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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5813 
The first take on the new room. 5807 
New Room, a first shot. 5806 
Wonderful 5806 
Adopted 5805 
The first relaxed night with the room 5803 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5802 
The listening room is ready. 5801 
New Room, a First Shot 5799 
Continue to work with the room 5799 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5799 
Room 5798 
I think it will take another month. 5798 
The Buttressing 5798 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5797 
The new place and the new noises. 5797 
Big listening room 5796 
Screw the "big" rooms 5796 
Big listening rooms 5796 
First reflection points 5795 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5795 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5792 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5791 
Squeezing the floor 5791 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5791 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5791 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5790 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5790 
The new room, the very first listening. 5790 
The 14.5 foot. 5789 
Again… 5788 
Romy's new Playground 5788 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5788 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5788 
For the uninitiated ... 5787 
NH guy 5787 
Room 5787 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5786 
The first base is done 5786 
Reentry time alignment. 5785 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5784 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5784 
Mid bass horn. 5784 
Guess is only a guess… 5784 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5784 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5783 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5783 
Diffusors 5783 
Diffuse injection 5783 
Let analyse why it so 5783 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5783 
Wheel and Deal 5783 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5783 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5783 
I Must Be Missing Something 5783 
I put sliders under my speakers 5782 
ROOM 5781 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5781 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5781 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5781 
No concerns 5781 
Speakers and room 5781 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5780 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5780 
Diaphram 5780 
Phram 5780 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5780 
Perfect piston 5780 
Decorater 5779 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5779 
New morning 5778 
The first take on the room with RTA 5777 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5777 
Axiomatic 5777 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5776 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5776 
The size of the bass. 5776 
Bass Factory 5776 
Crude Level, or something more? 5776 
I will play with it this week…. 5776 
Rent-A 5776 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5776 
Corner horns 5776 
Cheating from below 5776 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5776 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5775 
A possibly overly simplified view 5775 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5775 
Iceberg 5775 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5775 
Why not horn 5775 
A correction…. 5775 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5775 
They are just not related things at all. 5775 
Fertin 5773 
Low resonance is good... 5773 
Et tu, Brute? 5772 
The Room response at LF 5771 
Life On The Ground Floor 5771 
Bass arrays 5771 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5771 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5771 
The super sucks. 5771 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5771 
You may also try 5770 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5770 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5770 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5770 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5770 
60 Hz Resonance 5770 
No notching… so far. 5770 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5769 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5769 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5769 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5769 
Power to the People 5769 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5769 
Aura 5769 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5769 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5769 
All class D is the same 5769 
Interpreting the LF results. 5768 
The Halibut 5768 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5768 
The Big Picture 5768 
Power & ULF channels 5768 
The big picture indeed. 5768 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5768 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5768 
The Power and the Glory 5767 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5767 
I guess I did not get this memo 5767 
French LF drivers 5767 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5767 
(another) French LF approach 5766 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5766 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5766 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5766 
Limpschtick 5766 
Symmetry 5766 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5765 
Room correction 5765 
It migh be more complicated. 5765 
Bass EQ ? 5765 
Agree and not. 5765 
Two "diseases" 5765 
Parametric filters 5765 
Ceiling arrays 5765 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5765 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5765 
The Middle of the Room. 5765 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5765 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5765 
Stop! 5765 
Appendectomy 5765 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5764 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5764 
No Isolation 5764 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5761 
Potential contenders? 5760 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5760 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5760 
Those Crazy Canucks 5756 
Mo' Better Bass 5750 
Bird in the Hand? 5750 
A wet listening spot? 5743 
Storm 5740 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5740 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5726 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5696 
Polar Opposite ULF 5695 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5683 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5681 
Differently but the same. 5680 
PVC 5679 
The sail test try. 5679 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5679 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5679 
Trial 5678 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5678 
Some explanations 5678 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5677 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5676 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5675 
Acrylate 5674 
Magic blanket 5674 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5673 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5673 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5673 
I have a few options. 5673 
Foam color 5673 
Strange things with upperbass 5673 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5672 
Teatro reform. . . 5672 
The foaming room dilemma. 5671 
Melamine Foam 5671 
Foaming up the cat house 5671 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5671 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5671 
Acoustic revisions… 5670 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5667 
Surprises so far in the new room 5666 
The upperbass in the new room. 5666 
Slight change of hart. 5665 
Camco supply of Boston 5663 
Room acoustics 5663 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5622 
I need to kill dust first. 5622 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5620 
To feed the leeches? 5620 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5619 
Yh 5619 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5619 
DPOLs? 5619 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5619 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5616 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5616 
A HalfPipe solution? 5616 
I absolutely love it. 5616 
Piper work 5615 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5615 
Absorption 5615 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5614 
Cats life ? 5614 
Call me Pussy. 5614 
More about traps 5614 
Acoustic impedance? 5614 
You maybe right 5614 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5614 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5613 
Heavy Curtain 5613 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5612 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5612 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5612 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5609 
Fix speaker move chair? 5608 
Back and forth ceremony 5608 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5607 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5606 
Glass windows 5605 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5604 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5603 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5601 
How to use basement jacks? 5601 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5601 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5601 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5600 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5600 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5599 
Sore eyes... 5598 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5598 
The harvesting week! 5596 
I need an inspiration… 5595 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5594 
Like this? 5594 
Dramatically randomize MF 5594 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5593 
The room eats dynamic 5593 
Diffusers 5593 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5592 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5577 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5576 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5576 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5576 
About Width-Importance balance. 5574 
Letting the music scale up 5573 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5573 
To finish my house décor… 5569 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5568 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5567 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5567 
Calling the gods of music 5567 
Absolutely 5567 
Phase manipulation 5567 
No relation. 5567 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5567 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5567 
Dynamical mismatch 5566 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5566 
Stradiwinerius? 5563 
Dealing with the glass. 5562 
Boston 5562 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5562 
Added mass 5562 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5562 
It is about moderation…. 5562 
To hell with the wine... 5562 
Also for other surafaces 5561 
LEAD 5561 
LEAD & GLASS 5561 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5561 
Read carefully 5561 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5561 
Crooks and morons 5561 
Magiscopios 5560 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5540 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5540 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5539 
The LP setup in the new home. 5488 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5483 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5483 
Pianochord will do! 5483 
Spanyi heaven 5483 
I see no conflict at all. 5483 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5483 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5483 
A year after closing 5475 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5475 
Traveling antimatter 5468 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5462 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5461 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5435 
Cast Iron fireplace 5434 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5434 
The hardcore way 5434 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5398 
This is How It's Done 5397 
Listening room during summer. 5385 
What about those... 5384 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5384 
Reducing A/C Noise 5384 
HVAC the Cat 5384 
Big Ass fan 5383 
Variac dimmers 5383 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5383 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5383 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5315 
Some winter observations. 5206 
That Asian man…. 5175 
The Franz Schubert morning 5149 
Spring.... 5098 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5048 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5019 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5019 
Just good photography? 5019 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5019 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5019 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5018 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5018 
Sports car 5018 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5018 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5018 
Train Positioning 5018 
Kind of what I want 5018 
The lap listening… 5018 
Family Room 5018 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5015 
A super audio room. 5011 
Time Warp! 5011 
A piano in a listening room 4990 
Pianissimo 4990 
The plan in blue. 4990 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4990 
My doubts 4990 
It is exactly what I worry. 4989 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4989 
Musicians at home 4989 
Piano Measurements 4988 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4983 
The next step. 4969 
Midbass horns missing?? 4968 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4958 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4958 
Baby Grand 4957 
Wood floor 4957 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4957 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4957 
Amy’s baby. 4955 
Improvement 4955 
Agree with Scott 4955 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4943 
Integrated casters 4943 
Very nice, thanks. 4943 
Customization 4943 
Sliders 4943 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4936 
Congratulations 4936 
Holes in the floor... 4936 
Tubes and kids 4936 
Sweet spot enlargement 4936 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4934 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4933 
Wood Floors and Water 4933 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4928 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4927 
WAF is for Losers 4927 
WAF: it depends. 4927 
Integration 4926 
Here and there. 4926 
Life after WWIII 4926 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4926 
Cables management. 4924 
Featurizing 4924 
Kids and tubes cont. 4921 
Kid magnet 4921 
Kids and audio 4920 
Radars 4920 
Wow, what the days! 4916 
The comming weekend 4912 
It all was worth it! 4909 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4904 
Here is how it is look. 4904 
Resolving the carpet issue 4904 
Bonfire 4904 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4904 
Proof of concept? 4904 
Geometry 4904 
A view from listening position. 4904 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4904 
Some feedback 4904 
Evening 4904 
I wonder why. 4903 
Rugs and things 4903 
In defense… 4903 
I can’t get it. 4900 
Haze. 4899 
Front wall 4899 
It is very possible. 4899 
It is nice to be back. 4896 
My comfy corner. 4893 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4533 
WMD in house. 4355 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4258 
The third listening spot. 4237 
For sure a very different experience. 4199 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4194 
It's Jfretch's system. 4194 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4193 
Domestic games 4147 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4008 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4008 
Dynamic screening 4008 
Actually this is very good idea! 4008 
Volcanic fabric 4008 
I should have done this. 4006 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4002 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3971 
No worries 3971 
Awesome memories 3971 
Optimization of space 3971 
Child-ish considerations 3968 
Finding peace.... 3962 
"Fencing"? 3961 
I need to build something custom 3961 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3961 
Stressed Skin 3961 
NYC elevators 3961 
Kids toys and quantities. 3961 
Everything is completely reversible 3960 
Racks and things 3960 
Now it looks even more promising! 3960 
Quantity of rods 3960 
Avoiding diagonals 3958 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3957 
That's not fair! 3957 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3957 
Discrimination? 3952 
Vertical configuration 3945 
Impresive ! 3874 
Did you read the site? 3874 
Contact 3874 
Company's name is Rixrax 3874 
Stand 3873 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3829 
End of life headphone system 3829 
Something like this? 3829 
The "Second Living Room" 3829 
Mixing urban & suburban 3829 
Late night listening 3829 
Moving life... 3827 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3827 
A true listening room. 3803 
It started… 3788 
Levels of Interest 3788 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3788 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3788 
I can't not to post it.... 3788 
Do not leave him unattended. 3788 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3788 
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