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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6069 
The first take on the new room. 6063 
New Room, a first shot. 6062 
Wonderful 6062 
Adopted 6061 
The first relaxed night with the room 6059 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6058 
The listening room is ready. 6057 
New Room, a First Shot 6055 
Continue to work with the room 6055 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6055 
Room 6054 
I think it will take another month. 6054 
The Buttressing 6054 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6053 
The new place and the new noises. 6053 
Big listening room 6052 
Screw the "big" rooms 6052 
Big listening rooms 6052 
First reflection points 6051 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6051 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6048 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6047 
Squeezing the floor 6047 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6047 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6047 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6046 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6046 
The new room, the very first listening. 6046 
The 14.5 foot. 6045 
Again… 6044 
Romy's new Playground 6044 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6044 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6044 
For the uninitiated ... 6043 
NH guy 6043 
Room 6043 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6042 
The first base is done 6042 
Reentry time alignment. 6041 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6040 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6040 
Mid bass horn. 6040 
Guess is only a guess… 6040 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6040 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6039 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6039 
Diffusors 6039 
Diffuse injection 6039 
Let analyse why it so 6039 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6039 
Wheel and Deal 6039 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6039 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6039 
I Must Be Missing Something 6039 
I put sliders under my speakers 6038 
ROOM 6037 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6037 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6037 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6037 
No concerns 6037 
Speakers and room 6037 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6036 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6036 
Diaphram 6036 
Phram 6036 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6036 
Perfect piston 6036 
Decorater 6035 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6035 
New morning 6034 
The first take on the room with RTA 6033 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6033 
Axiomatic 6033 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6032 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6032 
The size of the bass. 6032 
Bass Factory 6032 
Crude Level, or something more? 6032 
I will play with it this week…. 6032 
Rent-A 6032 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6032 
Corner horns 6032 
Cheating from below 6032 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6032 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6031 
A possibly overly simplified view 6031 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6031 
Iceberg 6031 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6031 
Why not horn 6031 
A correction…. 6031 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6031 
They are just not related things at all. 6031 
Fertin 6029 
Low resonance is good... 6029 
Et tu, Brute? 6028 
The Room response at LF 6027 
Life On The Ground Floor 6027 
Bass arrays 6027 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6027 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6027 
The super sucks. 6027 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6027 
You may also try 6026 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6026 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6026 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6026 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6026 
60 Hz Resonance 6026 
No notching… so far. 6026 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6025 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6025 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6025 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6025 
Power to the People 6025 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6025 
Aura 6025 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6025 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6025 
All class D is the same 6025 
Interpreting the LF results. 6024 
The Halibut 6024 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6024 
The Big Picture 6024 
Power & ULF channels 6024 
The big picture indeed. 6024 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6024 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6024 
The Power and the Glory 6023 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6023 
I guess I did not get this memo 6023 
French LF drivers 6023 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6023 
(another) French LF approach 6022 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6022 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6022 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6022 
Limpschtick 6022 
Symmetry 6022 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6021 
Room correction 6021 
It migh be more complicated. 6021 
Bass EQ ? 6021 
Agree and not. 6021 
Two "diseases" 6021 
Parametric filters 6021 
Ceiling arrays 6021 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6021 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6021 
The Middle of the Room. 6021 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6021 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6021 
Stop! 6021 
Appendectomy 6021 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6020 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6020 
No Isolation 6020 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6017 
Potential contenders? 6016 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6016 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6016 
Those Crazy Canucks 6012 
Mo' Better Bass 6006 
Bird in the Hand? 6006 
A wet listening spot? 5999 
Storm 5996 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5996 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5982 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5952 
Polar Opposite ULF 5951 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5939 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5937 
Differently but the same. 5936 
PVC 5935 
The sail test try. 5935 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5935 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5935 
Trial 5934 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5934 
Some explanations 5934 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5933 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5932 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5931 
Acrylate 5930 
Magic blanket 5930 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5929 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5929 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5929 
I have a few options. 5929 
Foam color 5929 
Strange things with upperbass 5929 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5928 
Teatro reform. . . 5928 
The foaming room dilemma. 5927 
Melamine Foam 5927 
Foaming up the cat house 5927 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5927 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5927 
Acoustic revisions… 5926 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5923 
Surprises so far in the new room 5922 
The upperbass in the new room. 5922 
Slight change of hart. 5921 
Camco supply of Boston 5919 
Room acoustics 5919 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5878 
I need to kill dust first. 5878 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5876 
To feed the leeches? 5876 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5875 
Yh 5875 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5875 
DPOLs? 5875 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5875 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5872 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5872 
A HalfPipe solution? 5872 
I absolutely love it. 5872 
Piper work 5871 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5871 
Absorption 5871 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5870 
Cats life ? 5870 
Call me Pussy. 5870 
More about traps 5870 
Acoustic impedance? 5870 
You maybe right 5870 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5870 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5869 
Heavy Curtain 5869 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5868 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5868 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5868 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5865 
Fix speaker move chair? 5864 
Back and forth ceremony 5864 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5863 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5862 
Glass windows 5861 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5860 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5859 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5857 
How to use basement jacks? 5857 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5857 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5857 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5856 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5856 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5855 
Sore eyes... 5854 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5854 
The harvesting week! 5852 
I need an inspiration… 5851 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5850 
Like this? 5850 
Dramatically randomize MF 5850 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5849 
The room eats dynamic 5849 
Diffusers 5849 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5848 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5833 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5832 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5832 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5832 
About Width-Importance balance. 5830 
Letting the music scale up 5829 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5829 
To finish my house décor… 5825 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5824 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5823 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5823 
Calling the gods of music 5823 
Absolutely 5823 
Phase manipulation 5823 
No relation. 5823 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5823 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5823 
Dynamical mismatch 5822 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5822 
Stradiwinerius? 5819 
Dealing with the glass. 5818 
Boston 5818 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5818 
Added mass 5818 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5818 
It is about moderation…. 5818 
To hell with the wine... 5818 
Also for other surafaces 5817 
LEAD 5817 
LEAD & GLASS 5817 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5817 
Read carefully 5817 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5817 
Crooks and morons 5817 
Magiscopios 5816 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5796 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5796 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5795 
The LP setup in the new home. 5744 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5739 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5739 
Pianochord will do! 5739 
Spanyi heaven 5739 
I see no conflict at all. 5739 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5739 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5739 
A year after closing 5731 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5731 
Traveling antimatter 5724 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5718 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5717 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5691 
Cast Iron fireplace 5690 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5690 
The hardcore way 5690 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5654 
This is How It's Done 5653 
Listening room during summer. 5641 
What about those... 5640 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5640 
Reducing A/C Noise 5640 
HVAC the Cat 5640 
Big Ass fan 5639 
Variac dimmers 5639 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5639 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5639 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5571 
Some winter observations. 5462 
That Asian man…. 5431 
The Franz Schubert morning 5405 
Spring.... 5354 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5304 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5275 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5275 
Just good photography? 5275 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5275 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5275 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5274 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5274 
Sports car 5274 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5274 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5274 
Train Positioning 5274 
Kind of what I want 5274 
The lap listening… 5274 
Family Room 5274 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5271 
A super audio room. 5267 
Time Warp! 5267 
A piano in a listening room 5246 
Pianissimo 5246 
The plan in blue. 5246 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5246 
My doubts 5246 
It is exactly what I worry. 5245 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5245 
Musicians at home 5245 
Piano Measurements 5244 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5239 
The next step. 5225 
Midbass horns missing?? 5224 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5214 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5214 
Baby Grand 5213 
Wood floor 5213 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5213 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5213 
Amy’s baby. 5211 
Improvement 5211 
Agree with Scott 5211 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5199 
Integrated casters 5199 
Very nice, thanks. 5199 
Customization 5199 
Sliders 5199 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5192 
Congratulations 5192 
Holes in the floor... 5192 
Tubes and kids 5192 
Sweet spot enlargement 5192 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5190 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5189 
Wood Floors and Water 5189 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5184 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5183 
WAF is for Losers 5183 
WAF: it depends. 5183 
Integration 5182 
Here and there. 5182 
Life after WWIII 5182 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5182 
Cables management. 5180 
Featurizing 5180 
Kids and tubes cont. 5177 
Kid magnet 5177 
Kids and audio 5176 
Radars 5176 
Wow, what the days! 5172 
The comming weekend 5168 
It all was worth it! 5165 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5160 
Here is how it is look. 5160 
Resolving the carpet issue 5160 
Bonfire 5160 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5160 
Proof of concept? 5160 
Geometry 5160 
A view from listening position. 5160 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5160 
Some feedback 5160 
Evening 5160 
I wonder why. 5159 
Rugs and things 5159 
In defense… 5159 
I can’t get it. 5156 
Haze. 5155 
Front wall 5155 
It is very possible. 5155 
It is nice to be back. 5152 
My comfy corner. 5149 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4789 
WMD in house. 4611 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4514 
The third listening spot. 4493 
For sure a very different experience. 4455 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4450 
It's Jfretch's system. 4450 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4449 
Domestic games 4403 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4264 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4264 
Dynamic screening 4264 
Actually this is very good idea! 4264 
Volcanic fabric 4264 
I should have done this. 4262 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4258 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4227 
No worries 4227 
Awesome memories 4227 
Optimization of space 4227 
Child-ish considerations 4224 
Finding peace.... 4218 
"Fencing"? 4217 
I need to build something custom 4217 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4217 
Stressed Skin 4217 
NYC elevators 4217 
Kids toys and quantities. 4217 
Everything is completely reversible 4216 
Racks and things 4216 
Now it looks even more promising! 4216 
Quantity of rods 4216 
Avoiding diagonals 4214 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4213 
That's not fair! 4213 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4213 
Discrimination? 4208 
Vertical configuration 4201 
Impresive ! 4130 
Did you read the site? 4130 
Contact 4130 
Company's name is Rixrax 4130 
Stand 4129 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4085 
End of life headphone system 4085 
Something like this? 4085 
The "Second Living Room" 4085 
Mixing urban & suburban 4085 
Late night listening 4085 
Moving life... 4083 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4083 
A true listening room. 4059 
It started… 4044 
Levels of Interest 4044 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4044 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4044 
I can't not to post it.... 4044 
Do not leave him unattended. 4044 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4044 
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