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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6046 
The first take on the new room. 6040 
New Room, a first shot. 6039 
Wonderful 6039 
Adopted 6038 
The first relaxed night with the room 6036 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6035 
The listening room is ready. 6034 
New Room, a First Shot 6032 
Continue to work with the room 6032 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6032 
Room 6031 
I think it will take another month. 6031 
The Buttressing 6031 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6030 
The new place and the new noises. 6030 
Big listening room 6029 
Screw the "big" rooms 6029 
Big listening rooms 6029 
First reflection points 6028 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6028 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6025 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6024 
Squeezing the floor 6024 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6024 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6024 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6023 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6023 
The new room, the very first listening. 6023 
The 14.5 foot. 6022 
Again… 6021 
Romy's new Playground 6021 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6021 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6021 
For the uninitiated ... 6020 
NH guy 6020 
Room 6020 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6019 
The first base is done 6019 
Reentry time alignment. 6018 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6017 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6017 
Mid bass horn. 6017 
Guess is only a guess… 6017 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6017 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6016 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6016 
Diffusors 6016 
Diffuse injection 6016 
Let analyse why it so 6016 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6016 
Wheel and Deal 6016 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6016 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6016 
I Must Be Missing Something 6016 
I put sliders under my speakers 6015 
ROOM 6014 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6014 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6014 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6014 
No concerns 6014 
Speakers and room 6014 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6013 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6013 
Diaphram 6013 
Phram 6013 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6013 
Perfect piston 6013 
Decorater 6012 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6012 
New morning 6011 
The first take on the room with RTA 6010 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6010 
Axiomatic 6010 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6009 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6009 
The size of the bass. 6009 
Bass Factory 6009 
Crude Level, or something more? 6009 
I will play with it this week…. 6009 
Rent-A 6009 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6009 
Corner horns 6009 
Cheating from below 6009 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6009 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6008 
A possibly overly simplified view 6008 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6008 
Iceberg 6008 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6008 
Why not horn 6008 
A correction…. 6008 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6008 
They are just not related things at all. 6008 
Fertin 6006 
Low resonance is good... 6006 
Et tu, Brute? 6005 
The Room response at LF 6004 
Life On The Ground Floor 6004 
Bass arrays 6004 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6004 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6004 
The super sucks. 6004 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6004 
You may also try 6003 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6003 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6003 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6003 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6003 
60 Hz Resonance 6003 
No notching… so far. 6003 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6002 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6002 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6002 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6002 
Power to the People 6002 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6002 
Aura 6002 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6002 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6002 
All class D is the same 6002 
Interpreting the LF results. 6001 
The Halibut 6001 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6001 
The Big Picture 6001 
Power & ULF channels 6001 
The big picture indeed. 6001 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6001 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6001 
The Power and the Glory 6000 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6000 
I guess I did not get this memo 6000 
French LF drivers 6000 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6000 
(another) French LF approach 5999 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5999 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5999 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5999 
Limpschtick 5999 
Symmetry 5999 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5998 
Room correction 5998 
It migh be more complicated. 5998 
Bass EQ ? 5998 
Agree and not. 5998 
Two "diseases" 5998 
Parametric filters 5998 
Ceiling arrays 5998 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5998 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5998 
The Middle of the Room. 5998 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5998 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5998 
Stop! 5998 
Appendectomy 5998 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5997 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5997 
No Isolation 5997 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5994 
Potential contenders? 5993 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5993 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5993 
Those Crazy Canucks 5989 
Mo' Better Bass 5983 
Bird in the Hand? 5983 
A wet listening spot? 5976 
Storm 5973 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5973 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5959 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5929 
Polar Opposite ULF 5928 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5916 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5914 
Differently but the same. 5913 
PVC 5912 
The sail test try. 5912 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5912 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5912 
Trial 5911 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5911 
Some explanations 5911 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5910 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5909 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5908 
Acrylate 5907 
Magic blanket 5907 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5906 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5906 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5906 
I have a few options. 5906 
Foam color 5906 
Strange things with upperbass 5906 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5905 
Teatro reform. . . 5905 
The foaming room dilemma. 5904 
Melamine Foam 5904 
Foaming up the cat house 5904 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5904 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5904 
Acoustic revisions… 5903 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5900 
Surprises so far in the new room 5899 
The upperbass in the new room. 5899 
Slight change of hart. 5898 
Camco supply of Boston 5896 
Room acoustics 5896 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5855 
I need to kill dust first. 5855 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5853 
To feed the leeches? 5853 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5852 
Yh 5852 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5852 
DPOLs? 5852 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5852 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5849 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5849 
A HalfPipe solution? 5849 
I absolutely love it. 5849 
Piper work 5848 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5848 
Absorption 5848 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5847 
Cats life ? 5847 
Call me Pussy. 5847 
More about traps 5847 
Acoustic impedance? 5847 
You maybe right 5847 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5847 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5846 
Heavy Curtain 5846 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5845 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5845 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5845 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5842 
Fix speaker move chair? 5841 
Back and forth ceremony 5841 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5840 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5839 
Glass windows 5838 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5837 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5836 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5834 
How to use basement jacks? 5834 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5834 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5834 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5833 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5833 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5832 
Sore eyes... 5831 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5831 
The harvesting week! 5829 
I need an inspiration… 5828 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5827 
Like this? 5827 
Dramatically randomize MF 5827 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5826 
The room eats dynamic 5826 
Diffusers 5826 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5825 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5810 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5809 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5809 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5809 
About Width-Importance balance. 5807 
Letting the music scale up 5806 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5806 
To finish my house décor… 5802 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5801 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5800 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5800 
Calling the gods of music 5800 
Absolutely 5800 
Phase manipulation 5800 
No relation. 5800 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5800 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5800 
Dynamical mismatch 5799 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5799 
Stradiwinerius? 5796 
Dealing with the glass. 5795 
Boston 5795 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5795 
Added mass 5795 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5795 
It is about moderation…. 5795 
To hell with the wine... 5795 
Also for other surafaces 5794 
LEAD 5794 
LEAD & GLASS 5794 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5794 
Read carefully 5794 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5794 
Crooks and morons 5794 
Magiscopios 5793 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5773 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5773 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5772 
The LP setup in the new home. 5721 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5716 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5716 
Pianochord will do! 5716 
Spanyi heaven 5716 
I see no conflict at all. 5716 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5716 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5716 
A year after closing 5708 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5708 
Traveling antimatter 5701 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5695 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5694 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5668 
Cast Iron fireplace 5667 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5667 
The hardcore way 5667 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5631 
This is How It's Done 5630 
Listening room during summer. 5618 
What about those... 5617 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5617 
Reducing A/C Noise 5617 
HVAC the Cat 5617 
Big Ass fan 5616 
Variac dimmers 5616 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5616 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5616 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5548 
Some winter observations. 5439 
That Asian man…. 5408 
The Franz Schubert morning 5382 
Spring.... 5331 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5281 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5252 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5252 
Just good photography? 5252 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5252 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5252 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5251 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5251 
Sports car 5251 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5251 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5251 
Train Positioning 5251 
Kind of what I want 5251 
The lap listening… 5251 
Family Room 5251 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5248 
A super audio room. 5244 
Time Warp! 5244 
A piano in a listening room 5223 
Pianissimo 5223 
The plan in blue. 5223 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5223 
My doubts 5223 
It is exactly what I worry. 5222 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5222 
Musicians at home 5222 
Piano Measurements 5221 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5216 
The next step. 5202 
Midbass horns missing?? 5201 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5191 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5191 
Baby Grand 5190 
Wood floor 5190 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5190 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5190 
Amy’s baby. 5188 
Improvement 5188 
Agree with Scott 5188 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5176 
Integrated casters 5176 
Very nice, thanks. 5176 
Customization 5176 
Sliders 5176 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5169 
Congratulations 5169 
Holes in the floor... 5169 
Tubes and kids 5169 
Sweet spot enlargement 5169 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5167 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5166 
Wood Floors and Water 5166 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5161 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5160 
WAF is for Losers 5160 
WAF: it depends. 5160 
Integration 5159 
Here and there. 5159 
Life after WWIII 5159 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5159 
Cables management. 5157 
Featurizing 5157 
Kids and tubes cont. 5154 
Kid magnet 5154 
Kids and audio 5153 
Radars 5153 
Wow, what the days! 5149 
The comming weekend 5145 
It all was worth it! 5142 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5137 
Here is how it is look. 5137 
Resolving the carpet issue 5137 
Bonfire 5137 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5137 
Proof of concept? 5137 
Geometry 5137 
A view from listening position. 5137 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5137 
Some feedback 5137 
Evening 5137 
I wonder why. 5136 
Rugs and things 5136 
In defense… 5136 
I can’t get it. 5133 
Haze. 5132 
Front wall 5132 
It is very possible. 5132 
It is nice to be back. 5129 
My comfy corner. 5126 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4766 
WMD in house. 4588 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4491 
The third listening spot. 4470 
For sure a very different experience. 4432 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4427 
It's Jfretch's system. 4427 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4426 
Domestic games 4380 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4241 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4241 
Dynamic screening 4241 
Actually this is very good idea! 4241 
Volcanic fabric 4241 
I should have done this. 4239 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4235 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4204 
No worries 4204 
Awesome memories 4204 
Optimization of space 4204 
Child-ish considerations 4201 
Finding peace.... 4195 
"Fencing"? 4194 
I need to build something custom 4194 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4194 
Stressed Skin 4194 
NYC elevators 4194 
Kids toys and quantities. 4194 
Everything is completely reversible 4193 
Racks and things 4193 
Now it looks even more promising! 4193 
Quantity of rods 4193 
Avoiding diagonals 4191 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4190 
That's not fair! 4190 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4190 
Discrimination? 4185 
Vertical configuration 4178 
Impresive ! 4107 
Did you read the site? 4107 
Contact 4107 
Company's name is Rixrax 4107 
Stand 4106 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4062 
End of life headphone system 4062 
Something like this? 4062 
The "Second Living Room" 4062 
Mixing urban & suburban 4062 
Late night listening 4062 
Moving life... 4060 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4060 
A true listening room. 4036 
It started… 4021 
Levels of Interest 4021 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4021 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4021 
I can't not to post it.... 4021 
Do not leave him unattended. 4021 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4021 
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