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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6043 
The first take on the new room. 6037 
New Room, a first shot. 6036 
Wonderful 6036 
Adopted 6035 
The first relaxed night with the room 6033 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6032 
The listening room is ready. 6031 
New Room, a First Shot 6029 
Continue to work with the room 6029 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6029 
Room 6028 
I think it will take another month. 6028 
The Buttressing 6028 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6027 
The new place and the new noises. 6027 
Big listening room 6026 
Screw the "big" rooms 6026 
Big listening rooms 6026 
First reflection points 6025 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6025 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6022 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6021 
Squeezing the floor 6021 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6021 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6021 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6020 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6020 
The new room, the very first listening. 6020 
The 14.5 foot. 6019 
Again… 6018 
Romy's new Playground 6018 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6018 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6018 
For the uninitiated ... 6017 
NH guy 6017 
Room 6017 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6016 
The first base is done 6016 
Reentry time alignment. 6015 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6014 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6014 
Mid bass horn. 6014 
Guess is only a guess… 6014 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6014 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6013 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6013 
Diffusors 6013 
Diffuse injection 6013 
Let analyse why it so 6013 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6013 
Wheel and Deal 6013 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6013 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6013 
I Must Be Missing Something 6013 
I put sliders under my speakers 6012 
ROOM 6011 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6011 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6011 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6011 
No concerns 6011 
Speakers and room 6011 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6010 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6010 
Diaphram 6010 
Phram 6010 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6010 
Perfect piston 6010 
Decorater 6009 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6009 
New morning 6008 
The first take on the room with RTA 6007 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6007 
Axiomatic 6007 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6006 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6006 
The size of the bass. 6006 
Bass Factory 6006 
Crude Level, or something more? 6006 
I will play with it this week…. 6006 
Rent-A 6006 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6006 
Corner horns 6006 
Cheating from below 6006 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6006 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6005 
A possibly overly simplified view 6005 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6005 
Iceberg 6005 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6005 
Why not horn 6005 
A correction…. 6005 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6005 
They are just not related things at all. 6005 
Fertin 6003 
Low resonance is good... 6003 
Et tu, Brute? 6002 
The Room response at LF 6001 
Life On The Ground Floor 6001 
Bass arrays 6001 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6001 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6001 
The super sucks. 6001 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6001 
You may also try 6000 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6000 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6000 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6000 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6000 
60 Hz Resonance 6000 
No notching… so far. 6000 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5999 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5999 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5999 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5999 
Power to the People 5999 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5999 
Aura 5999 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5999 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5999 
All class D is the same 5999 
Interpreting the LF results. 5998 
The Halibut 5998 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5998 
The Big Picture 5998 
Power & ULF channels 5998 
The big picture indeed. 5998 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5998 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5998 
The Power and the Glory 5997 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5997 
I guess I did not get this memo 5997 
French LF drivers 5997 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5997 
(another) French LF approach 5996 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5996 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5996 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5996 
Limpschtick 5996 
Symmetry 5996 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5995 
Room correction 5995 
It migh be more complicated. 5995 
Bass EQ ? 5995 
Agree and not. 5995 
Two "diseases" 5995 
Parametric filters 5995 
Ceiling arrays 5995 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5995 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5995 
The Middle of the Room. 5995 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5995 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5995 
Stop! 5995 
Appendectomy 5995 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5994 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5994 
No Isolation 5994 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5991 
Potential contenders? 5990 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5990 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5990 
Those Crazy Canucks 5986 
Mo' Better Bass 5980 
Bird in the Hand? 5980 
A wet listening spot? 5973 
Storm 5970 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5970 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5956 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5926 
Polar Opposite ULF 5925 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5913 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5911 
Differently but the same. 5910 
PVC 5909 
The sail test try. 5909 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5909 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5909 
Trial 5908 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5908 
Some explanations 5908 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5907 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5906 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5905 
Acrylate 5904 
Magic blanket 5904 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5903 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5903 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5903 
I have a few options. 5903 
Foam color 5903 
Strange things with upperbass 5903 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5902 
Teatro reform. . . 5902 
The foaming room dilemma. 5901 
Melamine Foam 5901 
Foaming up the cat house 5901 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5901 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5901 
Acoustic revisions… 5900 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5897 
Surprises so far in the new room 5896 
The upperbass in the new room. 5896 
Slight change of hart. 5895 
Camco supply of Boston 5893 
Room acoustics 5893 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5852 
I need to kill dust first. 5852 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5850 
To feed the leeches? 5850 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5849 
Yh 5849 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5849 
DPOLs? 5849 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5849 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5846 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5846 
A HalfPipe solution? 5846 
I absolutely love it. 5846 
Piper work 5845 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5845 
Absorption 5845 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5844 
Cats life ? 5844 
Call me Pussy. 5844 
More about traps 5844 
Acoustic impedance? 5844 
You maybe right 5844 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5844 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5843 
Heavy Curtain 5843 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5842 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5842 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5842 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5839 
Fix speaker move chair? 5838 
Back and forth ceremony 5838 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5837 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5836 
Glass windows 5835 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5834 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5833 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5831 
How to use basement jacks? 5831 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5831 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5831 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5830 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5830 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5829 
Sore eyes... 5828 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5828 
The harvesting week! 5826 
I need an inspiration… 5825 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5824 
Like this? 5824 
Dramatically randomize MF 5824 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5823 
The room eats dynamic 5823 
Diffusers 5823 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5822 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5807 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5806 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5806 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5806 
About Width-Importance balance. 5804 
Letting the music scale up 5803 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5803 
To finish my house décor… 5799 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5798 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5797 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5797 
Calling the gods of music 5797 
Absolutely 5797 
Phase manipulation 5797 
No relation. 5797 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5797 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5797 
Dynamical mismatch 5796 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5796 
Stradiwinerius? 5793 
Dealing with the glass. 5792 
Boston 5792 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5792 
Added mass 5792 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5792 
It is about moderation…. 5792 
To hell with the wine... 5792 
Also for other surafaces 5791 
LEAD 5791 
LEAD & GLASS 5791 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5791 
Read carefully 5791 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5791 
Crooks and morons 5791 
Magiscopios 5790 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5770 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5770 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5769 
The LP setup in the new home. 5718 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5713 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5713 
Pianochord will do! 5713 
Spanyi heaven 5713 
I see no conflict at all. 5713 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5713 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5713 
A year after closing 5705 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5705 
Traveling antimatter 5698 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5692 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5691 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5665 
Cast Iron fireplace 5664 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5664 
The hardcore way 5664 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5628 
This is How It's Done 5627 
Listening room during summer. 5615 
What about those... 5614 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5614 
Reducing A/C Noise 5614 
HVAC the Cat 5614 
Big Ass fan 5613 
Variac dimmers 5613 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5613 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5613 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5545 
Some winter observations. 5436 
That Asian man…. 5405 
The Franz Schubert morning 5379 
Spring.... 5328 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5278 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5249 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5249 
Just good photography? 5249 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5249 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5249 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5248 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5248 
Sports car 5248 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5248 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5248 
Train Positioning 5248 
Kind of what I want 5248 
The lap listening… 5248 
Family Room 5248 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5245 
A super audio room. 5241 
Time Warp! 5241 
A piano in a listening room 5220 
Pianissimo 5220 
The plan in blue. 5220 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5220 
My doubts 5220 
It is exactly what I worry. 5219 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5219 
Musicians at home 5219 
Piano Measurements 5218 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5213 
The next step. 5199 
Midbass horns missing?? 5198 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5188 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5188 
Baby Grand 5187 
Wood floor 5187 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5187 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5187 
Amy’s baby. 5185 
Improvement 5185 
Agree with Scott 5185 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5173 
Integrated casters 5173 
Very nice, thanks. 5173 
Customization 5173 
Sliders 5173 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5166 
Congratulations 5166 
Holes in the floor... 5166 
Tubes and kids 5166 
Sweet spot enlargement 5166 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5164 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5163 
Wood Floors and Water 5163 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5158 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5157 
WAF is for Losers 5157 
WAF: it depends. 5157 
Integration 5156 
Here and there. 5156 
Life after WWIII 5156 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5156 
Cables management. 5154 
Featurizing 5154 
Kids and tubes cont. 5151 
Kid magnet 5151 
Kids and audio 5150 
Radars 5150 
Wow, what the days! 5146 
The comming weekend 5142 
It all was worth it! 5139 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5134 
Here is how it is look. 5134 
Resolving the carpet issue 5134 
Bonfire 5134 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5134 
Proof of concept? 5134 
Geometry 5134 
A view from listening position. 5134 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5134 
Some feedback 5134 
Evening 5134 
I wonder why. 5133 
Rugs and things 5133 
In defense… 5133 
I can’t get it. 5130 
Haze. 5129 
Front wall 5129 
It is very possible. 5129 
It is nice to be back. 5126 
My comfy corner. 5123 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4763 
WMD in house. 4585 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4488 
The third listening spot. 4467 
For sure a very different experience. 4429 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4424 
It's Jfretch's system. 4424 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4423 
Domestic games 4377 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4238 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4238 
Dynamic screening 4238 
Actually this is very good idea! 4238 
Volcanic fabric 4238 
I should have done this. 4236 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4232 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4201 
No worries 4201 
Awesome memories 4201 
Optimization of space 4201 
Child-ish considerations 4198 
Finding peace.... 4192 
"Fencing"? 4191 
I need to build something custom 4191 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4191 
Stressed Skin 4191 
NYC elevators 4191 
Kids toys and quantities. 4191 
Everything is completely reversible 4190 
Racks and things 4190 
Now it looks even more promising! 4190 
Quantity of rods 4190 
Avoiding diagonals 4188 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4187 
That's not fair! 4187 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4187 
Discrimination? 4182 
Vertical configuration 4175 
Impresive ! 4104 
Did you read the site? 4104 
Contact 4104 
Company's name is Rixrax 4104 
Stand 4103 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4059 
End of life headphone system 4059 
Something like this? 4059 
The "Second Living Room" 4059 
Mixing urban & suburban 4059 
Late night listening 4059 
Moving life... 4057 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4057 
A true listening room. 4033 
It started… 4018 
Levels of Interest 4018 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4018 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4018 
I can't not to post it.... 4018 
Do not leave him unattended. 4018 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4018 
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