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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5926 
The first take on the new room. 5920 
New Room, a first shot. 5919 
Wonderful 5919 
Adopted 5918 
The first relaxed night with the room 5916 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5915 
The listening room is ready. 5914 
New Room, a First Shot 5912 
Continue to work with the room 5912 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5912 
Room 5911 
I think it will take another month. 5911 
The Buttressing 5911 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5910 
The new place and the new noises. 5910 
Big listening room 5909 
Screw the "big" rooms 5909 
Big listening rooms 5909 
First reflection points 5908 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5908 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5905 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5904 
Squeezing the floor 5904 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5904 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5904 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5903 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5903 
The new room, the very first listening. 5903 
The 14.5 foot. 5902 
Again… 5901 
Romy's new Playground 5901 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5901 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5901 
For the uninitiated ... 5900 
NH guy 5900 
Room 5900 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5899 
The first base is done 5899 
Reentry time alignment. 5898 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5897 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5897 
Mid bass horn. 5897 
Guess is only a guess… 5897 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5897 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5896 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5896 
Diffusors 5896 
Diffuse injection 5896 
Let analyse why it so 5896 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5896 
Wheel and Deal 5896 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5896 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5896 
I Must Be Missing Something 5896 
I put sliders under my speakers 5895 
ROOM 5894 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5894 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5894 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5894 
No concerns 5894 
Speakers and room 5894 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5893 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5893 
Diaphram 5893 
Phram 5893 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5893 
Perfect piston 5893 
Decorater 5892 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5892 
New morning 5891 
The first take on the room with RTA 5890 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5890 
Axiomatic 5890 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5889 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5889 
The size of the bass. 5889 
Bass Factory 5889 
Crude Level, or something more? 5889 
I will play with it this week…. 5889 
Rent-A 5889 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5889 
Corner horns 5889 
Cheating from below 5889 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5889 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5888 
A possibly overly simplified view 5888 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5888 
Iceberg 5888 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5888 
Why not horn 5888 
A correction…. 5888 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5888 
They are just not related things at all. 5888 
Fertin 5886 
Low resonance is good... 5886 
Et tu, Brute? 5885 
The Room response at LF 5884 
Life On The Ground Floor 5884 
Bass arrays 5884 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5884 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5884 
The super sucks. 5884 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5884 
You may also try 5883 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5883 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5883 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5883 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5883 
60 Hz Resonance 5883 
No notching… so far. 5883 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5882 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5882 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5882 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5882 
Power to the People 5882 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5882 
Aura 5882 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5882 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5882 
All class D is the same 5882 
Interpreting the LF results. 5881 
The Halibut 5881 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5881 
The Big Picture 5881 
Power & ULF channels 5881 
The big picture indeed. 5881 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5881 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5881 
The Power and the Glory 5880 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5880 
I guess I did not get this memo 5880 
French LF drivers 5880 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5880 
(another) French LF approach 5879 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5879 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5879 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5879 
Limpschtick 5879 
Symmetry 5879 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5878 
Room correction 5878 
It migh be more complicated. 5878 
Bass EQ ? 5878 
Agree and not. 5878 
Two "diseases" 5878 
Parametric filters 5878 
Ceiling arrays 5878 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5878 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5878 
The Middle of the Room. 5878 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5878 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5878 
Stop! 5878 
Appendectomy 5878 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5877 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5877 
No Isolation 5877 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5874 
Potential contenders? 5873 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5873 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5873 
Those Crazy Canucks 5869 
Mo' Better Bass 5863 
Bird in the Hand? 5863 
A wet listening spot? 5856 
Storm 5853 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5853 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5839 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5809 
Polar Opposite ULF 5808 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5796 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5794 
Differently but the same. 5793 
PVC 5792 
The sail test try. 5792 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5792 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5792 
Trial 5791 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5791 
Some explanations 5791 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5790 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5789 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5788 
Acrylate 5787 
Magic blanket 5787 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5786 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5786 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5786 
I have a few options. 5786 
Foam color 5786 
Strange things with upperbass 5786 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5785 
Teatro reform. . . 5785 
The foaming room dilemma. 5784 
Melamine Foam 5784 
Foaming up the cat house 5784 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5784 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5784 
Acoustic revisions… 5783 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5780 
Surprises so far in the new room 5779 
The upperbass in the new room. 5779 
Slight change of hart. 5778 
Camco supply of Boston 5776 
Room acoustics 5776 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5735 
I need to kill dust first. 5735 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5733 
To feed the leeches? 5733 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5732 
Yh 5732 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5732 
DPOLs? 5732 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5732 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5729 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5729 
A HalfPipe solution? 5729 
I absolutely love it. 5729 
Piper work 5728 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5728 
Absorption 5728 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5727 
Cats life ? 5727 
Call me Pussy. 5727 
More about traps 5727 
Acoustic impedance? 5727 
You maybe right 5727 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5727 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5726 
Heavy Curtain 5726 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5725 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5725 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5725 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5722 
Fix speaker move chair? 5721 
Back and forth ceremony 5721 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5720 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5719 
Glass windows 5718 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5717 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5716 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5714 
How to use basement jacks? 5714 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5714 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5714 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5713 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5713 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5712 
Sore eyes... 5711 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5711 
The harvesting week! 5709 
I need an inspiration… 5708 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5707 
Like this? 5707 
Dramatically randomize MF 5707 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5706 
The room eats dynamic 5706 
Diffusers 5706 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5705 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5690 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5689 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5689 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5689 
About Width-Importance balance. 5687 
Letting the music scale up 5686 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5686 
To finish my house décor… 5682 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5681 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5680 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5680 
Calling the gods of music 5680 
Absolutely 5680 
Phase manipulation 5680 
No relation. 5680 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5680 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5680 
Dynamical mismatch 5679 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5679 
Stradiwinerius? 5676 
Dealing with the glass. 5675 
Boston 5675 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5675 
Added mass 5675 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5675 
It is about moderation…. 5675 
To hell with the wine... 5675 
Also for other surafaces 5674 
LEAD 5674 
LEAD & GLASS 5674 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5674 
Read carefully 5674 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5674 
Crooks and morons 5674 
Magiscopios 5673 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5653 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5653 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5652 
The LP setup in the new home. 5601 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5596 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5596 
Pianochord will do! 5596 
Spanyi heaven 5596 
I see no conflict at all. 5596 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5596 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5596 
A year after closing 5588 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5588 
Traveling antimatter 5581 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5575 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5574 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5548 
Cast Iron fireplace 5547 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5547 
The hardcore way 5547 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5511 
This is How It's Done 5510 
Listening room during summer. 5498 
What about those... 5497 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5497 
Reducing A/C Noise 5497 
HVAC the Cat 5497 
Big Ass fan 5496 
Variac dimmers 5496 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5496 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5496 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5428 
Some winter observations. 5319 
That Asian man…. 5288 
The Franz Schubert morning 5262 
Spring.... 5211 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5161 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5132 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5132 
Just good photography? 5132 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5132 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5132 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5131 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5131 
Sports car 5131 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5131 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5131 
Train Positioning 5131 
Kind of what I want 5131 
The lap listening… 5131 
Family Room 5131 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5128 
A super audio room. 5124 
Time Warp! 5124 
A piano in a listening room 5103 
Pianissimo 5103 
The plan in blue. 5103 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5103 
My doubts 5103 
It is exactly what I worry. 5102 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5102 
Musicians at home 5102 
Piano Measurements 5101 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5096 
The next step. 5082 
Midbass horns missing?? 5081 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5071 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5071 
Baby Grand 5070 
Wood floor 5070 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5070 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5070 
Amy’s baby. 5068 
Improvement 5068 
Agree with Scott 5068 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5056 
Integrated casters 5056 
Very nice, thanks. 5056 
Customization 5056 
Sliders 5056 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5049 
Congratulations 5049 
Holes in the floor... 5049 
Tubes and kids 5049 
Sweet spot enlargement 5049 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5047 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5046 
Wood Floors and Water 5046 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5041 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5040 
WAF is for Losers 5040 
WAF: it depends. 5040 
Integration 5039 
Here and there. 5039 
Life after WWIII 5039 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5039 
Cables management. 5037 
Featurizing 5037 
Kids and tubes cont. 5034 
Kid magnet 5034 
Kids and audio 5033 
Radars 5033 
Wow, what the days! 5029 
The comming weekend 5025 
It all was worth it! 5022 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5017 
Here is how it is look. 5017 
Resolving the carpet issue 5017 
Bonfire 5017 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5017 
Proof of concept? 5017 
Geometry 5017 
A view from listening position. 5017 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5017 
Some feedback 5017 
Evening 5017 
I wonder why. 5016 
Rugs and things 5016 
In defense… 5016 
I can’t get it. 5013 
Haze. 5012 
Front wall 5012 
It is very possible. 5012 
It is nice to be back. 5009 
My comfy corner. 5006 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4646 
WMD in house. 4468 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4371 
The third listening spot. 4350 
For sure a very different experience. 4312 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4307 
It's Jfretch's system. 4307 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4306 
Domestic games 4260 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4121 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4121 
Dynamic screening 4121 
Actually this is very good idea! 4121 
Volcanic fabric 4121 
I should have done this. 4119 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4115 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4084 
No worries 4084 
Awesome memories 4084 
Optimization of space 4084 
Child-ish considerations 4081 
Finding peace.... 4075 
"Fencing"? 4074 
I need to build something custom 4074 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4074 
Stressed Skin 4074 
NYC elevators 4074 
Kids toys and quantities. 4074 
Everything is completely reversible 4073 
Racks and things 4073 
Now it looks even more promising! 4073 
Quantity of rods 4073 
Avoiding diagonals 4071 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4070 
That's not fair! 4070 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4070 
Discrimination? 4065 
Vertical configuration 4058 
Impresive ! 3987 
Did you read the site? 3987 
Contact 3987 
Company's name is Rixrax 3987 
Stand 3986 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3942 
End of life headphone system 3942 
Something like this? 3942 
The "Second Living Room" 3942 
Mixing urban & suburban 3942 
Late night listening 3942 
Moving life... 3940 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3940 
A true listening room. 3916 
It started… 3901 
Levels of Interest 3901 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3901 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3901 
I can't not to post it.... 3901 
Do not leave him unattended. 3901 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3901 
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