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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6000 
The first take on the new room. 5994 
New Room, a first shot. 5993 
Wonderful 5993 
Adopted 5992 
The first relaxed night with the room 5990 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5989 
The listening room is ready. 5988 
New Room, a First Shot 5986 
Continue to work with the room 5986 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5986 
Room 5985 
I think it will take another month. 5985 
The Buttressing 5985 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5984 
The new place and the new noises. 5984 
Big listening room 5983 
Screw the "big" rooms 5983 
Big listening rooms 5983 
First reflection points 5982 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5982 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5979 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5978 
Squeezing the floor 5978 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5978 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5978 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5977 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5977 
The new room, the very first listening. 5977 
The 14.5 foot. 5976 
Again… 5975 
Romy's new Playground 5975 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5975 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5975 
For the uninitiated ... 5974 
NH guy 5974 
Room 5974 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5973 
The first base is done 5973 
Reentry time alignment. 5972 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5971 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5971 
Mid bass horn. 5971 
Guess is only a guess… 5971 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5971 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5970 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5970 
Diffusors 5970 
Diffuse injection 5970 
Let analyse why it so 5970 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5970 
Wheel and Deal 5970 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5970 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5970 
I Must Be Missing Something 5970 
I put sliders under my speakers 5969 
ROOM 5968 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5968 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5968 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5968 
No concerns 5968 
Speakers and room 5968 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5967 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5967 
Diaphram 5967 
Phram 5967 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5967 
Perfect piston 5967 
Decorater 5966 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5966 
New morning 5965 
The first take on the room with RTA 5964 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5964 
Axiomatic 5964 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5963 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5963 
The size of the bass. 5963 
Bass Factory 5963 
Crude Level, or something more? 5963 
I will play with it this week…. 5963 
Rent-A 5963 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5963 
Corner horns 5963 
Cheating from below 5963 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5963 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5962 
A possibly overly simplified view 5962 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5962 
Iceberg 5962 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5962 
Why not horn 5962 
A correction…. 5962 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5962 
They are just not related things at all. 5962 
Fertin 5960 
Low resonance is good... 5960 
Et tu, Brute? 5959 
The Room response at LF 5958 
Life On The Ground Floor 5958 
Bass arrays 5958 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5958 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5958 
The super sucks. 5958 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5958 
You may also try 5957 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5957 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5957 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5957 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5957 
60 Hz Resonance 5957 
No notching… so far. 5957 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5956 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5956 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5956 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5956 
Power to the People 5956 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5956 
Aura 5956 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5956 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5956 
All class D is the same 5956 
Interpreting the LF results. 5955 
The Halibut 5955 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5955 
The Big Picture 5955 
Power & ULF channels 5955 
The big picture indeed. 5955 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5955 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5955 
The Power and the Glory 5954 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5954 
I guess I did not get this memo 5954 
French LF drivers 5954 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5954 
(another) French LF approach 5953 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5953 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5953 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5953 
Limpschtick 5953 
Symmetry 5953 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5952 
Room correction 5952 
It migh be more complicated. 5952 
Bass EQ ? 5952 
Agree and not. 5952 
Two "diseases" 5952 
Parametric filters 5952 
Ceiling arrays 5952 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5952 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5952 
The Middle of the Room. 5952 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5952 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5952 
Stop! 5952 
Appendectomy 5952 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5951 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5951 
No Isolation 5951 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5948 
Potential contenders? 5947 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5947 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5947 
Those Crazy Canucks 5943 
Mo' Better Bass 5937 
Bird in the Hand? 5937 
A wet listening spot? 5930 
Storm 5927 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5927 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5913 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5883 
Polar Opposite ULF 5882 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5870 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5868 
Differently but the same. 5867 
PVC 5866 
The sail test try. 5866 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5866 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5866 
Trial 5865 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5865 
Some explanations 5865 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5864 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5863 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5862 
Acrylate 5861 
Magic blanket 5861 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5860 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5860 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5860 
I have a few options. 5860 
Foam color 5860 
Strange things with upperbass 5860 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5859 
Teatro reform. . . 5859 
The foaming room dilemma. 5858 
Melamine Foam 5858 
Foaming up the cat house 5858 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5858 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5858 
Acoustic revisions… 5857 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5854 
Surprises so far in the new room 5853 
The upperbass in the new room. 5853 
Slight change of hart. 5852 
Camco supply of Boston 5850 
Room acoustics 5850 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5809 
I need to kill dust first. 5809 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5807 
To feed the leeches? 5807 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5806 
Yh 5806 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5806 
DPOLs? 5806 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5806 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5803 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5803 
A HalfPipe solution? 5803 
I absolutely love it. 5803 
Piper work 5802 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5802 
Absorption 5802 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5801 
Cats life ? 5801 
Call me Pussy. 5801 
More about traps 5801 
Acoustic impedance? 5801 
You maybe right 5801 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5801 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5800 
Heavy Curtain 5800 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5799 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5799 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5799 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5796 
Fix speaker move chair? 5795 
Back and forth ceremony 5795 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5794 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5793 
Glass windows 5792 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5791 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5790 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5788 
How to use basement jacks? 5788 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5788 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5788 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5787 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5787 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5786 
Sore eyes... 5785 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5785 
The harvesting week! 5783 
I need an inspiration… 5782 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5781 
Like this? 5781 
Dramatically randomize MF 5781 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5780 
The room eats dynamic 5780 
Diffusers 5780 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5779 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5764 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5763 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5763 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5763 
About Width-Importance balance. 5761 
Letting the music scale up 5760 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5760 
To finish my house décor… 5756 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5755 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5754 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5754 
Calling the gods of music 5754 
Absolutely 5754 
Phase manipulation 5754 
No relation. 5754 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5754 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5754 
Dynamical mismatch 5753 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5753 
Stradiwinerius? 5750 
Dealing with the glass. 5749 
Boston 5749 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5749 
Added mass 5749 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5749 
It is about moderation…. 5749 
To hell with the wine... 5749 
Also for other surafaces 5748 
LEAD 5748 
LEAD & GLASS 5748 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5748 
Read carefully 5748 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5748 
Crooks and morons 5748 
Magiscopios 5747 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5727 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5727 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5726 
The LP setup in the new home. 5675 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5670 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5670 
Pianochord will do! 5670 
Spanyi heaven 5670 
I see no conflict at all. 5670 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5670 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5670 
A year after closing 5662 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5662 
Traveling antimatter 5655 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5649 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5648 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5622 
Cast Iron fireplace 5621 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5621 
The hardcore way 5621 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5585 
This is How It's Done 5584 
Listening room during summer. 5572 
What about those... 5571 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5571 
Reducing A/C Noise 5571 
HVAC the Cat 5571 
Big Ass fan 5570 
Variac dimmers 5570 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5570 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5570 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5502 
Some winter observations. 5393 
That Asian man…. 5362 
The Franz Schubert morning 5336 
Spring.... 5285 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5235 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5206 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5206 
Just good photography? 5206 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5206 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5206 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5205 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5205 
Sports car 5205 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5205 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5205 
Train Positioning 5205 
Kind of what I want 5205 
The lap listening… 5205 
Family Room 5205 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5202 
A super audio room. 5198 
Time Warp! 5198 
A piano in a listening room 5177 
Pianissimo 5177 
The plan in blue. 5177 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5177 
My doubts 5177 
It is exactly what I worry. 5176 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5176 
Musicians at home 5176 
Piano Measurements 5175 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5170 
The next step. 5156 
Midbass horns missing?? 5155 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5145 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5145 
Baby Grand 5144 
Wood floor 5144 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5144 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5144 
Amy’s baby. 5142 
Improvement 5142 
Agree with Scott 5142 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5130 
Integrated casters 5130 
Very nice, thanks. 5130 
Customization 5130 
Sliders 5130 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5123 
Congratulations 5123 
Holes in the floor... 5123 
Tubes and kids 5123 
Sweet spot enlargement 5123 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5121 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5120 
Wood Floors and Water 5120 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5115 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5114 
WAF is for Losers 5114 
WAF: it depends. 5114 
Integration 5113 
Here and there. 5113 
Life after WWIII 5113 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5113 
Cables management. 5111 
Featurizing 5111 
Kids and tubes cont. 5108 
Kid magnet 5108 
Kids and audio 5107 
Radars 5107 
Wow, what the days! 5103 
The comming weekend 5099 
It all was worth it! 5096 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5091 
Here is how it is look. 5091 
Resolving the carpet issue 5091 
Bonfire 5091 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5091 
Proof of concept? 5091 
Geometry 5091 
A view from listening position. 5091 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5091 
Some feedback 5091 
Evening 5091 
I wonder why. 5090 
Rugs and things 5090 
In defense… 5090 
I can’t get it. 5087 
Haze. 5086 
Front wall 5086 
It is very possible. 5086 
It is nice to be back. 5083 
My comfy corner. 5080 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4720 
WMD in house. 4542 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4445 
The third listening spot. 4424 
For sure a very different experience. 4386 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4381 
It's Jfretch's system. 4381 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4380 
Domestic games 4334 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4195 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4195 
Dynamic screening 4195 
Actually this is very good idea! 4195 
Volcanic fabric 4195 
I should have done this. 4193 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4189 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4158 
No worries 4158 
Awesome memories 4158 
Optimization of space 4158 
Child-ish considerations 4155 
Finding peace.... 4149 
"Fencing"? 4148 
I need to build something custom 4148 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4148 
Stressed Skin 4148 
NYC elevators 4148 
Kids toys and quantities. 4148 
Everything is completely reversible 4147 
Racks and things 4147 
Now it looks even more promising! 4147 
Quantity of rods 4147 
Avoiding diagonals 4145 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4144 
That's not fair! 4144 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4144 
Discrimination? 4139 
Vertical configuration 4132 
Impresive ! 4061 
Did you read the site? 4061 
Contact 4061 
Company's name is Rixrax 4061 
Stand 4060 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4016 
End of life headphone system 4016 
Something like this? 4016 
The "Second Living Room" 4016 
Mixing urban & suburban 4016 
Late night listening 4016 
Moving life... 4014 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4014 
A true listening room. 3990 
It started… 3975 
Levels of Interest 3975 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3975 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3975 
I can't not to post it.... 3975 
Do not leave him unattended. 3975 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3975 
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