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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5767 
The first take on the new room. 5761 
New Room, a first shot. 5760 
Wonderful 5760 
Adopted 5759 
The first relaxed night with the room 5757 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5756 
The listening room is ready. 5755 
New Room, a First Shot 5753 
Continue to work with the room 5753 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5753 
Room 5752 
I think it will take another month. 5752 
The Buttressing 5752 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5751 
The new place and the new noises. 5751 
Big listening room 5750 
Screw the "big" rooms 5750 
Big listening rooms 5750 
First reflection points 5749 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5749 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5746 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5745 
Squeezing the floor 5745 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5745 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5745 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5744 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5744 
The new room, the very first listening. 5744 
The 14.5 foot. 5743 
Again… 5742 
Romy's new Playground 5742 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5742 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5742 
For the uninitiated ... 5741 
NH guy 5741 
Room 5741 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5740 
The first base is done 5740 
Reentry time alignment. 5739 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5738 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5738 
Mid bass horn. 5738 
Guess is only a guess… 5738 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5738 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5737 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5737 
Diffusors 5737 
Diffuse injection 5737 
Let analyse why it so 5737 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5737 
Wheel and Deal 5737 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5737 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5737 
I Must Be Missing Something 5737 
I put sliders under my speakers 5736 
ROOM 5735 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5735 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5735 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5735 
No concerns 5735 
Speakers and room 5735 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5734 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5734 
Diaphram 5734 
Phram 5734 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5734 
Perfect piston 5734 
Decorater 5733 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5733 
New morning 5732 
The first take on the room with RTA 5731 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5731 
Axiomatic 5731 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5730 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5730 
The size of the bass. 5730 
Bass Factory 5730 
Crude Level, or something more? 5730 
I will play with it this week…. 5730 
Rent-A 5730 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5730 
Corner horns 5730 
Cheating from below 5730 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5730 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5729 
A possibly overly simplified view 5729 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5729 
Iceberg 5729 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5729 
Why not horn 5729 
A correction…. 5729 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5729 
They are just not related things at all. 5729 
Fertin 5727 
Low resonance is good... 5727 
Et tu, Brute? 5726 
The Room response at LF 5725 
Life On The Ground Floor 5725 
Bass arrays 5725 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5725 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5725 
The super sucks. 5725 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5725 
You may also try 5724 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5724 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5724 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5724 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5724 
60 Hz Resonance 5724 
No notching… so far. 5724 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5723 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5723 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5723 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5723 
Power to the People 5723 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5723 
Aura 5723 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5723 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5723 
All class D is the same 5723 
Interpreting the LF results. 5722 
The Halibut 5722 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5722 
The Big Picture 5722 
Power & ULF channels 5722 
The big picture indeed. 5722 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5722 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5722 
The Power and the Glory 5721 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5721 
I guess I did not get this memo 5721 
French LF drivers 5721 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5721 
(another) French LF approach 5720 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5720 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5720 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5720 
Limpschtick 5720 
Symmetry 5720 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5719 
Room correction 5719 
It migh be more complicated. 5719 
Bass EQ ? 5719 
Agree and not. 5719 
Two "diseases" 5719 
Parametric filters 5719 
Ceiling arrays 5719 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5719 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5719 
The Middle of the Room. 5719 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5719 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5719 
Stop! 5719 
Appendectomy 5719 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5718 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5718 
No Isolation 5718 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5715 
Potential contenders? 5714 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5714 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5714 
Those Crazy Canucks 5710 
Mo' Better Bass 5704 
Bird in the Hand? 5704 
A wet listening spot? 5697 
Storm 5694 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5694 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5680 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5650 
Polar Opposite ULF 5649 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5637 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5635 
Differently but the same. 5634 
PVC 5633 
The sail test try. 5633 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5633 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5633 
Trial 5632 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5632 
Some explanations 5632 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5631 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5630 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5629 
Acrylate 5628 
Magic blanket 5628 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5627 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5627 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5627 
I have a few options. 5627 
Foam color 5627 
Strange things with upperbass 5627 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5626 
Teatro reform. . . 5626 
The foaming room dilemma. 5625 
Melamine Foam 5625 
Foaming up the cat house 5625 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5625 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5625 
Acoustic revisions… 5624 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5621 
Surprises so far in the new room 5620 
The upperbass in the new room. 5620 
Slight change of hart. 5619 
Camco supply of Boston 5617 
Room acoustics 5617 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5576 
I need to kill dust first. 5576 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5574 
To feed the leeches? 5574 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5573 
Yh 5573 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5573 
DPOLs? 5573 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5573 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5570 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5570 
A HalfPipe solution? 5570 
I absolutely love it. 5570 
Piper work 5569 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5569 
Absorption 5569 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5568 
Cats life ? 5568 
Call me Pussy. 5568 
More about traps 5568 
Acoustic impedance? 5568 
You maybe right 5568 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5568 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5567 
Heavy Curtain 5567 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5566 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5566 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5566 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5563 
Fix speaker move chair? 5562 
Back and forth ceremony 5562 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5561 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5560 
Glass windows 5559 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5558 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5557 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5555 
How to use basement jacks? 5555 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5555 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5555 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5554 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5554 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5553 
Sore eyes... 5552 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5552 
The harvesting week! 5550 
I need an inspiration… 5549 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5548 
Like this? 5548 
Dramatically randomize MF 5548 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5547 
The room eats dynamic 5547 
Diffusers 5547 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5546 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5531 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5530 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5530 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5530 
About Width-Importance balance. 5528 
Letting the music scale up 5527 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5527 
To finish my house décor… 5523 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5522 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5521 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5521 
Calling the gods of music 5521 
Absolutely 5521 
Phase manipulation 5521 
No relation. 5521 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5521 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5521 
Dynamical mismatch 5520 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5520 
Stradiwinerius? 5517 
Dealing with the glass. 5516 
Boston 5516 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5516 
Added mass 5516 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5516 
It is about moderation…. 5516 
To hell with the wine... 5516 
Also for other surafaces 5515 
LEAD 5515 
LEAD & GLASS 5515 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5515 
Read carefully 5515 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5515 
Crooks and morons 5515 
Magiscopios 5514 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5494 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5494 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5493 
The LP setup in the new home. 5442 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5437 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5437 
Pianochord will do! 5437 
Spanyi heaven 5437 
I see no conflict at all. 5437 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5437 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5437 
A year after closing 5429 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5429 
Traveling antimatter 5422 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5416 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5415 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5389 
Cast Iron fireplace 5388 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5388 
The hardcore way 5388 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5352 
This is How It's Done 5351 
Listening room during summer. 5339 
What about those... 5338 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5338 
Reducing A/C Noise 5338 
HVAC the Cat 5338 
Big Ass fan 5337 
Variac dimmers 5337 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5337 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5337 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5269 
Some winter observations. 5160 
That Asian man…. 5129 
The Franz Schubert morning 5103 
Spring.... 5052 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5002 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4973 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4973 
Just good photography? 4973 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4973 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4973 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4972 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4972 
Sports car 4972 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4972 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4972 
Train Positioning 4972 
Kind of what I want 4972 
The lap listening… 4972 
Family Room 4972 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4969 
A super audio room. 4965 
Time Warp! 4965 
A piano in a listening room 4944 
Pianissimo 4944 
The plan in blue. 4944 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4944 
My doubts 4944 
It is exactly what I worry. 4943 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4943 
Musicians at home 4943 
Piano Measurements 4942 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4937 
The next step. 4923 
Midbass horns missing?? 4922 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4912 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4912 
Baby Grand 4911 
Wood floor 4911 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4911 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4911 
Amy’s baby. 4909 
Improvement 4909 
Agree with Scott 4909 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4897 
Integrated casters 4897 
Very nice, thanks. 4897 
Customization 4897 
Sliders 4897 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4890 
Congratulations 4890 
Holes in the floor... 4890 
Tubes and kids 4890 
Sweet spot enlargement 4890 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4888 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4887 
Wood Floors and Water 4887 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4882 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4881 
WAF is for Losers 4881 
WAF: it depends. 4881 
Integration 4880 
Here and there. 4880 
Life after WWIII 4880 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4880 
Cables management. 4878 
Featurizing 4878 
Kids and tubes cont. 4875 
Kid magnet 4875 
Kids and audio 4874 
Radars 4874 
Wow, what the days! 4870 
The comming weekend 4866 
It all was worth it! 4863 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4858 
Here is how it is look. 4858 
Resolving the carpet issue 4858 
Bonfire 4858 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4858 
Proof of concept? 4858 
Geometry 4858 
A view from listening position. 4858 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4858 
Some feedback 4858 
Evening 4858 
I wonder why. 4857 
Rugs and things 4857 
In defense… 4857 
I can’t get it. 4854 
Haze. 4853 
Front wall 4853 
It is very possible. 4853 
It is nice to be back. 4850 
My comfy corner. 4847 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4487 
WMD in house. 4309 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4212 
The third listening spot. 4191 
For sure a very different experience. 4153 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4148 
It's Jfretch's system. 4148 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4147 
Domestic games 4101 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3962 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3962 
Dynamic screening 3962 
Actually this is very good idea! 3962 
Volcanic fabric 3962 
I should have done this. 3960 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3956 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3925 
No worries 3925 
Awesome memories 3925 
Optimization of space 3925 
Child-ish considerations 3922 
Finding peace.... 3916 
"Fencing"? 3915 
I need to build something custom 3915 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3915 
Stressed Skin 3915 
NYC elevators 3915 
Kids toys and quantities. 3915 
Everything is completely reversible 3914 
Racks and things 3914 
Now it looks even more promising! 3914 
Quantity of rods 3914 
Avoiding diagonals 3912 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3911 
That's not fair! 3911 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3911 
Discrimination? 3906 
Vertical configuration 3899 
Impresive ! 3828 
Did you read the site? 3828 
Contact 3828 
Company's name is Rixrax 3828 
Stand 3827 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3783 
End of life headphone system 3783 
Something like this? 3783 
The "Second Living Room" 3783 
Mixing urban & suburban 3783 
Late night listening 3783 
Moving life... 3781 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3781 
A true listening room. 3757 
It started… 3742 
Levels of Interest 3742 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3742 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3742 
I can't not to post it.... 3742 
Do not leave him unattended. 3742 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3742 
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