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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5936 
The first take on the new room. 5930 
New Room, a first shot. 5929 
Wonderful 5929 
Adopted 5928 
The first relaxed night with the room 5926 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5925 
The listening room is ready. 5924 
New Room, a First Shot 5922 
Continue to work with the room 5922 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5922 
Room 5921 
I think it will take another month. 5921 
The Buttressing 5921 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5920 
The new place and the new noises. 5920 
Big listening room 5919 
Screw the "big" rooms 5919 
Big listening rooms 5919 
First reflection points 5918 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5918 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5915 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5914 
Squeezing the floor 5914 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5914 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5914 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5913 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5913 
The new room, the very first listening. 5913 
The 14.5 foot. 5912 
Again… 5911 
Romy's new Playground 5911 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5911 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5911 
For the uninitiated ... 5910 
NH guy 5910 
Room 5910 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5909 
The first base is done 5909 
Reentry time alignment. 5908 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5907 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5907 
Mid bass horn. 5907 
Guess is only a guess… 5907 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5907 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5906 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5906 
Diffusors 5906 
Diffuse injection 5906 
Let analyse why it so 5906 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5906 
Wheel and Deal 5906 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5906 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5906 
I Must Be Missing Something 5906 
I put sliders under my speakers 5905 
ROOM 5904 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5904 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5904 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5904 
No concerns 5904 
Speakers and room 5904 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5903 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5903 
Diaphram 5903 
Phram 5903 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5903 
Perfect piston 5903 
Decorater 5902 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5902 
New morning 5901 
The first take on the room with RTA 5900 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5900 
Axiomatic 5900 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5899 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5899 
The size of the bass. 5899 
Bass Factory 5899 
Crude Level, or something more? 5899 
I will play with it this week…. 5899 
Rent-A 5899 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5899 
Corner horns 5899 
Cheating from below 5899 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5899 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5898 
A possibly overly simplified view 5898 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5898 
Iceberg 5898 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5898 
Why not horn 5898 
A correction…. 5898 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5898 
They are just not related things at all. 5898 
Fertin 5896 
Low resonance is good... 5896 
Et tu, Brute? 5895 
The Room response at LF 5894 
Life On The Ground Floor 5894 
Bass arrays 5894 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5894 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5894 
The super sucks. 5894 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5894 
You may also try 5893 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5893 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5893 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5893 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5893 
60 Hz Resonance 5893 
No notching… so far. 5893 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5892 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5892 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5892 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5892 
Power to the People 5892 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5892 
Aura 5892 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5892 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5892 
All class D is the same 5892 
Interpreting the LF results. 5891 
The Halibut 5891 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5891 
The Big Picture 5891 
Power & ULF channels 5891 
The big picture indeed. 5891 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5891 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5891 
The Power and the Glory 5890 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5890 
I guess I did not get this memo 5890 
French LF drivers 5890 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5890 
(another) French LF approach 5889 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5889 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5889 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5889 
Limpschtick 5889 
Symmetry 5889 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5888 
Room correction 5888 
It migh be more complicated. 5888 
Bass EQ ? 5888 
Agree and not. 5888 
Two "diseases" 5888 
Parametric filters 5888 
Ceiling arrays 5888 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5888 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5888 
The Middle of the Room. 5888 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5888 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5888 
Stop! 5888 
Appendectomy 5888 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5887 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5887 
No Isolation 5887 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5884 
Potential contenders? 5883 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5883 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5883 
Those Crazy Canucks 5879 
Mo' Better Bass 5873 
Bird in the Hand? 5873 
A wet listening spot? 5866 
Storm 5863 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5863 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5849 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5819 
Polar Opposite ULF 5818 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5806 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5804 
Differently but the same. 5803 
PVC 5802 
The sail test try. 5802 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5802 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5802 
Trial 5801 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5801 
Some explanations 5801 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5800 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5799 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5798 
Acrylate 5797 
Magic blanket 5797 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5796 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5796 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5796 
I have a few options. 5796 
Foam color 5796 
Strange things with upperbass 5796 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5795 
Teatro reform. . . 5795 
The foaming room dilemma. 5794 
Melamine Foam 5794 
Foaming up the cat house 5794 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5794 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5794 
Acoustic revisions… 5793 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5790 
Surprises so far in the new room 5789 
The upperbass in the new room. 5789 
Slight change of hart. 5788 
Camco supply of Boston 5786 
Room acoustics 5786 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5745 
I need to kill dust first. 5745 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5743 
To feed the leeches? 5743 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5742 
Yh 5742 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5742 
DPOLs? 5742 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5742 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5739 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5739 
A HalfPipe solution? 5739 
I absolutely love it. 5739 
Piper work 5738 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5738 
Absorption 5738 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5737 
Cats life ? 5737 
Call me Pussy. 5737 
More about traps 5737 
Acoustic impedance? 5737 
You maybe right 5737 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5737 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5736 
Heavy Curtain 5736 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5735 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5735 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5735 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5732 
Fix speaker move chair? 5731 
Back and forth ceremony 5731 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5730 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5729 
Glass windows 5728 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5727 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5726 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5724 
How to use basement jacks? 5724 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5724 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5724 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5723 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5723 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5722 
Sore eyes... 5721 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5721 
The harvesting week! 5719 
I need an inspiration… 5718 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5717 
Like this? 5717 
Dramatically randomize MF 5717 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5716 
The room eats dynamic 5716 
Diffusers 5716 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5715 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5700 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5699 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5699 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5699 
About Width-Importance balance. 5697 
Letting the music scale up 5696 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5696 
To finish my house décor… 5692 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5691 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5690 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5690 
Calling the gods of music 5690 
Absolutely 5690 
Phase manipulation 5690 
No relation. 5690 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5690 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5690 
Dynamical mismatch 5689 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5689 
Stradiwinerius? 5686 
Dealing with the glass. 5685 
Boston 5685 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5685 
Added mass 5685 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5685 
It is about moderation…. 5685 
To hell with the wine... 5685 
Also for other surafaces 5684 
LEAD 5684 
LEAD & GLASS 5684 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5684 
Read carefully 5684 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5684 
Crooks and morons 5684 
Magiscopios 5683 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5663 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5663 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5662 
The LP setup in the new home. 5611 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5606 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5606 
Pianochord will do! 5606 
Spanyi heaven 5606 
I see no conflict at all. 5606 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5606 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5606 
A year after closing 5598 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5598 
Traveling antimatter 5591 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5585 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5584 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5558 
Cast Iron fireplace 5557 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5557 
The hardcore way 5557 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5521 
This is How It's Done 5520 
Listening room during summer. 5508 
What about those... 5507 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5507 
Reducing A/C Noise 5507 
HVAC the Cat 5507 
Big Ass fan 5506 
Variac dimmers 5506 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5506 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5506 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5438 
Some winter observations. 5329 
That Asian man…. 5298 
The Franz Schubert morning 5272 
Spring.... 5221 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5171 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5142 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5142 
Just good photography? 5142 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5142 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5142 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5141 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5141 
Sports car 5141 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5141 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5141 
Train Positioning 5141 
Kind of what I want 5141 
The lap listening… 5141 
Family Room 5141 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5138 
A super audio room. 5134 
Time Warp! 5134 
A piano in a listening room 5113 
Pianissimo 5113 
The plan in blue. 5113 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5113 
My doubts 5113 
It is exactly what I worry. 5112 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5112 
Musicians at home 5112 
Piano Measurements 5111 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5106 
The next step. 5092 
Midbass horns missing?? 5091 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5081 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5081 
Baby Grand 5080 
Wood floor 5080 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5080 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5080 
Amy’s baby. 5078 
Improvement 5078 
Agree with Scott 5078 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5066 
Integrated casters 5066 
Very nice, thanks. 5066 
Customization 5066 
Sliders 5066 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5059 
Congratulations 5059 
Holes in the floor... 5059 
Tubes and kids 5059 
Sweet spot enlargement 5059 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5057 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5056 
Wood Floors and Water 5056 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5051 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5050 
WAF is for Losers 5050 
WAF: it depends. 5050 
Integration 5049 
Here and there. 5049 
Life after WWIII 5049 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5049 
Cables management. 5047 
Featurizing 5047 
Kids and tubes cont. 5044 
Kid magnet 5044 
Kids and audio 5043 
Radars 5043 
Wow, what the days! 5039 
The comming weekend 5035 
It all was worth it! 5032 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5027 
Here is how it is look. 5027 
Resolving the carpet issue 5027 
Bonfire 5027 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5027 
Proof of concept? 5027 
Geometry 5027 
A view from listening position. 5027 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5027 
Some feedback 5027 
Evening 5027 
I wonder why. 5026 
Rugs and things 5026 
In defense… 5026 
I can’t get it. 5023 
Haze. 5022 
Front wall 5022 
It is very possible. 5022 
It is nice to be back. 5019 
My comfy corner. 5016 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4656 
WMD in house. 4478 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4381 
The third listening spot. 4360 
For sure a very different experience. 4322 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4317 
It's Jfretch's system. 4317 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4316 
Domestic games 4270 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4131 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4131 
Dynamic screening 4131 
Actually this is very good idea! 4131 
Volcanic fabric 4131 
I should have done this. 4129 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4125 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4094 
No worries 4094 
Awesome memories 4094 
Optimization of space 4094 
Child-ish considerations 4091 
Finding peace.... 4085 
"Fencing"? 4084 
I need to build something custom 4084 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4084 
Stressed Skin 4084 
NYC elevators 4084 
Kids toys and quantities. 4084 
Everything is completely reversible 4083 
Racks and things 4083 
Now it looks even more promising! 4083 
Quantity of rods 4083 
Avoiding diagonals 4081 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4080 
That's not fair! 4080 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4080 
Discrimination? 4075 
Vertical configuration 4068 
Impresive ! 3997 
Did you read the site? 3997 
Contact 3997 
Company's name is Rixrax 3997 
Stand 3996 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3952 
End of life headphone system 3952 
Something like this? 3952 
The "Second Living Room" 3952 
Mixing urban & suburban 3952 
Late night listening 3952 
Moving life... 3950 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3950 
A true listening room. 3926 
It started… 3911 
Levels of Interest 3911 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3911 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3911 
I can't not to post it.... 3911 
Do not leave him unattended. 3911 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3911 
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