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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5743 
The first take on the new room. 5737 
New Room, a first shot. 5736 
Wonderful 5736 
Adopted 5735 
The first relaxed night with the room 5733 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5732 
The listening room is ready. 5731 
New Room, a First Shot 5729 
Continue to work with the room 5729 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5729 
Room 5728 
I think it will take another month. 5728 
The Buttressing 5728 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5727 
The new place and the new noises. 5727 
Big listening room 5726 
Screw the "big" rooms 5726 
Big listening rooms 5726 
First reflection points 5725 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5725 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5722 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5721 
Squeezing the floor 5721 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5721 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5721 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5720 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5720 
The new room, the very first listening. 5720 
The 14.5 foot. 5719 
Again… 5718 
Romy's new Playground 5718 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5718 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5718 
For the uninitiated ... 5717 
NH guy 5717 
Room 5717 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5716 
The first base is done 5716 
Reentry time alignment. 5715 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5714 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5714 
Mid bass horn. 5714 
Guess is only a guess… 5714 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5714 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5713 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5713 
Diffusors 5713 
Diffuse injection 5713 
Let analyse why it so 5713 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5713 
Wheel and Deal 5713 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5713 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5713 
I Must Be Missing Something 5713 
I put sliders under my speakers 5712 
ROOM 5711 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5711 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5711 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5711 
No concerns 5711 
Speakers and room 5711 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5710 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5710 
Diaphram 5710 
Phram 5710 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5710 
Perfect piston 5710 
Decorater 5709 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5709 
New morning 5708 
The first take on the room with RTA 5707 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5707 
Axiomatic 5707 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5706 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5706 
The size of the bass. 5706 
Bass Factory 5706 
Crude Level, or something more? 5706 
I will play with it this week…. 5706 
Rent-A 5706 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5706 
Corner horns 5706 
Cheating from below 5706 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5706 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5705 
A possibly overly simplified view 5705 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5705 
Iceberg 5705 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5705 
Why not horn 5705 
A correction…. 5705 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5705 
They are just not related things at all. 5705 
Fertin 5703 
Low resonance is good... 5703 
Et tu, Brute? 5702 
The Room response at LF 5701 
Life On The Ground Floor 5701 
Bass arrays 5701 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5701 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5701 
The super sucks. 5701 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5701 
You may also try 5700 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5700 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5700 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5700 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5700 
60 Hz Resonance 5700 
No notching… so far. 5700 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5699 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5699 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5699 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5699 
Power to the People 5699 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5699 
Aura 5699 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5699 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5699 
All class D is the same 5699 
Interpreting the LF results. 5698 
The Halibut 5698 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5698 
The Big Picture 5698 
Power & ULF channels 5698 
The big picture indeed. 5698 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5698 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5698 
The Power and the Glory 5697 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5697 
I guess I did not get this memo 5697 
French LF drivers 5697 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5697 
(another) French LF approach 5696 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5696 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5696 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5696 
Limpschtick 5696 
Symmetry 5696 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5695 
Room correction 5695 
It migh be more complicated. 5695 
Bass EQ ? 5695 
Agree and not. 5695 
Two "diseases" 5695 
Parametric filters 5695 
Ceiling arrays 5695 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5695 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5695 
The Middle of the Room. 5695 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5695 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5695 
Stop! 5695 
Appendectomy 5695 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5694 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5694 
No Isolation 5694 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5691 
Potential contenders? 5690 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5690 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5690 
Those Crazy Canucks 5686 
Mo' Better Bass 5680 
Bird in the Hand? 5680 
A wet listening spot? 5673 
Storm 5670 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5670 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5656 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5626 
Polar Opposite ULF 5625 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5613 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5611 
Differently but the same. 5610 
PVC 5609 
The sail test try. 5609 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5609 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5609 
Trial 5608 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5608 
Some explanations 5608 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5607 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5606 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5605 
Acrylate 5604 
Magic blanket 5604 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5603 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5603 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5603 
I have a few options. 5603 
Foam color 5603 
Strange things with upperbass 5603 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5602 
Teatro reform. . . 5602 
The foaming room dilemma. 5601 
Melamine Foam 5601 
Foaming up the cat house 5601 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5601 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5601 
Acoustic revisions… 5600 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5597 
Surprises so far in the new room 5596 
The upperbass in the new room. 5596 
Slight change of hart. 5595 
Camco supply of Boston 5593 
Room acoustics 5593 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5552 
I need to kill dust first. 5552 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5550 
To feed the leeches? 5550 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5549 
Yh 5549 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5549 
DPOLs? 5549 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5549 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5546 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5546 
A HalfPipe solution? 5546 
I absolutely love it. 5546 
Piper work 5545 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5545 
Absorption 5545 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5544 
Cats life ? 5544 
Call me Pussy. 5544 
More about traps 5544 
Acoustic impedance? 5544 
You maybe right 5544 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5544 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5543 
Heavy Curtain 5543 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5542 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5542 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5542 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5539 
Fix speaker move chair? 5538 
Back and forth ceremony 5538 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5537 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5536 
Glass windows 5535 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5534 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5533 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5531 
How to use basement jacks? 5531 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5531 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5531 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5530 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5530 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5529 
Sore eyes... 5528 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5528 
The harvesting week! 5526 
I need an inspiration… 5525 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5524 
Like this? 5524 
Dramatically randomize MF 5524 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5523 
The room eats dynamic 5523 
Diffusers 5523 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5522 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5507 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5506 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5506 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5506 
About Width-Importance balance. 5504 
Letting the music scale up 5503 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5503 
To finish my house décor… 5499 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5498 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5497 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5497 
Calling the gods of music 5497 
Absolutely 5497 
Phase manipulation 5497 
No relation. 5497 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5497 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5497 
Dynamical mismatch 5496 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5496 
Stradiwinerius? 5493 
Dealing with the glass. 5492 
Boston 5492 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5492 
Added mass 5492 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5492 
It is about moderation…. 5492 
To hell with the wine... 5492 
Also for other surafaces 5491 
LEAD 5491 
LEAD & GLASS 5491 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5491 
Read carefully 5491 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5491 
Crooks and morons 5491 
Magiscopios 5490 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5470 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5470 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5469 
The LP setup in the new home. 5418 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5413 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5413 
Pianochord will do! 5413 
Spanyi heaven 5413 
I see no conflict at all. 5413 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5413 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5413 
A year after closing 5405 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5405 
Traveling antimatter 5398 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5392 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5391 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5365 
Cast Iron fireplace 5364 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5364 
The hardcore way 5364 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5328 
This is How It's Done 5327 
Listening room during summer. 5315 
What about those... 5314 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5314 
Reducing A/C Noise 5314 
HVAC the Cat 5314 
Big Ass fan 5313 
Variac dimmers 5313 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5313 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5313 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5245 
Some winter observations. 5136 
That Asian man…. 5105 
The Franz Schubert morning 5079 
Spring.... 5028 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4978 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4949 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4949 
Just good photography? 4949 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4949 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4949 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4948 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4948 
Sports car 4948 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4948 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4948 
Train Positioning 4948 
Kind of what I want 4948 
The lap listening… 4948 
Family Room 4948 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4945 
A super audio room. 4941 
Time Warp! 4941 
A piano in a listening room 4920 
Pianissimo 4920 
The plan in blue. 4920 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4920 
My doubts 4920 
It is exactly what I worry. 4919 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4919 
Musicians at home 4919 
Piano Measurements 4918 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4913 
The next step. 4899 
Midbass horns missing?? 4898 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4888 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4888 
Baby Grand 4887 
Wood floor 4887 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4887 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4887 
Amy’s baby. 4885 
Improvement 4885 
Agree with Scott 4885 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4873 
Integrated casters 4873 
Very nice, thanks. 4873 
Customization 4873 
Sliders 4873 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4866 
Congratulations 4866 
Holes in the floor... 4866 
Tubes and kids 4866 
Sweet spot enlargement 4866 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4864 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4863 
Wood Floors and Water 4863 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4858 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4857 
WAF is for Losers 4857 
WAF: it depends. 4857 
Integration 4856 
Here and there. 4856 
Life after WWIII 4856 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4856 
Cables management. 4854 
Featurizing 4854 
Kids and tubes cont. 4851 
Kid magnet 4851 
Kids and audio 4850 
Radars 4850 
Wow, what the days! 4846 
The comming weekend 4842 
It all was worth it! 4839 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4834 
Here is how it is look. 4834 
Resolving the carpet issue 4834 
Bonfire 4834 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4834 
Proof of concept? 4834 
Geometry 4834 
A view from listening position. 4834 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4834 
Some feedback 4834 
Evening 4834 
I wonder why. 4833 
Rugs and things 4833 
In defense… 4833 
I can’t get it. 4830 
Haze. 4829 
Front wall 4829 
It is very possible. 4829 
It is nice to be back. 4826 
My comfy corner. 4823 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4463 
WMD in house. 4285 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4188 
The third listening spot. 4167 
For sure a very different experience. 4129 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4124 
It's Jfretch's system. 4124 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4123 
Domestic games 4077 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3938 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3938 
Dynamic screening 3938 
Actually this is very good idea! 3938 
Volcanic fabric 3938 
I should have done this. 3936 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3932 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3901 
No worries 3901 
Awesome memories 3901 
Optimization of space 3901 
Child-ish considerations 3898 
Finding peace.... 3892 
"Fencing"? 3891 
I need to build something custom 3891 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3891 
Stressed Skin 3891 
NYC elevators 3891 
Kids toys and quantities. 3891 
Everything is completely reversible 3890 
Racks and things 3890 
Now it looks even more promising! 3890 
Quantity of rods 3890 
Avoiding diagonals 3888 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3887 
That's not fair! 3887 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3887 
Discrimination? 3882 
Vertical configuration 3875 
Impresive ! 3804 
Did you read the site? 3804 
Contact 3804 
Company's name is Rixrax 3804 
Stand 3803 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3759 
End of life headphone system 3759 
Something like this? 3759 
The "Second Living Room" 3759 
Mixing urban & suburban 3759 
Late night listening 3759 
Moving life... 3757 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3757 
A true listening room. 3733 
It started… 3718 
Levels of Interest 3718 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3718 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3718 
I can't not to post it.... 3718 
Do not leave him unattended. 3718 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3718 
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