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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5973 
The first take on the new room. 5967 
New Room, a first shot. 5966 
Wonderful 5966 
Adopted 5965 
The first relaxed night with the room 5963 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5962 
The listening room is ready. 5961 
New Room, a First Shot 5959 
Continue to work with the room 5959 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5959 
Room 5958 
I think it will take another month. 5958 
The Buttressing 5958 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5957 
The new place and the new noises. 5957 
Big listening room 5956 
Screw the "big" rooms 5956 
Big listening rooms 5956 
First reflection points 5955 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5955 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5952 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5951 
Squeezing the floor 5951 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5951 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5951 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5950 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5950 
The new room, the very first listening. 5950 
The 14.5 foot. 5949 
Again… 5948 
Romy's new Playground 5948 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5948 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5948 
For the uninitiated ... 5947 
NH guy 5947 
Room 5947 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5946 
The first base is done 5946 
Reentry time alignment. 5945 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5944 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5944 
Mid bass horn. 5944 
Guess is only a guess… 5944 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5944 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5943 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5943 
Diffusors 5943 
Diffuse injection 5943 
Let analyse why it so 5943 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5943 
Wheel and Deal 5943 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5943 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5943 
I Must Be Missing Something 5943 
I put sliders under my speakers 5942 
ROOM 5941 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5941 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5941 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5941 
No concerns 5941 
Speakers and room 5941 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5940 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5940 
Diaphram 5940 
Phram 5940 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5940 
Perfect piston 5940 
Decorater 5939 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5939 
New morning 5938 
The first take on the room with RTA 5937 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5937 
Axiomatic 5937 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5936 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5936 
The size of the bass. 5936 
Bass Factory 5936 
Crude Level, or something more? 5936 
I will play with it this week…. 5936 
Rent-A 5936 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5936 
Corner horns 5936 
Cheating from below 5936 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5936 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5935 
A possibly overly simplified view 5935 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5935 
Iceberg 5935 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5935 
Why not horn 5935 
A correction…. 5935 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5935 
They are just not related things at all. 5935 
Fertin 5933 
Low resonance is good... 5933 
Et tu, Brute? 5932 
The Room response at LF 5931 
Life On The Ground Floor 5931 
Bass arrays 5931 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5931 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5931 
The super sucks. 5931 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5931 
You may also try 5930 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5930 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5930 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5930 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5930 
60 Hz Resonance 5930 
No notching… so far. 5930 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5929 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5929 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5929 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5929 
Power to the People 5929 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5929 
Aura 5929 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5929 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5929 
All class D is the same 5929 
Interpreting the LF results. 5928 
The Halibut 5928 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5928 
The Big Picture 5928 
Power & ULF channels 5928 
The big picture indeed. 5928 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5928 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5928 
The Power and the Glory 5927 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5927 
I guess I did not get this memo 5927 
French LF drivers 5927 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5927 
(another) French LF approach 5926 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5926 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5926 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5926 
Limpschtick 5926 
Symmetry 5926 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5925 
Room correction 5925 
It migh be more complicated. 5925 
Bass EQ ? 5925 
Agree and not. 5925 
Two "diseases" 5925 
Parametric filters 5925 
Ceiling arrays 5925 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5925 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5925 
The Middle of the Room. 5925 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5925 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5925 
Stop! 5925 
Appendectomy 5925 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5924 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5924 
No Isolation 5924 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5921 
Potential contenders? 5920 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5920 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5920 
Those Crazy Canucks 5916 
Mo' Better Bass 5910 
Bird in the Hand? 5910 
A wet listening spot? 5903 
Storm 5900 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5900 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5886 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5856 
Polar Opposite ULF 5855 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5843 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5841 
Differently but the same. 5840 
PVC 5839 
The sail test try. 5839 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5839 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5839 
Trial 5838 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5838 
Some explanations 5838 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5837 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5836 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5835 
Acrylate 5834 
Magic blanket 5834 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5833 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5833 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5833 
I have a few options. 5833 
Foam color 5833 
Strange things with upperbass 5833 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5832 
Teatro reform. . . 5832 
The foaming room dilemma. 5831 
Melamine Foam 5831 
Foaming up the cat house 5831 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5831 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5831 
Acoustic revisions… 5830 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5827 
Surprises so far in the new room 5826 
The upperbass in the new room. 5826 
Slight change of hart. 5825 
Camco supply of Boston 5823 
Room acoustics 5823 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5782 
I need to kill dust first. 5782 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5780 
To feed the leeches? 5780 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5779 
Yh 5779 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5779 
DPOLs? 5779 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5779 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5776 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5776 
A HalfPipe solution? 5776 
I absolutely love it. 5776 
Piper work 5775 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5775 
Absorption 5775 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5774 
Cats life ? 5774 
Call me Pussy. 5774 
More about traps 5774 
Acoustic impedance? 5774 
You maybe right 5774 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5774 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5773 
Heavy Curtain 5773 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5772 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5772 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5772 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5769 
Fix speaker move chair? 5768 
Back and forth ceremony 5768 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5767 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5766 
Glass windows 5765 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5764 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5763 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5761 
How to use basement jacks? 5761 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5761 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5761 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5760 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5760 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5759 
Sore eyes... 5758 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5758 
The harvesting week! 5756 
I need an inspiration… 5755 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5754 
Like this? 5754 
Dramatically randomize MF 5754 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5753 
The room eats dynamic 5753 
Diffusers 5753 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5752 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5737 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5736 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5736 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5736 
About Width-Importance balance. 5734 
Letting the music scale up 5733 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5733 
To finish my house décor… 5729 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5728 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5727 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5727 
Calling the gods of music 5727 
Absolutely 5727 
Phase manipulation 5727 
No relation. 5727 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5727 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5727 
Dynamical mismatch 5726 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5726 
Stradiwinerius? 5723 
Dealing with the glass. 5722 
Boston 5722 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5722 
Added mass 5722 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5722 
It is about moderation…. 5722 
To hell with the wine... 5722 
Also for other surafaces 5721 
LEAD 5721 
LEAD & GLASS 5721 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5721 
Read carefully 5721 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5721 
Crooks and morons 5721 
Magiscopios 5720 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5700 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5700 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5699 
The LP setup in the new home. 5648 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5643 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5643 
Pianochord will do! 5643 
Spanyi heaven 5643 
I see no conflict at all. 5643 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5643 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5643 
A year after closing 5635 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5635 
Traveling antimatter 5628 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5622 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5621 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5595 
Cast Iron fireplace 5594 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5594 
The hardcore way 5594 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5558 
This is How It's Done 5557 
Listening room during summer. 5545 
What about those... 5544 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5544 
Reducing A/C Noise 5544 
HVAC the Cat 5544 
Big Ass fan 5543 
Variac dimmers 5543 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5543 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5543 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5475 
Some winter observations. 5366 
That Asian man…. 5335 
The Franz Schubert morning 5309 
Spring.... 5258 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5208 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5179 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5179 
Just good photography? 5179 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5179 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5179 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5178 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5178 
Sports car 5178 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5178 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5178 
Train Positioning 5178 
Kind of what I want 5178 
The lap listening… 5178 
Family Room 5178 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5175 
A super audio room. 5171 
Time Warp! 5171 
A piano in a listening room 5150 
Pianissimo 5150 
The plan in blue. 5150 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5150 
My doubts 5150 
It is exactly what I worry. 5149 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5149 
Musicians at home 5149 
Piano Measurements 5148 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5143 
The next step. 5129 
Midbass horns missing?? 5128 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5118 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5118 
Baby Grand 5117 
Wood floor 5117 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5117 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5117 
Amy’s baby. 5115 
Improvement 5115 
Agree with Scott 5115 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5103 
Integrated casters 5103 
Very nice, thanks. 5103 
Customization 5103 
Sliders 5103 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5096 
Congratulations 5096 
Holes in the floor... 5096 
Tubes and kids 5096 
Sweet spot enlargement 5096 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5094 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5093 
Wood Floors and Water 5093 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5088 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5087 
WAF is for Losers 5087 
WAF: it depends. 5087 
Integration 5086 
Here and there. 5086 
Life after WWIII 5086 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5086 
Cables management. 5084 
Featurizing 5084 
Kids and tubes cont. 5081 
Kid magnet 5081 
Kids and audio 5080 
Radars 5080 
Wow, what the days! 5076 
The comming weekend 5072 
It all was worth it! 5069 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5064 
Here is how it is look. 5064 
Resolving the carpet issue 5064 
Bonfire 5064 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5064 
Proof of concept? 5064 
Geometry 5064 
A view from listening position. 5064 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5064 
Some feedback 5064 
Evening 5064 
I wonder why. 5063 
Rugs and things 5063 
In defense… 5063 
I can’t get it. 5060 
Haze. 5059 
Front wall 5059 
It is very possible. 5059 
It is nice to be back. 5056 
My comfy corner. 5053 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4693 
WMD in house. 4515 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4418 
The third listening spot. 4397 
For sure a very different experience. 4359 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4354 
It's Jfretch's system. 4354 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4353 
Domestic games 4307 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4168 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4168 
Dynamic screening 4168 
Actually this is very good idea! 4168 
Volcanic fabric 4168 
I should have done this. 4166 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4162 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4131 
No worries 4131 
Awesome memories 4131 
Optimization of space 4131 
Child-ish considerations 4128 
Finding peace.... 4122 
"Fencing"? 4121 
I need to build something custom 4121 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4121 
Stressed Skin 4121 
NYC elevators 4121 
Kids toys and quantities. 4121 
Everything is completely reversible 4120 
Racks and things 4120 
Now it looks even more promising! 4120 
Quantity of rods 4120 
Avoiding diagonals 4118 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4117 
That's not fair! 4117 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4117 
Discrimination? 4112 
Vertical configuration 4105 
Impresive ! 4034 
Did you read the site? 4034 
Contact 4034 
Company's name is Rixrax 4034 
Stand 4033 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3989 
End of life headphone system 3989 
Something like this? 3989 
The "Second Living Room" 3989 
Mixing urban & suburban 3989 
Late night listening 3989 
Moving life... 3987 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3987 
A true listening room. 3963 
It started… 3948 
Levels of Interest 3948 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3948 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3948 
I can't not to post it.... 3948 
Do not leave him unattended. 3948 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3948 
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