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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5735 
The first take on the new room. 5729 
New Room, a first shot. 5728 
Wonderful 5728 
Adopted 5727 
The first relaxed night with the room 5725 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5724 
The listening room is ready. 5723 
New Room, a First Shot 5721 
Continue to work with the room 5721 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5721 
Room 5720 
I think it will take another month. 5720 
The Buttressing 5720 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5719 
The new place and the new noises. 5719 
Big listening room 5718 
Screw the "big" rooms 5718 
Big listening rooms 5718 
First reflection points 5717 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5717 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5714 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5713 
Squeezing the floor 5713 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5713 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5713 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5712 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5712 
The new room, the very first listening. 5712 
The 14.5 foot. 5711 
Again… 5710 
Romy's new Playground 5710 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5710 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5710 
For the uninitiated ... 5709 
NH guy 5709 
Room 5709 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5708 
The first base is done 5708 
Reentry time alignment. 5707 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5706 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5706 
Mid bass horn. 5706 
Guess is only a guess… 5706 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5706 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5705 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5705 
Diffusors 5705 
Diffuse injection 5705 
Let analyse why it so 5705 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5705 
Wheel and Deal 5705 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5705 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5705 
I Must Be Missing Something 5705 
I put sliders under my speakers 5704 
ROOM 5703 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5703 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5703 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5703 
No concerns 5703 
Speakers and room 5703 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5702 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5702 
Diaphram 5702 
Phram 5702 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5702 
Perfect piston 5702 
Decorater 5701 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5701 
New morning 5700 
The first take on the room with RTA 5699 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5699 
Axiomatic 5699 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5698 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5698 
The size of the bass. 5698 
Bass Factory 5698 
Crude Level, or something more? 5698 
I will play with it this week…. 5698 
Rent-A 5698 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5698 
Corner horns 5698 
Cheating from below 5698 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5698 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5697 
A possibly overly simplified view 5697 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5697 
Iceberg 5697 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5697 
Why not horn 5697 
A correction…. 5697 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5697 
They are just not related things at all. 5697 
Fertin 5695 
Low resonance is good... 5695 
Et tu, Brute? 5694 
The Room response at LF 5693 
Life On The Ground Floor 5693 
Bass arrays 5693 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5693 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5693 
The super sucks. 5693 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5693 
You may also try 5692 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5692 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5692 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5692 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5692 
60 Hz Resonance 5692 
No notching… so far. 5692 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5691 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5691 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5691 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5691 
Power to the People 5691 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5691 
Aura 5691 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5691 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5691 
All class D is the same 5691 
Interpreting the LF results. 5690 
The Halibut 5690 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5690 
The Big Picture 5690 
Power & ULF channels 5690 
The big picture indeed. 5690 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5690 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5690 
The Power and the Glory 5689 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5689 
I guess I did not get this memo 5689 
French LF drivers 5689 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5689 
(another) French LF approach 5688 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5688 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5688 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5688 
Limpschtick 5688 
Symmetry 5688 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5687 
Room correction 5687 
It migh be more complicated. 5687 
Bass EQ ? 5687 
Agree and not. 5687 
Two "diseases" 5687 
Parametric filters 5687 
Ceiling arrays 5687 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5687 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5687 
The Middle of the Room. 5687 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5687 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5687 
Stop! 5687 
Appendectomy 5687 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5686 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5686 
No Isolation 5686 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5683 
Potential contenders? 5682 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5682 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5682 
Those Crazy Canucks 5678 
Mo' Better Bass 5672 
Bird in the Hand? 5672 
A wet listening spot? 5665 
Storm 5662 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5662 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5648 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5618 
Polar Opposite ULF 5617 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5605 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5603 
Differently but the same. 5602 
PVC 5601 
The sail test try. 5601 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5601 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5601 
Trial 5600 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5600 
Some explanations 5600 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5599 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5598 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5597 
Acrylate 5596 
Magic blanket 5596 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5595 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5595 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5595 
I have a few options. 5595 
Foam color 5595 
Strange things with upperbass 5595 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5594 
Teatro reform. . . 5594 
The foaming room dilemma. 5593 
Melamine Foam 5593 
Foaming up the cat house 5593 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5593 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5593 
Acoustic revisions… 5592 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5589 
Surprises so far in the new room 5588 
The upperbass in the new room. 5588 
Slight change of hart. 5587 
Camco supply of Boston 5585 
Room acoustics 5585 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5544 
I need to kill dust first. 5544 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5542 
To feed the leeches? 5542 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5541 
Yh 5541 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5541 
DPOLs? 5541 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5541 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5538 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5538 
A HalfPipe solution? 5538 
I absolutely love it. 5538 
Piper work 5537 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5537 
Absorption 5537 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5536 
Cats life ? 5536 
Call me Pussy. 5536 
More about traps 5536 
Acoustic impedance? 5536 
You maybe right 5536 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5536 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5535 
Heavy Curtain 5535 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5534 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5534 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5534 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5531 
Fix speaker move chair? 5530 
Back and forth ceremony 5530 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5529 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5528 
Glass windows 5527 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5526 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5525 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5523 
How to use basement jacks? 5523 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5523 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5523 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5522 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5522 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5521 
Sore eyes... 5520 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5520 
The harvesting week! 5518 
I need an inspiration… 5517 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5516 
Like this? 5516 
Dramatically randomize MF 5516 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5515 
The room eats dynamic 5515 
Diffusers 5515 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5514 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5499 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5498 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5498 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5498 
About Width-Importance balance. 5496 
Letting the music scale up 5495 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5495 
To finish my house décor… 5491 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5490 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5489 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5489 
Calling the gods of music 5489 
Absolutely 5489 
Phase manipulation 5489 
No relation. 5489 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5489 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5489 
Dynamical mismatch 5488 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5488 
Stradiwinerius? 5485 
Dealing with the glass. 5484 
Boston 5484 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5484 
Added mass 5484 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5484 
It is about moderation…. 5484 
To hell with the wine... 5484 
Also for other surafaces 5483 
LEAD 5483 
LEAD & GLASS 5483 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5483 
Read carefully 5483 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5483 
Crooks and morons 5483 
Magiscopios 5482 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5462 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5462 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5461 
The LP setup in the new home. 5410 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5405 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5405 
Pianochord will do! 5405 
Spanyi heaven 5405 
I see no conflict at all. 5405 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5405 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5405 
A year after closing 5397 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5397 
Traveling antimatter 5390 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5384 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5383 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5357 
Cast Iron fireplace 5356 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5356 
The hardcore way 5356 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5320 
This is How It's Done 5319 
Listening room during summer. 5307 
What about those... 5306 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5306 
Reducing A/C Noise 5306 
HVAC the Cat 5306 
Big Ass fan 5305 
Variac dimmers 5305 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5305 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5305 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5237 
Some winter observations. 5128 
That Asian man…. 5097 
The Franz Schubert morning 5071 
Spring.... 5020 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4970 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4941 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4941 
Just good photography? 4941 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4941 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4941 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4940 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4940 
Sports car 4940 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4940 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4940 
Train Positioning 4940 
Kind of what I want 4940 
The lap listening… 4940 
Family Room 4940 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4937 
A super audio room. 4933 
Time Warp! 4933 
A piano in a listening room 4912 
Pianissimo 4912 
The plan in blue. 4912 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4912 
My doubts 4912 
It is exactly what I worry. 4911 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4911 
Musicians at home 4911 
Piano Measurements 4910 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4905 
The next step. 4891 
Midbass horns missing?? 4890 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4880 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4880 
Baby Grand 4879 
Wood floor 4879 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4879 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4879 
Amy’s baby. 4877 
Improvement 4877 
Agree with Scott 4877 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4865 
Integrated casters 4865 
Very nice, thanks. 4865 
Customization 4865 
Sliders 4865 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4858 
Congratulations 4858 
Holes in the floor... 4858 
Tubes and kids 4858 
Sweet spot enlargement 4858 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4856 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4855 
Wood Floors and Water 4855 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4850 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4849 
WAF is for Losers 4849 
WAF: it depends. 4849 
Integration 4848 
Here and there. 4848 
Life after WWIII 4848 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4848 
Cables management. 4846 
Featurizing 4846 
Kids and tubes cont. 4843 
Kid magnet 4843 
Kids and audio 4842 
Radars 4842 
Wow, what the days! 4838 
The comming weekend 4834 
It all was worth it! 4831 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4826 
Here is how it is look. 4826 
Resolving the carpet issue 4826 
Bonfire 4826 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4826 
Proof of concept? 4826 
Geometry 4826 
A view from listening position. 4826 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4826 
Some feedback 4826 
Evening 4826 
I wonder why. 4825 
Rugs and things 4825 
In defense… 4825 
I can’t get it. 4822 
Haze. 4821 
Front wall 4821 
It is very possible. 4821 
It is nice to be back. 4818 
My comfy corner. 4815 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4455 
WMD in house. 4277 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4180 
The third listening spot. 4159 
For sure a very different experience. 4121 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4116 
It's Jfretch's system. 4116 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4115 
Domestic games 4069 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3930 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3930 
Dynamic screening 3930 
Actually this is very good idea! 3930 
Volcanic fabric 3930 
I should have done this. 3928 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3924 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3893 
No worries 3893 
Awesome memories 3893 
Optimization of space 3893 
Child-ish considerations 3890 
Finding peace.... 3884 
"Fencing"? 3883 
I need to build something custom 3883 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3883 
Stressed Skin 3883 
NYC elevators 3883 
Kids toys and quantities. 3883 
Everything is completely reversible 3882 
Racks and things 3882 
Now it looks even more promising! 3882 
Quantity of rods 3882 
Avoiding diagonals 3880 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3879 
That's not fair! 3879 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3879 
Discrimination? 3874 
Vertical configuration 3867 
Impresive ! 3796 
Did you read the site? 3796 
Contact 3796 
Company's name is Rixrax 3796 
Stand 3795 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3751 
End of life headphone system 3751 
Something like this? 3751 
The "Second Living Room" 3751 
Mixing urban & suburban 3751 
Late night listening 3751 
Moving life... 3749 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3749 
A true listening room. 3725 
It started… 3710 
Levels of Interest 3710 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3710 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3710 
I can't not to post it.... 3710 
Do not leave him unattended. 3710 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3710 
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