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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5990 
The first take on the new room. 5984 
New Room, a first shot. 5983 
Wonderful 5983 
Adopted 5982 
The first relaxed night with the room 5980 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5979 
The listening room is ready. 5978 
New Room, a First Shot 5976 
Continue to work with the room 5976 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5976 
Room 5975 
I think it will take another month. 5975 
The Buttressing 5975 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5974 
The new place and the new noises. 5974 
Big listening room 5973 
Screw the "big" rooms 5973 
Big listening rooms 5973 
First reflection points 5972 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5972 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5969 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5968 
Squeezing the floor 5968 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5968 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5968 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5967 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5967 
The new room, the very first listening. 5967 
The 14.5 foot. 5966 
Again… 5965 
Romy's new Playground 5965 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5965 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5965 
For the uninitiated ... 5964 
NH guy 5964 
Room 5964 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5963 
The first base is done 5963 
Reentry time alignment. 5962 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5961 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5961 
Mid bass horn. 5961 
Guess is only a guess… 5961 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5961 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5960 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5960 
Diffusors 5960 
Diffuse injection 5960 
Let analyse why it so 5960 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5960 
Wheel and Deal 5960 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5960 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5960 
I Must Be Missing Something 5960 
I put sliders under my speakers 5959 
ROOM 5958 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5958 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5958 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5958 
No concerns 5958 
Speakers and room 5958 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5957 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5957 
Diaphram 5957 
Phram 5957 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5957 
Perfect piston 5957 
Decorater 5956 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5956 
New morning 5955 
The first take on the room with RTA 5954 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5954 
Axiomatic 5954 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5953 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5953 
The size of the bass. 5953 
Bass Factory 5953 
Crude Level, or something more? 5953 
I will play with it this week…. 5953 
Rent-A 5953 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5953 
Corner horns 5953 
Cheating from below 5953 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5953 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5952 
A possibly overly simplified view 5952 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5952 
Iceberg 5952 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5952 
Why not horn 5952 
A correction…. 5952 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5952 
They are just not related things at all. 5952 
Fertin 5950 
Low resonance is good... 5950 
Et tu, Brute? 5949 
The Room response at LF 5948 
Life On The Ground Floor 5948 
Bass arrays 5948 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5948 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5948 
The super sucks. 5948 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5948 
You may also try 5947 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5947 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5947 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5947 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5947 
60 Hz Resonance 5947 
No notching… so far. 5947 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5946 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5946 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5946 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5946 
Power to the People 5946 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5946 
Aura 5946 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5946 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5946 
All class D is the same 5946 
Interpreting the LF results. 5945 
The Halibut 5945 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5945 
The Big Picture 5945 
Power & ULF channels 5945 
The big picture indeed. 5945 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5945 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5945 
The Power and the Glory 5944 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5944 
I guess I did not get this memo 5944 
French LF drivers 5944 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5944 
(another) French LF approach 5943 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5943 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5943 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5943 
Limpschtick 5943 
Symmetry 5943 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5942 
Room correction 5942 
It migh be more complicated. 5942 
Bass EQ ? 5942 
Agree and not. 5942 
Two "diseases" 5942 
Parametric filters 5942 
Ceiling arrays 5942 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5942 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5942 
The Middle of the Room. 5942 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5942 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5942 
Stop! 5942 
Appendectomy 5942 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5941 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5941 
No Isolation 5941 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5938 
Potential contenders? 5937 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5937 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5937 
Those Crazy Canucks 5933 
Mo' Better Bass 5927 
Bird in the Hand? 5927 
A wet listening spot? 5920 
Storm 5917 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5917 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5903 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5873 
Polar Opposite ULF 5872 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5860 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5858 
Differently but the same. 5857 
PVC 5856 
The sail test try. 5856 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5856 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5856 
Trial 5855 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5855 
Some explanations 5855 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5854 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5853 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5852 
Acrylate 5851 
Magic blanket 5851 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5850 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5850 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5850 
I have a few options. 5850 
Foam color 5850 
Strange things with upperbass 5850 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5849 
Teatro reform. . . 5849 
The foaming room dilemma. 5848 
Melamine Foam 5848 
Foaming up the cat house 5848 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5848 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5848 
Acoustic revisions… 5847 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5844 
Surprises so far in the new room 5843 
The upperbass in the new room. 5843 
Slight change of hart. 5842 
Camco supply of Boston 5840 
Room acoustics 5840 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5799 
I need to kill dust first. 5799 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5797 
To feed the leeches? 5797 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5796 
Yh 5796 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5796 
DPOLs? 5796 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5796 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5793 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5793 
A HalfPipe solution? 5793 
I absolutely love it. 5793 
Piper work 5792 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5792 
Absorption 5792 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5791 
Cats life ? 5791 
Call me Pussy. 5791 
More about traps 5791 
Acoustic impedance? 5791 
You maybe right 5791 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5791 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5790 
Heavy Curtain 5790 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5789 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5789 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5789 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5786 
Fix speaker move chair? 5785 
Back and forth ceremony 5785 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5784 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5783 
Glass windows 5782 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5781 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5780 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5778 
How to use basement jacks? 5778 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5778 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5778 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5777 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5777 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5776 
Sore eyes... 5775 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5775 
The harvesting week! 5773 
I need an inspiration… 5772 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5771 
Like this? 5771 
Dramatically randomize MF 5771 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5770 
The room eats dynamic 5770 
Diffusers 5770 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5769 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5754 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5753 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5753 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5753 
About Width-Importance balance. 5751 
Letting the music scale up 5750 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5750 
To finish my house décor… 5746 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5745 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5744 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5744 
Calling the gods of music 5744 
Absolutely 5744 
Phase manipulation 5744 
No relation. 5744 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5744 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5744 
Dynamical mismatch 5743 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5743 
Stradiwinerius? 5740 
Dealing with the glass. 5739 
Boston 5739 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5739 
Added mass 5739 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5739 
It is about moderation…. 5739 
To hell with the wine... 5739 
Also for other surafaces 5738 
LEAD 5738 
LEAD & GLASS 5738 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5738 
Read carefully 5738 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5738 
Crooks and morons 5738 
Magiscopios 5737 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5717 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5717 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5716 
The LP setup in the new home. 5665 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5660 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5660 
Pianochord will do! 5660 
Spanyi heaven 5660 
I see no conflict at all. 5660 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5660 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5660 
A year after closing 5652 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5652 
Traveling antimatter 5645 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5639 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5638 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5612 
Cast Iron fireplace 5611 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5611 
The hardcore way 5611 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5575 
This is How It's Done 5574 
Listening room during summer. 5562 
What about those... 5561 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5561 
Reducing A/C Noise 5561 
HVAC the Cat 5561 
Big Ass fan 5560 
Variac dimmers 5560 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5560 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5560 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5492 
Some winter observations. 5383 
That Asian man…. 5352 
The Franz Schubert morning 5326 
Spring.... 5275 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5225 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5196 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5196 
Just good photography? 5196 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5196 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5196 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5195 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5195 
Sports car 5195 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5195 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5195 
Train Positioning 5195 
Kind of what I want 5195 
The lap listening… 5195 
Family Room 5195 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5192 
A super audio room. 5188 
Time Warp! 5188 
A piano in a listening room 5167 
Pianissimo 5167 
The plan in blue. 5167 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5167 
My doubts 5167 
It is exactly what I worry. 5166 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5166 
Musicians at home 5166 
Piano Measurements 5165 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5160 
The next step. 5146 
Midbass horns missing?? 5145 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5135 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5135 
Baby Grand 5134 
Wood floor 5134 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5134 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5134 
Amy’s baby. 5132 
Improvement 5132 
Agree with Scott 5132 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5120 
Integrated casters 5120 
Very nice, thanks. 5120 
Customization 5120 
Sliders 5120 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5113 
Congratulations 5113 
Holes in the floor... 5113 
Tubes and kids 5113 
Sweet spot enlargement 5113 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5111 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5110 
Wood Floors and Water 5110 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5105 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5104 
WAF is for Losers 5104 
WAF: it depends. 5104 
Integration 5103 
Here and there. 5103 
Life after WWIII 5103 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5103 
Cables management. 5101 
Featurizing 5101 
Kids and tubes cont. 5098 
Kid magnet 5098 
Kids and audio 5097 
Radars 5097 
Wow, what the days! 5093 
The comming weekend 5089 
It all was worth it! 5086 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5081 
Here is how it is look. 5081 
Resolving the carpet issue 5081 
Bonfire 5081 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5081 
Proof of concept? 5081 
Geometry 5081 
A view from listening position. 5081 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5081 
Some feedback 5081 
Evening 5081 
I wonder why. 5080 
Rugs and things 5080 
In defense… 5080 
I can’t get it. 5077 
Haze. 5076 
Front wall 5076 
It is very possible. 5076 
It is nice to be back. 5073 
My comfy corner. 5070 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4710 
WMD in house. 4532 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4435 
The third listening spot. 4414 
For sure a very different experience. 4376 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4371 
It's Jfretch's system. 4371 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4370 
Domestic games 4324 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4185 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4185 
Dynamic screening 4185 
Actually this is very good idea! 4185 
Volcanic fabric 4185 
I should have done this. 4183 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4179 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4148 
No worries 4148 
Awesome memories 4148 
Optimization of space 4148 
Child-ish considerations 4145 
Finding peace.... 4139 
"Fencing"? 4138 
I need to build something custom 4138 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4138 
Stressed Skin 4138 
NYC elevators 4138 
Kids toys and quantities. 4138 
Everything is completely reversible 4137 
Racks and things 4137 
Now it looks even more promising! 4137 
Quantity of rods 4137 
Avoiding diagonals 4135 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4134 
That's not fair! 4134 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4134 
Discrimination? 4129 
Vertical configuration 4122 
Impresive ! 4051 
Did you read the site? 4051 
Contact 4051 
Company's name is Rixrax 4051 
Stand 4050 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4006 
End of life headphone system 4006 
Something like this? 4006 
The "Second Living Room" 4006 
Mixing urban & suburban 4006 
Late night listening 4006 
Moving life... 4004 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4004 
A true listening room. 3980 
It started… 3965 
Levels of Interest 3965 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3965 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3965 
I can't not to post it.... 3965 
Do not leave him unattended. 3965 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3965 
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