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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5834 
The first take on the new room. 5828 
New Room, a first shot. 5827 
Wonderful 5827 
Adopted 5826 
The first relaxed night with the room 5824 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5823 
The listening room is ready. 5822 
New Room, a First Shot 5820 
Continue to work with the room 5820 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5820 
Room 5819 
I think it will take another month. 5819 
The Buttressing 5819 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5818 
The new place and the new noises. 5818 
Big listening room 5817 
Screw the "big" rooms 5817 
Big listening rooms 5817 
First reflection points 5816 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5816 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5813 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5812 
Squeezing the floor 5812 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5812 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5812 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5811 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5811 
The new room, the very first listening. 5811 
The 14.5 foot. 5810 
Again… 5809 
Romy's new Playground 5809 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5809 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5809 
For the uninitiated ... 5808 
NH guy 5808 
Room 5808 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5807 
The first base is done 5807 
Reentry time alignment. 5806 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5805 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5805 
Mid bass horn. 5805 
Guess is only a guess… 5805 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5805 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5804 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5804 
Diffusors 5804 
Diffuse injection 5804 
Let analyse why it so 5804 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5804 
Wheel and Deal 5804 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5804 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5804 
I Must Be Missing Something 5804 
I put sliders under my speakers 5803 
ROOM 5802 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5802 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5802 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5802 
No concerns 5802 
Speakers and room 5802 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5801 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5801 
Diaphram 5801 
Phram 5801 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5801 
Perfect piston 5801 
Decorater 5800 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5800 
New morning 5799 
The first take on the room with RTA 5798 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5798 
Axiomatic 5798 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5797 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5797 
The size of the bass. 5797 
Bass Factory 5797 
Crude Level, or something more? 5797 
I will play with it this week…. 5797 
Rent-A 5797 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5797 
Corner horns 5797 
Cheating from below 5797 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5797 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5796 
A possibly overly simplified view 5796 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5796 
Iceberg 5796 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5796 
Why not horn 5796 
A correction…. 5796 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5796 
They are just not related things at all. 5796 
Fertin 5794 
Low resonance is good... 5794 
Et tu, Brute? 5793 
The Room response at LF 5792 
Life On The Ground Floor 5792 
Bass arrays 5792 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5792 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5792 
The super sucks. 5792 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5792 
You may also try 5791 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5791 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5791 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5791 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5791 
60 Hz Resonance 5791 
No notching… so far. 5791 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5790 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5790 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5790 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5790 
Power to the People 5790 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5790 
Aura 5790 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5790 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5790 
All class D is the same 5790 
Interpreting the LF results. 5789 
The Halibut 5789 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5789 
The Big Picture 5789 
Power & ULF channels 5789 
The big picture indeed. 5789 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5789 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5789 
The Power and the Glory 5788 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5788 
I guess I did not get this memo 5788 
French LF drivers 5788 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5788 
(another) French LF approach 5787 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5787 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5787 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5787 
Limpschtick 5787 
Symmetry 5787 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5786 
Room correction 5786 
It migh be more complicated. 5786 
Bass EQ ? 5786 
Agree and not. 5786 
Two "diseases" 5786 
Parametric filters 5786 
Ceiling arrays 5786 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5786 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5786 
The Middle of the Room. 5786 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5786 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5786 
Stop! 5786 
Appendectomy 5786 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5785 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5785 
No Isolation 5785 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5782 
Potential contenders? 5781 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5781 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5781 
Those Crazy Canucks 5777 
Mo' Better Bass 5771 
Bird in the Hand? 5771 
A wet listening spot? 5764 
Storm 5761 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5761 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5747 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5717 
Polar Opposite ULF 5716 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5704 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5702 
Differently but the same. 5701 
PVC 5700 
The sail test try. 5700 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5700 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5700 
Trial 5699 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5699 
Some explanations 5699 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5698 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5697 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5696 
Acrylate 5695 
Magic blanket 5695 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5694 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5694 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5694 
I have a few options. 5694 
Foam color 5694 
Strange things with upperbass 5694 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5693 
Teatro reform. . . 5693 
The foaming room dilemma. 5692 
Melamine Foam 5692 
Foaming up the cat house 5692 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5692 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5692 
Acoustic revisions… 5691 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5688 
Surprises so far in the new room 5687 
The upperbass in the new room. 5687 
Slight change of hart. 5686 
Camco supply of Boston 5684 
Room acoustics 5684 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5643 
I need to kill dust first. 5643 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5641 
To feed the leeches? 5641 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5640 
Yh 5640 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5640 
DPOLs? 5640 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5640 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5637 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5637 
A HalfPipe solution? 5637 
I absolutely love it. 5637 
Piper work 5636 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5636 
Absorption 5636 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5635 
Cats life ? 5635 
Call me Pussy. 5635 
More about traps 5635 
Acoustic impedance? 5635 
You maybe right 5635 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5635 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5634 
Heavy Curtain 5634 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5633 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5633 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5633 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5630 
Fix speaker move chair? 5629 
Back and forth ceremony 5629 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5628 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5627 
Glass windows 5626 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5625 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5624 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5622 
How to use basement jacks? 5622 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5622 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5622 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5621 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5621 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5620 
Sore eyes... 5619 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5619 
The harvesting week! 5617 
I need an inspiration… 5616 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5615 
Like this? 5615 
Dramatically randomize MF 5615 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5614 
The room eats dynamic 5614 
Diffusers 5614 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5613 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5598 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5597 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5597 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5597 
About Width-Importance balance. 5595 
Letting the music scale up 5594 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5594 
To finish my house décor… 5590 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5589 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5588 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5588 
Calling the gods of music 5588 
Absolutely 5588 
Phase manipulation 5588 
No relation. 5588 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5588 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5588 
Dynamical mismatch 5587 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5587 
Stradiwinerius? 5584 
Dealing with the glass. 5583 
Boston 5583 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5583 
Added mass 5583 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5583 
It is about moderation…. 5583 
To hell with the wine... 5583 
Also for other surafaces 5582 
LEAD 5582 
LEAD & GLASS 5582 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5582 
Read carefully 5582 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5582 
Crooks and morons 5582 
Magiscopios 5581 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5561 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5561 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5560 
The LP setup in the new home. 5509 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5504 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5504 
Pianochord will do! 5504 
Spanyi heaven 5504 
I see no conflict at all. 5504 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5504 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5504 
A year after closing 5496 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5496 
Traveling antimatter 5489 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5483 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5482 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5456 
Cast Iron fireplace 5455 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5455 
The hardcore way 5455 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5419 
This is How It's Done 5418 
Listening room during summer. 5406 
What about those... 5405 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5405 
Reducing A/C Noise 5405 
HVAC the Cat 5405 
Big Ass fan 5404 
Variac dimmers 5404 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5404 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5404 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5336 
Some winter observations. 5227 
That Asian man…. 5196 
The Franz Schubert morning 5170 
Spring.... 5119 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5069 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5040 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5040 
Just good photography? 5040 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5040 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5040 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5039 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5039 
Sports car 5039 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5039 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5039 
Train Positioning 5039 
Kind of what I want 5039 
The lap listening… 5039 
Family Room 5039 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5036 
A super audio room. 5032 
Time Warp! 5032 
A piano in a listening room 5011 
Pianissimo 5011 
The plan in blue. 5011 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5011 
My doubts 5011 
It is exactly what I worry. 5010 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5010 
Musicians at home 5010 
Piano Measurements 5009 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5004 
The next step. 4990 
Midbass horns missing?? 4989 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4979 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4979 
Baby Grand 4978 
Wood floor 4978 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4978 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4978 
Amy’s baby. 4976 
Improvement 4976 
Agree with Scott 4976 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4964 
Integrated casters 4964 
Very nice, thanks. 4964 
Customization 4964 
Sliders 4964 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4957 
Congratulations 4957 
Holes in the floor... 4957 
Tubes and kids 4957 
Sweet spot enlargement 4957 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4955 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4954 
Wood Floors and Water 4954 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4949 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4948 
WAF is for Losers 4948 
WAF: it depends. 4948 
Integration 4947 
Here and there. 4947 
Life after WWIII 4947 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4947 
Cables management. 4945 
Featurizing 4945 
Kids and tubes cont. 4942 
Kid magnet 4942 
Kids and audio 4941 
Radars 4941 
Wow, what the days! 4937 
The comming weekend 4933 
It all was worth it! 4930 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4925 
Here is how it is look. 4925 
Resolving the carpet issue 4925 
Bonfire 4925 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4925 
Proof of concept? 4925 
Geometry 4925 
A view from listening position. 4925 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4925 
Some feedback 4925 
Evening 4925 
I wonder why. 4924 
Rugs and things 4924 
In defense… 4924 
I can’t get it. 4921 
Haze. 4920 
Front wall 4920 
It is very possible. 4920 
It is nice to be back. 4917 
My comfy corner. 4914 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4554 
WMD in house. 4376 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4279 
The third listening spot. 4258 
For sure a very different experience. 4220 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4215 
It's Jfretch's system. 4215 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4214 
Domestic games 4168 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4029 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4029 
Dynamic screening 4029 
Actually this is very good idea! 4029 
Volcanic fabric 4029 
I should have done this. 4027 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4023 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3992 
No worries 3992 
Awesome memories 3992 
Optimization of space 3992 
Child-ish considerations 3989 
Finding peace.... 3983 
"Fencing"? 3982 
I need to build something custom 3982 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3982 
Stressed Skin 3982 
NYC elevators 3982 
Kids toys and quantities. 3982 
Everything is completely reversible 3981 
Racks and things 3981 
Now it looks even more promising! 3981 
Quantity of rods 3981 
Avoiding diagonals 3979 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3978 
That's not fair! 3978 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3978 
Discrimination? 3973 
Vertical configuration 3966 
Impresive ! 3895 
Did you read the site? 3895 
Contact 3895 
Company's name is Rixrax 3895 
Stand 3894 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3850 
End of life headphone system 3850 
Something like this? 3850 
The "Second Living Room" 3850 
Mixing urban & suburban 3850 
Late night listening 3850 
Moving life... 3848 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3848 
A true listening room. 3824 
It started… 3809 
Levels of Interest 3809 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3809 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3809 
I can't not to post it.... 3809 
Do not leave him unattended. 3809 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3809 
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