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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5191 
The first take on the new room. 5185 
New Room, a first shot. 5184 
Wonderful 5184 
Adopted 5183 
The first relaxed night with the room 5181 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5180 
The listening room is ready. 5179 
New Room, a First Shot 5177 
Continue to work with the room 5177 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5177 
Room 5176 
I think it will take another month. 5176 
The Buttressing 5176 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5175 
The new place and the new noises. 5175 
Big listening room 5174 
Screw the "big" rooms 5174 
Big listening rooms 5174 
First reflection points 5173 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5173 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5170 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5169 
Squeezing the floor 5169 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5169 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5169 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5168 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5168 
The new room, the very first listening. 5168 
The 14.5 foot. 5167 
Again… 5166 
Romy's new Playground 5166 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5166 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5166 
For the uninitiated ... 5165 
NH guy 5165 
Room 5165 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5164 
The first base is done 5164 
Reentry time alignment. 5163 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5162 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5162 
Mid bass horn. 5162 
Guess is only a guess… 5162 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5162 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5161 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5161 
Diffusors 5161 
Diffuse injection 5161 
Let analyse why it so 5161 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5161 
Wheel and Deal 5161 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5161 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5161 
I Must Be Missing Something 5161 
I put sliders under my speakers 5160 
ROOM 5159 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5159 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5159 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5159 
No concerns 5159 
Speakers and room 5159 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5158 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5158 
Diaphram 5158 
Phram 5158 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5158 
Perfect piston 5158 
Decorater 5157 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5157 
New morning 5156 
The first take on the room with RTA 5155 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5155 
Axiomatic 5155 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5154 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5154 
The size of the bass. 5154 
Bass Factory 5154 
Crude Level, or something more? 5154 
I will play with it this week…. 5154 
Rent-A 5154 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5154 
Corner horns 5154 
Cheating from below 5154 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5154 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5153 
A possibly overly simplified view 5153 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5153 
Iceberg 5153 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5153 
Why not horn 5153 
A correction…. 5153 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5153 
They are just not related things at all. 5153 
Fertin 5151 
Low resonance is good... 5151 
Et tu, Brute? 5150 
The Room response at LF 5149 
Life On The Ground Floor 5149 
Bass arrays 5149 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5149 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5149 
The super sucks. 5149 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5149 
You may also try 5148 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5148 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5148 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5148 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5148 
60 Hz Resonance 5148 
No notching… so far. 5148 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5147 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5147 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5147 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5147 
Power to the People 5147 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5147 
Aura 5147 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5147 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5147 
All class D is the same 5147 
Interpreting the LF results. 5146 
The Halibut 5146 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5146 
The Big Picture 5146 
Power & ULF channels 5146 
The big picture indeed. 5146 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5146 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5146 
The Power and the Glory 5145 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5145 
I guess I did not get this memo 5145 
French LF drivers 5145 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5145 
(another) French LF approach 5144 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5144 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5144 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5144 
Limpschtick 5144 
Symmetry 5144 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5143 
Room correction 5143 
It migh be more complicated. 5143 
Bass EQ ? 5143 
Agree and not. 5143 
Two "diseases" 5143 
Parametric filters 5143 
Ceiling arrays 5143 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5143 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5143 
The Middle of the Room. 5143 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5143 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5143 
Stop! 5143 
Appendectomy 5143 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5142 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5142 
No Isolation 5142 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5139 
Potential contenders? 5138 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5138 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5138 
Those Crazy Canucks 5134 
Mo' Better Bass 5128 
Bird in the Hand? 5128 
A wet listening spot? 5121 
Storm 5118 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5118 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5104 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5074 
Polar Opposite ULF 5073 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5061 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5059 
Differently but the same. 5058 
PVC 5057 
The sail test try. 5057 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5057 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5057 
Trial 5056 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5056 
Some explanations 5056 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5055 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5054 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5053 
Acrylate 5052 
Magic blanket 5052 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5051 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5051 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5051 
I have a few options. 5051 
Foam color 5051 
Strange things with upperbass 5051 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5050 
Teatro reform. . . 5050 
The foaming room dilemma. 5049 
Melamine Foam 5049 
Foaming up the cat house 5049 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5049 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5049 
Acoustic revisions… 5048 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5045 
Surprises so far in the new room 5044 
The upperbass in the new room. 5044 
Slight change of hart. 5043 
Camco supply of Boston 5041 
Room acoustics 5041 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5000 
I need to kill dust first. 5000 
Ahh, the echo chamber 4998 
To feed the leeches? 4998 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 4997 
Yh 4997 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 4997 
DPOLs? 4997 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 4997 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 4994 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 4994 
A HalfPipe solution? 4994 
I absolutely love it. 4994 
Piper work 4993 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 4993 
Absorption 4993 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 4992 
Cats life ? 4992 
Call me Pussy. 4992 
More about traps 4992 
Acoustic impedance? 4992 
You maybe right 4992 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 4992 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 4991 
Heavy Curtain 4991 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 4990 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 4990 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 4990 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 4987 
Fix speaker move chair? 4986 
Back and forth ceremony 4986 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 4985 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 4984 
Glass windows 4983 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 4982 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 4981 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 4979 
How to use basement jacks? 4979 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 4979 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 4979 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 4978 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 4978 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 4977 
Sore eyes... 4976 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 4976 
The harvesting week! 4974 
I need an inspiration… 4973 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 4972 
Like this? 4972 
Dramatically randomize MF 4972 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 4971 
The room eats dynamic 4971 
Diffusers 4971 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 4970 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 4955 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 4954 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 4954 
A typical midday in my new listening room 4954 
About Width-Importance balance. 4952 
Letting the music scale up 4951 
Constant-width vs. active-width 4951 
To finish my house décor… 4947 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 4946 
Phase nuances – the last liability 4945 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 4945 
Calling the gods of music 4945 
Absolutely 4945 
Phase manipulation 4945 
No relation. 4945 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 4945 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 4945 
Dynamical mismatch 4944 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 4944 
Stradiwinerius? 4941 
Dealing with the glass. 4940 
Boston 4940 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 4940 
Added mass 4940 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 4940 
It is about moderation…. 4940 
To hell with the wine... 4940 
Also for other surafaces 4939 
LEAD 4939 
LEAD & GLASS 4939 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 4939 
Read carefully 4939 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 4939 
Crooks and morons 4939 
Magiscopios 4938 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 4918 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 4918 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 4917 
The LP setup in the new home. 4866 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 4861 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 4861 
Pianochord will do! 4861 
Spanyi heaven 4861 
I see no conflict at all. 4861 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 4861 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 4861 
A year after closing 4853 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 4853 
Traveling antimatter 4846 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 4840 
The fiberglass aggravations. 4839 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 4813 
Cast Iron fireplace 4812 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 4812 
The hardcore way 4812 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 4776 
This is How It's Done 4775 
Listening room during summer. 4763 
What about those... 4762 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 4762 
Reducing A/C Noise 4762 
HVAC the Cat 4762 
Big Ass fan 4761 
Variac dimmers 4761 
Ceiling fan speed controls 4761 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 4761 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 4693 
Some winter observations. 4584 
That Asian man…. 4553 
The Franz Schubert morning 4527 
Spring.... 4476 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4426 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4397 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4397 
Just good photography? 4397 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4397 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4397 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4396 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4396 
Sports car 4396 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4396 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4396 
Train Positioning 4396 
Kind of what I want 4396 
The lap listening… 4396 
Family Room 4396 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4393 
A super audio room. 4389 
Time Warp! 4389 
A piano in a listening room 4368 
Pianissimo 4368 
The plan in blue. 4368 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4368 
My doubts 4368 
It is exactly what I worry. 4367 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4367 
Musicians at home 4367 
Piano Measurements 4366 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4361 
The next step. 4347 
Midbass horns missing?? 4346 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4336 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4336 
Baby Grand 4335 
Wood floor 4335 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4335 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4335 
Amy’s baby. 4333 
Improvement 4333 
Agree with Scott 4333 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4321 
Integrated casters 4321 
Very nice, thanks. 4321 
Customization 4321 
Sliders 4321 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4314 
Congratulations 4314 
Holes in the floor... 4314 
Tubes and kids 4314 
Sweet spot enlargement 4314 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4312 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4311 
Wood Floors and Water 4311 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4306 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4305 
WAF is for Losers 4305 
WAF: it depends. 4305 
Integration 4304 
Here and there. 4304 
Life after WWIII 4304 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4304 
Cables management. 4302 
Featurizing 4302 
Kids and tubes cont. 4299 
Kid magnet 4299 
Kids and audio 4298 
Radars 4298 
Wow, what the days! 4294 
The comming weekend 4290 
It all was worth it! 4287 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4282 
Here is how it is look. 4282 
Resolving the carpet issue 4282 
Bonfire 4282 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4282 
Proof of concept? 4282 
Geometry 4282 
A view from listening position. 4282 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4282 
Some feedback 4282 
Evening 4282 
I wonder why. 4281 
Rugs and things 4281 
In defense… 4281 
I can’t get it. 4278 
Haze. 4277 
Front wall 4277 
It is very possible. 4277 
It is nice to be back. 4274 
My comfy corner. 4271 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 3911 
WMD in house. 3733 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 3636 
The third listening spot. 3615 
For sure a very different experience. 3577 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 3572 
It's Jfretch's system. 3572 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 3571 
Domestic games 3525 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3386 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3386 
Dynamic screening 3386 
Actually this is very good idea! 3386 
Volcanic fabric 3386 
I should have done this. 3384 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3380 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3349 
No worries 3349 
Awesome memories 3349 
Optimization of space 3349 
Child-ish considerations 3346 
Finding peace.... 3340 
"Fencing"? 3339 
I need to build something custom 3339 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3339 
Stressed Skin 3339 
NYC elevators 3339 
Kids toys and quantities. 3339 
Everything is completely reversible 3338 
Racks and things 3338 
Now it looks even more promising! 3338 
Quantity of rods 3338 
Avoiding diagonals 3336 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3335 
That's not fair! 3335 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3335 
Discrimination? 3330 
Vertical configuration 3323 
Impresive ! 3252 
Did you read the site? 3252 
Contact 3252 
Company's name is Rixrax 3252 
Stand 3251 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3207 
End of life headphone system 3207 
Something like this? 3207 
The "Second Living Room" 3207 
Mixing urban & suburban 3207 
Late night listening 3207 
Moving life... 3205 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3205 
A true listening room. 3181 
It started… 3166 
Levels of Interest 3166 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3166 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3166 
I can't not to post it.... 3166 
Do not leave him unattended. 3166 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3166 
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