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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5793 
The first take on the new room. 5787 
New Room, a first shot. 5786 
Wonderful 5786 
Adopted 5785 
The first relaxed night with the room 5783 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5782 
The listening room is ready. 5781 
New Room, a First Shot 5779 
Continue to work with the room 5779 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5779 
Room 5778 
I think it will take another month. 5778 
The Buttressing 5778 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5777 
The new place and the new noises. 5777 
Big listening room 5776 
Screw the "big" rooms 5776 
Big listening rooms 5776 
First reflection points 5775 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5775 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5772 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5771 
Squeezing the floor 5771 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5771 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5771 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5770 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5770 
The new room, the very first listening. 5770 
The 14.5 foot. 5769 
Again… 5768 
Romy's new Playground 5768 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5768 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5768 
For the uninitiated ... 5767 
NH guy 5767 
Room 5767 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5766 
The first base is done 5766 
Reentry time alignment. 5765 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5764 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5764 
Mid bass horn. 5764 
Guess is only a guess… 5764 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5764 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5763 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5763 
Diffusors 5763 
Diffuse injection 5763 
Let analyse why it so 5763 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5763 
Wheel and Deal 5763 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5763 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5763 
I Must Be Missing Something 5763 
I put sliders under my speakers 5762 
ROOM 5761 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5761 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5761 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5761 
No concerns 5761 
Speakers and room 5761 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5760 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5760 
Diaphram 5760 
Phram 5760 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5760 
Perfect piston 5760 
Decorater 5759 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5759 
New morning 5758 
The first take on the room with RTA 5757 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5757 
Axiomatic 5757 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5756 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5756 
The size of the bass. 5756 
Bass Factory 5756 
Crude Level, or something more? 5756 
I will play with it this week…. 5756 
Rent-A 5756 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5756 
Corner horns 5756 
Cheating from below 5756 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5756 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5755 
A possibly overly simplified view 5755 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5755 
Iceberg 5755 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5755 
Why not horn 5755 
A correction…. 5755 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5755 
They are just not related things at all. 5755 
Fertin 5753 
Low resonance is good... 5753 
Et tu, Brute? 5752 
The Room response at LF 5751 
Life On The Ground Floor 5751 
Bass arrays 5751 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5751 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5751 
The super sucks. 5751 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5751 
You may also try 5750 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5750 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5750 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5750 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5750 
60 Hz Resonance 5750 
No notching… so far. 5750 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5749 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5749 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5749 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5749 
Power to the People 5749 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5749 
Aura 5749 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5749 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5749 
All class D is the same 5749 
Interpreting the LF results. 5748 
The Halibut 5748 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5748 
The Big Picture 5748 
Power & ULF channels 5748 
The big picture indeed. 5748 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5748 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5748 
The Power and the Glory 5747 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5747 
I guess I did not get this memo 5747 
French LF drivers 5747 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5747 
(another) French LF approach 5746 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5746 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5746 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5746 
Limpschtick 5746 
Symmetry 5746 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5745 
Room correction 5745 
It migh be more complicated. 5745 
Bass EQ ? 5745 
Agree and not. 5745 
Two "diseases" 5745 
Parametric filters 5745 
Ceiling arrays 5745 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5745 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5745 
The Middle of the Room. 5745 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5745 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5745 
Stop! 5745 
Appendectomy 5745 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5744 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5744 
No Isolation 5744 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5741 
Potential contenders? 5740 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5740 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5740 
Those Crazy Canucks 5736 
Mo' Better Bass 5730 
Bird in the Hand? 5730 
A wet listening spot? 5723 
Storm 5720 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5720 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5706 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5676 
Polar Opposite ULF 5675 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5663 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5661 
Differently but the same. 5660 
PVC 5659 
The sail test try. 5659 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5659 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5659 
Trial 5658 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5658 
Some explanations 5658 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5657 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5656 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5655 
Acrylate 5654 
Magic blanket 5654 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5653 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5653 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5653 
I have a few options. 5653 
Foam color 5653 
Strange things with upperbass 5653 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5652 
Teatro reform. . . 5652 
The foaming room dilemma. 5651 
Melamine Foam 5651 
Foaming up the cat house 5651 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5651 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5651 
Acoustic revisions… 5650 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5647 
Surprises so far in the new room 5646 
The upperbass in the new room. 5646 
Slight change of hart. 5645 
Camco supply of Boston 5643 
Room acoustics 5643 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5602 
I need to kill dust first. 5602 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5600 
To feed the leeches? 5600 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5599 
Yh 5599 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5599 
DPOLs? 5599 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5599 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5596 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5596 
A HalfPipe solution? 5596 
I absolutely love it. 5596 
Piper work 5595 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5595 
Absorption 5595 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5594 
Cats life ? 5594 
Call me Pussy. 5594 
More about traps 5594 
Acoustic impedance? 5594 
You maybe right 5594 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5594 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5593 
Heavy Curtain 5593 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5592 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5592 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5592 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5589 
Fix speaker move chair? 5588 
Back and forth ceremony 5588 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5587 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5586 
Glass windows 5585 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5584 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5583 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5581 
How to use basement jacks? 5581 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5581 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5581 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5580 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5580 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5579 
Sore eyes... 5578 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5578 
The harvesting week! 5576 
I need an inspiration… 5575 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5574 
Like this? 5574 
Dramatically randomize MF 5574 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5573 
The room eats dynamic 5573 
Diffusers 5573 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5572 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5557 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5556 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5556 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5556 
About Width-Importance balance. 5554 
Letting the music scale up 5553 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5553 
To finish my house décor… 5549 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5548 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5547 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5547 
Calling the gods of music 5547 
Absolutely 5547 
Phase manipulation 5547 
No relation. 5547 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5547 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5547 
Dynamical mismatch 5546 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5546 
Stradiwinerius? 5543 
Dealing with the glass. 5542 
Boston 5542 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5542 
Added mass 5542 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5542 
It is about moderation…. 5542 
To hell with the wine... 5542 
Also for other surafaces 5541 
LEAD 5541 
LEAD & GLASS 5541 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5541 
Read carefully 5541 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5541 
Crooks and morons 5541 
Magiscopios 5540 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5520 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5520 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5519 
The LP setup in the new home. 5468 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5463 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5463 
Pianochord will do! 5463 
Spanyi heaven 5463 
I see no conflict at all. 5463 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5463 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5463 
A year after closing 5455 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5455 
Traveling antimatter 5448 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5442 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5441 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5415 
Cast Iron fireplace 5414 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5414 
The hardcore way 5414 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5378 
This is How It's Done 5377 
Listening room during summer. 5365 
What about those... 5364 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5364 
Reducing A/C Noise 5364 
HVAC the Cat 5364 
Big Ass fan 5363 
Variac dimmers 5363 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5363 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5363 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5295 
Some winter observations. 5186 
That Asian man…. 5155 
The Franz Schubert morning 5129 
Spring.... 5078 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5028 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4999 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4999 
Just good photography? 4999 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4999 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4999 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4998 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4998 
Sports car 4998 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4998 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4998 
Train Positioning 4998 
Kind of what I want 4998 
The lap listening… 4998 
Family Room 4998 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4995 
A super audio room. 4991 
Time Warp! 4991 
A piano in a listening room 4970 
Pianissimo 4970 
The plan in blue. 4970 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4970 
My doubts 4970 
It is exactly what I worry. 4969 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4969 
Musicians at home 4969 
Piano Measurements 4968 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4963 
The next step. 4949 
Midbass horns missing?? 4948 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4938 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4938 
Baby Grand 4937 
Wood floor 4937 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4937 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4937 
Amy’s baby. 4935 
Improvement 4935 
Agree with Scott 4935 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4923 
Integrated casters 4923 
Very nice, thanks. 4923 
Customization 4923 
Sliders 4923 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4916 
Congratulations 4916 
Holes in the floor... 4916 
Tubes and kids 4916 
Sweet spot enlargement 4916 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4914 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4913 
Wood Floors and Water 4913 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4908 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4907 
WAF is for Losers 4907 
WAF: it depends. 4907 
Integration 4906 
Here and there. 4906 
Life after WWIII 4906 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4906 
Cables management. 4904 
Featurizing 4904 
Kids and tubes cont. 4901 
Kid magnet 4901 
Kids and audio 4900 
Radars 4900 
Wow, what the days! 4896 
The comming weekend 4892 
It all was worth it! 4889 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4884 
Here is how it is look. 4884 
Resolving the carpet issue 4884 
Bonfire 4884 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4884 
Proof of concept? 4884 
Geometry 4884 
A view from listening position. 4884 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4884 
Some feedback 4884 
Evening 4884 
I wonder why. 4883 
Rugs and things 4883 
In defense… 4883 
I can’t get it. 4880 
Haze. 4879 
Front wall 4879 
It is very possible. 4879 
It is nice to be back. 4876 
My comfy corner. 4873 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4513 
WMD in house. 4335 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4238 
The third listening spot. 4217 
For sure a very different experience. 4179 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4174 
It's Jfretch's system. 4174 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4173 
Domestic games 4127 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3988 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3988 
Dynamic screening 3988 
Actually this is very good idea! 3988 
Volcanic fabric 3988 
I should have done this. 3986 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3982 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3951 
No worries 3951 
Awesome memories 3951 
Optimization of space 3951 
Child-ish considerations 3948 
Finding peace.... 3942 
"Fencing"? 3941 
I need to build something custom 3941 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3941 
Stressed Skin 3941 
NYC elevators 3941 
Kids toys and quantities. 3941 
Everything is completely reversible 3940 
Racks and things 3940 
Now it looks even more promising! 3940 
Quantity of rods 3940 
Avoiding diagonals 3938 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3937 
That's not fair! 3937 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3937 
Discrimination? 3932 
Vertical configuration 3925 
Impresive ! 3854 
Did you read the site? 3854 
Contact 3854 
Company's name is Rixrax 3854 
Stand 3853 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3809 
End of life headphone system 3809 
Something like this? 3809 
The "Second Living Room" 3809 
Mixing urban & suburban 3809 
Late night listening 3809 
Moving life... 3807 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3807 
A true listening room. 3783 
It started… 3768 
Levels of Interest 3768 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3768 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3768 
I can't not to post it.... 3768 
Do not leave him unattended. 3768 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3768 
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