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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6063 
The first take on the new room. 6057 
New Room, a first shot. 6056 
Wonderful 6056 
Adopted 6055 
The first relaxed night with the room 6053 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6052 
The listening room is ready. 6051 
New Room, a First Shot 6049 
Continue to work with the room 6049 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6049 
Room 6048 
I think it will take another month. 6048 
The Buttressing 6048 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6047 
The new place and the new noises. 6047 
Big listening room 6046 
Screw the "big" rooms 6046 
Big listening rooms 6046 
First reflection points 6045 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6045 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6042 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6041 
Squeezing the floor 6041 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6041 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6041 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6040 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6040 
The new room, the very first listening. 6040 
The 14.5 foot. 6039 
Again… 6038 
Romy's new Playground 6038 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6038 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6038 
For the uninitiated ... 6037 
NH guy 6037 
Room 6037 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6036 
The first base is done 6036 
Reentry time alignment. 6035 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6034 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6034 
Mid bass horn. 6034 
Guess is only a guess… 6034 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6034 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6033 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6033 
Diffusors 6033 
Diffuse injection 6033 
Let analyse why it so 6033 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6033 
Wheel and Deal 6033 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6033 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6033 
I Must Be Missing Something 6033 
I put sliders under my speakers 6032 
ROOM 6031 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6031 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6031 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6031 
No concerns 6031 
Speakers and room 6031 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6030 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6030 
Diaphram 6030 
Phram 6030 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6030 
Perfect piston 6030 
Decorater 6029 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6029 
New morning 6028 
The first take on the room with RTA 6027 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6027 
Axiomatic 6027 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6026 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6026 
The size of the bass. 6026 
Bass Factory 6026 
Crude Level, or something more? 6026 
I will play with it this week…. 6026 
Rent-A 6026 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6026 
Corner horns 6026 
Cheating from below 6026 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6026 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6025 
A possibly overly simplified view 6025 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6025 
Iceberg 6025 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6025 
Why not horn 6025 
A correction…. 6025 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6025 
They are just not related things at all. 6025 
Fertin 6023 
Low resonance is good... 6023 
Et tu, Brute? 6022 
The Room response at LF 6021 
Life On The Ground Floor 6021 
Bass arrays 6021 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6021 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6021 
The super sucks. 6021 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6021 
You may also try 6020 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6020 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6020 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6020 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6020 
60 Hz Resonance 6020 
No notching… so far. 6020 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6019 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6019 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6019 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6019 
Power to the People 6019 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6019 
Aura 6019 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6019 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6019 
All class D is the same 6019 
Interpreting the LF results. 6018 
The Halibut 6018 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6018 
The Big Picture 6018 
Power & ULF channels 6018 
The big picture indeed. 6018 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6018 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6018 
The Power and the Glory 6017 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6017 
I guess I did not get this memo 6017 
French LF drivers 6017 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6017 
(another) French LF approach 6016 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6016 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6016 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6016 
Limpschtick 6016 
Symmetry 6016 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6015 
Room correction 6015 
It migh be more complicated. 6015 
Bass EQ ? 6015 
Agree and not. 6015 
Two "diseases" 6015 
Parametric filters 6015 
Ceiling arrays 6015 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6015 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6015 
The Middle of the Room. 6015 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6015 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6015 
Stop! 6015 
Appendectomy 6015 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6014 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6014 
No Isolation 6014 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6011 
Potential contenders? 6010 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6010 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6010 
Those Crazy Canucks 6006 
Mo' Better Bass 6000 
Bird in the Hand? 6000 
A wet listening spot? 5993 
Storm 5990 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5990 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5976 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5946 
Polar Opposite ULF 5945 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5933 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5931 
Differently but the same. 5930 
PVC 5929 
The sail test try. 5929 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5929 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5929 
Trial 5928 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5928 
Some explanations 5928 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5927 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5926 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5925 
Acrylate 5924 
Magic blanket 5924 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5923 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5923 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5923 
I have a few options. 5923 
Foam color 5923 
Strange things with upperbass 5923 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5922 
Teatro reform. . . 5922 
The foaming room dilemma. 5921 
Melamine Foam 5921 
Foaming up the cat house 5921 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5921 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5921 
Acoustic revisions… 5920 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5917 
Surprises so far in the new room 5916 
The upperbass in the new room. 5916 
Slight change of hart. 5915 
Camco supply of Boston 5913 
Room acoustics 5913 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5872 
I need to kill dust first. 5872 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5870 
To feed the leeches? 5870 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5869 
Yh 5869 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5869 
DPOLs? 5869 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5869 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5866 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5866 
A HalfPipe solution? 5866 
I absolutely love it. 5866 
Piper work 5865 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5865 
Absorption 5865 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5864 
Cats life ? 5864 
Call me Pussy. 5864 
More about traps 5864 
Acoustic impedance? 5864 
You maybe right 5864 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5864 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5863 
Heavy Curtain 5863 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5862 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5862 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5862 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5859 
Fix speaker move chair? 5858 
Back and forth ceremony 5858 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5857 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5856 
Glass windows 5855 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5854 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5853 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5851 
How to use basement jacks? 5851 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5851 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5851 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5850 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5850 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5849 
Sore eyes... 5848 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5848 
The harvesting week! 5846 
I need an inspiration… 5845 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5844 
Like this? 5844 
Dramatically randomize MF 5844 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5843 
The room eats dynamic 5843 
Diffusers 5843 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5842 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5827 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5826 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5826 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5826 
About Width-Importance balance. 5824 
Letting the music scale up 5823 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5823 
To finish my house décor… 5819 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5818 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5817 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5817 
Calling the gods of music 5817 
Absolutely 5817 
Phase manipulation 5817 
No relation. 5817 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5817 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5817 
Dynamical mismatch 5816 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5816 
Stradiwinerius? 5813 
Dealing with the glass. 5812 
Boston 5812 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5812 
Added mass 5812 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5812 
It is about moderation…. 5812 
To hell with the wine... 5812 
Also for other surafaces 5811 
LEAD 5811 
LEAD & GLASS 5811 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5811 
Read carefully 5811 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5811 
Crooks and morons 5811 
Magiscopios 5810 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5790 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5790 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5789 
The LP setup in the new home. 5738 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5733 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5733 
Pianochord will do! 5733 
Spanyi heaven 5733 
I see no conflict at all. 5733 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5733 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5733 
A year after closing 5725 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5725 
Traveling antimatter 5718 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5712 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5711 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5685 
Cast Iron fireplace 5684 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5684 
The hardcore way 5684 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5648 
This is How It's Done 5647 
Listening room during summer. 5635 
What about those... 5634 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5634 
Reducing A/C Noise 5634 
HVAC the Cat 5634 
Big Ass fan 5633 
Variac dimmers 5633 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5633 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5633 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5565 
Some winter observations. 5456 
That Asian man…. 5425 
The Franz Schubert morning 5399 
Spring.... 5348 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5298 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5269 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5269 
Just good photography? 5269 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5269 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5269 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5268 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5268 
Sports car 5268 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5268 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5268 
Train Positioning 5268 
Kind of what I want 5268 
The lap listening… 5268 
Family Room 5268 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5265 
A super audio room. 5261 
Time Warp! 5261 
A piano in a listening room 5240 
Pianissimo 5240 
The plan in blue. 5240 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5240 
My doubts 5240 
It is exactly what I worry. 5239 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5239 
Musicians at home 5239 
Piano Measurements 5238 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5233 
The next step. 5219 
Midbass horns missing?? 5218 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5208 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5208 
Baby Grand 5207 
Wood floor 5207 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5207 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5207 
Amy’s baby. 5205 
Improvement 5205 
Agree with Scott 5205 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5193 
Integrated casters 5193 
Very nice, thanks. 5193 
Customization 5193 
Sliders 5193 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5186 
Congratulations 5186 
Holes in the floor... 5186 
Tubes and kids 5186 
Sweet spot enlargement 5186 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5184 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5183 
Wood Floors and Water 5183 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5178 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5177 
WAF is for Losers 5177 
WAF: it depends. 5177 
Integration 5176 
Here and there. 5176 
Life after WWIII 5176 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5176 
Cables management. 5174 
Featurizing 5174 
Kids and tubes cont. 5171 
Kid magnet 5171 
Kids and audio 5170 
Radars 5170 
Wow, what the days! 5166 
The comming weekend 5162 
It all was worth it! 5159 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5154 
Here is how it is look. 5154 
Resolving the carpet issue 5154 
Bonfire 5154 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5154 
Proof of concept? 5154 
Geometry 5154 
A view from listening position. 5154 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5154 
Some feedback 5154 
Evening 5154 
I wonder why. 5153 
Rugs and things 5153 
In defense… 5153 
I can’t get it. 5150 
Haze. 5149 
Front wall 5149 
It is very possible. 5149 
It is nice to be back. 5146 
My comfy corner. 5143 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4783 
WMD in house. 4605 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4508 
The third listening spot. 4487 
For sure a very different experience. 4449 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4444 
It's Jfretch's system. 4444 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4443 
Domestic games 4397 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4258 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4258 
Dynamic screening 4258 
Actually this is very good idea! 4258 
Volcanic fabric 4258 
I should have done this. 4256 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4252 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4221 
No worries 4221 
Awesome memories 4221 
Optimization of space 4221 
Child-ish considerations 4218 
Finding peace.... 4212 
"Fencing"? 4211 
I need to build something custom 4211 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4211 
Stressed Skin 4211 
NYC elevators 4211 
Kids toys and quantities. 4211 
Everything is completely reversible 4210 
Racks and things 4210 
Now it looks even more promising! 4210 
Quantity of rods 4210 
Avoiding diagonals 4208 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4207 
That's not fair! 4207 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4207 
Discrimination? 4202 
Vertical configuration 4195 
Impresive ! 4124 
Did you read the site? 4124 
Contact 4124 
Company's name is Rixrax 4124 
Stand 4123 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4079 
End of life headphone system 4079 
Something like this? 4079 
The "Second Living Room" 4079 
Mixing urban & suburban 4079 
Late night listening 4079 
Moving life... 4077 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4077 
A true listening room. 4053 
It started… 4038 
Levels of Interest 4038 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4038 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4038 
I can't not to post it.... 4038 
Do not leave him unattended. 4038 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4038 
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