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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5855 
The first take on the new room. 5849 
New Room, a first shot. 5848 
Wonderful 5848 
Adopted 5847 
The first relaxed night with the room 5845 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5844 
The listening room is ready. 5843 
New Room, a First Shot 5841 
Continue to work with the room 5841 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5841 
Room 5840 
I think it will take another month. 5840 
The Buttressing 5840 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5839 
The new place and the new noises. 5839 
Big listening room 5838 
Screw the "big" rooms 5838 
Big listening rooms 5838 
First reflection points 5837 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5837 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5834 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5833 
Squeezing the floor 5833 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5833 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5833 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5832 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5832 
The new room, the very first listening. 5832 
The 14.5 foot. 5831 
Again… 5830 
Romy's new Playground 5830 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5830 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5830 
For the uninitiated ... 5829 
NH guy 5829 
Room 5829 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5828 
The first base is done 5828 
Reentry time alignment. 5827 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5826 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5826 
Mid bass horn. 5826 
Guess is only a guess… 5826 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5826 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5825 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5825 
Diffusors 5825 
Diffuse injection 5825 
Let analyse why it so 5825 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5825 
Wheel and Deal 5825 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5825 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5825 
I Must Be Missing Something 5825 
I put sliders under my speakers 5824 
ROOM 5823 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5823 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5823 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5823 
No concerns 5823 
Speakers and room 5823 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5822 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5822 
Diaphram 5822 
Phram 5822 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5822 
Perfect piston 5822 
Decorater 5821 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5821 
New morning 5820 
The first take on the room with RTA 5819 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5819 
Axiomatic 5819 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5818 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5818 
The size of the bass. 5818 
Bass Factory 5818 
Crude Level, or something more? 5818 
I will play with it this week…. 5818 
Rent-A 5818 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5818 
Corner horns 5818 
Cheating from below 5818 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5818 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5817 
A possibly overly simplified view 5817 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5817 
Iceberg 5817 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5817 
Why not horn 5817 
A correction…. 5817 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5817 
They are just not related things at all. 5817 
Fertin 5815 
Low resonance is good... 5815 
Et tu, Brute? 5814 
The Room response at LF 5813 
Life On The Ground Floor 5813 
Bass arrays 5813 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5813 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5813 
The super sucks. 5813 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5813 
You may also try 5812 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5812 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5812 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5812 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5812 
60 Hz Resonance 5812 
No notching… so far. 5812 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5811 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5811 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5811 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5811 
Power to the People 5811 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5811 
Aura 5811 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5811 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5811 
All class D is the same 5811 
Interpreting the LF results. 5810 
The Halibut 5810 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5810 
The Big Picture 5810 
Power & ULF channels 5810 
The big picture indeed. 5810 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5810 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5810 
The Power and the Glory 5809 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5809 
I guess I did not get this memo 5809 
French LF drivers 5809 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5809 
(another) French LF approach 5808 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5808 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5808 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5808 
Limpschtick 5808 
Symmetry 5808 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5807 
Room correction 5807 
It migh be more complicated. 5807 
Bass EQ ? 5807 
Agree and not. 5807 
Two "diseases" 5807 
Parametric filters 5807 
Ceiling arrays 5807 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5807 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5807 
The Middle of the Room. 5807 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5807 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5807 
Stop! 5807 
Appendectomy 5807 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5806 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5806 
No Isolation 5806 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5803 
Potential contenders? 5802 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5802 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5802 
Those Crazy Canucks 5798 
Mo' Better Bass 5792 
Bird in the Hand? 5792 
A wet listening spot? 5785 
Storm 5782 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5782 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5768 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5738 
Polar Opposite ULF 5737 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5725 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5723 
Differently but the same. 5722 
PVC 5721 
The sail test try. 5721 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5721 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5721 
Trial 5720 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5720 
Some explanations 5720 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5719 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5718 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5717 
Acrylate 5716 
Magic blanket 5716 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5715 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5715 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5715 
I have a few options. 5715 
Foam color 5715 
Strange things with upperbass 5715 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5714 
Teatro reform. . . 5714 
The foaming room dilemma. 5713 
Melamine Foam 5713 
Foaming up the cat house 5713 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5713 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5713 
Acoustic revisions… 5712 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5709 
Surprises so far in the new room 5708 
The upperbass in the new room. 5708 
Slight change of hart. 5707 
Camco supply of Boston 5705 
Room acoustics 5705 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5664 
I need to kill dust first. 5664 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5662 
To feed the leeches? 5662 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5661 
Yh 5661 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5661 
DPOLs? 5661 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5661 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5658 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5658 
A HalfPipe solution? 5658 
I absolutely love it. 5658 
Piper work 5657 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5657 
Absorption 5657 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5656 
Cats life ? 5656 
Call me Pussy. 5656 
More about traps 5656 
Acoustic impedance? 5656 
You maybe right 5656 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5656 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5655 
Heavy Curtain 5655 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5654 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5654 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5654 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5651 
Fix speaker move chair? 5650 
Back and forth ceremony 5650 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5649 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5648 
Glass windows 5647 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5646 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5645 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5643 
How to use basement jacks? 5643 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5643 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5643 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5642 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5642 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5641 
Sore eyes... 5640 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5640 
The harvesting week! 5638 
I need an inspiration… 5637 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5636 
Like this? 5636 
Dramatically randomize MF 5636 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5635 
The room eats dynamic 5635 
Diffusers 5635 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5634 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5619 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5618 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5618 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5618 
About Width-Importance balance. 5616 
Letting the music scale up 5615 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5615 
To finish my house décor… 5611 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5610 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5609 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5609 
Calling the gods of music 5609 
Absolutely 5609 
Phase manipulation 5609 
No relation. 5609 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5609 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5609 
Dynamical mismatch 5608 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5608 
Stradiwinerius? 5605 
Dealing with the glass. 5604 
Boston 5604 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5604 
Added mass 5604 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5604 
It is about moderation…. 5604 
To hell with the wine... 5604 
Also for other surafaces 5603 
LEAD 5603 
LEAD & GLASS 5603 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5603 
Read carefully 5603 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5603 
Crooks and morons 5603 
Magiscopios 5602 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5582 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5582 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5581 
The LP setup in the new home. 5530 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5525 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5525 
Pianochord will do! 5525 
Spanyi heaven 5525 
I see no conflict at all. 5525 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5525 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5525 
A year after closing 5517 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5517 
Traveling antimatter 5510 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5504 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5503 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5477 
Cast Iron fireplace 5476 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5476 
The hardcore way 5476 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5440 
This is How It's Done 5439 
Listening room during summer. 5427 
What about those... 5426 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5426 
Reducing A/C Noise 5426 
HVAC the Cat 5426 
Big Ass fan 5425 
Variac dimmers 5425 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5425 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5425 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5357 
Some winter observations. 5248 
That Asian man…. 5217 
The Franz Schubert morning 5191 
Spring.... 5140 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5090 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5061 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5061 
Just good photography? 5061 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5061 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5061 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5060 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5060 
Sports car 5060 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5060 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5060 
Train Positioning 5060 
Kind of what I want 5060 
The lap listening… 5060 
Family Room 5060 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5057 
A super audio room. 5053 
Time Warp! 5053 
A piano in a listening room 5032 
Pianissimo 5032 
The plan in blue. 5032 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5032 
My doubts 5032 
It is exactly what I worry. 5031 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5031 
Musicians at home 5031 
Piano Measurements 5030 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5025 
The next step. 5011 
Midbass horns missing?? 5010 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5000 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5000 
Baby Grand 4999 
Wood floor 4999 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4999 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4999 
Amy’s baby. 4997 
Improvement 4997 
Agree with Scott 4997 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4985 
Integrated casters 4985 
Very nice, thanks. 4985 
Customization 4985 
Sliders 4985 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4978 
Congratulations 4978 
Holes in the floor... 4978 
Tubes and kids 4978 
Sweet spot enlargement 4978 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4976 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4975 
Wood Floors and Water 4975 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4970 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4969 
WAF is for Losers 4969 
WAF: it depends. 4969 
Integration 4968 
Here and there. 4968 
Life after WWIII 4968 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4968 
Cables management. 4966 
Featurizing 4966 
Kids and tubes cont. 4963 
Kid magnet 4963 
Kids and audio 4962 
Radars 4962 
Wow, what the days! 4958 
The comming weekend 4954 
It all was worth it! 4951 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4946 
Here is how it is look. 4946 
Resolving the carpet issue 4946 
Bonfire 4946 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4946 
Proof of concept? 4946 
Geometry 4946 
A view from listening position. 4946 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4946 
Some feedback 4946 
Evening 4946 
I wonder why. 4945 
Rugs and things 4945 
In defense… 4945 
I can’t get it. 4942 
Haze. 4941 
Front wall 4941 
It is very possible. 4941 
It is nice to be back. 4938 
My comfy corner. 4935 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4575 
WMD in house. 4397 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4300 
The third listening spot. 4279 
For sure a very different experience. 4241 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4236 
It's Jfretch's system. 4236 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4235 
Domestic games 4189 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4050 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4050 
Dynamic screening 4050 
Actually this is very good idea! 4050 
Volcanic fabric 4050 
I should have done this. 4048 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4044 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4013 
No worries 4013 
Awesome memories 4013 
Optimization of space 4013 
Child-ish considerations 4010 
Finding peace.... 4004 
"Fencing"? 4003 
I need to build something custom 4003 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4003 
Stressed Skin 4003 
NYC elevators 4003 
Kids toys and quantities. 4003 
Everything is completely reversible 4002 
Racks and things 4002 
Now it looks even more promising! 4002 
Quantity of rods 4002 
Avoiding diagonals 4000 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3999 
That's not fair! 3999 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3999 
Discrimination? 3994 
Vertical configuration 3987 
Impresive ! 3916 
Did you read the site? 3916 
Contact 3916 
Company's name is Rixrax 3916 
Stand 3915 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3871 
End of life headphone system 3871 
Something like this? 3871 
The "Second Living Room" 3871 
Mixing urban & suburban 3871 
Late night listening 3871 
Moving life... 3869 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3869 
A true listening room. 3845 
It started… 3830 
Levels of Interest 3830 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3830 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3830 
I can't not to post it.... 3830 
Do not leave him unattended. 3830 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3830 
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