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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6058 
The first take on the new room. 6052 
New Room, a first shot. 6051 
Wonderful 6051 
Adopted 6050 
The first relaxed night with the room 6048 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6047 
The listening room is ready. 6046 
New Room, a First Shot 6044 
Continue to work with the room 6044 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6044 
Room 6043 
I think it will take another month. 6043 
The Buttressing 6043 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6042 
The new place and the new noises. 6042 
Big listening room 6041 
Screw the "big" rooms 6041 
Big listening rooms 6041 
First reflection points 6040 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6040 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6037 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6036 
Squeezing the floor 6036 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6036 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6036 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6035 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6035 
The new room, the very first listening. 6035 
The 14.5 foot. 6034 
Again… 6033 
Romy's new Playground 6033 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6033 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6033 
For the uninitiated ... 6032 
NH guy 6032 
Room 6032 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6031 
The first base is done 6031 
Reentry time alignment. 6030 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6029 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6029 
Mid bass horn. 6029 
Guess is only a guess… 6029 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6029 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6028 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6028 
Diffusors 6028 
Diffuse injection 6028 
Let analyse why it so 6028 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6028 
Wheel and Deal 6028 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6028 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6028 
I Must Be Missing Something 6028 
I put sliders under my speakers 6027 
ROOM 6026 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6026 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6026 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6026 
No concerns 6026 
Speakers and room 6026 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6025 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6025 
Diaphram 6025 
Phram 6025 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6025 
Perfect piston 6025 
Decorater 6024 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6024 
New morning 6023 
The first take on the room with RTA 6022 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6022 
Axiomatic 6022 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6021 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6021 
The size of the bass. 6021 
Bass Factory 6021 
Crude Level, or something more? 6021 
I will play with it this week…. 6021 
Rent-A 6021 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6021 
Corner horns 6021 
Cheating from below 6021 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6021 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6020 
A possibly overly simplified view 6020 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6020 
Iceberg 6020 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6020 
Why not horn 6020 
A correction…. 6020 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6020 
They are just not related things at all. 6020 
Fertin 6018 
Low resonance is good... 6018 
Et tu, Brute? 6017 
The Room response at LF 6016 
Life On The Ground Floor 6016 
Bass arrays 6016 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6016 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6016 
The super sucks. 6016 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6016 
You may also try 6015 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6015 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6015 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6015 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6015 
60 Hz Resonance 6015 
No notching… so far. 6015 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6014 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6014 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6014 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6014 
Power to the People 6014 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6014 
Aura 6014 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6014 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6014 
All class D is the same 6014 
Interpreting the LF results. 6013 
The Halibut 6013 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6013 
The Big Picture 6013 
Power & ULF channels 6013 
The big picture indeed. 6013 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6013 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6013 
The Power and the Glory 6012 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6012 
I guess I did not get this memo 6012 
French LF drivers 6012 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6012 
(another) French LF approach 6011 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6011 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6011 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6011 
Limpschtick 6011 
Symmetry 6011 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6010 
Room correction 6010 
It migh be more complicated. 6010 
Bass EQ ? 6010 
Agree and not. 6010 
Two "diseases" 6010 
Parametric filters 6010 
Ceiling arrays 6010 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6010 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6010 
The Middle of the Room. 6010 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6010 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6010 
Stop! 6010 
Appendectomy 6010 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6009 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6009 
No Isolation 6009 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6006 
Potential contenders? 6005 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6005 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6005 
Those Crazy Canucks 6001 
Mo' Better Bass 5995 
Bird in the Hand? 5995 
A wet listening spot? 5988 
Storm 5985 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5985 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5971 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5941 
Polar Opposite ULF 5940 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5928 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5926 
Differently but the same. 5925 
PVC 5924 
The sail test try. 5924 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5924 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5924 
Trial 5923 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5923 
Some explanations 5923 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5922 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5921 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5920 
Acrylate 5919 
Magic blanket 5919 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5918 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5918 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5918 
I have a few options. 5918 
Foam color 5918 
Strange things with upperbass 5918 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5917 
Teatro reform. . . 5917 
The foaming room dilemma. 5916 
Melamine Foam 5916 
Foaming up the cat house 5916 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5916 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5916 
Acoustic revisions… 5915 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5912 
Surprises so far in the new room 5911 
The upperbass in the new room. 5911 
Slight change of hart. 5910 
Camco supply of Boston 5908 
Room acoustics 5908 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5867 
I need to kill dust first. 5867 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5865 
To feed the leeches? 5865 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5864 
Yh 5864 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5864 
DPOLs? 5864 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5864 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5861 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5861 
A HalfPipe solution? 5861 
I absolutely love it. 5861 
Piper work 5860 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5860 
Absorption 5860 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5859 
Cats life ? 5859 
Call me Pussy. 5859 
More about traps 5859 
Acoustic impedance? 5859 
You maybe right 5859 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5859 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5858 
Heavy Curtain 5858 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5857 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5857 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5857 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5854 
Fix speaker move chair? 5853 
Back and forth ceremony 5853 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5852 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5851 
Glass windows 5850 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5849 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5848 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5846 
How to use basement jacks? 5846 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5846 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5846 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5845 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5845 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5844 
Sore eyes... 5843 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5843 
The harvesting week! 5841 
I need an inspiration… 5840 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5839 
Like this? 5839 
Dramatically randomize MF 5839 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5838 
The room eats dynamic 5838 
Diffusers 5838 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5837 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5822 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5821 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5821 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5821 
About Width-Importance balance. 5819 
Letting the music scale up 5818 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5818 
To finish my house décor… 5814 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5813 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5812 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5812 
Calling the gods of music 5812 
Absolutely 5812 
Phase manipulation 5812 
No relation. 5812 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5812 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5812 
Dynamical mismatch 5811 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5811 
Stradiwinerius? 5808 
Dealing with the glass. 5807 
Boston 5807 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5807 
Added mass 5807 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5807 
It is about moderation…. 5807 
To hell with the wine... 5807 
Also for other surafaces 5806 
LEAD 5806 
LEAD & GLASS 5806 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5806 
Read carefully 5806 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5806 
Crooks and morons 5806 
Magiscopios 5805 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5785 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5785 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5784 
The LP setup in the new home. 5733 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5728 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5728 
Pianochord will do! 5728 
Spanyi heaven 5728 
I see no conflict at all. 5728 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5728 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5728 
A year after closing 5720 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5720 
Traveling antimatter 5713 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5707 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5706 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5680 
Cast Iron fireplace 5679 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5679 
The hardcore way 5679 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5643 
This is How It's Done 5642 
Listening room during summer. 5630 
What about those... 5629 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5629 
Reducing A/C Noise 5629 
HVAC the Cat 5629 
Big Ass fan 5628 
Variac dimmers 5628 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5628 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5628 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5560 
Some winter observations. 5451 
That Asian man…. 5420 
The Franz Schubert morning 5394 
Spring.... 5343 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5293 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5264 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5264 
Just good photography? 5264 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5264 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5264 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5263 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5263 
Sports car 5263 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5263 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5263 
Train Positioning 5263 
Kind of what I want 5263 
The lap listening… 5263 
Family Room 5263 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5260 
A super audio room. 5256 
Time Warp! 5256 
A piano in a listening room 5235 
Pianissimo 5235 
The plan in blue. 5235 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5235 
My doubts 5235 
It is exactly what I worry. 5234 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5234 
Musicians at home 5234 
Piano Measurements 5233 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5228 
The next step. 5214 
Midbass horns missing?? 5213 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5203 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5203 
Baby Grand 5202 
Wood floor 5202 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5202 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5202 
Amy’s baby. 5200 
Improvement 5200 
Agree with Scott 5200 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5188 
Integrated casters 5188 
Very nice, thanks. 5188 
Customization 5188 
Sliders 5188 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5181 
Congratulations 5181 
Holes in the floor... 5181 
Tubes and kids 5181 
Sweet spot enlargement 5181 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5179 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5178 
Wood Floors and Water 5178 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5173 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5172 
WAF is for Losers 5172 
WAF: it depends. 5172 
Integration 5171 
Here and there. 5171 
Life after WWIII 5171 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5171 
Cables management. 5169 
Featurizing 5169 
Kids and tubes cont. 5166 
Kid magnet 5166 
Kids and audio 5165 
Radars 5165 
Wow, what the days! 5161 
The comming weekend 5157 
It all was worth it! 5154 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5149 
Here is how it is look. 5149 
Resolving the carpet issue 5149 
Bonfire 5149 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5149 
Proof of concept? 5149 
Geometry 5149 
A view from listening position. 5149 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5149 
Some feedback 5149 
Evening 5149 
I wonder why. 5148 
Rugs and things 5148 
In defense… 5148 
I can’t get it. 5145 
Haze. 5144 
Front wall 5144 
It is very possible. 5144 
It is nice to be back. 5141 
My comfy corner. 5138 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4778 
WMD in house. 4600 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4503 
The third listening spot. 4482 
For sure a very different experience. 4444 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4439 
It's Jfretch's system. 4439 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4438 
Domestic games 4392 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4253 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4253 
Dynamic screening 4253 
Actually this is very good idea! 4253 
Volcanic fabric 4253 
I should have done this. 4251 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4247 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4216 
No worries 4216 
Awesome memories 4216 
Optimization of space 4216 
Child-ish considerations 4213 
Finding peace.... 4207 
"Fencing"? 4206 
I need to build something custom 4206 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4206 
Stressed Skin 4206 
NYC elevators 4206 
Kids toys and quantities. 4206 
Everything is completely reversible 4205 
Racks and things 4205 
Now it looks even more promising! 4205 
Quantity of rods 4205 
Avoiding diagonals 4203 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4202 
That's not fair! 4202 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4202 
Discrimination? 4197 
Vertical configuration 4190 
Impresive ! 4119 
Did you read the site? 4119 
Contact 4119 
Company's name is Rixrax 4119 
Stand 4118 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4074 
End of life headphone system 4074 
Something like this? 4074 
The "Second Living Room" 4074 
Mixing urban & suburban 4074 
Late night listening 4074 
Moving life... 4072 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4072 
A true listening room. 4048 
It started… 4033 
Levels of Interest 4033 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4033 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4033 
I can't not to post it.... 4033 
Do not leave him unattended. 4033 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4033 
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