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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5915 
The first take on the new room. 5909 
New Room, a first shot. 5908 
Wonderful 5908 
Adopted 5907 
The first relaxed night with the room 5905 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5904 
The listening room is ready. 5903 
New Room, a First Shot 5901 
Continue to work with the room 5901 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5901 
Room 5900 
I think it will take another month. 5900 
The Buttressing 5900 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5899 
The new place and the new noises. 5899 
Big listening room 5898 
Screw the "big" rooms 5898 
Big listening rooms 5898 
First reflection points 5897 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5897 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5894 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5893 
Squeezing the floor 5893 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5893 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5893 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5892 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5892 
The new room, the very first listening. 5892 
The 14.5 foot. 5891 
Again… 5890 
Romy's new Playground 5890 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5890 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5890 
For the uninitiated ... 5889 
NH guy 5889 
Room 5889 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5888 
The first base is done 5888 
Reentry time alignment. 5887 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5886 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5886 
Mid bass horn. 5886 
Guess is only a guess… 5886 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5886 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5885 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5885 
Diffusors 5885 
Diffuse injection 5885 
Let analyse why it so 5885 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5885 
Wheel and Deal 5885 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5885 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5885 
I Must Be Missing Something 5885 
I put sliders under my speakers 5884 
ROOM 5883 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5883 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5883 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5883 
No concerns 5883 
Speakers and room 5883 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5882 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5882 
Diaphram 5882 
Phram 5882 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5882 
Perfect piston 5882 
Decorater 5881 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5881 
New morning 5880 
The first take on the room with RTA 5879 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5879 
Axiomatic 5879 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5878 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5878 
The size of the bass. 5878 
Bass Factory 5878 
Crude Level, or something more? 5878 
I will play with it this week…. 5878 
Rent-A 5878 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5878 
Corner horns 5878 
Cheating from below 5878 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5878 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5877 
A possibly overly simplified view 5877 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5877 
Iceberg 5877 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5877 
Why not horn 5877 
A correction…. 5877 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5877 
They are just not related things at all. 5877 
Fertin 5875 
Low resonance is good... 5875 
Et tu, Brute? 5874 
The Room response at LF 5873 
Life On The Ground Floor 5873 
Bass arrays 5873 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5873 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5873 
The super sucks. 5873 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5873 
You may also try 5872 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5872 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5872 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5872 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5872 
60 Hz Resonance 5872 
No notching… so far. 5872 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5871 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5871 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5871 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5871 
Power to the People 5871 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5871 
Aura 5871 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5871 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5871 
All class D is the same 5871 
Interpreting the LF results. 5870 
The Halibut 5870 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5870 
The Big Picture 5870 
Power & ULF channels 5870 
The big picture indeed. 5870 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5870 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5870 
The Power and the Glory 5869 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5869 
I guess I did not get this memo 5869 
French LF drivers 5869 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5869 
(another) French LF approach 5868 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5868 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5868 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5868 
Limpschtick 5868 
Symmetry 5868 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5867 
Room correction 5867 
It migh be more complicated. 5867 
Bass EQ ? 5867 
Agree and not. 5867 
Two "diseases" 5867 
Parametric filters 5867 
Ceiling arrays 5867 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5867 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5867 
The Middle of the Room. 5867 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5867 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5867 
Stop! 5867 
Appendectomy 5867 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5866 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5866 
No Isolation 5866 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5863 
Potential contenders? 5862 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5862 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5862 
Those Crazy Canucks 5858 
Mo' Better Bass 5852 
Bird in the Hand? 5852 
A wet listening spot? 5845 
Storm 5842 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5842 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5828 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5798 
Polar Opposite ULF 5797 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5785 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5783 
Differently but the same. 5782 
PVC 5781 
The sail test try. 5781 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5781 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5781 
Trial 5780 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5780 
Some explanations 5780 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5779 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5778 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5777 
Acrylate 5776 
Magic blanket 5776 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5775 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5775 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5775 
I have a few options. 5775 
Foam color 5775 
Strange things with upperbass 5775 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5774 
Teatro reform. . . 5774 
The foaming room dilemma. 5773 
Melamine Foam 5773 
Foaming up the cat house 5773 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5773 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5773 
Acoustic revisions… 5772 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5769 
Surprises so far in the new room 5768 
The upperbass in the new room. 5768 
Slight change of hart. 5767 
Camco supply of Boston 5765 
Room acoustics 5765 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5724 
I need to kill dust first. 5724 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5722 
To feed the leeches? 5722 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5721 
Yh 5721 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5721 
DPOLs? 5721 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5721 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5718 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5718 
A HalfPipe solution? 5718 
I absolutely love it. 5718 
Piper work 5717 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5717 
Absorption 5717 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5716 
Cats life ? 5716 
Call me Pussy. 5716 
More about traps 5716 
Acoustic impedance? 5716 
You maybe right 5716 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5716 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5715 
Heavy Curtain 5715 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5714 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5714 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5714 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5711 
Fix speaker move chair? 5710 
Back and forth ceremony 5710 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5709 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5708 
Glass windows 5707 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5706 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5705 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5703 
How to use basement jacks? 5703 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5703 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5703 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5702 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5702 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5701 
Sore eyes... 5700 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5700 
The harvesting week! 5698 
I need an inspiration… 5697 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5696 
Like this? 5696 
Dramatically randomize MF 5696 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5695 
The room eats dynamic 5695 
Diffusers 5695 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5694 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5679 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5678 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5678 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5678 
About Width-Importance balance. 5676 
Letting the music scale up 5675 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5675 
To finish my house décor… 5671 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5670 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5669 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5669 
Calling the gods of music 5669 
Absolutely 5669 
Phase manipulation 5669 
No relation. 5669 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5669 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5669 
Dynamical mismatch 5668 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5668 
Stradiwinerius? 5665 
Dealing with the glass. 5664 
Boston 5664 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5664 
Added mass 5664 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5664 
It is about moderation…. 5664 
To hell with the wine... 5664 
Also for other surafaces 5663 
LEAD 5663 
LEAD & GLASS 5663 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5663 
Read carefully 5663 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5663 
Crooks and morons 5663 
Magiscopios 5662 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5642 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5642 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5641 
The LP setup in the new home. 5590 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5585 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5585 
Pianochord will do! 5585 
Spanyi heaven 5585 
I see no conflict at all. 5585 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5585 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5585 
A year after closing 5577 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5577 
Traveling antimatter 5570 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5564 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5563 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5537 
Cast Iron fireplace 5536 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5536 
The hardcore way 5536 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5500 
This is How It's Done 5499 
Listening room during summer. 5487 
What about those... 5486 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5486 
Reducing A/C Noise 5486 
HVAC the Cat 5486 
Big Ass fan 5485 
Variac dimmers 5485 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5485 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5485 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5417 
Some winter observations. 5308 
That Asian man…. 5277 
The Franz Schubert morning 5251 
Spring.... 5200 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5150 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5121 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5121 
Just good photography? 5121 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5121 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5121 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5120 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5120 
Sports car 5120 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5120 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5120 
Train Positioning 5120 
Kind of what I want 5120 
The lap listening… 5120 
Family Room 5120 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5117 
A super audio room. 5113 
Time Warp! 5113 
A piano in a listening room 5092 
Pianissimo 5092 
The plan in blue. 5092 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5092 
My doubts 5092 
It is exactly what I worry. 5091 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5091 
Musicians at home 5091 
Piano Measurements 5090 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5085 
The next step. 5071 
Midbass horns missing?? 5070 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5060 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5060 
Baby Grand 5059 
Wood floor 5059 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5059 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5059 
Amy’s baby. 5057 
Improvement 5057 
Agree with Scott 5057 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5045 
Integrated casters 5045 
Very nice, thanks. 5045 
Customization 5045 
Sliders 5045 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5038 
Congratulations 5038 
Holes in the floor... 5038 
Tubes and kids 5038 
Sweet spot enlargement 5038 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5036 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5035 
Wood Floors and Water 5035 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5030 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5029 
WAF is for Losers 5029 
WAF: it depends. 5029 
Integration 5028 
Here and there. 5028 
Life after WWIII 5028 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5028 
Cables management. 5026 
Featurizing 5026 
Kids and tubes cont. 5023 
Kid magnet 5023 
Kids and audio 5022 
Radars 5022 
Wow, what the days! 5018 
The comming weekend 5014 
It all was worth it! 5011 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5006 
Here is how it is look. 5006 
Resolving the carpet issue 5006 
Bonfire 5006 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5006 
Proof of concept? 5006 
Geometry 5006 
A view from listening position. 5006 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5006 
Some feedback 5006 
Evening 5006 
I wonder why. 5005 
Rugs and things 5005 
In defense… 5005 
I can’t get it. 5002 
Haze. 5001 
Front wall 5001 
It is very possible. 5001 
It is nice to be back. 4998 
My comfy corner. 4995 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4635 
WMD in house. 4457 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4360 
The third listening spot. 4339 
For sure a very different experience. 4301 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4296 
It's Jfretch's system. 4296 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4295 
Domestic games 4249 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4110 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4110 
Dynamic screening 4110 
Actually this is very good idea! 4110 
Volcanic fabric 4110 
I should have done this. 4108 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4104 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4073 
No worries 4073 
Awesome memories 4073 
Optimization of space 4073 
Child-ish considerations 4070 
Finding peace.... 4064 
"Fencing"? 4063 
I need to build something custom 4063 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4063 
Stressed Skin 4063 
NYC elevators 4063 
Kids toys and quantities. 4063 
Everything is completely reversible 4062 
Racks and things 4062 
Now it looks even more promising! 4062 
Quantity of rods 4062 
Avoiding diagonals 4060 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4059 
That's not fair! 4059 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4059 
Discrimination? 4054 
Vertical configuration 4047 
Impresive ! 3976 
Did you read the site? 3976 
Contact 3976 
Company's name is Rixrax 3976 
Stand 3975 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3931 
End of life headphone system 3931 
Something like this? 3931 
The "Second Living Room" 3931 
Mixing urban & suburban 3931 
Late night listening 3931 
Moving life... 3929 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3929 
A true listening room. 3905 
It started… 3890 
Levels of Interest 3890 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3890 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3890 
I can't not to post it.... 3890 
Do not leave him unattended. 3890 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3890 
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