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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5902 
The first take on the new room. 5896 
New Room, a first shot. 5895 
Wonderful 5895 
Adopted 5894 
The first relaxed night with the room 5892 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5891 
The listening room is ready. 5890 
New Room, a First Shot 5888 
Continue to work with the room 5888 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5888 
Room 5887 
I think it will take another month. 5887 
The Buttressing 5887 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5886 
The new place and the new noises. 5886 
Big listening room 5885 
Screw the "big" rooms 5885 
Big listening rooms 5885 
First reflection points 5884 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5884 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5881 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5880 
Squeezing the floor 5880 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5880 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5880 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5879 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5879 
The new room, the very first listening. 5879 
The 14.5 foot. 5878 
Again… 5877 
Romy's new Playground 5877 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5877 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5877 
For the uninitiated ... 5876 
NH guy 5876 
Room 5876 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5875 
The first base is done 5875 
Reentry time alignment. 5874 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5873 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5873 
Mid bass horn. 5873 
Guess is only a guess… 5873 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5873 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5872 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5872 
Diffusors 5872 
Diffuse injection 5872 
Let analyse why it so 5872 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5872 
Wheel and Deal 5872 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5872 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5872 
I Must Be Missing Something 5872 
I put sliders under my speakers 5871 
ROOM 5870 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5870 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5870 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5870 
No concerns 5870 
Speakers and room 5870 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5869 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5869 
Diaphram 5869 
Phram 5869 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5869 
Perfect piston 5869 
Decorater 5868 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5868 
New morning 5867 
The first take on the room with RTA 5866 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5866 
Axiomatic 5866 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5865 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5865 
The size of the bass. 5865 
Bass Factory 5865 
Crude Level, or something more? 5865 
I will play with it this week…. 5865 
Rent-A 5865 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5865 
Corner horns 5865 
Cheating from below 5865 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5865 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5864 
A possibly overly simplified view 5864 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5864 
Iceberg 5864 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5864 
Why not horn 5864 
A correction…. 5864 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5864 
They are just not related things at all. 5864 
Fertin 5862 
Low resonance is good... 5862 
Et tu, Brute? 5861 
The Room response at LF 5860 
Life On The Ground Floor 5860 
Bass arrays 5860 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5860 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5860 
The super sucks. 5860 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5860 
You may also try 5859 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5859 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5859 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5859 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5859 
60 Hz Resonance 5859 
No notching… so far. 5859 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5858 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5858 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5858 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5858 
Power to the People 5858 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5858 
Aura 5858 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5858 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5858 
All class D is the same 5858 
Interpreting the LF results. 5857 
The Halibut 5857 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5857 
The Big Picture 5857 
Power & ULF channels 5857 
The big picture indeed. 5857 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5857 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5857 
The Power and the Glory 5856 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5856 
I guess I did not get this memo 5856 
French LF drivers 5856 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5856 
(another) French LF approach 5855 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5855 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5855 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5855 
Limpschtick 5855 
Symmetry 5855 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5854 
Room correction 5854 
It migh be more complicated. 5854 
Bass EQ ? 5854 
Agree and not. 5854 
Two "diseases" 5854 
Parametric filters 5854 
Ceiling arrays 5854 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5854 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5854 
The Middle of the Room. 5854 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5854 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5854 
Stop! 5854 
Appendectomy 5854 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5853 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5853 
No Isolation 5853 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5850 
Potential contenders? 5849 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5849 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5849 
Those Crazy Canucks 5845 
Mo' Better Bass 5839 
Bird in the Hand? 5839 
A wet listening spot? 5832 
Storm 5829 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5829 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5815 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5785 
Polar Opposite ULF 5784 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5772 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5770 
Differently but the same. 5769 
PVC 5768 
The sail test try. 5768 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5768 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5768 
Trial 5767 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5767 
Some explanations 5767 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5766 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5765 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5764 
Acrylate 5763 
Magic blanket 5763 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5762 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5762 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5762 
I have a few options. 5762 
Foam color 5762 
Strange things with upperbass 5762 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5761 
Teatro reform. . . 5761 
The foaming room dilemma. 5760 
Melamine Foam 5760 
Foaming up the cat house 5760 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5760 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5760 
Acoustic revisions… 5759 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5756 
Surprises so far in the new room 5755 
The upperbass in the new room. 5755 
Slight change of hart. 5754 
Camco supply of Boston 5752 
Room acoustics 5752 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5711 
I need to kill dust first. 5711 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5709 
To feed the leeches? 5709 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5708 
Yh 5708 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5708 
DPOLs? 5708 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5708 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5705 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5705 
A HalfPipe solution? 5705 
I absolutely love it. 5705 
Piper work 5704 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5704 
Absorption 5704 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5703 
Cats life ? 5703 
Call me Pussy. 5703 
More about traps 5703 
Acoustic impedance? 5703 
You maybe right 5703 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5703 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5702 
Heavy Curtain 5702 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5701 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5701 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5701 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5698 
Fix speaker move chair? 5697 
Back and forth ceremony 5697 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5696 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5695 
Glass windows 5694 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5693 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5692 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5690 
How to use basement jacks? 5690 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5690 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5690 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5689 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5689 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5688 
Sore eyes... 5687 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5687 
The harvesting week! 5685 
I need an inspiration… 5684 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5683 
Like this? 5683 
Dramatically randomize MF 5683 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5682 
The room eats dynamic 5682 
Diffusers 5682 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5681 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5666 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5665 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5665 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5665 
About Width-Importance balance. 5663 
Letting the music scale up 5662 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5662 
To finish my house décor… 5658 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5657 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5656 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5656 
Calling the gods of music 5656 
Absolutely 5656 
Phase manipulation 5656 
No relation. 5656 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5656 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5656 
Dynamical mismatch 5655 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5655 
Stradiwinerius? 5652 
Dealing with the glass. 5651 
Boston 5651 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5651 
Added mass 5651 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5651 
It is about moderation…. 5651 
To hell with the wine... 5651 
Also for other surafaces 5650 
LEAD 5650 
LEAD & GLASS 5650 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5650 
Read carefully 5650 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5650 
Crooks and morons 5650 
Magiscopios 5649 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5629 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5629 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5628 
The LP setup in the new home. 5577 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5572 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5572 
Pianochord will do! 5572 
Spanyi heaven 5572 
I see no conflict at all. 5572 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5572 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5572 
A year after closing 5564 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5564 
Traveling antimatter 5557 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5551 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5550 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5524 
Cast Iron fireplace 5523 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5523 
The hardcore way 5523 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5487 
This is How It's Done 5486 
Listening room during summer. 5474 
What about those... 5473 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5473 
Reducing A/C Noise 5473 
HVAC the Cat 5473 
Big Ass fan 5472 
Variac dimmers 5472 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5472 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5472 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5404 
Some winter observations. 5295 
That Asian man…. 5264 
The Franz Schubert morning 5238 
Spring.... 5187 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5137 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5108 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5108 
Just good photography? 5108 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5108 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5108 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5107 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5107 
Sports car 5107 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5107 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5107 
Train Positioning 5107 
Kind of what I want 5107 
The lap listening… 5107 
Family Room 5107 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5104 
A super audio room. 5100 
Time Warp! 5100 
A piano in a listening room 5079 
Pianissimo 5079 
The plan in blue. 5079 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5079 
My doubts 5079 
It is exactly what I worry. 5078 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5078 
Musicians at home 5078 
Piano Measurements 5077 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5072 
The next step. 5058 
Midbass horns missing?? 5057 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5047 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5047 
Baby Grand 5046 
Wood floor 5046 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5046 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5046 
Amy’s baby. 5044 
Improvement 5044 
Agree with Scott 5044 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5032 
Integrated casters 5032 
Very nice, thanks. 5032 
Customization 5032 
Sliders 5032 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5025 
Congratulations 5025 
Holes in the floor... 5025 
Tubes and kids 5025 
Sweet spot enlargement 5025 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5023 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5022 
Wood Floors and Water 5022 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5017 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5016 
WAF is for Losers 5016 
WAF: it depends. 5016 
Integration 5015 
Here and there. 5015 
Life after WWIII 5015 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5015 
Cables management. 5013 
Featurizing 5013 
Kids and tubes cont. 5010 
Kid magnet 5010 
Kids and audio 5009 
Radars 5009 
Wow, what the days! 5005 
The comming weekend 5001 
It all was worth it! 4998 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4993 
Here is how it is look. 4993 
Resolving the carpet issue 4993 
Bonfire 4993 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4993 
Proof of concept? 4993 
Geometry 4993 
A view from listening position. 4993 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4993 
Some feedback 4993 
Evening 4993 
I wonder why. 4992 
Rugs and things 4992 
In defense… 4992 
I can’t get it. 4989 
Haze. 4988 
Front wall 4988 
It is very possible. 4988 
It is nice to be back. 4985 
My comfy corner. 4982 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4622 
WMD in house. 4444 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4347 
The third listening spot. 4326 
For sure a very different experience. 4288 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4283 
It's Jfretch's system. 4283 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4282 
Domestic games 4236 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4097 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4097 
Dynamic screening 4097 
Actually this is very good idea! 4097 
Volcanic fabric 4097 
I should have done this. 4095 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4091 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4060 
No worries 4060 
Awesome memories 4060 
Optimization of space 4060 
Child-ish considerations 4057 
Finding peace.... 4051 
"Fencing"? 4050 
I need to build something custom 4050 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4050 
Stressed Skin 4050 
NYC elevators 4050 
Kids toys and quantities. 4050 
Everything is completely reversible 4049 
Racks and things 4049 
Now it looks even more promising! 4049 
Quantity of rods 4049 
Avoiding diagonals 4047 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4046 
That's not fair! 4046 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4046 
Discrimination? 4041 
Vertical configuration 4034 
Impresive ! 3963 
Did you read the site? 3963 
Contact 3963 
Company's name is Rixrax 3963 
Stand 3962 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3918 
End of life headphone system 3918 
Something like this? 3918 
The "Second Living Room" 3918 
Mixing urban & suburban 3918 
Late night listening 3918 
Moving life... 3916 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3916 
A true listening room. 3892 
It started… 3877 
Levels of Interest 3877 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3877 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3877 
I can't not to post it.... 3877 
Do not leave him unattended. 3877 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3877 
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