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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5963 
The first take on the new room. 5957 
New Room, a first shot. 5956 
Wonderful 5956 
Adopted 5955 
The first relaxed night with the room 5953 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5952 
The listening room is ready. 5951 
New Room, a First Shot 5949 
Continue to work with the room 5949 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5949 
Room 5948 
I think it will take another month. 5948 
The Buttressing 5948 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5947 
The new place and the new noises. 5947 
Big listening room 5946 
Screw the "big" rooms 5946 
Big listening rooms 5946 
First reflection points 5945 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5945 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5942 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5941 
Squeezing the floor 5941 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5941 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5941 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5940 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5940 
The new room, the very first listening. 5940 
The 14.5 foot. 5939 
Again… 5938 
Romy's new Playground 5938 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5938 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5938 
For the uninitiated ... 5937 
NH guy 5937 
Room 5937 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5936 
The first base is done 5936 
Reentry time alignment. 5935 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5934 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5934 
Mid bass horn. 5934 
Guess is only a guess… 5934 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5934 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5933 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5933 
Diffusors 5933 
Diffuse injection 5933 
Let analyse why it so 5933 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5933 
Wheel and Deal 5933 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5933 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5933 
I Must Be Missing Something 5933 
I put sliders under my speakers 5932 
ROOM 5931 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5931 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5931 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5931 
No concerns 5931 
Speakers and room 5931 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5930 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5930 
Diaphram 5930 
Phram 5930 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5930 
Perfect piston 5930 
Decorater 5929 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5929 
New morning 5928 
The first take on the room with RTA 5927 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5927 
Axiomatic 5927 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5926 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5926 
The size of the bass. 5926 
Bass Factory 5926 
Crude Level, or something more? 5926 
I will play with it this week…. 5926 
Rent-A 5926 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5926 
Corner horns 5926 
Cheating from below 5926 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5926 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5925 
A possibly overly simplified view 5925 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5925 
Iceberg 5925 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5925 
Why not horn 5925 
A correction…. 5925 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5925 
They are just not related things at all. 5925 
Fertin 5923 
Low resonance is good... 5923 
Et tu, Brute? 5922 
The Room response at LF 5921 
Life On The Ground Floor 5921 
Bass arrays 5921 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5921 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5921 
The super sucks. 5921 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5921 
You may also try 5920 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5920 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5920 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5920 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5920 
60 Hz Resonance 5920 
No notching… so far. 5920 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5919 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5919 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5919 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5919 
Power to the People 5919 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5919 
Aura 5919 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5919 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5919 
All class D is the same 5919 
Interpreting the LF results. 5918 
The Halibut 5918 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5918 
The Big Picture 5918 
Power & ULF channels 5918 
The big picture indeed. 5918 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5918 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5918 
The Power and the Glory 5917 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5917 
I guess I did not get this memo 5917 
French LF drivers 5917 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5917 
(another) French LF approach 5916 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5916 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5916 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5916 
Limpschtick 5916 
Symmetry 5916 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5915 
Room correction 5915 
It migh be more complicated. 5915 
Bass EQ ? 5915 
Agree and not. 5915 
Two "diseases" 5915 
Parametric filters 5915 
Ceiling arrays 5915 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5915 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5915 
The Middle of the Room. 5915 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5915 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5915 
Stop! 5915 
Appendectomy 5915 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5914 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5914 
No Isolation 5914 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5911 
Potential contenders? 5910 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5910 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5910 
Those Crazy Canucks 5906 
Mo' Better Bass 5900 
Bird in the Hand? 5900 
A wet listening spot? 5893 
Storm 5890 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5890 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5876 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5846 
Polar Opposite ULF 5845 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5833 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5831 
Differently but the same. 5830 
PVC 5829 
The sail test try. 5829 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5829 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5829 
Trial 5828 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5828 
Some explanations 5828 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5827 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5826 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5825 
Acrylate 5824 
Magic blanket 5824 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5823 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5823 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5823 
I have a few options. 5823 
Foam color 5823 
Strange things with upperbass 5823 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5822 
Teatro reform. . . 5822 
The foaming room dilemma. 5821 
Melamine Foam 5821 
Foaming up the cat house 5821 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5821 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5821 
Acoustic revisions… 5820 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5817 
Surprises so far in the new room 5816 
The upperbass in the new room. 5816 
Slight change of hart. 5815 
Camco supply of Boston 5813 
Room acoustics 5813 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5772 
I need to kill dust first. 5772 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5770 
To feed the leeches? 5770 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5769 
Yh 5769 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5769 
DPOLs? 5769 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5769 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5766 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5766 
A HalfPipe solution? 5766 
I absolutely love it. 5766 
Piper work 5765 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5765 
Absorption 5765 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5764 
Cats life ? 5764 
Call me Pussy. 5764 
More about traps 5764 
Acoustic impedance? 5764 
You maybe right 5764 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5764 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5763 
Heavy Curtain 5763 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5762 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5762 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5762 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5759 
Fix speaker move chair? 5758 
Back and forth ceremony 5758 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5757 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5756 
Glass windows 5755 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5754 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5753 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5751 
How to use basement jacks? 5751 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5751 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5751 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5750 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5750 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5749 
Sore eyes... 5748 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5748 
The harvesting week! 5746 
I need an inspiration… 5745 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5744 
Like this? 5744 
Dramatically randomize MF 5744 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5743 
The room eats dynamic 5743 
Diffusers 5743 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5742 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5727 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5726 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5726 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5726 
About Width-Importance balance. 5724 
Letting the music scale up 5723 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5723 
To finish my house décor… 5719 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5718 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5717 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5717 
Calling the gods of music 5717 
Absolutely 5717 
Phase manipulation 5717 
No relation. 5717 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5717 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5717 
Dynamical mismatch 5716 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5716 
Stradiwinerius? 5713 
Dealing with the glass. 5712 
Boston 5712 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5712 
Added mass 5712 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5712 
It is about moderation…. 5712 
To hell with the wine... 5712 
Also for other surafaces 5711 
LEAD 5711 
LEAD & GLASS 5711 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5711 
Read carefully 5711 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5711 
Crooks and morons 5711 
Magiscopios 5710 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5690 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5690 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5689 
The LP setup in the new home. 5638 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5633 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5633 
Pianochord will do! 5633 
Spanyi heaven 5633 
I see no conflict at all. 5633 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5633 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5633 
A year after closing 5625 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5625 
Traveling antimatter 5618 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5612 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5611 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5585 
Cast Iron fireplace 5584 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5584 
The hardcore way 5584 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5548 
This is How It's Done 5547 
Listening room during summer. 5535 
What about those... 5534 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5534 
Reducing A/C Noise 5534 
HVAC the Cat 5534 
Big Ass fan 5533 
Variac dimmers 5533 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5533 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5533 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5465 
Some winter observations. 5356 
That Asian man…. 5325 
The Franz Schubert morning 5299 
Spring.... 5248 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5198 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5169 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5169 
Just good photography? 5169 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5169 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5169 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5168 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5168 
Sports car 5168 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5168 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5168 
Train Positioning 5168 
Kind of what I want 5168 
The lap listening… 5168 
Family Room 5168 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5165 
A super audio room. 5161 
Time Warp! 5161 
A piano in a listening room 5140 
Pianissimo 5140 
The plan in blue. 5140 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5140 
My doubts 5140 
It is exactly what I worry. 5139 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5139 
Musicians at home 5139 
Piano Measurements 5138 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5133 
The next step. 5119 
Midbass horns missing?? 5118 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5108 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5108 
Baby Grand 5107 
Wood floor 5107 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5107 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5107 
Amy’s baby. 5105 
Improvement 5105 
Agree with Scott 5105 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5093 
Integrated casters 5093 
Very nice, thanks. 5093 
Customization 5093 
Sliders 5093 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5086 
Congratulations 5086 
Holes in the floor... 5086 
Tubes and kids 5086 
Sweet spot enlargement 5086 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5084 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5083 
Wood Floors and Water 5083 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5078 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5077 
WAF is for Losers 5077 
WAF: it depends. 5077 
Integration 5076 
Here and there. 5076 
Life after WWIII 5076 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5076 
Cables management. 5074 
Featurizing 5074 
Kids and tubes cont. 5071 
Kid magnet 5071 
Kids and audio 5070 
Radars 5070 
Wow, what the days! 5066 
The comming weekend 5062 
It all was worth it! 5059 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5054 
Here is how it is look. 5054 
Resolving the carpet issue 5054 
Bonfire 5054 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5054 
Proof of concept? 5054 
Geometry 5054 
A view from listening position. 5054 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5054 
Some feedback 5054 
Evening 5054 
I wonder why. 5053 
Rugs and things 5053 
In defense… 5053 
I can’t get it. 5050 
Haze. 5049 
Front wall 5049 
It is very possible. 5049 
It is nice to be back. 5046 
My comfy corner. 5043 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4683 
WMD in house. 4505 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4408 
The third listening spot. 4387 
For sure a very different experience. 4349 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4344 
It's Jfretch's system. 4344 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4343 
Domestic games 4297 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4158 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4158 
Dynamic screening 4158 
Actually this is very good idea! 4158 
Volcanic fabric 4158 
I should have done this. 4156 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4152 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4121 
No worries 4121 
Awesome memories 4121 
Optimization of space 4121 
Child-ish considerations 4118 
Finding peace.... 4112 
"Fencing"? 4111 
I need to build something custom 4111 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4111 
Stressed Skin 4111 
NYC elevators 4111 
Kids toys and quantities. 4111 
Everything is completely reversible 4110 
Racks and things 4110 
Now it looks even more promising! 4110 
Quantity of rods 4110 
Avoiding diagonals 4108 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4107 
That's not fair! 4107 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4107 
Discrimination? 4102 
Vertical configuration 4095 
Impresive ! 4024 
Did you read the site? 4024 
Contact 4024 
Company's name is Rixrax 4024 
Stand 4023 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3979 
End of life headphone system 3979 
Something like this? 3979 
The "Second Living Room" 3979 
Mixing urban & suburban 3979 
Late night listening 3979 
Moving life... 3977 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3977 
A true listening room. 3953 
It started… 3938 
Levels of Interest 3938 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3938 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3938 
I can't not to post it.... 3938 
Do not leave him unattended. 3938 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3938 
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