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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5833  The first take on the new room. 5827  New Room, a first shot. 5826  Wonderful 5826  Adopted 5825  The first relaxed night with the room 5823  "Stylish" acoustic panels 5822  The listening room is ready. 5821  New Room, a First Shot 5819  Continue to work with the room 5819  Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5819  Room 5818  I think it will take another month. 5818  The Buttressing 5818  Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5817  The new place and the new noises. 5817  Big listening room 5816  Screw the "big" rooms 5816  Big listening rooms 5816  First reflection points 5815  The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5815  One of the walls is almost "treated". 5812  To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5811  Squeezing the floor 5811  To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5811  You Will Have to Experiment... 5811  Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5810  Passive vs. Active flooring. 5810  The new room, the very first listening. 5810  The 14.5 foot. 5809  Again… 5808  Romy's new Playground 5808  So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5808  A phenomenal encouragement! 5808  For the uninitiated ... 5807  NH guy 5807  Room 5807  Design decisions and topologies…. 5806  The first base is done 5806  Reentry time alignment. 5805  Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5804  The peculiarity of time alignment. 5804  Mid bass horn. 5804  Guess is only a guess… 5804  What I do not like in my current Sound. 5804  Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5803  George Massenburg's Diffusion 5803  Diffusors 5803  Diffuse injection 5803  Let analyse why it so 5803  Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5803  Wheel and Deal 5803  Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5803  The High-End Saloon Sound 5803  I Must Be Missing Something 5803  I put sliders under my speakers 5802  ROOM 5801  Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5801  "Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5801  I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5801  No concerns 5801  Speakers and room 5801  I will continue working on my Macondo. 5800  The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5800  Diaphram 5800  Phram 5800  Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5800  Perfect piston 5800  Decorater 5799  Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5799  New morning 5798  The first take on the room with RTA 5797  How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5797  Axiomatic 5797  The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5796  Wetness is about more than reflections 5796  The size of the bass. 5796  Bass Factory 5796  Crude Level, or something more? 5796  I will play with it this week…. 5796  Rent-A 5796  Secret of pressurizing open room 5796  Corner horns 5796  Cheating from below 5796  The sequence, the sequence…. 5796  About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5795  A possibly overly simplified view 5795  The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5795  Iceberg 5795  Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5795  Why not horn 5795  A correction…. 5795  Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5795  They are just not related things at all. 5795  Fertin 5793  Low resonance is good... 5793  Et tu, Brute? 5792  The Room response at LF 5791  Life On The Ground Floor 5791  Bass arrays 5791  Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5791  Learning something new everyday in audio. 5791  The super sucks. 5791  Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5791  You may also try 5790  Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5790  Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5790  Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5790  Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5790  60 Hz Resonance 5790  No notching… so far. 5790  Rotunda Karlson Solution 5789  The boxes for Aura 1808? 5789  Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5789  Enclosure volume LB channel 5789  Power to the People 5789  A vicinity where I would just start…. 5789  Aura 5789  No Way Around the Power Gap 5789  Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5789  All class D is the same 5789  Interpreting the LF results. 5788  The Halibut 5788  My old box with Aura, hm…. 5788  The Big Picture 5788  Power & ULF channels 5788  The big picture indeed. 5788  Which actual brings an interesting question… 5788  Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5788  The Power and the Glory 5787  Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5787  I guess I did not get this memo 5787  French LF drivers 5787  Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5787  (another) French LF approach 5786  Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5786  S many options and there is so little time and des... 5786  Using limp mass acoustic? 5786  Limpschtick 5786  Symmetry 5786  Décor maybe fake for playback 5785  Room correction 5785  It migh be more complicated. 5785  Bass EQ ? 5785  Agree and not. 5785  Two "diseases" 5785  Parametric filters 5785  Ceiling arrays 5785  Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5785  Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5785  The Middle of the Room. 5785  On the Shoulders of Giants* 5785  LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5785  Stop! 5785  Appendectomy 5785  Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5784  ...particularly if you have tried it? 5784  No Isolation 5784  It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5781  Potential contenders? 5780  The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5780  Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5780  Those Crazy Canucks 5776  Mo' Better Bass 5770  Bird in the Hand? 5770  A wet listening spot? 5763  Storm 5760  Did you think Bach have done everything? 5760  A cheap but effective ceiling 5746  Hm, another very interesting idea. 5716  Polar Opposite ULF 5715  The heat dissipation in the new room 5703  Starting to play with room acoustics 5701  Differently but the same. 5700  PVC 5699  The sail test try. 5699  Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5699  Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5699  Trial 5698  My further thoughts on room acoustics 5698  Some explanations 5698  No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5697  Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5696  OK, it’s getting ugly 5695  Acrylate 5694  Magic blanket 5694  Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5693  The great Midwest to the rescue 5693  TV between speaker have what effect? 5693  I have a few options. 5693  Foam color 5693  Strange things with upperbass 5693  Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5692  Teatro reform. . . 5692  The foaming room dilemma. 5691  Melamine Foam 5691  Foaming up the cat house 5691  The ASC Sound Panels. 5691  Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5691  Acoustic revisions… 5690  An interesting solution from Portugal. 5687  Surprises so far in the new room 5686  The upperbass in the new room. 5686  Slight change of hart. 5685  Camco supply of Boston 5683  Room acoustics 5683  Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5642  I need to kill dust first. 5642  Ahh, the echo chamber 5640  To feed the leeches? 5640  What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5639  Yh 5639  The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5639  DPOLs? 5639  I am nowhere near DPoLS 5639  So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5636  The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5636  A HalfPipe solution? 5636  I absolutely love it. 5636  Piper work 5635  I need to educate myself about tube traps 5635  Absorption 5635  The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5634  Cats life ? 5634  Call me Pussy. 5634  More about traps 5634  Acoustic impedance? 5634  You maybe right 5634  With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5634  How to deal with glass in listening room? 5633  Heavy Curtain 5633  Romy reinventing the wheel? 5632  We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5632  Tunes, traps and tweaks 5632  Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5629  Fix speaker move chair? 5628  Back and forth ceremony 5628  Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5627  Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5626  Glass windows 5625  Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5624  I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5623  The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5621  How to use basement jacks? 5621  Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5621  The Acoustic Treatment day! 5621  So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5620  There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5620  Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5619  Sore eyes... 5618  Do not touch the carbuncle. 5618  The harvesting week! 5616  I need an inspiration… 5615  The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5614  Like this? 5614  Dramatically randomize MF 5614  Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5613  The room eats dynamic 5613  Diffusers 5613  Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5612  Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5597  Macondo calibration check sheet. 5596  Acoustic room treatment is done. 5596  A typical midday in my new listening room 5596  About Width-Importance balance. 5594  Letting the music scale up 5593  Constant-width vs. active-width 5593  To finish my house décor… 5589  Tasteful interior decor strategy 5588  Phase nuances – the last liability 5587  Irony of "FR" Drivers 5587  Calling the gods of music 5587  Absolutely 5587  Phase manipulation 5587  No relation. 5587  Spinning Into Another Thread... 5587  DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5587  Dynamical mismatch 5586  What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5586  Stradiwinerius? 5583  Dealing with the glass. 5582  Boston 5582  Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5582  Added mass 5582  Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5582  It is about moderation…. 5582  To hell with the wine... 5582  Also for other surafaces 5581  LEAD 5581  LEAD & GLASS 5581  Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5581  Read carefully 5581  Bruckner and Counterpoint 5581  Crooks and morons 5581  Magiscopios 5580  “It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5560  "A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5560  How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5559  The LP setup in the new home. 5508  4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5503  Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5503  Pianochord will do! 5503  Spanyi heaven 5503  I see no conflict at all. 5503  Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5503  Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5503  A year after closing 5495  "Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5495  Traveling antimatter 5488  If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5482  The fiberglass aggravations. 5481  Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5455  Cast Iron fireplace 5454  I would like to have a real fireplace. 5454  The hardcore way 5454  Suspended floor effective remedy. 5418  This is How It's Done 5417  Listening room during summer. 5405  What about those... 5404  Madrid "silent" air ducts 5404  Reducing A/C Noise 5404  HVAC the Cat 5404  Big Ass fan 5403  Variac dimmers 5403  Ceiling fan speed controls 5403  Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5403  About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5335  Some winter observations. 5226  That Asian man…. 5195  The Franz Schubert morning 5169  Spring.... 5118  Different acoustics in my listening room. 5068  Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5039  The ultimate piece of equipment 5039  Just good photography? 5039  Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5039  The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5039  It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5038  Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5038  Sports car 5038  An environmental aspect of noise. 5038  The only the sweetspot seat? 5038  Train Positioning 5038  Kind of what I want 5038  The lap listening… 5038  Family Room 5038  About dead-end listening rooms. 5035  A super audio room. 5031  Time Warp! 5031  A piano in a listening room 5010  Pianissimo 5010  The plan in blue. 5010  Re: A piano in a listening room 5010  My doubts 5010  It is exactly what I worry. 5009  Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5009  Musicians at home 5009  Piano Measurements 5008  It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5003  The next step. 4989  Midbass horns missing?? 4988  A new appearance of Macondo? 4978  Audio + Plants + WATER! 4978  Baby Grand 4977  Wood floor 4977  Hardwood floors in listening room 4977  My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4977  Amy’s baby. 4975  Improvement 4975  Agree with Scott 4975  Hardwood floors consequences. 4963  Integrated casters 4963  Very nice, thanks. 4963  Customization 4963  Sliders 4963  OK, the hardwood floors go. 4956  Congratulations 4956  Holes in the floor... 4956  Tubes and kids 4956  Sweet spot enlargement 4956  No compromises with Sweet Spot 4954  A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4953  Wood Floors and Water 4953  It is a lot of fun in the end. 4948  Romy the Cat and WAF? 4947  WAF is for Losers 4947  WAF: it depends. 4947  Integration 4946  Here and there. 4946  Life after WWIII 4946  So, Not Parquet, after all 4946  Cables management. 4944  Featurizing 4944  Kids and tubes cont. 4941  Kid magnet 4941  Kids and audio 4940  Radars 4940  Wow, what the days! 4936  The comming weekend 4932  It all was worth it! 4929  Sound back and sentences by structure 4924  Here is how it is look. 4924  Resolving the carpet issue 4924  Bonfire 4924  Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4924  Proof of concept? 4924  Geometry 4924  A view from listening position. 4924  Aspects of a Dilemma 4924  Some feedback 4924  Evening 4924  I wonder why. 4923  Rugs and things 4923  In defense… 4923  I can’t get it. 4920  Haze. 4919  Front wall 4919  It is very possible. 4919  It is nice to be back. 4916  My comfy corner. 4913  It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4553  WMD in house. 4375  Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4278  The third listening spot. 4257  For sure a very different experience. 4219  A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4214  It's Jfretch's system. 4214  Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4213  Domestic games 4167  A minor collapse of major prenup. 4028  Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4028  Dynamic screening 4028  Actually this is very good idea! 4028  Volcanic fabric 4028  I should have done this. 4026  Subduing the barbarity of function 4022  Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3991  No worries 3991  Awesome memories 3991  Optimization of space 3991  Child-ish considerations 3988  Finding peace.... 3982  "Fencing"? 3981  I need to build something custom 3981  That is the idea that I am think for now. 3981  Stressed Skin 3981  NYC elevators 3981  Kids toys and quantities. 3981  Everything is completely reversible 3980  Racks and things 3980  Now it looks even more promising! 3980  Quantity of rods 3980  Avoiding diagonals 3978  Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3977  That's not fair! 3977  Speakers do not like boxes… 3977  Discrimination? 3972  Vertical configuration 3965  Impresive ! 3894  Did you read the site? 3894  Contact 3894  Company's name is Rixrax 3894  Stand 3893  Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3849  End of life headphone system 3849  Something like this? 3849  The "Second Living Room" 3849  Mixing urban & suburban 3849  Late night listening 3849  Moving life... 3847  Well, let see how it goes.... 3847  A true listening room. 3823  It started… 3808  Levels of Interest 3808  Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3808  Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3808  I can't not to post it.... 3808  Do not leave him unattended. 3808  Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3808  All context of this site except the Forum's posts Copyright © Roman Bessnow 2004-2026 All messages within the Site’s Forum Copyright © by authors of the posts Last 24-hours posts:  0   Total human visitors:  60,781,051   Search the Site           Search Site Forum      Search Site via Google Login into Site Login: Pass:     Create a New Account     Forgot your Account Classical events in Boston APR 1 Institute for Concer» APR 2 Andris Nelsons, cond» APR 3 Andris Nelsons, cond» APR 4 Andris Nelsons, cond» APR 5 Paul Galbraith, guit» APR 5 ribute to Coretta Sc» APR 5 Bach Cantata Series » APR 6 First Monday at Jord» NPR Classical Programs lang lang: tiny desk (home)» marin alsop on her swing or» mahan esfahani: tiny desk c» cellist lynn harrell has di» npr music's top 14 albums o» anthony davis wins pulitzer» augustin hadelich: tiny des» c.p.e. bach: mercurial dive» Classical Music News classical music news - leo» classical music news - aug» is bach better on harp?» julian bream, maestro of g» a woman takes the podium a» he wasn’t toscanini, but h» 9 things to do this weeken» classical music news. diab» another trump blunder» from concerts to cartoons:» classical music livestream» how to diversify orchestra» ethel smyth, a composer lo» classical music attracts o» More Music News »» Composer's Anniversaries Arbeau, Thoinot (Jehan) (1» Tabourot, Thoinot (Jehan) » Marín, José ( 1» Hofmann, Leopold (14 Augu» Khandoshkin, Ivan Evstaf&#» Gariboldi, Guiseppe (17 Ma» Rheinberger, Joseph (17 Ma» Uribe-Holguín, Guille» Bonnet, Joseph (17 March 1» Escher, Rudolf (8 January » Dodgson, Stephen (17 March» Finnissy, Michael (17 Mar» Brockman, Jane (17 March 1» Peros, Nick (17 March 1963» My Audio Leftovers ESS AMT-1A Heil Air Mot» Vitavox S2 Compression » Sansui TU-X1 Tuner Koetsu Onyx Platinum Ca» Hillock TV-2 tube tester CEC TL-0 MK2 transport Electro-Voice T350 twee» Stage Acompany SA8535 d» Micro-Seiki air-suspend» Micro Seiki RX-5000 Vitavox 330Hz Horn for » More Leftovers »»