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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5747 
The first take on the new room. 5741 
New Room, a first shot. 5740 
Wonderful 5740 
Adopted 5739 
The first relaxed night with the room 5737 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5736 
The listening room is ready. 5735 
New Room, a First Shot 5733 
Continue to work with the room 5733 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5733 
Room 5732 
I think it will take another month. 5732 
The Buttressing 5732 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5731 
The new place and the new noises. 5731 
Big listening room 5730 
Screw the "big" rooms 5730 
Big listening rooms 5730 
First reflection points 5729 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5729 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5726 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5725 
Squeezing the floor 5725 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5725 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5725 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5724 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5724 
The new room, the very first listening. 5724 
The 14.5 foot. 5723 
Again… 5722 
Romy's new Playground 5722 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5722 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5722 
For the uninitiated ... 5721 
NH guy 5721 
Room 5721 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5720 
The first base is done 5720 
Reentry time alignment. 5719 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5718 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5718 
Mid bass horn. 5718 
Guess is only a guess… 5718 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5718 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5717 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5717 
Diffusors 5717 
Diffuse injection 5717 
Let analyse why it so 5717 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5717 
Wheel and Deal 5717 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5717 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5717 
I Must Be Missing Something 5717 
I put sliders under my speakers 5716 
ROOM 5715 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5715 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5715 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5715 
No concerns 5715 
Speakers and room 5715 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5714 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5714 
Diaphram 5714 
Phram 5714 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5714 
Perfect piston 5714 
Decorater 5713 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5713 
New morning 5712 
The first take on the room with RTA 5711 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5711 
Axiomatic 5711 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5710 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5710 
The size of the bass. 5710 
Bass Factory 5710 
Crude Level, or something more? 5710 
I will play with it this week…. 5710 
Rent-A 5710 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5710 
Corner horns 5710 
Cheating from below 5710 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5710 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5709 
A possibly overly simplified view 5709 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5709 
Iceberg 5709 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5709 
Why not horn 5709 
A correction…. 5709 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5709 
They are just not related things at all. 5709 
Fertin 5707 
Low resonance is good... 5707 
Et tu, Brute? 5706 
The Room response at LF 5705 
Life On The Ground Floor 5705 
Bass arrays 5705 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5705 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5705 
The super sucks. 5705 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5705 
You may also try 5704 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5704 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5704 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5704 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5704 
60 Hz Resonance 5704 
No notching… so far. 5704 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5703 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5703 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5703 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5703 
Power to the People 5703 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5703 
Aura 5703 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5703 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5703 
All class D is the same 5703 
Interpreting the LF results. 5702 
The Halibut 5702 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5702 
The Big Picture 5702 
Power & ULF channels 5702 
The big picture indeed. 5702 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5702 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5702 
The Power and the Glory 5701 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5701 
I guess I did not get this memo 5701 
French LF drivers 5701 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5701 
(another) French LF approach 5700 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5700 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5700 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5700 
Limpschtick 5700 
Symmetry 5700 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5699 
Room correction 5699 
It migh be more complicated. 5699 
Bass EQ ? 5699 
Agree and not. 5699 
Two "diseases" 5699 
Parametric filters 5699 
Ceiling arrays 5699 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5699 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5699 
The Middle of the Room. 5699 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5699 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5699 
Stop! 5699 
Appendectomy 5699 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5698 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5698 
No Isolation 5698 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5695 
Potential contenders? 5694 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5694 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5694 
Those Crazy Canucks 5690 
Mo' Better Bass 5684 
Bird in the Hand? 5684 
A wet listening spot? 5677 
Storm 5674 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5674 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5660 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5630 
Polar Opposite ULF 5629 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5617 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5615 
Differently but the same. 5614 
PVC 5613 
The sail test try. 5613 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5613 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5613 
Trial 5612 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5612 
Some explanations 5612 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5611 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5610 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5609 
Acrylate 5608 
Magic blanket 5608 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5607 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5607 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5607 
I have a few options. 5607 
Foam color 5607 
Strange things with upperbass 5607 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5606 
Teatro reform. . . 5606 
The foaming room dilemma. 5605 
Melamine Foam 5605 
Foaming up the cat house 5605 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5605 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5605 
Acoustic revisions… 5604 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5601 
Surprises so far in the new room 5600 
The upperbass in the new room. 5600 
Slight change of hart. 5599 
Camco supply of Boston 5597 
Room acoustics 5597 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5556 
I need to kill dust first. 5556 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5554 
To feed the leeches? 5554 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5553 
Yh 5553 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5553 
DPOLs? 5553 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5553 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5550 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5550 
A HalfPipe solution? 5550 
I absolutely love it. 5550 
Piper work 5549 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5549 
Absorption 5549 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5548 
Cats life ? 5548 
Call me Pussy. 5548 
More about traps 5548 
Acoustic impedance? 5548 
You maybe right 5548 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5548 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5547 
Heavy Curtain 5547 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5546 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5546 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5546 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5543 
Fix speaker move chair? 5542 
Back and forth ceremony 5542 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5541 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5540 
Glass windows 5539 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5538 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5537 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5535 
How to use basement jacks? 5535 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5535 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5535 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5534 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5534 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5533 
Sore eyes... 5532 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5532 
The harvesting week! 5530 
I need an inspiration… 5529 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5528 
Like this? 5528 
Dramatically randomize MF 5528 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5527 
The room eats dynamic 5527 
Diffusers 5527 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5526 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5511 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5510 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5510 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5510 
About Width-Importance balance. 5508 
Letting the music scale up 5507 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5507 
To finish my house décor… 5503 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5502 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5501 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5501 
Calling the gods of music 5501 
Absolutely 5501 
Phase manipulation 5501 
No relation. 5501 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5501 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5501 
Dynamical mismatch 5500 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5500 
Stradiwinerius? 5497 
Dealing with the glass. 5496 
Boston 5496 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5496 
Added mass 5496 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5496 
It is about moderation…. 5496 
To hell with the wine... 5496 
Also for other surafaces 5495 
LEAD 5495 
LEAD & GLASS 5495 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5495 
Read carefully 5495 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5495 
Crooks and morons 5495 
Magiscopios 5494 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5474 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5474 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5473 
The LP setup in the new home. 5422 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5417 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5417 
Pianochord will do! 5417 
Spanyi heaven 5417 
I see no conflict at all. 5417 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5417 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5417 
A year after closing 5409 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5409 
Traveling antimatter 5402 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5396 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5395 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5369 
Cast Iron fireplace 5368 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5368 
The hardcore way 5368 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5332 
This is How It's Done 5331 
Listening room during summer. 5319 
What about those... 5318 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5318 
Reducing A/C Noise 5318 
HVAC the Cat 5318 
Big Ass fan 5317 
Variac dimmers 5317 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5317 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5317 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5249 
Some winter observations. 5140 
That Asian man…. 5109 
The Franz Schubert morning 5083 
Spring.... 5032 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4982 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4953 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4953 
Just good photography? 4953 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4953 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4953 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4952 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4952 
Sports car 4952 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4952 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4952 
Train Positioning 4952 
Kind of what I want 4952 
The lap listening… 4952 
Family Room 4952 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4949 
A super audio room. 4945 
Time Warp! 4945 
A piano in a listening room 4924 
Pianissimo 4924 
The plan in blue. 4924 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4924 
My doubts 4924 
It is exactly what I worry. 4923 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4923 
Musicians at home 4923 
Piano Measurements 4922 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4917 
The next step. 4903 
Midbass horns missing?? 4902 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4892 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4892 
Baby Grand 4891 
Wood floor 4891 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4891 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4891 
Amy’s baby. 4889 
Improvement 4889 
Agree with Scott 4889 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4877 
Integrated casters 4877 
Very nice, thanks. 4877 
Customization 4877 
Sliders 4877 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4870 
Congratulations 4870 
Holes in the floor... 4870 
Tubes and kids 4870 
Sweet spot enlargement 4870 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4868 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4867 
Wood Floors and Water 4867 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4862 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4861 
WAF is for Losers 4861 
WAF: it depends. 4861 
Integration 4860 
Here and there. 4860 
Life after WWIII 4860 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4860 
Cables management. 4858 
Featurizing 4858 
Kids and tubes cont. 4855 
Kid magnet 4855 
Kids and audio 4854 
Radars 4854 
Wow, what the days! 4850 
The comming weekend 4846 
It all was worth it! 4843 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4838 
Here is how it is look. 4838 
Resolving the carpet issue 4838 
Bonfire 4838 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4838 
Proof of concept? 4838 
Geometry 4838 
A view from listening position. 4838 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4838 
Some feedback 4838 
Evening 4838 
I wonder why. 4837 
Rugs and things 4837 
In defense… 4837 
I can’t get it. 4834 
Haze. 4833 
Front wall 4833 
It is very possible. 4833 
It is nice to be back. 4830 
My comfy corner. 4827 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4467 
WMD in house. 4289 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4192 
The third listening spot. 4171 
For sure a very different experience. 4133 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4128 
It's Jfretch's system. 4128 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4127 
Domestic games 4081 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3942 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3942 
Dynamic screening 3942 
Actually this is very good idea! 3942 
Volcanic fabric 3942 
I should have done this. 3940 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3936 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3905 
No worries 3905 
Awesome memories 3905 
Optimization of space 3905 
Child-ish considerations 3902 
Finding peace.... 3896 
"Fencing"? 3895 
I need to build something custom 3895 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3895 
Stressed Skin 3895 
NYC elevators 3895 
Kids toys and quantities. 3895 
Everything is completely reversible 3894 
Racks and things 3894 
Now it looks even more promising! 3894 
Quantity of rods 3894 
Avoiding diagonals 3892 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3891 
That's not fair! 3891 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3891 
Discrimination? 3886 
Vertical configuration 3879 
Impresive ! 3808 
Did you read the site? 3808 
Contact 3808 
Company's name is Rixrax 3808 
Stand 3807 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3763 
End of life headphone system 3763 
Something like this? 3763 
The "Second Living Room" 3763 
Mixing urban & suburban 3763 
Late night listening 3763 
Moving life... 3761 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3761 
A true listening room. 3737 
It started… 3722 
Levels of Interest 3722 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3722 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3722 
I can't not to post it.... 3722 
Do not leave him unattended. 3722 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3722 
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