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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5606 
The first take on the new room. 5600 
New Room, a first shot. 5599 
Wonderful 5599 
Adopted 5598 
The first relaxed night with the room 5596 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5595 
The listening room is ready. 5594 
New Room, a First Shot 5592 
Continue to work with the room 5592 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5592 
Room 5591 
I think it will take another month. 5591 
The Buttressing 5591 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5590 
The new place and the new noises. 5590 
Big listening room 5589 
Screw the "big" rooms 5589 
Big listening rooms 5589 
First reflection points 5588 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5588 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5585 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5584 
Squeezing the floor 5584 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5584 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5584 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5583 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5583 
The new room, the very first listening. 5583 
The 14.5 foot. 5582 
Again… 5581 
Romy's new Playground 5581 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5581 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5581 
For the uninitiated ... 5580 
NH guy 5580 
Room 5580 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5579 
The first base is done 5579 
Reentry time alignment. 5578 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5577 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5577 
Mid bass horn. 5577 
Guess is only a guess… 5577 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5577 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5576 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5576 
Diffusors 5576 
Diffuse injection 5576 
Let analyse why it so 5576 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5576 
Wheel and Deal 5576 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5576 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5576 
I Must Be Missing Something 5576 
I put sliders under my speakers 5575 
ROOM 5574 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5574 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5574 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5574 
No concerns 5574 
Speakers and room 5574 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5573 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5573 
Diaphram 5573 
Phram 5573 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5573 
Perfect piston 5573 
Decorater 5572 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5572 
New morning 5571 
The first take on the room with RTA 5570 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5570 
Axiomatic 5570 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5569 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5569 
The size of the bass. 5569 
Bass Factory 5569 
Crude Level, or something more? 5569 
I will play with it this week…. 5569 
Rent-A 5569 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5569 
Corner horns 5569 
Cheating from below 5569 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5569 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5568 
A possibly overly simplified view 5568 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5568 
Iceberg 5568 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5568 
Why not horn 5568 
A correction…. 5568 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5568 
They are just not related things at all. 5568 
Fertin 5566 
Low resonance is good... 5566 
Et tu, Brute? 5565 
The Room response at LF 5564 
Life On The Ground Floor 5564 
Bass arrays 5564 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5564 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5564 
The super sucks. 5564 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5564 
You may also try 5563 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5563 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5563 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5563 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5563 
60 Hz Resonance 5563 
No notching… so far. 5563 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5562 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5562 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5562 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5562 
Power to the People 5562 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5562 
Aura 5562 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5562 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5562 
All class D is the same 5562 
Interpreting the LF results. 5561 
The Halibut 5561 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5561 
The Big Picture 5561 
Power & ULF channels 5561 
The big picture indeed. 5561 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5561 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5561 
The Power and the Glory 5560 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5560 
I guess I did not get this memo 5560 
French LF drivers 5560 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5560 
(another) French LF approach 5559 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5559 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5559 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5559 
Limpschtick 5559 
Symmetry 5559 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5558 
Room correction 5558 
It migh be more complicated. 5558 
Bass EQ ? 5558 
Agree and not. 5558 
Two "diseases" 5558 
Parametric filters 5558 
Ceiling arrays 5558 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5558 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5558 
The Middle of the Room. 5558 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5558 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5558 
Stop! 5558 
Appendectomy 5558 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5557 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5557 
No Isolation 5557 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5554 
Potential contenders? 5553 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5553 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5553 
Those Crazy Canucks 5549 
Mo' Better Bass 5543 
Bird in the Hand? 5543 
A wet listening spot? 5536 
Storm 5533 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5533 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5519 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5489 
Polar Opposite ULF 5488 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5476 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5474 
Differently but the same. 5473 
PVC 5472 
The sail test try. 5472 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5472 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5472 
Trial 5471 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5471 
Some explanations 5471 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5470 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5469 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5468 
Acrylate 5467 
Magic blanket 5467 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5466 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5466 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5466 
I have a few options. 5466 
Foam color 5466 
Strange things with upperbass 5466 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5465 
Teatro reform. . . 5465 
The foaming room dilemma. 5464 
Melamine Foam 5464 
Foaming up the cat house 5464 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5464 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5464 
Acoustic revisions… 5463 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5460 
Surprises so far in the new room 5459 
The upperbass in the new room. 5459 
Slight change of hart. 5458 
Camco supply of Boston 5456 
Room acoustics 5456 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5415 
I need to kill dust first. 5415 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5413 
To feed the leeches? 5413 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5412 
Yh 5412 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5412 
DPOLs? 5412 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5412 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5409 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5409 
A HalfPipe solution? 5409 
I absolutely love it. 5409 
Piper work 5408 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5408 
Absorption 5408 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5407 
Cats life ? 5407 
Call me Pussy. 5407 
More about traps 5407 
Acoustic impedance? 5407 
You maybe right 5407 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5407 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5406 
Heavy Curtain 5406 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5405 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5405 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5405 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5402 
Fix speaker move chair? 5401 
Back and forth ceremony 5401 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5400 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5399 
Glass windows 5398 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5397 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5396 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5394 
How to use basement jacks? 5394 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5394 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5394 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5393 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5393 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5392 
Sore eyes... 5391 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5391 
The harvesting week! 5389 
I need an inspiration… 5388 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5387 
Like this? 5387 
Dramatically randomize MF 5387 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5386 
The room eats dynamic 5386 
Diffusers 5386 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5385 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5370 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5369 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5369 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5369 
About Width-Importance balance. 5367 
Letting the music scale up 5366 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5366 
To finish my house décor… 5362 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5361 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5360 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5360 
Calling the gods of music 5360 
Absolutely 5360 
Phase manipulation 5360 
No relation. 5360 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5360 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5360 
Dynamical mismatch 5359 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5359 
Stradiwinerius? 5356 
Dealing with the glass. 5355 
Boston 5355 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5355 
Added mass 5355 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5355 
It is about moderation…. 5355 
To hell with the wine... 5355 
Also for other surafaces 5354 
LEAD 5354 
LEAD & GLASS 5354 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5354 
Read carefully 5354 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5354 
Crooks and morons 5354 
Magiscopios 5353 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5333 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5333 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5332 
The LP setup in the new home. 5281 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5276 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5276 
Pianochord will do! 5276 
Spanyi heaven 5276 
I see no conflict at all. 5276 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5276 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5276 
A year after closing 5268 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5268 
Traveling antimatter 5261 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5255 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5254 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5228 
Cast Iron fireplace 5227 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5227 
The hardcore way 5227 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5191 
This is How It's Done 5190 
Listening room during summer. 5178 
What about those... 5177 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5177 
Reducing A/C Noise 5177 
HVAC the Cat 5177 
Big Ass fan 5176 
Variac dimmers 5176 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5176 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5176 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5108 
Some winter observations. 4999 
That Asian man…. 4968 
The Franz Schubert morning 4942 
Spring.... 4891 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4841 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4812 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4812 
Just good photography? 4812 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4812 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4812 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4811 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4811 
Sports car 4811 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4811 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4811 
Train Positioning 4811 
Kind of what I want 4811 
The lap listening… 4811 
Family Room 4811 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4808 
A super audio room. 4804 
Time Warp! 4804 
A piano in a listening room 4783 
Pianissimo 4783 
The plan in blue. 4783 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4783 
My doubts 4783 
It is exactly what I worry. 4782 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4782 
Musicians at home 4782 
Piano Measurements 4781 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4776 
The next step. 4762 
Midbass horns missing?? 4761 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4751 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4751 
Baby Grand 4750 
Wood floor 4750 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4750 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4750 
Amy’s baby. 4748 
Improvement 4748 
Agree with Scott 4748 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4736 
Integrated casters 4736 
Very nice, thanks. 4736 
Customization 4736 
Sliders 4736 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4729 
Congratulations 4729 
Holes in the floor... 4729 
Tubes and kids 4729 
Sweet spot enlargement 4729 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4727 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4726 
Wood Floors and Water 4726 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4721 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4720 
WAF is for Losers 4720 
WAF: it depends. 4720 
Integration 4719 
Here and there. 4719 
Life after WWIII 4719 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4719 
Cables management. 4717 
Featurizing 4717 
Kids and tubes cont. 4714 
Kid magnet 4714 
Kids and audio 4713 
Radars 4713 
Wow, what the days! 4709 
The comming weekend 4705 
It all was worth it! 4702 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4697 
Here is how it is look. 4697 
Resolving the carpet issue 4697 
Bonfire 4697 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4697 
Proof of concept? 4697 
Geometry 4697 
A view from listening position. 4697 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4697 
Some feedback 4697 
Evening 4697 
I wonder why. 4696 
Rugs and things 4696 
In defense… 4696 
I can’t get it. 4693 
Haze. 4692 
Front wall 4692 
It is very possible. 4692 
It is nice to be back. 4689 
My comfy corner. 4686 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4326 
WMD in house. 4148 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4051 
The third listening spot. 4030 
For sure a very different experience. 3992 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 3987 
It's Jfretch's system. 3987 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 3986 
Domestic games 3940 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3801 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3801 
Dynamic screening 3801 
Actually this is very good idea! 3801 
Volcanic fabric 3801 
I should have done this. 3799 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3795 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3764 
No worries 3764 
Awesome memories 3764 
Optimization of space 3764 
Child-ish considerations 3761 
Finding peace.... 3755 
"Fencing"? 3754 
I need to build something custom 3754 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3754 
Stressed Skin 3754 
NYC elevators 3754 
Kids toys and quantities. 3754 
Everything is completely reversible 3753 
Racks and things 3753 
Now it looks even more promising! 3753 
Quantity of rods 3753 
Avoiding diagonals 3751 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3750 
That's not fair! 3750 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3750 
Discrimination? 3745 
Vertical configuration 3738 
Impresive ! 3667 
Did you read the site? 3667 
Contact 3667 
Company's name is Rixrax 3667 
Stand 3666 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3622 
End of life headphone system 3622 
Something like this? 3622 
The "Second Living Room" 3622 
Mixing urban & suburban 3622 
Late night listening 3622 
Moving life... 3620 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3620 
A true listening room. 3596 
It started… 3581 
Levels of Interest 3581 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3581 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3581 
I can't not to post it.... 3581 
Do not leave him unattended. 3581 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3581 
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