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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5800 
The first take on the new room. 5794 
New Room, a first shot. 5793 
Wonderful 5793 
Adopted 5792 
The first relaxed night with the room 5790 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5789 
The listening room is ready. 5788 
New Room, a First Shot 5786 
Continue to work with the room 5786 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5786 
Room 5785 
I think it will take another month. 5785 
The Buttressing 5785 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5784 
The new place and the new noises. 5784 
Big listening room 5783 
Screw the "big" rooms 5783 
Big listening rooms 5783 
First reflection points 5782 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5782 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5779 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5778 
Squeezing the floor 5778 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5778 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5778 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5777 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5777 
The new room, the very first listening. 5777 
The 14.5 foot. 5776 
Again… 5775 
Romy's new Playground 5775 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5775 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5775 
For the uninitiated ... 5774 
NH guy 5774 
Room 5774 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5773 
The first base is done 5773 
Reentry time alignment. 5772 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5771 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5771 
Mid bass horn. 5771 
Guess is only a guess… 5771 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5771 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5770 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5770 
Diffusors 5770 
Diffuse injection 5770 
Let analyse why it so 5770 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5770 
Wheel and Deal 5770 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5770 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5770 
I Must Be Missing Something 5770 
I put sliders under my speakers 5769 
ROOM 5768 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5768 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5768 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5768 
No concerns 5768 
Speakers and room 5768 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5767 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5767 
Diaphram 5767 
Phram 5767 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5767 
Perfect piston 5767 
Decorater 5766 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5766 
New morning 5765 
The first take on the room with RTA 5764 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5764 
Axiomatic 5764 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5763 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5763 
The size of the bass. 5763 
Bass Factory 5763 
Crude Level, or something more? 5763 
I will play with it this week…. 5763 
Rent-A 5763 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5763 
Corner horns 5763 
Cheating from below 5763 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5763 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5762 
A possibly overly simplified view 5762 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5762 
Iceberg 5762 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5762 
Why not horn 5762 
A correction…. 5762 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5762 
They are just not related things at all. 5762 
Fertin 5760 
Low resonance is good... 5760 
Et tu, Brute? 5759 
The Room response at LF 5758 
Life On The Ground Floor 5758 
Bass arrays 5758 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5758 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5758 
The super sucks. 5758 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5758 
You may also try 5757 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5757 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5757 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5757 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5757 
60 Hz Resonance 5757 
No notching… so far. 5757 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5756 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5756 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5756 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5756 
Power to the People 5756 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5756 
Aura 5756 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5756 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5756 
All class D is the same 5756 
Interpreting the LF results. 5755 
The Halibut 5755 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5755 
The Big Picture 5755 
Power & ULF channels 5755 
The big picture indeed. 5755 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5755 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5755 
The Power and the Glory 5754 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5754 
I guess I did not get this memo 5754 
French LF drivers 5754 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5754 
(another) French LF approach 5753 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5753 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5753 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5753 
Limpschtick 5753 
Symmetry 5753 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5752 
Room correction 5752 
It migh be more complicated. 5752 
Bass EQ ? 5752 
Agree and not. 5752 
Two "diseases" 5752 
Parametric filters 5752 
Ceiling arrays 5752 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5752 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5752 
The Middle of the Room. 5752 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5752 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5752 
Stop! 5752 
Appendectomy 5752 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5751 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5751 
No Isolation 5751 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5748 
Potential contenders? 5747 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5747 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5747 
Those Crazy Canucks 5743 
Mo' Better Bass 5737 
Bird in the Hand? 5737 
A wet listening spot? 5730 
Storm 5727 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5727 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5713 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5683 
Polar Opposite ULF 5682 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5670 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5668 
Differently but the same. 5667 
PVC 5666 
The sail test try. 5666 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5666 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5666 
Trial 5665 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5665 
Some explanations 5665 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5664 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5663 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5662 
Acrylate 5661 
Magic blanket 5661 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5660 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5660 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5660 
I have a few options. 5660 
Foam color 5660 
Strange things with upperbass 5660 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5659 
Teatro reform. . . 5659 
The foaming room dilemma. 5658 
Melamine Foam 5658 
Foaming up the cat house 5658 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5658 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5658 
Acoustic revisions… 5657 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5654 
Surprises so far in the new room 5653 
The upperbass in the new room. 5653 
Slight change of hart. 5652 
Camco supply of Boston 5650 
Room acoustics 5650 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5609 
I need to kill dust first. 5609 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5607 
To feed the leeches? 5607 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5606 
Yh 5606 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5606 
DPOLs? 5606 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5606 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5603 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5603 
A HalfPipe solution? 5603 
I absolutely love it. 5603 
Piper work 5602 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5602 
Absorption 5602 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5601 
Cats life ? 5601 
Call me Pussy. 5601 
More about traps 5601 
Acoustic impedance? 5601 
You maybe right 5601 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5601 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5600 
Heavy Curtain 5600 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5599 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5599 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5599 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5596 
Fix speaker move chair? 5595 
Back and forth ceremony 5595 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5594 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5593 
Glass windows 5592 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5591 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5590 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5588 
How to use basement jacks? 5588 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5588 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5588 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5587 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5587 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5586 
Sore eyes... 5585 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5585 
The harvesting week! 5583 
I need an inspiration… 5582 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5581 
Like this? 5581 
Dramatically randomize MF 5581 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5580 
The room eats dynamic 5580 
Diffusers 5580 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5579 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5564 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5563 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5563 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5563 
About Width-Importance balance. 5561 
Letting the music scale up 5560 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5560 
To finish my house décor… 5556 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5555 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5554 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5554 
Calling the gods of music 5554 
Absolutely 5554 
Phase manipulation 5554 
No relation. 5554 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5554 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5554 
Dynamical mismatch 5553 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5553 
Stradiwinerius? 5550 
Dealing with the glass. 5549 
Boston 5549 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5549 
Added mass 5549 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5549 
It is about moderation…. 5549 
To hell with the wine... 5549 
Also for other surafaces 5548 
LEAD 5548 
LEAD & GLASS 5548 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5548 
Read carefully 5548 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5548 
Crooks and morons 5548 
Magiscopios 5547 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5527 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5527 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5526 
The LP setup in the new home. 5475 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5470 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5470 
Pianochord will do! 5470 
Spanyi heaven 5470 
I see no conflict at all. 5470 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5470 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5470 
A year after closing 5462 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5462 
Traveling antimatter 5455 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5449 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5448 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5422 
Cast Iron fireplace 5421 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5421 
The hardcore way 5421 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5385 
This is How It's Done 5384 
Listening room during summer. 5372 
What about those... 5371 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5371 
Reducing A/C Noise 5371 
HVAC the Cat 5371 
Big Ass fan 5370 
Variac dimmers 5370 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5370 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5370 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5302 
Some winter observations. 5193 
That Asian man…. 5162 
The Franz Schubert morning 5136 
Spring.... 5085 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5035 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5006 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5006 
Just good photography? 5006 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5006 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5006 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5005 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5005 
Sports car 5005 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5005 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5005 
Train Positioning 5005 
Kind of what I want 5005 
The lap listening… 5005 
Family Room 5005 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5002 
A super audio room. 4998 
Time Warp! 4998 
A piano in a listening room 4977 
Pianissimo 4977 
The plan in blue. 4977 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4977 
My doubts 4977 
It is exactly what I worry. 4976 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4976 
Musicians at home 4976 
Piano Measurements 4975 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4970 
The next step. 4956 
Midbass horns missing?? 4955 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4945 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4945 
Baby Grand 4944 
Wood floor 4944 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4944 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4944 
Amy’s baby. 4942 
Improvement 4942 
Agree with Scott 4942 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4930 
Integrated casters 4930 
Very nice, thanks. 4930 
Customization 4930 
Sliders 4930 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4923 
Congratulations 4923 
Holes in the floor... 4923 
Tubes and kids 4923 
Sweet spot enlargement 4923 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4921 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4920 
Wood Floors and Water 4920 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4915 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4914 
WAF is for Losers 4914 
WAF: it depends. 4914 
Integration 4913 
Here and there. 4913 
Life after WWIII 4913 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4913 
Cables management. 4911 
Featurizing 4911 
Kids and tubes cont. 4908 
Kid magnet 4908 
Kids and audio 4907 
Radars 4907 
Wow, what the days! 4903 
The comming weekend 4899 
It all was worth it! 4896 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4891 
Here is how it is look. 4891 
Resolving the carpet issue 4891 
Bonfire 4891 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4891 
Proof of concept? 4891 
Geometry 4891 
A view from listening position. 4891 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4891 
Some feedback 4891 
Evening 4891 
I wonder why. 4890 
Rugs and things 4890 
In defense… 4890 
I can’t get it. 4887 
Haze. 4886 
Front wall 4886 
It is very possible. 4886 
It is nice to be back. 4883 
My comfy corner. 4880 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4520 
WMD in house. 4342 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4245 
The third listening spot. 4224 
For sure a very different experience. 4186 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4181 
It's Jfretch's system. 4181 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4180 
Domestic games 4134 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3995 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3995 
Dynamic screening 3995 
Actually this is very good idea! 3995 
Volcanic fabric 3995 
I should have done this. 3993 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3989 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3958 
No worries 3958 
Awesome memories 3958 
Optimization of space 3958 
Child-ish considerations 3955 
Finding peace.... 3949 
"Fencing"? 3948 
I need to build something custom 3948 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3948 
Stressed Skin 3948 
NYC elevators 3948 
Kids toys and quantities. 3948 
Everything is completely reversible 3947 
Racks and things 3947 
Now it looks even more promising! 3947 
Quantity of rods 3947 
Avoiding diagonals 3945 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3944 
That's not fair! 3944 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3944 
Discrimination? 3939 
Vertical configuration 3932 
Impresive ! 3861 
Did you read the site? 3861 
Contact 3861 
Company's name is Rixrax 3861 
Stand 3860 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3816 
End of life headphone system 3816 
Something like this? 3816 
The "Second Living Room" 3816 
Mixing urban & suburban 3816 
Late night listening 3816 
Moving life... 3814 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3814 
A true listening room. 3790 
It started… 3775 
Levels of Interest 3775 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3775 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3775 
I can't not to post it.... 3775 
Do not leave him unattended. 3775 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3775 
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