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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5862 
The first take on the new room. 5856 
New Room, a first shot. 5855 
Wonderful 5855 
Adopted 5854 
The first relaxed night with the room 5852 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5851 
The listening room is ready. 5850 
New Room, a First Shot 5848 
Continue to work with the room 5848 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5848 
Room 5847 
I think it will take another month. 5847 
The Buttressing 5847 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5846 
The new place and the new noises. 5846 
Big listening room 5845 
Screw the "big" rooms 5845 
Big listening rooms 5845 
First reflection points 5844 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5844 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5841 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5840 
Squeezing the floor 5840 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5840 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5840 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5839 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5839 
The new room, the very first listening. 5839 
The 14.5 foot. 5838 
Again… 5837 
Romy's new Playground 5837 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5837 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5837 
For the uninitiated ... 5836 
NH guy 5836 
Room 5836 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5835 
The first base is done 5835 
Reentry time alignment. 5834 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5833 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5833 
Mid bass horn. 5833 
Guess is only a guess… 5833 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5833 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5832 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5832 
Diffusors 5832 
Diffuse injection 5832 
Let analyse why it so 5832 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5832 
Wheel and Deal 5832 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5832 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5832 
I Must Be Missing Something 5832 
I put sliders under my speakers 5831 
ROOM 5830 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5830 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5830 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5830 
No concerns 5830 
Speakers and room 5830 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5829 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5829 
Diaphram 5829 
Phram 5829 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5829 
Perfect piston 5829 
Decorater 5828 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5828 
New morning 5827 
The first take on the room with RTA 5826 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5826 
Axiomatic 5826 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5825 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5825 
The size of the bass. 5825 
Bass Factory 5825 
Crude Level, or something more? 5825 
I will play with it this week…. 5825 
Rent-A 5825 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5825 
Corner horns 5825 
Cheating from below 5825 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5825 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5824 
A possibly overly simplified view 5824 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5824 
Iceberg 5824 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5824 
Why not horn 5824 
A correction…. 5824 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5824 
They are just not related things at all. 5824 
Fertin 5822 
Low resonance is good... 5822 
Et tu, Brute? 5821 
The Room response at LF 5820 
Life On The Ground Floor 5820 
Bass arrays 5820 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5820 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5820 
The super sucks. 5820 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5820 
You may also try 5819 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5819 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5819 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5819 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5819 
60 Hz Resonance 5819 
No notching… so far. 5819 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5818 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5818 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5818 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5818 
Power to the People 5818 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5818 
Aura 5818 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5818 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5818 
All class D is the same 5818 
Interpreting the LF results. 5817 
The Halibut 5817 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5817 
The Big Picture 5817 
Power & ULF channels 5817 
The big picture indeed. 5817 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5817 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5817 
The Power and the Glory 5816 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5816 
I guess I did not get this memo 5816 
French LF drivers 5816 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5816 
(another) French LF approach 5815 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5815 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5815 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5815 
Limpschtick 5815 
Symmetry 5815 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5814 
Room correction 5814 
It migh be more complicated. 5814 
Bass EQ ? 5814 
Agree and not. 5814 
Two "diseases" 5814 
Parametric filters 5814 
Ceiling arrays 5814 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5814 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5814 
The Middle of the Room. 5814 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5814 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5814 
Stop! 5814 
Appendectomy 5814 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5813 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5813 
No Isolation 5813 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5810 
Potential contenders? 5809 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5809 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5809 
Those Crazy Canucks 5805 
Mo' Better Bass 5799 
Bird in the Hand? 5799 
A wet listening spot? 5792 
Storm 5789 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5789 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5775 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5745 
Polar Opposite ULF 5744 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5732 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5730 
Differently but the same. 5729 
PVC 5728 
The sail test try. 5728 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5728 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5728 
Trial 5727 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5727 
Some explanations 5727 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5726 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5725 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5724 
Acrylate 5723 
Magic blanket 5723 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5722 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5722 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5722 
I have a few options. 5722 
Foam color 5722 
Strange things with upperbass 5722 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5721 
Teatro reform. . . 5721 
The foaming room dilemma. 5720 
Melamine Foam 5720 
Foaming up the cat house 5720 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5720 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5720 
Acoustic revisions… 5719 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5716 
Surprises so far in the new room 5715 
The upperbass in the new room. 5715 
Slight change of hart. 5714 
Camco supply of Boston 5712 
Room acoustics 5712 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5671 
I need to kill dust first. 5671 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5669 
To feed the leeches? 5669 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5668 
Yh 5668 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5668 
DPOLs? 5668 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5668 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5665 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5665 
A HalfPipe solution? 5665 
I absolutely love it. 5665 
Piper work 5664 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5664 
Absorption 5664 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5663 
Cats life ? 5663 
Call me Pussy. 5663 
More about traps 5663 
Acoustic impedance? 5663 
You maybe right 5663 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5663 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5662 
Heavy Curtain 5662 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5661 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5661 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5661 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5658 
Fix speaker move chair? 5657 
Back and forth ceremony 5657 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5656 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5655 
Glass windows 5654 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5653 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5652 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5650 
How to use basement jacks? 5650 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5650 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5650 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5649 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5649 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5648 
Sore eyes... 5647 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5647 
The harvesting week! 5645 
I need an inspiration… 5644 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5643 
Like this? 5643 
Dramatically randomize MF 5643 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5642 
The room eats dynamic 5642 
Diffusers 5642 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5641 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5626 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5625 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5625 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5625 
About Width-Importance balance. 5623 
Letting the music scale up 5622 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5622 
To finish my house décor… 5618 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5617 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5616 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5616 
Calling the gods of music 5616 
Absolutely 5616 
Phase manipulation 5616 
No relation. 5616 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5616 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5616 
Dynamical mismatch 5615 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5615 
Stradiwinerius? 5612 
Dealing with the glass. 5611 
Boston 5611 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5611 
Added mass 5611 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5611 
It is about moderation…. 5611 
To hell with the wine... 5611 
Also for other surafaces 5610 
LEAD 5610 
LEAD & GLASS 5610 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5610 
Read carefully 5610 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5610 
Crooks and morons 5610 
Magiscopios 5609 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5589 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5589 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5588 
The LP setup in the new home. 5537 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5532 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5532 
Pianochord will do! 5532 
Spanyi heaven 5532 
I see no conflict at all. 5532 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5532 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5532 
A year after closing 5524 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5524 
Traveling antimatter 5517 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5511 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5510 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5484 
Cast Iron fireplace 5483 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5483 
The hardcore way 5483 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5447 
This is How It's Done 5446 
Listening room during summer. 5434 
What about those... 5433 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5433 
Reducing A/C Noise 5433 
HVAC the Cat 5433 
Big Ass fan 5432 
Variac dimmers 5432 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5432 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5432 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5364 
Some winter observations. 5255 
That Asian man…. 5224 
The Franz Schubert morning 5198 
Spring.... 5147 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5097 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5068 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5068 
Just good photography? 5068 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5068 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5068 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5067 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5067 
Sports car 5067 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5067 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5067 
Train Positioning 5067 
Kind of what I want 5067 
The lap listening… 5067 
Family Room 5067 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5064 
A super audio room. 5060 
Time Warp! 5060 
A piano in a listening room 5039 
Pianissimo 5039 
The plan in blue. 5039 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5039 
My doubts 5039 
It is exactly what I worry. 5038 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5038 
Musicians at home 5038 
Piano Measurements 5037 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5032 
The next step. 5018 
Midbass horns missing?? 5017 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5007 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5007 
Baby Grand 5006 
Wood floor 5006 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5006 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5006 
Amy’s baby. 5004 
Improvement 5004 
Agree with Scott 5004 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4992 
Integrated casters 4992 
Very nice, thanks. 4992 
Customization 4992 
Sliders 4992 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4985 
Congratulations 4985 
Holes in the floor... 4985 
Tubes and kids 4985 
Sweet spot enlargement 4985 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4983 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4982 
Wood Floors and Water 4982 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4977 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4976 
WAF is for Losers 4976 
WAF: it depends. 4976 
Integration 4975 
Here and there. 4975 
Life after WWIII 4975 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4975 
Cables management. 4973 
Featurizing 4973 
Kids and tubes cont. 4970 
Kid magnet 4970 
Kids and audio 4969 
Radars 4969 
Wow, what the days! 4965 
The comming weekend 4961 
It all was worth it! 4958 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4953 
Here is how it is look. 4953 
Resolving the carpet issue 4953 
Bonfire 4953 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4953 
Proof of concept? 4953 
Geometry 4953 
A view from listening position. 4953 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4953 
Some feedback 4953 
Evening 4953 
I wonder why. 4952 
Rugs and things 4952 
In defense… 4952 
I can’t get it. 4949 
Haze. 4948 
Front wall 4948 
It is very possible. 4948 
It is nice to be back. 4945 
My comfy corner. 4942 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4582 
WMD in house. 4404 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4307 
The third listening spot. 4286 
For sure a very different experience. 4248 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4243 
It's Jfretch's system. 4243 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4242 
Domestic games 4196 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4057 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4057 
Dynamic screening 4057 
Actually this is very good idea! 4057 
Volcanic fabric 4057 
I should have done this. 4055 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4051 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4020 
No worries 4020 
Awesome memories 4020 
Optimization of space 4020 
Child-ish considerations 4017 
Finding peace.... 4011 
"Fencing"? 4010 
I need to build something custom 4010 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4010 
Stressed Skin 4010 
NYC elevators 4010 
Kids toys and quantities. 4010 
Everything is completely reversible 4009 
Racks and things 4009 
Now it looks even more promising! 4009 
Quantity of rods 4009 
Avoiding diagonals 4007 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4006 
That's not fair! 4006 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4006 
Discrimination? 4001 
Vertical configuration 3994 
Impresive ! 3923 
Did you read the site? 3923 
Contact 3923 
Company's name is Rixrax 3923 
Stand 3922 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3878 
End of life headphone system 3878 
Something like this? 3878 
The "Second Living Room" 3878 
Mixing urban & suburban 3878 
Late night listening 3878 
Moving life... 3876 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3876 
A true listening room. 3852 
It started… 3837 
Levels of Interest 3837 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3837 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3837 
I can't not to post it.... 3837 
Do not leave him unattended. 3837 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3837 
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