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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5769 
The first take on the new room. 5763 
New Room, a first shot. 5762 
Wonderful 5762 
Adopted 5761 
The first relaxed night with the room 5759 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5758 
The listening room is ready. 5757 
New Room, a First Shot 5755 
Continue to work with the room 5755 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5755 
Room 5754 
I think it will take another month. 5754 
The Buttressing 5754 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5753 
The new place and the new noises. 5753 
Big listening room 5752 
Screw the "big" rooms 5752 
Big listening rooms 5752 
First reflection points 5751 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5751 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5748 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5747 
Squeezing the floor 5747 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5747 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5747 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5746 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5746 
The new room, the very first listening. 5746 
The 14.5 foot. 5745 
Again… 5744 
Romy's new Playground 5744 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5744 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5744 
For the uninitiated ... 5743 
NH guy 5743 
Room 5743 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5742 
The first base is done 5742 
Reentry time alignment. 5741 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5740 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5740 
Mid bass horn. 5740 
Guess is only a guess… 5740 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5740 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5739 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5739 
Diffusors 5739 
Diffuse injection 5739 
Let analyse why it so 5739 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5739 
Wheel and Deal 5739 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5739 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5739 
I Must Be Missing Something 5739 
I put sliders under my speakers 5738 
ROOM 5737 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5737 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5737 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5737 
No concerns 5737 
Speakers and room 5737 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5736 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5736 
Diaphram 5736 
Phram 5736 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5736 
Perfect piston 5736 
Decorater 5735 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5735 
New morning 5734 
The first take on the room with RTA 5733 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5733 
Axiomatic 5733 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5732 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5732 
The size of the bass. 5732 
Bass Factory 5732 
Crude Level, or something more? 5732 
I will play with it this week…. 5732 
Rent-A 5732 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5732 
Corner horns 5732 
Cheating from below 5732 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5732 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5731 
A possibly overly simplified view 5731 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5731 
Iceberg 5731 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5731 
Why not horn 5731 
A correction…. 5731 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5731 
They are just not related things at all. 5731 
Fertin 5729 
Low resonance is good... 5729 
Et tu, Brute? 5728 
The Room response at LF 5727 
Life On The Ground Floor 5727 
Bass arrays 5727 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5727 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5727 
The super sucks. 5727 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5727 
You may also try 5726 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5726 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5726 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5726 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5726 
60 Hz Resonance 5726 
No notching… so far. 5726 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5725 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5725 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5725 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5725 
Power to the People 5725 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5725 
Aura 5725 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5725 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5725 
All class D is the same 5725 
Interpreting the LF results. 5724 
The Halibut 5724 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5724 
The Big Picture 5724 
Power & ULF channels 5724 
The big picture indeed. 5724 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5724 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5724 
The Power and the Glory 5723 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5723 
I guess I did not get this memo 5723 
French LF drivers 5723 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5723 
(another) French LF approach 5722 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5722 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5722 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5722 
Limpschtick 5722 
Symmetry 5722 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5721 
Room correction 5721 
It migh be more complicated. 5721 
Bass EQ ? 5721 
Agree and not. 5721 
Two "diseases" 5721 
Parametric filters 5721 
Ceiling arrays 5721 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5721 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5721 
The Middle of the Room. 5721 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5721 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5721 
Stop! 5721 
Appendectomy 5721 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5720 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5720 
No Isolation 5720 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5717 
Potential contenders? 5716 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5716 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5716 
Those Crazy Canucks 5712 
Mo' Better Bass 5706 
Bird in the Hand? 5706 
A wet listening spot? 5699 
Storm 5696 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5696 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5682 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5652 
Polar Opposite ULF 5651 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5639 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5637 
Differently but the same. 5636 
PVC 5635 
The sail test try. 5635 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5635 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5635 
Trial 5634 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5634 
Some explanations 5634 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5633 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5632 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5631 
Acrylate 5630 
Magic blanket 5630 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5629 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5629 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5629 
I have a few options. 5629 
Foam color 5629 
Strange things with upperbass 5629 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5628 
Teatro reform. . . 5628 
The foaming room dilemma. 5627 
Melamine Foam 5627 
Foaming up the cat house 5627 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5627 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5627 
Acoustic revisions… 5626 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5623 
Surprises so far in the new room 5622 
The upperbass in the new room. 5622 
Slight change of hart. 5621 
Camco supply of Boston 5619 
Room acoustics 5619 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5578 
I need to kill dust first. 5578 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5576 
To feed the leeches? 5576 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5575 
Yh 5575 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5575 
DPOLs? 5575 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5575 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5572 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5572 
A HalfPipe solution? 5572 
I absolutely love it. 5572 
Piper work 5571 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5571 
Absorption 5571 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5570 
Cats life ? 5570 
Call me Pussy. 5570 
More about traps 5570 
Acoustic impedance? 5570 
You maybe right 5570 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5570 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5569 
Heavy Curtain 5569 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5568 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5568 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5568 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5565 
Fix speaker move chair? 5564 
Back and forth ceremony 5564 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5563 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5562 
Glass windows 5561 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5560 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5559 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5557 
How to use basement jacks? 5557 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5557 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5557 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5556 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5556 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5555 
Sore eyes... 5554 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5554 
The harvesting week! 5552 
I need an inspiration… 5551 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5550 
Like this? 5550 
Dramatically randomize MF 5550 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5549 
The room eats dynamic 5549 
Diffusers 5549 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5548 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5533 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5532 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5532 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5532 
About Width-Importance balance. 5530 
Letting the music scale up 5529 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5529 
To finish my house décor… 5525 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5524 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5523 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5523 
Calling the gods of music 5523 
Absolutely 5523 
Phase manipulation 5523 
No relation. 5523 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5523 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5523 
Dynamical mismatch 5522 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5522 
Stradiwinerius? 5519 
Dealing with the glass. 5518 
Boston 5518 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5518 
Added mass 5518 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5518 
It is about moderation…. 5518 
To hell with the wine... 5518 
Also for other surafaces 5517 
LEAD 5517 
LEAD & GLASS 5517 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5517 
Read carefully 5517 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5517 
Crooks and morons 5517 
Magiscopios 5516 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5496 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5496 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5495 
The LP setup in the new home. 5444 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5439 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5439 
Pianochord will do! 5439 
Spanyi heaven 5439 
I see no conflict at all. 5439 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5439 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5439 
A year after closing 5431 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5431 
Traveling antimatter 5424 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5418 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5417 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5391 
Cast Iron fireplace 5390 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5390 
The hardcore way 5390 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5354 
This is How It's Done 5353 
Listening room during summer. 5341 
What about those... 5340 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5340 
Reducing A/C Noise 5340 
HVAC the Cat 5340 
Big Ass fan 5339 
Variac dimmers 5339 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5339 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5339 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5271 
Some winter observations. 5162 
That Asian man…. 5131 
The Franz Schubert morning 5105 
Spring.... 5054 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5004 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4975 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4975 
Just good photography? 4975 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4975 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4975 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4974 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4974 
Sports car 4974 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4974 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4974 
Train Positioning 4974 
Kind of what I want 4974 
The lap listening… 4974 
Family Room 4974 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4971 
A super audio room. 4967 
Time Warp! 4967 
A piano in a listening room 4946 
Pianissimo 4946 
The plan in blue. 4946 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4946 
My doubts 4946 
It is exactly what I worry. 4945 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4945 
Musicians at home 4945 
Piano Measurements 4944 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4939 
The next step. 4925 
Midbass horns missing?? 4924 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4914 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4914 
Baby Grand 4913 
Wood floor 4913 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4913 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4913 
Amy’s baby. 4911 
Improvement 4911 
Agree with Scott 4911 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4899 
Integrated casters 4899 
Very nice, thanks. 4899 
Customization 4899 
Sliders 4899 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4892 
Congratulations 4892 
Holes in the floor... 4892 
Tubes and kids 4892 
Sweet spot enlargement 4892 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4890 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4889 
Wood Floors and Water 4889 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4884 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4883 
WAF is for Losers 4883 
WAF: it depends. 4883 
Integration 4882 
Here and there. 4882 
Life after WWIII 4882 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4882 
Cables management. 4880 
Featurizing 4880 
Kids and tubes cont. 4877 
Kid magnet 4877 
Kids and audio 4876 
Radars 4876 
Wow, what the days! 4872 
The comming weekend 4868 
It all was worth it! 4865 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4860 
Here is how it is look. 4860 
Resolving the carpet issue 4860 
Bonfire 4860 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4860 
Proof of concept? 4860 
Geometry 4860 
A view from listening position. 4860 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4860 
Some feedback 4860 
Evening 4860 
I wonder why. 4859 
Rugs and things 4859 
In defense… 4859 
I can’t get it. 4856 
Haze. 4855 
Front wall 4855 
It is very possible. 4855 
It is nice to be back. 4852 
My comfy corner. 4849 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4489 
WMD in house. 4311 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4214 
The third listening spot. 4193 
For sure a very different experience. 4155 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4150 
It's Jfretch's system. 4150 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4149 
Domestic games 4103 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3964 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3964 
Dynamic screening 3964 
Actually this is very good idea! 3964 
Volcanic fabric 3964 
I should have done this. 3962 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3958 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3927 
No worries 3927 
Awesome memories 3927 
Optimization of space 3927 
Child-ish considerations 3924 
Finding peace.... 3918 
"Fencing"? 3917 
I need to build something custom 3917 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3917 
Stressed Skin 3917 
NYC elevators 3917 
Kids toys and quantities. 3917 
Everything is completely reversible 3916 
Racks and things 3916 
Now it looks even more promising! 3916 
Quantity of rods 3916 
Avoiding diagonals 3914 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3913 
That's not fair! 3913 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3913 
Discrimination? 3908 
Vertical configuration 3901 
Impresive ! 3830 
Did you read the site? 3830 
Contact 3830 
Company's name is Rixrax 3830 
Stand 3829 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3785 
End of life headphone system 3785 
Something like this? 3785 
The "Second Living Room" 3785 
Mixing urban & suburban 3785 
Late night listening 3785 
Moving life... 3783 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3783 
A true listening room. 3759 
It started… 3744 
Levels of Interest 3744 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3744 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3744 
I can't not to post it.... 3744 
Do not leave him unattended. 3744 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3744 
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