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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5724 
The first take on the new room. 5718 
New Room, a first shot. 5717 
Wonderful 5717 
Adopted 5716 
The first relaxed night with the room 5714 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5713 
The listening room is ready. 5712 
New Room, a First Shot 5710 
Continue to work with the room 5710 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5710 
Room 5709 
I think it will take another month. 5709 
The Buttressing 5709 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5708 
The new place and the new noises. 5708 
Big listening room 5707 
Screw the "big" rooms 5707 
Big listening rooms 5707 
First reflection points 5706 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5706 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5703 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5702 
Squeezing the floor 5702 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5702 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5702 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5701 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5701 
The new room, the very first listening. 5701 
The 14.5 foot. 5700 
Again… 5699 
Romy's new Playground 5699 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5699 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5699 
For the uninitiated ... 5698 
NH guy 5698 
Room 5698 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5697 
The first base is done 5697 
Reentry time alignment. 5696 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5695 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5695 
Mid bass horn. 5695 
Guess is only a guess… 5695 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5695 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5694 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5694 
Diffusors 5694 
Diffuse injection 5694 
Let analyse why it so 5694 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5694 
Wheel and Deal 5694 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5694 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5694 
I Must Be Missing Something 5694 
I put sliders under my speakers 5693 
ROOM 5692 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5692 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5692 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5692 
No concerns 5692 
Speakers and room 5692 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5691 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5691 
Diaphram 5691 
Phram 5691 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5691 
Perfect piston 5691 
Decorater 5690 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5690 
New morning 5689 
The first take on the room with RTA 5688 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5688 
Axiomatic 5688 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5687 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5687 
The size of the bass. 5687 
Bass Factory 5687 
Crude Level, or something more? 5687 
I will play with it this week…. 5687 
Rent-A 5687 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5687 
Corner horns 5687 
Cheating from below 5687 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5687 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5686 
A possibly overly simplified view 5686 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5686 
Iceberg 5686 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5686 
Why not horn 5686 
A correction…. 5686 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5686 
They are just not related things at all. 5686 
Fertin 5684 
Low resonance is good... 5684 
Et tu, Brute? 5683 
The Room response at LF 5682 
Life On The Ground Floor 5682 
Bass arrays 5682 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5682 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5682 
The super sucks. 5682 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5682 
You may also try 5681 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5681 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5681 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5681 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5681 
60 Hz Resonance 5681 
No notching… so far. 5681 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5680 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5680 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5680 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5680 
Power to the People 5680 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5680 
Aura 5680 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5680 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5680 
All class D is the same 5680 
Interpreting the LF results. 5679 
The Halibut 5679 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5679 
The Big Picture 5679 
Power & ULF channels 5679 
The big picture indeed. 5679 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5679 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5679 
The Power and the Glory 5678 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5678 
I guess I did not get this memo 5678 
French LF drivers 5678 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5678 
(another) French LF approach 5677 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5677 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5677 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5677 
Limpschtick 5677 
Symmetry 5677 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5676 
Room correction 5676 
It migh be more complicated. 5676 
Bass EQ ? 5676 
Agree and not. 5676 
Two "diseases" 5676 
Parametric filters 5676 
Ceiling arrays 5676 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5676 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5676 
The Middle of the Room. 5676 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5676 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5676 
Stop! 5676 
Appendectomy 5676 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5675 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5675 
No Isolation 5675 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5672 
Potential contenders? 5671 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5671 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5671 
Those Crazy Canucks 5667 
Mo' Better Bass 5661 
Bird in the Hand? 5661 
A wet listening spot? 5654 
Storm 5651 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5651 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5637 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5607 
Polar Opposite ULF 5606 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5594 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5592 
Differently but the same. 5591 
PVC 5590 
The sail test try. 5590 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5590 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5590 
Trial 5589 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5589 
Some explanations 5589 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5588 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5587 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5586 
Acrylate 5585 
Magic blanket 5585 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5584 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5584 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5584 
I have a few options. 5584 
Foam color 5584 
Strange things with upperbass 5584 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5583 
Teatro reform. . . 5583 
The foaming room dilemma. 5582 
Melamine Foam 5582 
Foaming up the cat house 5582 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5582 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5582 
Acoustic revisions… 5581 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5578 
Surprises so far in the new room 5577 
The upperbass in the new room. 5577 
Slight change of hart. 5576 
Camco supply of Boston 5574 
Room acoustics 5574 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5533 
I need to kill dust first. 5533 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5531 
To feed the leeches? 5531 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5530 
Yh 5530 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5530 
DPOLs? 5530 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5530 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5527 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5527 
A HalfPipe solution? 5527 
I absolutely love it. 5527 
Piper work 5526 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5526 
Absorption 5526 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5525 
Cats life ? 5525 
Call me Pussy. 5525 
More about traps 5525 
Acoustic impedance? 5525 
You maybe right 5525 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5525 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5524 
Heavy Curtain 5524 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5523 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5523 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5523 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5520 
Fix speaker move chair? 5519 
Back and forth ceremony 5519 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5518 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5517 
Glass windows 5516 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5515 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5514 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5512 
How to use basement jacks? 5512 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5512 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5512 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5511 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5511 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5510 
Sore eyes... 5509 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5509 
The harvesting week! 5507 
I need an inspiration… 5506 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5505 
Like this? 5505 
Dramatically randomize MF 5505 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5504 
The room eats dynamic 5504 
Diffusers 5504 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5503 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5488 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5487 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5487 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5487 
About Width-Importance balance. 5485 
Letting the music scale up 5484 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5484 
To finish my house décor… 5480 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5479 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5478 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5478 
Calling the gods of music 5478 
Absolutely 5478 
Phase manipulation 5478 
No relation. 5478 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5478 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5478 
Dynamical mismatch 5477 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5477 
Stradiwinerius? 5474 
Dealing with the glass. 5473 
Boston 5473 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5473 
Added mass 5473 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5473 
It is about moderation…. 5473 
To hell with the wine... 5473 
Also for other surafaces 5472 
LEAD 5472 
LEAD & GLASS 5472 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5472 
Read carefully 5472 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5472 
Crooks and morons 5472 
Magiscopios 5471 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5451 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5451 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5450 
The LP setup in the new home. 5399 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5394 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5394 
Pianochord will do! 5394 
Spanyi heaven 5394 
I see no conflict at all. 5394 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5394 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5394 
A year after closing 5386 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5386 
Traveling antimatter 5379 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5373 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5372 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5346 
Cast Iron fireplace 5345 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5345 
The hardcore way 5345 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5309 
This is How It's Done 5308 
Listening room during summer. 5296 
What about those... 5295 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5295 
Reducing A/C Noise 5295 
HVAC the Cat 5295 
Big Ass fan 5294 
Variac dimmers 5294 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5294 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5294 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5226 
Some winter observations. 5117 
That Asian man…. 5086 
The Franz Schubert morning 5060 
Spring.... 5009 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4959 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4930 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4930 
Just good photography? 4930 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4930 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4930 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4929 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4929 
Sports car 4929 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4929 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4929 
Train Positioning 4929 
Kind of what I want 4929 
The lap listening… 4929 
Family Room 4929 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4926 
A super audio room. 4922 
Time Warp! 4922 
A piano in a listening room 4901 
Pianissimo 4901 
The plan in blue. 4901 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4901 
My doubts 4901 
It is exactly what I worry. 4900 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4900 
Musicians at home 4900 
Piano Measurements 4899 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4894 
The next step. 4880 
Midbass horns missing?? 4879 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4869 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4869 
Baby Grand 4868 
Wood floor 4868 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4868 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4868 
Amy’s baby. 4866 
Improvement 4866 
Agree with Scott 4866 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4854 
Integrated casters 4854 
Very nice, thanks. 4854 
Customization 4854 
Sliders 4854 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4847 
Congratulations 4847 
Holes in the floor... 4847 
Tubes and kids 4847 
Sweet spot enlargement 4847 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4845 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4844 
Wood Floors and Water 4844 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4839 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4838 
WAF is for Losers 4838 
WAF: it depends. 4838 
Integration 4837 
Here and there. 4837 
Life after WWIII 4837 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4837 
Cables management. 4835 
Featurizing 4835 
Kids and tubes cont. 4832 
Kid magnet 4832 
Kids and audio 4831 
Radars 4831 
Wow, what the days! 4827 
The comming weekend 4823 
It all was worth it! 4820 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4815 
Here is how it is look. 4815 
Resolving the carpet issue 4815 
Bonfire 4815 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4815 
Proof of concept? 4815 
Geometry 4815 
A view from listening position. 4815 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4815 
Some feedback 4815 
Evening 4815 
I wonder why. 4814 
Rugs and things 4814 
In defense… 4814 
I can’t get it. 4811 
Haze. 4810 
Front wall 4810 
It is very possible. 4810 
It is nice to be back. 4807 
My comfy corner. 4804 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4444 
WMD in house. 4266 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4169 
The third listening spot. 4148 
For sure a very different experience. 4110 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4105 
It's Jfretch's system. 4105 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4104 
Domestic games 4058 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3919 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3919 
Dynamic screening 3919 
Actually this is very good idea! 3919 
Volcanic fabric 3919 
I should have done this. 3917 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3913 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3882 
No worries 3882 
Awesome memories 3882 
Optimization of space 3882 
Child-ish considerations 3879 
Finding peace.... 3873 
"Fencing"? 3872 
I need to build something custom 3872 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3872 
Stressed Skin 3872 
NYC elevators 3872 
Kids toys and quantities. 3872 
Everything is completely reversible 3871 
Racks and things 3871 
Now it looks even more promising! 3871 
Quantity of rods 3871 
Avoiding diagonals 3869 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3868 
That's not fair! 3868 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3868 
Discrimination? 3863 
Vertical configuration 3856 
Impresive ! 3785 
Did you read the site? 3785 
Contact 3785 
Company's name is Rixrax 3785 
Stand 3784 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3740 
End of life headphone system 3740 
Something like this? 3740 
The "Second Living Room" 3740 
Mixing urban & suburban 3740 
Late night listening 3740 
Moving life... 3738 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3738 
A true listening room. 3714 
It started… 3699 
Levels of Interest 3699 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3699 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3699 
I can't not to post it.... 3699 
Do not leave him unattended. 3699 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3699 
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