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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5842 
The first take on the new room. 5836 
New Room, a first shot. 5835 
Wonderful 5835 
Adopted 5834 
The first relaxed night with the room 5832 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5831 
The listening room is ready. 5830 
New Room, a First Shot 5828 
Continue to work with the room 5828 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5828 
Room 5827 
I think it will take another month. 5827 
The Buttressing 5827 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5826 
The new place and the new noises. 5826 
Big listening room 5825 
Screw the "big" rooms 5825 
Big listening rooms 5825 
First reflection points 5824 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5824 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5821 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5820 
Squeezing the floor 5820 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5820 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5820 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5819 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5819 
The new room, the very first listening. 5819 
The 14.5 foot. 5818 
Again… 5817 
Romy's new Playground 5817 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5817 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5817 
For the uninitiated ... 5816 
NH guy 5816 
Room 5816 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5815 
The first base is done 5815 
Reentry time alignment. 5814 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5813 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5813 
Mid bass horn. 5813 
Guess is only a guess… 5813 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5813 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5812 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5812 
Diffusors 5812 
Diffuse injection 5812 
Let analyse why it so 5812 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5812 
Wheel and Deal 5812 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5812 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5812 
I Must Be Missing Something 5812 
I put sliders under my speakers 5811 
ROOM 5810 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5810 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5810 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5810 
No concerns 5810 
Speakers and room 5810 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5809 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5809 
Diaphram 5809 
Phram 5809 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5809 
Perfect piston 5809 
Decorater 5808 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5808 
New morning 5807 
The first take on the room with RTA 5806 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5806 
Axiomatic 5806 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5805 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5805 
The size of the bass. 5805 
Bass Factory 5805 
Crude Level, or something more? 5805 
I will play with it this week…. 5805 
Rent-A 5805 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5805 
Corner horns 5805 
Cheating from below 5805 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5805 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5804 
A possibly overly simplified view 5804 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5804 
Iceberg 5804 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5804 
Why not horn 5804 
A correction…. 5804 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5804 
They are just not related things at all. 5804 
Fertin 5802 
Low resonance is good... 5802 
Et tu, Brute? 5801 
The Room response at LF 5800 
Life On The Ground Floor 5800 
Bass arrays 5800 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5800 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5800 
The super sucks. 5800 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5800 
You may also try 5799 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5799 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5799 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5799 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5799 
60 Hz Resonance 5799 
No notching… so far. 5799 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5798 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5798 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5798 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5798 
Power to the People 5798 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5798 
Aura 5798 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5798 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5798 
All class D is the same 5798 
Interpreting the LF results. 5797 
The Halibut 5797 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5797 
The Big Picture 5797 
Power & ULF channels 5797 
The big picture indeed. 5797 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5797 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5797 
The Power and the Glory 5796 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5796 
I guess I did not get this memo 5796 
French LF drivers 5796 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5796 
(another) French LF approach 5795 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5795 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5795 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5795 
Limpschtick 5795 
Symmetry 5795 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5794 
Room correction 5794 
It migh be more complicated. 5794 
Bass EQ ? 5794 
Agree and not. 5794 
Two "diseases" 5794 
Parametric filters 5794 
Ceiling arrays 5794 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5794 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5794 
The Middle of the Room. 5794 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5794 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5794 
Stop! 5794 
Appendectomy 5794 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5793 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5793 
No Isolation 5793 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5790 
Potential contenders? 5789 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5789 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5789 
Those Crazy Canucks 5785 
Mo' Better Bass 5779 
Bird in the Hand? 5779 
A wet listening spot? 5772 
Storm 5769 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5769 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5755 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5725 
Polar Opposite ULF 5724 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5712 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5710 
Differently but the same. 5709 
PVC 5708 
The sail test try. 5708 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5708 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5708 
Trial 5707 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5707 
Some explanations 5707 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5706 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5705 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5704 
Acrylate 5703 
Magic blanket 5703 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5702 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5702 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5702 
I have a few options. 5702 
Foam color 5702 
Strange things with upperbass 5702 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5701 
Teatro reform. . . 5701 
The foaming room dilemma. 5700 
Melamine Foam 5700 
Foaming up the cat house 5700 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5700 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5700 
Acoustic revisions… 5699 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5696 
Surprises so far in the new room 5695 
The upperbass in the new room. 5695 
Slight change of hart. 5694 
Camco supply of Boston 5692 
Room acoustics 5692 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5651 
I need to kill dust first. 5651 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5649 
To feed the leeches? 5649 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5648 
Yh 5648 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5648 
DPOLs? 5648 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5648 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5645 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5645 
A HalfPipe solution? 5645 
I absolutely love it. 5645 
Piper work 5644 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5644 
Absorption 5644 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5643 
Cats life ? 5643 
Call me Pussy. 5643 
More about traps 5643 
Acoustic impedance? 5643 
You maybe right 5643 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5643 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5642 
Heavy Curtain 5642 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5641 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5641 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5641 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5638 
Fix speaker move chair? 5637 
Back and forth ceremony 5637 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5636 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5635 
Glass windows 5634 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5633 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5632 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5630 
How to use basement jacks? 5630 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5630 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5630 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5629 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5629 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5628 
Sore eyes... 5627 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5627 
The harvesting week! 5625 
I need an inspiration… 5624 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5623 
Like this? 5623 
Dramatically randomize MF 5623 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5622 
The room eats dynamic 5622 
Diffusers 5622 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5621 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5606 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5605 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5605 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5605 
About Width-Importance balance. 5603 
Letting the music scale up 5602 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5602 
To finish my house décor… 5598 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5597 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5596 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5596 
Calling the gods of music 5596 
Absolutely 5596 
Phase manipulation 5596 
No relation. 5596 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5596 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5596 
Dynamical mismatch 5595 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5595 
Stradiwinerius? 5592 
Dealing with the glass. 5591 
Boston 5591 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5591 
Added mass 5591 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5591 
It is about moderation…. 5591 
To hell with the wine... 5591 
Also for other surafaces 5590 
LEAD 5590 
LEAD & GLASS 5590 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5590 
Read carefully 5590 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5590 
Crooks and morons 5590 
Magiscopios 5589 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5569 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5569 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5568 
The LP setup in the new home. 5517 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5512 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5512 
Pianochord will do! 5512 
Spanyi heaven 5512 
I see no conflict at all. 5512 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5512 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5512 
A year after closing 5504 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5504 
Traveling antimatter 5497 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5491 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5490 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5464 
Cast Iron fireplace 5463 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5463 
The hardcore way 5463 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5427 
This is How It's Done 5426 
Listening room during summer. 5414 
What about those... 5413 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5413 
Reducing A/C Noise 5413 
HVAC the Cat 5413 
Big Ass fan 5412 
Variac dimmers 5412 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5412 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5412 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5344 
Some winter observations. 5235 
That Asian man…. 5204 
The Franz Schubert morning 5178 
Spring.... 5127 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5077 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5048 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5048 
Just good photography? 5048 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5048 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5048 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5047 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5047 
Sports car 5047 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5047 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5047 
Train Positioning 5047 
Kind of what I want 5047 
The lap listening… 5047 
Family Room 5047 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5044 
A super audio room. 5040 
Time Warp! 5040 
A piano in a listening room 5019 
Pianissimo 5019 
The plan in blue. 5019 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5019 
My doubts 5019 
It is exactly what I worry. 5018 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5018 
Musicians at home 5018 
Piano Measurements 5017 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5012 
The next step. 4998 
Midbass horns missing?? 4997 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4987 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4987 
Baby Grand 4986 
Wood floor 4986 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4986 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4986 
Amy’s baby. 4984 
Improvement 4984 
Agree with Scott 4984 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4972 
Integrated casters 4972 
Very nice, thanks. 4972 
Customization 4972 
Sliders 4972 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4965 
Congratulations 4965 
Holes in the floor... 4965 
Tubes and kids 4965 
Sweet spot enlargement 4965 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4963 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4962 
Wood Floors and Water 4962 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4957 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4956 
WAF is for Losers 4956 
WAF: it depends. 4956 
Integration 4955 
Here and there. 4955 
Life after WWIII 4955 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4955 
Cables management. 4953 
Featurizing 4953 
Kids and tubes cont. 4950 
Kid magnet 4950 
Kids and audio 4949 
Radars 4949 
Wow, what the days! 4945 
The comming weekend 4941 
It all was worth it! 4938 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4933 
Here is how it is look. 4933 
Resolving the carpet issue 4933 
Bonfire 4933 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4933 
Proof of concept? 4933 
Geometry 4933 
A view from listening position. 4933 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4933 
Some feedback 4933 
Evening 4933 
I wonder why. 4932 
Rugs and things 4932 
In defense… 4932 
I can’t get it. 4929 
Haze. 4928 
Front wall 4928 
It is very possible. 4928 
It is nice to be back. 4925 
My comfy corner. 4922 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4562 
WMD in house. 4384 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4287 
The third listening spot. 4266 
For sure a very different experience. 4228 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4223 
It's Jfretch's system. 4223 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4222 
Domestic games 4176 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4037 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4037 
Dynamic screening 4037 
Actually this is very good idea! 4037 
Volcanic fabric 4037 
I should have done this. 4035 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4031 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4000 
No worries 4000 
Awesome memories 4000 
Optimization of space 4000 
Child-ish considerations 3997 
Finding peace.... 3991 
"Fencing"? 3990 
I need to build something custom 3990 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3990 
Stressed Skin 3990 
NYC elevators 3990 
Kids toys and quantities. 3990 
Everything is completely reversible 3989 
Racks and things 3989 
Now it looks even more promising! 3989 
Quantity of rods 3989 
Avoiding diagonals 3987 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3986 
That's not fair! 3986 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3986 
Discrimination? 3981 
Vertical configuration 3974 
Impresive ! 3903 
Did you read the site? 3903 
Contact 3903 
Company's name is Rixrax 3903 
Stand 3902 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3858 
End of life headphone system 3858 
Something like this? 3858 
The "Second Living Room" 3858 
Mixing urban & suburban 3858 
Late night listening 3858 
Moving life... 3856 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3856 
A true listening room. 3832 
It started… 3817 
Levels of Interest 3817 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3817 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3817 
I can't not to post it.... 3817 
Do not leave him unattended. 3817 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3817 
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