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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5925 
The first take on the new room. 5919 
New Room, a first shot. 5918 
Wonderful 5918 
Adopted 5917 
The first relaxed night with the room 5915 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5914 
The listening room is ready. 5913 
New Room, a First Shot 5911 
Continue to work with the room 5911 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5911 
Room 5910 
I think it will take another month. 5910 
The Buttressing 5910 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5909 
The new place and the new noises. 5909 
Big listening room 5908 
Screw the "big" rooms 5908 
Big listening rooms 5908 
First reflection points 5907 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5907 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5904 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5903 
Squeezing the floor 5903 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5903 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5903 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5902 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5902 
The new room, the very first listening. 5902 
The 14.5 foot. 5901 
Again… 5900 
Romy's new Playground 5900 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5900 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5900 
For the uninitiated ... 5899 
NH guy 5899 
Room 5899 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5898 
The first base is done 5898 
Reentry time alignment. 5897 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5896 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5896 
Mid bass horn. 5896 
Guess is only a guess… 5896 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5896 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5895 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5895 
Diffusors 5895 
Diffuse injection 5895 
Let analyse why it so 5895 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5895 
Wheel and Deal 5895 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5895 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5895 
I Must Be Missing Something 5895 
I put sliders under my speakers 5894 
ROOM 5893 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5893 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5893 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5893 
No concerns 5893 
Speakers and room 5893 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5892 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5892 
Diaphram 5892 
Phram 5892 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5892 
Perfect piston 5892 
Decorater 5891 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5891 
New morning 5890 
The first take on the room with RTA 5889 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5889 
Axiomatic 5889 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5888 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5888 
The size of the bass. 5888 
Bass Factory 5888 
Crude Level, or something more? 5888 
I will play with it this week…. 5888 
Rent-A 5888 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5888 
Corner horns 5888 
Cheating from below 5888 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5888 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5887 
A possibly overly simplified view 5887 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5887 
Iceberg 5887 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5887 
Why not horn 5887 
A correction…. 5887 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5887 
They are just not related things at all. 5887 
Fertin 5885 
Low resonance is good... 5885 
Et tu, Brute? 5884 
The Room response at LF 5883 
Life On The Ground Floor 5883 
Bass arrays 5883 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5883 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5883 
The super sucks. 5883 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5883 
You may also try 5882 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5882 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5882 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5882 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5882 
60 Hz Resonance 5882 
No notching… so far. 5882 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5881 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5881 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5881 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5881 
Power to the People 5881 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5881 
Aura 5881 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5881 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5881 
All class D is the same 5881 
Interpreting the LF results. 5880 
The Halibut 5880 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5880 
The Big Picture 5880 
Power & ULF channels 5880 
The big picture indeed. 5880 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5880 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5880 
The Power and the Glory 5879 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5879 
I guess I did not get this memo 5879 
French LF drivers 5879 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5879 
(another) French LF approach 5878 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5878 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5878 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5878 
Limpschtick 5878 
Symmetry 5878 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5877 
Room correction 5877 
It migh be more complicated. 5877 
Bass EQ ? 5877 
Agree and not. 5877 
Two "diseases" 5877 
Parametric filters 5877 
Ceiling arrays 5877 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5877 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5877 
The Middle of the Room. 5877 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5877 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5877 
Stop! 5877 
Appendectomy 5877 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5876 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5876 
No Isolation 5876 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5873 
Potential contenders? 5872 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5872 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5872 
Those Crazy Canucks 5868 
Mo' Better Bass 5862 
Bird in the Hand? 5862 
A wet listening spot? 5855 
Storm 5852 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5852 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5838 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5808 
Polar Opposite ULF 5807 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5795 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5793 
Differently but the same. 5792 
PVC 5791 
The sail test try. 5791 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5791 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5791 
Trial 5790 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5790 
Some explanations 5790 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5789 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5788 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5787 
Acrylate 5786 
Magic blanket 5786 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5785 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5785 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5785 
I have a few options. 5785 
Foam color 5785 
Strange things with upperbass 5785 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5784 
Teatro reform. . . 5784 
The foaming room dilemma. 5783 
Melamine Foam 5783 
Foaming up the cat house 5783 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5783 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5783 
Acoustic revisions… 5782 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5779 
Surprises so far in the new room 5778 
The upperbass in the new room. 5778 
Slight change of hart. 5777 
Camco supply of Boston 5775 
Room acoustics 5775 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5734 
I need to kill dust first. 5734 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5732 
To feed the leeches? 5732 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5731 
Yh 5731 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5731 
DPOLs? 5731 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5731 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5728 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5728 
A HalfPipe solution? 5728 
I absolutely love it. 5728 
Piper work 5727 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5727 
Absorption 5727 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5726 
Cats life ? 5726 
Call me Pussy. 5726 
More about traps 5726 
Acoustic impedance? 5726 
You maybe right 5726 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5726 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5725 
Heavy Curtain 5725 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5724 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5724 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5724 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5721 
Fix speaker move chair? 5720 
Back and forth ceremony 5720 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5719 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5718 
Glass windows 5717 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5716 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5715 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5713 
How to use basement jacks? 5713 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5713 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5713 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5712 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5712 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5711 
Sore eyes... 5710 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5710 
The harvesting week! 5708 
I need an inspiration… 5707 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5706 
Like this? 5706 
Dramatically randomize MF 5706 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5705 
The room eats dynamic 5705 
Diffusers 5705 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5704 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5689 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5688 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5688 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5688 
About Width-Importance balance. 5686 
Letting the music scale up 5685 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5685 
To finish my house décor… 5681 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5680 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5679 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5679 
Calling the gods of music 5679 
Absolutely 5679 
Phase manipulation 5679 
No relation. 5679 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5679 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5679 
Dynamical mismatch 5678 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5678 
Stradiwinerius? 5675 
Dealing with the glass. 5674 
Boston 5674 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5674 
Added mass 5674 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5674 
It is about moderation…. 5674 
To hell with the wine... 5674 
Also for other surafaces 5673 
LEAD 5673 
LEAD & GLASS 5673 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5673 
Read carefully 5673 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5673 
Crooks and morons 5673 
Magiscopios 5672 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5652 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5652 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5651 
The LP setup in the new home. 5600 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5595 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5595 
Pianochord will do! 5595 
Spanyi heaven 5595 
I see no conflict at all. 5595 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5595 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5595 
A year after closing 5587 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5587 
Traveling antimatter 5580 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5574 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5573 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5547 
Cast Iron fireplace 5546 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5546 
The hardcore way 5546 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5510 
This is How It's Done 5509 
Listening room during summer. 5497 
What about those... 5496 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5496 
Reducing A/C Noise 5496 
HVAC the Cat 5496 
Big Ass fan 5495 
Variac dimmers 5495 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5495 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5495 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5427 
Some winter observations. 5318 
That Asian man…. 5287 
The Franz Schubert morning 5261 
Spring.... 5210 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5160 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5131 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5131 
Just good photography? 5131 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5131 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5131 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5130 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5130 
Sports car 5130 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5130 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5130 
Train Positioning 5130 
Kind of what I want 5130 
The lap listening… 5130 
Family Room 5130 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5127 
A super audio room. 5123 
Time Warp! 5123 
A piano in a listening room 5102 
Pianissimo 5102 
The plan in blue. 5102 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5102 
My doubts 5102 
It is exactly what I worry. 5101 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5101 
Musicians at home 5101 
Piano Measurements 5100 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5095 
The next step. 5081 
Midbass horns missing?? 5080 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5070 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5070 
Baby Grand 5069 
Wood floor 5069 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5069 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5069 
Amy’s baby. 5067 
Improvement 5067 
Agree with Scott 5067 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5055 
Integrated casters 5055 
Very nice, thanks. 5055 
Customization 5055 
Sliders 5055 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5048 
Congratulations 5048 
Holes in the floor... 5048 
Tubes and kids 5048 
Sweet spot enlargement 5048 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5046 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5045 
Wood Floors and Water 5045 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5040 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5039 
WAF is for Losers 5039 
WAF: it depends. 5039 
Integration 5038 
Here and there. 5038 
Life after WWIII 5038 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5038 
Cables management. 5036 
Featurizing 5036 
Kids and tubes cont. 5033 
Kid magnet 5033 
Kids and audio 5032 
Radars 5032 
Wow, what the days! 5028 
The comming weekend 5024 
It all was worth it! 5021 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5016 
Here is how it is look. 5016 
Resolving the carpet issue 5016 
Bonfire 5016 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5016 
Proof of concept? 5016 
Geometry 5016 
A view from listening position. 5016 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5016 
Some feedback 5016 
Evening 5016 
I wonder why. 5015 
Rugs and things 5015 
In defense… 5015 
I can’t get it. 5012 
Haze. 5011 
Front wall 5011 
It is very possible. 5011 
It is nice to be back. 5008 
My comfy corner. 5005 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4645 
WMD in house. 4467 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4370 
The third listening spot. 4349 
For sure a very different experience. 4311 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4306 
It's Jfretch's system. 4306 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4305 
Domestic games 4259 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4120 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4120 
Dynamic screening 4120 
Actually this is very good idea! 4120 
Volcanic fabric 4120 
I should have done this. 4118 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4114 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4083 
No worries 4083 
Awesome memories 4083 
Optimization of space 4083 
Child-ish considerations 4080 
Finding peace.... 4074 
"Fencing"? 4073 
I need to build something custom 4073 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4073 
Stressed Skin 4073 
NYC elevators 4073 
Kids toys and quantities. 4073 
Everything is completely reversible 4072 
Racks and things 4072 
Now it looks even more promising! 4072 
Quantity of rods 4072 
Avoiding diagonals 4070 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4069 
That's not fair! 4069 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4069 
Discrimination? 4064 
Vertical configuration 4057 
Impresive ! 3986 
Did you read the site? 3986 
Contact 3986 
Company's name is Rixrax 3986 
Stand 3985 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3941 
End of life headphone system 3941 
Something like this? 3941 
The "Second Living Room" 3941 
Mixing urban & suburban 3941 
Late night listening 3941 
Moving life... 3939 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3939 
A true listening room. 3915 
It started… 3900 
Levels of Interest 3900 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3900 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3900 
I can't not to post it.... 3900 
Do not leave him unattended. 3900 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3900 
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