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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6038 
The first take on the new room. 6032 
New Room, a first shot. 6031 
Wonderful 6031 
Adopted 6030 
The first relaxed night with the room 6028 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6027 
The listening room is ready. 6026 
New Room, a First Shot 6024 
Continue to work with the room 6024 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6024 
Room 6023 
I think it will take another month. 6023 
The Buttressing 6023 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6022 
The new place and the new noises. 6022 
Big listening room 6021 
Screw the "big" rooms 6021 
Big listening rooms 6021 
First reflection points 6020 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6020 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6017 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6016 
Squeezing the floor 6016 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6016 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6016 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6015 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6015 
The new room, the very first listening. 6015 
The 14.5 foot. 6014 
Again… 6013 
Romy's new Playground 6013 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6013 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6013 
For the uninitiated ... 6012 
NH guy 6012 
Room 6012 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6011 
The first base is done 6011 
Reentry time alignment. 6010 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6009 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6009 
Mid bass horn. 6009 
Guess is only a guess… 6009 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6009 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6008 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6008 
Diffusors 6008 
Diffuse injection 6008 
Let analyse why it so 6008 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6008 
Wheel and Deal 6008 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6008 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6008 
I Must Be Missing Something 6008 
I put sliders under my speakers 6007 
ROOM 6006 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6006 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6006 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6006 
No concerns 6006 
Speakers and room 6006 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6005 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6005 
Diaphram 6005 
Phram 6005 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6005 
Perfect piston 6005 
Decorater 6004 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6004 
New morning 6003 
The first take on the room with RTA 6002 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6002 
Axiomatic 6002 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6001 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6001 
The size of the bass. 6001 
Bass Factory 6001 
Crude Level, or something more? 6001 
I will play with it this week…. 6001 
Rent-A 6001 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6001 
Corner horns 6001 
Cheating from below 6001 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6001 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6000 
A possibly overly simplified view 6000 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6000 
Iceberg 6000 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6000 
Why not horn 6000 
A correction…. 6000 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6000 
They are just not related things at all. 6000 
Fertin 5998 
Low resonance is good... 5998 
Et tu, Brute? 5997 
The Room response at LF 5996 
Life On The Ground Floor 5996 
Bass arrays 5996 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5996 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5996 
The super sucks. 5996 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5996 
You may also try 5995 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5995 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5995 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5995 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5995 
60 Hz Resonance 5995 
No notching… so far. 5995 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5994 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5994 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5994 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5994 
Power to the People 5994 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5994 
Aura 5994 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5994 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5994 
All class D is the same 5994 
Interpreting the LF results. 5993 
The Halibut 5993 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5993 
The Big Picture 5993 
Power & ULF channels 5993 
The big picture indeed. 5993 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5993 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5993 
The Power and the Glory 5992 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5992 
I guess I did not get this memo 5992 
French LF drivers 5992 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5992 
(another) French LF approach 5991 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5991 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5991 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5991 
Limpschtick 5991 
Symmetry 5991 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5990 
Room correction 5990 
It migh be more complicated. 5990 
Bass EQ ? 5990 
Agree and not. 5990 
Two "diseases" 5990 
Parametric filters 5990 
Ceiling arrays 5990 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5990 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5990 
The Middle of the Room. 5990 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5990 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5990 
Stop! 5990 
Appendectomy 5990 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5989 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5989 
No Isolation 5989 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5986 
Potential contenders? 5985 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5985 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5985 
Those Crazy Canucks 5981 
Mo' Better Bass 5975 
Bird in the Hand? 5975 
A wet listening spot? 5968 
Storm 5965 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5965 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5951 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5921 
Polar Opposite ULF 5920 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5908 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5906 
Differently but the same. 5905 
PVC 5904 
The sail test try. 5904 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5904 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5904 
Trial 5903 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5903 
Some explanations 5903 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5902 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5901 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5900 
Acrylate 5899 
Magic blanket 5899 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5898 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5898 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5898 
I have a few options. 5898 
Foam color 5898 
Strange things with upperbass 5898 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5897 
Teatro reform. . . 5897 
The foaming room dilemma. 5896 
Melamine Foam 5896 
Foaming up the cat house 5896 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5896 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5896 
Acoustic revisions… 5895 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5892 
Surprises so far in the new room 5891 
The upperbass in the new room. 5891 
Slight change of hart. 5890 
Camco supply of Boston 5888 
Room acoustics 5888 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5847 
I need to kill dust first. 5847 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5845 
To feed the leeches? 5845 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5844 
Yh 5844 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5844 
DPOLs? 5844 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5844 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5841 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5841 
A HalfPipe solution? 5841 
I absolutely love it. 5841 
Piper work 5840 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5840 
Absorption 5840 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5839 
Cats life ? 5839 
Call me Pussy. 5839 
More about traps 5839 
Acoustic impedance? 5839 
You maybe right 5839 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5839 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5838 
Heavy Curtain 5838 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5837 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5837 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5837 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5834 
Fix speaker move chair? 5833 
Back and forth ceremony 5833 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5832 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5831 
Glass windows 5830 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5829 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5828 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5826 
How to use basement jacks? 5826 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5826 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5826 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5825 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5825 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5824 
Sore eyes... 5823 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5823 
The harvesting week! 5821 
I need an inspiration… 5820 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5819 
Like this? 5819 
Dramatically randomize MF 5819 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5818 
The room eats dynamic 5818 
Diffusers 5818 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5817 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5802 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5801 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5801 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5801 
About Width-Importance balance. 5799 
Letting the music scale up 5798 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5798 
To finish my house décor… 5794 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5793 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5792 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5792 
Calling the gods of music 5792 
Absolutely 5792 
Phase manipulation 5792 
No relation. 5792 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5792 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5792 
Dynamical mismatch 5791 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5791 
Stradiwinerius? 5788 
Dealing with the glass. 5787 
Boston 5787 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5787 
Added mass 5787 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5787 
It is about moderation…. 5787 
To hell with the wine... 5787 
Also for other surafaces 5786 
LEAD 5786 
LEAD & GLASS 5786 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5786 
Read carefully 5786 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5786 
Crooks and morons 5786 
Magiscopios 5785 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5765 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5765 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5764 
The LP setup in the new home. 5713 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5708 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5708 
Pianochord will do! 5708 
Spanyi heaven 5708 
I see no conflict at all. 5708 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5708 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5708 
A year after closing 5700 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5700 
Traveling antimatter 5693 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5687 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5686 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5660 
Cast Iron fireplace 5659 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5659 
The hardcore way 5659 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5623 
This is How It's Done 5622 
Listening room during summer. 5610 
What about those... 5609 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5609 
Reducing A/C Noise 5609 
HVAC the Cat 5609 
Big Ass fan 5608 
Variac dimmers 5608 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5608 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5608 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5540 
Some winter observations. 5431 
That Asian man…. 5400 
The Franz Schubert morning 5374 
Spring.... 5323 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5273 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5244 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5244 
Just good photography? 5244 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5244 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5244 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5243 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5243 
Sports car 5243 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5243 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5243 
Train Positioning 5243 
Kind of what I want 5243 
The lap listening… 5243 
Family Room 5243 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5240 
A super audio room. 5236 
Time Warp! 5236 
A piano in a listening room 5215 
Pianissimo 5215 
The plan in blue. 5215 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5215 
My doubts 5215 
It is exactly what I worry. 5214 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5214 
Musicians at home 5214 
Piano Measurements 5213 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5208 
The next step. 5194 
Midbass horns missing?? 5193 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5183 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5183 
Baby Grand 5182 
Wood floor 5182 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5182 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5182 
Amy’s baby. 5180 
Improvement 5180 
Agree with Scott 5180 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5168 
Integrated casters 5168 
Very nice, thanks. 5168 
Customization 5168 
Sliders 5168 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5161 
Congratulations 5161 
Holes in the floor... 5161 
Tubes and kids 5161 
Sweet spot enlargement 5161 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5159 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5158 
Wood Floors and Water 5158 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5153 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5152 
WAF is for Losers 5152 
WAF: it depends. 5152 
Integration 5151 
Here and there. 5151 
Life after WWIII 5151 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5151 
Cables management. 5149 
Featurizing 5149 
Kids and tubes cont. 5146 
Kid magnet 5146 
Kids and audio 5145 
Radars 5145 
Wow, what the days! 5141 
The comming weekend 5137 
It all was worth it! 5134 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5129 
Here is how it is look. 5129 
Resolving the carpet issue 5129 
Bonfire 5129 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5129 
Proof of concept? 5129 
Geometry 5129 
A view from listening position. 5129 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5129 
Some feedback 5129 
Evening 5129 
I wonder why. 5128 
Rugs and things 5128 
In defense… 5128 
I can’t get it. 5125 
Haze. 5124 
Front wall 5124 
It is very possible. 5124 
It is nice to be back. 5121 
My comfy corner. 5118 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4758 
WMD in house. 4580 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4483 
The third listening spot. 4462 
For sure a very different experience. 4424 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4419 
It's Jfretch's system. 4419 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4418 
Domestic games 4372 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4233 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4233 
Dynamic screening 4233 
Actually this is very good idea! 4233 
Volcanic fabric 4233 
I should have done this. 4231 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4227 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4196 
No worries 4196 
Awesome memories 4196 
Optimization of space 4196 
Child-ish considerations 4193 
Finding peace.... 4187 
"Fencing"? 4186 
I need to build something custom 4186 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4186 
Stressed Skin 4186 
NYC elevators 4186 
Kids toys and quantities. 4186 
Everything is completely reversible 4185 
Racks and things 4185 
Now it looks even more promising! 4185 
Quantity of rods 4185 
Avoiding diagonals 4183 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4182 
That's not fair! 4182 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4182 
Discrimination? 4177 
Vertical configuration 4170 
Impresive ! 4099 
Did you read the site? 4099 
Contact 4099 
Company's name is Rixrax 4099 
Stand 4098 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4054 
End of life headphone system 4054 
Something like this? 4054 
The "Second Living Room" 4054 
Mixing urban & suburban 4054 
Late night listening 4054 
Moving life... 4052 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4052 
A true listening room. 4028 
It started… 4013 
Levels of Interest 4013 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4013 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4013 
I can't not to post it.... 4013 
Do not leave him unattended. 4013 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4013 
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