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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6047 
The first take on the new room. 6041 
New Room, a first shot. 6040 
Wonderful 6040 
Adopted 6039 
The first relaxed night with the room 6037 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6036 
The listening room is ready. 6035 
New Room, a First Shot 6033 
Continue to work with the room 6033 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6033 
Room 6032 
I think it will take another month. 6032 
The Buttressing 6032 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6031 
The new place and the new noises. 6031 
Big listening room 6030 
Screw the "big" rooms 6030 
Big listening rooms 6030 
First reflection points 6029 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6029 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6026 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6025 
Squeezing the floor 6025 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6025 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6025 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6024 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6024 
The new room, the very first listening. 6024 
The 14.5 foot. 6023 
Again… 6022 
Romy's new Playground 6022 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6022 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6022 
For the uninitiated ... 6021 
NH guy 6021 
Room 6021 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6020 
The first base is done 6020 
Reentry time alignment. 6019 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6018 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6018 
Mid bass horn. 6018 
Guess is only a guess… 6018 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6018 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6017 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6017 
Diffusors 6017 
Diffuse injection 6017 
Let analyse why it so 6017 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6017 
Wheel and Deal 6017 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6017 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6017 
I Must Be Missing Something 6017 
I put sliders under my speakers 6016 
ROOM 6015 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6015 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6015 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6015 
No concerns 6015 
Speakers and room 6015 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6014 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6014 
Diaphram 6014 
Phram 6014 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6014 
Perfect piston 6014 
Decorater 6013 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6013 
New morning 6012 
The first take on the room with RTA 6011 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6011 
Axiomatic 6011 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6010 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6010 
The size of the bass. 6010 
Bass Factory 6010 
Crude Level, or something more? 6010 
I will play with it this week…. 6010 
Rent-A 6010 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6010 
Corner horns 6010 
Cheating from below 6010 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6010 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6009 
A possibly overly simplified view 6009 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6009 
Iceberg 6009 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6009 
Why not horn 6009 
A correction…. 6009 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6009 
They are just not related things at all. 6009 
Fertin 6007 
Low resonance is good... 6007 
Et tu, Brute? 6006 
The Room response at LF 6005 
Life On The Ground Floor 6005 
Bass arrays 6005 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6005 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6005 
The super sucks. 6005 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6005 
You may also try 6004 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6004 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6004 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6004 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6004 
60 Hz Resonance 6004 
No notching… so far. 6004 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6003 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6003 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6003 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6003 
Power to the People 6003 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6003 
Aura 6003 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6003 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6003 
All class D is the same 6003 
Interpreting the LF results. 6002 
The Halibut 6002 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6002 
The Big Picture 6002 
Power & ULF channels 6002 
The big picture indeed. 6002 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6002 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6002 
The Power and the Glory 6001 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6001 
I guess I did not get this memo 6001 
French LF drivers 6001 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6001 
(another) French LF approach 6000 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6000 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6000 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6000 
Limpschtick 6000 
Symmetry 6000 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5999 
Room correction 5999 
It migh be more complicated. 5999 
Bass EQ ? 5999 
Agree and not. 5999 
Two "diseases" 5999 
Parametric filters 5999 
Ceiling arrays 5999 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5999 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5999 
The Middle of the Room. 5999 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5999 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5999 
Stop! 5999 
Appendectomy 5999 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5998 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5998 
No Isolation 5998 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5995 
Potential contenders? 5994 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5994 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5994 
Those Crazy Canucks 5990 
Mo' Better Bass 5984 
Bird in the Hand? 5984 
A wet listening spot? 5977 
Storm 5974 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5974 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5960 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5930 
Polar Opposite ULF 5929 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5917 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5915 
Differently but the same. 5914 
PVC 5913 
The sail test try. 5913 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5913 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5913 
Trial 5912 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5912 
Some explanations 5912 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5911 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5910 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5909 
Acrylate 5908 
Magic blanket 5908 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5907 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5907 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5907 
I have a few options. 5907 
Foam color 5907 
Strange things with upperbass 5907 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5906 
Teatro reform. . . 5906 
The foaming room dilemma. 5905 
Melamine Foam 5905 
Foaming up the cat house 5905 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5905 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5905 
Acoustic revisions… 5904 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5901 
Surprises so far in the new room 5900 
The upperbass in the new room. 5900 
Slight change of hart. 5899 
Camco supply of Boston 5897 
Room acoustics 5897 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5856 
I need to kill dust first. 5856 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5854 
To feed the leeches? 5854 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5853 
Yh 5853 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5853 
DPOLs? 5853 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5853 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5850 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5850 
A HalfPipe solution? 5850 
I absolutely love it. 5850 
Piper work 5849 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5849 
Absorption 5849 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5848 
Cats life ? 5848 
Call me Pussy. 5848 
More about traps 5848 
Acoustic impedance? 5848 
You maybe right 5848 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5848 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5847 
Heavy Curtain 5847 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5846 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5846 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5846 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5843 
Fix speaker move chair? 5842 
Back and forth ceremony 5842 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5841 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5840 
Glass windows 5839 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5838 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5837 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5835 
How to use basement jacks? 5835 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5835 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5835 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5834 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5834 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5833 
Sore eyes... 5832 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5832 
The harvesting week! 5830 
I need an inspiration… 5829 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5828 
Like this? 5828 
Dramatically randomize MF 5828 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5827 
The room eats dynamic 5827 
Diffusers 5827 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5826 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5811 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5810 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5810 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5810 
About Width-Importance balance. 5808 
Letting the music scale up 5807 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5807 
To finish my house décor… 5803 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5802 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5801 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5801 
Calling the gods of music 5801 
Absolutely 5801 
Phase manipulation 5801 
No relation. 5801 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5801 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5801 
Dynamical mismatch 5800 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5800 
Stradiwinerius? 5797 
Dealing with the glass. 5796 
Boston 5796 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5796 
Added mass 5796 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5796 
It is about moderation…. 5796 
To hell with the wine... 5796 
Also for other surafaces 5795 
LEAD 5795 
LEAD & GLASS 5795 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5795 
Read carefully 5795 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5795 
Crooks and morons 5795 
Magiscopios 5794 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5774 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5774 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5773 
The LP setup in the new home. 5722 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5717 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5717 
Pianochord will do! 5717 
Spanyi heaven 5717 
I see no conflict at all. 5717 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5717 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5717 
A year after closing 5709 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5709 
Traveling antimatter 5702 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5696 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5695 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5669 
Cast Iron fireplace 5668 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5668 
The hardcore way 5668 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5632 
This is How It's Done 5631 
Listening room during summer. 5619 
What about those... 5618 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5618 
Reducing A/C Noise 5618 
HVAC the Cat 5618 
Big Ass fan 5617 
Variac dimmers 5617 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5617 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5617 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5549 
Some winter observations. 5440 
That Asian man…. 5409 
The Franz Schubert morning 5383 
Spring.... 5332 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5282 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5253 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5253 
Just good photography? 5253 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5253 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5253 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5252 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5252 
Sports car 5252 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5252 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5252 
Train Positioning 5252 
Kind of what I want 5252 
The lap listening… 5252 
Family Room 5252 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5249 
A super audio room. 5245 
Time Warp! 5245 
A piano in a listening room 5224 
Pianissimo 5224 
The plan in blue. 5224 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5224 
My doubts 5224 
It is exactly what I worry. 5223 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5223 
Musicians at home 5223 
Piano Measurements 5222 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5217 
The next step. 5203 
Midbass horns missing?? 5202 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5192 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5192 
Baby Grand 5191 
Wood floor 5191 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5191 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5191 
Amy’s baby. 5189 
Improvement 5189 
Agree with Scott 5189 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5177 
Integrated casters 5177 
Very nice, thanks. 5177 
Customization 5177 
Sliders 5177 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5170 
Congratulations 5170 
Holes in the floor... 5170 
Tubes and kids 5170 
Sweet spot enlargement 5170 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5168 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5167 
Wood Floors and Water 5167 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5162 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5161 
WAF is for Losers 5161 
WAF: it depends. 5161 
Integration 5160 
Here and there. 5160 
Life after WWIII 5160 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5160 
Cables management. 5158 
Featurizing 5158 
Kids and tubes cont. 5155 
Kid magnet 5155 
Kids and audio 5154 
Radars 5154 
Wow, what the days! 5150 
The comming weekend 5146 
It all was worth it! 5143 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5138 
Here is how it is look. 5138 
Resolving the carpet issue 5138 
Bonfire 5138 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5138 
Proof of concept? 5138 
Geometry 5138 
A view from listening position. 5138 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5138 
Some feedback 5138 
Evening 5138 
I wonder why. 5137 
Rugs and things 5137 
In defense… 5137 
I can’t get it. 5134 
Haze. 5133 
Front wall 5133 
It is very possible. 5133 
It is nice to be back. 5130 
My comfy corner. 5127 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4767 
WMD in house. 4589 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4492 
The third listening spot. 4471 
For sure a very different experience. 4433 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4428 
It's Jfretch's system. 4428 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4427 
Domestic games 4381 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4242 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4242 
Dynamic screening 4242 
Actually this is very good idea! 4242 
Volcanic fabric 4242 
I should have done this. 4240 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4236 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4205 
No worries 4205 
Awesome memories 4205 
Optimization of space 4205 
Child-ish considerations 4202 
Finding peace.... 4196 
"Fencing"? 4195 
I need to build something custom 4195 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4195 
Stressed Skin 4195 
NYC elevators 4195 
Kids toys and quantities. 4195 
Everything is completely reversible 4194 
Racks and things 4194 
Now it looks even more promising! 4194 
Quantity of rods 4194 
Avoiding diagonals 4192 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4191 
That's not fair! 4191 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4191 
Discrimination? 4186 
Vertical configuration 4179 
Impresive ! 4108 
Did you read the site? 4108 
Contact 4108 
Company's name is Rixrax 4108 
Stand 4107 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4063 
End of life headphone system 4063 
Something like this? 4063 
The "Second Living Room" 4063 
Mixing urban & suburban 4063 
Late night listening 4063 
Moving life... 4061 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4061 
A true listening room. 4037 
It started… 4022 
Levels of Interest 4022 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4022 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4022 
I can't not to post it.... 4022 
Do not leave him unattended. 4022 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4022 
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