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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5806 
The first take on the new room. 5800 
New Room, a first shot. 5799 
Wonderful 5799 
Adopted 5798 
The first relaxed night with the room 5796 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5795 
The listening room is ready. 5794 
New Room, a First Shot 5792 
Continue to work with the room 5792 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5792 
Room 5791 
I think it will take another month. 5791 
The Buttressing 5791 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5790 
The new place and the new noises. 5790 
Big listening room 5789 
Screw the "big" rooms 5789 
Big listening rooms 5789 
First reflection points 5788 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5788 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5785 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5784 
Squeezing the floor 5784 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5784 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5784 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5783 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5783 
The new room, the very first listening. 5783 
The 14.5 foot. 5782 
Again… 5781 
Romy's new Playground 5781 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5781 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5781 
For the uninitiated ... 5780 
NH guy 5780 
Room 5780 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5779 
The first base is done 5779 
Reentry time alignment. 5778 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5777 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5777 
Mid bass horn. 5777 
Guess is only a guess… 5777 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5777 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5776 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5776 
Diffusors 5776 
Diffuse injection 5776 
Let analyse why it so 5776 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5776 
Wheel and Deal 5776 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5776 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5776 
I Must Be Missing Something 5776 
I put sliders under my speakers 5775 
ROOM 5774 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5774 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5774 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5774 
No concerns 5774 
Speakers and room 5774 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5773 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5773 
Diaphram 5773 
Phram 5773 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5773 
Perfect piston 5773 
Decorater 5772 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5772 
New morning 5771 
The first take on the room with RTA 5770 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5770 
Axiomatic 5770 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5769 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5769 
The size of the bass. 5769 
Bass Factory 5769 
Crude Level, or something more? 5769 
I will play with it this week…. 5769 
Rent-A 5769 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5769 
Corner horns 5769 
Cheating from below 5769 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5769 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5768 
A possibly overly simplified view 5768 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5768 
Iceberg 5768 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5768 
Why not horn 5768 
A correction…. 5768 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5768 
They are just not related things at all. 5768 
Fertin 5766 
Low resonance is good... 5766 
Et tu, Brute? 5765 
The Room response at LF 5764 
Life On The Ground Floor 5764 
Bass arrays 5764 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5764 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5764 
The super sucks. 5764 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5764 
You may also try 5763 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5763 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5763 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5763 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5763 
60 Hz Resonance 5763 
No notching… so far. 5763 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5762 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5762 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5762 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5762 
Power to the People 5762 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5762 
Aura 5762 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5762 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5762 
All class D is the same 5762 
Interpreting the LF results. 5761 
The Halibut 5761 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5761 
The Big Picture 5761 
Power & ULF channels 5761 
The big picture indeed. 5761 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5761 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5761 
The Power and the Glory 5760 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5760 
I guess I did not get this memo 5760 
French LF drivers 5760 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5760 
(another) French LF approach 5759 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5759 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5759 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5759 
Limpschtick 5759 
Symmetry 5759 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5758 
Room correction 5758 
It migh be more complicated. 5758 
Bass EQ ? 5758 
Agree and not. 5758 
Two "diseases" 5758 
Parametric filters 5758 
Ceiling arrays 5758 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5758 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5758 
The Middle of the Room. 5758 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5758 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5758 
Stop! 5758 
Appendectomy 5758 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5757 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5757 
No Isolation 5757 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5754 
Potential contenders? 5753 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5753 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5753 
Those Crazy Canucks 5749 
Mo' Better Bass 5743 
Bird in the Hand? 5743 
A wet listening spot? 5736 
Storm 5733 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5733 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5719 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5689 
Polar Opposite ULF 5688 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5676 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5674 
Differently but the same. 5673 
PVC 5672 
The sail test try. 5672 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5672 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5672 
Trial 5671 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5671 
Some explanations 5671 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5670 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5669 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5668 
Acrylate 5667 
Magic blanket 5667 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5666 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5666 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5666 
I have a few options. 5666 
Foam color 5666 
Strange things with upperbass 5666 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5665 
Teatro reform. . . 5665 
The foaming room dilemma. 5664 
Melamine Foam 5664 
Foaming up the cat house 5664 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5664 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5664 
Acoustic revisions… 5663 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5660 
Surprises so far in the new room 5659 
The upperbass in the new room. 5659 
Slight change of hart. 5658 
Camco supply of Boston 5656 
Room acoustics 5656 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5615 
I need to kill dust first. 5615 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5613 
To feed the leeches? 5613 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5612 
Yh 5612 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5612 
DPOLs? 5612 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5612 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5609 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5609 
A HalfPipe solution? 5609 
I absolutely love it. 5609 
Piper work 5608 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5608 
Absorption 5608 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5607 
Cats life ? 5607 
Call me Pussy. 5607 
More about traps 5607 
Acoustic impedance? 5607 
You maybe right 5607 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5607 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5606 
Heavy Curtain 5606 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5605 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5605 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5605 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5602 
Fix speaker move chair? 5601 
Back and forth ceremony 5601 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5600 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5599 
Glass windows 5598 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5597 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5596 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5594 
How to use basement jacks? 5594 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5594 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5594 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5593 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5593 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5592 
Sore eyes... 5591 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5591 
The harvesting week! 5589 
I need an inspiration… 5588 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5587 
Like this? 5587 
Dramatically randomize MF 5587 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5586 
The room eats dynamic 5586 
Diffusers 5586 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5585 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5570 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5569 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5569 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5569 
About Width-Importance balance. 5567 
Letting the music scale up 5566 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5566 
To finish my house décor… 5562 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5561 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5560 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5560 
Calling the gods of music 5560 
Absolutely 5560 
Phase manipulation 5560 
No relation. 5560 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5560 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5560 
Dynamical mismatch 5559 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5559 
Stradiwinerius? 5556 
Dealing with the glass. 5555 
Boston 5555 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5555 
Added mass 5555 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5555 
It is about moderation…. 5555 
To hell with the wine... 5555 
Also for other surafaces 5554 
LEAD 5554 
LEAD & GLASS 5554 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5554 
Read carefully 5554 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5554 
Crooks and morons 5554 
Magiscopios 5553 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5533 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5533 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5532 
The LP setup in the new home. 5481 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5476 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5476 
Pianochord will do! 5476 
Spanyi heaven 5476 
I see no conflict at all. 5476 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5476 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5476 
A year after closing 5468 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5468 
Traveling antimatter 5461 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5455 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5454 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5428 
Cast Iron fireplace 5427 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5427 
The hardcore way 5427 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5391 
This is How It's Done 5390 
Listening room during summer. 5378 
What about those... 5377 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5377 
Reducing A/C Noise 5377 
HVAC the Cat 5377 
Big Ass fan 5376 
Variac dimmers 5376 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5376 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5376 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5308 
Some winter observations. 5199 
That Asian man…. 5168 
The Franz Schubert morning 5142 
Spring.... 5091 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5041 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5012 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5012 
Just good photography? 5012 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5012 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5012 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5011 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5011 
Sports car 5011 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5011 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5011 
Train Positioning 5011 
Kind of what I want 5011 
The lap listening… 5011 
Family Room 5011 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5008 
A super audio room. 5004 
Time Warp! 5004 
A piano in a listening room 4983 
Pianissimo 4983 
The plan in blue. 4983 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4983 
My doubts 4983 
It is exactly what I worry. 4982 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4982 
Musicians at home 4982 
Piano Measurements 4981 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4976 
The next step. 4962 
Midbass horns missing?? 4961 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4951 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4951 
Baby Grand 4950 
Wood floor 4950 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4950 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4950 
Amy’s baby. 4948 
Improvement 4948 
Agree with Scott 4948 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4936 
Integrated casters 4936 
Very nice, thanks. 4936 
Customization 4936 
Sliders 4936 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4929 
Congratulations 4929 
Holes in the floor... 4929 
Tubes and kids 4929 
Sweet spot enlargement 4929 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4927 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4926 
Wood Floors and Water 4926 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4921 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4920 
WAF is for Losers 4920 
WAF: it depends. 4920 
Integration 4919 
Here and there. 4919 
Life after WWIII 4919 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4919 
Cables management. 4917 
Featurizing 4917 
Kids and tubes cont. 4914 
Kid magnet 4914 
Kids and audio 4913 
Radars 4913 
Wow, what the days! 4909 
The comming weekend 4905 
It all was worth it! 4902 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4897 
Here is how it is look. 4897 
Resolving the carpet issue 4897 
Bonfire 4897 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4897 
Proof of concept? 4897 
Geometry 4897 
A view from listening position. 4897 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4897 
Some feedback 4897 
Evening 4897 
I wonder why. 4896 
Rugs and things 4896 
In defense… 4896 
I can’t get it. 4893 
Haze. 4892 
Front wall 4892 
It is very possible. 4892 
It is nice to be back. 4889 
My comfy corner. 4886 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4526 
WMD in house. 4348 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4251 
The third listening spot. 4230 
For sure a very different experience. 4192 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4187 
It's Jfretch's system. 4187 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4186 
Domestic games 4140 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4001 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4001 
Dynamic screening 4001 
Actually this is very good idea! 4001 
Volcanic fabric 4001 
I should have done this. 3999 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3995 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3964 
No worries 3964 
Awesome memories 3964 
Optimization of space 3964 
Child-ish considerations 3961 
Finding peace.... 3955 
"Fencing"? 3954 
I need to build something custom 3954 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3954 
Stressed Skin 3954 
NYC elevators 3954 
Kids toys and quantities. 3954 
Everything is completely reversible 3953 
Racks and things 3953 
Now it looks even more promising! 3953 
Quantity of rods 3953 
Avoiding diagonals 3951 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3950 
That's not fair! 3950 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3950 
Discrimination? 3945 
Vertical configuration 3938 
Impresive ! 3867 
Did you read the site? 3867 
Contact 3867 
Company's name is Rixrax 3867 
Stand 3866 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3822 
End of life headphone system 3822 
Something like this? 3822 
The "Second Living Room" 3822 
Mixing urban & suburban 3822 
Late night listening 3822 
Moving life... 3820 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3820 
A true listening room. 3796 
It started… 3781 
Levels of Interest 3781 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3781 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3781 
I can't not to post it.... 3781 
Do not leave him unattended. 3781 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3781 
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