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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5883 
The first take on the new room. 5877 
New Room, a first shot. 5876 
Wonderful 5876 
Adopted 5875 
The first relaxed night with the room 5873 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5872 
The listening room is ready. 5871 
New Room, a First Shot 5869 
Continue to work with the room 5869 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5869 
Room 5868 
I think it will take another month. 5868 
The Buttressing 5868 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5867 
The new place and the new noises. 5867 
Big listening room 5866 
Screw the "big" rooms 5866 
Big listening rooms 5866 
First reflection points 5865 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5865 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5862 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5861 
Squeezing the floor 5861 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5861 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5861 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5860 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5860 
The new room, the very first listening. 5860 
The 14.5 foot. 5859 
Again… 5858 
Romy's new Playground 5858 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5858 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5858 
For the uninitiated ... 5857 
NH guy 5857 
Room 5857 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5856 
The first base is done 5856 
Reentry time alignment. 5855 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5854 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5854 
Mid bass horn. 5854 
Guess is only a guess… 5854 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5854 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5853 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5853 
Diffusors 5853 
Diffuse injection 5853 
Let analyse why it so 5853 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5853 
Wheel and Deal 5853 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5853 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5853 
I Must Be Missing Something 5853 
I put sliders under my speakers 5852 
ROOM 5851 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5851 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5851 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5851 
No concerns 5851 
Speakers and room 5851 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5850 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5850 
Diaphram 5850 
Phram 5850 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5850 
Perfect piston 5850 
Decorater 5849 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5849 
New morning 5848 
The first take on the room with RTA 5847 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5847 
Axiomatic 5847 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5846 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5846 
The size of the bass. 5846 
Bass Factory 5846 
Crude Level, or something more? 5846 
I will play with it this week…. 5846 
Rent-A 5846 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5846 
Corner horns 5846 
Cheating from below 5846 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5846 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5845 
A possibly overly simplified view 5845 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5845 
Iceberg 5845 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5845 
Why not horn 5845 
A correction…. 5845 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5845 
They are just not related things at all. 5845 
Fertin 5843 
Low resonance is good... 5843 
Et tu, Brute? 5842 
The Room response at LF 5841 
Life On The Ground Floor 5841 
Bass arrays 5841 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5841 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5841 
The super sucks. 5841 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5841 
You may also try 5840 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5840 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5840 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5840 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5840 
60 Hz Resonance 5840 
No notching… so far. 5840 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5839 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5839 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5839 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5839 
Power to the People 5839 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5839 
Aura 5839 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5839 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5839 
All class D is the same 5839 
Interpreting the LF results. 5838 
The Halibut 5838 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5838 
The Big Picture 5838 
Power & ULF channels 5838 
The big picture indeed. 5838 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5838 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5838 
The Power and the Glory 5837 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5837 
I guess I did not get this memo 5837 
French LF drivers 5837 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5837 
(another) French LF approach 5836 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5836 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5836 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5836 
Limpschtick 5836 
Symmetry 5836 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5835 
Room correction 5835 
It migh be more complicated. 5835 
Bass EQ ? 5835 
Agree and not. 5835 
Two "diseases" 5835 
Parametric filters 5835 
Ceiling arrays 5835 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5835 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5835 
The Middle of the Room. 5835 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5835 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5835 
Stop! 5835 
Appendectomy 5835 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5834 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5834 
No Isolation 5834 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5831 
Potential contenders? 5830 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5830 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5830 
Those Crazy Canucks 5826 
Mo' Better Bass 5820 
Bird in the Hand? 5820 
A wet listening spot? 5813 
Storm 5810 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5810 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5796 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5766 
Polar Opposite ULF 5765 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5753 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5751 
Differently but the same. 5750 
PVC 5749 
The sail test try. 5749 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5749 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5749 
Trial 5748 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5748 
Some explanations 5748 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5747 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5746 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5745 
Acrylate 5744 
Magic blanket 5744 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5743 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5743 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5743 
I have a few options. 5743 
Foam color 5743 
Strange things with upperbass 5743 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5742 
Teatro reform. . . 5742 
The foaming room dilemma. 5741 
Melamine Foam 5741 
Foaming up the cat house 5741 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5741 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5741 
Acoustic revisions… 5740 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5737 
Surprises so far in the new room 5736 
The upperbass in the new room. 5736 
Slight change of hart. 5735 
Camco supply of Boston 5733 
Room acoustics 5733 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5692 
I need to kill dust first. 5692 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5690 
To feed the leeches? 5690 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5689 
Yh 5689 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5689 
DPOLs? 5689 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5689 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5686 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5686 
A HalfPipe solution? 5686 
I absolutely love it. 5686 
Piper work 5685 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5685 
Absorption 5685 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5684 
Cats life ? 5684 
Call me Pussy. 5684 
More about traps 5684 
Acoustic impedance? 5684 
You maybe right 5684 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5684 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5683 
Heavy Curtain 5683 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5682 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5682 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5682 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5679 
Fix speaker move chair? 5678 
Back and forth ceremony 5678 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5677 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5676 
Glass windows 5675 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5674 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5673 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5671 
How to use basement jacks? 5671 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5671 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5671 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5670 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5670 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5669 
Sore eyes... 5668 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5668 
The harvesting week! 5666 
I need an inspiration… 5665 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5664 
Like this? 5664 
Dramatically randomize MF 5664 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5663 
The room eats dynamic 5663 
Diffusers 5663 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5662 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5647 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5646 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5646 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5646 
About Width-Importance balance. 5644 
Letting the music scale up 5643 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5643 
To finish my house décor… 5639 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5638 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5637 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5637 
Calling the gods of music 5637 
Absolutely 5637 
Phase manipulation 5637 
No relation. 5637 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5637 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5637 
Dynamical mismatch 5636 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5636 
Stradiwinerius? 5633 
Dealing with the glass. 5632 
Boston 5632 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5632 
Added mass 5632 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5632 
It is about moderation…. 5632 
To hell with the wine... 5632 
Also for other surafaces 5631 
LEAD 5631 
LEAD & GLASS 5631 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5631 
Read carefully 5631 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5631 
Crooks and morons 5631 
Magiscopios 5630 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5610 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5610 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5609 
The LP setup in the new home. 5558 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5553 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5553 
Pianochord will do! 5553 
Spanyi heaven 5553 
I see no conflict at all. 5553 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5553 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5553 
A year after closing 5545 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5545 
Traveling antimatter 5538 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5532 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5531 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5505 
Cast Iron fireplace 5504 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5504 
The hardcore way 5504 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5468 
This is How It's Done 5467 
Listening room during summer. 5455 
What about those... 5454 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5454 
Reducing A/C Noise 5454 
HVAC the Cat 5454 
Big Ass fan 5453 
Variac dimmers 5453 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5453 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5453 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5385 
Some winter observations. 5276 
That Asian man…. 5245 
The Franz Schubert morning 5219 
Spring.... 5168 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5118 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5089 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5089 
Just good photography? 5089 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5089 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5089 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5088 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5088 
Sports car 5088 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5088 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5088 
Train Positioning 5088 
Kind of what I want 5088 
The lap listening… 5088 
Family Room 5088 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5085 
A super audio room. 5081 
Time Warp! 5081 
A piano in a listening room 5060 
Pianissimo 5060 
The plan in blue. 5060 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5060 
My doubts 5060 
It is exactly what I worry. 5059 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5059 
Musicians at home 5059 
Piano Measurements 5058 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5053 
The next step. 5039 
Midbass horns missing?? 5038 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5028 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5028 
Baby Grand 5027 
Wood floor 5027 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5027 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5027 
Amy’s baby. 5025 
Improvement 5025 
Agree with Scott 5025 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5013 
Integrated casters 5013 
Very nice, thanks. 5013 
Customization 5013 
Sliders 5013 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5006 
Congratulations 5006 
Holes in the floor... 5006 
Tubes and kids 5006 
Sweet spot enlargement 5006 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5004 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5003 
Wood Floors and Water 5003 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4998 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4997 
WAF is for Losers 4997 
WAF: it depends. 4997 
Integration 4996 
Here and there. 4996 
Life after WWIII 4996 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4996 
Cables management. 4994 
Featurizing 4994 
Kids and tubes cont. 4991 
Kid magnet 4991 
Kids and audio 4990 
Radars 4990 
Wow, what the days! 4986 
The comming weekend 4982 
It all was worth it! 4979 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4974 
Here is how it is look. 4974 
Resolving the carpet issue 4974 
Bonfire 4974 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4974 
Proof of concept? 4974 
Geometry 4974 
A view from listening position. 4974 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4974 
Some feedback 4974 
Evening 4974 
I wonder why. 4973 
Rugs and things 4973 
In defense… 4973 
I can’t get it. 4970 
Haze. 4969 
Front wall 4969 
It is very possible. 4969 
It is nice to be back. 4966 
My comfy corner. 4963 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4603 
WMD in house. 4425 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4328 
The third listening spot. 4307 
For sure a very different experience. 4269 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4264 
It's Jfretch's system. 4264 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4263 
Domestic games 4217 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4078 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4078 
Dynamic screening 4078 
Actually this is very good idea! 4078 
Volcanic fabric 4078 
I should have done this. 4076 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4072 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4041 
No worries 4041 
Awesome memories 4041 
Optimization of space 4041 
Child-ish considerations 4038 
Finding peace.... 4032 
"Fencing"? 4031 
I need to build something custom 4031 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4031 
Stressed Skin 4031 
NYC elevators 4031 
Kids toys and quantities. 4031 
Everything is completely reversible 4030 
Racks and things 4030 
Now it looks even more promising! 4030 
Quantity of rods 4030 
Avoiding diagonals 4028 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4027 
That's not fair! 4027 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4027 
Discrimination? 4022 
Vertical configuration 4015 
Impresive ! 3944 
Did you read the site? 3944 
Contact 3944 
Company's name is Rixrax 3944 
Stand 3943 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3899 
End of life headphone system 3899 
Something like this? 3899 
The "Second Living Room" 3899 
Mixing urban & suburban 3899 
Late night listening 3899 
Moving life... 3897 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3897 
A true listening room. 3873 
It started… 3858 
Levels of Interest 3858 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3858 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3858 
I can't not to post it.... 3858 
Do not leave him unattended. 3858 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3858 
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