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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6073 
The first take on the new room. 6067 
New Room, a first shot. 6066 
Wonderful 6066 
Adopted 6065 
The first relaxed night with the room 6063 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6062 
The listening room is ready. 6061 
New Room, a First Shot 6059 
Continue to work with the room 6059 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6059 
Room 6058 
I think it will take another month. 6058 
The Buttressing 6058 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6057 
The new place and the new noises. 6057 
Big listening room 6056 
Screw the "big" rooms 6056 
Big listening rooms 6056 
First reflection points 6055 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6055 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6052 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6051 
Squeezing the floor 6051 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6051 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6051 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6050 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6050 
The new room, the very first listening. 6050 
The 14.5 foot. 6049 
Again… 6048 
Romy's new Playground 6048 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6048 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6048 
For the uninitiated ... 6047 
NH guy 6047 
Room 6047 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6046 
The first base is done 6046 
Reentry time alignment. 6045 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6044 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6044 
Mid bass horn. 6044 
Guess is only a guess… 6044 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6044 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6043 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6043 
Diffusors 6043 
Diffuse injection 6043 
Let analyse why it so 6043 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6043 
Wheel and Deal 6043 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6043 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6043 
I Must Be Missing Something 6043 
I put sliders under my speakers 6042 
ROOM 6041 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6041 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6041 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6041 
No concerns 6041 
Speakers and room 6041 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6040 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6040 
Diaphram 6040 
Phram 6040 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6040 
Perfect piston 6040 
Decorater 6039 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6039 
New morning 6038 
The first take on the room with RTA 6037 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6037 
Axiomatic 6037 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6036 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6036 
The size of the bass. 6036 
Bass Factory 6036 
Crude Level, or something more? 6036 
I will play with it this week…. 6036 
Rent-A 6036 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6036 
Corner horns 6036 
Cheating from below 6036 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6036 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6035 
A possibly overly simplified view 6035 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6035 
Iceberg 6035 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6035 
Why not horn 6035 
A correction…. 6035 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6035 
They are just not related things at all. 6035 
Fertin 6033 
Low resonance is good... 6033 
Et tu, Brute? 6032 
The Room response at LF 6031 
Life On The Ground Floor 6031 
Bass arrays 6031 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6031 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6031 
The super sucks. 6031 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6031 
You may also try 6030 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6030 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6030 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6030 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6030 
60 Hz Resonance 6030 
No notching… so far. 6030 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6029 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6029 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6029 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6029 
Power to the People 6029 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6029 
Aura 6029 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6029 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6029 
All class D is the same 6029 
Interpreting the LF results. 6028 
The Halibut 6028 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6028 
The Big Picture 6028 
Power & ULF channels 6028 
The big picture indeed. 6028 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6028 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6028 
The Power and the Glory 6027 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6027 
I guess I did not get this memo 6027 
French LF drivers 6027 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6027 
(another) French LF approach 6026 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6026 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6026 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6026 
Limpschtick 6026 
Symmetry 6026 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6025 
Room correction 6025 
It migh be more complicated. 6025 
Bass EQ ? 6025 
Agree and not. 6025 
Two "diseases" 6025 
Parametric filters 6025 
Ceiling arrays 6025 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6025 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6025 
The Middle of the Room. 6025 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6025 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6025 
Stop! 6025 
Appendectomy 6025 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6024 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6024 
No Isolation 6024 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6021 
Potential contenders? 6020 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6020 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6020 
Those Crazy Canucks 6016 
Mo' Better Bass 6010 
Bird in the Hand? 6010 
A wet listening spot? 6003 
Storm 6000 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 6000 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5986 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5956 
Polar Opposite ULF 5955 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5943 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5941 
Differently but the same. 5940 
PVC 5939 
The sail test try. 5939 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5939 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5939 
Trial 5938 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5938 
Some explanations 5938 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5937 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5936 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5935 
Acrylate 5934 
Magic blanket 5934 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5933 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5933 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5933 
I have a few options. 5933 
Foam color 5933 
Strange things with upperbass 5933 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5932 
Teatro reform. . . 5932 
The foaming room dilemma. 5931 
Melamine Foam 5931 
Foaming up the cat house 5931 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5931 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5931 
Acoustic revisions… 5930 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5927 
Surprises so far in the new room 5926 
The upperbass in the new room. 5926 
Slight change of hart. 5925 
Camco supply of Boston 5923 
Room acoustics 5923 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5882 
I need to kill dust first. 5882 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5880 
To feed the leeches? 5880 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5879 
Yh 5879 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5879 
DPOLs? 5879 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5879 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5876 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5876 
A HalfPipe solution? 5876 
I absolutely love it. 5876 
Piper work 5875 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5875 
Absorption 5875 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5874 
Cats life ? 5874 
Call me Pussy. 5874 
More about traps 5874 
Acoustic impedance? 5874 
You maybe right 5874 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5874 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5873 
Heavy Curtain 5873 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5872 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5872 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5872 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5869 
Fix speaker move chair? 5868 
Back and forth ceremony 5868 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5867 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5866 
Glass windows 5865 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5864 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5863 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5861 
How to use basement jacks? 5861 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5861 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5861 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5860 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5860 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5859 
Sore eyes... 5858 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5858 
The harvesting week! 5856 
I need an inspiration… 5855 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5854 
Like this? 5854 
Dramatically randomize MF 5854 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5853 
The room eats dynamic 5853 
Diffusers 5853 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5852 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5837 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5836 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5836 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5836 
About Width-Importance balance. 5834 
Letting the music scale up 5833 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5833 
To finish my house décor… 5829 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5828 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5827 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5827 
Calling the gods of music 5827 
Absolutely 5827 
Phase manipulation 5827 
No relation. 5827 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5827 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5827 
Dynamical mismatch 5826 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5826 
Stradiwinerius? 5823 
Dealing with the glass. 5822 
Boston 5822 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5822 
Added mass 5822 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5822 
It is about moderation…. 5822 
To hell with the wine... 5822 
Also for other surafaces 5821 
LEAD 5821 
LEAD & GLASS 5821 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5821 
Read carefully 5821 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5821 
Crooks and morons 5821 
Magiscopios 5820 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5800 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5800 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5799 
The LP setup in the new home. 5748 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5743 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5743 
Pianochord will do! 5743 
Spanyi heaven 5743 
I see no conflict at all. 5743 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5743 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5743 
A year after closing 5735 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5735 
Traveling antimatter 5728 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5722 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5721 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5695 
Cast Iron fireplace 5694 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5694 
The hardcore way 5694 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5658 
This is How It's Done 5657 
Listening room during summer. 5645 
What about those... 5644 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5644 
Reducing A/C Noise 5644 
HVAC the Cat 5644 
Big Ass fan 5643 
Variac dimmers 5643 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5643 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5643 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5575 
Some winter observations. 5466 
That Asian man…. 5435 
The Franz Schubert morning 5409 
Spring.... 5358 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5308 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5279 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5279 
Just good photography? 5279 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5279 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5279 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5278 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5278 
Sports car 5278 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5278 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5278 
Train Positioning 5278 
Kind of what I want 5278 
The lap listening… 5278 
Family Room 5278 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5275 
A super audio room. 5271 
Time Warp! 5271 
A piano in a listening room 5250 
Pianissimo 5250 
The plan in blue. 5250 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5250 
My doubts 5250 
It is exactly what I worry. 5249 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5249 
Musicians at home 5249 
Piano Measurements 5248 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5243 
The next step. 5229 
Midbass horns missing?? 5228 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5218 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5218 
Baby Grand 5217 
Wood floor 5217 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5217 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5217 
Amy’s baby. 5215 
Improvement 5215 
Agree with Scott 5215 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5203 
Integrated casters 5203 
Very nice, thanks. 5203 
Customization 5203 
Sliders 5203 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5196 
Congratulations 5196 
Holes in the floor... 5196 
Tubes and kids 5196 
Sweet spot enlargement 5196 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5194 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5193 
Wood Floors and Water 5193 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5188 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5187 
WAF is for Losers 5187 
WAF: it depends. 5187 
Integration 5186 
Here and there. 5186 
Life after WWIII 5186 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5186 
Cables management. 5184 
Featurizing 5184 
Kids and tubes cont. 5181 
Kid magnet 5181 
Kids and audio 5180 
Radars 5180 
Wow, what the days! 5176 
The comming weekend 5172 
It all was worth it! 5169 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5164 
Here is how it is look. 5164 
Resolving the carpet issue 5164 
Bonfire 5164 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5164 
Proof of concept? 5164 
Geometry 5164 
A view from listening position. 5164 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5164 
Some feedback 5164 
Evening 5164 
I wonder why. 5163 
Rugs and things 5163 
In defense… 5163 
I can’t get it. 5160 
Haze. 5159 
Front wall 5159 
It is very possible. 5159 
It is nice to be back. 5156 
My comfy corner. 5153 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4793 
WMD in house. 4615 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4518 
The third listening spot. 4497 
For sure a very different experience. 4459 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4454 
It's Jfretch's system. 4454 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4453 
Domestic games 4407 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4268 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4268 
Dynamic screening 4268 
Actually this is very good idea! 4268 
Volcanic fabric 4268 
I should have done this. 4266 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4262 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4231 
No worries 4231 
Awesome memories 4231 
Optimization of space 4231 
Child-ish considerations 4228 
Finding peace.... 4222 
"Fencing"? 4221 
I need to build something custom 4221 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4221 
Stressed Skin 4221 
NYC elevators 4221 
Kids toys and quantities. 4221 
Everything is completely reversible 4220 
Racks and things 4220 
Now it looks even more promising! 4220 
Quantity of rods 4220 
Avoiding diagonals 4218 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4217 
That's not fair! 4217 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4217 
Discrimination? 4212 
Vertical configuration 4205 
Impresive ! 4134 
Did you read the site? 4134 
Contact 4134 
Company's name is Rixrax 4134 
Stand 4133 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4089 
End of life headphone system 4089 
Something like this? 4089 
The "Second Living Room" 4089 
Mixing urban & suburban 4089 
Late night listening 4089 
Moving life... 4087 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4087 
A true listening room. 4063 
It started… 4048 
Levels of Interest 4048 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4048 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4048 
I can't not to post it.... 4048 
Do not leave him unattended. 4048 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4048 
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