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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5863 
The first take on the new room. 5857 
New Room, a first shot. 5856 
Wonderful 5856 
Adopted 5855 
The first relaxed night with the room 5853 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5852 
The listening room is ready. 5851 
New Room, a First Shot 5849 
Continue to work with the room 5849 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5849 
Room 5848 
I think it will take another month. 5848 
The Buttressing 5848 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5847 
The new place and the new noises. 5847 
Big listening room 5846 
Screw the "big" rooms 5846 
Big listening rooms 5846 
First reflection points 5845 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5845 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5842 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5841 
Squeezing the floor 5841 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5841 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5841 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5840 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5840 
The new room, the very first listening. 5840 
The 14.5 foot. 5839 
Again… 5838 
Romy's new Playground 5838 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5838 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5838 
For the uninitiated ... 5837 
NH guy 5837 
Room 5837 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5836 
The first base is done 5836 
Reentry time alignment. 5835 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5834 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5834 
Mid bass horn. 5834 
Guess is only a guess… 5834 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5834 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5833 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5833 
Diffusors 5833 
Diffuse injection 5833 
Let analyse why it so 5833 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5833 
Wheel and Deal 5833 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5833 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5833 
I Must Be Missing Something 5833 
I put sliders under my speakers 5832 
ROOM 5831 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5831 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5831 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5831 
No concerns 5831 
Speakers and room 5831 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5830 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5830 
Diaphram 5830 
Phram 5830 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5830 
Perfect piston 5830 
Decorater 5829 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5829 
New morning 5828 
The first take on the room with RTA 5827 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5827 
Axiomatic 5827 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5826 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5826 
The size of the bass. 5826 
Bass Factory 5826 
Crude Level, or something more? 5826 
I will play with it this week…. 5826 
Rent-A 5826 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5826 
Corner horns 5826 
Cheating from below 5826 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5826 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5825 
A possibly overly simplified view 5825 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5825 
Iceberg 5825 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5825 
Why not horn 5825 
A correction…. 5825 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5825 
They are just not related things at all. 5825 
Fertin 5823 
Low resonance is good... 5823 
Et tu, Brute? 5822 
The Room response at LF 5821 
Life On The Ground Floor 5821 
Bass arrays 5821 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5821 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5821 
The super sucks. 5821 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5821 
You may also try 5820 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5820 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5820 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5820 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5820 
60 Hz Resonance 5820 
No notching… so far. 5820 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5819 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5819 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5819 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5819 
Power to the People 5819 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5819 
Aura 5819 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5819 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5819 
All class D is the same 5819 
Interpreting the LF results. 5818 
The Halibut 5818 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5818 
The Big Picture 5818 
Power & ULF channels 5818 
The big picture indeed. 5818 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5818 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5818 
The Power and the Glory 5817 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5817 
I guess I did not get this memo 5817 
French LF drivers 5817 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5817 
(another) French LF approach 5816 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5816 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5816 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5816 
Limpschtick 5816 
Symmetry 5816 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5815 
Room correction 5815 
It migh be more complicated. 5815 
Bass EQ ? 5815 
Agree and not. 5815 
Two "diseases" 5815 
Parametric filters 5815 
Ceiling arrays 5815 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5815 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5815 
The Middle of the Room. 5815 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5815 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5815 
Stop! 5815 
Appendectomy 5815 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5814 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5814 
No Isolation 5814 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5811 
Potential contenders? 5810 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5810 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5810 
Those Crazy Canucks 5806 
Mo' Better Bass 5800 
Bird in the Hand? 5800 
A wet listening spot? 5793 
Storm 5790 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5790 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5776 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5746 
Polar Opposite ULF 5745 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5733 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5731 
Differently but the same. 5730 
PVC 5729 
The sail test try. 5729 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5729 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5729 
Trial 5728 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5728 
Some explanations 5728 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5727 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5726 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5725 
Acrylate 5724 
Magic blanket 5724 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5723 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5723 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5723 
I have a few options. 5723 
Foam color 5723 
Strange things with upperbass 5723 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5722 
Teatro reform. . . 5722 
The foaming room dilemma. 5721 
Melamine Foam 5721 
Foaming up the cat house 5721 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5721 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5721 
Acoustic revisions… 5720 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5717 
Surprises so far in the new room 5716 
The upperbass in the new room. 5716 
Slight change of hart. 5715 
Camco supply of Boston 5713 
Room acoustics 5713 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5672 
I need to kill dust first. 5672 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5670 
To feed the leeches? 5670 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5669 
Yh 5669 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5669 
DPOLs? 5669 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5669 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5666 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5666 
A HalfPipe solution? 5666 
I absolutely love it. 5666 
Piper work 5665 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5665 
Absorption 5665 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5664 
Cats life ? 5664 
Call me Pussy. 5664 
More about traps 5664 
Acoustic impedance? 5664 
You maybe right 5664 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5664 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5663 
Heavy Curtain 5663 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5662 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5662 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5662 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5659 
Fix speaker move chair? 5658 
Back and forth ceremony 5658 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5657 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5656 
Glass windows 5655 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5654 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5653 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5651 
How to use basement jacks? 5651 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5651 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5651 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5650 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5650 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5649 
Sore eyes... 5648 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5648 
The harvesting week! 5646 
I need an inspiration… 5645 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5644 
Like this? 5644 
Dramatically randomize MF 5644 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5643 
The room eats dynamic 5643 
Diffusers 5643 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5642 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5627 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5626 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5626 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5626 
About Width-Importance balance. 5624 
Letting the music scale up 5623 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5623 
To finish my house décor… 5619 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5618 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5617 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5617 
Calling the gods of music 5617 
Absolutely 5617 
Phase manipulation 5617 
No relation. 5617 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5617 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5617 
Dynamical mismatch 5616 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5616 
Stradiwinerius? 5613 
Dealing with the glass. 5612 
Boston 5612 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5612 
Added mass 5612 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5612 
It is about moderation…. 5612 
To hell with the wine... 5612 
Also for other surafaces 5611 
LEAD 5611 
LEAD & GLASS 5611 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5611 
Read carefully 5611 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5611 
Crooks and morons 5611 
Magiscopios 5610 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5590 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5590 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5589 
The LP setup in the new home. 5538 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5533 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5533 
Pianochord will do! 5533 
Spanyi heaven 5533 
I see no conflict at all. 5533 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5533 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5533 
A year after closing 5525 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5525 
Traveling antimatter 5518 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5512 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5511 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5485 
Cast Iron fireplace 5484 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5484 
The hardcore way 5484 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5448 
This is How It's Done 5447 
Listening room during summer. 5435 
What about those... 5434 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5434 
Reducing A/C Noise 5434 
HVAC the Cat 5434 
Big Ass fan 5433 
Variac dimmers 5433 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5433 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5433 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5365 
Some winter observations. 5256 
That Asian man…. 5225 
The Franz Schubert morning 5199 
Spring.... 5148 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5098 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5069 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5069 
Just good photography? 5069 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5069 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5069 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5068 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5068 
Sports car 5068 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5068 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5068 
Train Positioning 5068 
Kind of what I want 5068 
The lap listening… 5068 
Family Room 5068 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5065 
A super audio room. 5061 
Time Warp! 5061 
A piano in a listening room 5040 
Pianissimo 5040 
The plan in blue. 5040 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5040 
My doubts 5040 
It is exactly what I worry. 5039 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5039 
Musicians at home 5039 
Piano Measurements 5038 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5033 
The next step. 5019 
Midbass horns missing?? 5018 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5008 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5008 
Baby Grand 5007 
Wood floor 5007 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5007 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5007 
Amy’s baby. 5005 
Improvement 5005 
Agree with Scott 5005 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4993 
Integrated casters 4993 
Very nice, thanks. 4993 
Customization 4993 
Sliders 4993 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4986 
Congratulations 4986 
Holes in the floor... 4986 
Tubes and kids 4986 
Sweet spot enlargement 4986 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4984 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4983 
Wood Floors and Water 4983 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4978 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4977 
WAF is for Losers 4977 
WAF: it depends. 4977 
Integration 4976 
Here and there. 4976 
Life after WWIII 4976 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4976 
Cables management. 4974 
Featurizing 4974 
Kids and tubes cont. 4971 
Kid magnet 4971 
Kids and audio 4970 
Radars 4970 
Wow, what the days! 4966 
The comming weekend 4962 
It all was worth it! 4959 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4954 
Here is how it is look. 4954 
Resolving the carpet issue 4954 
Bonfire 4954 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4954 
Proof of concept? 4954 
Geometry 4954 
A view from listening position. 4954 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4954 
Some feedback 4954 
Evening 4954 
I wonder why. 4953 
Rugs and things 4953 
In defense… 4953 
I can’t get it. 4950 
Haze. 4949 
Front wall 4949 
It is very possible. 4949 
It is nice to be back. 4946 
My comfy corner. 4943 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4583 
WMD in house. 4405 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4308 
The third listening spot. 4287 
For sure a very different experience. 4249 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4244 
It's Jfretch's system. 4244 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4243 
Domestic games 4197 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4058 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4058 
Dynamic screening 4058 
Actually this is very good idea! 4058 
Volcanic fabric 4058 
I should have done this. 4056 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4052 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4021 
No worries 4021 
Awesome memories 4021 
Optimization of space 4021 
Child-ish considerations 4018 
Finding peace.... 4012 
"Fencing"? 4011 
I need to build something custom 4011 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4011 
Stressed Skin 4011 
NYC elevators 4011 
Kids toys and quantities. 4011 
Everything is completely reversible 4010 
Racks and things 4010 
Now it looks even more promising! 4010 
Quantity of rods 4010 
Avoiding diagonals 4008 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4007 
That's not fair! 4007 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4007 
Discrimination? 4002 
Vertical configuration 3995 
Impresive ! 3924 
Did you read the site? 3924 
Contact 3924 
Company's name is Rixrax 3924 
Stand 3923 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3879 
End of life headphone system 3879 
Something like this? 3879 
The "Second Living Room" 3879 
Mixing urban & suburban 3879 
Late night listening 3879 
Moving life... 3877 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3877 
A true listening room. 3853 
It started… 3838 
Levels of Interest 3838 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3838 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3838 
I can't not to post it.... 3838 
Do not leave him unattended. 3838 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3838 
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