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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5755 
The first take on the new room. 5749 
New Room, a first shot. 5748 
Wonderful 5748 
Adopted 5747 
The first relaxed night with the room 5745 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5744 
The listening room is ready. 5743 
New Room, a First Shot 5741 
Continue to work with the room 5741 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5741 
Room 5740 
I think it will take another month. 5740 
The Buttressing 5740 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5739 
The new place and the new noises. 5739 
Big listening room 5738 
Screw the "big" rooms 5738 
Big listening rooms 5738 
First reflection points 5737 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5737 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5734 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5733 
Squeezing the floor 5733 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5733 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5733 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5732 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5732 
The new room, the very first listening. 5732 
The 14.5 foot. 5731 
Again… 5730 
Romy's new Playground 5730 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5730 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5730 
For the uninitiated ... 5729 
NH guy 5729 
Room 5729 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5728 
The first base is done 5728 
Reentry time alignment. 5727 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5726 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5726 
Mid bass horn. 5726 
Guess is only a guess… 5726 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5726 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5725 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5725 
Diffusors 5725 
Diffuse injection 5725 
Let analyse why it so 5725 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5725 
Wheel and Deal 5725 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5725 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5725 
I Must Be Missing Something 5725 
I put sliders under my speakers 5724 
ROOM 5723 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5723 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5723 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5723 
No concerns 5723 
Speakers and room 5723 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5722 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5722 
Diaphram 5722 
Phram 5722 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5722 
Perfect piston 5722 
Decorater 5721 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5721 
New morning 5720 
The first take on the room with RTA 5719 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5719 
Axiomatic 5719 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5718 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5718 
The size of the bass. 5718 
Bass Factory 5718 
Crude Level, or something more? 5718 
I will play with it this week…. 5718 
Rent-A 5718 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5718 
Corner horns 5718 
Cheating from below 5718 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5718 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5717 
A possibly overly simplified view 5717 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5717 
Iceberg 5717 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5717 
Why not horn 5717 
A correction…. 5717 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5717 
They are just not related things at all. 5717 
Fertin 5715 
Low resonance is good... 5715 
Et tu, Brute? 5714 
The Room response at LF 5713 
Life On The Ground Floor 5713 
Bass arrays 5713 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5713 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5713 
The super sucks. 5713 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5713 
You may also try 5712 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5712 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5712 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5712 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5712 
60 Hz Resonance 5712 
No notching… so far. 5712 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5711 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5711 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5711 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5711 
Power to the People 5711 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5711 
Aura 5711 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5711 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5711 
All class D is the same 5711 
Interpreting the LF results. 5710 
The Halibut 5710 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5710 
The Big Picture 5710 
Power & ULF channels 5710 
The big picture indeed. 5710 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5710 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5710 
The Power and the Glory 5709 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5709 
I guess I did not get this memo 5709 
French LF drivers 5709 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5709 
(another) French LF approach 5708 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5708 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5708 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5708 
Limpschtick 5708 
Symmetry 5708 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5707 
Room correction 5707 
It migh be more complicated. 5707 
Bass EQ ? 5707 
Agree and not. 5707 
Two "diseases" 5707 
Parametric filters 5707 
Ceiling arrays 5707 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5707 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5707 
The Middle of the Room. 5707 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5707 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5707 
Stop! 5707 
Appendectomy 5707 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5706 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5706 
No Isolation 5706 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5703 
Potential contenders? 5702 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5702 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5702 
Those Crazy Canucks 5698 
Mo' Better Bass 5692 
Bird in the Hand? 5692 
A wet listening spot? 5685 
Storm 5682 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5682 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5668 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5638 
Polar Opposite ULF 5637 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5625 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5623 
Differently but the same. 5622 
PVC 5621 
The sail test try. 5621 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5621 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5621 
Trial 5620 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5620 
Some explanations 5620 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5619 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5618 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5617 
Acrylate 5616 
Magic blanket 5616 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5615 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5615 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5615 
I have a few options. 5615 
Foam color 5615 
Strange things with upperbass 5615 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5614 
Teatro reform. . . 5614 
The foaming room dilemma. 5613 
Melamine Foam 5613 
Foaming up the cat house 5613 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5613 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5613 
Acoustic revisions… 5612 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5609 
Surprises so far in the new room 5608 
The upperbass in the new room. 5608 
Slight change of hart. 5607 
Camco supply of Boston 5605 
Room acoustics 5605 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5564 
I need to kill dust first. 5564 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5562 
To feed the leeches? 5562 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5561 
Yh 5561 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5561 
DPOLs? 5561 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5561 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5558 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5558 
A HalfPipe solution? 5558 
I absolutely love it. 5558 
Piper work 5557 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5557 
Absorption 5557 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5556 
Cats life ? 5556 
Call me Pussy. 5556 
More about traps 5556 
Acoustic impedance? 5556 
You maybe right 5556 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5556 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5555 
Heavy Curtain 5555 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5554 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5554 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5554 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5551 
Fix speaker move chair? 5550 
Back and forth ceremony 5550 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5549 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5548 
Glass windows 5547 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5546 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5545 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5543 
How to use basement jacks? 5543 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5543 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5543 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5542 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5542 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5541 
Sore eyes... 5540 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5540 
The harvesting week! 5538 
I need an inspiration… 5537 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5536 
Like this? 5536 
Dramatically randomize MF 5536 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5535 
The room eats dynamic 5535 
Diffusers 5535 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5534 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5519 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5518 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5518 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5518 
About Width-Importance balance. 5516 
Letting the music scale up 5515 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5515 
To finish my house décor… 5511 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5510 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5509 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5509 
Calling the gods of music 5509 
Absolutely 5509 
Phase manipulation 5509 
No relation. 5509 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5509 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5509 
Dynamical mismatch 5508 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5508 
Stradiwinerius? 5505 
Dealing with the glass. 5504 
Boston 5504 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5504 
Added mass 5504 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5504 
It is about moderation…. 5504 
To hell with the wine... 5504 
Also for other surafaces 5503 
LEAD 5503 
LEAD & GLASS 5503 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5503 
Read carefully 5503 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5503 
Crooks and morons 5503 
Magiscopios 5502 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5482 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5482 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5481 
The LP setup in the new home. 5430 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5425 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5425 
Pianochord will do! 5425 
Spanyi heaven 5425 
I see no conflict at all. 5425 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5425 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5425 
A year after closing 5417 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5417 
Traveling antimatter 5410 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5404 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5403 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5377 
Cast Iron fireplace 5376 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5376 
The hardcore way 5376 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5340 
This is How It's Done 5339 
Listening room during summer. 5327 
What about those... 5326 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5326 
Reducing A/C Noise 5326 
HVAC the Cat 5326 
Big Ass fan 5325 
Variac dimmers 5325 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5325 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5325 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5257 
Some winter observations. 5148 
That Asian man…. 5117 
The Franz Schubert morning 5091 
Spring.... 5040 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4990 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4961 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4961 
Just good photography? 4961 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4961 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4961 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4960 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4960 
Sports car 4960 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4960 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4960 
Train Positioning 4960 
Kind of what I want 4960 
The lap listening… 4960 
Family Room 4960 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4957 
A super audio room. 4953 
Time Warp! 4953 
A piano in a listening room 4932 
Pianissimo 4932 
The plan in blue. 4932 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4932 
My doubts 4932 
It is exactly what I worry. 4931 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4931 
Musicians at home 4931 
Piano Measurements 4930 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4925 
The next step. 4911 
Midbass horns missing?? 4910 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4900 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4900 
Baby Grand 4899 
Wood floor 4899 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4899 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4899 
Amy’s baby. 4897 
Improvement 4897 
Agree with Scott 4897 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4885 
Integrated casters 4885 
Very nice, thanks. 4885 
Customization 4885 
Sliders 4885 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4878 
Congratulations 4878 
Holes in the floor... 4878 
Tubes and kids 4878 
Sweet spot enlargement 4878 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4876 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4875 
Wood Floors and Water 4875 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4870 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4869 
WAF is for Losers 4869 
WAF: it depends. 4869 
Integration 4868 
Here and there. 4868 
Life after WWIII 4868 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4868 
Cables management. 4866 
Featurizing 4866 
Kids and tubes cont. 4863 
Kid magnet 4863 
Kids and audio 4862 
Radars 4862 
Wow, what the days! 4858 
The comming weekend 4854 
It all was worth it! 4851 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4846 
Here is how it is look. 4846 
Resolving the carpet issue 4846 
Bonfire 4846 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4846 
Proof of concept? 4846 
Geometry 4846 
A view from listening position. 4846 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4846 
Some feedback 4846 
Evening 4846 
I wonder why. 4845 
Rugs and things 4845 
In defense… 4845 
I can’t get it. 4842 
Haze. 4841 
Front wall 4841 
It is very possible. 4841 
It is nice to be back. 4838 
My comfy corner. 4835 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4475 
WMD in house. 4297 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4200 
The third listening spot. 4179 
For sure a very different experience. 4141 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4136 
It's Jfretch's system. 4136 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4135 
Domestic games 4089 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3950 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3950 
Dynamic screening 3950 
Actually this is very good idea! 3950 
Volcanic fabric 3950 
I should have done this. 3948 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3944 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3913 
No worries 3913 
Awesome memories 3913 
Optimization of space 3913 
Child-ish considerations 3910 
Finding peace.... 3904 
"Fencing"? 3903 
I need to build something custom 3903 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3903 
Stressed Skin 3903 
NYC elevators 3903 
Kids toys and quantities. 3903 
Everything is completely reversible 3902 
Racks and things 3902 
Now it looks even more promising! 3902 
Quantity of rods 3902 
Avoiding diagonals 3900 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3899 
That's not fair! 3899 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3899 
Discrimination? 3894 
Vertical configuration 3887 
Impresive ! 3816 
Did you read the site? 3816 
Contact 3816 
Company's name is Rixrax 3816 
Stand 3815 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3771 
End of life headphone system 3771 
Something like this? 3771 
The "Second Living Room" 3771 
Mixing urban & suburban 3771 
Late night listening 3771 
Moving life... 3769 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3769 
A true listening room. 3745 
It started… 3730 
Levels of Interest 3730 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3730 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3730 
I can't not to post it.... 3730 
Do not leave him unattended. 3730 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3730 
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