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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5653 
The first take on the new room. 5647 
New Room, a first shot. 5646 
Wonderful 5646 
Adopted 5645 
The first relaxed night with the room 5643 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5642 
The listening room is ready. 5641 
New Room, a First Shot 5639 
Continue to work with the room 5639 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5639 
Room 5638 
I think it will take another month. 5638 
The Buttressing 5638 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5637 
The new place and the new noises. 5637 
Big listening room 5636 
Screw the "big" rooms 5636 
Big listening rooms 5636 
First reflection points 5635 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5635 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5632 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5631 
Squeezing the floor 5631 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5631 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5631 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5630 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5630 
The new room, the very first listening. 5630 
The 14.5 foot. 5629 
Again… 5628 
Romy's new Playground 5628 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5628 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5628 
For the uninitiated ... 5627 
NH guy 5627 
Room 5627 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5626 
The first base is done 5626 
Reentry time alignment. 5625 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5624 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5624 
Mid bass horn. 5624 
Guess is only a guess… 5624 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5624 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5623 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5623 
Diffusors 5623 
Diffuse injection 5623 
Let analyse why it so 5623 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5623 
Wheel and Deal 5623 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5623 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5623 
I Must Be Missing Something 5623 
I put sliders under my speakers 5622 
ROOM 5621 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5621 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5621 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5621 
No concerns 5621 
Speakers and room 5621 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5620 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5620 
Diaphram 5620 
Phram 5620 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5620 
Perfect piston 5620 
Decorater 5619 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5619 
New morning 5618 
The first take on the room with RTA 5617 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5617 
Axiomatic 5617 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5616 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5616 
The size of the bass. 5616 
Bass Factory 5616 
Crude Level, or something more? 5616 
I will play with it this week…. 5616 
Rent-A 5616 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5616 
Corner horns 5616 
Cheating from below 5616 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5616 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5615 
A possibly overly simplified view 5615 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5615 
Iceberg 5615 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5615 
Why not horn 5615 
A correction…. 5615 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5615 
They are just not related things at all. 5615 
Fertin 5613 
Low resonance is good... 5613 
Et tu, Brute? 5612 
The Room response at LF 5611 
Life On The Ground Floor 5611 
Bass arrays 5611 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5611 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5611 
The super sucks. 5611 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5611 
You may also try 5610 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5610 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5610 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5610 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5610 
60 Hz Resonance 5610 
No notching… so far. 5610 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5609 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5609 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5609 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5609 
Power to the People 5609 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5609 
Aura 5609 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5609 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5609 
All class D is the same 5609 
Interpreting the LF results. 5608 
The Halibut 5608 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5608 
The Big Picture 5608 
Power & ULF channels 5608 
The big picture indeed. 5608 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5608 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5608 
The Power and the Glory 5607 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5607 
I guess I did not get this memo 5607 
French LF drivers 5607 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5607 
(another) French LF approach 5606 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5606 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5606 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5606 
Limpschtick 5606 
Symmetry 5606 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5605 
Room correction 5605 
It migh be more complicated. 5605 
Bass EQ ? 5605 
Agree and not. 5605 
Two "diseases" 5605 
Parametric filters 5605 
Ceiling arrays 5605 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5605 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5605 
The Middle of the Room. 5605 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5605 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5605 
Stop! 5605 
Appendectomy 5605 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5604 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5604 
No Isolation 5604 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5601 
Potential contenders? 5600 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5600 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5600 
Those Crazy Canucks 5596 
Mo' Better Bass 5590 
Bird in the Hand? 5590 
A wet listening spot? 5583 
Storm 5580 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5580 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5566 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5536 
Polar Opposite ULF 5535 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5523 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5521 
Differently but the same. 5520 
PVC 5519 
The sail test try. 5519 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5519 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5519 
Trial 5518 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5518 
Some explanations 5518 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5517 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5516 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5515 
Acrylate 5514 
Magic blanket 5514 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5513 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5513 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5513 
I have a few options. 5513 
Foam color 5513 
Strange things with upperbass 5513 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5512 
Teatro reform. . . 5512 
The foaming room dilemma. 5511 
Melamine Foam 5511 
Foaming up the cat house 5511 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5511 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5511 
Acoustic revisions… 5510 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5507 
Surprises so far in the new room 5506 
The upperbass in the new room. 5506 
Slight change of hart. 5505 
Camco supply of Boston 5503 
Room acoustics 5503 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5462 
I need to kill dust first. 5462 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5460 
To feed the leeches? 5460 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5459 
Yh 5459 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5459 
DPOLs? 5459 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5459 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5456 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5456 
A HalfPipe solution? 5456 
I absolutely love it. 5456 
Piper work 5455 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5455 
Absorption 5455 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5454 
Cats life ? 5454 
Call me Pussy. 5454 
More about traps 5454 
Acoustic impedance? 5454 
You maybe right 5454 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5454 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5453 
Heavy Curtain 5453 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5452 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5452 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5452 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5449 
Fix speaker move chair? 5448 
Back and forth ceremony 5448 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5447 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5446 
Glass windows 5445 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5444 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5443 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5441 
How to use basement jacks? 5441 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5441 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5441 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5440 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5440 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5439 
Sore eyes... 5438 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5438 
The harvesting week! 5436 
I need an inspiration… 5435 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5434 
Like this? 5434 
Dramatically randomize MF 5434 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5433 
The room eats dynamic 5433 
Diffusers 5433 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5432 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5417 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5416 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5416 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5416 
About Width-Importance balance. 5414 
Letting the music scale up 5413 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5413 
To finish my house décor… 5409 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5408 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5407 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5407 
Calling the gods of music 5407 
Absolutely 5407 
Phase manipulation 5407 
No relation. 5407 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5407 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5407 
Dynamical mismatch 5406 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5406 
Stradiwinerius? 5403 
Dealing with the glass. 5402 
Boston 5402 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5402 
Added mass 5402 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5402 
It is about moderation…. 5402 
To hell with the wine... 5402 
Also for other surafaces 5401 
LEAD 5401 
LEAD & GLASS 5401 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5401 
Read carefully 5401 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5401 
Crooks and morons 5401 
Magiscopios 5400 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5380 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5380 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5379 
The LP setup in the new home. 5328 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5323 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5323 
Pianochord will do! 5323 
Spanyi heaven 5323 
I see no conflict at all. 5323 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5323 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5323 
A year after closing 5315 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5315 
Traveling antimatter 5308 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5302 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5301 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5275 
Cast Iron fireplace 5274 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5274 
The hardcore way 5274 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5238 
This is How It's Done 5237 
Listening room during summer. 5225 
What about those... 5224 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5224 
Reducing A/C Noise 5224 
HVAC the Cat 5224 
Big Ass fan 5223 
Variac dimmers 5223 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5223 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5223 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5155 
Some winter observations. 5046 
That Asian man…. 5015 
The Franz Schubert morning 4989 
Spring.... 4938 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4888 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4859 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4859 
Just good photography? 4859 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4859 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4859 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4858 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4858 
Sports car 4858 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4858 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4858 
Train Positioning 4858 
Kind of what I want 4858 
The lap listening… 4858 
Family Room 4858 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4855 
A super audio room. 4851 
Time Warp! 4851 
A piano in a listening room 4830 
Pianissimo 4830 
The plan in blue. 4830 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4830 
My doubts 4830 
It is exactly what I worry. 4829 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4829 
Musicians at home 4829 
Piano Measurements 4828 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4823 
The next step. 4809 
Midbass horns missing?? 4808 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4798 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4798 
Baby Grand 4797 
Wood floor 4797 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4797 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4797 
Amy’s baby. 4795 
Improvement 4795 
Agree with Scott 4795 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4783 
Integrated casters 4783 
Very nice, thanks. 4783 
Customization 4783 
Sliders 4783 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4776 
Congratulations 4776 
Holes in the floor... 4776 
Tubes and kids 4776 
Sweet spot enlargement 4776 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4774 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4773 
Wood Floors and Water 4773 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4768 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4767 
WAF is for Losers 4767 
WAF: it depends. 4767 
Integration 4766 
Here and there. 4766 
Life after WWIII 4766 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4766 
Cables management. 4764 
Featurizing 4764 
Kids and tubes cont. 4761 
Kid magnet 4761 
Kids and audio 4760 
Radars 4760 
Wow, what the days! 4756 
The comming weekend 4752 
It all was worth it! 4749 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4744 
Here is how it is look. 4744 
Resolving the carpet issue 4744 
Bonfire 4744 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4744 
Proof of concept? 4744 
Geometry 4744 
A view from listening position. 4744 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4744 
Some feedback 4744 
Evening 4744 
I wonder why. 4743 
Rugs and things 4743 
In defense… 4743 
I can’t get it. 4740 
Haze. 4739 
Front wall 4739 
It is very possible. 4739 
It is nice to be back. 4736 
My comfy corner. 4733 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4373 
WMD in house. 4195 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4098 
The third listening spot. 4077 
For sure a very different experience. 4039 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4034 
It's Jfretch's system. 4034 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4033 
Domestic games 3987 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3848 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3848 
Dynamic screening 3848 
Actually this is very good idea! 3848 
Volcanic fabric 3848 
I should have done this. 3846 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3842 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3811 
No worries 3811 
Awesome memories 3811 
Optimization of space 3811 
Child-ish considerations 3808 
Finding peace.... 3802 
"Fencing"? 3801 
I need to build something custom 3801 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3801 
Stressed Skin 3801 
NYC elevators 3801 
Kids toys and quantities. 3801 
Everything is completely reversible 3800 
Racks and things 3800 
Now it looks even more promising! 3800 
Quantity of rods 3800 
Avoiding diagonals 3798 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3797 
That's not fair! 3797 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3797 
Discrimination? 3792 
Vertical configuration 3785 
Impresive ! 3714 
Did you read the site? 3714 
Contact 3714 
Company's name is Rixrax 3714 
Stand 3713 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3669 
End of life headphone system 3669 
Something like this? 3669 
The "Second Living Room" 3669 
Mixing urban & suburban 3669 
Late night listening 3669 
Moving life... 3667 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3667 
A true listening room. 3643 
It started… 3628 
Levels of Interest 3628 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3628 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3628 
I can't not to post it.... 3628 
Do not leave him unattended. 3628 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3628 
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