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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5805 
The first take on the new room. 5799 
New Room, a first shot. 5798 
Wonderful 5798 
Adopted 5797 
The first relaxed night with the room 5795 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5794 
The listening room is ready. 5793 
New Room, a First Shot 5791 
Continue to work with the room 5791 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5791 
Room 5790 
I think it will take another month. 5790 
The Buttressing 5790 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5789 
The new place and the new noises. 5789 
Big listening room 5788 
Screw the "big" rooms 5788 
Big listening rooms 5788 
First reflection points 5787 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5787 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5784 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5783 
Squeezing the floor 5783 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5783 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5783 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5782 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5782 
The new room, the very first listening. 5782 
The 14.5 foot. 5781 
Again… 5780 
Romy's new Playground 5780 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5780 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5780 
For the uninitiated ... 5779 
NH guy 5779 
Room 5779 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5778 
The first base is done 5778 
Reentry time alignment. 5777 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5776 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5776 
Mid bass horn. 5776 
Guess is only a guess… 5776 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5776 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5775 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5775 
Diffusors 5775 
Diffuse injection 5775 
Let analyse why it so 5775 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5775 
Wheel and Deal 5775 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5775 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5775 
I Must Be Missing Something 5775 
I put sliders under my speakers 5774 
ROOM 5773 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5773 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5773 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5773 
No concerns 5773 
Speakers and room 5773 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5772 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5772 
Diaphram 5772 
Phram 5772 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5772 
Perfect piston 5772 
Decorater 5771 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5771 
New morning 5770 
The first take on the room with RTA 5769 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5769 
Axiomatic 5769 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5768 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5768 
The size of the bass. 5768 
Bass Factory 5768 
Crude Level, or something more? 5768 
I will play with it this week…. 5768 
Rent-A 5768 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5768 
Corner horns 5768 
Cheating from below 5768 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5768 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5767 
A possibly overly simplified view 5767 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5767 
Iceberg 5767 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5767 
Why not horn 5767 
A correction…. 5767 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5767 
They are just not related things at all. 5767 
Fertin 5765 
Low resonance is good... 5765 
Et tu, Brute? 5764 
The Room response at LF 5763 
Life On The Ground Floor 5763 
Bass arrays 5763 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5763 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5763 
The super sucks. 5763 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5763 
You may also try 5762 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5762 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5762 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5762 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5762 
60 Hz Resonance 5762 
No notching… so far. 5762 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5761 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5761 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5761 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5761 
Power to the People 5761 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5761 
Aura 5761 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5761 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5761 
All class D is the same 5761 
Interpreting the LF results. 5760 
The Halibut 5760 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5760 
The Big Picture 5760 
Power & ULF channels 5760 
The big picture indeed. 5760 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5760 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5760 
The Power and the Glory 5759 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5759 
I guess I did not get this memo 5759 
French LF drivers 5759 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5759 
(another) French LF approach 5758 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5758 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5758 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5758 
Limpschtick 5758 
Symmetry 5758 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5757 
Room correction 5757 
It migh be more complicated. 5757 
Bass EQ ? 5757 
Agree and not. 5757 
Two "diseases" 5757 
Parametric filters 5757 
Ceiling arrays 5757 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5757 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5757 
The Middle of the Room. 5757 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5757 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5757 
Stop! 5757 
Appendectomy 5757 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5756 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5756 
No Isolation 5756 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5753 
Potential contenders? 5752 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5752 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5752 
Those Crazy Canucks 5748 
Mo' Better Bass 5742 
Bird in the Hand? 5742 
A wet listening spot? 5735 
Storm 5732 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5732 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5718 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5688 
Polar Opposite ULF 5687 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5675 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5673 
Differently but the same. 5672 
PVC 5671 
The sail test try. 5671 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5671 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5671 
Trial 5670 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5670 
Some explanations 5670 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5669 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5668 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5667 
Acrylate 5666 
Magic blanket 5666 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5665 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5665 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5665 
I have a few options. 5665 
Foam color 5665 
Strange things with upperbass 5665 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5664 
Teatro reform. . . 5664 
The foaming room dilemma. 5663 
Melamine Foam 5663 
Foaming up the cat house 5663 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5663 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5663 
Acoustic revisions… 5662 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5659 
Surprises so far in the new room 5658 
The upperbass in the new room. 5658 
Slight change of hart. 5657 
Camco supply of Boston 5655 
Room acoustics 5655 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5614 
I need to kill dust first. 5614 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5612 
To feed the leeches? 5612 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5611 
Yh 5611 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5611 
DPOLs? 5611 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5611 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5608 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5608 
A HalfPipe solution? 5608 
I absolutely love it. 5608 
Piper work 5607 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5607 
Absorption 5607 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5606 
Cats life ? 5606 
Call me Pussy. 5606 
More about traps 5606 
Acoustic impedance? 5606 
You maybe right 5606 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5606 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5605 
Heavy Curtain 5605 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5604 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5604 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5604 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5601 
Fix speaker move chair? 5600 
Back and forth ceremony 5600 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5599 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5598 
Glass windows 5597 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5596 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5595 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5593 
How to use basement jacks? 5593 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5593 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5593 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5592 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5592 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5591 
Sore eyes... 5590 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5590 
The harvesting week! 5588 
I need an inspiration… 5587 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5586 
Like this? 5586 
Dramatically randomize MF 5586 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5585 
The room eats dynamic 5585 
Diffusers 5585 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5584 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5569 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5568 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5568 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5568 
About Width-Importance balance. 5566 
Letting the music scale up 5565 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5565 
To finish my house décor… 5561 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5560 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5559 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5559 
Calling the gods of music 5559 
Absolutely 5559 
Phase manipulation 5559 
No relation. 5559 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5559 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5559 
Dynamical mismatch 5558 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5558 
Stradiwinerius? 5555 
Dealing with the glass. 5554 
Boston 5554 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5554 
Added mass 5554 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5554 
It is about moderation…. 5554 
To hell with the wine... 5554 
Also for other surafaces 5553 
LEAD 5553 
LEAD & GLASS 5553 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5553 
Read carefully 5553 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5553 
Crooks and morons 5553 
Magiscopios 5552 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5532 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5532 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5531 
The LP setup in the new home. 5480 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5475 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5475 
Pianochord will do! 5475 
Spanyi heaven 5475 
I see no conflict at all. 5475 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5475 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5475 
A year after closing 5467 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5467 
Traveling antimatter 5460 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5454 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5453 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5427 
Cast Iron fireplace 5426 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5426 
The hardcore way 5426 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5390 
This is How It's Done 5389 
Listening room during summer. 5377 
What about those... 5376 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5376 
Reducing A/C Noise 5376 
HVAC the Cat 5376 
Big Ass fan 5375 
Variac dimmers 5375 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5375 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5375 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5307 
Some winter observations. 5198 
That Asian man…. 5167 
The Franz Schubert morning 5141 
Spring.... 5090 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5040 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5011 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5011 
Just good photography? 5011 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5011 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5011 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5010 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5010 
Sports car 5010 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5010 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5010 
Train Positioning 5010 
Kind of what I want 5010 
The lap listening… 5010 
Family Room 5010 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5007 
A super audio room. 5003 
Time Warp! 5003 
A piano in a listening room 4982 
Pianissimo 4982 
The plan in blue. 4982 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4982 
My doubts 4982 
It is exactly what I worry. 4981 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4981 
Musicians at home 4981 
Piano Measurements 4980 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4975 
The next step. 4961 
Midbass horns missing?? 4960 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4950 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4950 
Baby Grand 4949 
Wood floor 4949 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4949 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4949 
Amy’s baby. 4947 
Improvement 4947 
Agree with Scott 4947 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4935 
Integrated casters 4935 
Very nice, thanks. 4935 
Customization 4935 
Sliders 4935 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4928 
Congratulations 4928 
Holes in the floor... 4928 
Tubes and kids 4928 
Sweet spot enlargement 4928 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4926 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4925 
Wood Floors and Water 4925 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4920 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4919 
WAF is for Losers 4919 
WAF: it depends. 4919 
Integration 4918 
Here and there. 4918 
Life after WWIII 4918 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4918 
Cables management. 4916 
Featurizing 4916 
Kids and tubes cont. 4913 
Kid magnet 4913 
Kids and audio 4912 
Radars 4912 
Wow, what the days! 4908 
The comming weekend 4904 
It all was worth it! 4901 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4896 
Here is how it is look. 4896 
Resolving the carpet issue 4896 
Bonfire 4896 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4896 
Proof of concept? 4896 
Geometry 4896 
A view from listening position. 4896 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4896 
Some feedback 4896 
Evening 4896 
I wonder why. 4895 
Rugs and things 4895 
In defense… 4895 
I can’t get it. 4892 
Haze. 4891 
Front wall 4891 
It is very possible. 4891 
It is nice to be back. 4888 
My comfy corner. 4885 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4525 
WMD in house. 4347 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4250 
The third listening spot. 4229 
For sure a very different experience. 4191 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4186 
It's Jfretch's system. 4186 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4185 
Domestic games 4139 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4000 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4000 
Dynamic screening 4000 
Actually this is very good idea! 4000 
Volcanic fabric 4000 
I should have done this. 3998 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3994 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3963 
No worries 3963 
Awesome memories 3963 
Optimization of space 3963 
Child-ish considerations 3960 
Finding peace.... 3954 
"Fencing"? 3953 
I need to build something custom 3953 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3953 
Stressed Skin 3953 
NYC elevators 3953 
Kids toys and quantities. 3953 
Everything is completely reversible 3952 
Racks and things 3952 
Now it looks even more promising! 3952 
Quantity of rods 3952 
Avoiding diagonals 3950 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3949 
That's not fair! 3949 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3949 
Discrimination? 3944 
Vertical configuration 3937 
Impresive ! 3866 
Did you read the site? 3866 
Contact 3866 
Company's name is Rixrax 3866 
Stand 3865 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3821 
End of life headphone system 3821 
Something like this? 3821 
The "Second Living Room" 3821 
Mixing urban & suburban 3821 
Late night listening 3821 
Moving life... 3819 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3819 
A true listening room. 3795 
It started… 3780 
Levels of Interest 3780 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3780 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3780 
I can't not to post it.... 3780 
Do not leave him unattended. 3780 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3780 
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