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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5778 
The first take on the new room. 5772 
New Room, a first shot. 5771 
Wonderful 5771 
Adopted 5770 
The first relaxed night with the room 5768 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5767 
The listening room is ready. 5766 
New Room, a First Shot 5764 
Continue to work with the room 5764 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5764 
Room 5763 
I think it will take another month. 5763 
The Buttressing 5763 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5762 
The new place and the new noises. 5762 
Big listening room 5761 
Screw the "big" rooms 5761 
Big listening rooms 5761 
First reflection points 5760 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5760 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5757 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5756 
Squeezing the floor 5756 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5756 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5756 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5755 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5755 
The new room, the very first listening. 5755 
The 14.5 foot. 5754 
Again… 5753 
Romy's new Playground 5753 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5753 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5753 
For the uninitiated ... 5752 
NH guy 5752 
Room 5752 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5751 
The first base is done 5751 
Reentry time alignment. 5750 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5749 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5749 
Mid bass horn. 5749 
Guess is only a guess… 5749 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5749 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5748 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5748 
Diffusors 5748 
Diffuse injection 5748 
Let analyse why it so 5748 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5748 
Wheel and Deal 5748 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5748 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5748 
I Must Be Missing Something 5748 
I put sliders under my speakers 5747 
ROOM 5746 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5746 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5746 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5746 
No concerns 5746 
Speakers and room 5746 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5745 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5745 
Diaphram 5745 
Phram 5745 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5745 
Perfect piston 5745 
Decorater 5744 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5744 
New morning 5743 
The first take on the room with RTA 5742 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5742 
Axiomatic 5742 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5741 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5741 
The size of the bass. 5741 
Bass Factory 5741 
Crude Level, or something more? 5741 
I will play with it this week…. 5741 
Rent-A 5741 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5741 
Corner horns 5741 
Cheating from below 5741 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5741 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5740 
A possibly overly simplified view 5740 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5740 
Iceberg 5740 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5740 
Why not horn 5740 
A correction…. 5740 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5740 
They are just not related things at all. 5740 
Fertin 5738 
Low resonance is good... 5738 
Et tu, Brute? 5737 
The Room response at LF 5736 
Life On The Ground Floor 5736 
Bass arrays 5736 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5736 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5736 
The super sucks. 5736 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5736 
You may also try 5735 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5735 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5735 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5735 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5735 
60 Hz Resonance 5735 
No notching… so far. 5735 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5734 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5734 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5734 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5734 
Power to the People 5734 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5734 
Aura 5734 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5734 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5734 
All class D is the same 5734 
Interpreting the LF results. 5733 
The Halibut 5733 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5733 
The Big Picture 5733 
Power & ULF channels 5733 
The big picture indeed. 5733 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5733 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5733 
The Power and the Glory 5732 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5732 
I guess I did not get this memo 5732 
French LF drivers 5732 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5732 
(another) French LF approach 5731 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5731 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5731 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5731 
Limpschtick 5731 
Symmetry 5731 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5730 
Room correction 5730 
It migh be more complicated. 5730 
Bass EQ ? 5730 
Agree and not. 5730 
Two "diseases" 5730 
Parametric filters 5730 
Ceiling arrays 5730 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5730 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5730 
The Middle of the Room. 5730 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5730 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5730 
Stop! 5730 
Appendectomy 5730 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5729 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5729 
No Isolation 5729 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5726 
Potential contenders? 5725 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5725 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5725 
Those Crazy Canucks 5721 
Mo' Better Bass 5715 
Bird in the Hand? 5715 
A wet listening spot? 5708 
Storm 5705 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5705 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5691 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5661 
Polar Opposite ULF 5660 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5648 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5646 
Differently but the same. 5645 
PVC 5644 
The sail test try. 5644 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5644 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5644 
Trial 5643 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5643 
Some explanations 5643 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5642 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5641 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5640 
Acrylate 5639 
Magic blanket 5639 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5638 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5638 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5638 
I have a few options. 5638 
Foam color 5638 
Strange things with upperbass 5638 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5637 
Teatro reform. . . 5637 
The foaming room dilemma. 5636 
Melamine Foam 5636 
Foaming up the cat house 5636 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5636 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5636 
Acoustic revisions… 5635 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5632 
Surprises so far in the new room 5631 
The upperbass in the new room. 5631 
Slight change of hart. 5630 
Camco supply of Boston 5628 
Room acoustics 5628 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5587 
I need to kill dust first. 5587 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5585 
To feed the leeches? 5585 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5584 
Yh 5584 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5584 
DPOLs? 5584 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5584 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5581 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5581 
A HalfPipe solution? 5581 
I absolutely love it. 5581 
Piper work 5580 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5580 
Absorption 5580 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5579 
Cats life ? 5579 
Call me Pussy. 5579 
More about traps 5579 
Acoustic impedance? 5579 
You maybe right 5579 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5579 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5578 
Heavy Curtain 5578 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5577 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5577 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5577 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5574 
Fix speaker move chair? 5573 
Back and forth ceremony 5573 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5572 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5571 
Glass windows 5570 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5569 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5568 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5566 
How to use basement jacks? 5566 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5566 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5566 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5565 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5565 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5564 
Sore eyes... 5563 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5563 
The harvesting week! 5561 
I need an inspiration… 5560 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5559 
Like this? 5559 
Dramatically randomize MF 5559 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5558 
The room eats dynamic 5558 
Diffusers 5558 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5557 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5542 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5541 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5541 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5541 
About Width-Importance balance. 5539 
Letting the music scale up 5538 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5538 
To finish my house décor… 5534 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5533 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5532 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5532 
Calling the gods of music 5532 
Absolutely 5532 
Phase manipulation 5532 
No relation. 5532 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5532 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5532 
Dynamical mismatch 5531 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5531 
Stradiwinerius? 5528 
Dealing with the glass. 5527 
Boston 5527 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5527 
Added mass 5527 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5527 
It is about moderation…. 5527 
To hell with the wine... 5527 
Also for other surafaces 5526 
LEAD 5526 
LEAD & GLASS 5526 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5526 
Read carefully 5526 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5526 
Crooks and morons 5526 
Magiscopios 5525 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5505 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5505 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5504 
The LP setup in the new home. 5453 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5448 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5448 
Pianochord will do! 5448 
Spanyi heaven 5448 
I see no conflict at all. 5448 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5448 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5448 
A year after closing 5440 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5440 
Traveling antimatter 5433 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5427 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5426 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5400 
Cast Iron fireplace 5399 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5399 
The hardcore way 5399 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5363 
This is How It's Done 5362 
Listening room during summer. 5350 
What about those... 5349 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5349 
Reducing A/C Noise 5349 
HVAC the Cat 5349 
Big Ass fan 5348 
Variac dimmers 5348 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5348 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5348 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5280 
Some winter observations. 5171 
That Asian man…. 5140 
The Franz Schubert morning 5114 
Spring.... 5063 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5013 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4984 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4984 
Just good photography? 4984 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4984 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4984 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4983 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4983 
Sports car 4983 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4983 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4983 
Train Positioning 4983 
Kind of what I want 4983 
The lap listening… 4983 
Family Room 4983 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4980 
A super audio room. 4976 
Time Warp! 4976 
A piano in a listening room 4955 
Pianissimo 4955 
The plan in blue. 4955 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4955 
My doubts 4955 
It is exactly what I worry. 4954 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4954 
Musicians at home 4954 
Piano Measurements 4953 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4948 
The next step. 4934 
Midbass horns missing?? 4933 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4923 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4923 
Baby Grand 4922 
Wood floor 4922 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4922 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4922 
Amy’s baby. 4920 
Improvement 4920 
Agree with Scott 4920 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4908 
Integrated casters 4908 
Very nice, thanks. 4908 
Customization 4908 
Sliders 4908 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4901 
Congratulations 4901 
Holes in the floor... 4901 
Tubes and kids 4901 
Sweet spot enlargement 4901 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4899 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4898 
Wood Floors and Water 4898 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4893 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4892 
WAF is for Losers 4892 
WAF: it depends. 4892 
Integration 4891 
Here and there. 4891 
Life after WWIII 4891 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4891 
Cables management. 4889 
Featurizing 4889 
Kids and tubes cont. 4886 
Kid magnet 4886 
Kids and audio 4885 
Radars 4885 
Wow, what the days! 4881 
The comming weekend 4877 
It all was worth it! 4874 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4869 
Here is how it is look. 4869 
Resolving the carpet issue 4869 
Bonfire 4869 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4869 
Proof of concept? 4869 
Geometry 4869 
A view from listening position. 4869 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4869 
Some feedback 4869 
Evening 4869 
I wonder why. 4868 
Rugs and things 4868 
In defense… 4868 
I can’t get it. 4865 
Haze. 4864 
Front wall 4864 
It is very possible. 4864 
It is nice to be back. 4861 
My comfy corner. 4858 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4498 
WMD in house. 4320 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4223 
The third listening spot. 4202 
For sure a very different experience. 4164 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4159 
It's Jfretch's system. 4159 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4158 
Domestic games 4112 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3973 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3973 
Dynamic screening 3973 
Actually this is very good idea! 3973 
Volcanic fabric 3973 
I should have done this. 3971 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3967 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3936 
No worries 3936 
Awesome memories 3936 
Optimization of space 3936 
Child-ish considerations 3933 
Finding peace.... 3927 
"Fencing"? 3926 
I need to build something custom 3926 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3926 
Stressed Skin 3926 
NYC elevators 3926 
Kids toys and quantities. 3926 
Everything is completely reversible 3925 
Racks and things 3925 
Now it looks even more promising! 3925 
Quantity of rods 3925 
Avoiding diagonals 3923 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3922 
That's not fair! 3922 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3922 
Discrimination? 3917 
Vertical configuration 3910 
Impresive ! 3839 
Did you read the site? 3839 
Contact 3839 
Company's name is Rixrax 3839 
Stand 3838 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3794 
End of life headphone system 3794 
Something like this? 3794 
The "Second Living Room" 3794 
Mixing urban & suburban 3794 
Late night listening 3794 
Moving life... 3792 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3792 
A true listening room. 3768 
It started… 3753 
Levels of Interest 3753 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3753 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3753 
I can't not to post it.... 3753 
Do not leave him unattended. 3753 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3753 
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