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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5967 
The first take on the new room. 5961 
New Room, a first shot. 5960 
Wonderful 5960 
Adopted 5959 
The first relaxed night with the room 5957 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5956 
The listening room is ready. 5955 
New Room, a First Shot 5953 
Continue to work with the room 5953 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5953 
Room 5952 
I think it will take another month. 5952 
The Buttressing 5952 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5951 
The new place and the new noises. 5951 
Big listening room 5950 
Screw the "big" rooms 5950 
Big listening rooms 5950 
First reflection points 5949 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5949 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5946 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5945 
Squeezing the floor 5945 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5945 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5945 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5944 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5944 
The new room, the very first listening. 5944 
The 14.5 foot. 5943 
Again… 5942 
Romy's new Playground 5942 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5942 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5942 
For the uninitiated ... 5941 
NH guy 5941 
Room 5941 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5940 
The first base is done 5940 
Reentry time alignment. 5939 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5938 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5938 
Mid bass horn. 5938 
Guess is only a guess… 5938 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5938 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5937 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5937 
Diffusors 5937 
Diffuse injection 5937 
Let analyse why it so 5937 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5937 
Wheel and Deal 5937 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5937 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5937 
I Must Be Missing Something 5937 
I put sliders under my speakers 5936 
ROOM 5935 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5935 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5935 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5935 
No concerns 5935 
Speakers and room 5935 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5934 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5934 
Diaphram 5934 
Phram 5934 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5934 
Perfect piston 5934 
Decorater 5933 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5933 
New morning 5932 
The first take on the room with RTA 5931 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5931 
Axiomatic 5931 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5930 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5930 
The size of the bass. 5930 
Bass Factory 5930 
Crude Level, or something more? 5930 
I will play with it this week…. 5930 
Rent-A 5930 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5930 
Corner horns 5930 
Cheating from below 5930 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5930 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5929 
A possibly overly simplified view 5929 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5929 
Iceberg 5929 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5929 
Why not horn 5929 
A correction…. 5929 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5929 
They are just not related things at all. 5929 
Fertin 5927 
Low resonance is good... 5927 
Et tu, Brute? 5926 
The Room response at LF 5925 
Life On The Ground Floor 5925 
Bass arrays 5925 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5925 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5925 
The super sucks. 5925 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5925 
You may also try 5924 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5924 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5924 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5924 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5924 
60 Hz Resonance 5924 
No notching… so far. 5924 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5923 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5923 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5923 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5923 
Power to the People 5923 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5923 
Aura 5923 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5923 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5923 
All class D is the same 5923 
Interpreting the LF results. 5922 
The Halibut 5922 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5922 
The Big Picture 5922 
Power & ULF channels 5922 
The big picture indeed. 5922 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5922 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5922 
The Power and the Glory 5921 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5921 
I guess I did not get this memo 5921 
French LF drivers 5921 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5921 
(another) French LF approach 5920 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5920 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5920 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5920 
Limpschtick 5920 
Symmetry 5920 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5919 
Room correction 5919 
It migh be more complicated. 5919 
Bass EQ ? 5919 
Agree and not. 5919 
Two "diseases" 5919 
Parametric filters 5919 
Ceiling arrays 5919 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5919 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5919 
The Middle of the Room. 5919 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5919 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5919 
Stop! 5919 
Appendectomy 5919 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5918 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5918 
No Isolation 5918 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5915 
Potential contenders? 5914 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5914 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5914 
Those Crazy Canucks 5910 
Mo' Better Bass 5904 
Bird in the Hand? 5904 
A wet listening spot? 5897 
Storm 5894 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5894 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5880 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5850 
Polar Opposite ULF 5849 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5837 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5835 
Differently but the same. 5834 
PVC 5833 
The sail test try. 5833 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5833 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5833 
Trial 5832 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5832 
Some explanations 5832 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5831 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5830 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5829 
Acrylate 5828 
Magic blanket 5828 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5827 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5827 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5827 
I have a few options. 5827 
Foam color 5827 
Strange things with upperbass 5827 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5826 
Teatro reform. . . 5826 
The foaming room dilemma. 5825 
Melamine Foam 5825 
Foaming up the cat house 5825 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5825 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5825 
Acoustic revisions… 5824 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5821 
Surprises so far in the new room 5820 
The upperbass in the new room. 5820 
Slight change of hart. 5819 
Camco supply of Boston 5817 
Room acoustics 5817 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5776 
I need to kill dust first. 5776 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5774 
To feed the leeches? 5774 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5773 
Yh 5773 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5773 
DPOLs? 5773 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5773 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5770 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5770 
A HalfPipe solution? 5770 
I absolutely love it. 5770 
Piper work 5769 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5769 
Absorption 5769 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5768 
Cats life ? 5768 
Call me Pussy. 5768 
More about traps 5768 
Acoustic impedance? 5768 
You maybe right 5768 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5768 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5767 
Heavy Curtain 5767 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5766 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5766 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5766 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5763 
Fix speaker move chair? 5762 
Back and forth ceremony 5762 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5761 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5760 
Glass windows 5759 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5758 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5757 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5755 
How to use basement jacks? 5755 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5755 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5755 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5754 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5754 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5753 
Sore eyes... 5752 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5752 
The harvesting week! 5750 
I need an inspiration… 5749 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5748 
Like this? 5748 
Dramatically randomize MF 5748 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5747 
The room eats dynamic 5747 
Diffusers 5747 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5746 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5731 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5730 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5730 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5730 
About Width-Importance balance. 5728 
Letting the music scale up 5727 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5727 
To finish my house décor… 5723 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5722 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5721 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5721 
Calling the gods of music 5721 
Absolutely 5721 
Phase manipulation 5721 
No relation. 5721 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5721 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5721 
Dynamical mismatch 5720 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5720 
Stradiwinerius? 5717 
Dealing with the glass. 5716 
Boston 5716 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5716 
Added mass 5716 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5716 
It is about moderation…. 5716 
To hell with the wine... 5716 
Also for other surafaces 5715 
LEAD 5715 
LEAD & GLASS 5715 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5715 
Read carefully 5715 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5715 
Crooks and morons 5715 
Magiscopios 5714 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5694 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5694 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5693 
The LP setup in the new home. 5642 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5637 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5637 
Pianochord will do! 5637 
Spanyi heaven 5637 
I see no conflict at all. 5637 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5637 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5637 
A year after closing 5629 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5629 
Traveling antimatter 5622 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5616 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5615 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5589 
Cast Iron fireplace 5588 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5588 
The hardcore way 5588 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5552 
This is How It's Done 5551 
Listening room during summer. 5539 
What about those... 5538 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5538 
Reducing A/C Noise 5538 
HVAC the Cat 5538 
Big Ass fan 5537 
Variac dimmers 5537 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5537 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5537 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5469 
Some winter observations. 5360 
That Asian man…. 5329 
The Franz Schubert morning 5303 
Spring.... 5252 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5202 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5173 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5173 
Just good photography? 5173 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5173 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5173 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5172 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5172 
Sports car 5172 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5172 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5172 
Train Positioning 5172 
Kind of what I want 5172 
The lap listening… 5172 
Family Room 5172 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5169 
A super audio room. 5165 
Time Warp! 5165 
A piano in a listening room 5144 
Pianissimo 5144 
The plan in blue. 5144 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5144 
My doubts 5144 
It is exactly what I worry. 5143 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5143 
Musicians at home 5143 
Piano Measurements 5142 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5137 
The next step. 5123 
Midbass horns missing?? 5122 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5112 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5112 
Baby Grand 5111 
Wood floor 5111 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5111 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5111 
Amy’s baby. 5109 
Improvement 5109 
Agree with Scott 5109 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5097 
Integrated casters 5097 
Very nice, thanks. 5097 
Customization 5097 
Sliders 5097 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5090 
Congratulations 5090 
Holes in the floor... 5090 
Tubes and kids 5090 
Sweet spot enlargement 5090 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5088 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5087 
Wood Floors and Water 5087 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5082 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5081 
WAF is for Losers 5081 
WAF: it depends. 5081 
Integration 5080 
Here and there. 5080 
Life after WWIII 5080 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5080 
Cables management. 5078 
Featurizing 5078 
Kids and tubes cont. 5075 
Kid magnet 5075 
Kids and audio 5074 
Radars 5074 
Wow, what the days! 5070 
The comming weekend 5066 
It all was worth it! 5063 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5058 
Here is how it is look. 5058 
Resolving the carpet issue 5058 
Bonfire 5058 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5058 
Proof of concept? 5058 
Geometry 5058 
A view from listening position. 5058 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5058 
Some feedback 5058 
Evening 5058 
I wonder why. 5057 
Rugs and things 5057 
In defense… 5057 
I can’t get it. 5054 
Haze. 5053 
Front wall 5053 
It is very possible. 5053 
It is nice to be back. 5050 
My comfy corner. 5047 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4687 
WMD in house. 4509 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4412 
The third listening spot. 4391 
For sure a very different experience. 4353 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4348 
It's Jfretch's system. 4348 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4347 
Domestic games 4301 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4162 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4162 
Dynamic screening 4162 
Actually this is very good idea! 4162 
Volcanic fabric 4162 
I should have done this. 4160 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4156 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4125 
No worries 4125 
Awesome memories 4125 
Optimization of space 4125 
Child-ish considerations 4122 
Finding peace.... 4116 
"Fencing"? 4115 
I need to build something custom 4115 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4115 
Stressed Skin 4115 
NYC elevators 4115 
Kids toys and quantities. 4115 
Everything is completely reversible 4114 
Racks and things 4114 
Now it looks even more promising! 4114 
Quantity of rods 4114 
Avoiding diagonals 4112 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4111 
That's not fair! 4111 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4111 
Discrimination? 4106 
Vertical configuration 4099 
Impresive ! 4028 
Did you read the site? 4028 
Contact 4028 
Company's name is Rixrax 4028 
Stand 4027 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3983 
End of life headphone system 3983 
Something like this? 3983 
The "Second Living Room" 3983 
Mixing urban & suburban 3983 
Late night listening 3983 
Moving life... 3981 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3981 
A true listening room. 3957 
It started… 3942 
Levels of Interest 3942 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3942 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3942 
I can't not to post it.... 3942 
Do not leave him unattended. 3942 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3942 
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