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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5964 
The first take on the new room. 5958 
New Room, a first shot. 5957 
Wonderful 5957 
Adopted 5956 
The first relaxed night with the room 5954 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5953 
The listening room is ready. 5952 
New Room, a First Shot 5950 
Continue to work with the room 5950 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5950 
Room 5949 
I think it will take another month. 5949 
The Buttressing 5949 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5948 
The new place and the new noises. 5948 
Big listening room 5947 
Screw the "big" rooms 5947 
Big listening rooms 5947 
First reflection points 5946 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5946 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5943 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5942 
Squeezing the floor 5942 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5942 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5942 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5941 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5941 
The new room, the very first listening. 5941 
The 14.5 foot. 5940 
Again… 5939 
Romy's new Playground 5939 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5939 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5939 
For the uninitiated ... 5938 
NH guy 5938 
Room 5938 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5937 
The first base is done 5937 
Reentry time alignment. 5936 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5935 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5935 
Mid bass horn. 5935 
Guess is only a guess… 5935 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5935 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5934 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5934 
Diffusors 5934 
Diffuse injection 5934 
Let analyse why it so 5934 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5934 
Wheel and Deal 5934 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5934 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5934 
I Must Be Missing Something 5934 
I put sliders under my speakers 5933 
ROOM 5932 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5932 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5932 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5932 
No concerns 5932 
Speakers and room 5932 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5931 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5931 
Diaphram 5931 
Phram 5931 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5931 
Perfect piston 5931 
Decorater 5930 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5930 
New morning 5929 
The first take on the room with RTA 5928 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5928 
Axiomatic 5928 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5927 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5927 
The size of the bass. 5927 
Bass Factory 5927 
Crude Level, or something more? 5927 
I will play with it this week…. 5927 
Rent-A 5927 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5927 
Corner horns 5927 
Cheating from below 5927 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5927 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5926 
A possibly overly simplified view 5926 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5926 
Iceberg 5926 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5926 
Why not horn 5926 
A correction…. 5926 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5926 
They are just not related things at all. 5926 
Fertin 5924 
Low resonance is good... 5924 
Et tu, Brute? 5923 
The Room response at LF 5922 
Life On The Ground Floor 5922 
Bass arrays 5922 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5922 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5922 
The super sucks. 5922 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5922 
You may also try 5921 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5921 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5921 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5921 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5921 
60 Hz Resonance 5921 
No notching… so far. 5921 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5920 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5920 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5920 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5920 
Power to the People 5920 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5920 
Aura 5920 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5920 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5920 
All class D is the same 5920 
Interpreting the LF results. 5919 
The Halibut 5919 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5919 
The Big Picture 5919 
Power & ULF channels 5919 
The big picture indeed. 5919 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5919 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5919 
The Power and the Glory 5918 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5918 
I guess I did not get this memo 5918 
French LF drivers 5918 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5918 
(another) French LF approach 5917 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5917 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5917 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5917 
Limpschtick 5917 
Symmetry 5917 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5916 
Room correction 5916 
It migh be more complicated. 5916 
Bass EQ ? 5916 
Agree and not. 5916 
Two "diseases" 5916 
Parametric filters 5916 
Ceiling arrays 5916 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5916 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5916 
The Middle of the Room. 5916 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5916 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5916 
Stop! 5916 
Appendectomy 5916 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5915 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5915 
No Isolation 5915 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5912 
Potential contenders? 5911 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5911 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5911 
Those Crazy Canucks 5907 
Mo' Better Bass 5901 
Bird in the Hand? 5901 
A wet listening spot? 5894 
Storm 5891 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5891 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5877 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5847 
Polar Opposite ULF 5846 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5834 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5832 
Differently but the same. 5831 
PVC 5830 
The sail test try. 5830 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5830 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5830 
Trial 5829 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5829 
Some explanations 5829 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5828 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5827 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5826 
Acrylate 5825 
Magic blanket 5825 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5824 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5824 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5824 
I have a few options. 5824 
Foam color 5824 
Strange things with upperbass 5824 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5823 
Teatro reform. . . 5823 
The foaming room dilemma. 5822 
Melamine Foam 5822 
Foaming up the cat house 5822 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5822 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5822 
Acoustic revisions… 5821 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5818 
Surprises so far in the new room 5817 
The upperbass in the new room. 5817 
Slight change of hart. 5816 
Camco supply of Boston 5814 
Room acoustics 5814 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5773 
I need to kill dust first. 5773 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5771 
To feed the leeches? 5771 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5770 
Yh 5770 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5770 
DPOLs? 5770 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5770 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5767 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5767 
A HalfPipe solution? 5767 
I absolutely love it. 5767 
Piper work 5766 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5766 
Absorption 5766 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5765 
Cats life ? 5765 
Call me Pussy. 5765 
More about traps 5765 
Acoustic impedance? 5765 
You maybe right 5765 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5765 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5764 
Heavy Curtain 5764 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5763 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5763 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5763 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5760 
Fix speaker move chair? 5759 
Back and forth ceremony 5759 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5758 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5757 
Glass windows 5756 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5755 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5754 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5752 
How to use basement jacks? 5752 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5752 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5752 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5751 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5751 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5750 
Sore eyes... 5749 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5749 
The harvesting week! 5747 
I need an inspiration… 5746 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5745 
Like this? 5745 
Dramatically randomize MF 5745 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5744 
The room eats dynamic 5744 
Diffusers 5744 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5743 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5728 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5727 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5727 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5727 
About Width-Importance balance. 5725 
Letting the music scale up 5724 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5724 
To finish my house décor… 5720 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5719 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5718 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5718 
Calling the gods of music 5718 
Absolutely 5718 
Phase manipulation 5718 
No relation. 5718 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5718 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5718 
Dynamical mismatch 5717 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5717 
Stradiwinerius? 5714 
Dealing with the glass. 5713 
Boston 5713 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5713 
Added mass 5713 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5713 
It is about moderation…. 5713 
To hell with the wine... 5713 
Also for other surafaces 5712 
LEAD 5712 
LEAD & GLASS 5712 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5712 
Read carefully 5712 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5712 
Crooks and morons 5712 
Magiscopios 5711 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5691 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5691 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5690 
The LP setup in the new home. 5639 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5634 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5634 
Pianochord will do! 5634 
Spanyi heaven 5634 
I see no conflict at all. 5634 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5634 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5634 
A year after closing 5626 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5626 
Traveling antimatter 5619 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5613 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5612 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5586 
Cast Iron fireplace 5585 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5585 
The hardcore way 5585 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5549 
This is How It's Done 5548 
Listening room during summer. 5536 
What about those... 5535 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5535 
Reducing A/C Noise 5535 
HVAC the Cat 5535 
Big Ass fan 5534 
Variac dimmers 5534 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5534 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5534 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5466 
Some winter observations. 5357 
That Asian man…. 5326 
The Franz Schubert morning 5300 
Spring.... 5249 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5199 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5170 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5170 
Just good photography? 5170 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5170 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5170 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5169 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5169 
Sports car 5169 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5169 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5169 
Train Positioning 5169 
Kind of what I want 5169 
The lap listening… 5169 
Family Room 5169 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5166 
A super audio room. 5162 
Time Warp! 5162 
A piano in a listening room 5141 
Pianissimo 5141 
The plan in blue. 5141 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5141 
My doubts 5141 
It is exactly what I worry. 5140 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5140 
Musicians at home 5140 
Piano Measurements 5139 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5134 
The next step. 5120 
Midbass horns missing?? 5119 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5109 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5109 
Baby Grand 5108 
Wood floor 5108 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5108 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5108 
Amy’s baby. 5106 
Improvement 5106 
Agree with Scott 5106 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5094 
Integrated casters 5094 
Very nice, thanks. 5094 
Customization 5094 
Sliders 5094 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5087 
Congratulations 5087 
Holes in the floor... 5087 
Tubes and kids 5087 
Sweet spot enlargement 5087 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5085 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5084 
Wood Floors and Water 5084 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5079 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5078 
WAF is for Losers 5078 
WAF: it depends. 5078 
Integration 5077 
Here and there. 5077 
Life after WWIII 5077 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5077 
Cables management. 5075 
Featurizing 5075 
Kids and tubes cont. 5072 
Kid magnet 5072 
Kids and audio 5071 
Radars 5071 
Wow, what the days! 5067 
The comming weekend 5063 
It all was worth it! 5060 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5055 
Here is how it is look. 5055 
Resolving the carpet issue 5055 
Bonfire 5055 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5055 
Proof of concept? 5055 
Geometry 5055 
A view from listening position. 5055 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5055 
Some feedback 5055 
Evening 5055 
I wonder why. 5054 
Rugs and things 5054 
In defense… 5054 
I can’t get it. 5051 
Haze. 5050 
Front wall 5050 
It is very possible. 5050 
It is nice to be back. 5047 
My comfy corner. 5044 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4684 
WMD in house. 4506 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4409 
The third listening spot. 4388 
For sure a very different experience. 4350 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4345 
It's Jfretch's system. 4345 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4344 
Domestic games 4298 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4159 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4159 
Dynamic screening 4159 
Actually this is very good idea! 4159 
Volcanic fabric 4159 
I should have done this. 4157 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4153 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4122 
No worries 4122 
Awesome memories 4122 
Optimization of space 4122 
Child-ish considerations 4119 
Finding peace.... 4113 
"Fencing"? 4112 
I need to build something custom 4112 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4112 
Stressed Skin 4112 
NYC elevators 4112 
Kids toys and quantities. 4112 
Everything is completely reversible 4111 
Racks and things 4111 
Now it looks even more promising! 4111 
Quantity of rods 4111 
Avoiding diagonals 4109 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4108 
That's not fair! 4108 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4108 
Discrimination? 4103 
Vertical configuration 4096 
Impresive ! 4025 
Did you read the site? 4025 
Contact 4025 
Company's name is Rixrax 4025 
Stand 4024 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3980 
End of life headphone system 3980 
Something like this? 3980 
The "Second Living Room" 3980 
Mixing urban & suburban 3980 
Late night listening 3980 
Moving life... 3978 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3978 
A true listening room. 3954 
It started… 3939 
Levels of Interest 3939 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3939 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3939 
I can't not to post it.... 3939 
Do not leave him unattended. 3939 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3939 
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