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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5959 
The first take on the new room. 5953 
New Room, a first shot. 5952 
Wonderful 5952 
Adopted 5951 
The first relaxed night with the room 5949 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5948 
The listening room is ready. 5947 
New Room, a First Shot 5945 
Continue to work with the room 5945 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5945 
Room 5944 
I think it will take another month. 5944 
The Buttressing 5944 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5943 
The new place and the new noises. 5943 
Big listening room 5942 
Screw the "big" rooms 5942 
Big listening rooms 5942 
First reflection points 5941 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5941 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5938 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5937 
Squeezing the floor 5937 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5937 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5937 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5936 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5936 
The new room, the very first listening. 5936 
The 14.5 foot. 5935 
Again… 5934 
Romy's new Playground 5934 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5934 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5934 
For the uninitiated ... 5933 
NH guy 5933 
Room 5933 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5932 
The first base is done 5932 
Reentry time alignment. 5931 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5930 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5930 
Mid bass horn. 5930 
Guess is only a guess… 5930 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5930 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5929 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5929 
Diffusors 5929 
Diffuse injection 5929 
Let analyse why it so 5929 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5929 
Wheel and Deal 5929 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5929 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5929 
I Must Be Missing Something 5929 
I put sliders under my speakers 5928 
ROOM 5927 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5927 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5927 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5927 
No concerns 5927 
Speakers and room 5927 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5926 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5926 
Diaphram 5926 
Phram 5926 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5926 
Perfect piston 5926 
Decorater 5925 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5925 
New morning 5924 
The first take on the room with RTA 5923 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5923 
Axiomatic 5923 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5922 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5922 
The size of the bass. 5922 
Bass Factory 5922 
Crude Level, or something more? 5922 
I will play with it this week…. 5922 
Rent-A 5922 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5922 
Corner horns 5922 
Cheating from below 5922 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5922 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5921 
A possibly overly simplified view 5921 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5921 
Iceberg 5921 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5921 
Why not horn 5921 
A correction…. 5921 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5921 
They are just not related things at all. 5921 
Fertin 5919 
Low resonance is good... 5919 
Et tu, Brute? 5918 
The Room response at LF 5917 
Life On The Ground Floor 5917 
Bass arrays 5917 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5917 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5917 
The super sucks. 5917 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5917 
You may also try 5916 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5916 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5916 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5916 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5916 
60 Hz Resonance 5916 
No notching… so far. 5916 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5915 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5915 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5915 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5915 
Power to the People 5915 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5915 
Aura 5915 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5915 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5915 
All class D is the same 5915 
Interpreting the LF results. 5914 
The Halibut 5914 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5914 
The Big Picture 5914 
Power & ULF channels 5914 
The big picture indeed. 5914 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5914 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5914 
The Power and the Glory 5913 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5913 
I guess I did not get this memo 5913 
French LF drivers 5913 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5913 
(another) French LF approach 5912 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5912 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5912 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5912 
Limpschtick 5912 
Symmetry 5912 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5911 
Room correction 5911 
It migh be more complicated. 5911 
Bass EQ ? 5911 
Agree and not. 5911 
Two "diseases" 5911 
Parametric filters 5911 
Ceiling arrays 5911 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5911 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5911 
The Middle of the Room. 5911 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5911 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5911 
Stop! 5911 
Appendectomy 5911 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5910 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5910 
No Isolation 5910 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5907 
Potential contenders? 5906 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5906 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5906 
Those Crazy Canucks 5902 
Mo' Better Bass 5896 
Bird in the Hand? 5896 
A wet listening spot? 5889 
Storm 5886 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5886 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5872 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5842 
Polar Opposite ULF 5841 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5829 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5827 
Differently but the same. 5826 
PVC 5825 
The sail test try. 5825 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5825 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5825 
Trial 5824 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5824 
Some explanations 5824 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5823 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5822 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5821 
Acrylate 5820 
Magic blanket 5820 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5819 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5819 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5819 
I have a few options. 5819 
Foam color 5819 
Strange things with upperbass 5819 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5818 
Teatro reform. . . 5818 
The foaming room dilemma. 5817 
Melamine Foam 5817 
Foaming up the cat house 5817 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5817 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5817 
Acoustic revisions… 5816 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5813 
Surprises so far in the new room 5812 
The upperbass in the new room. 5812 
Slight change of hart. 5811 
Camco supply of Boston 5809 
Room acoustics 5809 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5768 
I need to kill dust first. 5768 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5766 
To feed the leeches? 5766 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5765 
Yh 5765 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5765 
DPOLs? 5765 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5765 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5762 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5762 
A HalfPipe solution? 5762 
I absolutely love it. 5762 
Piper work 5761 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5761 
Absorption 5761 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5760 
Cats life ? 5760 
Call me Pussy. 5760 
More about traps 5760 
Acoustic impedance? 5760 
You maybe right 5760 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5760 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5759 
Heavy Curtain 5759 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5758 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5758 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5758 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5755 
Fix speaker move chair? 5754 
Back and forth ceremony 5754 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5753 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5752 
Glass windows 5751 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5750 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5749 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5747 
How to use basement jacks? 5747 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5747 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5747 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5746 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5746 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5745 
Sore eyes... 5744 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5744 
The harvesting week! 5742 
I need an inspiration… 5741 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5740 
Like this? 5740 
Dramatically randomize MF 5740 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5739 
The room eats dynamic 5739 
Diffusers 5739 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5738 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5723 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5722 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5722 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5722 
About Width-Importance balance. 5720 
Letting the music scale up 5719 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5719 
To finish my house décor… 5715 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5714 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5713 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5713 
Calling the gods of music 5713 
Absolutely 5713 
Phase manipulation 5713 
No relation. 5713 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5713 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5713 
Dynamical mismatch 5712 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5712 
Stradiwinerius? 5709 
Dealing with the glass. 5708 
Boston 5708 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5708 
Added mass 5708 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5708 
It is about moderation…. 5708 
To hell with the wine... 5708 
Also for other surafaces 5707 
LEAD 5707 
LEAD & GLASS 5707 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5707 
Read carefully 5707 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5707 
Crooks and morons 5707 
Magiscopios 5706 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5686 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5686 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5685 
The LP setup in the new home. 5634 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5629 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5629 
Pianochord will do! 5629 
Spanyi heaven 5629 
I see no conflict at all. 5629 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5629 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5629 
A year after closing 5621 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5621 
Traveling antimatter 5614 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5608 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5607 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5581 
Cast Iron fireplace 5580 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5580 
The hardcore way 5580 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5544 
This is How It's Done 5543 
Listening room during summer. 5531 
What about those... 5530 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5530 
Reducing A/C Noise 5530 
HVAC the Cat 5530 
Big Ass fan 5529 
Variac dimmers 5529 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5529 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5529 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5461 
Some winter observations. 5352 
That Asian man…. 5321 
The Franz Schubert morning 5295 
Spring.... 5244 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5194 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5165 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5165 
Just good photography? 5165 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5165 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5165 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5164 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5164 
Sports car 5164 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5164 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5164 
Train Positioning 5164 
Kind of what I want 5164 
The lap listening… 5164 
Family Room 5164 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5161 
A super audio room. 5157 
Time Warp! 5157 
A piano in a listening room 5136 
Pianissimo 5136 
The plan in blue. 5136 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5136 
My doubts 5136 
It is exactly what I worry. 5135 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5135 
Musicians at home 5135 
Piano Measurements 5134 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5129 
The next step. 5115 
Midbass horns missing?? 5114 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5104 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5104 
Baby Grand 5103 
Wood floor 5103 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5103 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5103 
Amy’s baby. 5101 
Improvement 5101 
Agree with Scott 5101 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5089 
Integrated casters 5089 
Very nice, thanks. 5089 
Customization 5089 
Sliders 5089 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5082 
Congratulations 5082 
Holes in the floor... 5082 
Tubes and kids 5082 
Sweet spot enlargement 5082 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5080 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5079 
Wood Floors and Water 5079 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5074 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5073 
WAF is for Losers 5073 
WAF: it depends. 5073 
Integration 5072 
Here and there. 5072 
Life after WWIII 5072 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5072 
Cables management. 5070 
Featurizing 5070 
Kids and tubes cont. 5067 
Kid magnet 5067 
Kids and audio 5066 
Radars 5066 
Wow, what the days! 5062 
The comming weekend 5058 
It all was worth it! 5055 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5050 
Here is how it is look. 5050 
Resolving the carpet issue 5050 
Bonfire 5050 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5050 
Proof of concept? 5050 
Geometry 5050 
A view from listening position. 5050 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5050 
Some feedback 5050 
Evening 5050 
I wonder why. 5049 
Rugs and things 5049 
In defense… 5049 
I can’t get it. 5046 
Haze. 5045 
Front wall 5045 
It is very possible. 5045 
It is nice to be back. 5042 
My comfy corner. 5039 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4679 
WMD in house. 4501 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4404 
The third listening spot. 4383 
For sure a very different experience. 4345 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4340 
It's Jfretch's system. 4340 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4339 
Domestic games 4293 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4154 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4154 
Dynamic screening 4154 
Actually this is very good idea! 4154 
Volcanic fabric 4154 
I should have done this. 4152 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4148 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4117 
No worries 4117 
Awesome memories 4117 
Optimization of space 4117 
Child-ish considerations 4114 
Finding peace.... 4108 
"Fencing"? 4107 
I need to build something custom 4107 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4107 
Stressed Skin 4107 
NYC elevators 4107 
Kids toys and quantities. 4107 
Everything is completely reversible 4106 
Racks and things 4106 
Now it looks even more promising! 4106 
Quantity of rods 4106 
Avoiding diagonals 4104 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4103 
That's not fair! 4103 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4103 
Discrimination? 4098 
Vertical configuration 4091 
Impresive ! 4020 
Did you read the site? 4020 
Contact 4020 
Company's name is Rixrax 4020 
Stand 4019 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3975 
End of life headphone system 3975 
Something like this? 3975 
The "Second Living Room" 3975 
Mixing urban & suburban 3975 
Late night listening 3975 
Moving life... 3973 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3973 
A true listening room. 3949 
It started… 3934 
Levels of Interest 3934 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3934 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3934 
I can't not to post it.... 3934 
Do not leave him unattended. 3934 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3934 
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