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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5822 
The first take on the new room. 5816 
New Room, a first shot. 5815 
Wonderful 5815 
Adopted 5814 
The first relaxed night with the room 5812 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5811 
The listening room is ready. 5810 
New Room, a First Shot 5808 
Continue to work with the room 5808 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5808 
Room 5807 
I think it will take another month. 5807 
The Buttressing 5807 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5806 
The new place and the new noises. 5806 
Big listening room 5805 
Screw the "big" rooms 5805 
Big listening rooms 5805 
First reflection points 5804 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5804 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5801 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5800 
Squeezing the floor 5800 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5800 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5800 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5799 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5799 
The new room, the very first listening. 5799 
The 14.5 foot. 5798 
Again… 5797 
Romy's new Playground 5797 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5797 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5797 
For the uninitiated ... 5796 
NH guy 5796 
Room 5796 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5795 
The first base is done 5795 
Reentry time alignment. 5794 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5793 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5793 
Mid bass horn. 5793 
Guess is only a guess… 5793 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5793 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5792 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5792 
Diffusors 5792 
Diffuse injection 5792 
Let analyse why it so 5792 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5792 
Wheel and Deal 5792 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5792 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5792 
I Must Be Missing Something 5792 
I put sliders under my speakers 5791 
ROOM 5790 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5790 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5790 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5790 
No concerns 5790 
Speakers and room 5790 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5789 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5789 
Diaphram 5789 
Phram 5789 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5789 
Perfect piston 5789 
Decorater 5788 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5788 
New morning 5787 
The first take on the room with RTA 5786 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5786 
Axiomatic 5786 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5785 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5785 
The size of the bass. 5785 
Bass Factory 5785 
Crude Level, or something more? 5785 
I will play with it this week…. 5785 
Rent-A 5785 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5785 
Corner horns 5785 
Cheating from below 5785 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5785 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5784 
A possibly overly simplified view 5784 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5784 
Iceberg 5784 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5784 
Why not horn 5784 
A correction…. 5784 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5784 
They are just not related things at all. 5784 
Fertin 5782 
Low resonance is good... 5782 
Et tu, Brute? 5781 
The Room response at LF 5780 
Life On The Ground Floor 5780 
Bass arrays 5780 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5780 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5780 
The super sucks. 5780 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5780 
You may also try 5779 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5779 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5779 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5779 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5779 
60 Hz Resonance 5779 
No notching… so far. 5779 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5778 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5778 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5778 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5778 
Power to the People 5778 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5778 
Aura 5778 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5778 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5778 
All class D is the same 5778 
Interpreting the LF results. 5777 
The Halibut 5777 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5777 
The Big Picture 5777 
Power & ULF channels 5777 
The big picture indeed. 5777 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5777 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5777 
The Power and the Glory 5776 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5776 
I guess I did not get this memo 5776 
French LF drivers 5776 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5776 
(another) French LF approach 5775 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5775 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5775 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5775 
Limpschtick 5775 
Symmetry 5775 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5774 
Room correction 5774 
It migh be more complicated. 5774 
Bass EQ ? 5774 
Agree and not. 5774 
Two "diseases" 5774 
Parametric filters 5774 
Ceiling arrays 5774 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5774 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5774 
The Middle of the Room. 5774 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5774 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5774 
Stop! 5774 
Appendectomy 5774 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5773 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5773 
No Isolation 5773 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5770 
Potential contenders? 5769 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5769 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5769 
Those Crazy Canucks 5765 
Mo' Better Bass 5759 
Bird in the Hand? 5759 
A wet listening spot? 5752 
Storm 5749 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5749 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5735 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5705 
Polar Opposite ULF 5704 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5692 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5690 
Differently but the same. 5689 
PVC 5688 
The sail test try. 5688 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5688 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5688 
Trial 5687 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5687 
Some explanations 5687 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5686 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5685 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5684 
Acrylate 5683 
Magic blanket 5683 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5682 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5682 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5682 
I have a few options. 5682 
Foam color 5682 
Strange things with upperbass 5682 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5681 
Teatro reform. . . 5681 
The foaming room dilemma. 5680 
Melamine Foam 5680 
Foaming up the cat house 5680 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5680 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5680 
Acoustic revisions… 5679 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5676 
Surprises so far in the new room 5675 
The upperbass in the new room. 5675 
Slight change of hart. 5674 
Camco supply of Boston 5672 
Room acoustics 5672 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5631 
I need to kill dust first. 5631 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5629 
To feed the leeches? 5629 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5628 
Yh 5628 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5628 
DPOLs? 5628 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5628 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5625 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5625 
A HalfPipe solution? 5625 
I absolutely love it. 5625 
Piper work 5624 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5624 
Absorption 5624 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5623 
Cats life ? 5623 
Call me Pussy. 5623 
More about traps 5623 
Acoustic impedance? 5623 
You maybe right 5623 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5623 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5622 
Heavy Curtain 5622 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5621 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5621 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5621 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5618 
Fix speaker move chair? 5617 
Back and forth ceremony 5617 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5616 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5615 
Glass windows 5614 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5613 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5612 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5610 
How to use basement jacks? 5610 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5610 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5610 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5609 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5609 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5608 
Sore eyes... 5607 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5607 
The harvesting week! 5605 
I need an inspiration… 5604 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5603 
Like this? 5603 
Dramatically randomize MF 5603 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5602 
The room eats dynamic 5602 
Diffusers 5602 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5601 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5586 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5585 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5585 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5585 
About Width-Importance balance. 5583 
Letting the music scale up 5582 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5582 
To finish my house décor… 5578 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5577 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5576 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5576 
Calling the gods of music 5576 
Absolutely 5576 
Phase manipulation 5576 
No relation. 5576 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5576 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5576 
Dynamical mismatch 5575 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5575 
Stradiwinerius? 5572 
Dealing with the glass. 5571 
Boston 5571 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5571 
Added mass 5571 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5571 
It is about moderation…. 5571 
To hell with the wine... 5571 
Also for other surafaces 5570 
LEAD 5570 
LEAD & GLASS 5570 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5570 
Read carefully 5570 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5570 
Crooks and morons 5570 
Magiscopios 5569 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5549 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5549 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5548 
The LP setup in the new home. 5497 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5492 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5492 
Pianochord will do! 5492 
Spanyi heaven 5492 
I see no conflict at all. 5492 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5492 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5492 
A year after closing 5484 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5484 
Traveling antimatter 5477 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5471 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5470 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5444 
Cast Iron fireplace 5443 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5443 
The hardcore way 5443 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5407 
This is How It's Done 5406 
Listening room during summer. 5394 
What about those... 5393 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5393 
Reducing A/C Noise 5393 
HVAC the Cat 5393 
Big Ass fan 5392 
Variac dimmers 5392 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5392 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5392 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5324 
Some winter observations. 5215 
That Asian man…. 5184 
The Franz Schubert morning 5158 
Spring.... 5107 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5057 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5028 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5028 
Just good photography? 5028 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5028 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5028 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5027 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5027 
Sports car 5027 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5027 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5027 
Train Positioning 5027 
Kind of what I want 5027 
The lap listening… 5027 
Family Room 5027 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5024 
A super audio room. 5020 
Time Warp! 5020 
A piano in a listening room 4999 
Pianissimo 4999 
The plan in blue. 4999 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4999 
My doubts 4999 
It is exactly what I worry. 4998 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4998 
Musicians at home 4998 
Piano Measurements 4997 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4992 
The next step. 4978 
Midbass horns missing?? 4977 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4967 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4967 
Baby Grand 4966 
Wood floor 4966 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4966 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4966 
Amy’s baby. 4964 
Improvement 4964 
Agree with Scott 4964 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4952 
Integrated casters 4952 
Very nice, thanks. 4952 
Customization 4952 
Sliders 4952 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4945 
Congratulations 4945 
Holes in the floor... 4945 
Tubes and kids 4945 
Sweet spot enlargement 4945 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4943 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4942 
Wood Floors and Water 4942 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4937 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4936 
WAF is for Losers 4936 
WAF: it depends. 4936 
Integration 4935 
Here and there. 4935 
Life after WWIII 4935 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4935 
Cables management. 4933 
Featurizing 4933 
Kids and tubes cont. 4930 
Kid magnet 4930 
Kids and audio 4929 
Radars 4929 
Wow, what the days! 4925 
The comming weekend 4921 
It all was worth it! 4918 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4913 
Here is how it is look. 4913 
Resolving the carpet issue 4913 
Bonfire 4913 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4913 
Proof of concept? 4913 
Geometry 4913 
A view from listening position. 4913 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4913 
Some feedback 4913 
Evening 4913 
I wonder why. 4912 
Rugs and things 4912 
In defense… 4912 
I can’t get it. 4909 
Haze. 4908 
Front wall 4908 
It is very possible. 4908 
It is nice to be back. 4905 
My comfy corner. 4902 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4542 
WMD in house. 4364 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4267 
The third listening spot. 4246 
For sure a very different experience. 4208 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4203 
It's Jfretch's system. 4203 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4202 
Domestic games 4156 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4017 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4017 
Dynamic screening 4017 
Actually this is very good idea! 4017 
Volcanic fabric 4017 
I should have done this. 4015 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4011 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3980 
No worries 3980 
Awesome memories 3980 
Optimization of space 3980 
Child-ish considerations 3977 
Finding peace.... 3971 
"Fencing"? 3970 
I need to build something custom 3970 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3970 
Stressed Skin 3970 
NYC elevators 3970 
Kids toys and quantities. 3970 
Everything is completely reversible 3969 
Racks and things 3969 
Now it looks even more promising! 3969 
Quantity of rods 3969 
Avoiding diagonals 3967 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3966 
That's not fair! 3966 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3966 
Discrimination? 3961 
Vertical configuration 3954 
Impresive ! 3883 
Did you read the site? 3883 
Contact 3883 
Company's name is Rixrax 3883 
Stand 3882 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3838 
End of life headphone system 3838 
Something like this? 3838 
The "Second Living Room" 3838 
Mixing urban & suburban 3838 
Late night listening 3838 
Moving life... 3836 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3836 
A true listening room. 3812 
It started… 3797 
Levels of Interest 3797 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3797 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3797 
I can't not to post it.... 3797 
Do not leave him unattended. 3797 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3797 
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