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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5971 
The first take on the new room. 5965 
New Room, a first shot. 5964 
Wonderful 5964 
Adopted 5963 
The first relaxed night with the room 5961 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5960 
The listening room is ready. 5959 
New Room, a First Shot 5957 
Continue to work with the room 5957 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5957 
Room 5956 
I think it will take another month. 5956 
The Buttressing 5956 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5955 
The new place and the new noises. 5955 
Big listening room 5954 
Screw the "big" rooms 5954 
Big listening rooms 5954 
First reflection points 5953 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5953 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5950 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5949 
Squeezing the floor 5949 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5949 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5949 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5948 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5948 
The new room, the very first listening. 5948 
The 14.5 foot. 5947 
Again… 5946 
Romy's new Playground 5946 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5946 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5946 
For the uninitiated ... 5945 
NH guy 5945 
Room 5945 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5944 
The first base is done 5944 
Reentry time alignment. 5943 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5942 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5942 
Mid bass horn. 5942 
Guess is only a guess… 5942 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5942 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5941 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5941 
Diffusors 5941 
Diffuse injection 5941 
Let analyse why it so 5941 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5941 
Wheel and Deal 5941 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5941 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5941 
I Must Be Missing Something 5941 
I put sliders under my speakers 5940 
ROOM 5939 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5939 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5939 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5939 
No concerns 5939 
Speakers and room 5939 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5938 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5938 
Diaphram 5938 
Phram 5938 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5938 
Perfect piston 5938 
Decorater 5937 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5937 
New morning 5936 
The first take on the room with RTA 5935 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5935 
Axiomatic 5935 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5934 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5934 
The size of the bass. 5934 
Bass Factory 5934 
Crude Level, or something more? 5934 
I will play with it this week…. 5934 
Rent-A 5934 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5934 
Corner horns 5934 
Cheating from below 5934 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5934 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5933 
A possibly overly simplified view 5933 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5933 
Iceberg 5933 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5933 
Why not horn 5933 
A correction…. 5933 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5933 
They are just not related things at all. 5933 
Fertin 5931 
Low resonance is good... 5931 
Et tu, Brute? 5930 
The Room response at LF 5929 
Life On The Ground Floor 5929 
Bass arrays 5929 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5929 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5929 
The super sucks. 5929 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5929 
You may also try 5928 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5928 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5928 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5928 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5928 
60 Hz Resonance 5928 
No notching… so far. 5928 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5927 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5927 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5927 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5927 
Power to the People 5927 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5927 
Aura 5927 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5927 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5927 
All class D is the same 5927 
Interpreting the LF results. 5926 
The Halibut 5926 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5926 
The Big Picture 5926 
Power & ULF channels 5926 
The big picture indeed. 5926 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5926 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5926 
The Power and the Glory 5925 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5925 
I guess I did not get this memo 5925 
French LF drivers 5925 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5925 
(another) French LF approach 5924 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5924 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5924 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5924 
Limpschtick 5924 
Symmetry 5924 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5923 
Room correction 5923 
It migh be more complicated. 5923 
Bass EQ ? 5923 
Agree and not. 5923 
Two "diseases" 5923 
Parametric filters 5923 
Ceiling arrays 5923 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5923 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5923 
The Middle of the Room. 5923 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5923 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5923 
Stop! 5923 
Appendectomy 5923 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5922 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5922 
No Isolation 5922 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5919 
Potential contenders? 5918 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5918 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5918 
Those Crazy Canucks 5914 
Mo' Better Bass 5908 
Bird in the Hand? 5908 
A wet listening spot? 5901 
Storm 5898 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5898 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5884 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5854 
Polar Opposite ULF 5853 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5841 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5839 
Differently but the same. 5838 
PVC 5837 
The sail test try. 5837 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5837 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5837 
Trial 5836 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5836 
Some explanations 5836 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5835 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5834 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5833 
Acrylate 5832 
Magic blanket 5832 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5831 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5831 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5831 
I have a few options. 5831 
Foam color 5831 
Strange things with upperbass 5831 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5830 
Teatro reform. . . 5830 
The foaming room dilemma. 5829 
Melamine Foam 5829 
Foaming up the cat house 5829 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5829 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5829 
Acoustic revisions… 5828 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5825 
Surprises so far in the new room 5824 
The upperbass in the new room. 5824 
Slight change of hart. 5823 
Camco supply of Boston 5821 
Room acoustics 5821 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5780 
I need to kill dust first. 5780 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5778 
To feed the leeches? 5778 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5777 
Yh 5777 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5777 
DPOLs? 5777 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5777 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5774 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5774 
A HalfPipe solution? 5774 
I absolutely love it. 5774 
Piper work 5773 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5773 
Absorption 5773 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5772 
Cats life ? 5772 
Call me Pussy. 5772 
More about traps 5772 
Acoustic impedance? 5772 
You maybe right 5772 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5772 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5771 
Heavy Curtain 5771 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5770 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5770 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5770 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5767 
Fix speaker move chair? 5766 
Back and forth ceremony 5766 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5765 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5764 
Glass windows 5763 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5762 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5761 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5759 
How to use basement jacks? 5759 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5759 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5759 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5758 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5758 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5757 
Sore eyes... 5756 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5756 
The harvesting week! 5754 
I need an inspiration… 5753 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5752 
Like this? 5752 
Dramatically randomize MF 5752 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5751 
The room eats dynamic 5751 
Diffusers 5751 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5750 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5735 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5734 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5734 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5734 
About Width-Importance balance. 5732 
Letting the music scale up 5731 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5731 
To finish my house décor… 5727 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5726 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5725 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5725 
Calling the gods of music 5725 
Absolutely 5725 
Phase manipulation 5725 
No relation. 5725 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5725 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5725 
Dynamical mismatch 5724 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5724 
Stradiwinerius? 5721 
Dealing with the glass. 5720 
Boston 5720 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5720 
Added mass 5720 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5720 
It is about moderation…. 5720 
To hell with the wine... 5720 
Also for other surafaces 5719 
LEAD 5719 
LEAD & GLASS 5719 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5719 
Read carefully 5719 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5719 
Crooks and morons 5719 
Magiscopios 5718 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5698 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5698 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5697 
The LP setup in the new home. 5646 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5641 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5641 
Pianochord will do! 5641 
Spanyi heaven 5641 
I see no conflict at all. 5641 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5641 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5641 
A year after closing 5633 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5633 
Traveling antimatter 5626 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5620 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5619 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5593 
Cast Iron fireplace 5592 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5592 
The hardcore way 5592 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5556 
This is How It's Done 5555 
Listening room during summer. 5543 
What about those... 5542 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5542 
Reducing A/C Noise 5542 
HVAC the Cat 5542 
Big Ass fan 5541 
Variac dimmers 5541 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5541 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5541 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5473 
Some winter observations. 5364 
That Asian man…. 5333 
The Franz Schubert morning 5307 
Spring.... 5256 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5206 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5177 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5177 
Just good photography? 5177 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5177 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5177 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5176 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5176 
Sports car 5176 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5176 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5176 
Train Positioning 5176 
Kind of what I want 5176 
The lap listening… 5176 
Family Room 5176 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5173 
A super audio room. 5169 
Time Warp! 5169 
A piano in a listening room 5148 
Pianissimo 5148 
The plan in blue. 5148 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5148 
My doubts 5148 
It is exactly what I worry. 5147 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5147 
Musicians at home 5147 
Piano Measurements 5146 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5141 
The next step. 5127 
Midbass horns missing?? 5126 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5116 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5116 
Baby Grand 5115 
Wood floor 5115 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5115 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5115 
Amy’s baby. 5113 
Improvement 5113 
Agree with Scott 5113 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5101 
Integrated casters 5101 
Very nice, thanks. 5101 
Customization 5101 
Sliders 5101 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5094 
Congratulations 5094 
Holes in the floor... 5094 
Tubes and kids 5094 
Sweet spot enlargement 5094 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5092 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5091 
Wood Floors and Water 5091 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5086 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5085 
WAF is for Losers 5085 
WAF: it depends. 5085 
Integration 5084 
Here and there. 5084 
Life after WWIII 5084 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5084 
Cables management. 5082 
Featurizing 5082 
Kids and tubes cont. 5079 
Kid magnet 5079 
Kids and audio 5078 
Radars 5078 
Wow, what the days! 5074 
The comming weekend 5070 
It all was worth it! 5067 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5062 
Here is how it is look. 5062 
Resolving the carpet issue 5062 
Bonfire 5062 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5062 
Proof of concept? 5062 
Geometry 5062 
A view from listening position. 5062 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5062 
Some feedback 5062 
Evening 5062 
I wonder why. 5061 
Rugs and things 5061 
In defense… 5061 
I can’t get it. 5058 
Haze. 5057 
Front wall 5057 
It is very possible. 5057 
It is nice to be back. 5054 
My comfy corner. 5051 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4691 
WMD in house. 4513 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4416 
The third listening spot. 4395 
For sure a very different experience. 4357 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4352 
It's Jfretch's system. 4352 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4351 
Domestic games 4305 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4166 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4166 
Dynamic screening 4166 
Actually this is very good idea! 4166 
Volcanic fabric 4166 
I should have done this. 4164 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4160 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4129 
No worries 4129 
Awesome memories 4129 
Optimization of space 4129 
Child-ish considerations 4126 
Finding peace.... 4120 
"Fencing"? 4119 
I need to build something custom 4119 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4119 
Stressed Skin 4119 
NYC elevators 4119 
Kids toys and quantities. 4119 
Everything is completely reversible 4118 
Racks and things 4118 
Now it looks even more promising! 4118 
Quantity of rods 4118 
Avoiding diagonals 4116 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4115 
That's not fair! 4115 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4115 
Discrimination? 4110 
Vertical configuration 4103 
Impresive ! 4032 
Did you read the site? 4032 
Contact 4032 
Company's name is Rixrax 4032 
Stand 4031 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3987 
End of life headphone system 3987 
Something like this? 3987 
The "Second Living Room" 3987 
Mixing urban & suburban 3987 
Late night listening 3987 
Moving life... 3985 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3985 
A true listening room. 3961 
It started… 3946 
Levels of Interest 3946 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3946 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3946 
I can't not to post it.... 3946 
Do not leave him unattended. 3946 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3946 
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