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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5821 
The first take on the new room. 5815 
New Room, a first shot. 5814 
Wonderful 5814 
Adopted 5813 
The first relaxed night with the room 5811 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5810 
The listening room is ready. 5809 
New Room, a First Shot 5807 
Continue to work with the room 5807 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5807 
Room 5806 
I think it will take another month. 5806 
The Buttressing 5806 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5805 
The new place and the new noises. 5805 
Big listening room 5804 
Screw the "big" rooms 5804 
Big listening rooms 5804 
First reflection points 5803 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5803 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5800 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5799 
Squeezing the floor 5799 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5799 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5799 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5798 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5798 
The new room, the very first listening. 5798 
The 14.5 foot. 5797 
Again… 5796 
Romy's new Playground 5796 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5796 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5796 
For the uninitiated ... 5795 
NH guy 5795 
Room 5795 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5794 
The first base is done 5794 
Reentry time alignment. 5793 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5792 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5792 
Mid bass horn. 5792 
Guess is only a guess… 5792 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5792 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5791 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5791 
Diffusors 5791 
Diffuse injection 5791 
Let analyse why it so 5791 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5791 
Wheel and Deal 5791 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5791 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5791 
I Must Be Missing Something 5791 
I put sliders under my speakers 5790 
ROOM 5789 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5789 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5789 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5789 
No concerns 5789 
Speakers and room 5789 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5788 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5788 
Diaphram 5788 
Phram 5788 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5788 
Perfect piston 5788 
Decorater 5787 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5787 
New morning 5786 
The first take on the room with RTA 5785 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5785 
Axiomatic 5785 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5784 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5784 
The size of the bass. 5784 
Bass Factory 5784 
Crude Level, or something more? 5784 
I will play with it this week…. 5784 
Rent-A 5784 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5784 
Corner horns 5784 
Cheating from below 5784 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5784 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5783 
A possibly overly simplified view 5783 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5783 
Iceberg 5783 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5783 
Why not horn 5783 
A correction…. 5783 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5783 
They are just not related things at all. 5783 
Fertin 5781 
Low resonance is good... 5781 
Et tu, Brute? 5780 
The Room response at LF 5779 
Life On The Ground Floor 5779 
Bass arrays 5779 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5779 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5779 
The super sucks. 5779 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5779 
You may also try 5778 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5778 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5778 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5778 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5778 
60 Hz Resonance 5778 
No notching… so far. 5778 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5777 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5777 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5777 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5777 
Power to the People 5777 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5777 
Aura 5777 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5777 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5777 
All class D is the same 5777 
Interpreting the LF results. 5776 
The Halibut 5776 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5776 
The Big Picture 5776 
Power & ULF channels 5776 
The big picture indeed. 5776 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5776 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5776 
The Power and the Glory 5775 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5775 
I guess I did not get this memo 5775 
French LF drivers 5775 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5775 
(another) French LF approach 5774 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5774 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5774 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5774 
Limpschtick 5774 
Symmetry 5774 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5773 
Room correction 5773 
It migh be more complicated. 5773 
Bass EQ ? 5773 
Agree and not. 5773 
Two "diseases" 5773 
Parametric filters 5773 
Ceiling arrays 5773 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5773 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5773 
The Middle of the Room. 5773 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5773 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5773 
Stop! 5773 
Appendectomy 5773 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5772 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5772 
No Isolation 5772 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5769 
Potential contenders? 5768 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5768 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5768 
Those Crazy Canucks 5764 
Mo' Better Bass 5758 
Bird in the Hand? 5758 
A wet listening spot? 5751 
Storm 5748 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5748 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5734 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5704 
Polar Opposite ULF 5703 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5691 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5689 
Differently but the same. 5688 
PVC 5687 
The sail test try. 5687 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5687 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5687 
Trial 5686 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5686 
Some explanations 5686 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5685 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5684 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5683 
Acrylate 5682 
Magic blanket 5682 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5681 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5681 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5681 
I have a few options. 5681 
Foam color 5681 
Strange things with upperbass 5681 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5680 
Teatro reform. . . 5680 
The foaming room dilemma. 5679 
Melamine Foam 5679 
Foaming up the cat house 5679 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5679 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5679 
Acoustic revisions… 5678 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5675 
Surprises so far in the new room 5674 
The upperbass in the new room. 5674 
Slight change of hart. 5673 
Camco supply of Boston 5671 
Room acoustics 5671 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5630 
I need to kill dust first. 5630 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5628 
To feed the leeches? 5628 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5627 
Yh 5627 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5627 
DPOLs? 5627 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5627 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5624 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5624 
A HalfPipe solution? 5624 
I absolutely love it. 5624 
Piper work 5623 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5623 
Absorption 5623 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5622 
Cats life ? 5622 
Call me Pussy. 5622 
More about traps 5622 
Acoustic impedance? 5622 
You maybe right 5622 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5622 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5621 
Heavy Curtain 5621 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5620 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5620 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5620 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5617 
Fix speaker move chair? 5616 
Back and forth ceremony 5616 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5615 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5614 
Glass windows 5613 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5612 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5611 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5609 
How to use basement jacks? 5609 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5609 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5609 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5608 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5608 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5607 
Sore eyes... 5606 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5606 
The harvesting week! 5604 
I need an inspiration… 5603 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5602 
Like this? 5602 
Dramatically randomize MF 5602 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5601 
The room eats dynamic 5601 
Diffusers 5601 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5600 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5585 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5584 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5584 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5584 
About Width-Importance balance. 5582 
Letting the music scale up 5581 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5581 
To finish my house décor… 5577 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5576 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5575 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5575 
Calling the gods of music 5575 
Absolutely 5575 
Phase manipulation 5575 
No relation. 5575 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5575 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5575 
Dynamical mismatch 5574 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5574 
Stradiwinerius? 5571 
Dealing with the glass. 5570 
Boston 5570 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5570 
Added mass 5570 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5570 
It is about moderation…. 5570 
To hell with the wine... 5570 
Also for other surafaces 5569 
LEAD 5569 
LEAD & GLASS 5569 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5569 
Read carefully 5569 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5569 
Crooks and morons 5569 
Magiscopios 5568 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5548 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5548 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5547 
The LP setup in the new home. 5496 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5491 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5491 
Pianochord will do! 5491 
Spanyi heaven 5491 
I see no conflict at all. 5491 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5491 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5491 
A year after closing 5483 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5483 
Traveling antimatter 5476 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5470 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5469 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5443 
Cast Iron fireplace 5442 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5442 
The hardcore way 5442 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5406 
This is How It's Done 5405 
Listening room during summer. 5393 
What about those... 5392 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5392 
Reducing A/C Noise 5392 
HVAC the Cat 5392 
Big Ass fan 5391 
Variac dimmers 5391 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5391 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5391 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5323 
Some winter observations. 5214 
That Asian man…. 5183 
The Franz Schubert morning 5157 
Spring.... 5106 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5056 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5027 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5027 
Just good photography? 5027 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5027 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5027 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5026 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5026 
Sports car 5026 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5026 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5026 
Train Positioning 5026 
Kind of what I want 5026 
The lap listening… 5026 
Family Room 5026 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5023 
A super audio room. 5019 
Time Warp! 5019 
A piano in a listening room 4998 
Pianissimo 4998 
The plan in blue. 4998 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4998 
My doubts 4998 
It is exactly what I worry. 4997 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4997 
Musicians at home 4997 
Piano Measurements 4996 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4991 
The next step. 4977 
Midbass horns missing?? 4976 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4966 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4966 
Baby Grand 4965 
Wood floor 4965 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4965 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4965 
Amy’s baby. 4963 
Improvement 4963 
Agree with Scott 4963 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4951 
Integrated casters 4951 
Very nice, thanks. 4951 
Customization 4951 
Sliders 4951 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4944 
Congratulations 4944 
Holes in the floor... 4944 
Tubes and kids 4944 
Sweet spot enlargement 4944 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4942 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4941 
Wood Floors and Water 4941 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4936 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4935 
WAF is for Losers 4935 
WAF: it depends. 4935 
Integration 4934 
Here and there. 4934 
Life after WWIII 4934 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4934 
Cables management. 4932 
Featurizing 4932 
Kids and tubes cont. 4929 
Kid magnet 4929 
Kids and audio 4928 
Radars 4928 
Wow, what the days! 4924 
The comming weekend 4920 
It all was worth it! 4917 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4912 
Here is how it is look. 4912 
Resolving the carpet issue 4912 
Bonfire 4912 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4912 
Proof of concept? 4912 
Geometry 4912 
A view from listening position. 4912 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4912 
Some feedback 4912 
Evening 4912 
I wonder why. 4911 
Rugs and things 4911 
In defense… 4911 
I can’t get it. 4908 
Haze. 4907 
Front wall 4907 
It is very possible. 4907 
It is nice to be back. 4904 
My comfy corner. 4901 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4541 
WMD in house. 4363 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4266 
The third listening spot. 4245 
For sure a very different experience. 4207 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4202 
It's Jfretch's system. 4202 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4201 
Domestic games 4155 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4016 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4016 
Dynamic screening 4016 
Actually this is very good idea! 4016 
Volcanic fabric 4016 
I should have done this. 4014 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4010 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3979 
No worries 3979 
Awesome memories 3979 
Optimization of space 3979 
Child-ish considerations 3976 
Finding peace.... 3970 
"Fencing"? 3969 
I need to build something custom 3969 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3969 
Stressed Skin 3969 
NYC elevators 3969 
Kids toys and quantities. 3969 
Everything is completely reversible 3968 
Racks and things 3968 
Now it looks even more promising! 3968 
Quantity of rods 3968 
Avoiding diagonals 3966 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3965 
That's not fair! 3965 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3965 
Discrimination? 3960 
Vertical configuration 3953 
Impresive ! 3882 
Did you read the site? 3882 
Contact 3882 
Company's name is Rixrax 3882 
Stand 3881 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3837 
End of life headphone system 3837 
Something like this? 3837 
The "Second Living Room" 3837 
Mixing urban & suburban 3837 
Late night listening 3837 
Moving life... 3835 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3835 
A true listening room. 3811 
It started… 3796 
Levels of Interest 3796 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3796 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3796 
I can't not to post it.... 3796 
Do not leave him unattended. 3796 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3796 
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