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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5741 
The first take on the new room. 5735 
New Room, a first shot. 5734 
Wonderful 5734 
Adopted 5733 
The first relaxed night with the room 5731 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5730 
The listening room is ready. 5729 
New Room, a First Shot 5727 
Continue to work with the room 5727 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5727 
Room 5726 
I think it will take another month. 5726 
The Buttressing 5726 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5725 
The new place and the new noises. 5725 
Big listening room 5724 
Screw the "big" rooms 5724 
Big listening rooms 5724 
First reflection points 5723 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5723 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5720 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5719 
Squeezing the floor 5719 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5719 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5719 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5718 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5718 
The new room, the very first listening. 5718 
The 14.5 foot. 5717 
Again… 5716 
Romy's new Playground 5716 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5716 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5716 
For the uninitiated ... 5715 
NH guy 5715 
Room 5715 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5714 
The first base is done 5714 
Reentry time alignment. 5713 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5712 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5712 
Mid bass horn. 5712 
Guess is only a guess… 5712 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5712 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5711 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5711 
Diffusors 5711 
Diffuse injection 5711 
Let analyse why it so 5711 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5711 
Wheel and Deal 5711 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5711 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5711 
I Must Be Missing Something 5711 
I put sliders under my speakers 5710 
ROOM 5709 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5709 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5709 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5709 
No concerns 5709 
Speakers and room 5709 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5708 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5708 
Diaphram 5708 
Phram 5708 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5708 
Perfect piston 5708 
Decorater 5707 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5707 
New morning 5706 
The first take on the room with RTA 5705 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5705 
Axiomatic 5705 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5704 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5704 
The size of the bass. 5704 
Bass Factory 5704 
Crude Level, or something more? 5704 
I will play with it this week…. 5704 
Rent-A 5704 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5704 
Corner horns 5704 
Cheating from below 5704 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5704 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5703 
A possibly overly simplified view 5703 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5703 
Iceberg 5703 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5703 
Why not horn 5703 
A correction…. 5703 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5703 
They are just not related things at all. 5703 
Fertin 5701 
Low resonance is good... 5701 
Et tu, Brute? 5700 
The Room response at LF 5699 
Life On The Ground Floor 5699 
Bass arrays 5699 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5699 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5699 
The super sucks. 5699 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5699 
You may also try 5698 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5698 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5698 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5698 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5698 
60 Hz Resonance 5698 
No notching… so far. 5698 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5697 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5697 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5697 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5697 
Power to the People 5697 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5697 
Aura 5697 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5697 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5697 
All class D is the same 5697 
Interpreting the LF results. 5696 
The Halibut 5696 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5696 
The Big Picture 5696 
Power & ULF channels 5696 
The big picture indeed. 5696 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5696 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5696 
The Power and the Glory 5695 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5695 
I guess I did not get this memo 5695 
French LF drivers 5695 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5695 
(another) French LF approach 5694 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5694 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5694 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5694 
Limpschtick 5694 
Symmetry 5694 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5693 
Room correction 5693 
It migh be more complicated. 5693 
Bass EQ ? 5693 
Agree and not. 5693 
Two "diseases" 5693 
Parametric filters 5693 
Ceiling arrays 5693 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5693 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5693 
The Middle of the Room. 5693 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5693 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5693 
Stop! 5693 
Appendectomy 5693 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5692 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5692 
No Isolation 5692 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5689 
Potential contenders? 5688 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5688 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5688 
Those Crazy Canucks 5684 
Mo' Better Bass 5678 
Bird in the Hand? 5678 
A wet listening spot? 5671 
Storm 5668 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5668 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5654 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5624 
Polar Opposite ULF 5623 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5611 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5609 
Differently but the same. 5608 
PVC 5607 
The sail test try. 5607 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5607 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5607 
Trial 5606 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5606 
Some explanations 5606 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5605 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5604 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5603 
Acrylate 5602 
Magic blanket 5602 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5601 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5601 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5601 
I have a few options. 5601 
Foam color 5601 
Strange things with upperbass 5601 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5600 
Teatro reform. . . 5600 
The foaming room dilemma. 5599 
Melamine Foam 5599 
Foaming up the cat house 5599 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5599 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5599 
Acoustic revisions… 5598 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5595 
Surprises so far in the new room 5594 
The upperbass in the new room. 5594 
Slight change of hart. 5593 
Camco supply of Boston 5591 
Room acoustics 5591 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5550 
I need to kill dust first. 5550 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5548 
To feed the leeches? 5548 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5547 
Yh 5547 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5547 
DPOLs? 5547 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5547 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5544 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5544 
A HalfPipe solution? 5544 
I absolutely love it. 5544 
Piper work 5543 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5543 
Absorption 5543 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5542 
Cats life ? 5542 
Call me Pussy. 5542 
More about traps 5542 
Acoustic impedance? 5542 
You maybe right 5542 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5542 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5541 
Heavy Curtain 5541 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5540 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5540 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5540 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5537 
Fix speaker move chair? 5536 
Back and forth ceremony 5536 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5535 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5534 
Glass windows 5533 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5532 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5531 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5529 
How to use basement jacks? 5529 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5529 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5529 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5528 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5528 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5527 
Sore eyes... 5526 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5526 
The harvesting week! 5524 
I need an inspiration… 5523 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5522 
Like this? 5522 
Dramatically randomize MF 5522 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5521 
The room eats dynamic 5521 
Diffusers 5521 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5520 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5505 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5504 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5504 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5504 
About Width-Importance balance. 5502 
Letting the music scale up 5501 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5501 
To finish my house décor… 5497 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5496 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5495 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5495 
Calling the gods of music 5495 
Absolutely 5495 
Phase manipulation 5495 
No relation. 5495 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5495 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5495 
Dynamical mismatch 5494 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5494 
Stradiwinerius? 5491 
Dealing with the glass. 5490 
Boston 5490 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5490 
Added mass 5490 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5490 
It is about moderation…. 5490 
To hell with the wine... 5490 
Also for other surafaces 5489 
LEAD 5489 
LEAD & GLASS 5489 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5489 
Read carefully 5489 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5489 
Crooks and morons 5489 
Magiscopios 5488 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5468 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5468 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5467 
The LP setup in the new home. 5416 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5411 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5411 
Pianochord will do! 5411 
Spanyi heaven 5411 
I see no conflict at all. 5411 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5411 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5411 
A year after closing 5403 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5403 
Traveling antimatter 5396 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5390 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5389 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5363 
Cast Iron fireplace 5362 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5362 
The hardcore way 5362 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5326 
This is How It's Done 5325 
Listening room during summer. 5313 
What about those... 5312 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5312 
Reducing A/C Noise 5312 
HVAC the Cat 5312 
Big Ass fan 5311 
Variac dimmers 5311 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5311 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5311 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5243 
Some winter observations. 5134 
That Asian man…. 5103 
The Franz Schubert morning 5077 
Spring.... 5026 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4976 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4947 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4947 
Just good photography? 4947 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4947 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4947 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4946 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4946 
Sports car 4946 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4946 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4946 
Train Positioning 4946 
Kind of what I want 4946 
The lap listening… 4946 
Family Room 4946 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4943 
A super audio room. 4939 
Time Warp! 4939 
A piano in a listening room 4918 
Pianissimo 4918 
The plan in blue. 4918 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4918 
My doubts 4918 
It is exactly what I worry. 4917 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4917 
Musicians at home 4917 
Piano Measurements 4916 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4911 
The next step. 4897 
Midbass horns missing?? 4896 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4886 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4886 
Baby Grand 4885 
Wood floor 4885 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4885 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4885 
Amy’s baby. 4883 
Improvement 4883 
Agree with Scott 4883 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4871 
Integrated casters 4871 
Very nice, thanks. 4871 
Customization 4871 
Sliders 4871 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4864 
Congratulations 4864 
Holes in the floor... 4864 
Tubes and kids 4864 
Sweet spot enlargement 4864 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4862 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4861 
Wood Floors and Water 4861 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4856 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4855 
WAF is for Losers 4855 
WAF: it depends. 4855 
Integration 4854 
Here and there. 4854 
Life after WWIII 4854 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4854 
Cables management. 4852 
Featurizing 4852 
Kids and tubes cont. 4849 
Kid magnet 4849 
Kids and audio 4848 
Radars 4848 
Wow, what the days! 4844 
The comming weekend 4840 
It all was worth it! 4837 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4832 
Here is how it is look. 4832 
Resolving the carpet issue 4832 
Bonfire 4832 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4832 
Proof of concept? 4832 
Geometry 4832 
A view from listening position. 4832 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4832 
Some feedback 4832 
Evening 4832 
I wonder why. 4831 
Rugs and things 4831 
In defense… 4831 
I can’t get it. 4828 
Haze. 4827 
Front wall 4827 
It is very possible. 4827 
It is nice to be back. 4824 
My comfy corner. 4821 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4461 
WMD in house. 4283 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4186 
The third listening spot. 4165 
For sure a very different experience. 4127 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4122 
It's Jfretch's system. 4122 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4121 
Domestic games 4075 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3936 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3936 
Dynamic screening 3936 
Actually this is very good idea! 3936 
Volcanic fabric 3936 
I should have done this. 3934 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3930 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3899 
No worries 3899 
Awesome memories 3899 
Optimization of space 3899 
Child-ish considerations 3896 
Finding peace.... 3890 
"Fencing"? 3889 
I need to build something custom 3889 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3889 
Stressed Skin 3889 
NYC elevators 3889 
Kids toys and quantities. 3889 
Everything is completely reversible 3888 
Racks and things 3888 
Now it looks even more promising! 3888 
Quantity of rods 3888 
Avoiding diagonals 3886 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3885 
That's not fair! 3885 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3885 
Discrimination? 3880 
Vertical configuration 3873 
Impresive ! 3802 
Did you read the site? 3802 
Contact 3802 
Company's name is Rixrax 3802 
Stand 3801 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3757 
End of life headphone system 3757 
Something like this? 3757 
The "Second Living Room" 3757 
Mixing urban & suburban 3757 
Late night listening 3757 
Moving life... 3755 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3755 
A true listening room. 3731 
It started… 3716 
Levels of Interest 3716 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3716 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3716 
I can't not to post it.... 3716 
Do not leave him unattended. 3716 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3716 
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