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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5773 
The first take on the new room. 5767 
New Room, a first shot. 5766 
Wonderful 5766 
Adopted 5765 
The first relaxed night with the room 5763 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5762 
The listening room is ready. 5761 
New Room, a First Shot 5759 
Continue to work with the room 5759 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5759 
Room 5758 
I think it will take another month. 5758 
The Buttressing 5758 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5757 
The new place and the new noises. 5757 
Big listening room 5756 
Screw the "big" rooms 5756 
Big listening rooms 5756 
First reflection points 5755 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5755 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5752 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5751 
Squeezing the floor 5751 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5751 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5751 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5750 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5750 
The new room, the very first listening. 5750 
The 14.5 foot. 5749 
Again… 5748 
Romy's new Playground 5748 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5748 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5748 
For the uninitiated ... 5747 
NH guy 5747 
Room 5747 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5746 
The first base is done 5746 
Reentry time alignment. 5745 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5744 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5744 
Mid bass horn. 5744 
Guess is only a guess… 5744 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5744 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5743 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5743 
Diffusors 5743 
Diffuse injection 5743 
Let analyse why it so 5743 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5743 
Wheel and Deal 5743 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5743 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5743 
I Must Be Missing Something 5743 
I put sliders under my speakers 5742 
ROOM 5741 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5741 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5741 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5741 
No concerns 5741 
Speakers and room 5741 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5740 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5740 
Diaphram 5740 
Phram 5740 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5740 
Perfect piston 5740 
Decorater 5739 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5739 
New morning 5738 
The first take on the room with RTA 5737 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5737 
Axiomatic 5737 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5736 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5736 
The size of the bass. 5736 
Bass Factory 5736 
Crude Level, or something more? 5736 
I will play with it this week…. 5736 
Rent-A 5736 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5736 
Corner horns 5736 
Cheating from below 5736 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5736 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5735 
A possibly overly simplified view 5735 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5735 
Iceberg 5735 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5735 
Why not horn 5735 
A correction…. 5735 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5735 
They are just not related things at all. 5735 
Fertin 5733 
Low resonance is good... 5733 
Et tu, Brute? 5732 
The Room response at LF 5731 
Life On The Ground Floor 5731 
Bass arrays 5731 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5731 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5731 
The super sucks. 5731 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5731 
You may also try 5730 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5730 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5730 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5730 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5730 
60 Hz Resonance 5730 
No notching… so far. 5730 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5729 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5729 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5729 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5729 
Power to the People 5729 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5729 
Aura 5729 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5729 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5729 
All class D is the same 5729 
Interpreting the LF results. 5728 
The Halibut 5728 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5728 
The Big Picture 5728 
Power & ULF channels 5728 
The big picture indeed. 5728 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5728 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5728 
The Power and the Glory 5727 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5727 
I guess I did not get this memo 5727 
French LF drivers 5727 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5727 
(another) French LF approach 5726 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5726 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5726 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5726 
Limpschtick 5726 
Symmetry 5726 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5725 
Room correction 5725 
It migh be more complicated. 5725 
Bass EQ ? 5725 
Agree and not. 5725 
Two "diseases" 5725 
Parametric filters 5725 
Ceiling arrays 5725 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5725 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5725 
The Middle of the Room. 5725 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5725 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5725 
Stop! 5725 
Appendectomy 5725 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5724 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5724 
No Isolation 5724 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5721 
Potential contenders? 5720 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5720 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5720 
Those Crazy Canucks 5716 
Mo' Better Bass 5710 
Bird in the Hand? 5710 
A wet listening spot? 5703 
Storm 5700 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5700 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5686 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5656 
Polar Opposite ULF 5655 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5643 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5641 
Differently but the same. 5640 
PVC 5639 
The sail test try. 5639 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5639 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5639 
Trial 5638 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5638 
Some explanations 5638 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5637 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5636 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5635 
Acrylate 5634 
Magic blanket 5634 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5633 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5633 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5633 
I have a few options. 5633 
Foam color 5633 
Strange things with upperbass 5633 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5632 
Teatro reform. . . 5632 
The foaming room dilemma. 5631 
Melamine Foam 5631 
Foaming up the cat house 5631 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5631 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5631 
Acoustic revisions… 5630 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5627 
Surprises so far in the new room 5626 
The upperbass in the new room. 5626 
Slight change of hart. 5625 
Camco supply of Boston 5623 
Room acoustics 5623 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5582 
I need to kill dust first. 5582 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5580 
To feed the leeches? 5580 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5579 
Yh 5579 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5579 
DPOLs? 5579 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5579 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5576 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5576 
A HalfPipe solution? 5576 
I absolutely love it. 5576 
Piper work 5575 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5575 
Absorption 5575 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5574 
Cats life ? 5574 
Call me Pussy. 5574 
More about traps 5574 
Acoustic impedance? 5574 
You maybe right 5574 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5574 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5573 
Heavy Curtain 5573 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5572 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5572 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5572 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5569 
Fix speaker move chair? 5568 
Back and forth ceremony 5568 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5567 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5566 
Glass windows 5565 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5564 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5563 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5561 
How to use basement jacks? 5561 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5561 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5561 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5560 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5560 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5559 
Sore eyes... 5558 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5558 
The harvesting week! 5556 
I need an inspiration… 5555 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5554 
Like this? 5554 
Dramatically randomize MF 5554 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5553 
The room eats dynamic 5553 
Diffusers 5553 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5552 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5537 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5536 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5536 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5536 
About Width-Importance balance. 5534 
Letting the music scale up 5533 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5533 
To finish my house décor… 5529 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5528 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5527 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5527 
Calling the gods of music 5527 
Absolutely 5527 
Phase manipulation 5527 
No relation. 5527 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5527 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5527 
Dynamical mismatch 5526 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5526 
Stradiwinerius? 5523 
Dealing with the glass. 5522 
Boston 5522 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5522 
Added mass 5522 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5522 
It is about moderation…. 5522 
To hell with the wine... 5522 
Also for other surafaces 5521 
LEAD 5521 
LEAD & GLASS 5521 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5521 
Read carefully 5521 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5521 
Crooks and morons 5521 
Magiscopios 5520 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5500 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5500 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5499 
The LP setup in the new home. 5448 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5443 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5443 
Pianochord will do! 5443 
Spanyi heaven 5443 
I see no conflict at all. 5443 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5443 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5443 
A year after closing 5435 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5435 
Traveling antimatter 5428 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5422 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5421 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5395 
Cast Iron fireplace 5394 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5394 
The hardcore way 5394 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5358 
This is How It's Done 5357 
Listening room during summer. 5345 
What about those... 5344 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5344 
Reducing A/C Noise 5344 
HVAC the Cat 5344 
Big Ass fan 5343 
Variac dimmers 5343 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5343 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5343 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5275 
Some winter observations. 5166 
That Asian man…. 5135 
The Franz Schubert morning 5109 
Spring.... 5058 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5008 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4979 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4979 
Just good photography? 4979 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4979 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4979 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4978 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4978 
Sports car 4978 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4978 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4978 
Train Positioning 4978 
Kind of what I want 4978 
The lap listening… 4978 
Family Room 4978 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4975 
A super audio room. 4971 
Time Warp! 4971 
A piano in a listening room 4950 
Pianissimo 4950 
The plan in blue. 4950 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4950 
My doubts 4950 
It is exactly what I worry. 4949 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4949 
Musicians at home 4949 
Piano Measurements 4948 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4943 
The next step. 4929 
Midbass horns missing?? 4928 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4918 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4918 
Baby Grand 4917 
Wood floor 4917 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4917 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4917 
Amy’s baby. 4915 
Improvement 4915 
Agree with Scott 4915 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4903 
Integrated casters 4903 
Very nice, thanks. 4903 
Customization 4903 
Sliders 4903 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4896 
Congratulations 4896 
Holes in the floor... 4896 
Tubes and kids 4896 
Sweet spot enlargement 4896 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4894 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4893 
Wood Floors and Water 4893 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4888 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4887 
WAF is for Losers 4887 
WAF: it depends. 4887 
Integration 4886 
Here and there. 4886 
Life after WWIII 4886 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4886 
Cables management. 4884 
Featurizing 4884 
Kids and tubes cont. 4881 
Kid magnet 4881 
Kids and audio 4880 
Radars 4880 
Wow, what the days! 4876 
The comming weekend 4872 
It all was worth it! 4869 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4864 
Here is how it is look. 4864 
Resolving the carpet issue 4864 
Bonfire 4864 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4864 
Proof of concept? 4864 
Geometry 4864 
A view from listening position. 4864 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4864 
Some feedback 4864 
Evening 4864 
I wonder why. 4863 
Rugs and things 4863 
In defense… 4863 
I can’t get it. 4860 
Haze. 4859 
Front wall 4859 
It is very possible. 4859 
It is nice to be back. 4856 
My comfy corner. 4853 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4493 
WMD in house. 4315 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4218 
The third listening spot. 4197 
For sure a very different experience. 4159 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4154 
It's Jfretch's system. 4154 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4153 
Domestic games 4107 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3968 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3968 
Dynamic screening 3968 
Actually this is very good idea! 3968 
Volcanic fabric 3968 
I should have done this. 3966 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3962 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3931 
No worries 3931 
Awesome memories 3931 
Optimization of space 3931 
Child-ish considerations 3928 
Finding peace.... 3922 
"Fencing"? 3921 
I need to build something custom 3921 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3921 
Stressed Skin 3921 
NYC elevators 3921 
Kids toys and quantities. 3921 
Everything is completely reversible 3920 
Racks and things 3920 
Now it looks even more promising! 3920 
Quantity of rods 3920 
Avoiding diagonals 3918 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3917 
That's not fair! 3917 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3917 
Discrimination? 3912 
Vertical configuration 3905 
Impresive ! 3834 
Did you read the site? 3834 
Contact 3834 
Company's name is Rixrax 3834 
Stand 3833 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3789 
End of life headphone system 3789 
Something like this? 3789 
The "Second Living Room" 3789 
Mixing urban & suburban 3789 
Late night listening 3789 
Moving life... 3787 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3787 
A true listening room. 3763 
It started… 3748 
Levels of Interest 3748 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3748 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3748 
I can't not to post it.... 3748 
Do not leave him unattended. 3748 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3748 
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