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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6018 
The first take on the new room. 6012 
New Room, a first shot. 6011 
Wonderful 6011 
Adopted 6010 
The first relaxed night with the room 6008 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6007 
The listening room is ready. 6006 
New Room, a First Shot 6004 
Continue to work with the room 6004 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6004 
Room 6003 
I think it will take another month. 6003 
The Buttressing 6003 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6002 
The new place and the new noises. 6002 
Big listening room 6001 
Screw the "big" rooms 6001 
Big listening rooms 6001 
First reflection points 6000 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6000 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5997 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5996 
Squeezing the floor 5996 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5996 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5996 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5995 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5995 
The new room, the very first listening. 5995 
The 14.5 foot. 5994 
Again… 5993 
Romy's new Playground 5993 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5993 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5993 
For the uninitiated ... 5992 
NH guy 5992 
Room 5992 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5991 
The first base is done 5991 
Reentry time alignment. 5990 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5989 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5989 
Mid bass horn. 5989 
Guess is only a guess… 5989 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5989 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5988 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5988 
Diffusors 5988 
Diffuse injection 5988 
Let analyse why it so 5988 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5988 
Wheel and Deal 5988 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5988 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5988 
I Must Be Missing Something 5988 
I put sliders under my speakers 5987 
ROOM 5986 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5986 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5986 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5986 
No concerns 5986 
Speakers and room 5986 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5985 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5985 
Diaphram 5985 
Phram 5985 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5985 
Perfect piston 5985 
Decorater 5984 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5984 
New morning 5983 
The first take on the room with RTA 5982 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5982 
Axiomatic 5982 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5981 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5981 
The size of the bass. 5981 
Bass Factory 5981 
Crude Level, or something more? 5981 
I will play with it this week…. 5981 
Rent-A 5981 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5981 
Corner horns 5981 
Cheating from below 5981 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5981 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5980 
A possibly overly simplified view 5980 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5980 
Iceberg 5980 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5980 
Why not horn 5980 
A correction…. 5980 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5980 
They are just not related things at all. 5980 
Fertin 5978 
Low resonance is good... 5978 
Et tu, Brute? 5977 
The Room response at LF 5976 
Life On The Ground Floor 5976 
Bass arrays 5976 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5976 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5976 
The super sucks. 5976 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5976 
You may also try 5975 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5975 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5975 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5975 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5975 
60 Hz Resonance 5975 
No notching… so far. 5975 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5974 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5974 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5974 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5974 
Power to the People 5974 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5974 
Aura 5974 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5974 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5974 
All class D is the same 5974 
Interpreting the LF results. 5973 
The Halibut 5973 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5973 
The Big Picture 5973 
Power & ULF channels 5973 
The big picture indeed. 5973 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5973 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5973 
The Power and the Glory 5972 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5972 
I guess I did not get this memo 5972 
French LF drivers 5972 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5972 
(another) French LF approach 5971 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5971 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5971 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5971 
Limpschtick 5971 
Symmetry 5971 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5970 
Room correction 5970 
It migh be more complicated. 5970 
Bass EQ ? 5970 
Agree and not. 5970 
Two "diseases" 5970 
Parametric filters 5970 
Ceiling arrays 5970 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5970 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5970 
The Middle of the Room. 5970 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5970 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5970 
Stop! 5970 
Appendectomy 5970 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5969 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5969 
No Isolation 5969 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5966 
Potential contenders? 5965 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5965 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5965 
Those Crazy Canucks 5961 
Mo' Better Bass 5955 
Bird in the Hand? 5955 
A wet listening spot? 5948 
Storm 5945 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5945 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5931 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5901 
Polar Opposite ULF 5900 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5888 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5886 
Differently but the same. 5885 
PVC 5884 
The sail test try. 5884 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5884 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5884 
Trial 5883 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5883 
Some explanations 5883 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5882 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5881 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5880 
Acrylate 5879 
Magic blanket 5879 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5878 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5878 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5878 
I have a few options. 5878 
Foam color 5878 
Strange things with upperbass 5878 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5877 
Teatro reform. . . 5877 
The foaming room dilemma. 5876 
Melamine Foam 5876 
Foaming up the cat house 5876 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5876 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5876 
Acoustic revisions… 5875 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5872 
Surprises so far in the new room 5871 
The upperbass in the new room. 5871 
Slight change of hart. 5870 
Camco supply of Boston 5868 
Room acoustics 5868 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5827 
I need to kill dust first. 5827 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5825 
To feed the leeches? 5825 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5824 
Yh 5824 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5824 
DPOLs? 5824 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5824 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5821 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5821 
A HalfPipe solution? 5821 
I absolutely love it. 5821 
Piper work 5820 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5820 
Absorption 5820 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5819 
Cats life ? 5819 
Call me Pussy. 5819 
More about traps 5819 
Acoustic impedance? 5819 
You maybe right 5819 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5819 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5818 
Heavy Curtain 5818 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5817 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5817 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5817 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5814 
Fix speaker move chair? 5813 
Back and forth ceremony 5813 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5812 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5811 
Glass windows 5810 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5809 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5808 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5806 
How to use basement jacks? 5806 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5806 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5806 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5805 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5805 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5804 
Sore eyes... 5803 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5803 
The harvesting week! 5801 
I need an inspiration… 5800 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5799 
Like this? 5799 
Dramatically randomize MF 5799 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5798 
The room eats dynamic 5798 
Diffusers 5798 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5797 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5782 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5781 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5781 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5781 
About Width-Importance balance. 5779 
Letting the music scale up 5778 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5778 
To finish my house décor… 5774 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5773 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5772 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5772 
Calling the gods of music 5772 
Absolutely 5772 
Phase manipulation 5772 
No relation. 5772 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5772 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5772 
Dynamical mismatch 5771 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5771 
Stradiwinerius? 5768 
Dealing with the glass. 5767 
Boston 5767 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5767 
Added mass 5767 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5767 
It is about moderation…. 5767 
To hell with the wine... 5767 
Also for other surafaces 5766 
LEAD 5766 
LEAD & GLASS 5766 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5766 
Read carefully 5766 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5766 
Crooks and morons 5766 
Magiscopios 5765 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5745 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5745 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5744 
The LP setup in the new home. 5693 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5688 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5688 
Pianochord will do! 5688 
Spanyi heaven 5688 
I see no conflict at all. 5688 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5688 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5688 
A year after closing 5680 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5680 
Traveling antimatter 5673 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5667 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5666 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5640 
Cast Iron fireplace 5639 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5639 
The hardcore way 5639 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5603 
This is How It's Done 5602 
Listening room during summer. 5590 
What about those... 5589 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5589 
Reducing A/C Noise 5589 
HVAC the Cat 5589 
Big Ass fan 5588 
Variac dimmers 5588 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5588 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5588 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5520 
Some winter observations. 5411 
That Asian man…. 5380 
The Franz Schubert morning 5354 
Spring.... 5303 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5253 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5224 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5224 
Just good photography? 5224 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5224 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5224 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5223 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5223 
Sports car 5223 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5223 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5223 
Train Positioning 5223 
Kind of what I want 5223 
The lap listening… 5223 
Family Room 5223 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5220 
A super audio room. 5216 
Time Warp! 5216 
A piano in a listening room 5195 
Pianissimo 5195 
The plan in blue. 5195 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5195 
My doubts 5195 
It is exactly what I worry. 5194 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5194 
Musicians at home 5194 
Piano Measurements 5193 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5188 
The next step. 5174 
Midbass horns missing?? 5173 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5163 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5163 
Baby Grand 5162 
Wood floor 5162 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5162 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5162 
Amy’s baby. 5160 
Improvement 5160 
Agree with Scott 5160 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5148 
Integrated casters 5148 
Very nice, thanks. 5148 
Customization 5148 
Sliders 5148 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5141 
Congratulations 5141 
Holes in the floor... 5141 
Tubes and kids 5141 
Sweet spot enlargement 5141 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5139 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5138 
Wood Floors and Water 5138 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5133 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5132 
WAF is for Losers 5132 
WAF: it depends. 5132 
Integration 5131 
Here and there. 5131 
Life after WWIII 5131 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5131 
Cables management. 5129 
Featurizing 5129 
Kids and tubes cont. 5126 
Kid magnet 5126 
Kids and audio 5125 
Radars 5125 
Wow, what the days! 5121 
The comming weekend 5117 
It all was worth it! 5114 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5109 
Here is how it is look. 5109 
Resolving the carpet issue 5109 
Bonfire 5109 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5109 
Proof of concept? 5109 
Geometry 5109 
A view from listening position. 5109 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5109 
Some feedback 5109 
Evening 5109 
I wonder why. 5108 
Rugs and things 5108 
In defense… 5108 
I can’t get it. 5105 
Haze. 5104 
Front wall 5104 
It is very possible. 5104 
It is nice to be back. 5101 
My comfy corner. 5098 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4738 
WMD in house. 4560 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4463 
The third listening spot. 4442 
For sure a very different experience. 4404 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4399 
It's Jfretch's system. 4399 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4398 
Domestic games 4352 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4213 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4213 
Dynamic screening 4213 
Actually this is very good idea! 4213 
Volcanic fabric 4213 
I should have done this. 4211 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4207 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4176 
No worries 4176 
Awesome memories 4176 
Optimization of space 4176 
Child-ish considerations 4173 
Finding peace.... 4167 
"Fencing"? 4166 
I need to build something custom 4166 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4166 
Stressed Skin 4166 
NYC elevators 4166 
Kids toys and quantities. 4166 
Everything is completely reversible 4165 
Racks and things 4165 
Now it looks even more promising! 4165 
Quantity of rods 4165 
Avoiding diagonals 4163 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4162 
That's not fair! 4162 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4162 
Discrimination? 4157 
Vertical configuration 4150 
Impresive ! 4079 
Did you read the site? 4079 
Contact 4079 
Company's name is Rixrax 4079 
Stand 4078 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4034 
End of life headphone system 4034 
Something like this? 4034 
The "Second Living Room" 4034 
Mixing urban & suburban 4034 
Late night listening 4034 
Moving life... 4032 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4032 
A true listening room. 4008 
It started… 3993 
Levels of Interest 3993 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3993 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3993 
I can't not to post it.... 3993 
Do not leave him unattended. 3993 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3993 
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