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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5829 
The first take on the new room. 5823 
New Room, a first shot. 5822 
Wonderful 5822 
Adopted 5821 
The first relaxed night with the room 5819 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5818 
The listening room is ready. 5817 
New Room, a First Shot 5815 
Continue to work with the room 5815 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5815 
Room 5814 
I think it will take another month. 5814 
The Buttressing 5814 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5813 
The new place and the new noises. 5813 
Big listening room 5812 
Screw the "big" rooms 5812 
Big listening rooms 5812 
First reflection points 5811 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5811 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5808 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5807 
Squeezing the floor 5807 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5807 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5807 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5806 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5806 
The new room, the very first listening. 5806 
The 14.5 foot. 5805 
Again… 5804 
Romy's new Playground 5804 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5804 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5804 
For the uninitiated ... 5803 
NH guy 5803 
Room 5803 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5802 
The first base is done 5802 
Reentry time alignment. 5801 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5800 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5800 
Mid bass horn. 5800 
Guess is only a guess… 5800 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5800 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5799 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5799 
Diffusors 5799 
Diffuse injection 5799 
Let analyse why it so 5799 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5799 
Wheel and Deal 5799 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5799 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5799 
I Must Be Missing Something 5799 
I put sliders under my speakers 5798 
ROOM 5797 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5797 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5797 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5797 
No concerns 5797 
Speakers and room 5797 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5796 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5796 
Diaphram 5796 
Phram 5796 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5796 
Perfect piston 5796 
Decorater 5795 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5795 
New morning 5794 
The first take on the room with RTA 5793 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5793 
Axiomatic 5793 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5792 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5792 
The size of the bass. 5792 
Bass Factory 5792 
Crude Level, or something more? 5792 
I will play with it this week…. 5792 
Rent-A 5792 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5792 
Corner horns 5792 
Cheating from below 5792 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5792 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5791 
A possibly overly simplified view 5791 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5791 
Iceberg 5791 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5791 
Why not horn 5791 
A correction…. 5791 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5791 
They are just not related things at all. 5791 
Fertin 5789 
Low resonance is good... 5789 
Et tu, Brute? 5788 
The Room response at LF 5787 
Life On The Ground Floor 5787 
Bass arrays 5787 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5787 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5787 
The super sucks. 5787 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5787 
You may also try 5786 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5786 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5786 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5786 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5786 
60 Hz Resonance 5786 
No notching… so far. 5786 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5785 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5785 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5785 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5785 
Power to the People 5785 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5785 
Aura 5785 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5785 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5785 
All class D is the same 5785 
Interpreting the LF results. 5784 
The Halibut 5784 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5784 
The Big Picture 5784 
Power & ULF channels 5784 
The big picture indeed. 5784 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5784 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5784 
The Power and the Glory 5783 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5783 
I guess I did not get this memo 5783 
French LF drivers 5783 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5783 
(another) French LF approach 5782 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5782 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5782 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5782 
Limpschtick 5782 
Symmetry 5782 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5781 
Room correction 5781 
It migh be more complicated. 5781 
Bass EQ ? 5781 
Agree and not. 5781 
Two "diseases" 5781 
Parametric filters 5781 
Ceiling arrays 5781 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5781 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5781 
The Middle of the Room. 5781 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5781 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5781 
Stop! 5781 
Appendectomy 5781 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5780 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5780 
No Isolation 5780 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5777 
Potential contenders? 5776 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5776 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5776 
Those Crazy Canucks 5772 
Mo' Better Bass 5766 
Bird in the Hand? 5766 
A wet listening spot? 5759 
Storm 5756 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5756 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5742 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5712 
Polar Opposite ULF 5711 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5699 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5697 
Differently but the same. 5696 
PVC 5695 
The sail test try. 5695 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5695 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5695 
Trial 5694 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5694 
Some explanations 5694 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5693 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5692 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5691 
Acrylate 5690 
Magic blanket 5690 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5689 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5689 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5689 
I have a few options. 5689 
Foam color 5689 
Strange things with upperbass 5689 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5688 
Teatro reform. . . 5688 
The foaming room dilemma. 5687 
Melamine Foam 5687 
Foaming up the cat house 5687 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5687 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5687 
Acoustic revisions… 5686 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5683 
Surprises so far in the new room 5682 
The upperbass in the new room. 5682 
Slight change of hart. 5681 
Camco supply of Boston 5679 
Room acoustics 5679 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5638 
I need to kill dust first. 5638 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5636 
To feed the leeches? 5636 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5635 
Yh 5635 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5635 
DPOLs? 5635 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5635 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5632 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5632 
A HalfPipe solution? 5632 
I absolutely love it. 5632 
Piper work 5631 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5631 
Absorption 5631 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5630 
Cats life ? 5630 
Call me Pussy. 5630 
More about traps 5630 
Acoustic impedance? 5630 
You maybe right 5630 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5630 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5629 
Heavy Curtain 5629 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5628 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5628 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5628 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5625 
Fix speaker move chair? 5624 
Back and forth ceremony 5624 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5623 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5622 
Glass windows 5621 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5620 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5619 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5617 
How to use basement jacks? 5617 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5617 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5617 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5616 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5616 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5615 
Sore eyes... 5614 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5614 
The harvesting week! 5612 
I need an inspiration… 5611 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5610 
Like this? 5610 
Dramatically randomize MF 5610 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5609 
The room eats dynamic 5609 
Diffusers 5609 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5608 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5593 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5592 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5592 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5592 
About Width-Importance balance. 5590 
Letting the music scale up 5589 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5589 
To finish my house décor… 5585 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5584 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5583 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5583 
Calling the gods of music 5583 
Absolutely 5583 
Phase manipulation 5583 
No relation. 5583 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5583 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5583 
Dynamical mismatch 5582 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5582 
Stradiwinerius? 5579 
Dealing with the glass. 5578 
Boston 5578 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5578 
Added mass 5578 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5578 
It is about moderation…. 5578 
To hell with the wine... 5578 
Also for other surafaces 5577 
LEAD 5577 
LEAD & GLASS 5577 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5577 
Read carefully 5577 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5577 
Crooks and morons 5577 
Magiscopios 5576 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5556 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5556 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5555 
The LP setup in the new home. 5504 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5499 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5499 
Pianochord will do! 5499 
Spanyi heaven 5499 
I see no conflict at all. 5499 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5499 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5499 
A year after closing 5491 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5491 
Traveling antimatter 5484 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5478 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5477 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5451 
Cast Iron fireplace 5450 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5450 
The hardcore way 5450 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5414 
This is How It's Done 5413 
Listening room during summer. 5401 
What about those... 5400 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5400 
Reducing A/C Noise 5400 
HVAC the Cat 5400 
Big Ass fan 5399 
Variac dimmers 5399 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5399 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5399 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5331 
Some winter observations. 5222 
That Asian man…. 5191 
The Franz Schubert morning 5165 
Spring.... 5114 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5064 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5035 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5035 
Just good photography? 5035 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5035 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5035 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5034 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5034 
Sports car 5034 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5034 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5034 
Train Positioning 5034 
Kind of what I want 5034 
The lap listening… 5034 
Family Room 5034 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5031 
A super audio room. 5027 
Time Warp! 5027 
A piano in a listening room 5006 
Pianissimo 5006 
The plan in blue. 5006 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5006 
My doubts 5006 
It is exactly what I worry. 5005 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5005 
Musicians at home 5005 
Piano Measurements 5004 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4999 
The next step. 4985 
Midbass horns missing?? 4984 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4974 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4974 
Baby Grand 4973 
Wood floor 4973 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4973 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4973 
Amy’s baby. 4971 
Improvement 4971 
Agree with Scott 4971 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4959 
Integrated casters 4959 
Very nice, thanks. 4959 
Customization 4959 
Sliders 4959 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4952 
Congratulations 4952 
Holes in the floor... 4952 
Tubes and kids 4952 
Sweet spot enlargement 4952 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4950 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4949 
Wood Floors and Water 4949 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4944 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4943 
WAF is for Losers 4943 
WAF: it depends. 4943 
Integration 4942 
Here and there. 4942 
Life after WWIII 4942 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4942 
Cables management. 4940 
Featurizing 4940 
Kids and tubes cont. 4937 
Kid magnet 4937 
Kids and audio 4936 
Radars 4936 
Wow, what the days! 4932 
The comming weekend 4928 
It all was worth it! 4925 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4920 
Here is how it is look. 4920 
Resolving the carpet issue 4920 
Bonfire 4920 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4920 
Proof of concept? 4920 
Geometry 4920 
A view from listening position. 4920 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4920 
Some feedback 4920 
Evening 4920 
I wonder why. 4919 
Rugs and things 4919 
In defense… 4919 
I can’t get it. 4916 
Haze. 4915 
Front wall 4915 
It is very possible. 4915 
It is nice to be back. 4912 
My comfy corner. 4909 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4549 
WMD in house. 4371 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4274 
The third listening spot. 4253 
For sure a very different experience. 4215 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4210 
It's Jfretch's system. 4210 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4209 
Domestic games 4163 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4024 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4024 
Dynamic screening 4024 
Actually this is very good idea! 4024 
Volcanic fabric 4024 
I should have done this. 4022 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4018 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3987 
No worries 3987 
Awesome memories 3987 
Optimization of space 3987 
Child-ish considerations 3984 
Finding peace.... 3978 
"Fencing"? 3977 
I need to build something custom 3977 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3977 
Stressed Skin 3977 
NYC elevators 3977 
Kids toys and quantities. 3977 
Everything is completely reversible 3976 
Racks and things 3976 
Now it looks even more promising! 3976 
Quantity of rods 3976 
Avoiding diagonals 3974 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3973 
That's not fair! 3973 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3973 
Discrimination? 3968 
Vertical configuration 3961 
Impresive ! 3890 
Did you read the site? 3890 
Contact 3890 
Company's name is Rixrax 3890 
Stand 3889 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3845 
End of life headphone system 3845 
Something like this? 3845 
The "Second Living Room" 3845 
Mixing urban & suburban 3845 
Late night listening 3845 
Moving life... 3843 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3843 
A true listening room. 3819 
It started… 3804 
Levels of Interest 3804 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3804 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3804 
I can't not to post it.... 3804 
Do not leave him unattended. 3804 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3804 
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