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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5992 
The first take on the new room. 5986 
New Room, a first shot. 5985 
Wonderful 5985 
Adopted 5984 
The first relaxed night with the room 5982 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5981 
The listening room is ready. 5980 
New Room, a First Shot 5978 
Continue to work with the room 5978 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5978 
Room 5977 
I think it will take another month. 5977 
The Buttressing 5977 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5976 
The new place and the new noises. 5976 
Big listening room 5975 
Screw the "big" rooms 5975 
Big listening rooms 5975 
First reflection points 5974 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5974 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5971 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5970 
Squeezing the floor 5970 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5970 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5970 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5969 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5969 
The new room, the very first listening. 5969 
The 14.5 foot. 5968 
Again… 5967 
Romy's new Playground 5967 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5967 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5967 
For the uninitiated ... 5966 
NH guy 5966 
Room 5966 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5965 
The first base is done 5965 
Reentry time alignment. 5964 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5963 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5963 
Mid bass horn. 5963 
Guess is only a guess… 5963 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5963 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5962 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5962 
Diffusors 5962 
Diffuse injection 5962 
Let analyse why it so 5962 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5962 
Wheel and Deal 5962 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5962 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5962 
I Must Be Missing Something 5962 
I put sliders under my speakers 5961 
ROOM 5960 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5960 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5960 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5960 
No concerns 5960 
Speakers and room 5960 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5959 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5959 
Diaphram 5959 
Phram 5959 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5959 
Perfect piston 5959 
Decorater 5958 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5958 
New morning 5957 
The first take on the room with RTA 5956 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5956 
Axiomatic 5956 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5955 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5955 
The size of the bass. 5955 
Bass Factory 5955 
Crude Level, or something more? 5955 
I will play with it this week…. 5955 
Rent-A 5955 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5955 
Corner horns 5955 
Cheating from below 5955 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5955 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5954 
A possibly overly simplified view 5954 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5954 
Iceberg 5954 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5954 
Why not horn 5954 
A correction…. 5954 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5954 
They are just not related things at all. 5954 
Fertin 5952 
Low resonance is good... 5952 
Et tu, Brute? 5951 
The Room response at LF 5950 
Life On The Ground Floor 5950 
Bass arrays 5950 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5950 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5950 
The super sucks. 5950 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5950 
You may also try 5949 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5949 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5949 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5949 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5949 
60 Hz Resonance 5949 
No notching… so far. 5949 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5948 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5948 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5948 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5948 
Power to the People 5948 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5948 
Aura 5948 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5948 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5948 
All class D is the same 5948 
Interpreting the LF results. 5947 
The Halibut 5947 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5947 
The Big Picture 5947 
Power & ULF channels 5947 
The big picture indeed. 5947 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5947 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5947 
The Power and the Glory 5946 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5946 
I guess I did not get this memo 5946 
French LF drivers 5946 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5946 
(another) French LF approach 5945 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5945 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5945 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5945 
Limpschtick 5945 
Symmetry 5945 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5944 
Room correction 5944 
It migh be more complicated. 5944 
Bass EQ ? 5944 
Agree and not. 5944 
Two "diseases" 5944 
Parametric filters 5944 
Ceiling arrays 5944 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5944 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5944 
The Middle of the Room. 5944 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5944 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5944 
Stop! 5944 
Appendectomy 5944 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5943 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5943 
No Isolation 5943 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5940 
Potential contenders? 5939 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5939 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5939 
Those Crazy Canucks 5935 
Mo' Better Bass 5929 
Bird in the Hand? 5929 
A wet listening spot? 5922 
Storm 5919 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5919 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5905 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5875 
Polar Opposite ULF 5874 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5862 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5860 
Differently but the same. 5859 
PVC 5858 
The sail test try. 5858 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5858 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5858 
Trial 5857 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5857 
Some explanations 5857 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5856 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5855 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5854 
Acrylate 5853 
Magic blanket 5853 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5852 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5852 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5852 
I have a few options. 5852 
Foam color 5852 
Strange things with upperbass 5852 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5851 
Teatro reform. . . 5851 
The foaming room dilemma. 5850 
Melamine Foam 5850 
Foaming up the cat house 5850 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5850 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5850 
Acoustic revisions… 5849 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5846 
Surprises so far in the new room 5845 
The upperbass in the new room. 5845 
Slight change of hart. 5844 
Camco supply of Boston 5842 
Room acoustics 5842 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5801 
I need to kill dust first. 5801 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5799 
To feed the leeches? 5799 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5798 
Yh 5798 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5798 
DPOLs? 5798 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5798 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5795 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5795 
A HalfPipe solution? 5795 
I absolutely love it. 5795 
Piper work 5794 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5794 
Absorption 5794 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5793 
Cats life ? 5793 
Call me Pussy. 5793 
More about traps 5793 
Acoustic impedance? 5793 
You maybe right 5793 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5793 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5792 
Heavy Curtain 5792 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5791 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5791 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5791 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5788 
Fix speaker move chair? 5787 
Back and forth ceremony 5787 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5786 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5785 
Glass windows 5784 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5783 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5782 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5780 
How to use basement jacks? 5780 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5780 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5780 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5779 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5779 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5778 
Sore eyes... 5777 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5777 
The harvesting week! 5775 
I need an inspiration… 5774 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5773 
Like this? 5773 
Dramatically randomize MF 5773 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5772 
The room eats dynamic 5772 
Diffusers 5772 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5771 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5756 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5755 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5755 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5755 
About Width-Importance balance. 5753 
Letting the music scale up 5752 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5752 
To finish my house décor… 5748 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5747 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5746 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5746 
Calling the gods of music 5746 
Absolutely 5746 
Phase manipulation 5746 
No relation. 5746 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5746 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5746 
Dynamical mismatch 5745 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5745 
Stradiwinerius? 5742 
Dealing with the glass. 5741 
Boston 5741 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5741 
Added mass 5741 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5741 
It is about moderation…. 5741 
To hell with the wine... 5741 
Also for other surafaces 5740 
LEAD 5740 
LEAD & GLASS 5740 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5740 
Read carefully 5740 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5740 
Crooks and morons 5740 
Magiscopios 5739 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5719 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5719 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5718 
The LP setup in the new home. 5667 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5662 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5662 
Pianochord will do! 5662 
Spanyi heaven 5662 
I see no conflict at all. 5662 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5662 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5662 
A year after closing 5654 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5654 
Traveling antimatter 5647 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5641 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5640 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5614 
Cast Iron fireplace 5613 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5613 
The hardcore way 5613 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5577 
This is How It's Done 5576 
Listening room during summer. 5564 
What about those... 5563 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5563 
Reducing A/C Noise 5563 
HVAC the Cat 5563 
Big Ass fan 5562 
Variac dimmers 5562 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5562 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5562 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5494 
Some winter observations. 5385 
That Asian man…. 5354 
The Franz Schubert morning 5328 
Spring.... 5277 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5227 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5198 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5198 
Just good photography? 5198 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5198 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5198 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5197 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5197 
Sports car 5197 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5197 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5197 
Train Positioning 5197 
Kind of what I want 5197 
The lap listening… 5197 
Family Room 5197 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5194 
A super audio room. 5190 
Time Warp! 5190 
A piano in a listening room 5169 
Pianissimo 5169 
The plan in blue. 5169 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5169 
My doubts 5169 
It is exactly what I worry. 5168 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5168 
Musicians at home 5168 
Piano Measurements 5167 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5162 
The next step. 5148 
Midbass horns missing?? 5147 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5137 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5137 
Baby Grand 5136 
Wood floor 5136 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5136 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5136 
Amy’s baby. 5134 
Improvement 5134 
Agree with Scott 5134 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5122 
Integrated casters 5122 
Very nice, thanks. 5122 
Customization 5122 
Sliders 5122 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5115 
Congratulations 5115 
Holes in the floor... 5115 
Tubes and kids 5115 
Sweet spot enlargement 5115 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5113 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5112 
Wood Floors and Water 5112 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5107 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5106 
WAF is for Losers 5106 
WAF: it depends. 5106 
Integration 5105 
Here and there. 5105 
Life after WWIII 5105 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5105 
Cables management. 5103 
Featurizing 5103 
Kids and tubes cont. 5100 
Kid magnet 5100 
Kids and audio 5099 
Radars 5099 
Wow, what the days! 5095 
The comming weekend 5091 
It all was worth it! 5088 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5083 
Here is how it is look. 5083 
Resolving the carpet issue 5083 
Bonfire 5083 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5083 
Proof of concept? 5083 
Geometry 5083 
A view from listening position. 5083 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5083 
Some feedback 5083 
Evening 5083 
I wonder why. 5082 
Rugs and things 5082 
In defense… 5082 
I can’t get it. 5079 
Haze. 5078 
Front wall 5078 
It is very possible. 5078 
It is nice to be back. 5075 
My comfy corner. 5072 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4712 
WMD in house. 4534 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4437 
The third listening spot. 4416 
For sure a very different experience. 4378 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4373 
It's Jfretch's system. 4373 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4372 
Domestic games 4326 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4187 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4187 
Dynamic screening 4187 
Actually this is very good idea! 4187 
Volcanic fabric 4187 
I should have done this. 4185 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4181 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4150 
No worries 4150 
Awesome memories 4150 
Optimization of space 4150 
Child-ish considerations 4147 
Finding peace.... 4141 
"Fencing"? 4140 
I need to build something custom 4140 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4140 
Stressed Skin 4140 
NYC elevators 4140 
Kids toys and quantities. 4140 
Everything is completely reversible 4139 
Racks and things 4139 
Now it looks even more promising! 4139 
Quantity of rods 4139 
Avoiding diagonals 4137 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4136 
That's not fair! 4136 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4136 
Discrimination? 4131 
Vertical configuration 4124 
Impresive ! 4053 
Did you read the site? 4053 
Contact 4053 
Company's name is Rixrax 4053 
Stand 4052 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4008 
End of life headphone system 4008 
Something like this? 4008 
The "Second Living Room" 4008 
Mixing urban & suburban 4008 
Late night listening 4008 
Moving life... 4006 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4006 
A true listening room. 3982 
It started… 3967 
Levels of Interest 3967 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3967 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3967 
I can't not to post it.... 3967 
Do not leave him unattended. 3967 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3967 
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