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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5701 
The first take on the new room. 5695 
New Room, a first shot. 5694 
Wonderful 5694 
Adopted 5693 
The first relaxed night with the room 5691 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5690 
The listening room is ready. 5689 
New Room, a First Shot 5687 
Continue to work with the room 5687 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5687 
Room 5686 
I think it will take another month. 5686 
The Buttressing 5686 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5685 
The new place and the new noises. 5685 
Big listening room 5684 
Screw the "big" rooms 5684 
Big listening rooms 5684 
First reflection points 5683 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5683 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5680 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5679 
Squeezing the floor 5679 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5679 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5679 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5678 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5678 
The new room, the very first listening. 5678 
The 14.5 foot. 5677 
Again… 5676 
Romy's new Playground 5676 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5676 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5676 
For the uninitiated ... 5675 
NH guy 5675 
Room 5675 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5674 
The first base is done 5674 
Reentry time alignment. 5673 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5672 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5672 
Mid bass horn. 5672 
Guess is only a guess… 5672 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5672 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5671 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5671 
Diffusors 5671 
Diffuse injection 5671 
Let analyse why it so 5671 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5671 
Wheel and Deal 5671 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5671 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5671 
I Must Be Missing Something 5671 
I put sliders under my speakers 5670 
ROOM 5669 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5669 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5669 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5669 
No concerns 5669 
Speakers and room 5669 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5668 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5668 
Diaphram 5668 
Phram 5668 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5668 
Perfect piston 5668 
Decorater 5667 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5667 
New morning 5666 
The first take on the room with RTA 5665 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5665 
Axiomatic 5665 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5664 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5664 
The size of the bass. 5664 
Bass Factory 5664 
Crude Level, or something more? 5664 
I will play with it this week…. 5664 
Rent-A 5664 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5664 
Corner horns 5664 
Cheating from below 5664 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5664 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5663 
A possibly overly simplified view 5663 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5663 
Iceberg 5663 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5663 
Why not horn 5663 
A correction…. 5663 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5663 
They are just not related things at all. 5663 
Fertin 5661 
Low resonance is good... 5661 
Et tu, Brute? 5660 
The Room response at LF 5659 
Life On The Ground Floor 5659 
Bass arrays 5659 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5659 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5659 
The super sucks. 5659 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5659 
You may also try 5658 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5658 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5658 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5658 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5658 
60 Hz Resonance 5658 
No notching… so far. 5658 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5657 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5657 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5657 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5657 
Power to the People 5657 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5657 
Aura 5657 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5657 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5657 
All class D is the same 5657 
Interpreting the LF results. 5656 
The Halibut 5656 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5656 
The Big Picture 5656 
Power & ULF channels 5656 
The big picture indeed. 5656 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5656 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5656 
The Power and the Glory 5655 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5655 
I guess I did not get this memo 5655 
French LF drivers 5655 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5655 
(another) French LF approach 5654 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5654 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5654 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5654 
Limpschtick 5654 
Symmetry 5654 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5653 
Room correction 5653 
It migh be more complicated. 5653 
Bass EQ ? 5653 
Agree and not. 5653 
Two "diseases" 5653 
Parametric filters 5653 
Ceiling arrays 5653 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5653 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5653 
The Middle of the Room. 5653 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5653 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5653 
Stop! 5653 
Appendectomy 5653 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5652 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5652 
No Isolation 5652 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5649 
Potential contenders? 5648 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5648 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5648 
Those Crazy Canucks 5644 
Mo' Better Bass 5638 
Bird in the Hand? 5638 
A wet listening spot? 5631 
Storm 5628 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5628 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5614 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5584 
Polar Opposite ULF 5583 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5571 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5569 
Differently but the same. 5568 
PVC 5567 
The sail test try. 5567 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5567 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5567 
Trial 5566 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5566 
Some explanations 5566 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5565 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5564 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5563 
Acrylate 5562 
Magic blanket 5562 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5561 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5561 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5561 
I have a few options. 5561 
Foam color 5561 
Strange things with upperbass 5561 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5560 
Teatro reform. . . 5560 
The foaming room dilemma. 5559 
Melamine Foam 5559 
Foaming up the cat house 5559 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5559 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5559 
Acoustic revisions… 5558 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5555 
Surprises so far in the new room 5554 
The upperbass in the new room. 5554 
Slight change of hart. 5553 
Camco supply of Boston 5551 
Room acoustics 5551 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5510 
I need to kill dust first. 5510 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5508 
To feed the leeches? 5508 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5507 
Yh 5507 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5507 
DPOLs? 5507 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5507 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5504 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5504 
A HalfPipe solution? 5504 
I absolutely love it. 5504 
Piper work 5503 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5503 
Absorption 5503 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5502 
Cats life ? 5502 
Call me Pussy. 5502 
More about traps 5502 
Acoustic impedance? 5502 
You maybe right 5502 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5502 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5501 
Heavy Curtain 5501 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5500 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5500 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5500 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5497 
Fix speaker move chair? 5496 
Back and forth ceremony 5496 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5495 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5494 
Glass windows 5493 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5492 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5491 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5489 
How to use basement jacks? 5489 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5489 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5489 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5488 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5488 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5487 
Sore eyes... 5486 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5486 
The harvesting week! 5484 
I need an inspiration… 5483 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5482 
Like this? 5482 
Dramatically randomize MF 5482 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5481 
The room eats dynamic 5481 
Diffusers 5481 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5480 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5465 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5464 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5464 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5464 
About Width-Importance balance. 5462 
Letting the music scale up 5461 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5461 
To finish my house décor… 5457 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5456 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5455 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5455 
Calling the gods of music 5455 
Absolutely 5455 
Phase manipulation 5455 
No relation. 5455 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5455 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5455 
Dynamical mismatch 5454 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5454 
Stradiwinerius? 5451 
Dealing with the glass. 5450 
Boston 5450 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5450 
Added mass 5450 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5450 
It is about moderation…. 5450 
To hell with the wine... 5450 
Also for other surafaces 5449 
LEAD 5449 
LEAD & GLASS 5449 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5449 
Read carefully 5449 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5449 
Crooks and morons 5449 
Magiscopios 5448 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5428 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5428 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5427 
The LP setup in the new home. 5376 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5371 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5371 
Pianochord will do! 5371 
Spanyi heaven 5371 
I see no conflict at all. 5371 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5371 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5371 
A year after closing 5363 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5363 
Traveling antimatter 5356 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5350 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5349 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5323 
Cast Iron fireplace 5322 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5322 
The hardcore way 5322 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5286 
This is How It's Done 5285 
Listening room during summer. 5273 
What about those... 5272 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5272 
Reducing A/C Noise 5272 
HVAC the Cat 5272 
Big Ass fan 5271 
Variac dimmers 5271 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5271 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5271 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5203 
Some winter observations. 5094 
That Asian man…. 5063 
The Franz Schubert morning 5037 
Spring.... 4986 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4936 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4907 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4907 
Just good photography? 4907 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4907 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4907 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4906 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4906 
Sports car 4906 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4906 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4906 
Train Positioning 4906 
Kind of what I want 4906 
The lap listening… 4906 
Family Room 4906 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4903 
A super audio room. 4899 
Time Warp! 4899 
A piano in a listening room 4878 
Pianissimo 4878 
The plan in blue. 4878 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4878 
My doubts 4878 
It is exactly what I worry. 4877 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4877 
Musicians at home 4877 
Piano Measurements 4876 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4871 
The next step. 4857 
Midbass horns missing?? 4856 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4846 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4846 
Baby Grand 4845 
Wood floor 4845 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4845 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4845 
Amy’s baby. 4843 
Improvement 4843 
Agree with Scott 4843 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4831 
Integrated casters 4831 
Very nice, thanks. 4831 
Customization 4831 
Sliders 4831 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4824 
Congratulations 4824 
Holes in the floor... 4824 
Tubes and kids 4824 
Sweet spot enlargement 4824 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4822 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4821 
Wood Floors and Water 4821 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4816 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4815 
WAF is for Losers 4815 
WAF: it depends. 4815 
Integration 4814 
Here and there. 4814 
Life after WWIII 4814 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4814 
Cables management. 4812 
Featurizing 4812 
Kids and tubes cont. 4809 
Kid magnet 4809 
Kids and audio 4808 
Radars 4808 
Wow, what the days! 4804 
The comming weekend 4800 
It all was worth it! 4797 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4792 
Here is how it is look. 4792 
Resolving the carpet issue 4792 
Bonfire 4792 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4792 
Proof of concept? 4792 
Geometry 4792 
A view from listening position. 4792 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4792 
Some feedback 4792 
Evening 4792 
I wonder why. 4791 
Rugs and things 4791 
In defense… 4791 
I can’t get it. 4788 
Haze. 4787 
Front wall 4787 
It is very possible. 4787 
It is nice to be back. 4784 
My comfy corner. 4781 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4421 
WMD in house. 4243 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4146 
The third listening spot. 4125 
For sure a very different experience. 4087 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4082 
It's Jfretch's system. 4082 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4081 
Domestic games 4035 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3896 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3896 
Dynamic screening 3896 
Actually this is very good idea! 3896 
Volcanic fabric 3896 
I should have done this. 3894 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3890 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3859 
No worries 3859 
Awesome memories 3859 
Optimization of space 3859 
Child-ish considerations 3856 
Finding peace.... 3850 
"Fencing"? 3849 
I need to build something custom 3849 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3849 
Stressed Skin 3849 
NYC elevators 3849 
Kids toys and quantities. 3849 
Everything is completely reversible 3848 
Racks and things 3848 
Now it looks even more promising! 3848 
Quantity of rods 3848 
Avoiding diagonals 3846 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3845 
That's not fair! 3845 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3845 
Discrimination? 3840 
Vertical configuration 3833 
Impresive ! 3762 
Did you read the site? 3762 
Contact 3762 
Company's name is Rixrax 3762 
Stand 3761 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3717 
End of life headphone system 3717 
Something like this? 3717 
The "Second Living Room" 3717 
Mixing urban & suburban 3717 
Late night listening 3717 
Moving life... 3715 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3715 
A true listening room. 3691 
It started… 3676 
Levels of Interest 3676 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3676 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3676 
I can't not to post it.... 3676 
Do not leave him unattended. 3676 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3676 
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