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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5785 
The first take on the new room. 5779 
New Room, a first shot. 5778 
Wonderful 5778 
Adopted 5777 
The first relaxed night with the room 5775 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5774 
The listening room is ready. 5773 
New Room, a First Shot 5771 
Continue to work with the room 5771 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5771 
Room 5770 
I think it will take another month. 5770 
The Buttressing 5770 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5769 
The new place and the new noises. 5769 
Big listening room 5768 
Screw the "big" rooms 5768 
Big listening rooms 5768 
First reflection points 5767 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5767 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5764 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5763 
Squeezing the floor 5763 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5763 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5763 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5762 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5762 
The new room, the very first listening. 5762 
The 14.5 foot. 5761 
Again… 5760 
Romy's new Playground 5760 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5760 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5760 
For the uninitiated ... 5759 
NH guy 5759 
Room 5759 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5758 
The first base is done 5758 
Reentry time alignment. 5757 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5756 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5756 
Mid bass horn. 5756 
Guess is only a guess… 5756 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5756 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5755 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5755 
Diffusors 5755 
Diffuse injection 5755 
Let analyse why it so 5755 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5755 
Wheel and Deal 5755 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5755 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5755 
I Must Be Missing Something 5755 
I put sliders under my speakers 5754 
ROOM 5753 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5753 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5753 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5753 
No concerns 5753 
Speakers and room 5753 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5752 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5752 
Diaphram 5752 
Phram 5752 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5752 
Perfect piston 5752 
Decorater 5751 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5751 
New morning 5750 
The first take on the room with RTA 5749 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5749 
Axiomatic 5749 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5748 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5748 
The size of the bass. 5748 
Bass Factory 5748 
Crude Level, or something more? 5748 
I will play with it this week…. 5748 
Rent-A 5748 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5748 
Corner horns 5748 
Cheating from below 5748 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5748 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5747 
A possibly overly simplified view 5747 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5747 
Iceberg 5747 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5747 
Why not horn 5747 
A correction…. 5747 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5747 
They are just not related things at all. 5747 
Fertin 5745 
Low resonance is good... 5745 
Et tu, Brute? 5744 
The Room response at LF 5743 
Life On The Ground Floor 5743 
Bass arrays 5743 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5743 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5743 
The super sucks. 5743 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5743 
You may also try 5742 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5742 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5742 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5742 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5742 
60 Hz Resonance 5742 
No notching… so far. 5742 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5741 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5741 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5741 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5741 
Power to the People 5741 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5741 
Aura 5741 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5741 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5741 
All class D is the same 5741 
Interpreting the LF results. 5740 
The Halibut 5740 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5740 
The Big Picture 5740 
Power & ULF channels 5740 
The big picture indeed. 5740 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5740 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5740 
The Power and the Glory 5739 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5739 
I guess I did not get this memo 5739 
French LF drivers 5739 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5739 
(another) French LF approach 5738 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5738 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5738 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5738 
Limpschtick 5738 
Symmetry 5738 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5737 
Room correction 5737 
It migh be more complicated. 5737 
Bass EQ ? 5737 
Agree and not. 5737 
Two "diseases" 5737 
Parametric filters 5737 
Ceiling arrays 5737 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5737 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5737 
The Middle of the Room. 5737 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5737 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5737 
Stop! 5737 
Appendectomy 5737 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5736 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5736 
No Isolation 5736 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5733 
Potential contenders? 5732 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5732 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5732 
Those Crazy Canucks 5728 
Mo' Better Bass 5722 
Bird in the Hand? 5722 
A wet listening spot? 5715 
Storm 5712 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5712 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5698 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5668 
Polar Opposite ULF 5667 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5655 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5653 
Differently but the same. 5652 
PVC 5651 
The sail test try. 5651 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5651 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5651 
Trial 5650 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5650 
Some explanations 5650 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5649 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5648 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5647 
Acrylate 5646 
Magic blanket 5646 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5645 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5645 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5645 
I have a few options. 5645 
Foam color 5645 
Strange things with upperbass 5645 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5644 
Teatro reform. . . 5644 
The foaming room dilemma. 5643 
Melamine Foam 5643 
Foaming up the cat house 5643 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5643 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5643 
Acoustic revisions… 5642 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5639 
Surprises so far in the new room 5638 
The upperbass in the new room. 5638 
Slight change of hart. 5637 
Camco supply of Boston 5635 
Room acoustics 5635 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5594 
I need to kill dust first. 5594 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5592 
To feed the leeches? 5592 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5591 
Yh 5591 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5591 
DPOLs? 5591 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5591 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5588 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5588 
A HalfPipe solution? 5588 
I absolutely love it. 5588 
Piper work 5587 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5587 
Absorption 5587 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5586 
Cats life ? 5586 
Call me Pussy. 5586 
More about traps 5586 
Acoustic impedance? 5586 
You maybe right 5586 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5586 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5585 
Heavy Curtain 5585 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5584 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5584 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5584 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5581 
Fix speaker move chair? 5580 
Back and forth ceremony 5580 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5579 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5578 
Glass windows 5577 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5576 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5575 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5573 
How to use basement jacks? 5573 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5573 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5573 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5572 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5572 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5571 
Sore eyes... 5570 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5570 
The harvesting week! 5568 
I need an inspiration… 5567 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5566 
Like this? 5566 
Dramatically randomize MF 5566 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5565 
The room eats dynamic 5565 
Diffusers 5565 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5564 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5549 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5548 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5548 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5548 
About Width-Importance balance. 5546 
Letting the music scale up 5545 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5545 
To finish my house décor… 5541 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5540 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5539 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5539 
Calling the gods of music 5539 
Absolutely 5539 
Phase manipulation 5539 
No relation. 5539 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5539 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5539 
Dynamical mismatch 5538 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5538 
Stradiwinerius? 5535 
Dealing with the glass. 5534 
Boston 5534 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5534 
Added mass 5534 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5534 
It is about moderation…. 5534 
To hell with the wine... 5534 
Also for other surafaces 5533 
LEAD 5533 
LEAD & GLASS 5533 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5533 
Read carefully 5533 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5533 
Crooks and morons 5533 
Magiscopios 5532 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5512 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5512 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5511 
The LP setup in the new home. 5460 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5455 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5455 
Pianochord will do! 5455 
Spanyi heaven 5455 
I see no conflict at all. 5455 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5455 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5455 
A year after closing 5447 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5447 
Traveling antimatter 5440 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5434 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5433 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5407 
Cast Iron fireplace 5406 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5406 
The hardcore way 5406 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5370 
This is How It's Done 5369 
Listening room during summer. 5357 
What about those... 5356 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5356 
Reducing A/C Noise 5356 
HVAC the Cat 5356 
Big Ass fan 5355 
Variac dimmers 5355 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5355 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5355 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5287 
Some winter observations. 5178 
That Asian man…. 5147 
The Franz Schubert morning 5121 
Spring.... 5070 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5020 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4991 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4991 
Just good photography? 4991 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4991 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4991 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4990 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4990 
Sports car 4990 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4990 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4990 
Train Positioning 4990 
Kind of what I want 4990 
The lap listening… 4990 
Family Room 4990 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4987 
A super audio room. 4983 
Time Warp! 4983 
A piano in a listening room 4962 
Pianissimo 4962 
The plan in blue. 4962 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4962 
My doubts 4962 
It is exactly what I worry. 4961 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4961 
Musicians at home 4961 
Piano Measurements 4960 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4955 
The next step. 4941 
Midbass horns missing?? 4940 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4930 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4930 
Baby Grand 4929 
Wood floor 4929 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4929 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4929 
Amy’s baby. 4927 
Improvement 4927 
Agree with Scott 4927 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4915 
Integrated casters 4915 
Very nice, thanks. 4915 
Customization 4915 
Sliders 4915 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4908 
Congratulations 4908 
Holes in the floor... 4908 
Tubes and kids 4908 
Sweet spot enlargement 4908 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4906 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4905 
Wood Floors and Water 4905 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4900 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4899 
WAF is for Losers 4899 
WAF: it depends. 4899 
Integration 4898 
Here and there. 4898 
Life after WWIII 4898 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4898 
Cables management. 4896 
Featurizing 4896 
Kids and tubes cont. 4893 
Kid magnet 4893 
Kids and audio 4892 
Radars 4892 
Wow, what the days! 4888 
The comming weekend 4884 
It all was worth it! 4881 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4876 
Here is how it is look. 4876 
Resolving the carpet issue 4876 
Bonfire 4876 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4876 
Proof of concept? 4876 
Geometry 4876 
A view from listening position. 4876 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4876 
Some feedback 4876 
Evening 4876 
I wonder why. 4875 
Rugs and things 4875 
In defense… 4875 
I can’t get it. 4872 
Haze. 4871 
Front wall 4871 
It is very possible. 4871 
It is nice to be back. 4868 
My comfy corner. 4865 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4505 
WMD in house. 4327 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4230 
The third listening spot. 4209 
For sure a very different experience. 4171 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4166 
It's Jfretch's system. 4166 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4165 
Domestic games 4119 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3980 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3980 
Dynamic screening 3980 
Actually this is very good idea! 3980 
Volcanic fabric 3980 
I should have done this. 3978 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3974 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3943 
No worries 3943 
Awesome memories 3943 
Optimization of space 3943 
Child-ish considerations 3940 
Finding peace.... 3934 
"Fencing"? 3933 
I need to build something custom 3933 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3933 
Stressed Skin 3933 
NYC elevators 3933 
Kids toys and quantities. 3933 
Everything is completely reversible 3932 
Racks and things 3932 
Now it looks even more promising! 3932 
Quantity of rods 3932 
Avoiding diagonals 3930 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3929 
That's not fair! 3929 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3929 
Discrimination? 3924 
Vertical configuration 3917 
Impresive ! 3846 
Did you read the site? 3846 
Contact 3846 
Company's name is Rixrax 3846 
Stand 3845 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3801 
End of life headphone system 3801 
Something like this? 3801 
The "Second Living Room" 3801 
Mixing urban & suburban 3801 
Late night listening 3801 
Moving life... 3799 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3799 
A true listening room. 3775 
It started… 3760 
Levels of Interest 3760 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3760 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3760 
I can't not to post it.... 3760 
Do not leave him unattended. 3760 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3760 
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