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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6075 
The first take on the new room. 6069 
New Room, a first shot. 6068 
Wonderful 6068 
Adopted 6067 
The first relaxed night with the room 6065 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6064 
The listening room is ready. 6063 
New Room, a First Shot 6061 
Continue to work with the room 6061 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6061 
Room 6060 
I think it will take another month. 6060 
The Buttressing 6060 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6059 
The new place and the new noises. 6059 
Big listening room 6058 
Screw the "big" rooms 6058 
Big listening rooms 6058 
First reflection points 6057 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6057 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6054 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6053 
Squeezing the floor 6053 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6053 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6053 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6052 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6052 
The new room, the very first listening. 6052 
The 14.5 foot. 6051 
Again… 6050 
Romy's new Playground 6050 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6050 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6050 
For the uninitiated ... 6049 
NH guy 6049 
Room 6049 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6048 
The first base is done 6048 
Reentry time alignment. 6047 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6046 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6046 
Mid bass horn. 6046 
Guess is only a guess… 6046 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6046 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6045 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6045 
Diffusors 6045 
Diffuse injection 6045 
Let analyse why it so 6045 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6045 
Wheel and Deal 6045 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6045 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6045 
I Must Be Missing Something 6045 
I put sliders under my speakers 6044 
ROOM 6043 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6043 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6043 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6043 
No concerns 6043 
Speakers and room 6043 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6042 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6042 
Diaphram 6042 
Phram 6042 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6042 
Perfect piston 6042 
Decorater 6041 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6041 
New morning 6040 
The first take on the room with RTA 6039 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6039 
Axiomatic 6039 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6038 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6038 
The size of the bass. 6038 
Bass Factory 6038 
Crude Level, or something more? 6038 
I will play with it this week…. 6038 
Rent-A 6038 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6038 
Corner horns 6038 
Cheating from below 6038 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6038 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6037 
A possibly overly simplified view 6037 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6037 
Iceberg 6037 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6037 
Why not horn 6037 
A correction…. 6037 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6037 
They are just not related things at all. 6037 
Fertin 6035 
Low resonance is good... 6035 
Et tu, Brute? 6034 
The Room response at LF 6033 
Life On The Ground Floor 6033 
Bass arrays 6033 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6033 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6033 
The super sucks. 6033 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6033 
You may also try 6032 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6032 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6032 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6032 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6032 
60 Hz Resonance 6032 
No notching… so far. 6032 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6031 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6031 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6031 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6031 
Power to the People 6031 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6031 
Aura 6031 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6031 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6031 
All class D is the same 6031 
Interpreting the LF results. 6030 
The Halibut 6030 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6030 
The Big Picture 6030 
Power & ULF channels 6030 
The big picture indeed. 6030 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6030 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6030 
The Power and the Glory 6029 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6029 
I guess I did not get this memo 6029 
French LF drivers 6029 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6029 
(another) French LF approach 6028 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6028 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6028 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6028 
Limpschtick 6028 
Symmetry 6028 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6027 
Room correction 6027 
It migh be more complicated. 6027 
Bass EQ ? 6027 
Agree and not. 6027 
Two "diseases" 6027 
Parametric filters 6027 
Ceiling arrays 6027 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6027 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6027 
The Middle of the Room. 6027 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6027 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6027 
Stop! 6027 
Appendectomy 6027 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6026 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6026 
No Isolation 6026 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6023 
Potential contenders? 6022 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6022 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6022 
Those Crazy Canucks 6018 
Mo' Better Bass 6012 
Bird in the Hand? 6012 
A wet listening spot? 6005 
Storm 6002 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 6002 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5988 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5958 
Polar Opposite ULF 5957 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5945 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5943 
Differently but the same. 5942 
PVC 5941 
The sail test try. 5941 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5941 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5941 
Trial 5940 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5940 
Some explanations 5940 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5939 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5938 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5937 
Acrylate 5936 
Magic blanket 5936 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5935 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5935 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5935 
I have a few options. 5935 
Foam color 5935 
Strange things with upperbass 5935 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5934 
Teatro reform. . . 5934 
The foaming room dilemma. 5933 
Melamine Foam 5933 
Foaming up the cat house 5933 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5933 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5933 
Acoustic revisions… 5932 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5929 
Surprises so far in the new room 5928 
The upperbass in the new room. 5928 
Slight change of hart. 5927 
Camco supply of Boston 5925 
Room acoustics 5925 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5884 
I need to kill dust first. 5884 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5882 
To feed the leeches? 5882 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5881 
Yh 5881 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5881 
DPOLs? 5881 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5881 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5878 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5878 
A HalfPipe solution? 5878 
I absolutely love it. 5878 
Piper work 5877 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5877 
Absorption 5877 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5876 
Cats life ? 5876 
Call me Pussy. 5876 
More about traps 5876 
Acoustic impedance? 5876 
You maybe right 5876 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5876 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5875 
Heavy Curtain 5875 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5874 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5874 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5874 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5871 
Fix speaker move chair? 5870 
Back and forth ceremony 5870 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5869 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5868 
Glass windows 5867 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5866 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5865 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5863 
How to use basement jacks? 5863 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5863 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5863 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5862 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5862 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5861 
Sore eyes... 5860 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5860 
The harvesting week! 5858 
I need an inspiration… 5857 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5856 
Like this? 5856 
Dramatically randomize MF 5856 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5855 
The room eats dynamic 5855 
Diffusers 5855 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5854 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5839 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5838 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5838 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5838 
About Width-Importance balance. 5836 
Letting the music scale up 5835 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5835 
To finish my house décor… 5831 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5830 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5829 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5829 
Calling the gods of music 5829 
Absolutely 5829 
Phase manipulation 5829 
No relation. 5829 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5829 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5829 
Dynamical mismatch 5828 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5828 
Stradiwinerius? 5825 
Dealing with the glass. 5824 
Boston 5824 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5824 
Added mass 5824 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5824 
It is about moderation…. 5824 
To hell with the wine... 5824 
Also for other surafaces 5823 
LEAD 5823 
LEAD & GLASS 5823 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5823 
Read carefully 5823 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5823 
Crooks and morons 5823 
Magiscopios 5822 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5802 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5802 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5801 
The LP setup in the new home. 5750 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5745 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5745 
Pianochord will do! 5745 
Spanyi heaven 5745 
I see no conflict at all. 5745 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5745 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5745 
A year after closing 5737 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5737 
Traveling antimatter 5730 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5724 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5723 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5697 
Cast Iron fireplace 5696 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5696 
The hardcore way 5696 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5660 
This is How It's Done 5659 
Listening room during summer. 5647 
What about those... 5646 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5646 
Reducing A/C Noise 5646 
HVAC the Cat 5646 
Big Ass fan 5645 
Variac dimmers 5645 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5645 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5645 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5577 
Some winter observations. 5468 
That Asian man…. 5437 
The Franz Schubert morning 5411 
Spring.... 5360 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5310 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5281 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5281 
Just good photography? 5281 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5281 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5281 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5280 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5280 
Sports car 5280 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5280 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5280 
Train Positioning 5280 
Kind of what I want 5280 
The lap listening… 5280 
Family Room 5280 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5277 
A super audio room. 5273 
Time Warp! 5273 
A piano in a listening room 5252 
Pianissimo 5252 
The plan in blue. 5252 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5252 
My doubts 5252 
It is exactly what I worry. 5251 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5251 
Musicians at home 5251 
Piano Measurements 5250 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5245 
The next step. 5231 
Midbass horns missing?? 5230 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5220 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5220 
Baby Grand 5219 
Wood floor 5219 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5219 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5219 
Amy’s baby. 5217 
Improvement 5217 
Agree with Scott 5217 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5205 
Integrated casters 5205 
Very nice, thanks. 5205 
Customization 5205 
Sliders 5205 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5198 
Congratulations 5198 
Holes in the floor... 5198 
Tubes and kids 5198 
Sweet spot enlargement 5198 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5196 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5195 
Wood Floors and Water 5195 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5190 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5189 
WAF is for Losers 5189 
WAF: it depends. 5189 
Integration 5188 
Here and there. 5188 
Life after WWIII 5188 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5188 
Cables management. 5186 
Featurizing 5186 
Kids and tubes cont. 5183 
Kid magnet 5183 
Kids and audio 5182 
Radars 5182 
Wow, what the days! 5178 
The comming weekend 5174 
It all was worth it! 5171 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5166 
Here is how it is look. 5166 
Resolving the carpet issue 5166 
Bonfire 5166 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5166 
Proof of concept? 5166 
Geometry 5166 
A view from listening position. 5166 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5166 
Some feedback 5166 
Evening 5166 
I wonder why. 5165 
Rugs and things 5165 
In defense… 5165 
I can’t get it. 5162 
Haze. 5161 
Front wall 5161 
It is very possible. 5161 
It is nice to be back. 5158 
My comfy corner. 5155 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4795 
WMD in house. 4617 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4520 
The third listening spot. 4499 
For sure a very different experience. 4461 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4456 
It's Jfretch's system. 4456 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4455 
Domestic games 4409 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4270 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4270 
Dynamic screening 4270 
Actually this is very good idea! 4270 
Volcanic fabric 4270 
I should have done this. 4268 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4264 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4233 
No worries 4233 
Awesome memories 4233 
Optimization of space 4233 
Child-ish considerations 4230 
Finding peace.... 4224 
"Fencing"? 4223 
I need to build something custom 4223 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4223 
Stressed Skin 4223 
NYC elevators 4223 
Kids toys and quantities. 4223 
Everything is completely reversible 4222 
Racks and things 4222 
Now it looks even more promising! 4222 
Quantity of rods 4222 
Avoiding diagonals 4220 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4219 
That's not fair! 4219 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4219 
Discrimination? 4214 
Vertical configuration 4207 
Impresive ! 4136 
Did you read the site? 4136 
Contact 4136 
Company's name is Rixrax 4136 
Stand 4135 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4091 
End of life headphone system 4091 
Something like this? 4091 
The "Second Living Room" 4091 
Mixing urban & suburban 4091 
Late night listening 4091 
Moving life... 4089 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4089 
A true listening room. 4065 
It started… 4050 
Levels of Interest 4050 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4050 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4050 
I can't not to post it.... 4050 
Do not leave him unattended. 4050 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4050 
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