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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6065 
The first take on the new room. 6059 
New Room, a first shot. 6058 
Wonderful 6058 
Adopted 6057 
The first relaxed night with the room 6055 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6054 
The listening room is ready. 6053 
New Room, a First Shot 6051 
Continue to work with the room 6051 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6051 
Room 6050 
I think it will take another month. 6050 
The Buttressing 6050 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6049 
The new place and the new noises. 6049 
Big listening room 6048 
Screw the "big" rooms 6048 
Big listening rooms 6048 
First reflection points 6047 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6047 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6044 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6043 
Squeezing the floor 6043 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6043 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6043 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6042 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6042 
The new room, the very first listening. 6042 
The 14.5 foot. 6041 
Again… 6040 
Romy's new Playground 6040 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6040 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6040 
For the uninitiated ... 6039 
NH guy 6039 
Room 6039 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6038 
The first base is done 6038 
Reentry time alignment. 6037 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6036 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6036 
Mid bass horn. 6036 
Guess is only a guess… 6036 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6036 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6035 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6035 
Diffusors 6035 
Diffuse injection 6035 
Let analyse why it so 6035 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6035 
Wheel and Deal 6035 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6035 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6035 
I Must Be Missing Something 6035 
I put sliders under my speakers 6034 
ROOM 6033 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6033 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6033 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6033 
No concerns 6033 
Speakers and room 6033 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6032 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6032 
Diaphram 6032 
Phram 6032 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6032 
Perfect piston 6032 
Decorater 6031 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6031 
New morning 6030 
The first take on the room with RTA 6029 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6029 
Axiomatic 6029 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6028 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6028 
The size of the bass. 6028 
Bass Factory 6028 
Crude Level, or something more? 6028 
I will play with it this week…. 6028 
Rent-A 6028 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6028 
Corner horns 6028 
Cheating from below 6028 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6028 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6027 
A possibly overly simplified view 6027 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6027 
Iceberg 6027 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6027 
Why not horn 6027 
A correction…. 6027 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6027 
They are just not related things at all. 6027 
Fertin 6025 
Low resonance is good... 6025 
Et tu, Brute? 6024 
The Room response at LF 6023 
Life On The Ground Floor 6023 
Bass arrays 6023 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6023 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6023 
The super sucks. 6023 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6023 
You may also try 6022 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6022 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6022 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6022 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6022 
60 Hz Resonance 6022 
No notching… so far. 6022 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6021 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6021 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6021 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6021 
Power to the People 6021 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6021 
Aura 6021 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6021 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6021 
All class D is the same 6021 
Interpreting the LF results. 6020 
The Halibut 6020 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6020 
The Big Picture 6020 
Power & ULF channels 6020 
The big picture indeed. 6020 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6020 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6020 
The Power and the Glory 6019 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6019 
I guess I did not get this memo 6019 
French LF drivers 6019 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6019 
(another) French LF approach 6018 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6018 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6018 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6018 
Limpschtick 6018 
Symmetry 6018 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6017 
Room correction 6017 
It migh be more complicated. 6017 
Bass EQ ? 6017 
Agree and not. 6017 
Two "diseases" 6017 
Parametric filters 6017 
Ceiling arrays 6017 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6017 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6017 
The Middle of the Room. 6017 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6017 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6017 
Stop! 6017 
Appendectomy 6017 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6016 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6016 
No Isolation 6016 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6013 
Potential contenders? 6012 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6012 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6012 
Those Crazy Canucks 6008 
Mo' Better Bass 6002 
Bird in the Hand? 6002 
A wet listening spot? 5995 
Storm 5992 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5992 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5978 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5948 
Polar Opposite ULF 5947 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5935 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5933 
Differently but the same. 5932 
PVC 5931 
The sail test try. 5931 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5931 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5931 
Trial 5930 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5930 
Some explanations 5930 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5929 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5928 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5927 
Acrylate 5926 
Magic blanket 5926 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5925 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5925 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5925 
I have a few options. 5925 
Foam color 5925 
Strange things with upperbass 5925 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5924 
Teatro reform. . . 5924 
The foaming room dilemma. 5923 
Melamine Foam 5923 
Foaming up the cat house 5923 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5923 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5923 
Acoustic revisions… 5922 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5919 
Surprises so far in the new room 5918 
The upperbass in the new room. 5918 
Slight change of hart. 5917 
Camco supply of Boston 5915 
Room acoustics 5915 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5874 
I need to kill dust first. 5874 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5872 
To feed the leeches? 5872 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5871 
Yh 5871 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5871 
DPOLs? 5871 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5871 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5868 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5868 
A HalfPipe solution? 5868 
I absolutely love it. 5868 
Piper work 5867 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5867 
Absorption 5867 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5866 
Cats life ? 5866 
Call me Pussy. 5866 
More about traps 5866 
Acoustic impedance? 5866 
You maybe right 5866 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5866 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5865 
Heavy Curtain 5865 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5864 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5864 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5864 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5861 
Fix speaker move chair? 5860 
Back and forth ceremony 5860 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5859 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5858 
Glass windows 5857 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5856 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5855 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5853 
How to use basement jacks? 5853 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5853 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5853 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5852 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5852 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5851 
Sore eyes... 5850 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5850 
The harvesting week! 5848 
I need an inspiration… 5847 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5846 
Like this? 5846 
Dramatically randomize MF 5846 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5845 
The room eats dynamic 5845 
Diffusers 5845 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5844 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5829 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5828 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5828 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5828 
About Width-Importance balance. 5826 
Letting the music scale up 5825 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5825 
To finish my house décor… 5821 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5820 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5819 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5819 
Calling the gods of music 5819 
Absolutely 5819 
Phase manipulation 5819 
No relation. 5819 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5819 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5819 
Dynamical mismatch 5818 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5818 
Stradiwinerius? 5815 
Dealing with the glass. 5814 
Boston 5814 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5814 
Added mass 5814 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5814 
It is about moderation…. 5814 
To hell with the wine... 5814 
Also for other surafaces 5813 
LEAD 5813 
LEAD & GLASS 5813 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5813 
Read carefully 5813 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5813 
Crooks and morons 5813 
Magiscopios 5812 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5792 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5792 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5791 
The LP setup in the new home. 5740 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5735 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5735 
Pianochord will do! 5735 
Spanyi heaven 5735 
I see no conflict at all. 5735 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5735 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5735 
A year after closing 5727 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5727 
Traveling antimatter 5720 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5714 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5713 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5687 
Cast Iron fireplace 5686 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5686 
The hardcore way 5686 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5650 
This is How It's Done 5649 
Listening room during summer. 5637 
What about those... 5636 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5636 
Reducing A/C Noise 5636 
HVAC the Cat 5636 
Big Ass fan 5635 
Variac dimmers 5635 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5635 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5635 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5567 
Some winter observations. 5458 
That Asian man…. 5427 
The Franz Schubert morning 5401 
Spring.... 5350 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5300 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5271 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5271 
Just good photography? 5271 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5271 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5271 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5270 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5270 
Sports car 5270 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5270 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5270 
Train Positioning 5270 
Kind of what I want 5270 
The lap listening… 5270 
Family Room 5270 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5267 
A super audio room. 5263 
Time Warp! 5263 
A piano in a listening room 5242 
Pianissimo 5242 
The plan in blue. 5242 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5242 
My doubts 5242 
It is exactly what I worry. 5241 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5241 
Musicians at home 5241 
Piano Measurements 5240 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5235 
The next step. 5221 
Midbass horns missing?? 5220 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5210 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5210 
Baby Grand 5209 
Wood floor 5209 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5209 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5209 
Amy’s baby. 5207 
Improvement 5207 
Agree with Scott 5207 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5195 
Integrated casters 5195 
Very nice, thanks. 5195 
Customization 5195 
Sliders 5195 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5188 
Congratulations 5188 
Holes in the floor... 5188 
Tubes and kids 5188 
Sweet spot enlargement 5188 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5186 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5185 
Wood Floors and Water 5185 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5180 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5179 
WAF is for Losers 5179 
WAF: it depends. 5179 
Integration 5178 
Here and there. 5178 
Life after WWIII 5178 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5178 
Cables management. 5176 
Featurizing 5176 
Kids and tubes cont. 5173 
Kid magnet 5173 
Kids and audio 5172 
Radars 5172 
Wow, what the days! 5168 
The comming weekend 5164 
It all was worth it! 5161 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5156 
Here is how it is look. 5156 
Resolving the carpet issue 5156 
Bonfire 5156 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5156 
Proof of concept? 5156 
Geometry 5156 
A view from listening position. 5156 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5156 
Some feedback 5156 
Evening 5156 
I wonder why. 5155 
Rugs and things 5155 
In defense… 5155 
I can’t get it. 5152 
Haze. 5151 
Front wall 5151 
It is very possible. 5151 
It is nice to be back. 5148 
My comfy corner. 5145 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4785 
WMD in house. 4607 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4510 
The third listening spot. 4489 
For sure a very different experience. 4451 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4446 
It's Jfretch's system. 4446 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4445 
Domestic games 4399 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4260 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4260 
Dynamic screening 4260 
Actually this is very good idea! 4260 
Volcanic fabric 4260 
I should have done this. 4258 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4254 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4223 
No worries 4223 
Awesome memories 4223 
Optimization of space 4223 
Child-ish considerations 4220 
Finding peace.... 4214 
"Fencing"? 4213 
I need to build something custom 4213 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4213 
Stressed Skin 4213 
NYC elevators 4213 
Kids toys and quantities. 4213 
Everything is completely reversible 4212 
Racks and things 4212 
Now it looks even more promising! 4212 
Quantity of rods 4212 
Avoiding diagonals 4210 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4209 
That's not fair! 4209 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4209 
Discrimination? 4204 
Vertical configuration 4197 
Impresive ! 4126 
Did you read the site? 4126 
Contact 4126 
Company's name is Rixrax 4126 
Stand 4125 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4081 
End of life headphone system 4081 
Something like this? 4081 
The "Second Living Room" 4081 
Mixing urban & suburban 4081 
Late night listening 4081 
Moving life... 4079 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4079 
A true listening room. 4055 
It started… 4040 
Levels of Interest 4040 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4040 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4040 
I can't not to post it.... 4040 
Do not leave him unattended. 4040 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4040 
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