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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5815 
The first take on the new room. 5809 
New Room, a first shot. 5808 
Wonderful 5808 
Adopted 5807 
The first relaxed night with the room 5805 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5804 
The listening room is ready. 5803 
New Room, a First Shot 5801 
Continue to work with the room 5801 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5801 
Room 5800 
I think it will take another month. 5800 
The Buttressing 5800 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5799 
The new place and the new noises. 5799 
Big listening room 5798 
Screw the "big" rooms 5798 
Big listening rooms 5798 
First reflection points 5797 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5797 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5794 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5793 
Squeezing the floor 5793 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5793 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5793 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5792 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5792 
The new room, the very first listening. 5792 
The 14.5 foot. 5791 
Again… 5790 
Romy's new Playground 5790 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5790 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5790 
For the uninitiated ... 5789 
NH guy 5789 
Room 5789 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5788 
The first base is done 5788 
Reentry time alignment. 5787 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5786 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5786 
Mid bass horn. 5786 
Guess is only a guess… 5786 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5786 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5785 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5785 
Diffusors 5785 
Diffuse injection 5785 
Let analyse why it so 5785 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5785 
Wheel and Deal 5785 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5785 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5785 
I Must Be Missing Something 5785 
I put sliders under my speakers 5784 
ROOM 5783 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5783 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5783 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5783 
No concerns 5783 
Speakers and room 5783 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5782 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5782 
Diaphram 5782 
Phram 5782 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5782 
Perfect piston 5782 
Decorater 5781 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5781 
New morning 5780 
The first take on the room with RTA 5779 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5779 
Axiomatic 5779 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5778 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5778 
The size of the bass. 5778 
Bass Factory 5778 
Crude Level, or something more? 5778 
I will play with it this week…. 5778 
Rent-A 5778 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5778 
Corner horns 5778 
Cheating from below 5778 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5778 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5777 
A possibly overly simplified view 5777 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5777 
Iceberg 5777 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5777 
Why not horn 5777 
A correction…. 5777 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5777 
They are just not related things at all. 5777 
Fertin 5775 
Low resonance is good... 5775 
Et tu, Brute? 5774 
The Room response at LF 5773 
Life On The Ground Floor 5773 
Bass arrays 5773 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5773 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5773 
The super sucks. 5773 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5773 
You may also try 5772 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5772 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5772 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5772 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5772 
60 Hz Resonance 5772 
No notching… so far. 5772 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5771 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5771 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5771 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5771 
Power to the People 5771 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5771 
Aura 5771 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5771 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5771 
All class D is the same 5771 
Interpreting the LF results. 5770 
The Halibut 5770 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5770 
The Big Picture 5770 
Power & ULF channels 5770 
The big picture indeed. 5770 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5770 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5770 
The Power and the Glory 5769 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5769 
I guess I did not get this memo 5769 
French LF drivers 5769 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5769 
(another) French LF approach 5768 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5768 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5768 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5768 
Limpschtick 5768 
Symmetry 5768 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5767 
Room correction 5767 
It migh be more complicated. 5767 
Bass EQ ? 5767 
Agree and not. 5767 
Two "diseases" 5767 
Parametric filters 5767 
Ceiling arrays 5767 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5767 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5767 
The Middle of the Room. 5767 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5767 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5767 
Stop! 5767 
Appendectomy 5767 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5766 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5766 
No Isolation 5766 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5763 
Potential contenders? 5762 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5762 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5762 
Those Crazy Canucks 5758 
Mo' Better Bass 5752 
Bird in the Hand? 5752 
A wet listening spot? 5745 
Storm 5742 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5742 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5728 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5698 
Polar Opposite ULF 5697 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5685 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5683 
Differently but the same. 5682 
PVC 5681 
The sail test try. 5681 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5681 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5681 
Trial 5680 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5680 
Some explanations 5680 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5679 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5678 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5677 
Acrylate 5676 
Magic blanket 5676 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5675 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5675 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5675 
I have a few options. 5675 
Foam color 5675 
Strange things with upperbass 5675 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5674 
Teatro reform. . . 5674 
The foaming room dilemma. 5673 
Melamine Foam 5673 
Foaming up the cat house 5673 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5673 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5673 
Acoustic revisions… 5672 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5669 
Surprises so far in the new room 5668 
The upperbass in the new room. 5668 
Slight change of hart. 5667 
Camco supply of Boston 5665 
Room acoustics 5665 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5624 
I need to kill dust first. 5624 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5622 
To feed the leeches? 5622 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5621 
Yh 5621 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5621 
DPOLs? 5621 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5621 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5618 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5618 
A HalfPipe solution? 5618 
I absolutely love it. 5618 
Piper work 5617 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5617 
Absorption 5617 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5616 
Cats life ? 5616 
Call me Pussy. 5616 
More about traps 5616 
Acoustic impedance? 5616 
You maybe right 5616 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5616 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5615 
Heavy Curtain 5615 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5614 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5614 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5614 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5611 
Fix speaker move chair? 5610 
Back and forth ceremony 5610 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5609 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5608 
Glass windows 5607 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5606 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5605 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5603 
How to use basement jacks? 5603 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5603 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5603 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5602 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5602 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5601 
Sore eyes... 5600 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5600 
The harvesting week! 5598 
I need an inspiration… 5597 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5596 
Like this? 5596 
Dramatically randomize MF 5596 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5595 
The room eats dynamic 5595 
Diffusers 5595 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5594 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5579 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5578 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5578 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5578 
About Width-Importance balance. 5576 
Letting the music scale up 5575 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5575 
To finish my house décor… 5571 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5570 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5569 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5569 
Calling the gods of music 5569 
Absolutely 5569 
Phase manipulation 5569 
No relation. 5569 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5569 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5569 
Dynamical mismatch 5568 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5568 
Stradiwinerius? 5565 
Dealing with the glass. 5564 
Boston 5564 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5564 
Added mass 5564 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5564 
It is about moderation…. 5564 
To hell with the wine... 5564 
Also for other surafaces 5563 
LEAD 5563 
LEAD & GLASS 5563 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5563 
Read carefully 5563 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5563 
Crooks and morons 5563 
Magiscopios 5562 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5542 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5542 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5541 
The LP setup in the new home. 5490 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5485 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5485 
Pianochord will do! 5485 
Spanyi heaven 5485 
I see no conflict at all. 5485 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5485 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5485 
A year after closing 5477 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5477 
Traveling antimatter 5470 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5464 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5463 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5437 
Cast Iron fireplace 5436 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5436 
The hardcore way 5436 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5400 
This is How It's Done 5399 
Listening room during summer. 5387 
What about those... 5386 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5386 
Reducing A/C Noise 5386 
HVAC the Cat 5386 
Big Ass fan 5385 
Variac dimmers 5385 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5385 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5385 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5317 
Some winter observations. 5208 
That Asian man…. 5177 
The Franz Schubert morning 5151 
Spring.... 5100 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5050 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5021 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5021 
Just good photography? 5021 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5021 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5021 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5020 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5020 
Sports car 5020 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5020 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5020 
Train Positioning 5020 
Kind of what I want 5020 
The lap listening… 5020 
Family Room 5020 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5017 
A super audio room. 5013 
Time Warp! 5013 
A piano in a listening room 4992 
Pianissimo 4992 
The plan in blue. 4992 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4992 
My doubts 4992 
It is exactly what I worry. 4991 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4991 
Musicians at home 4991 
Piano Measurements 4990 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4985 
The next step. 4971 
Midbass horns missing?? 4970 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4960 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4960 
Baby Grand 4959 
Wood floor 4959 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4959 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4959 
Amy’s baby. 4957 
Improvement 4957 
Agree with Scott 4957 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4945 
Integrated casters 4945 
Very nice, thanks. 4945 
Customization 4945 
Sliders 4945 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4938 
Congratulations 4938 
Holes in the floor... 4938 
Tubes and kids 4938 
Sweet spot enlargement 4938 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4936 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4935 
Wood Floors and Water 4935 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4930 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4929 
WAF is for Losers 4929 
WAF: it depends. 4929 
Integration 4928 
Here and there. 4928 
Life after WWIII 4928 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4928 
Cables management. 4926 
Featurizing 4926 
Kids and tubes cont. 4923 
Kid magnet 4923 
Kids and audio 4922 
Radars 4922 
Wow, what the days! 4918 
The comming weekend 4914 
It all was worth it! 4911 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4906 
Here is how it is look. 4906 
Resolving the carpet issue 4906 
Bonfire 4906 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4906 
Proof of concept? 4906 
Geometry 4906 
A view from listening position. 4906 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4906 
Some feedback 4906 
Evening 4906 
I wonder why. 4905 
Rugs and things 4905 
In defense… 4905 
I can’t get it. 4902 
Haze. 4901 
Front wall 4901 
It is very possible. 4901 
It is nice to be back. 4898 
My comfy corner. 4895 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4535 
WMD in house. 4357 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4260 
The third listening spot. 4239 
For sure a very different experience. 4201 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4196 
It's Jfretch's system. 4196 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4195 
Domestic games 4149 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4010 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4010 
Dynamic screening 4010 
Actually this is very good idea! 4010 
Volcanic fabric 4010 
I should have done this. 4008 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4004 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3973 
No worries 3973 
Awesome memories 3973 
Optimization of space 3973 
Child-ish considerations 3970 
Finding peace.... 3964 
"Fencing"? 3963 
I need to build something custom 3963 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3963 
Stressed Skin 3963 
NYC elevators 3963 
Kids toys and quantities. 3963 
Everything is completely reversible 3962 
Racks and things 3962 
Now it looks even more promising! 3962 
Quantity of rods 3962 
Avoiding diagonals 3960 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3959 
That's not fair! 3959 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3959 
Discrimination? 3954 
Vertical configuration 3947 
Impresive ! 3876 
Did you read the site? 3876 
Contact 3876 
Company's name is Rixrax 3876 
Stand 3875 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3831 
End of life headphone system 3831 
Something like this? 3831 
The "Second Living Room" 3831 
Mixing urban & suburban 3831 
Late night listening 3831 
Moving life... 3829 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3829 
A true listening room. 3805 
It started… 3790 
Levels of Interest 3790 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3790 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3790 
I can't not to post it.... 3790 
Do not leave him unattended. 3790 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3790 
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