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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5751 
The first take on the new room. 5745 
New Room, a first shot. 5744 
Wonderful 5744 
Adopted 5743 
The first relaxed night with the room 5741 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5740 
The listening room is ready. 5739 
New Room, a First Shot 5737 
Continue to work with the room 5737 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5737 
Room 5736 
I think it will take another month. 5736 
The Buttressing 5736 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5735 
The new place and the new noises. 5735 
Big listening room 5734 
Screw the "big" rooms 5734 
Big listening rooms 5734 
First reflection points 5733 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5733 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5730 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5729 
Squeezing the floor 5729 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5729 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5729 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5728 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5728 
The new room, the very first listening. 5728 
The 14.5 foot. 5727 
Again… 5726 
Romy's new Playground 5726 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5726 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5726 
For the uninitiated ... 5725 
NH guy 5725 
Room 5725 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5724 
The first base is done 5724 
Reentry time alignment. 5723 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5722 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5722 
Mid bass horn. 5722 
Guess is only a guess… 5722 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5722 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5721 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5721 
Diffusors 5721 
Diffuse injection 5721 
Let analyse why it so 5721 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5721 
Wheel and Deal 5721 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5721 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5721 
I Must Be Missing Something 5721 
I put sliders under my speakers 5720 
ROOM 5719 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5719 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5719 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5719 
No concerns 5719 
Speakers and room 5719 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5718 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5718 
Diaphram 5718 
Phram 5718 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5718 
Perfect piston 5718 
Decorater 5717 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5717 
New morning 5716 
The first take on the room with RTA 5715 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5715 
Axiomatic 5715 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5714 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5714 
The size of the bass. 5714 
Bass Factory 5714 
Crude Level, or something more? 5714 
I will play with it this week…. 5714 
Rent-A 5714 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5714 
Corner horns 5714 
Cheating from below 5714 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5714 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5713 
A possibly overly simplified view 5713 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5713 
Iceberg 5713 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5713 
Why not horn 5713 
A correction…. 5713 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5713 
They are just not related things at all. 5713 
Fertin 5711 
Low resonance is good... 5711 
Et tu, Brute? 5710 
The Room response at LF 5709 
Life On The Ground Floor 5709 
Bass arrays 5709 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5709 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5709 
The super sucks. 5709 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5709 
You may also try 5708 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5708 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5708 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5708 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5708 
60 Hz Resonance 5708 
No notching… so far. 5708 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5707 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5707 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5707 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5707 
Power to the People 5707 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5707 
Aura 5707 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5707 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5707 
All class D is the same 5707 
Interpreting the LF results. 5706 
The Halibut 5706 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5706 
The Big Picture 5706 
Power & ULF channels 5706 
The big picture indeed. 5706 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5706 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5706 
The Power and the Glory 5705 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5705 
I guess I did not get this memo 5705 
French LF drivers 5705 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5705 
(another) French LF approach 5704 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5704 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5704 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5704 
Limpschtick 5704 
Symmetry 5704 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5703 
Room correction 5703 
It migh be more complicated. 5703 
Bass EQ ? 5703 
Agree and not. 5703 
Two "diseases" 5703 
Parametric filters 5703 
Ceiling arrays 5703 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5703 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5703 
The Middle of the Room. 5703 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5703 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5703 
Stop! 5703 
Appendectomy 5703 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5702 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5702 
No Isolation 5702 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5699 
Potential contenders? 5698 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5698 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5698 
Those Crazy Canucks 5694 
Mo' Better Bass 5688 
Bird in the Hand? 5688 
A wet listening spot? 5681 
Storm 5678 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5678 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5664 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5634 
Polar Opposite ULF 5633 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5621 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5619 
Differently but the same. 5618 
PVC 5617 
The sail test try. 5617 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5617 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5617 
Trial 5616 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5616 
Some explanations 5616 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5615 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5614 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5613 
Acrylate 5612 
Magic blanket 5612 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5611 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5611 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5611 
I have a few options. 5611 
Foam color 5611 
Strange things with upperbass 5611 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5610 
Teatro reform. . . 5610 
The foaming room dilemma. 5609 
Melamine Foam 5609 
Foaming up the cat house 5609 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5609 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5609 
Acoustic revisions… 5608 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5605 
Surprises so far in the new room 5604 
The upperbass in the new room. 5604 
Slight change of hart. 5603 
Camco supply of Boston 5601 
Room acoustics 5601 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5560 
I need to kill dust first. 5560 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5558 
To feed the leeches? 5558 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5557 
Yh 5557 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5557 
DPOLs? 5557 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5557 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5554 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5554 
A HalfPipe solution? 5554 
I absolutely love it. 5554 
Piper work 5553 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5553 
Absorption 5553 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5552 
Cats life ? 5552 
Call me Pussy. 5552 
More about traps 5552 
Acoustic impedance? 5552 
You maybe right 5552 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5552 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5551 
Heavy Curtain 5551 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5550 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5550 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5550 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5547 
Fix speaker move chair? 5546 
Back and forth ceremony 5546 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5545 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5544 
Glass windows 5543 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5542 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5541 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5539 
How to use basement jacks? 5539 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5539 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5539 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5538 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5538 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5537 
Sore eyes... 5536 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5536 
The harvesting week! 5534 
I need an inspiration… 5533 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5532 
Like this? 5532 
Dramatically randomize MF 5532 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5531 
The room eats dynamic 5531 
Diffusers 5531 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5530 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5515 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5514 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5514 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5514 
About Width-Importance balance. 5512 
Letting the music scale up 5511 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5511 
To finish my house décor… 5507 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5506 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5505 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5505 
Calling the gods of music 5505 
Absolutely 5505 
Phase manipulation 5505 
No relation. 5505 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5505 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5505 
Dynamical mismatch 5504 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5504 
Stradiwinerius? 5501 
Dealing with the glass. 5500 
Boston 5500 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5500 
Added mass 5500 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5500 
It is about moderation…. 5500 
To hell with the wine... 5500 
Also for other surafaces 5499 
LEAD 5499 
LEAD & GLASS 5499 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5499 
Read carefully 5499 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5499 
Crooks and morons 5499 
Magiscopios 5498 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5478 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5478 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5477 
The LP setup in the new home. 5426 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5421 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5421 
Pianochord will do! 5421 
Spanyi heaven 5421 
I see no conflict at all. 5421 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5421 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5421 
A year after closing 5413 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5413 
Traveling antimatter 5406 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5400 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5399 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5373 
Cast Iron fireplace 5372 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5372 
The hardcore way 5372 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5336 
This is How It's Done 5335 
Listening room during summer. 5323 
What about those... 5322 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5322 
Reducing A/C Noise 5322 
HVAC the Cat 5322 
Big Ass fan 5321 
Variac dimmers 5321 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5321 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5321 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5253 
Some winter observations. 5144 
That Asian man…. 5113 
The Franz Schubert morning 5087 
Spring.... 5036 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4986 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4957 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4957 
Just good photography? 4957 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4957 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4957 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4956 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4956 
Sports car 4956 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4956 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4956 
Train Positioning 4956 
Kind of what I want 4956 
The lap listening… 4956 
Family Room 4956 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4953 
A super audio room. 4949 
Time Warp! 4949 
A piano in a listening room 4928 
Pianissimo 4928 
The plan in blue. 4928 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4928 
My doubts 4928 
It is exactly what I worry. 4927 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4927 
Musicians at home 4927 
Piano Measurements 4926 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4921 
The next step. 4907 
Midbass horns missing?? 4906 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4896 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4896 
Baby Grand 4895 
Wood floor 4895 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4895 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4895 
Amy’s baby. 4893 
Improvement 4893 
Agree with Scott 4893 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4881 
Integrated casters 4881 
Very nice, thanks. 4881 
Customization 4881 
Sliders 4881 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4874 
Congratulations 4874 
Holes in the floor... 4874 
Tubes and kids 4874 
Sweet spot enlargement 4874 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4872 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4871 
Wood Floors and Water 4871 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4866 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4865 
WAF is for Losers 4865 
WAF: it depends. 4865 
Integration 4864 
Here and there. 4864 
Life after WWIII 4864 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4864 
Cables management. 4862 
Featurizing 4862 
Kids and tubes cont. 4859 
Kid magnet 4859 
Kids and audio 4858 
Radars 4858 
Wow, what the days! 4854 
The comming weekend 4850 
It all was worth it! 4847 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4842 
Here is how it is look. 4842 
Resolving the carpet issue 4842 
Bonfire 4842 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4842 
Proof of concept? 4842 
Geometry 4842 
A view from listening position. 4842 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4842 
Some feedback 4842 
Evening 4842 
I wonder why. 4841 
Rugs and things 4841 
In defense… 4841 
I can’t get it. 4838 
Haze. 4837 
Front wall 4837 
It is very possible. 4837 
It is nice to be back. 4834 
My comfy corner. 4831 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4471 
WMD in house. 4293 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4196 
The third listening spot. 4175 
For sure a very different experience. 4137 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4132 
It's Jfretch's system. 4132 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4131 
Domestic games 4085 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3946 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3946 
Dynamic screening 3946 
Actually this is very good idea! 3946 
Volcanic fabric 3946 
I should have done this. 3944 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3940 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3909 
No worries 3909 
Awesome memories 3909 
Optimization of space 3909 
Child-ish considerations 3906 
Finding peace.... 3900 
"Fencing"? 3899 
I need to build something custom 3899 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3899 
Stressed Skin 3899 
NYC elevators 3899 
Kids toys and quantities. 3899 
Everything is completely reversible 3898 
Racks and things 3898 
Now it looks even more promising! 3898 
Quantity of rods 3898 
Avoiding diagonals 3896 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3895 
That's not fair! 3895 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3895 
Discrimination? 3890 
Vertical configuration 3883 
Impresive ! 3812 
Did you read the site? 3812 
Contact 3812 
Company's name is Rixrax 3812 
Stand 3811 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3767 
End of life headphone system 3767 
Something like this? 3767 
The "Second Living Room" 3767 
Mixing urban & suburban 3767 
Late night listening 3767 
Moving life... 3765 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3765 
A true listening room. 3741 
It started… 3726 
Levels of Interest 3726 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3726 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3726 
I can't not to post it.... 3726 
Do not leave him unattended. 3726 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3726 
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