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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6030 
The first take on the new room. 6024 
New Room, a first shot. 6023 
Wonderful 6023 
Adopted 6022 
The first relaxed night with the room 6020 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6019 
The listening room is ready. 6018 
New Room, a First Shot 6016 
Continue to work with the room 6016 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6016 
Room 6015 
I think it will take another month. 6015 
The Buttressing 6015 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6014 
The new place and the new noises. 6014 
Big listening room 6013 
Screw the "big" rooms 6013 
Big listening rooms 6013 
First reflection points 6012 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6012 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6009 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6008 
Squeezing the floor 6008 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6008 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6008 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6007 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6007 
The new room, the very first listening. 6007 
The 14.5 foot. 6006 
Again… 6005 
Romy's new Playground 6005 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6005 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6005 
For the uninitiated ... 6004 
NH guy 6004 
Room 6004 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6003 
The first base is done 6003 
Reentry time alignment. 6002 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6001 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6001 
Mid bass horn. 6001 
Guess is only a guess… 6001 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6001 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6000 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6000 
Diffusors 6000 
Diffuse injection 6000 
Let analyse why it so 6000 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6000 
Wheel and Deal 6000 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6000 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6000 
I Must Be Missing Something 6000 
I put sliders under my speakers 5999 
ROOM 5998 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5998 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5998 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5998 
No concerns 5998 
Speakers and room 5998 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5997 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5997 
Diaphram 5997 
Phram 5997 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5997 
Perfect piston 5997 
Decorater 5996 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5996 
New morning 5995 
The first take on the room with RTA 5994 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5994 
Axiomatic 5994 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5993 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5993 
The size of the bass. 5993 
Bass Factory 5993 
Crude Level, or something more? 5993 
I will play with it this week…. 5993 
Rent-A 5993 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5993 
Corner horns 5993 
Cheating from below 5993 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5993 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5992 
A possibly overly simplified view 5992 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5992 
Iceberg 5992 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5992 
Why not horn 5992 
A correction…. 5992 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5992 
They are just not related things at all. 5992 
Fertin 5990 
Low resonance is good... 5990 
Et tu, Brute? 5989 
The Room response at LF 5988 
Life On The Ground Floor 5988 
Bass arrays 5988 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5988 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5988 
The super sucks. 5988 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5988 
You may also try 5987 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5987 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5987 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5987 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5987 
60 Hz Resonance 5987 
No notching… so far. 5987 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5986 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5986 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5986 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5986 
Power to the People 5986 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5986 
Aura 5986 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5986 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5986 
All class D is the same 5986 
Interpreting the LF results. 5985 
The Halibut 5985 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5985 
The Big Picture 5985 
Power & ULF channels 5985 
The big picture indeed. 5985 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5985 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5985 
The Power and the Glory 5984 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5984 
I guess I did not get this memo 5984 
French LF drivers 5984 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5984 
(another) French LF approach 5983 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5983 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5983 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5983 
Limpschtick 5983 
Symmetry 5983 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5982 
Room correction 5982 
It migh be more complicated. 5982 
Bass EQ ? 5982 
Agree and not. 5982 
Two "diseases" 5982 
Parametric filters 5982 
Ceiling arrays 5982 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5982 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5982 
The Middle of the Room. 5982 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5982 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5982 
Stop! 5982 
Appendectomy 5982 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5981 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5981 
No Isolation 5981 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5978 
Potential contenders? 5977 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5977 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5977 
Those Crazy Canucks 5973 
Mo' Better Bass 5967 
Bird in the Hand? 5967 
A wet listening spot? 5960 
Storm 5957 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5957 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5943 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5913 
Polar Opposite ULF 5912 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5900 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5898 
Differently but the same. 5897 
PVC 5896 
The sail test try. 5896 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5896 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5896 
Trial 5895 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5895 
Some explanations 5895 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5894 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5893 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5892 
Acrylate 5891 
Magic blanket 5891 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5890 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5890 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5890 
I have a few options. 5890 
Foam color 5890 
Strange things with upperbass 5890 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5889 
Teatro reform. . . 5889 
The foaming room dilemma. 5888 
Melamine Foam 5888 
Foaming up the cat house 5888 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5888 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5888 
Acoustic revisions… 5887 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5884 
Surprises so far in the new room 5883 
The upperbass in the new room. 5883 
Slight change of hart. 5882 
Camco supply of Boston 5880 
Room acoustics 5880 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5839 
I need to kill dust first. 5839 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5837 
To feed the leeches? 5837 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5836 
Yh 5836 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5836 
DPOLs? 5836 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5836 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5833 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5833 
A HalfPipe solution? 5833 
I absolutely love it. 5833 
Piper work 5832 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5832 
Absorption 5832 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5831 
Cats life ? 5831 
Call me Pussy. 5831 
More about traps 5831 
Acoustic impedance? 5831 
You maybe right 5831 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5831 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5830 
Heavy Curtain 5830 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5829 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5829 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5829 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5826 
Fix speaker move chair? 5825 
Back and forth ceremony 5825 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5824 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5823 
Glass windows 5822 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5821 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5820 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5818 
How to use basement jacks? 5818 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5818 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5818 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5817 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5817 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5816 
Sore eyes... 5815 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5815 
The harvesting week! 5813 
I need an inspiration… 5812 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5811 
Like this? 5811 
Dramatically randomize MF 5811 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5810 
The room eats dynamic 5810 
Diffusers 5810 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5809 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5794 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5793 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5793 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5793 
About Width-Importance balance. 5791 
Letting the music scale up 5790 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5790 
To finish my house décor… 5786 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5785 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5784 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5784 
Calling the gods of music 5784 
Absolutely 5784 
Phase manipulation 5784 
No relation. 5784 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5784 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5784 
Dynamical mismatch 5783 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5783 
Stradiwinerius? 5780 
Dealing with the glass. 5779 
Boston 5779 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5779 
Added mass 5779 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5779 
It is about moderation…. 5779 
To hell with the wine... 5779 
Also for other surafaces 5778 
LEAD 5778 
LEAD & GLASS 5778 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5778 
Read carefully 5778 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5778 
Crooks and morons 5778 
Magiscopios 5777 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5757 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5757 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5756 
The LP setup in the new home. 5705 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5700 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5700 
Pianochord will do! 5700 
Spanyi heaven 5700 
I see no conflict at all. 5700 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5700 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5700 
A year after closing 5692 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5692 
Traveling antimatter 5685 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5679 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5678 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5652 
Cast Iron fireplace 5651 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5651 
The hardcore way 5651 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5615 
This is How It's Done 5614 
Listening room during summer. 5602 
What about those... 5601 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5601 
Reducing A/C Noise 5601 
HVAC the Cat 5601 
Big Ass fan 5600 
Variac dimmers 5600 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5600 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5600 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5532 
Some winter observations. 5423 
That Asian man…. 5392 
The Franz Schubert morning 5366 
Spring.... 5315 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5265 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5236 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5236 
Just good photography? 5236 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5236 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5236 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5235 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5235 
Sports car 5235 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5235 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5235 
Train Positioning 5235 
Kind of what I want 5235 
The lap listening… 5235 
Family Room 5235 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5232 
A super audio room. 5228 
Time Warp! 5228 
A piano in a listening room 5207 
Pianissimo 5207 
The plan in blue. 5207 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5207 
My doubts 5207 
It is exactly what I worry. 5206 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5206 
Musicians at home 5206 
Piano Measurements 5205 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5200 
The next step. 5186 
Midbass horns missing?? 5185 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5175 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5175 
Baby Grand 5174 
Wood floor 5174 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5174 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5174 
Amy’s baby. 5172 
Improvement 5172 
Agree with Scott 5172 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5160 
Integrated casters 5160 
Very nice, thanks. 5160 
Customization 5160 
Sliders 5160 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5153 
Congratulations 5153 
Holes in the floor... 5153 
Tubes and kids 5153 
Sweet spot enlargement 5153 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5151 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5150 
Wood Floors and Water 5150 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5145 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5144 
WAF is for Losers 5144 
WAF: it depends. 5144 
Integration 5143 
Here and there. 5143 
Life after WWIII 5143 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5143 
Cables management. 5141 
Featurizing 5141 
Kids and tubes cont. 5138 
Kid magnet 5138 
Kids and audio 5137 
Radars 5137 
Wow, what the days! 5133 
The comming weekend 5129 
It all was worth it! 5126 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5121 
Here is how it is look. 5121 
Resolving the carpet issue 5121 
Bonfire 5121 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5121 
Proof of concept? 5121 
Geometry 5121 
A view from listening position. 5121 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5121 
Some feedback 5121 
Evening 5121 
I wonder why. 5120 
Rugs and things 5120 
In defense… 5120 
I can’t get it. 5117 
Haze. 5116 
Front wall 5116 
It is very possible. 5116 
It is nice to be back. 5113 
My comfy corner. 5110 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4750 
WMD in house. 4572 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4475 
The third listening spot. 4454 
For sure a very different experience. 4416 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4411 
It's Jfretch's system. 4411 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4410 
Domestic games 4364 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4225 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4225 
Dynamic screening 4225 
Actually this is very good idea! 4225 
Volcanic fabric 4225 
I should have done this. 4223 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4219 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4188 
No worries 4188 
Awesome memories 4188 
Optimization of space 4188 
Child-ish considerations 4185 
Finding peace.... 4179 
"Fencing"? 4178 
I need to build something custom 4178 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4178 
Stressed Skin 4178 
NYC elevators 4178 
Kids toys and quantities. 4178 
Everything is completely reversible 4177 
Racks and things 4177 
Now it looks even more promising! 4177 
Quantity of rods 4177 
Avoiding diagonals 4175 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4174 
That's not fair! 4174 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4174 
Discrimination? 4169 
Vertical configuration 4162 
Impresive ! 4091 
Did you read the site? 4091 
Contact 4091 
Company's name is Rixrax 4091 
Stand 4090 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4046 
End of life headphone system 4046 
Something like this? 4046 
The "Second Living Room" 4046 
Mixing urban & suburban 4046 
Late night listening 4046 
Moving life... 4044 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4044 
A true listening room. 4020 
It started… 4005 
Levels of Interest 4005 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4005 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4005 
I can't not to post it.... 4005 
Do not leave him unattended. 4005 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4005 
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