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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6031 
The first take on the new room. 6025 
New Room, a first shot. 6024 
Wonderful 6024 
Adopted 6023 
The first relaxed night with the room 6021 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6020 
The listening room is ready. 6019 
New Room, a First Shot 6017 
Continue to work with the room 6017 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6017 
Room 6016 
I think it will take another month. 6016 
The Buttressing 6016 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6015 
The new place and the new noises. 6015 
Big listening room 6014 
Screw the "big" rooms 6014 
Big listening rooms 6014 
First reflection points 6013 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6013 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6010 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6009 
Squeezing the floor 6009 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6009 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6009 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6008 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6008 
The new room, the very first listening. 6008 
The 14.5 foot. 6007 
Again… 6006 
Romy's new Playground 6006 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6006 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6006 
For the uninitiated ... 6005 
NH guy 6005 
Room 6005 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6004 
The first base is done 6004 
Reentry time alignment. 6003 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6002 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6002 
Mid bass horn. 6002 
Guess is only a guess… 6002 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6002 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6001 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6001 
Diffusors 6001 
Diffuse injection 6001 
Let analyse why it so 6001 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6001 
Wheel and Deal 6001 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6001 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6001 
I Must Be Missing Something 6001 
I put sliders under my speakers 6000 
ROOM 5999 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5999 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5999 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5999 
No concerns 5999 
Speakers and room 5999 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5998 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5998 
Diaphram 5998 
Phram 5998 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5998 
Perfect piston 5998 
Decorater 5997 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5997 
New morning 5996 
The first take on the room with RTA 5995 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5995 
Axiomatic 5995 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5994 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5994 
The size of the bass. 5994 
Bass Factory 5994 
Crude Level, or something more? 5994 
I will play with it this week…. 5994 
Rent-A 5994 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5994 
Corner horns 5994 
Cheating from below 5994 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5994 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5993 
A possibly overly simplified view 5993 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5993 
Iceberg 5993 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5993 
Why not horn 5993 
A correction…. 5993 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5993 
They are just not related things at all. 5993 
Fertin 5991 
Low resonance is good... 5991 
Et tu, Brute? 5990 
The Room response at LF 5989 
Life On The Ground Floor 5989 
Bass arrays 5989 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5989 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5989 
The super sucks. 5989 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5989 
You may also try 5988 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5988 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5988 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5988 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5988 
60 Hz Resonance 5988 
No notching… so far. 5988 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5987 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5987 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5987 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5987 
Power to the People 5987 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5987 
Aura 5987 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5987 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5987 
All class D is the same 5987 
Interpreting the LF results. 5986 
The Halibut 5986 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5986 
The Big Picture 5986 
Power & ULF channels 5986 
The big picture indeed. 5986 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5986 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5986 
The Power and the Glory 5985 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5985 
I guess I did not get this memo 5985 
French LF drivers 5985 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5985 
(another) French LF approach 5984 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5984 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5984 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5984 
Limpschtick 5984 
Symmetry 5984 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5983 
Room correction 5983 
It migh be more complicated. 5983 
Bass EQ ? 5983 
Agree and not. 5983 
Two "diseases" 5983 
Parametric filters 5983 
Ceiling arrays 5983 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5983 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5983 
The Middle of the Room. 5983 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5983 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5983 
Stop! 5983 
Appendectomy 5983 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5982 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5982 
No Isolation 5982 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5979 
Potential contenders? 5978 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5978 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5978 
Those Crazy Canucks 5974 
Mo' Better Bass 5968 
Bird in the Hand? 5968 
A wet listening spot? 5961 
Storm 5958 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5958 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5944 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5914 
Polar Opposite ULF 5913 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5901 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5899 
Differently but the same. 5898 
PVC 5897 
The sail test try. 5897 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5897 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5897 
Trial 5896 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5896 
Some explanations 5896 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5895 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5894 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5893 
Acrylate 5892 
Magic blanket 5892 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5891 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5891 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5891 
I have a few options. 5891 
Foam color 5891 
Strange things with upperbass 5891 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5890 
Teatro reform. . . 5890 
The foaming room dilemma. 5889 
Melamine Foam 5889 
Foaming up the cat house 5889 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5889 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5889 
Acoustic revisions… 5888 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5885 
Surprises so far in the new room 5884 
The upperbass in the new room. 5884 
Slight change of hart. 5883 
Camco supply of Boston 5881 
Room acoustics 5881 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5840 
I need to kill dust first. 5840 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5838 
To feed the leeches? 5838 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5837 
Yh 5837 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5837 
DPOLs? 5837 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5837 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5834 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5834 
A HalfPipe solution? 5834 
I absolutely love it. 5834 
Piper work 5833 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5833 
Absorption 5833 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5832 
Cats life ? 5832 
Call me Pussy. 5832 
More about traps 5832 
Acoustic impedance? 5832 
You maybe right 5832 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5832 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5831 
Heavy Curtain 5831 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5830 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5830 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5830 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5827 
Fix speaker move chair? 5826 
Back and forth ceremony 5826 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5825 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5824 
Glass windows 5823 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5822 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5821 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5819 
How to use basement jacks? 5819 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5819 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5819 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5818 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5818 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5817 
Sore eyes... 5816 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5816 
The harvesting week! 5814 
I need an inspiration… 5813 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5812 
Like this? 5812 
Dramatically randomize MF 5812 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5811 
The room eats dynamic 5811 
Diffusers 5811 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5810 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5795 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5794 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5794 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5794 
About Width-Importance balance. 5792 
Letting the music scale up 5791 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5791 
To finish my house décor… 5787 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5786 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5785 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5785 
Calling the gods of music 5785 
Absolutely 5785 
Phase manipulation 5785 
No relation. 5785 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5785 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5785 
Dynamical mismatch 5784 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5784 
Stradiwinerius? 5781 
Dealing with the glass. 5780 
Boston 5780 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5780 
Added mass 5780 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5780 
It is about moderation…. 5780 
To hell with the wine... 5780 
Also for other surafaces 5779 
LEAD 5779 
LEAD & GLASS 5779 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5779 
Read carefully 5779 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5779 
Crooks and morons 5779 
Magiscopios 5778 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5758 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5758 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5757 
The LP setup in the new home. 5706 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5701 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5701 
Pianochord will do! 5701 
Spanyi heaven 5701 
I see no conflict at all. 5701 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5701 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5701 
A year after closing 5693 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5693 
Traveling antimatter 5686 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5680 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5679 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5653 
Cast Iron fireplace 5652 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5652 
The hardcore way 5652 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5616 
This is How It's Done 5615 
Listening room during summer. 5603 
What about those... 5602 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5602 
Reducing A/C Noise 5602 
HVAC the Cat 5602 
Big Ass fan 5601 
Variac dimmers 5601 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5601 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5601 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5533 
Some winter observations. 5424 
That Asian man…. 5393 
The Franz Schubert morning 5367 
Spring.... 5316 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5266 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5237 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5237 
Just good photography? 5237 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5237 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5237 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5236 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5236 
Sports car 5236 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5236 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5236 
Train Positioning 5236 
Kind of what I want 5236 
The lap listening… 5236 
Family Room 5236 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5233 
A super audio room. 5229 
Time Warp! 5229 
A piano in a listening room 5208 
Pianissimo 5208 
The plan in blue. 5208 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5208 
My doubts 5208 
It is exactly what I worry. 5207 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5207 
Musicians at home 5207 
Piano Measurements 5206 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5201 
The next step. 5187 
Midbass horns missing?? 5186 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5176 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5176 
Baby Grand 5175 
Wood floor 5175 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5175 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5175 
Amy’s baby. 5173 
Improvement 5173 
Agree with Scott 5173 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5161 
Integrated casters 5161 
Very nice, thanks. 5161 
Customization 5161 
Sliders 5161 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5154 
Congratulations 5154 
Holes in the floor... 5154 
Tubes and kids 5154 
Sweet spot enlargement 5154 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5152 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5151 
Wood Floors and Water 5151 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5146 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5145 
WAF is for Losers 5145 
WAF: it depends. 5145 
Integration 5144 
Here and there. 5144 
Life after WWIII 5144 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5144 
Cables management. 5142 
Featurizing 5142 
Kids and tubes cont. 5139 
Kid magnet 5139 
Kids and audio 5138 
Radars 5138 
Wow, what the days! 5134 
The comming weekend 5130 
It all was worth it! 5127 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5122 
Here is how it is look. 5122 
Resolving the carpet issue 5122 
Bonfire 5122 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5122 
Proof of concept? 5122 
Geometry 5122 
A view from listening position. 5122 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5122 
Some feedback 5122 
Evening 5122 
I wonder why. 5121 
Rugs and things 5121 
In defense… 5121 
I can’t get it. 5118 
Haze. 5117 
Front wall 5117 
It is very possible. 5117 
It is nice to be back. 5114 
My comfy corner. 5111 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4751 
WMD in house. 4573 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4476 
The third listening spot. 4455 
For sure a very different experience. 4417 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4412 
It's Jfretch's system. 4412 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4411 
Domestic games 4365 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4226 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4226 
Dynamic screening 4226 
Actually this is very good idea! 4226 
Volcanic fabric 4226 
I should have done this. 4224 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4220 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4189 
No worries 4189 
Awesome memories 4189 
Optimization of space 4189 
Child-ish considerations 4186 
Finding peace.... 4180 
"Fencing"? 4179 
I need to build something custom 4179 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4179 
Stressed Skin 4179 
NYC elevators 4179 
Kids toys and quantities. 4179 
Everything is completely reversible 4178 
Racks and things 4178 
Now it looks even more promising! 4178 
Quantity of rods 4178 
Avoiding diagonals 4176 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4175 
That's not fair! 4175 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4175 
Discrimination? 4170 
Vertical configuration 4163 
Impresive ! 4092 
Did you read the site? 4092 
Contact 4092 
Company's name is Rixrax 4092 
Stand 4091 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4047 
End of life headphone system 4047 
Something like this? 4047 
The "Second Living Room" 4047 
Mixing urban & suburban 4047 
Late night listening 4047 
Moving life... 4045 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4045 
A true listening room. 4021 
It started… 4006 
Levels of Interest 4006 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4006 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4006 
I can't not to post it.... 4006 
Do not leave him unattended. 4006 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4006 
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