5745 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5745 
The size of the bass. 5745 
Bass Factory 5745 
Crude Level, or something more? 5745 
I will play with it this week…. 5745 
Rent-A 5745 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5745 
Corner horns 5745 
Cheating from below 5745 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5745 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5744 
A possibly overly simplified view 5744 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5744 
Iceberg 5744 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5744 
Why not horn 5744 
A correction…. 5744 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5744 
They are just not related things at all. 5744 
Fertin 5742 
Low resonance is good... 5742 
Et tu, Brute? 5741 
The Room response at LF 5740 
Life On The Ground Floor 5740 
Bass arrays 5740 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5740 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5740 
The super sucks. 5740 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5740 
You may also try 5739 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5739 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5739 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5739 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5739 
60 Hz Resonance 5739 
No notching… so far. 5739 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5738 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5738 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5738 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5738 
Power to the People 5738 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5738 
Aura 5738 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5738 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5738 
All class D is the same 5738 
Interpreting the LF results. 5737 
The Halibut 5737 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5737 
The Big Picture 5737 
Power & ULF channels 5737 
The big picture indeed. 5737 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5737 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5737 
The Power and the Glory 5736 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5736 
I guess I did not get this memo 5736 
French LF drivers 5736 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5736 
(another) French LF approach 5735 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5735 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5735 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5735 
Limpschtick 5735 
Symmetry 5735 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5734 
Room correction 5734 
It migh be more complicated. 5734 
Bass EQ ? 5734 
Agree and not. 5734 
Two "diseases" 5734 
Parametric filters 5734 
Ceiling arrays 5734 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5734 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5734 
The Middle of the Room. 5734 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5734 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5734 
Stop! 5734 
Appendectomy 5734 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5733 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5733 
No Isolation 5733 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5730 
Potential contenders? 5729 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5729 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5729 
Those Crazy Canucks 5725 
Mo' Better Bass 5719 
Bird in the Hand? 5719 
A wet listening spot? 5712 
Storm 5709 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5709 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5695 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5665 
Polar Opposite ULF 5664 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5652 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5650 
Differently but the same. 5649 
PVC 5648 
The sail test try. 5648 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5648 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5648 
Trial 5647 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5647 
Some explanations 5647 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5646 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5645 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5644 
Acrylate 5643 
Magic blanket 5643 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5642 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5642 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5642 
I have a few options. 5642 
Foam color 5642 
Strange things with upperbass 5642 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5641 
Teatro reform. . . 5641 
The foaming room dilemma. 5640 
Melamine Foam 5640 
Foaming up the cat house 5640 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5640 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5640 
Acoustic revisions… 5639 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5636 
Surprises so far in the new room 5635 
The upperbass in the new room. 5635 
Slight change of hart. 5634 
Camco supply of Boston 5632 
Room acoustics 5632 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5591 
I need to kill dust first. 5591 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5589 
To feed the leeches? 5589 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5588 
Yh 5588 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5588 
DPOLs? 5588 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5588 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5585 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5585 
A HalfPipe solution? 5585 
I absolutely love it. 5585 
Piper work 5584 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5584 
Absorption 5584 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5583 
Cats life ? 5583 
Call me Pussy. 5583 
More about traps 5583 
Acoustic impedance? 5583 
You maybe right 5583 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5583 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5582 
Heavy Curtain 5582 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5581 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5581 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5581 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5578 
Fix speaker move chair? 5577 
Back and forth ceremony 5577 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5576 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5575 
Glass windows 5574 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5573 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5572 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5570 
How to use basement jacks? 5570 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5570 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5570 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5569 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5569 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5568 
Sore eyes... 5567 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5567 
The harvesting week! 5565 
I need an inspiration… 5564 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5563 
Like this? 5563 
Dramatically randomize MF 5563 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5562 
The room eats dynamic 5562 
Diffusers 5562 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5561 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5546 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5545 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5545 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5545 
About Width-Importance balance. 5543 
Letting the music scale up 5542 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5542 
To finish my house décor… 5538 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5537 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5536 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5536 
Calling the gods of music 5536 
Absolutely 5536 
Phase manipulation 5536 
No relation. 5536 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5536 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5536 
Dynamical mismatch 5535 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5535 
Stradiwinerius? 5532 
Dealing with the glass. 5531 
Boston 5531 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5531 
Added mass 5531 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5531 
It is about moderation…. 5531 
To hell with the wine... 5531 
Also for other surafaces 5530 
LEAD 5530 
LEAD & GLASS 5530 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5530 
Read carefully 5530 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5530 
Crooks and morons 5530 
Magiscopios 5529 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5509 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5509 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5508 
The LP setup in the new home. 5457 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5452 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5452 
Pianochord will do! 5452 
Spanyi heaven 5452 
I see no conflict at all. 5452 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5452 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5452 
A year after closing 5444 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5444 
Traveling antimatter 5437 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5431 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5430 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5404 
Cast Iron fireplace 5403 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5403 
The hardcore way 5403 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5367 
This is How It's Done 5366 
Listening room during summer. 5354 
What about those... 5353 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5353 
Reducing A/C Noise 5353 
HVAC the Cat 5353 
Big Ass fan 5352 
Variac dimmers 5352 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5352 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5352 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5284 
Some winter observations. 5175 
That Asian man…. 5144 
The Franz Schubert morning 5118 
Spring.... 5067 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5017 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4988 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4988 
Just good photography? 4988 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4988 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4988 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4987 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4987 
Sports car 4987 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4987 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4987 
Train Positioning 4987 
Kind of what I want 4987 
The lap listening… 4987 
Family Room 4987 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4984 
A super audio room. 4980 
Time Warp! 4980 
A piano in a listening room 4959 
Pianissimo 4959 
The plan in blue. 4959 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4959 
My doubts 4959 
It is exactly what I worry. 4958 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4958 
Musicians at home 4958 
Piano Measurements 4957 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4952 
The next step. 4938 
Midbass horns missing?? 4937 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4927 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4927 
Baby Grand 4926 
Wood floor 4926 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4926 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4926 
Amy’s baby. 4924 
Improvement 4924 
Agree with Scott 4924 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4912 
Integrated casters 4912 
Very nice, thanks. 4912 
Customization 4912 
Sliders 4912 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4905 
Congratulations 4905 
Holes in the floor... 4905 
Tubes and kids 4905 
Sweet spot enlargement 4905 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4903 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4902 
Wood Floors and Water 4902 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4897 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4896 
WAF is for Losers 4896 
WAF: it depends. 4896 
Integration 4895 
Here and there. 4895 
Life after WWIII 4895 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4895 
Cables management. 4893 
Featurizing 4893 
Kids and tubes cont. 4890 
Kid magnet 4890 
Kids and audio 4889 
Radars 4889 
Wow, what the days! 4885 
The comming weekend 4881 
It all was worth it! 4878 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4873 
Here is how it is look. 4873 
Resolving the carpet issue 4873 
Bonfire 4873 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4873 
Proof of concept? 4873 
Geometry 4873 
A view from listening position. 4873 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4873 
Some feedback 4873 
Evening 4873 
I wonder why. 4872 
Rugs and things 4872 
In defense… 4872 
I can’t get it. 4869 
Haze. 4868 
Front wall 4868 
It is very possible. 4868 
It is nice to be back. 4865 
My comfy corner. 4862 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4502 
WMD in house. 4324 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4227 
The third listening spot. 4206 
For sure a very different experience. 4168 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4163 
It's Jfretch's system. 4163 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4162 
Domestic games 4116 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3977 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3977 
Dynamic screening 3977 
Actually this is very good idea! 3977 
Volcanic fabric 3977 
I should have done this. 3975 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3971 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3940 
No worries 3940 
Awesome memories 3940 
Optimization of space 3940 
Child-ish considerations 3937 
Finding peace.... 3931 
"Fencing"? 3930 
I need to build something custom 3930 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3930 
Stressed Skin 3930 
NYC elevators 3930 
Kids toys and quantities. 3930 
Everything is completely reversible 3929 
Racks and things 3929 
Now it looks even more promising! 3929 
Quantity of rods 3929 
Avoiding diagonals 3927 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3926 
That's not fair! 3926 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3926 
Discrimination? 3921 
Vertical configuration 3914 
Impresive ! 3843 
Did you read the site? 3843 
Contact 3843 
Company's name is Rixrax 3843 
Stand 3842 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3798 
End of life headphone system 3798 
Something like this? 3798 
The "Second Living Room" 3798 
Mixing urban & suburban 3798 
Late night listening 3798 
Moving life... 3796 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3796 
A true listening room. 3772 
It started… 3757 
Levels of Interest 3757 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3757 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3757 
I can't not to post it.... 3757 
Do not leave him unattended. 3757 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3757 
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