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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5849 
The first take on the new room. 5843 
New Room, a first shot. 5842 
Wonderful 5842 
Adopted 5841 
The first relaxed night with the room 5839 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5838 
The listening room is ready. 5837 
New Room, a First Shot 5835 
Continue to work with the room 5835 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5835 
Room 5834 
I think it will take another month. 5834 
The Buttressing 5834 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5833 
The new place and the new noises. 5833 
Big listening room 5832 
Screw the "big" rooms 5832 
Big listening rooms 5832 
First reflection points 5831 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5831 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5828 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5827 
Squeezing the floor 5827 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5827 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5827 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5826 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5826 
The new room, the very first listening. 5826 
The 14.5 foot. 5825 
Again… 5824 
Romy's new Playground 5824 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5824 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5824 
For the uninitiated ... 5823 
NH guy 5823 
Room 5823 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5822 
The first base is done 5822 
Reentry time alignment. 5821 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5820 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5820 
Mid bass horn. 5820 
Guess is only a guess… 5820 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5820 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5819 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5819 
Diffusors 5819 
Diffuse injection 5819 
Let analyse why it so 5819 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5819 
Wheel and Deal 5819 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5819 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5819 
I Must Be Missing Something 5819 
I put sliders under my speakers 5818 
ROOM 5817 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5817 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5817 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5817 
No concerns 5817 
Speakers and room 5817 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5816 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5816 
Diaphram 5816 
Phram 5816 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5816 
Perfect piston 5816 
Decorater 5815 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5815 
New morning 5814 
The first take on the room with RTA 5813 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5813 
Axiomatic 5813 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5812 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5812 
The size of the bass. 5812 
Bass Factory 5812 
Crude Level, or something more? 5812 
I will play with it this week…. 5812 
Rent-A 5812 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5812 
Corner horns 5812 
Cheating from below 5812 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5812 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5811 
A possibly overly simplified view 5811 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5811 
Iceberg 5811 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5811 
Why not horn 5811 
A correction…. 5811 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5811 
They are just not related things at all. 5811 
Fertin 5809 
Low resonance is good... 5809 
Et tu, Brute? 5808 
The Room response at LF 5807 
Life On The Ground Floor 5807 
Bass arrays 5807 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5807 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5807 
The super sucks. 5807 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5807 
You may also try 5806 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5806 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5806 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5806 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5806 
60 Hz Resonance 5806 
No notching… so far. 5806 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5805 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5805 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5805 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5805 
Power to the People 5805 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5805 
Aura 5805 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5805 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5805 
All class D is the same 5805 
Interpreting the LF results. 5804 
The Halibut 5804 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5804 
The Big Picture 5804 
Power & ULF channels 5804 
The big picture indeed. 5804 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5804 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5804 
The Power and the Glory 5803 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5803 
I guess I did not get this memo 5803 
French LF drivers 5803 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5803 
(another) French LF approach 5802 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5802 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5802 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5802 
Limpschtick 5802 
Symmetry 5802 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5801 
Room correction 5801 
It migh be more complicated. 5801 
Bass EQ ? 5801 
Agree and not. 5801 
Two "diseases" 5801 
Parametric filters 5801 
Ceiling arrays 5801 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5801 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5801 
The Middle of the Room. 5801 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5801 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5801 
Stop! 5801 
Appendectomy 5801 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5800 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5800 
No Isolation 5800 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5797 
Potential contenders? 5796 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5796 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5796 
Those Crazy Canucks 5792 
Mo' Better Bass 5786 
Bird in the Hand? 5786 
A wet listening spot? 5779 
Storm 5776 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5776 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5762 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5732 
Polar Opposite ULF 5731 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5719 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5717 
Differently but the same. 5716 
PVC 5715 
The sail test try. 5715 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5715 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5715 
Trial 5714 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5714 
Some explanations 5714 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5713 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5712 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5711 
Acrylate 5710 
Magic blanket 5710 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5709 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5709 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5709 
I have a few options. 5709 
Foam color 5709 
Strange things with upperbass 5709 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5708 
Teatro reform. . . 5708 
The foaming room dilemma. 5707 
Melamine Foam 5707 
Foaming up the cat house 5707 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5707 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5707 
Acoustic revisions… 5706 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5703 
Surprises so far in the new room 5702 
The upperbass in the new room. 5702 
Slight change of hart. 5701 
Camco supply of Boston 5699 
Room acoustics 5699 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5658 
I need to kill dust first. 5658 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5656 
To feed the leeches? 5656 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5655 
Yh 5655 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5655 
DPOLs? 5655 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5655 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5652 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5652 
A HalfPipe solution? 5652 
I absolutely love it. 5652 
Piper work 5651 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5651 
Absorption 5651 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5650 
Cats life ? 5650 
Call me Pussy. 5650 
More about traps 5650 
Acoustic impedance? 5650 
You maybe right 5650 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5650 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5649 
Heavy Curtain 5649 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5648 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5648 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5648 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5645 
Fix speaker move chair? 5644 
Back and forth ceremony 5644 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5643 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5642 
Glass windows 5641 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5640 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5639 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5637 
How to use basement jacks? 5637 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5637 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5637 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5636 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5636 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5635 
Sore eyes... 5634 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5634 
The harvesting week! 5632 
I need an inspiration… 5631 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5630 
Like this? 5630 
Dramatically randomize MF 5630 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5629 
The room eats dynamic 5629 
Diffusers 5629 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5628 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5613 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5612 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5612 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5612 
About Width-Importance balance. 5610 
Letting the music scale up 5609 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5609 
To finish my house décor… 5605 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5604 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5603 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5603 
Calling the gods of music 5603 
Absolutely 5603 
Phase manipulation 5603 
No relation. 5603 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5603 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5603 
Dynamical mismatch 5602 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5602 
Stradiwinerius? 5599 
Dealing with the glass. 5598 
Boston 5598 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5598 
Added mass 5598 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5598 
It is about moderation…. 5598 
To hell with the wine... 5598 
Also for other surafaces 5597 
LEAD 5597 
LEAD & GLASS 5597 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5597 
Read carefully 5597 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5597 
Crooks and morons 5597 
Magiscopios 5596 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5576 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5576 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5575 
The LP setup in the new home. 5524 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5519 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5519 
Pianochord will do! 5519 
Spanyi heaven 5519 
I see no conflict at all. 5519 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5519 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5519 
A year after closing 5511 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5511 
Traveling antimatter 5504 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5498 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5497 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5471 
Cast Iron fireplace 5470 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5470 
The hardcore way 5470 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5434 
This is How It's Done 5433 
Listening room during summer. 5421 
What about those... 5420 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5420 
Reducing A/C Noise 5420 
HVAC the Cat 5420 
Big Ass fan 5419 
Variac dimmers 5419 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5419 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5419 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5351 
Some winter observations. 5242 
That Asian man…. 5211 
The Franz Schubert morning 5185 
Spring.... 5134 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5084 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5055 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5055 
Just good photography? 5055 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5055 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5055 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5054 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5054 
Sports car 5054 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5054 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5054 
Train Positioning 5054 
Kind of what I want 5054 
The lap listening… 5054 
Family Room 5054 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5051 
A super audio room. 5047 
Time Warp! 5047 
A piano in a listening room 5026 
Pianissimo 5026 
The plan in blue. 5026 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5026 
My doubts 5026 
It is exactly what I worry. 5025 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5025 
Musicians at home 5025 
Piano Measurements 5024 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5019 
The next step. 5005 
Midbass horns missing?? 5004 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4994 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4994 
Baby Grand 4993 
Wood floor 4993 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4993 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4993 
Amy’s baby. 4991 
Improvement 4991 
Agree with Scott 4991 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4979 
Integrated casters 4979 
Very nice, thanks. 4979 
Customization 4979 
Sliders 4979 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4972 
Congratulations 4972 
Holes in the floor... 4972 
Tubes and kids 4972 
Sweet spot enlargement 4972 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4970 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4969 
Wood Floors and Water 4969 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4964 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4963 
WAF is for Losers 4963 
WAF: it depends. 4963 
Integration 4962 
Here and there. 4962 
Life after WWIII 4962 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4962 
Cables management. 4960 
Featurizing 4960 
Kids and tubes cont. 4957 
Kid magnet 4957 
Kids and audio 4956 
Radars 4956 
Wow, what the days! 4952 
The comming weekend 4948 
It all was worth it! 4945 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4940 
Here is how it is look. 4940 
Resolving the carpet issue 4940 
Bonfire 4940 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4940 
Proof of concept? 4940 
Geometry 4940 
A view from listening position. 4940 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4940 
Some feedback 4940 
Evening 4940 
I wonder why. 4939 
Rugs and things 4939 
In defense… 4939 
I can’t get it. 4936 
Haze. 4935 
Front wall 4935 
It is very possible. 4935 
It is nice to be back. 4932 
My comfy corner. 4929 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4569 
WMD in house. 4391 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4294 
The third listening spot. 4273 
For sure a very different experience. 4235 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4230 
It's Jfretch's system. 4230 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4229 
Domestic games 4183 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4044 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4044 
Dynamic screening 4044 
Actually this is very good idea! 4044 
Volcanic fabric 4044 
I should have done this. 4042 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4038 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4007 
No worries 4007 
Awesome memories 4007 
Optimization of space 4007 
Child-ish considerations 4004 
Finding peace.... 3998 
"Fencing"? 3997 
I need to build something custom 3997 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3997 
Stressed Skin 3997 
NYC elevators 3997 
Kids toys and quantities. 3997 
Everything is completely reversible 3996 
Racks and things 3996 
Now it looks even more promising! 3996 
Quantity of rods 3996 
Avoiding diagonals 3994 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3993 
That's not fair! 3993 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3993 
Discrimination? 3988 
Vertical configuration 3981 
Impresive ! 3910 
Did you read the site? 3910 
Contact 3910 
Company's name is Rixrax 3910 
Stand 3909 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3865 
End of life headphone system 3865 
Something like this? 3865 
The "Second Living Room" 3865 
Mixing urban & suburban 3865 
Late night listening 3865 
Moving life... 3863 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3863 
A true listening room. 3839 
It started… 3824 
Levels of Interest 3824 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3824 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3824 
I can't not to post it.... 3824 
Do not leave him unattended. 3824 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3824 
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