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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5944 
The first take on the new room. 5938 
New Room, a first shot. 5937 
Wonderful 5937 
Adopted 5936 
The first relaxed night with the room 5934 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5933 
The listening room is ready. 5932 
New Room, a First Shot 5930 
Continue to work with the room 5930 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5930 
Room 5929 
I think it will take another month. 5929 
The Buttressing 5929 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5928 
The new place and the new noises. 5928 
Big listening room 5927 
Screw the "big" rooms 5927 
Big listening rooms 5927 
First reflection points 5926 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5926 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5923 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5922 
Squeezing the floor 5922 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5922 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5922 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5921 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5921 
The new room, the very first listening. 5921 
The 14.5 foot. 5920 
Again… 5919 
Romy's new Playground 5919 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5919 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5919 
For the uninitiated ... 5918 
NH guy 5918 
Room 5918 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5917 
The first base is done 5917 
Reentry time alignment. 5916 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5915 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5915 
Mid bass horn. 5915 
Guess is only a guess… 5915 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5915 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5914 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5914 
Diffusors 5914 
Diffuse injection 5914 
Let analyse why it so 5914 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5914 
Wheel and Deal 5914 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5914 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5914 
I Must Be Missing Something 5914 
I put sliders under my speakers 5913 
ROOM 5912 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5912 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5912 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5912 
No concerns 5912 
Speakers and room 5912 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5911 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5911 
Diaphram 5911 
Phram 5911 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5911 
Perfect piston 5911 
Decorater 5910 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5910 
New morning 5909 
The first take on the room with RTA 5908 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5908 
Axiomatic 5908 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5907 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5907 
The size of the bass. 5907 
Bass Factory 5907 
Crude Level, or something more? 5907 
I will play with it this week…. 5907 
Rent-A 5907 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5907 
Corner horns 5907 
Cheating from below 5907 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5907 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5906 
A possibly overly simplified view 5906 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5906 
Iceberg 5906 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5906 
Why not horn 5906 
A correction…. 5906 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5906 
They are just not related things at all. 5906 
Fertin 5904 
Low resonance is good... 5904 
Et tu, Brute? 5903 
The Room response at LF 5902 
Life On The Ground Floor 5902 
Bass arrays 5902 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5902 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5902 
The super sucks. 5902 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5902 
You may also try 5901 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5901 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5901 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5901 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5901 
60 Hz Resonance 5901 
No notching… so far. 5901 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5900 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5900 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5900 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5900 
Power to the People 5900 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5900 
Aura 5900 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5900 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5900 
All class D is the same 5900 
Interpreting the LF results. 5899 
The Halibut 5899 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5899 
The Big Picture 5899 
Power & ULF channels 5899 
The big picture indeed. 5899 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5899 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5899 
The Power and the Glory 5898 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5898 
I guess I did not get this memo 5898 
French LF drivers 5898 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5898 
(another) French LF approach 5897 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5897 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5897 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5897 
Limpschtick 5897 
Symmetry 5897 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5896 
Room correction 5896 
It migh be more complicated. 5896 
Bass EQ ? 5896 
Agree and not. 5896 
Two "diseases" 5896 
Parametric filters 5896 
Ceiling arrays 5896 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5896 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5896 
The Middle of the Room. 5896 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5896 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5896 
Stop! 5896 
Appendectomy 5896 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5895 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5895 
No Isolation 5895 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5892 
Potential contenders? 5891 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5891 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5891 
Those Crazy Canucks 5887 
Mo' Better Bass 5881 
Bird in the Hand? 5881 
A wet listening spot? 5874 
Storm 5871 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5871 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5857 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5827 
Polar Opposite ULF 5826 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5814 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5812 
Differently but the same. 5811 
PVC 5810 
The sail test try. 5810 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5810 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5810 
Trial 5809 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5809 
Some explanations 5809 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5808 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5807 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5806 
Acrylate 5805 
Magic blanket 5805 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5804 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5804 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5804 
I have a few options. 5804 
Foam color 5804 
Strange things with upperbass 5804 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5803 
Teatro reform. . . 5803 
The foaming room dilemma. 5802 
Melamine Foam 5802 
Foaming up the cat house 5802 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5802 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5802 
Acoustic revisions… 5801 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5798 
Surprises so far in the new room 5797 
The upperbass in the new room. 5797 
Slight change of hart. 5796 
Camco supply of Boston 5794 
Room acoustics 5794 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5753 
I need to kill dust first. 5753 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5751 
To feed the leeches? 5751 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5750 
Yh 5750 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5750 
DPOLs? 5750 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5750 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5747 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5747 
A HalfPipe solution? 5747 
I absolutely love it. 5747 
Piper work 5746 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5746 
Absorption 5746 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5745 
Cats life ? 5745 
Call me Pussy. 5745 
More about traps 5745 
Acoustic impedance? 5745 
You maybe right 5745 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5745 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5744 
Heavy Curtain 5744 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5743 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5743 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5743 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5740 
Fix speaker move chair? 5739 
Back and forth ceremony 5739 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5738 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5737 
Glass windows 5736 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5735 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5734 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5732 
How to use basement jacks? 5732 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5732 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5732 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5731 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5731 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5730 
Sore eyes... 5729 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5729 
The harvesting week! 5727 
I need an inspiration… 5726 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5725 
Like this? 5725 
Dramatically randomize MF 5725 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5724 
The room eats dynamic 5724 
Diffusers 5724 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5723 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5708 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5707 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5707 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5707 
About Width-Importance balance. 5705 
Letting the music scale up 5704 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5704 
To finish my house décor… 5700 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5699 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5698 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5698 
Calling the gods of music 5698 
Absolutely 5698 
Phase manipulation 5698 
No relation. 5698 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5698 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5698 
Dynamical mismatch 5697 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5697 
Stradiwinerius? 5694 
Dealing with the glass. 5693 
Boston 5693 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5693 
Added mass 5693 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5693 
It is about moderation…. 5693 
To hell with the wine... 5693 
Also for other surafaces 5692 
LEAD 5692 
LEAD & GLASS 5692 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5692 
Read carefully 5692 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5692 
Crooks and morons 5692 
Magiscopios 5691 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5671 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5671 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5670 
The LP setup in the new home. 5619 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5614 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5614 
Pianochord will do! 5614 
Spanyi heaven 5614 
I see no conflict at all. 5614 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5614 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5614 
A year after closing 5606 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5606 
Traveling antimatter 5599 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5593 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5592 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5566 
Cast Iron fireplace 5565 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5565 
The hardcore way 5565 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5529 
This is How It's Done 5528 
Listening room during summer. 5516 
What about those... 5515 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5515 
Reducing A/C Noise 5515 
HVAC the Cat 5515 
Big Ass fan 5514 
Variac dimmers 5514 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5514 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5514 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5446 
Some winter observations. 5337 
That Asian man…. 5306 
The Franz Schubert morning 5280 
Spring.... 5229 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5179 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5150 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5150 
Just good photography? 5150 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5150 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5150 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5149 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5149 
Sports car 5149 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5149 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5149 
Train Positioning 5149 
Kind of what I want 5149 
The lap listening… 5149 
Family Room 5149 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5146 
A super audio room. 5142 
Time Warp! 5142 
A piano in a listening room 5121 
Pianissimo 5121 
The plan in blue. 5121 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5121 
My doubts 5121 
It is exactly what I worry. 5120 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5120 
Musicians at home 5120 
Piano Measurements 5119 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5114 
The next step. 5100 
Midbass horns missing?? 5099 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5089 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5089 
Baby Grand 5088 
Wood floor 5088 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5088 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5088 
Amy’s baby. 5086 
Improvement 5086 
Agree with Scott 5086 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5074 
Integrated casters 5074 
Very nice, thanks. 5074 
Customization 5074 
Sliders 5074 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5067 
Congratulations 5067 
Holes in the floor... 5067 
Tubes and kids 5067 
Sweet spot enlargement 5067 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5065 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5064 
Wood Floors and Water 5064 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5059 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5058 
WAF is for Losers 5058 
WAF: it depends. 5058 
Integration 5057 
Here and there. 5057 
Life after WWIII 5057 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5057 
Cables management. 5055 
Featurizing 5055 
Kids and tubes cont. 5052 
Kid magnet 5052 
Kids and audio 5051 
Radars 5051 
Wow, what the days! 5047 
The comming weekend 5043 
It all was worth it! 5040 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5035 
Here is how it is look. 5035 
Resolving the carpet issue 5035 
Bonfire 5035 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5035 
Proof of concept? 5035 
Geometry 5035 
A view from listening position. 5035 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5035 
Some feedback 5035 
Evening 5035 
I wonder why. 5034 
Rugs and things 5034 
In defense… 5034 
I can’t get it. 5031 
Haze. 5030 
Front wall 5030 
It is very possible. 5030 
It is nice to be back. 5027 
My comfy corner. 5024 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4664 
WMD in house. 4486 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4389 
The third listening spot. 4368 
For sure a very different experience. 4330 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4325 
It's Jfretch's system. 4325 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4324 
Domestic games 4278 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4139 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4139 
Dynamic screening 4139 
Actually this is very good idea! 4139 
Volcanic fabric 4139 
I should have done this. 4137 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4133 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4102 
No worries 4102 
Awesome memories 4102 
Optimization of space 4102 
Child-ish considerations 4099 
Finding peace.... 4093 
"Fencing"? 4092 
I need to build something custom 4092 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4092 
Stressed Skin 4092 
NYC elevators 4092 
Kids toys and quantities. 4092 
Everything is completely reversible 4091 
Racks and things 4091 
Now it looks even more promising! 4091 
Quantity of rods 4091 
Avoiding diagonals 4089 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4088 
That's not fair! 4088 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4088 
Discrimination? 4083 
Vertical configuration 4076 
Impresive ! 4005 
Did you read the site? 4005 
Contact 4005 
Company's name is Rixrax 4005 
Stand 4004 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3960 
End of life headphone system 3960 
Something like this? 3960 
The "Second Living Room" 3960 
Mixing urban & suburban 3960 
Late night listening 3960 
Moving life... 3958 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3958 
A true listening room. 3934 
It started… 3919 
Levels of Interest 3919 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3919 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3919 
I can't not to post it.... 3919 
Do not leave him unattended. 3919 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3919 
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