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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6005 
The first take on the new room. 5999 
New Room, a first shot. 5998 
Wonderful 5998 
Adopted 5997 
The first relaxed night with the room 5995 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5994 
The listening room is ready. 5993 
New Room, a First Shot 5991 
Continue to work with the room 5991 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5991 
Room 5990 
I think it will take another month. 5990 
The Buttressing 5990 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5989 
The new place and the new noises. 5989 
Big listening room 5988 
Screw the "big" rooms 5988 
Big listening rooms 5988 
First reflection points 5987 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5987 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5984 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5983 
Squeezing the floor 5983 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5983 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5983 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5982 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5982 
The new room, the very first listening. 5982 
The 14.5 foot. 5981 
Again… 5980 
Romy's new Playground 5980 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5980 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5980 
For the uninitiated ... 5979 
NH guy 5979 
Room 5979 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5978 
The first base is done 5978 
Reentry time alignment. 5977 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5976 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5976 
Mid bass horn. 5976 
Guess is only a guess… 5976 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5976 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5975 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5975 
Diffusors 5975 
Diffuse injection 5975 
Let analyse why it so 5975 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5975 
Wheel and Deal 5975 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5975 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5975 
I Must Be Missing Something 5975 
I put sliders under my speakers 5974 
ROOM 5973 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5973 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5973 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5973 
No concerns 5973 
Speakers and room 5973 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5972 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5972 
Diaphram 5972 
Phram 5972 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5972 
Perfect piston 5972 
Decorater 5971 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5971 
New morning 5970 
The first take on the room with RTA 5969 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5969 
Axiomatic 5969 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5968 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5968 
The size of the bass. 5968 
Bass Factory 5968 
Crude Level, or something more? 5968 
I will play with it this week…. 5968 
Rent-A 5968 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5968 
Corner horns 5968 
Cheating from below 5968 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5968 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5967 
A possibly overly simplified view 5967 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5967 
Iceberg 5967 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5967 
Why not horn 5967 
A correction…. 5967 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5967 
They are just not related things at all. 5967 
Fertin 5965 
Low resonance is good... 5965 
Et tu, Brute? 5964 
The Room response at LF 5963 
Life On The Ground Floor 5963 
Bass arrays 5963 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5963 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5963 
The super sucks. 5963 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5963 
You may also try 5962 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5962 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5962 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5962 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5962 
60 Hz Resonance 5962 
No notching… so far. 5962 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5961 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5961 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5961 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5961 
Power to the People 5961 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5961 
Aura 5961 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5961 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5961 
All class D is the same 5961 
Interpreting the LF results. 5960 
The Halibut 5960 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5960 
The Big Picture 5960 
Power & ULF channels 5960 
The big picture indeed. 5960 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5960 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5960 
The Power and the Glory 5959 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5959 
I guess I did not get this memo 5959 
French LF drivers 5959 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5959 
(another) French LF approach 5958 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5958 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5958 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5958 
Limpschtick 5958 
Symmetry 5958 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5957 
Room correction 5957 
It migh be more complicated. 5957 
Bass EQ ? 5957 
Agree and not. 5957 
Two "diseases" 5957 
Parametric filters 5957 
Ceiling arrays 5957 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5957 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5957 
The Middle of the Room. 5957 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5957 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5957 
Stop! 5957 
Appendectomy 5957 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5956 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5956 
No Isolation 5956 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5953 
Potential contenders? 5952 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5952 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5952 
Those Crazy Canucks 5948 
Mo' Better Bass 5942 
Bird in the Hand? 5942 
A wet listening spot? 5935 
Storm 5932 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5932 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5918 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5888 
Polar Opposite ULF 5887 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5875 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5873 
Differently but the same. 5872 
PVC 5871 
The sail test try. 5871 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5871 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5871 
Trial 5870 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5870 
Some explanations 5870 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5869 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5868 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5867 
Acrylate 5866 
Magic blanket 5866 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5865 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5865 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5865 
I have a few options. 5865 
Foam color 5865 
Strange things with upperbass 5865 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5864 
Teatro reform. . . 5864 
The foaming room dilemma. 5863 
Melamine Foam 5863 
Foaming up the cat house 5863 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5863 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5863 
Acoustic revisions… 5862 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5859 
Surprises so far in the new room 5858 
The upperbass in the new room. 5858 
Slight change of hart. 5857 
Camco supply of Boston 5855 
Room acoustics 5855 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5814 
I need to kill dust first. 5814 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5812 
To feed the leeches? 5812 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5811 
Yh 5811 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5811 
DPOLs? 5811 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5811 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5808 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5808 
A HalfPipe solution? 5808 
I absolutely love it. 5808 
Piper work 5807 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5807 
Absorption 5807 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5806 
Cats life ? 5806 
Call me Pussy. 5806 
More about traps 5806 
Acoustic impedance? 5806 
You maybe right 5806 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5806 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5805 
Heavy Curtain 5805 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5804 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5804 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5804 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5801 
Fix speaker move chair? 5800 
Back and forth ceremony 5800 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5799 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5798 
Glass windows 5797 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5796 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5795 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5793 
How to use basement jacks? 5793 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5793 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5793 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5792 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5792 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5791 
Sore eyes... 5790 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5790 
The harvesting week! 5788 
I need an inspiration… 5787 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5786 
Like this? 5786 
Dramatically randomize MF 5786 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5785 
The room eats dynamic 5785 
Diffusers 5785 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5784 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5769 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5768 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5768 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5768 
About Width-Importance balance. 5766 
Letting the music scale up 5765 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5765 
To finish my house décor… 5761 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5760 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5759 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5759 
Calling the gods of music 5759 
Absolutely 5759 
Phase manipulation 5759 
No relation. 5759 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5759 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5759 
Dynamical mismatch 5758 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5758 
Stradiwinerius? 5755 
Dealing with the glass. 5754 
Boston 5754 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5754 
Added mass 5754 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5754 
It is about moderation…. 5754 
To hell with the wine... 5754 
Also for other surafaces 5753 
LEAD 5753 
LEAD & GLASS 5753 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5753 
Read carefully 5753 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5753 
Crooks and morons 5753 
Magiscopios 5752 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5732 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5732 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5731 
The LP setup in the new home. 5680 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5675 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5675 
Pianochord will do! 5675 
Spanyi heaven 5675 
I see no conflict at all. 5675 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5675 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5675 
A year after closing 5667 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5667 
Traveling antimatter 5660 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5654 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5653 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5627 
Cast Iron fireplace 5626 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5626 
The hardcore way 5626 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5590 
This is How It's Done 5589 
Listening room during summer. 5577 
What about those... 5576 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5576 
Reducing A/C Noise 5576 
HVAC the Cat 5576 
Big Ass fan 5575 
Variac dimmers 5575 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5575 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5575 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5507 
Some winter observations. 5398 
That Asian man…. 5367 
The Franz Schubert morning 5341 
Spring.... 5290 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5240 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5211 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5211 
Just good photography? 5211 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5211 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5211 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5210 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5210 
Sports car 5210 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5210 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5210 
Train Positioning 5210 
Kind of what I want 5210 
The lap listening… 5210 
Family Room 5210 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5207 
A super audio room. 5203 
Time Warp! 5203 
A piano in a listening room 5182 
Pianissimo 5182 
The plan in blue. 5182 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5182 
My doubts 5182 
It is exactly what I worry. 5181 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5181 
Musicians at home 5181 
Piano Measurements 5180 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5175 
The next step. 5161 
Midbass horns missing?? 5160 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5150 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5150 
Baby Grand 5149 
Wood floor 5149 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5149 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5149 
Amy’s baby. 5147 
Improvement 5147 
Agree with Scott 5147 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5135 
Integrated casters 5135 
Very nice, thanks. 5135 
Customization 5135 
Sliders 5135 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5128 
Congratulations 5128 
Holes in the floor... 5128 
Tubes and kids 5128 
Sweet spot enlargement 5128 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5126 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5125 
Wood Floors and Water 5125 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5120 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5119 
WAF is for Losers 5119 
WAF: it depends. 5119 
Integration 5118 
Here and there. 5118 
Life after WWIII 5118 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5118 
Cables management. 5116 
Featurizing 5116 
Kids and tubes cont. 5113 
Kid magnet 5113 
Kids and audio 5112 
Radars 5112 
Wow, what the days! 5108 
The comming weekend 5104 
It all was worth it! 5101 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5096 
Here is how it is look. 5096 
Resolving the carpet issue 5096 
Bonfire 5096 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5096 
Proof of concept? 5096 
Geometry 5096 
A view from listening position. 5096 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5096 
Some feedback 5096 
Evening 5096 
I wonder why. 5095 
Rugs and things 5095 
In defense… 5095 
I can’t get it. 5092 
Haze. 5091 
Front wall 5091 
It is very possible. 5091 
It is nice to be back. 5088 
My comfy corner. 5085 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4725 
WMD in house. 4547 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4450 
The third listening spot. 4429 
For sure a very different experience. 4391 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4386 
It's Jfretch's system. 4386 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4385 
Domestic games 4339 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4200 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4200 
Dynamic screening 4200 
Actually this is very good idea! 4200 
Volcanic fabric 4200 
I should have done this. 4198 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4194 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4163 
No worries 4163 
Awesome memories 4163 
Optimization of space 4163 
Child-ish considerations 4160 
Finding peace.... 4154 
"Fencing"? 4153 
I need to build something custom 4153 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4153 
Stressed Skin 4153 
NYC elevators 4153 
Kids toys and quantities. 4153 
Everything is completely reversible 4152 
Racks and things 4152 
Now it looks even more promising! 4152 
Quantity of rods 4152 
Avoiding diagonals 4150 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4149 
That's not fair! 4149 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4149 
Discrimination? 4144 
Vertical configuration 4137 
Impresive ! 4066 
Did you read the site? 4066 
Contact 4066 
Company's name is Rixrax 4066 
Stand 4065 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4021 
End of life headphone system 4021 
Something like this? 4021 
The "Second Living Room" 4021 
Mixing urban & suburban 4021 
Late night listening 4021 
Moving life... 4019 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4019 
A true listening room. 3995 
It started… 3980 
Levels of Interest 3980 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3980 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3980 
I can't not to post it.... 3980 
Do not leave him unattended. 3980 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3980 
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