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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5607 
The first take on the new room. 5601 
New Room, a first shot. 5600 
Wonderful 5600 
Adopted 5599 
The first relaxed night with the room 5597 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5596 
The listening room is ready. 5595 
New Room, a First Shot 5593 
Continue to work with the room 5593 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5593 
Room 5592 
I think it will take another month. 5592 
The Buttressing 5592 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5591 
The new place and the new noises. 5591 
Big listening room 5590 
Screw the "big" rooms 5590 
Big listening rooms 5590 
First reflection points 5589 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5589 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5586 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5585 
Squeezing the floor 5585 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5585 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5585 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5584 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5584 
The new room, the very first listening. 5584 
The 14.5 foot. 5583 
Again… 5582 
Romy's new Playground 5582 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5582 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5582 
For the uninitiated ... 5581 
NH guy 5581 
Room 5581 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5580 
The first base is done 5580 
Reentry time alignment. 5579 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5578 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5578 
Mid bass horn. 5578 
Guess is only a guess… 5578 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5578 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5577 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5577 
Diffusors 5577 
Diffuse injection 5577 
Let analyse why it so 5577 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5577 
Wheel and Deal 5577 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5577 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5577 
I Must Be Missing Something 5577 
I put sliders under my speakers 5576 
ROOM 5575 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5575 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5575 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5575 
No concerns 5575 
Speakers and room 5575 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5574 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5574 
Diaphram 5574 
Phram 5574 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5574 
Perfect piston 5574 
Decorater 5573 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5573 
New morning 5572 
The first take on the room with RTA 5571 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5571 
Axiomatic 5571 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5570 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5570 
The size of the bass. 5570 
Bass Factory 5570 
Crude Level, or something more? 5570 
I will play with it this week…. 5570 
Rent-A 5570 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5570 
Corner horns 5570 
Cheating from below 5570 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5570 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5569 
A possibly overly simplified view 5569 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5569 
Iceberg 5569 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5569 
Why not horn 5569 
A correction…. 5569 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5569 
They are just not related things at all. 5569 
Fertin 5567 
Low resonance is good... 5567 
Et tu, Brute? 5566 
The Room response at LF 5565 
Life On The Ground Floor 5565 
Bass arrays 5565 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5565 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5565 
The super sucks. 5565 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5565 
You may also try 5564 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5564 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5564 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5564 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5564 
60 Hz Resonance 5564 
No notching… so far. 5564 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5563 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5563 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5563 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5563 
Power to the People 5563 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5563 
Aura 5563 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5563 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5563 
All class D is the same 5563 
Interpreting the LF results. 5562 
The Halibut 5562 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5562 
The Big Picture 5562 
Power & ULF channels 5562 
The big picture indeed. 5562 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5562 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5562 
The Power and the Glory 5561 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5561 
I guess I did not get this memo 5561 
French LF drivers 5561 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5561 
(another) French LF approach 5560 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5560 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5560 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5560 
Limpschtick 5560 
Symmetry 5560 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5559 
Room correction 5559 
It migh be more complicated. 5559 
Bass EQ ? 5559 
Agree and not. 5559 
Two "diseases" 5559 
Parametric filters 5559 
Ceiling arrays 5559 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5559 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5559 
The Middle of the Room. 5559 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5559 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5559 
Stop! 5559 
Appendectomy 5559 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5558 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5558 
No Isolation 5558 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5555 
Potential contenders? 5554 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5554 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5554 
Those Crazy Canucks 5550 
Mo' Better Bass 5544 
Bird in the Hand? 5544 
A wet listening spot? 5537 
Storm 5534 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5534 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5520 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5490 
Polar Opposite ULF 5489 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5477 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5475 
Differently but the same. 5474 
PVC 5473 
The sail test try. 5473 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5473 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5473 
Trial 5472 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5472 
Some explanations 5472 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5471 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5470 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5469 
Acrylate 5468 
Magic blanket 5468 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5467 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5467 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5467 
I have a few options. 5467 
Foam color 5467 
Strange things with upperbass 5467 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5466 
Teatro reform. . . 5466 
The foaming room dilemma. 5465 
Melamine Foam 5465 
Foaming up the cat house 5465 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5465 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5465 
Acoustic revisions… 5464 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5461 
Surprises so far in the new room 5460 
The upperbass in the new room. 5460 
Slight change of hart. 5459 
Camco supply of Boston 5457 
Room acoustics 5457 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5416 
I need to kill dust first. 5416 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5414 
To feed the leeches? 5414 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5413 
Yh 5413 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5413 
DPOLs? 5413 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5413 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5410 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5410 
A HalfPipe solution? 5410 
I absolutely love it. 5410 
Piper work 5409 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5409 
Absorption 5409 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5408 
Cats life ? 5408 
Call me Pussy. 5408 
More about traps 5408 
Acoustic impedance? 5408 
You maybe right 5408 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5408 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5407 
Heavy Curtain 5407 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5406 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5406 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5406 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5403 
Fix speaker move chair? 5402 
Back and forth ceremony 5402 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5401 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5400 
Glass windows 5399 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5398 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5397 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5395 
How to use basement jacks? 5395 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5395 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5395 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5394 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5394 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5393 
Sore eyes... 5392 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5392 
The harvesting week! 5390 
I need an inspiration… 5389 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5388 
Like this? 5388 
Dramatically randomize MF 5388 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5387 
The room eats dynamic 5387 
Diffusers 5387 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5386 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5371 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5370 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5370 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5370 
About Width-Importance balance. 5368 
Letting the music scale up 5367 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5367 
To finish my house décor… 5363 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5362 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5361 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5361 
Calling the gods of music 5361 
Absolutely 5361 
Phase manipulation 5361 
No relation. 5361 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5361 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5361 
Dynamical mismatch 5360 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5360 
Stradiwinerius? 5357 
Dealing with the glass. 5356 
Boston 5356 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5356 
Added mass 5356 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5356 
It is about moderation…. 5356 
To hell with the wine... 5356 
Also for other surafaces 5355 
LEAD 5355 
LEAD & GLASS 5355 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5355 
Read carefully 5355 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5355 
Crooks and morons 5355 
Magiscopios 5354 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5334 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5334 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5333 
The LP setup in the new home. 5282 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5277 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5277 
Pianochord will do! 5277 
Spanyi heaven 5277 
I see no conflict at all. 5277 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5277 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5277 
A year after closing 5269 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5269 
Traveling antimatter 5262 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5256 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5255 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5229 
Cast Iron fireplace 5228 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5228 
The hardcore way 5228 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5192 
This is How It's Done 5191 
Listening room during summer. 5179 
What about those... 5178 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5178 
Reducing A/C Noise 5178 
HVAC the Cat 5178 
Big Ass fan 5177 
Variac dimmers 5177 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5177 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5177 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5109 
Some winter observations. 5000 
That Asian man…. 4969 
The Franz Schubert morning 4943 
Spring.... 4892 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4842 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4813 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4813 
Just good photography? 4813 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4813 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4813 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4812 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4812 
Sports car 4812 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4812 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4812 
Train Positioning 4812 
Kind of what I want 4812 
The lap listening… 4812 
Family Room 4812 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4809 
A super audio room. 4805 
Time Warp! 4805 
A piano in a listening room 4784 
Pianissimo 4784 
The plan in blue. 4784 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4784 
My doubts 4784 
It is exactly what I worry. 4783 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4783 
Musicians at home 4783 
Piano Measurements 4782 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4777 
The next step. 4763 
Midbass horns missing?? 4762 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4752 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4752 
Baby Grand 4751 
Wood floor 4751 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4751 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4751 
Amy’s baby. 4749 
Improvement 4749 
Agree with Scott 4749 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4737 
Integrated casters 4737 
Very nice, thanks. 4737 
Customization 4737 
Sliders 4737 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4730 
Congratulations 4730 
Holes in the floor... 4730 
Tubes and kids 4730 
Sweet spot enlargement 4730 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4728 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4727 
Wood Floors and Water 4727 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4722 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4721 
WAF is for Losers 4721 
WAF: it depends. 4721 
Integration 4720 
Here and there. 4720 
Life after WWIII 4720 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4720 
Cables management. 4718 
Featurizing 4718 
Kids and tubes cont. 4715 
Kid magnet 4715 
Kids and audio 4714 
Radars 4714 
Wow, what the days! 4710 
The comming weekend 4706 
It all was worth it! 4703 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4698 
Here is how it is look. 4698 
Resolving the carpet issue 4698 
Bonfire 4698 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4698 
Proof of concept? 4698 
Geometry 4698 
A view from listening position. 4698 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4698 
Some feedback 4698 
Evening 4698 
I wonder why. 4697 
Rugs and things 4697 
In defense… 4697 
I can’t get it. 4694 
Haze. 4693 
Front wall 4693 
It is very possible. 4693 
It is nice to be back. 4690 
My comfy corner. 4687 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4327 
WMD in house. 4149 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4052 
The third listening spot. 4031 
For sure a very different experience. 3993 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 3988 
It's Jfretch's system. 3988 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 3987 
Domestic games 3941 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3802 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3802 
Dynamic screening 3802 
Actually this is very good idea! 3802 
Volcanic fabric 3802 
I should have done this. 3800 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3796 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3765 
No worries 3765 
Awesome memories 3765 
Optimization of space 3765 
Child-ish considerations 3762 
Finding peace.... 3756 
"Fencing"? 3755 
I need to build something custom 3755 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3755 
Stressed Skin 3755 
NYC elevators 3755 
Kids toys and quantities. 3755 
Everything is completely reversible 3754 
Racks and things 3754 
Now it looks even more promising! 3754 
Quantity of rods 3754 
Avoiding diagonals 3752 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3751 
That's not fair! 3751 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3751 
Discrimination? 3746 
Vertical configuration 3739 
Impresive ! 3668 
Did you read the site? 3668 
Contact 3668 
Company's name is Rixrax 3668 
Stand 3667 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3623 
End of life headphone system 3623 
Something like this? 3623 
The "Second Living Room" 3623 
Mixing urban & suburban 3623 
Late night listening 3623 
Moving life... 3621 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3621 
A true listening room. 3597 
It started… 3582 
Levels of Interest 3582 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3582 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3582 
I can't not to post it.... 3582 
Do not leave him unattended. 3582 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3582 
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