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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5774 
The first take on the new room. 5768 
New Room, a first shot. 5767 
Wonderful 5767 
Adopted 5766 
The first relaxed night with the room 5764 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5763 
The listening room is ready. 5762 
New Room, a First Shot 5760 
Continue to work with the room 5760 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5760 
Room 5759 
I think it will take another month. 5759 
The Buttressing 5759 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5758 
The new place and the new noises. 5758 
Big listening room 5757 
Screw the "big" rooms 5757 
Big listening rooms 5757 
First reflection points 5756 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5756 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5753 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5752 
Squeezing the floor 5752 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5752 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5752 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5751 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5751 
The new room, the very first listening. 5751 
The 14.5 foot. 5750 
Again… 5749 
Romy's new Playground 5749 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5749 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5749 
For the uninitiated ... 5748 
NH guy 5748 
Room 5748 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5747 
The first base is done 5747 
Reentry time alignment. 5746 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5745 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5745 
Mid bass horn. 5745 
Guess is only a guess… 5745 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5745 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5744 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5744 
Diffusors 5744 
Diffuse injection 5744 
Let analyse why it so 5744 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5744 
Wheel and Deal 5744 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5744 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5744 
I Must Be Missing Something 5744 
I put sliders under my speakers 5743 
ROOM 5742 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5742 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5742 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5742 
No concerns 5742 
Speakers and room 5742 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5741 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5741 
Diaphram 5741 
Phram 5741 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5741 
Perfect piston 5741 
Decorater 5740 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5740 
New morning 5739 
The first take on the room with RTA 5738 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5738 
Axiomatic 5738 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5737 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5737 
The size of the bass. 5737 
Bass Factory 5737 
Crude Level, or something more? 5737 
I will play with it this week…. 5737 
Rent-A 5737 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5737 
Corner horns 5737 
Cheating from below 5737 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5737 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5736 
A possibly overly simplified view 5736 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5736 
Iceberg 5736 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5736 
Why not horn 5736 
A correction…. 5736 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5736 
They are just not related things at all. 5736 
Fertin 5734 
Low resonance is good... 5734 
Et tu, Brute? 5733 
The Room response at LF 5732 
Life On The Ground Floor 5732 
Bass arrays 5732 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5732 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5732 
The super sucks. 5732 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5732 
You may also try 5731 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5731 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5731 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5731 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5731 
60 Hz Resonance 5731 
No notching… so far. 5731 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5730 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5730 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5730 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5730 
Power to the People 5730 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5730 
Aura 5730 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5730 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5730 
All class D is the same 5730 
Interpreting the LF results. 5729 
The Halibut 5729 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5729 
The Big Picture 5729 
Power & ULF channels 5729 
The big picture indeed. 5729 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5729 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5729 
The Power and the Glory 5728 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5728 
I guess I did not get this memo 5728 
French LF drivers 5728 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5728 
(another) French LF approach 5727 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5727 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5727 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5727 
Limpschtick 5727 
Symmetry 5727 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5726 
Room correction 5726 
It migh be more complicated. 5726 
Bass EQ ? 5726 
Agree and not. 5726 
Two "diseases" 5726 
Parametric filters 5726 
Ceiling arrays 5726 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5726 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5726 
The Middle of the Room. 5726 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5726 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5726 
Stop! 5726 
Appendectomy 5726 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5725 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5725 
No Isolation 5725 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5722 
Potential contenders? 5721 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5721 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5721 
Those Crazy Canucks 5717 
Mo' Better Bass 5711 
Bird in the Hand? 5711 
A wet listening spot? 5704 
Storm 5701 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5701 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5687 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5657 
Polar Opposite ULF 5656 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5644 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5642 
Differently but the same. 5641 
PVC 5640 
The sail test try. 5640 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5640 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5640 
Trial 5639 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5639 
Some explanations 5639 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5638 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5637 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5636 
Acrylate 5635 
Magic blanket 5635 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5634 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5634 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5634 
I have a few options. 5634 
Foam color 5634 
Strange things with upperbass 5634 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5633 
Teatro reform. . . 5633 
The foaming room dilemma. 5632 
Melamine Foam 5632 
Foaming up the cat house 5632 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5632 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5632 
Acoustic revisions… 5631 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5628 
Surprises so far in the new room 5627 
The upperbass in the new room. 5627 
Slight change of hart. 5626 
Camco supply of Boston 5624 
Room acoustics 5624 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5583 
I need to kill dust first. 5583 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5581 
To feed the leeches? 5581 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5580 
Yh 5580 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5580 
DPOLs? 5580 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5580 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5577 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5577 
A HalfPipe solution? 5577 
I absolutely love it. 5577 
Piper work 5576 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5576 
Absorption 5576 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5575 
Cats life ? 5575 
Call me Pussy. 5575 
More about traps 5575 
Acoustic impedance? 5575 
You maybe right 5575 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5575 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5574 
Heavy Curtain 5574 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5573 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5573 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5573 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5570 
Fix speaker move chair? 5569 
Back and forth ceremony 5569 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5568 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5567 
Glass windows 5566 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5565 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5564 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5562 
How to use basement jacks? 5562 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5562 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5562 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5561 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5561 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5560 
Sore eyes... 5559 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5559 
The harvesting week! 5557 
I need an inspiration… 5556 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5555 
Like this? 5555 
Dramatically randomize MF 5555 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5554 
The room eats dynamic 5554 
Diffusers 5554 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5553 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5538 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5537 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5537 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5537 
About Width-Importance balance. 5535 
Letting the music scale up 5534 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5534 
To finish my house décor… 5530 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5529 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5528 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5528 
Calling the gods of music 5528 
Absolutely 5528 
Phase manipulation 5528 
No relation. 5528 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5528 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5528 
Dynamical mismatch 5527 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5527 
Stradiwinerius? 5524 
Dealing with the glass. 5523 
Boston 5523 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5523 
Added mass 5523 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5523 
It is about moderation…. 5523 
To hell with the wine... 5523 
Also for other surafaces 5522 
LEAD 5522 
LEAD & GLASS 5522 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5522 
Read carefully 5522 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5522 
Crooks and morons 5522 
Magiscopios 5521 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5501 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5501 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5500 
The LP setup in the new home. 5449 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5444 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5444 
Pianochord will do! 5444 
Spanyi heaven 5444 
I see no conflict at all. 5444 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5444 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5444 
A year after closing 5436 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5436 
Traveling antimatter 5429 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5423 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5422 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5396 
Cast Iron fireplace 5395 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5395 
The hardcore way 5395 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5359 
This is How It's Done 5358 
Listening room during summer. 5346 
What about those... 5345 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5345 
Reducing A/C Noise 5345 
HVAC the Cat 5345 
Big Ass fan 5344 
Variac dimmers 5344 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5344 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5344 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5276 
Some winter observations. 5167 
That Asian man…. 5136 
The Franz Schubert morning 5110 
Spring.... 5059 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5009 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4980 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4980 
Just good photography? 4980 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4980 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4980 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4979 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4979 
Sports car 4979 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4979 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4979 
Train Positioning 4979 
Kind of what I want 4979 
The lap listening… 4979 
Family Room 4979 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4976 
A super audio room. 4972 
Time Warp! 4972 
A piano in a listening room 4951 
Pianissimo 4951 
The plan in blue. 4951 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4951 
My doubts 4951 
It is exactly what I worry. 4950 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4950 
Musicians at home 4950 
Piano Measurements 4949 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4944 
The next step. 4930 
Midbass horns missing?? 4929 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4919 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4919 
Baby Grand 4918 
Wood floor 4918 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4918 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4918 
Amy’s baby. 4916 
Improvement 4916 
Agree with Scott 4916 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4904 
Integrated casters 4904 
Very nice, thanks. 4904 
Customization 4904 
Sliders 4904 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4897 
Congratulations 4897 
Holes in the floor... 4897 
Tubes and kids 4897 
Sweet spot enlargement 4897 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4895 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4894 
Wood Floors and Water 4894 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4889 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4888 
WAF is for Losers 4888 
WAF: it depends. 4888 
Integration 4887 
Here and there. 4887 
Life after WWIII 4887 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4887 
Cables management. 4885 
Featurizing 4885 
Kids and tubes cont. 4882 
Kid magnet 4882 
Kids and audio 4881 
Radars 4881 
Wow, what the days! 4877 
The comming weekend 4873 
It all was worth it! 4870 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4865 
Here is how it is look. 4865 
Resolving the carpet issue 4865 
Bonfire 4865 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4865 
Proof of concept? 4865 
Geometry 4865 
A view from listening position. 4865 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4865 
Some feedback 4865 
Evening 4865 
I wonder why. 4864 
Rugs and things 4864 
In defense… 4864 
I can’t get it. 4861 
Haze. 4860 
Front wall 4860 
It is very possible. 4860 
It is nice to be back. 4857 
My comfy corner. 4854 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4494 
WMD in house. 4316 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4219 
The third listening spot. 4198 
For sure a very different experience. 4160 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4155 
It's Jfretch's system. 4155 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4154 
Domestic games 4108 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3969 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3969 
Dynamic screening 3969 
Actually this is very good idea! 3969 
Volcanic fabric 3969 
I should have done this. 3967 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3963 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3932 
No worries 3932 
Awesome memories 3932 
Optimization of space 3932 
Child-ish considerations 3929 
Finding peace.... 3923 
"Fencing"? 3922 
I need to build something custom 3922 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3922 
Stressed Skin 3922 
NYC elevators 3922 
Kids toys and quantities. 3922 
Everything is completely reversible 3921 
Racks and things 3921 
Now it looks even more promising! 3921 
Quantity of rods 3921 
Avoiding diagonals 3919 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3918 
That's not fair! 3918 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3918 
Discrimination? 3913 
Vertical configuration 3906 
Impresive ! 3835 
Did you read the site? 3835 
Contact 3835 
Company's name is Rixrax 3835 
Stand 3834 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3790 
End of life headphone system 3790 
Something like this? 3790 
The "Second Living Room" 3790 
Mixing urban & suburban 3790 
Late night listening 3790 
Moving life... 3788 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3788 
A true listening room. 3764 
It started… 3749 
Levels of Interest 3749 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3749 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3749 
I can't not to post it.... 3749 
Do not leave him unattended. 3749 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3749 
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