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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6041 
The first take on the new room. 6035 
New Room, a first shot. 6034 
Wonderful 6034 
Adopted 6033 
The first relaxed night with the room 6031 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6030 
The listening room is ready. 6029 
New Room, a First Shot 6027 
Continue to work with the room 6027 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6027 
Room 6026 
I think it will take another month. 6026 
The Buttressing 6026 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6025 
The new place and the new noises. 6025 
Big listening room 6024 
Screw the "big" rooms 6024 
Big listening rooms 6024 
First reflection points 6023 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6023 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6020 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6019 
Squeezing the floor 6019 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6019 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6019 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6018 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6018 
The new room, the very first listening. 6018 
The 14.5 foot. 6017 
Again… 6016 
Romy's new Playground 6016 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6016 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6016 
For the uninitiated ... 6015 
NH guy 6015 
Room 6015 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6014 
The first base is done 6014 
Reentry time alignment. 6013 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6012 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6012 
Mid bass horn. 6012 
Guess is only a guess… 6012 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6012 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6011 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6011 
Diffusors 6011 
Diffuse injection 6011 
Let analyse why it so 6011 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6011 
Wheel and Deal 6011 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6011 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6011 
I Must Be Missing Something 6011 
I put sliders under my speakers 6010 
ROOM 6009 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6009 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6009 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6009 
No concerns 6009 
Speakers and room 6009 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6008 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6008 
Diaphram 6008 
Phram 6008 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6008 
Perfect piston 6008 
Decorater 6007 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6007 
New morning 6006 
The first take on the room with RTA 6005 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6005 
Axiomatic 6005 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6004 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6004 
The size of the bass. 6004 
Bass Factory 6004 
Crude Level, or something more? 6004 
I will play with it this week…. 6004 
Rent-A 6004 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6004 
Corner horns 6004 
Cheating from below 6004 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6004 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6003 
A possibly overly simplified view 6003 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6003 
Iceberg 6003 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6003 
Why not horn 6003 
A correction…. 6003 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6003 
They are just not related things at all. 6003 
Fertin 6001 
Low resonance is good... 6001 
Et tu, Brute? 6000 
The Room response at LF 5999 
Life On The Ground Floor 5999 
Bass arrays 5999 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5999 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5999 
The super sucks. 5999 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5999 
You may also try 5998 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5998 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5998 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5998 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5998 
60 Hz Resonance 5998 
No notching… so far. 5998 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5997 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5997 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5997 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5997 
Power to the People 5997 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5997 
Aura 5997 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5997 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5997 
All class D is the same 5997 
Interpreting the LF results. 5996 
The Halibut 5996 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5996 
The Big Picture 5996 
Power & ULF channels 5996 
The big picture indeed. 5996 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5996 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5996 
The Power and the Glory 5995 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5995 
I guess I did not get this memo 5995 
French LF drivers 5995 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5995 
(another) French LF approach 5994 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5994 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5994 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5994 
Limpschtick 5994 
Symmetry 5994 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5993 
Room correction 5993 
It migh be more complicated. 5993 
Bass EQ ? 5993 
Agree and not. 5993 
Two "diseases" 5993 
Parametric filters 5993 
Ceiling arrays 5993 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5993 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5993 
The Middle of the Room. 5993 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5993 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5993 
Stop! 5993 
Appendectomy 5993 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5992 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5992 
No Isolation 5992 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5989 
Potential contenders? 5988 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5988 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5988 
Those Crazy Canucks 5984 
Mo' Better Bass 5978 
Bird in the Hand? 5978 
A wet listening spot? 5971 
Storm 5968 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5968 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5954 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5924 
Polar Opposite ULF 5923 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5911 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5909 
Differently but the same. 5908 
PVC 5907 
The sail test try. 5907 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5907 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5907 
Trial 5906 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5906 
Some explanations 5906 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5905 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5904 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5903 
Acrylate 5902 
Magic blanket 5902 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5901 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5901 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5901 
I have a few options. 5901 
Foam color 5901 
Strange things with upperbass 5901 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5900 
Teatro reform. . . 5900 
The foaming room dilemma. 5899 
Melamine Foam 5899 
Foaming up the cat house 5899 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5899 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5899 
Acoustic revisions… 5898 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5895 
Surprises so far in the new room 5894 
The upperbass in the new room. 5894 
Slight change of hart. 5893 
Camco supply of Boston 5891 
Room acoustics 5891 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5850 
I need to kill dust first. 5850 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5848 
To feed the leeches? 5848 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5847 
Yh 5847 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5847 
DPOLs? 5847 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5847 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5844 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5844 
A HalfPipe solution? 5844 
I absolutely love it. 5844 
Piper work 5843 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5843 
Absorption 5843 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5842 
Cats life ? 5842 
Call me Pussy. 5842 
More about traps 5842 
Acoustic impedance? 5842 
You maybe right 5842 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5842 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5841 
Heavy Curtain 5841 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5840 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5840 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5840 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5837 
Fix speaker move chair? 5836 
Back and forth ceremony 5836 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5835 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5834 
Glass windows 5833 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5832 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5831 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5829 
How to use basement jacks? 5829 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5829 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5829 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5828 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5828 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5827 
Sore eyes... 5826 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5826 
The harvesting week! 5824 
I need an inspiration… 5823 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5822 
Like this? 5822 
Dramatically randomize MF 5822 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5821 
The room eats dynamic 5821 
Diffusers 5821 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5820 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5805 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5804 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5804 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5804 
About Width-Importance balance. 5802 
Letting the music scale up 5801 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5801 
To finish my house décor… 5797 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5796 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5795 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5795 
Calling the gods of music 5795 
Absolutely 5795 
Phase manipulation 5795 
No relation. 5795 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5795 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5795 
Dynamical mismatch 5794 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5794 
Stradiwinerius? 5791 
Dealing with the glass. 5790 
Boston 5790 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5790 
Added mass 5790 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5790 
It is about moderation…. 5790 
To hell with the wine... 5790 
Also for other surafaces 5789 
LEAD 5789 
LEAD & GLASS 5789 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5789 
Read carefully 5789 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5789 
Crooks and morons 5789 
Magiscopios 5788 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5768 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5768 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5767 
The LP setup in the new home. 5716 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5711 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5711 
Pianochord will do! 5711 
Spanyi heaven 5711 
I see no conflict at all. 5711 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5711 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5711 
A year after closing 5703 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5703 
Traveling antimatter 5696 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5690 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5689 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5663 
Cast Iron fireplace 5662 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5662 
The hardcore way 5662 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5626 
This is How It's Done 5625 
Listening room during summer. 5613 
What about those... 5612 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5612 
Reducing A/C Noise 5612 
HVAC the Cat 5612 
Big Ass fan 5611 
Variac dimmers 5611 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5611 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5611 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5543 
Some winter observations. 5434 
That Asian man…. 5403 
The Franz Schubert morning 5377 
Spring.... 5326 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5276 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5247 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5247 
Just good photography? 5247 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5247 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5247 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5246 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5246 
Sports car 5246 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5246 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5246 
Train Positioning 5246 
Kind of what I want 5246 
The lap listening… 5246 
Family Room 5246 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5243 
A super audio room. 5239 
Time Warp! 5239 
A piano in a listening room 5218 
Pianissimo 5218 
The plan in blue. 5218 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5218 
My doubts 5218 
It is exactly what I worry. 5217 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5217 
Musicians at home 5217 
Piano Measurements 5216 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5211 
The next step. 5197 
Midbass horns missing?? 5196 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5186 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5186 
Baby Grand 5185 
Wood floor 5185 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5185 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5185 
Amy’s baby. 5183 
Improvement 5183 
Agree with Scott 5183 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5171 
Integrated casters 5171 
Very nice, thanks. 5171 
Customization 5171 
Sliders 5171 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5164 
Congratulations 5164 
Holes in the floor... 5164 
Tubes and kids 5164 
Sweet spot enlargement 5164 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5162 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5161 
Wood Floors and Water 5161 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5156 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5155 
WAF is for Losers 5155 
WAF: it depends. 5155 
Integration 5154 
Here and there. 5154 
Life after WWIII 5154 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5154 
Cables management. 5152 
Featurizing 5152 
Kids and tubes cont. 5149 
Kid magnet 5149 
Kids and audio 5148 
Radars 5148 
Wow, what the days! 5144 
The comming weekend 5140 
It all was worth it! 5137 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5132 
Here is how it is look. 5132 
Resolving the carpet issue 5132 
Bonfire 5132 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5132 
Proof of concept? 5132 
Geometry 5132 
A view from listening position. 5132 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5132 
Some feedback 5132 
Evening 5132 
I wonder why. 5131 
Rugs and things 5131 
In defense… 5131 
I can’t get it. 5128 
Haze. 5127 
Front wall 5127 
It is very possible. 5127 
It is nice to be back. 5124 
My comfy corner. 5121 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4761 
WMD in house. 4583 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4486 
The third listening spot. 4465 
For sure a very different experience. 4427 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4422 
It's Jfretch's system. 4422 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4421 
Domestic games 4375 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4236 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4236 
Dynamic screening 4236 
Actually this is very good idea! 4236 
Volcanic fabric 4236 
I should have done this. 4234 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4230 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4199 
No worries 4199 
Awesome memories 4199 
Optimization of space 4199 
Child-ish considerations 4196 
Finding peace.... 4190 
"Fencing"? 4189 
I need to build something custom 4189 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4189 
Stressed Skin 4189 
NYC elevators 4189 
Kids toys and quantities. 4189 
Everything is completely reversible 4188 
Racks and things 4188 
Now it looks even more promising! 4188 
Quantity of rods 4188 
Avoiding diagonals 4186 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4185 
That's not fair! 4185 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4185 
Discrimination? 4180 
Vertical configuration 4173 
Impresive ! 4102 
Did you read the site? 4102 
Contact 4102 
Company's name is Rixrax 4102 
Stand 4101 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4057 
End of life headphone system 4057 
Something like this? 4057 
The "Second Living Room" 4057 
Mixing urban & suburban 4057 
Late night listening 4057 
Moving life... 4055 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4055 
A true listening room. 4031 
It started… 4016 
Levels of Interest 4016 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4016 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4016 
I can't not to post it.... 4016 
Do not leave him unattended. 4016 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4016 
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