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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6044 
The first take on the new room. 6038 
New Room, a first shot. 6037 
Wonderful 6037 
Adopted 6036 
The first relaxed night with the room 6034 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6033 
The listening room is ready. 6032 
New Room, a First Shot 6030 
Continue to work with the room 6030 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6030 
Room 6029 
I think it will take another month. 6029 
The Buttressing 6029 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6028 
The new place and the new noises. 6028 
Big listening room 6027 
Screw the "big" rooms 6027 
Big listening rooms 6027 
First reflection points 6026 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6026 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6023 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6022 
Squeezing the floor 6022 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6022 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6022 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6021 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6021 
The new room, the very first listening. 6021 
The 14.5 foot. 6020 
Again… 6019 
Romy's new Playground 6019 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6019 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6019 
For the uninitiated ... 6018 
NH guy 6018 
Room 6018 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6017 
The first base is done 6017 
Reentry time alignment. 6016 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6015 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6015 
Mid bass horn. 6015 
Guess is only a guess… 6015 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6015 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6014 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6014 
Diffusors 6014 
Diffuse injection 6014 
Let analyse why it so 6014 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6014 
Wheel and Deal 6014 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6014 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6014 
I Must Be Missing Something 6014 
I put sliders under my speakers 6013 
ROOM 6012 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6012 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6012 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6012 
No concerns 6012 
Speakers and room 6012 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6011 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6011 
Diaphram 6011 
Phram 6011 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6011 
Perfect piston 6011 
Decorater 6010 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6010 
New morning 6009 
The first take on the room with RTA 6008 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6008 
Axiomatic 6008 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6007 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6007 
The size of the bass. 6007 
Bass Factory 6007 
Crude Level, or something more? 6007 
I will play with it this week…. 6007 
Rent-A 6007 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6007 
Corner horns 6007 
Cheating from below 6007 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6007 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6006 
A possibly overly simplified view 6006 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6006 
Iceberg 6006 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6006 
Why not horn 6006 
A correction…. 6006 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6006 
They are just not related things at all. 6006 
Fertin 6004 
Low resonance is good... 6004 
Et tu, Brute? 6003 
The Room response at LF 6002 
Life On The Ground Floor 6002 
Bass arrays 6002 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6002 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6002 
The super sucks. 6002 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6002 
You may also try 6001 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6001 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6001 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6001 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6001 
60 Hz Resonance 6001 
No notching… so far. 6001 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6000 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6000 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6000 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6000 
Power to the People 6000 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6000 
Aura 6000 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6000 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6000 
All class D is the same 6000 
Interpreting the LF results. 5999 
The Halibut 5999 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5999 
The Big Picture 5999 
Power & ULF channels 5999 
The big picture indeed. 5999 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5999 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5999 
The Power and the Glory 5998 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5998 
I guess I did not get this memo 5998 
French LF drivers 5998 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5998 
(another) French LF approach 5997 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5997 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5997 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5997 
Limpschtick 5997 
Symmetry 5997 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5996 
Room correction 5996 
It migh be more complicated. 5996 
Bass EQ ? 5996 
Agree and not. 5996 
Two "diseases" 5996 
Parametric filters 5996 
Ceiling arrays 5996 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5996 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5996 
The Middle of the Room. 5996 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5996 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5996 
Stop! 5996 
Appendectomy 5996 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5995 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5995 
No Isolation 5995 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5992 
Potential contenders? 5991 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5991 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5991 
Those Crazy Canucks 5987 
Mo' Better Bass 5981 
Bird in the Hand? 5981 
A wet listening spot? 5974 
Storm 5971 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5971 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5957 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5927 
Polar Opposite ULF 5926 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5914 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5912 
Differently but the same. 5911 
PVC 5910 
The sail test try. 5910 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5910 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5910 
Trial 5909 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5909 
Some explanations 5909 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5908 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5907 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5906 
Acrylate 5905 
Magic blanket 5905 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5904 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5904 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5904 
I have a few options. 5904 
Foam color 5904 
Strange things with upperbass 5904 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5903 
Teatro reform. . . 5903 
The foaming room dilemma. 5902 
Melamine Foam 5902 
Foaming up the cat house 5902 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5902 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5902 
Acoustic revisions… 5901 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5898 
Surprises so far in the new room 5897 
The upperbass in the new room. 5897 
Slight change of hart. 5896 
Camco supply of Boston 5894 
Room acoustics 5894 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5853 
I need to kill dust first. 5853 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5851 
To feed the leeches? 5851 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5850 
Yh 5850 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5850 
DPOLs? 5850 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5850 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5847 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5847 
A HalfPipe solution? 5847 
I absolutely love it. 5847 
Piper work 5846 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5846 
Absorption 5846 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5845 
Cats life ? 5845 
Call me Pussy. 5845 
More about traps 5845 
Acoustic impedance? 5845 
You maybe right 5845 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5845 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5844 
Heavy Curtain 5844 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5843 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5843 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5843 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5840 
Fix speaker move chair? 5839 
Back and forth ceremony 5839 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5838 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5837 
Glass windows 5836 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5835 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5834 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5832 
How to use basement jacks? 5832 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5832 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5832 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5831 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5831 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5830 
Sore eyes... 5829 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5829 
The harvesting week! 5827 
I need an inspiration… 5826 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5825 
Like this? 5825 
Dramatically randomize MF 5825 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5824 
The room eats dynamic 5824 
Diffusers 5824 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5823 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5808 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5807 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5807 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5807 
About Width-Importance balance. 5805 
Letting the music scale up 5804 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5804 
To finish my house décor… 5800 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5799 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5798 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5798 
Calling the gods of music 5798 
Absolutely 5798 
Phase manipulation 5798 
No relation. 5798 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5798 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5798 
Dynamical mismatch 5797 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5797 
Stradiwinerius? 5794 
Dealing with the glass. 5793 
Boston 5793 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5793 
Added mass 5793 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5793 
It is about moderation…. 5793 
To hell with the wine... 5793 
Also for other surafaces 5792 
LEAD 5792 
LEAD & GLASS 5792 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5792 
Read carefully 5792 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5792 
Crooks and morons 5792 
Magiscopios 5791 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5771 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5771 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5770 
The LP setup in the new home. 5719 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5714 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5714 
Pianochord will do! 5714 
Spanyi heaven 5714 
I see no conflict at all. 5714 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5714 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5714 
A year after closing 5706 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5706 
Traveling antimatter 5699 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5693 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5692 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5666 
Cast Iron fireplace 5665 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5665 
The hardcore way 5665 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5629 
This is How It's Done 5628 
Listening room during summer. 5616 
What about those... 5615 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5615 
Reducing A/C Noise 5615 
HVAC the Cat 5615 
Big Ass fan 5614 
Variac dimmers 5614 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5614 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5614 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5546 
Some winter observations. 5437 
That Asian man…. 5406 
The Franz Schubert morning 5380 
Spring.... 5329 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5279 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5250 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5250 
Just good photography? 5250 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5250 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5250 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5249 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5249 
Sports car 5249 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5249 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5249 
Train Positioning 5249 
Kind of what I want 5249 
The lap listening… 5249 
Family Room 5249 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5246 
A super audio room. 5242 
Time Warp! 5242 
A piano in a listening room 5221 
Pianissimo 5221 
The plan in blue. 5221 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5221 
My doubts 5221 
It is exactly what I worry. 5220 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5220 
Musicians at home 5220 
Piano Measurements 5219 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5214 
The next step. 5200 
Midbass horns missing?? 5199 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5189 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5189 
Baby Grand 5188 
Wood floor 5188 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5188 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5188 
Amy’s baby. 5186 
Improvement 5186 
Agree with Scott 5186 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5174 
Integrated casters 5174 
Very nice, thanks. 5174 
Customization 5174 
Sliders 5174 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5167 
Congratulations 5167 
Holes in the floor... 5167 
Tubes and kids 5167 
Sweet spot enlargement 5167 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5165 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5164 
Wood Floors and Water 5164 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5159 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5158 
WAF is for Losers 5158 
WAF: it depends. 5158 
Integration 5157 
Here and there. 5157 
Life after WWIII 5157 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5157 
Cables management. 5155 
Featurizing 5155 
Kids and tubes cont. 5152 
Kid magnet 5152 
Kids and audio 5151 
Radars 5151 
Wow, what the days! 5147 
The comming weekend 5143 
It all was worth it! 5140 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5135 
Here is how it is look. 5135 
Resolving the carpet issue 5135 
Bonfire 5135 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5135 
Proof of concept? 5135 
Geometry 5135 
A view from listening position. 5135 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5135 
Some feedback 5135 
Evening 5135 
I wonder why. 5134 
Rugs and things 5134 
In defense… 5134 
I can’t get it. 5131 
Haze. 5130 
Front wall 5130 
It is very possible. 5130 
It is nice to be back. 5127 
My comfy corner. 5124 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4764 
WMD in house. 4586 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4489 
The third listening spot. 4468 
For sure a very different experience. 4430 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4425 
It's Jfretch's system. 4425 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4424 
Domestic games 4378 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4239 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4239 
Dynamic screening 4239 
Actually this is very good idea! 4239 
Volcanic fabric 4239 
I should have done this. 4237 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4233 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4202 
No worries 4202 
Awesome memories 4202 
Optimization of space 4202 
Child-ish considerations 4199 
Finding peace.... 4193 
"Fencing"? 4192 
I need to build something custom 4192 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4192 
Stressed Skin 4192 
NYC elevators 4192 
Kids toys and quantities. 4192 
Everything is completely reversible 4191 
Racks and things 4191 
Now it looks even more promising! 4191 
Quantity of rods 4191 
Avoiding diagonals 4189 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4188 
That's not fair! 4188 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4188 
Discrimination? 4183 
Vertical configuration 4176 
Impresive ! 4105 
Did you read the site? 4105 
Contact 4105 
Company's name is Rixrax 4105 
Stand 4104 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4060 
End of life headphone system 4060 
Something like this? 4060 
The "Second Living Room" 4060 
Mixing urban & suburban 4060 
Late night listening 4060 
Moving life... 4058 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4058 
A true listening room. 4034 
It started… 4019 
Levels of Interest 4019 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4019 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4019 
I can't not to post it.... 4019 
Do not leave him unattended. 4019 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4019 
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