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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6026 
The first take on the new room. 6020 
New Room, a first shot. 6019 
Wonderful 6019 
Adopted 6018 
The first relaxed night with the room 6016 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6015 
The listening room is ready. 6014 
New Room, a First Shot 6012 
Continue to work with the room 6012 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6012 
Room 6011 
I think it will take another month. 6011 
The Buttressing 6011 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6010 
The new place and the new noises. 6010 
Big listening room 6009 
Screw the "big" rooms 6009 
Big listening rooms 6009 
First reflection points 6008 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6008 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6005 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6004 
Squeezing the floor 6004 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6004 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6004 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6003 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6003 
The new room, the very first listening. 6003 
The 14.5 foot. 6002 
Again… 6001 
Romy's new Playground 6001 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6001 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6001 
For the uninitiated ... 6000 
NH guy 6000 
Room 6000 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5999 
The first base is done 5999 
Reentry time alignment. 5998 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5997 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5997 
Mid bass horn. 5997 
Guess is only a guess… 5997 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5997 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5996 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5996 
Diffusors 5996 
Diffuse injection 5996 
Let analyse why it so 5996 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5996 
Wheel and Deal 5996 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5996 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5996 
I Must Be Missing Something 5996 
I put sliders under my speakers 5995 
ROOM 5994 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5994 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5994 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5994 
No concerns 5994 
Speakers and room 5994 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5993 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5993 
Diaphram 5993 
Phram 5993 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5993 
Perfect piston 5993 
Decorater 5992 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5992 
New morning 5991 
The first take on the room with RTA 5990 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5990 
Axiomatic 5990 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5989 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5989 
The size of the bass. 5989 
Bass Factory 5989 
Crude Level, or something more? 5989 
I will play with it this week…. 5989 
Rent-A 5989 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5989 
Corner horns 5989 
Cheating from below 5989 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5989 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5988 
A possibly overly simplified view 5988 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5988 
Iceberg 5988 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5988 
Why not horn 5988 
A correction…. 5988 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5988 
They are just not related things at all. 5988 
Fertin 5986 
Low resonance is good... 5986 
Et tu, Brute? 5985 
The Room response at LF 5984 
Life On The Ground Floor 5984 
Bass arrays 5984 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5984 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5984 
The super sucks. 5984 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5984 
You may also try 5983 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5983 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5983 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5983 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5983 
60 Hz Resonance 5983 
No notching… so far. 5983 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5982 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5982 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5982 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5982 
Power to the People 5982 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5982 
Aura 5982 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5982 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5982 
All class D is the same 5982 
Interpreting the LF results. 5981 
The Halibut 5981 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5981 
The Big Picture 5981 
Power & ULF channels 5981 
The big picture indeed. 5981 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5981 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5981 
The Power and the Glory 5980 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5980 
I guess I did not get this memo 5980 
French LF drivers 5980 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5980 
(another) French LF approach 5979 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5979 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5979 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5979 
Limpschtick 5979 
Symmetry 5979 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5978 
Room correction 5978 
It migh be more complicated. 5978 
Bass EQ ? 5978 
Agree and not. 5978 
Two "diseases" 5978 
Parametric filters 5978 
Ceiling arrays 5978 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5978 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5978 
The Middle of the Room. 5978 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5978 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5978 
Stop! 5978 
Appendectomy 5978 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5977 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5977 
No Isolation 5977 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5974 
Potential contenders? 5973 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5973 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5973 
Those Crazy Canucks 5969 
Mo' Better Bass 5963 
Bird in the Hand? 5963 
A wet listening spot? 5956 
Storm 5953 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5953 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5939 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5909 
Polar Opposite ULF 5908 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5896 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5894 
Differently but the same. 5893 
PVC 5892 
The sail test try. 5892 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5892 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5892 
Trial 5891 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5891 
Some explanations 5891 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5890 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5889 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5888 
Acrylate 5887 
Magic blanket 5887 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5886 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5886 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5886 
I have a few options. 5886 
Foam color 5886 
Strange things with upperbass 5886 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5885 
Teatro reform. . . 5885 
The foaming room dilemma. 5884 
Melamine Foam 5884 
Foaming up the cat house 5884 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5884 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5884 
Acoustic revisions… 5883 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5880 
Surprises so far in the new room 5879 
The upperbass in the new room. 5879 
Slight change of hart. 5878 
Camco supply of Boston 5876 
Room acoustics 5876 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5835 
I need to kill dust first. 5835 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5833 
To feed the leeches? 5833 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5832 
Yh 5832 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5832 
DPOLs? 5832 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5832 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5829 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5829 
A HalfPipe solution? 5829 
I absolutely love it. 5829 
Piper work 5828 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5828 
Absorption 5828 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5827 
Cats life ? 5827 
Call me Pussy. 5827 
More about traps 5827 
Acoustic impedance? 5827 
You maybe right 5827 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5827 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5826 
Heavy Curtain 5826 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5825 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5825 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5825 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5822 
Fix speaker move chair? 5821 
Back and forth ceremony 5821 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5820 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5819 
Glass windows 5818 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5817 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5816 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5814 
How to use basement jacks? 5814 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5814 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5814 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5813 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5813 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5812 
Sore eyes... 5811 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5811 
The harvesting week! 5809 
I need an inspiration… 5808 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5807 
Like this? 5807 
Dramatically randomize MF 5807 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5806 
The room eats dynamic 5806 
Diffusers 5806 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5805 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5790 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5789 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5789 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5789 
About Width-Importance balance. 5787 
Letting the music scale up 5786 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5786 
To finish my house décor… 5782 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5781 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5780 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5780 
Calling the gods of music 5780 
Absolutely 5780 
Phase manipulation 5780 
No relation. 5780 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5780 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5780 
Dynamical mismatch 5779 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5779 
Stradiwinerius? 5776 
Dealing with the glass. 5775 
Boston 5775 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5775 
Added mass 5775 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5775 
It is about moderation…. 5775 
To hell with the wine... 5775 
Also for other surafaces 5774 
LEAD 5774 
LEAD & GLASS 5774 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5774 
Read carefully 5774 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5774 
Crooks and morons 5774 
Magiscopios 5773 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5753 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5753 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5752 
The LP setup in the new home. 5701 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5696 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5696 
Pianochord will do! 5696 
Spanyi heaven 5696 
I see no conflict at all. 5696 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5696 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5696 
A year after closing 5688 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5688 
Traveling antimatter 5681 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5675 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5674 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5648 
Cast Iron fireplace 5647 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5647 
The hardcore way 5647 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5611 
This is How It's Done 5610 
Listening room during summer. 5598 
What about those... 5597 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5597 
Reducing A/C Noise 5597 
HVAC the Cat 5597 
Big Ass fan 5596 
Variac dimmers 5596 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5596 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5596 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5528 
Some winter observations. 5419 
That Asian man…. 5388 
The Franz Schubert morning 5362 
Spring.... 5311 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5261 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5232 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5232 
Just good photography? 5232 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5232 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5232 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5231 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5231 
Sports car 5231 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5231 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5231 
Train Positioning 5231 
Kind of what I want 5231 
The lap listening… 5231 
Family Room 5231 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5228 
A super audio room. 5224 
Time Warp! 5224 
A piano in a listening room 5203 
Pianissimo 5203 
The plan in blue. 5203 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5203 
My doubts 5203 
It is exactly what I worry. 5202 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5202 
Musicians at home 5202 
Piano Measurements 5201 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5196 
The next step. 5182 
Midbass horns missing?? 5181 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5171 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5171 
Baby Grand 5170 
Wood floor 5170 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5170 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5170 
Amy’s baby. 5168 
Improvement 5168 
Agree with Scott 5168 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5156 
Integrated casters 5156 
Very nice, thanks. 5156 
Customization 5156 
Sliders 5156 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5149 
Congratulations 5149 
Holes in the floor... 5149 
Tubes and kids 5149 
Sweet spot enlargement 5149 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5147 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5146 
Wood Floors and Water 5146 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5141 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5140 
WAF is for Losers 5140 
WAF: it depends. 5140 
Integration 5139 
Here and there. 5139 
Life after WWIII 5139 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5139 
Cables management. 5137 
Featurizing 5137 
Kids and tubes cont. 5134 
Kid magnet 5134 
Kids and audio 5133 
Radars 5133 
Wow, what the days! 5129 
The comming weekend 5125 
It all was worth it! 5122 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5117 
Here is how it is look. 5117 
Resolving the carpet issue 5117 
Bonfire 5117 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5117 
Proof of concept? 5117 
Geometry 5117 
A view from listening position. 5117 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5117 
Some feedback 5117 
Evening 5117 
I wonder why. 5116 
Rugs and things 5116 
In defense… 5116 
I can’t get it. 5113 
Haze. 5112 
Front wall 5112 
It is very possible. 5112 
It is nice to be back. 5109 
My comfy corner. 5106 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4746 
WMD in house. 4568 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4471 
The third listening spot. 4450 
For sure a very different experience. 4412 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4407 
It's Jfretch's system. 4407 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4406 
Domestic games 4360 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4221 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4221 
Dynamic screening 4221 
Actually this is very good idea! 4221 
Volcanic fabric 4221 
I should have done this. 4219 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4215 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4184 
No worries 4184 
Awesome memories 4184 
Optimization of space 4184 
Child-ish considerations 4181 
Finding peace.... 4175 
"Fencing"? 4174 
I need to build something custom 4174 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4174 
Stressed Skin 4174 
NYC elevators 4174 
Kids toys and quantities. 4174 
Everything is completely reversible 4173 
Racks and things 4173 
Now it looks even more promising! 4173 
Quantity of rods 4173 
Avoiding diagonals 4171 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4170 
That's not fair! 4170 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4170 
Discrimination? 4165 
Vertical configuration 4158 
Impresive ! 4087 
Did you read the site? 4087 
Contact 4087 
Company's name is Rixrax 4087 
Stand 4086 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4042 
End of life headphone system 4042 
Something like this? 4042 
The "Second Living Room" 4042 
Mixing urban & suburban 4042 
Late night listening 4042 
Moving life... 4040 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4040 
A true listening room. 4016 
It started… 4001 
Levels of Interest 4001 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4001 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4001 
I can't not to post it.... 4001 
Do not leave him unattended. 4001 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4001 
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