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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5825 
The first take on the new room. 5819 
New Room, a first shot. 5818 
Wonderful 5818 
Adopted 5817 
The first relaxed night with the room 5815 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5814 
The listening room is ready. 5813 
New Room, a First Shot 5811 
Continue to work with the room 5811 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5811 
Room 5810 
I think it will take another month. 5810 
The Buttressing 5810 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5809 
The new place and the new noises. 5809 
Big listening room 5808 
Screw the "big" rooms 5808 
Big listening rooms 5808 
First reflection points 5807 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5807 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5804 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5803 
Squeezing the floor 5803 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5803 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5803 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5802 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5802 
The new room, the very first listening. 5802 
The 14.5 foot. 5801 
Again… 5800 
Romy's new Playground 5800 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5800 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5800 
For the uninitiated ... 5799 
NH guy 5799 
Room 5799 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5798 
The first base is done 5798 
Reentry time alignment. 5797 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5796 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5796 
Mid bass horn. 5796 
Guess is only a guess… 5796 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5796 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5795 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5795 
Diffusors 5795 
Diffuse injection 5795 
Let analyse why it so 5795 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5795 
Wheel and Deal 5795 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5795 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5795 
I Must Be Missing Something 5795 
I put sliders under my speakers 5794 
ROOM 5793 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5793 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5793 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5793 
No concerns 5793 
Speakers and room 5793 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5792 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5792 
Diaphram 5792 
Phram 5792 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5792 
Perfect piston 5792 
Decorater 5791 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5791 
New morning 5790 
The first take on the room with RTA 5789 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5789 
Axiomatic 5789 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5788 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5788 
The size of the bass. 5788 
Bass Factory 5788 
Crude Level, or something more? 5788 
I will play with it this week…. 5788 
Rent-A 5788 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5788 
Corner horns 5788 
Cheating from below 5788 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5788 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5787 
A possibly overly simplified view 5787 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5787 
Iceberg 5787 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5787 
Why not horn 5787 
A correction…. 5787 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5787 
They are just not related things at all. 5787 
Fertin 5785 
Low resonance is good... 5785 
Et tu, Brute? 5784 
The Room response at LF 5783 
Life On The Ground Floor 5783 
Bass arrays 5783 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5783 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5783 
The super sucks. 5783 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5783 
You may also try 5782 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5782 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5782 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5782 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5782 
60 Hz Resonance 5782 
No notching… so far. 5782 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5781 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5781 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5781 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5781 
Power to the People 5781 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5781 
Aura 5781 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5781 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5781 
All class D is the same 5781 
Interpreting the LF results. 5780 
The Halibut 5780 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5780 
The Big Picture 5780 
Power & ULF channels 5780 
The big picture indeed. 5780 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5780 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5780 
The Power and the Glory 5779 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5779 
I guess I did not get this memo 5779 
French LF drivers 5779 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5779 
(another) French LF approach 5778 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5778 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5778 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5778 
Limpschtick 5778 
Symmetry 5778 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5777 
Room correction 5777 
It migh be more complicated. 5777 
Bass EQ ? 5777 
Agree and not. 5777 
Two "diseases" 5777 
Parametric filters 5777 
Ceiling arrays 5777 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5777 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5777 
The Middle of the Room. 5777 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5777 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5777 
Stop! 5777 
Appendectomy 5777 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5776 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5776 
No Isolation 5776 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5773 
Potential contenders? 5772 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5772 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5772 
Those Crazy Canucks 5768 
Mo' Better Bass 5762 
Bird in the Hand? 5762 
A wet listening spot? 5755 
Storm 5752 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5752 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5738 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5708 
Polar Opposite ULF 5707 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5695 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5693 
Differently but the same. 5692 
PVC 5691 
The sail test try. 5691 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5691 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5691 
Trial 5690 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5690 
Some explanations 5690 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5689 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5688 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5687 
Acrylate 5686 
Magic blanket 5686 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5685 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5685 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5685 
I have a few options. 5685 
Foam color 5685 
Strange things with upperbass 5685 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5684 
Teatro reform. . . 5684 
The foaming room dilemma. 5683 
Melamine Foam 5683 
Foaming up the cat house 5683 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5683 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5683 
Acoustic revisions… 5682 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5679 
Surprises so far in the new room 5678 
The upperbass in the new room. 5678 
Slight change of hart. 5677 
Camco supply of Boston 5675 
Room acoustics 5675 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5634 
I need to kill dust first. 5634 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5632 
To feed the leeches? 5632 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5631 
Yh 5631 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5631 
DPOLs? 5631 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5631 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5628 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5628 
A HalfPipe solution? 5628 
I absolutely love it. 5628 
Piper work 5627 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5627 
Absorption 5627 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5626 
Cats life ? 5626 
Call me Pussy. 5626 
More about traps 5626 
Acoustic impedance? 5626 
You maybe right 5626 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5626 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5625 
Heavy Curtain 5625 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5624 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5624 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5624 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5621 
Fix speaker move chair? 5620 
Back and forth ceremony 5620 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5619 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5618 
Glass windows 5617 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5616 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5615 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5613 
How to use basement jacks? 5613 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5613 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5613 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5612 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5612 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5611 
Sore eyes... 5610 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5610 
The harvesting week! 5608 
I need an inspiration… 5607 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5606 
Like this? 5606 
Dramatically randomize MF 5606 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5605 
The room eats dynamic 5605 
Diffusers 5605 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5604 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5589 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5588 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5588 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5588 
About Width-Importance balance. 5586 
Letting the music scale up 5585 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5585 
To finish my house décor… 5581 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5580 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5579 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5579 
Calling the gods of music 5579 
Absolutely 5579 
Phase manipulation 5579 
No relation. 5579 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5579 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5579 
Dynamical mismatch 5578 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5578 
Stradiwinerius? 5575 
Dealing with the glass. 5574 
Boston 5574 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5574 
Added mass 5574 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5574 
It is about moderation…. 5574 
To hell with the wine... 5574 
Also for other surafaces 5573 
LEAD 5573 
LEAD & GLASS 5573 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5573 
Read carefully 5573 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5573 
Crooks and morons 5573 
Magiscopios 5572 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5552 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5552 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5551 
The LP setup in the new home. 5500 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5495 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5495 
Pianochord will do! 5495 
Spanyi heaven 5495 
I see no conflict at all. 5495 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5495 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5495 
A year after closing 5487 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5487 
Traveling antimatter 5480 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5474 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5473 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5447 
Cast Iron fireplace 5446 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5446 
The hardcore way 5446 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5410 
This is How It's Done 5409 
Listening room during summer. 5397 
What about those... 5396 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5396 
Reducing A/C Noise 5396 
HVAC the Cat 5396 
Big Ass fan 5395 
Variac dimmers 5395 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5395 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5395 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5327 
Some winter observations. 5218 
That Asian man…. 5187 
The Franz Schubert morning 5161 
Spring.... 5110 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5060 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5031 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5031 
Just good photography? 5031 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5031 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5031 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5030 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5030 
Sports car 5030 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5030 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5030 
Train Positioning 5030 
Kind of what I want 5030 
The lap listening… 5030 
Family Room 5030 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5027 
A super audio room. 5023 
Time Warp! 5023 
A piano in a listening room 5002 
Pianissimo 5002 
The plan in blue. 5002 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5002 
My doubts 5002 
It is exactly what I worry. 5001 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5001 
Musicians at home 5001 
Piano Measurements 5000 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4995 
The next step. 4981 
Midbass horns missing?? 4980 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4970 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4970 
Baby Grand 4969 
Wood floor 4969 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4969 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4969 
Amy’s baby. 4967 
Improvement 4967 
Agree with Scott 4967 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4955 
Integrated casters 4955 
Very nice, thanks. 4955 
Customization 4955 
Sliders 4955 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4948 
Congratulations 4948 
Holes in the floor... 4948 
Tubes and kids 4948 
Sweet spot enlargement 4948 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4946 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4945 
Wood Floors and Water 4945 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4940 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4939 
WAF is for Losers 4939 
WAF: it depends. 4939 
Integration 4938 
Here and there. 4938 
Life after WWIII 4938 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4938 
Cables management. 4936 
Featurizing 4936 
Kids and tubes cont. 4933 
Kid magnet 4933 
Kids and audio 4932 
Radars 4932 
Wow, what the days! 4928 
The comming weekend 4924 
It all was worth it! 4921 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4916 
Here is how it is look. 4916 
Resolving the carpet issue 4916 
Bonfire 4916 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4916 
Proof of concept? 4916 
Geometry 4916 
A view from listening position. 4916 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4916 
Some feedback 4916 
Evening 4916 
I wonder why. 4915 
Rugs and things 4915 
In defense… 4915 
I can’t get it. 4912 
Haze. 4911 
Front wall 4911 
It is very possible. 4911 
It is nice to be back. 4908 
My comfy corner. 4905 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4545 
WMD in house. 4367 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4270 
The third listening spot. 4249 
For sure a very different experience. 4211 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4206 
It's Jfretch's system. 4206 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4205 
Domestic games 4159 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4020 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4020 
Dynamic screening 4020 
Actually this is very good idea! 4020 
Volcanic fabric 4020 
I should have done this. 4018 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4014 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3983 
No worries 3983 
Awesome memories 3983 
Optimization of space 3983 
Child-ish considerations 3980 
Finding peace.... 3974 
"Fencing"? 3973 
I need to build something custom 3973 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3973 
Stressed Skin 3973 
NYC elevators 3973 
Kids toys and quantities. 3973 
Everything is completely reversible 3972 
Racks and things 3972 
Now it looks even more promising! 3972 
Quantity of rods 3972 
Avoiding diagonals 3970 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3969 
That's not fair! 3969 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3969 
Discrimination? 3964 
Vertical configuration 3957 
Impresive ! 3886 
Did you read the site? 3886 
Contact 3886 
Company's name is Rixrax 3886 
Stand 3885 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3841 
End of life headphone system 3841 
Something like this? 3841 
The "Second Living Room" 3841 
Mixing urban & suburban 3841 
Late night listening 3841 
Moving life... 3839 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3839 
A true listening room. 3815 
It started… 3800 
Levels of Interest 3800 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3800 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3800 
I can't not to post it.... 3800 
Do not leave him unattended. 3800 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3800 
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