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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5989 
The first take on the new room. 5983 
New Room, a first shot. 5982 
Wonderful 5982 
Adopted 5981 
The first relaxed night with the room 5979 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5978 
The listening room is ready. 5977 
New Room, a First Shot 5975 
Continue to work with the room 5975 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5975 
Room 5974 
I think it will take another month. 5974 
The Buttressing 5974 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5973 
The new place and the new noises. 5973 
Big listening room 5972 
Screw the "big" rooms 5972 
Big listening rooms 5972 
First reflection points 5971 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5971 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5968 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5967 
Squeezing the floor 5967 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5967 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5967 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5966 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5966 
The new room, the very first listening. 5966 
The 14.5 foot. 5965 
Again… 5964 
Romy's new Playground 5964 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5964 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5964 
For the uninitiated ... 5963 
NH guy 5963 
Room 5963 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5962 
The first base is done 5962 
Reentry time alignment. 5961 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5960 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5960 
Mid bass horn. 5960 
Guess is only a guess… 5960 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5960 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5959 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5959 
Diffusors 5959 
Diffuse injection 5959 
Let analyse why it so 5959 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5959 
Wheel and Deal 5959 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5959 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5959 
I Must Be Missing Something 5959 
I put sliders under my speakers 5958 
ROOM 5957 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5957 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5957 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5957 
No concerns 5957 
Speakers and room 5957 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5956 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5956 
Diaphram 5956 
Phram 5956 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5956 
Perfect piston 5956 
Decorater 5955 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5955 
New morning 5954 
The first take on the room with RTA 5953 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5953 
Axiomatic 5953 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5952 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5952 
The size of the bass. 5952 
Bass Factory 5952 
Crude Level, or something more? 5952 
I will play with it this week…. 5952 
Rent-A 5952 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5952 
Corner horns 5952 
Cheating from below 5952 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5952 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5951 
A possibly overly simplified view 5951 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5951 
Iceberg 5951 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5951 
Why not horn 5951 
A correction…. 5951 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5951 
They are just not related things at all. 5951 
Fertin 5949 
Low resonance is good... 5949 
Et tu, Brute? 5948 
The Room response at LF 5947 
Life On The Ground Floor 5947 
Bass arrays 5947 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5947 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5947 
The super sucks. 5947 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5947 
You may also try 5946 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5946 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5946 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5946 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5946 
60 Hz Resonance 5946 
No notching… so far. 5946 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5945 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5945 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5945 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5945 
Power to the People 5945 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5945 
Aura 5945 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5945 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5945 
All class D is the same 5945 
Interpreting the LF results. 5944 
The Halibut 5944 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5944 
The Big Picture 5944 
Power & ULF channels 5944 
The big picture indeed. 5944 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5944 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5944 
The Power and the Glory 5943 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5943 
I guess I did not get this memo 5943 
French LF drivers 5943 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5943 
(another) French LF approach 5942 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5942 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5942 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5942 
Limpschtick 5942 
Symmetry 5942 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5941 
Room correction 5941 
It migh be more complicated. 5941 
Bass EQ ? 5941 
Agree and not. 5941 
Two "diseases" 5941 
Parametric filters 5941 
Ceiling arrays 5941 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5941 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5941 
The Middle of the Room. 5941 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5941 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5941 
Stop! 5941 
Appendectomy 5941 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5940 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5940 
No Isolation 5940 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5937 
Potential contenders? 5936 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5936 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5936 
Those Crazy Canucks 5932 
Mo' Better Bass 5926 
Bird in the Hand? 5926 
A wet listening spot? 5919 
Storm 5916 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5916 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5902 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5872 
Polar Opposite ULF 5871 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5859 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5857 
Differently but the same. 5856 
PVC 5855 
The sail test try. 5855 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5855 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5855 
Trial 5854 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5854 
Some explanations 5854 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5853 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5852 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5851 
Acrylate 5850 
Magic blanket 5850 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5849 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5849 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5849 
I have a few options. 5849 
Foam color 5849 
Strange things with upperbass 5849 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5848 
Teatro reform. . . 5848 
The foaming room dilemma. 5847 
Melamine Foam 5847 
Foaming up the cat house 5847 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5847 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5847 
Acoustic revisions… 5846 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5843 
Surprises so far in the new room 5842 
The upperbass in the new room. 5842 
Slight change of hart. 5841 
Camco supply of Boston 5839 
Room acoustics 5839 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5798 
I need to kill dust first. 5798 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5796 
To feed the leeches? 5796 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5795 
Yh 5795 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5795 
DPOLs? 5795 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5795 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5792 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5792 
A HalfPipe solution? 5792 
I absolutely love it. 5792 
Piper work 5791 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5791 
Absorption 5791 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5790 
Cats life ? 5790 
Call me Pussy. 5790 
More about traps 5790 
Acoustic impedance? 5790 
You maybe right 5790 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5790 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5789 
Heavy Curtain 5789 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5788 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5788 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5788 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5785 
Fix speaker move chair? 5784 
Back and forth ceremony 5784 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5783 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5782 
Glass windows 5781 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5780 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5779 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5777 
How to use basement jacks? 5777 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5777 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5777 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5776 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5776 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5775 
Sore eyes... 5774 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5774 
The harvesting week! 5772 
I need an inspiration… 5771 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5770 
Like this? 5770 
Dramatically randomize MF 5770 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5769 
The room eats dynamic 5769 
Diffusers 5769 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5768 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5753 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5752 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5752 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5752 
About Width-Importance balance. 5750 
Letting the music scale up 5749 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5749 
To finish my house décor… 5745 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5744 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5743 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5743 
Calling the gods of music 5743 
Absolutely 5743 
Phase manipulation 5743 
No relation. 5743 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5743 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5743 
Dynamical mismatch 5742 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5742 
Stradiwinerius? 5739 
Dealing with the glass. 5738 
Boston 5738 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5738 
Added mass 5738 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5738 
It is about moderation…. 5738 
To hell with the wine... 5738 
Also for other surafaces 5737 
LEAD 5737 
LEAD & GLASS 5737 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5737 
Read carefully 5737 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5737 
Crooks and morons 5737 
Magiscopios 5736 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5716 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5716 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5715 
The LP setup in the new home. 5664 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5659 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5659 
Pianochord will do! 5659 
Spanyi heaven 5659 
I see no conflict at all. 5659 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5659 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5659 
A year after closing 5651 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5651 
Traveling antimatter 5644 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5638 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5637 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5611 
Cast Iron fireplace 5610 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5610 
The hardcore way 5610 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5574 
This is How It's Done 5573 
Listening room during summer. 5561 
What about those... 5560 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5560 
Reducing A/C Noise 5560 
HVAC the Cat 5560 
Big Ass fan 5559 
Variac dimmers 5559 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5559 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5559 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5491 
Some winter observations. 5382 
That Asian man…. 5351 
The Franz Schubert morning 5325 
Spring.... 5274 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5224 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5195 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5195 
Just good photography? 5195 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5195 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5195 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5194 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5194 
Sports car 5194 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5194 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5194 
Train Positioning 5194 
Kind of what I want 5194 
The lap listening… 5194 
Family Room 5194 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5191 
A super audio room. 5187 
Time Warp! 5187 
A piano in a listening room 5166 
Pianissimo 5166 
The plan in blue. 5166 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5166 
My doubts 5166 
It is exactly what I worry. 5165 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5165 
Musicians at home 5165 
Piano Measurements 5164 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5159 
The next step. 5145 
Midbass horns missing?? 5144 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5134 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5134 
Baby Grand 5133 
Wood floor 5133 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5133 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5133 
Amy’s baby. 5131 
Improvement 5131 
Agree with Scott 5131 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5119 
Integrated casters 5119 
Very nice, thanks. 5119 
Customization 5119 
Sliders 5119 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5112 
Congratulations 5112 
Holes in the floor... 5112 
Tubes and kids 5112 
Sweet spot enlargement 5112 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5110 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5109 
Wood Floors and Water 5109 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5104 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5103 
WAF is for Losers 5103 
WAF: it depends. 5103 
Integration 5102 
Here and there. 5102 
Life after WWIII 5102 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5102 
Cables management. 5100 
Featurizing 5100 
Kids and tubes cont. 5097 
Kid magnet 5097 
Kids and audio 5096 
Radars 5096 
Wow, what the days! 5092 
The comming weekend 5088 
It all was worth it! 5085 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5080 
Here is how it is look. 5080 
Resolving the carpet issue 5080 
Bonfire 5080 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5080 
Proof of concept? 5080 
Geometry 5080 
A view from listening position. 5080 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5080 
Some feedback 5080 
Evening 5080 
I wonder why. 5079 
Rugs and things 5079 
In defense… 5079 
I can’t get it. 5076 
Haze. 5075 
Front wall 5075 
It is very possible. 5075 
It is nice to be back. 5072 
My comfy corner. 5069 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4709 
WMD in house. 4531 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4434 
The third listening spot. 4413 
For sure a very different experience. 4375 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4370 
It's Jfretch's system. 4370 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4369 
Domestic games 4323 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4184 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4184 
Dynamic screening 4184 
Actually this is very good idea! 4184 
Volcanic fabric 4184 
I should have done this. 4182 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4178 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4147 
No worries 4147 
Awesome memories 4147 
Optimization of space 4147 
Child-ish considerations 4144 
Finding peace.... 4138 
"Fencing"? 4137 
I need to build something custom 4137 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4137 
Stressed Skin 4137 
NYC elevators 4137 
Kids toys and quantities. 4137 
Everything is completely reversible 4136 
Racks and things 4136 
Now it looks even more promising! 4136 
Quantity of rods 4136 
Avoiding diagonals 4134 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4133 
That's not fair! 4133 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4133 
Discrimination? 4128 
Vertical configuration 4121 
Impresive ! 4050 
Did you read the site? 4050 
Contact 4050 
Company's name is Rixrax 4050 
Stand 4049 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4005 
End of life headphone system 4005 
Something like this? 4005 
The "Second Living Room" 4005 
Mixing urban & suburban 4005 
Late night listening 4005 
Moving life... 4003 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4003 
A true listening room. 3979 
It started… 3964 
Levels of Interest 3964 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3964 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3964 
I can't not to post it.... 3964 
Do not leave him unattended. 3964 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3964 
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