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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5738 
The first take on the new room. 5732 
New Room, a first shot. 5731 
Wonderful 5731 
Adopted 5730 
The first relaxed night with the room 5728 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5727 
The listening room is ready. 5726 
New Room, a First Shot 5724 
Continue to work with the room 5724 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5724 
Room 5723 
I think it will take another month. 5723 
The Buttressing 5723 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5722 
The new place and the new noises. 5722 
Big listening room 5721 
Screw the "big" rooms 5721 
Big listening rooms 5721 
First reflection points 5720 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5720 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5717 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5716 
Squeezing the floor 5716 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5716 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5716 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5715 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5715 
The new room, the very first listening. 5715 
The 14.5 foot. 5714 
Again… 5713 
Romy's new Playground 5713 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5713 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5713 
For the uninitiated ... 5712 
NH guy 5712 
Room 5712 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5711 
The first base is done 5711 
Reentry time alignment. 5710 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5709 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5709 
Mid bass horn. 5709 
Guess is only a guess… 5709 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5709 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5708 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5708 
Diffusors 5708 
Diffuse injection 5708 
Let analyse why it so 5708 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5708 
Wheel and Deal 5708 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5708 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5708 
I Must Be Missing Something 5708 
I put sliders under my speakers 5707 
ROOM 5706 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5706 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5706 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5706 
No concerns 5706 
Speakers and room 5706 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5705 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5705 
Diaphram 5705 
Phram 5705 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5705 
Perfect piston 5705 
Decorater 5704 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5704 
New morning 5703 
The first take on the room with RTA 5702 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5702 
Axiomatic 5702 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5701 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5701 
The size of the bass. 5701 
Bass Factory 5701 
Crude Level, or something more? 5701 
I will play with it this week…. 5701 
Rent-A 5701 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5701 
Corner horns 5701 
Cheating from below 5701 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5701 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5700 
A possibly overly simplified view 5700 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5700 
Iceberg 5700 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5700 
Why not horn 5700 
A correction…. 5700 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5700 
They are just not related things at all. 5700 
Fertin 5698 
Low resonance is good... 5698 
Et tu, Brute? 5697 
The Room response at LF 5696 
Life On The Ground Floor 5696 
Bass arrays 5696 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5696 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5696 
The super sucks. 5696 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5696 
You may also try 5695 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5695 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5695 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5695 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5695 
60 Hz Resonance 5695 
No notching… so far. 5695 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5694 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5694 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5694 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5694 
Power to the People 5694 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5694 
Aura 5694 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5694 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5694 
All class D is the same 5694 
Interpreting the LF results. 5693 
The Halibut 5693 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5693 
The Big Picture 5693 
Power & ULF channels 5693 
The big picture indeed. 5693 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5693 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5693 
The Power and the Glory 5692 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5692 
I guess I did not get this memo 5692 
French LF drivers 5692 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5692 
(another) French LF approach 5691 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5691 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5691 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5691 
Limpschtick 5691 
Symmetry 5691 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5690 
Room correction 5690 
It migh be more complicated. 5690 
Bass EQ ? 5690 
Agree and not. 5690 
Two "diseases" 5690 
Parametric filters 5690 
Ceiling arrays 5690 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5690 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5690 
The Middle of the Room. 5690 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5690 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5690 
Stop! 5690 
Appendectomy 5690 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5689 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5689 
No Isolation 5689 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5686 
Potential contenders? 5685 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5685 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5685 
Those Crazy Canucks 5681 
Mo' Better Bass 5675 
Bird in the Hand? 5675 
A wet listening spot? 5668 
Storm 5665 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5665 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5651 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5621 
Polar Opposite ULF 5620 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5608 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5606 
Differently but the same. 5605 
PVC 5604 
The sail test try. 5604 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5604 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5604 
Trial 5603 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5603 
Some explanations 5603 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5602 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5601 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5600 
Acrylate 5599 
Magic blanket 5599 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5598 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5598 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5598 
I have a few options. 5598 
Foam color 5598 
Strange things with upperbass 5598 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5597 
Teatro reform. . . 5597 
The foaming room dilemma. 5596 
Melamine Foam 5596 
Foaming up the cat house 5596 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5596 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5596 
Acoustic revisions… 5595 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5592 
Surprises so far in the new room 5591 
The upperbass in the new room. 5591 
Slight change of hart. 5590 
Camco supply of Boston 5588 
Room acoustics 5588 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5547 
I need to kill dust first. 5547 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5545 
To feed the leeches? 5545 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5544 
Yh 5544 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5544 
DPOLs? 5544 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5544 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5541 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5541 
A HalfPipe solution? 5541 
I absolutely love it. 5541 
Piper work 5540 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5540 
Absorption 5540 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5539 
Cats life ? 5539 
Call me Pussy. 5539 
More about traps 5539 
Acoustic impedance? 5539 
You maybe right 5539 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5539 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5538 
Heavy Curtain 5538 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5537 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5537 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5537 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5534 
Fix speaker move chair? 5533 
Back and forth ceremony 5533 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5532 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5531 
Glass windows 5530 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5529 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5528 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5526 
How to use basement jacks? 5526 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5526 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5526 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5525 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5525 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5524 
Sore eyes... 5523 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5523 
The harvesting week! 5521 
I need an inspiration… 5520 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5519 
Like this? 5519 
Dramatically randomize MF 5519 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5518 
The room eats dynamic 5518 
Diffusers 5518 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5517 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5502 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5501 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5501 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5501 
About Width-Importance balance. 5499 
Letting the music scale up 5498 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5498 
To finish my house décor… 5494 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5493 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5492 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5492 
Calling the gods of music 5492 
Absolutely 5492 
Phase manipulation 5492 
No relation. 5492 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5492 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5492 
Dynamical mismatch 5491 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5491 
Stradiwinerius? 5488 
Dealing with the glass. 5487 
Boston 5487 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5487 
Added mass 5487 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5487 
It is about moderation…. 5487 
To hell with the wine... 5487 
Also for other surafaces 5486 
LEAD 5486 
LEAD & GLASS 5486 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5486 
Read carefully 5486 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5486 
Crooks and morons 5486 
Magiscopios 5485 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5465 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5465 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5464 
The LP setup in the new home. 5413 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5408 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5408 
Pianochord will do! 5408 
Spanyi heaven 5408 
I see no conflict at all. 5408 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5408 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5408 
A year after closing 5400 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5400 
Traveling antimatter 5393 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5387 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5386 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5360 
Cast Iron fireplace 5359 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5359 
The hardcore way 5359 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5323 
This is How It's Done 5322 
Listening room during summer. 5310 
What about those... 5309 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5309 
Reducing A/C Noise 5309 
HVAC the Cat 5309 
Big Ass fan 5308 
Variac dimmers 5308 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5308 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5308 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5240 
Some winter observations. 5131 
That Asian man…. 5100 
The Franz Schubert morning 5074 
Spring.... 5023 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4973 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4944 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4944 
Just good photography? 4944 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4944 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4944 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4943 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4943 
Sports car 4943 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4943 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4943 
Train Positioning 4943 
Kind of what I want 4943 
The lap listening… 4943 
Family Room 4943 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4940 
A super audio room. 4936 
Time Warp! 4936 
A piano in a listening room 4915 
Pianissimo 4915 
The plan in blue. 4915 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4915 
My doubts 4915 
It is exactly what I worry. 4914 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4914 
Musicians at home 4914 
Piano Measurements 4913 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4908 
The next step. 4894 
Midbass horns missing?? 4893 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4883 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4883 
Baby Grand 4882 
Wood floor 4882 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4882 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4882 
Amy’s baby. 4880 
Improvement 4880 
Agree with Scott 4880 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4868 
Integrated casters 4868 
Very nice, thanks. 4868 
Customization 4868 
Sliders 4868 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4861 
Congratulations 4861 
Holes in the floor... 4861 
Tubes and kids 4861 
Sweet spot enlargement 4861 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4859 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4858 
Wood Floors and Water 4858 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4853 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4852 
WAF is for Losers 4852 
WAF: it depends. 4852 
Integration 4851 
Here and there. 4851 
Life after WWIII 4851 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4851 
Cables management. 4849 
Featurizing 4849 
Kids and tubes cont. 4846 
Kid magnet 4846 
Kids and audio 4845 
Radars 4845 
Wow, what the days! 4841 
The comming weekend 4837 
It all was worth it! 4834 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4829 
Here is how it is look. 4829 
Resolving the carpet issue 4829 
Bonfire 4829 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4829 
Proof of concept? 4829 
Geometry 4829 
A view from listening position. 4829 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4829 
Some feedback 4829 
Evening 4829 
I wonder why. 4828 
Rugs and things 4828 
In defense… 4828 
I can’t get it. 4825 
Haze. 4824 
Front wall 4824 
It is very possible. 4824 
It is nice to be back. 4821 
My comfy corner. 4818 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4458 
WMD in house. 4280 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4183 
The third listening spot. 4162 
For sure a very different experience. 4124 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4119 
It's Jfretch's system. 4119 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4118 
Domestic games 4072 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3933 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3933 
Dynamic screening 3933 
Actually this is very good idea! 3933 
Volcanic fabric 3933 
I should have done this. 3931 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3927 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3896 
No worries 3896 
Awesome memories 3896 
Optimization of space 3896 
Child-ish considerations 3893 
Finding peace.... 3887 
"Fencing"? 3886 
I need to build something custom 3886 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3886 
Stressed Skin 3886 
NYC elevators 3886 
Kids toys and quantities. 3886 
Everything is completely reversible 3885 
Racks and things 3885 
Now it looks even more promising! 3885 
Quantity of rods 3885 
Avoiding diagonals 3883 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3882 
That's not fair! 3882 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3882 
Discrimination? 3877 
Vertical configuration 3870 
Impresive ! 3799 
Did you read the site? 3799 
Contact 3799 
Company's name is Rixrax 3799 
Stand 3798 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3754 
End of life headphone system 3754 
Something like this? 3754 
The "Second Living Room" 3754 
Mixing urban & suburban 3754 
Late night listening 3754 
Moving life... 3752 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3752 
A true listening room. 3728 
It started… 3713 
Levels of Interest 3713 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3713 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3713 
I can't not to post it.... 3713 
Do not leave him unattended. 3713 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3713 
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