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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5731 
The first take on the new room. 5725 
New Room, a first shot. 5724 
Wonderful 5724 
Adopted 5723 
The first relaxed night with the room 5721 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5720 
The listening room is ready. 5719 
New Room, a First Shot 5717 
Continue to work with the room 5717 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5717 
Room 5716 
I think it will take another month. 5716 
The Buttressing 5716 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5715 
The new place and the new noises. 5715 
Big listening room 5714 
Screw the "big" rooms 5714 
Big listening rooms 5714 
First reflection points 5713 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5713 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5710 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5709 
Squeezing the floor 5709 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5709 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5709 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5708 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5708 
The new room, the very first listening. 5708 
The 14.5 foot. 5707 
Again… 5706 
Romy's new Playground 5706 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5706 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5706 
For the uninitiated ... 5705 
NH guy 5705 
Room 5705 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5704 
The first base is done 5704 
Reentry time alignment. 5703 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5702 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5702 
Mid bass horn. 5702 
Guess is only a guess… 5702 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5702 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5701 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5701 
Diffusors 5701 
Diffuse injection 5701 
Let analyse why it so 5701 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5701 
Wheel and Deal 5701 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5701 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5701 
I Must Be Missing Something 5701 
I put sliders under my speakers 5700 
ROOM 5699 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5699 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5699 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5699 
No concerns 5699 
Speakers and room 5699 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5698 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5698 
Diaphram 5698 
Phram 5698 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5698 
Perfect piston 5698 
Decorater 5697 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5697 
New morning 5696 
The first take on the room with RTA 5695 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5695 
Axiomatic 5695 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5694 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5694 
The size of the bass. 5694 
Bass Factory 5694 
Crude Level, or something more? 5694 
I will play with it this week…. 5694 
Rent-A 5694 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5694 
Corner horns 5694 
Cheating from below 5694 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5694 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5693 
A possibly overly simplified view 5693 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5693 
Iceberg 5693 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5693 
Why not horn 5693 
A correction…. 5693 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5693 
They are just not related things at all. 5693 
Fertin 5691 
Low resonance is good... 5691 
Et tu, Brute? 5690 
The Room response at LF 5689 
Life On The Ground Floor 5689 
Bass arrays 5689 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5689 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5689 
The super sucks. 5689 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5689 
You may also try 5688 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5688 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5688 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5688 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5688 
60 Hz Resonance 5688 
No notching… so far. 5688 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5687 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5687 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5687 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5687 
Power to the People 5687 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5687 
Aura 5687 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5687 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5687 
All class D is the same 5687 
Interpreting the LF results. 5686 
The Halibut 5686 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5686 
The Big Picture 5686 
Power & ULF channels 5686 
The big picture indeed. 5686 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5686 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5686 
The Power and the Glory 5685 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5685 
I guess I did not get this memo 5685 
French LF drivers 5685 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5685 
(another) French LF approach 5684 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5684 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5684 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5684 
Limpschtick 5684 
Symmetry 5684 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5683 
Room correction 5683 
It migh be more complicated. 5683 
Bass EQ ? 5683 
Agree and not. 5683 
Two "diseases" 5683 
Parametric filters 5683 
Ceiling arrays 5683 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5683 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5683 
The Middle of the Room. 5683 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5683 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5683 
Stop! 5683 
Appendectomy 5683 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5682 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5682 
No Isolation 5682 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5679 
Potential contenders? 5678 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5678 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5678 
Those Crazy Canucks 5674 
Mo' Better Bass 5668 
Bird in the Hand? 5668 
A wet listening spot? 5661 
Storm 5658 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5658 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5644 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5614 
Polar Opposite ULF 5613 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5601 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5599 
Differently but the same. 5598 
PVC 5597 
The sail test try. 5597 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5597 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5597 
Trial 5596 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5596 
Some explanations 5596 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5595 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5594 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5593 
Acrylate 5592 
Magic blanket 5592 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5591 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5591 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5591 
I have a few options. 5591 
Foam color 5591 
Strange things with upperbass 5591 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5590 
Teatro reform. . . 5590 
The foaming room dilemma. 5589 
Melamine Foam 5589 
Foaming up the cat house 5589 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5589 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5589 
Acoustic revisions… 5588 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5585 
Surprises so far in the new room 5584 
The upperbass in the new room. 5584 
Slight change of hart. 5583 
Camco supply of Boston 5581 
Room acoustics 5581 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5540 
I need to kill dust first. 5540 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5538 
To feed the leeches? 5538 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5537 
Yh 5537 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5537 
DPOLs? 5537 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5537 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5534 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5534 
A HalfPipe solution? 5534 
I absolutely love it. 5534 
Piper work 5533 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5533 
Absorption 5533 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5532 
Cats life ? 5532 
Call me Pussy. 5532 
More about traps 5532 
Acoustic impedance? 5532 
You maybe right 5532 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5532 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5531 
Heavy Curtain 5531 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5530 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5530 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5530 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5527 
Fix speaker move chair? 5526 
Back and forth ceremony 5526 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5525 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5524 
Glass windows 5523 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5522 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5521 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5519 
How to use basement jacks? 5519 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5519 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5519 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5518 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5518 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5517 
Sore eyes... 5516 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5516 
The harvesting week! 5514 
I need an inspiration… 5513 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5512 
Like this? 5512 
Dramatically randomize MF 5512 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5511 
The room eats dynamic 5511 
Diffusers 5511 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5510 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5495 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5494 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5494 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5494 
About Width-Importance balance. 5492 
Letting the music scale up 5491 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5491 
To finish my house décor… 5487 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5486 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5485 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5485 
Calling the gods of music 5485 
Absolutely 5485 
Phase manipulation 5485 
No relation. 5485 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5485 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5485 
Dynamical mismatch 5484 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5484 
Stradiwinerius? 5481 
Dealing with the glass. 5480 
Boston 5480 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5480 
Added mass 5480 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5480 
It is about moderation…. 5480 
To hell with the wine... 5480 
Also for other surafaces 5479 
LEAD 5479 
LEAD & GLASS 5479 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5479 
Read carefully 5479 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5479 
Crooks and morons 5479 
Magiscopios 5478 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5458 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5458 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5457 
The LP setup in the new home. 5406 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5401 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5401 
Pianochord will do! 5401 
Spanyi heaven 5401 
I see no conflict at all. 5401 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5401 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5401 
A year after closing 5393 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5393 
Traveling antimatter 5386 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5380 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5379 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5353 
Cast Iron fireplace 5352 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5352 
The hardcore way 5352 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5316 
This is How It's Done 5315 
Listening room during summer. 5303 
What about those... 5302 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5302 
Reducing A/C Noise 5302 
HVAC the Cat 5302 
Big Ass fan 5301 
Variac dimmers 5301 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5301 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5301 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5233 
Some winter observations. 5124 
That Asian man…. 5093 
The Franz Schubert morning 5067 
Spring.... 5016 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4966 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4937 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4937 
Just good photography? 4937 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4937 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4937 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4936 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4936 
Sports car 4936 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4936 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4936 
Train Positioning 4936 
Kind of what I want 4936 
The lap listening… 4936 
Family Room 4936 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4933 
A super audio room. 4929 
Time Warp! 4929 
A piano in a listening room 4908 
Pianissimo 4908 
The plan in blue. 4908 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4908 
My doubts 4908 
It is exactly what I worry. 4907 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4907 
Musicians at home 4907 
Piano Measurements 4906 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4901 
The next step. 4887 
Midbass horns missing?? 4886 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4876 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4876 
Baby Grand 4875 
Wood floor 4875 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4875 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4875 
Amy’s baby. 4873 
Improvement 4873 
Agree with Scott 4873 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4861 
Integrated casters 4861 
Very nice, thanks. 4861 
Customization 4861 
Sliders 4861 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4854 
Congratulations 4854 
Holes in the floor... 4854 
Tubes and kids 4854 
Sweet spot enlargement 4854 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4852 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4851 
Wood Floors and Water 4851 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4846 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4845 
WAF is for Losers 4845 
WAF: it depends. 4845 
Integration 4844 
Here and there. 4844 
Life after WWIII 4844 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4844 
Cables management. 4842 
Featurizing 4842 
Kids and tubes cont. 4839 
Kid magnet 4839 
Kids and audio 4838 
Radars 4838 
Wow, what the days! 4834 
The comming weekend 4830 
It all was worth it! 4827 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4822 
Here is how it is look. 4822 
Resolving the carpet issue 4822 
Bonfire 4822 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4822 
Proof of concept? 4822 
Geometry 4822 
A view from listening position. 4822 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4822 
Some feedback 4822 
Evening 4822 
I wonder why. 4821 
Rugs and things 4821 
In defense… 4821 
I can’t get it. 4818 
Haze. 4817 
Front wall 4817 
It is very possible. 4817 
It is nice to be back. 4814 
My comfy corner. 4811 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4451 
WMD in house. 4273 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4176 
The third listening spot. 4155 
For sure a very different experience. 4117 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4112 
It's Jfretch's system. 4112 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4111 
Domestic games 4065 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3926 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3926 
Dynamic screening 3926 
Actually this is very good idea! 3926 
Volcanic fabric 3926 
I should have done this. 3924 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3920 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3889 
No worries 3889 
Awesome memories 3889 
Optimization of space 3889 
Child-ish considerations 3886 
Finding peace.... 3880 
"Fencing"? 3879 
I need to build something custom 3879 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3879 
Stressed Skin 3879 
NYC elevators 3879 
Kids toys and quantities. 3879 
Everything is completely reversible 3878 
Racks and things 3878 
Now it looks even more promising! 3878 
Quantity of rods 3878 
Avoiding diagonals 3876 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3875 
That's not fair! 3875 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3875 
Discrimination? 3870 
Vertical configuration 3863 
Impresive ! 3792 
Did you read the site? 3792 
Contact 3792 
Company's name is Rixrax 3792 
Stand 3791 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3747 
End of life headphone system 3747 
Something like this? 3747 
The "Second Living Room" 3747 
Mixing urban & suburban 3747 
Late night listening 3747 
Moving life... 3745 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3745 
A true listening room. 3721 
It started… 3706 
Levels of Interest 3706 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3706 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3706 
I can't not to post it.... 3706 
Do not leave him unattended. 3706 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3706 
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