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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5817 
The first take on the new room. 5811 
New Room, a first shot. 5810 
Wonderful 5810 
Adopted 5809 
The first relaxed night with the room 5807 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5806 
The listening room is ready. 5805 
New Room, a First Shot 5803 
Continue to work with the room 5803 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5803 
Room 5802 
I think it will take another month. 5802 
The Buttressing 5802 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5801 
The new place and the new noises. 5801 
Big listening room 5800 
Screw the "big" rooms 5800 
Big listening rooms 5800 
First reflection points 5799 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5799 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5796 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5795 
Squeezing the floor 5795 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5795 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5795 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5794 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5794 
The new room, the very first listening. 5794 
The 14.5 foot. 5793 
Again… 5792 
Romy's new Playground 5792 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5792 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5792 
For the uninitiated ... 5791 
NH guy 5791 
Room 5791 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5790 
The first base is done 5790 
Reentry time alignment. 5789 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5788 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5788 
Mid bass horn. 5788 
Guess is only a guess… 5788 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5788 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5787 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5787 
Diffusors 5787 
Diffuse injection 5787 
Let analyse why it so 5787 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5787 
Wheel and Deal 5787 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5787 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5787 
I Must Be Missing Something 5787 
I put sliders under my speakers 5786 
ROOM 5785 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5785 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5785 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5785 
No concerns 5785 
Speakers and room 5785 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5784 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5784 
Diaphram 5784 
Phram 5784 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5784 
Perfect piston 5784 
Decorater 5783 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5783 
New morning 5782 
The first take on the room with RTA 5781 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5781 
Axiomatic 5781 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5780 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5780 
The size of the bass. 5780 
Bass Factory 5780 
Crude Level, or something more? 5780 
I will play with it this week…. 5780 
Rent-A 5780 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5780 
Corner horns 5780 
Cheating from below 5780 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5780 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5779 
A possibly overly simplified view 5779 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5779 
Iceberg 5779 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5779 
Why not horn 5779 
A correction…. 5779 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5779 
They are just not related things at all. 5779 
Fertin 5777 
Low resonance is good... 5777 
Et tu, Brute? 5776 
The Room response at LF 5775 
Life On The Ground Floor 5775 
Bass arrays 5775 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5775 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5775 
The super sucks. 5775 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5775 
You may also try 5774 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5774 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5774 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5774 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5774 
60 Hz Resonance 5774 
No notching… so far. 5774 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5773 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5773 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5773 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5773 
Power to the People 5773 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5773 
Aura 5773 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5773 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5773 
All class D is the same 5773 
Interpreting the LF results. 5772 
The Halibut 5772 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5772 
The Big Picture 5772 
Power & ULF channels 5772 
The big picture indeed. 5772 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5772 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5772 
The Power and the Glory 5771 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5771 
I guess I did not get this memo 5771 
French LF drivers 5771 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5771 
(another) French LF approach 5770 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5770 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5770 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5770 
Limpschtick 5770 
Symmetry 5770 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5769 
Room correction 5769 
It migh be more complicated. 5769 
Bass EQ ? 5769 
Agree and not. 5769 
Two "diseases" 5769 
Parametric filters 5769 
Ceiling arrays 5769 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5769 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5769 
The Middle of the Room. 5769 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5769 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5769 
Stop! 5769 
Appendectomy 5769 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5768 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5768 
No Isolation 5768 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5765 
Potential contenders? 5764 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5764 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5764 
Those Crazy Canucks 5760 
Mo' Better Bass 5754 
Bird in the Hand? 5754 
A wet listening spot? 5747 
Storm 5744 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5744 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5730 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5700 
Polar Opposite ULF 5699 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5687 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5685 
Differently but the same. 5684 
PVC 5683 
The sail test try. 5683 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5683 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5683 
Trial 5682 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5682 
Some explanations 5682 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5681 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5680 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5679 
Acrylate 5678 
Magic blanket 5678 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5677 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5677 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5677 
I have a few options. 5677 
Foam color 5677 
Strange things with upperbass 5677 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5676 
Teatro reform. . . 5676 
The foaming room dilemma. 5675 
Melamine Foam 5675 
Foaming up the cat house 5675 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5675 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5675 
Acoustic revisions… 5674 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5671 
Surprises so far in the new room 5670 
The upperbass in the new room. 5670 
Slight change of hart. 5669 
Camco supply of Boston 5667 
Room acoustics 5667 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5626 
I need to kill dust first. 5626 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5624 
To feed the leeches? 5624 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5623 
Yh 5623 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5623 
DPOLs? 5623 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5623 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5620 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5620 
A HalfPipe solution? 5620 
I absolutely love it. 5620 
Piper work 5619 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5619 
Absorption 5619 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5618 
Cats life ? 5618 
Call me Pussy. 5618 
More about traps 5618 
Acoustic impedance? 5618 
You maybe right 5618 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5618 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5617 
Heavy Curtain 5617 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5616 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5616 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5616 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5613 
Fix speaker move chair? 5612 
Back and forth ceremony 5612 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5611 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5610 
Glass windows 5609 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5608 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5607 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5605 
How to use basement jacks? 5605 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5605 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5605 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5604 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5604 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5603 
Sore eyes... 5602 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5602 
The harvesting week! 5600 
I need an inspiration… 5599 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5598 
Like this? 5598 
Dramatically randomize MF 5598 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5597 
The room eats dynamic 5597 
Diffusers 5597 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5596 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5581 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5580 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5580 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5580 
About Width-Importance balance. 5578 
Letting the music scale up 5577 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5577 
To finish my house décor… 5573 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5572 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5571 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5571 
Calling the gods of music 5571 
Absolutely 5571 
Phase manipulation 5571 
No relation. 5571 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5571 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5571 
Dynamical mismatch 5570 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5570 
Stradiwinerius? 5567 
Dealing with the glass. 5566 
Boston 5566 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5566 
Added mass 5566 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5566 
It is about moderation…. 5566 
To hell with the wine... 5566 
Also for other surafaces 5565 
LEAD 5565 
LEAD & GLASS 5565 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5565 
Read carefully 5565 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5565 
Crooks and morons 5565 
Magiscopios 5564 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5544 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5544 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5543 
The LP setup in the new home. 5492 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5487 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5487 
Pianochord will do! 5487 
Spanyi heaven 5487 
I see no conflict at all. 5487 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5487 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5487 
A year after closing 5479 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5479 
Traveling antimatter 5472 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5466 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5465 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5439 
Cast Iron fireplace 5438 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5438 
The hardcore way 5438 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5402 
This is How It's Done 5401 
Listening room during summer. 5389 
What about those... 5388 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5388 
Reducing A/C Noise 5388 
HVAC the Cat 5388 
Big Ass fan 5387 
Variac dimmers 5387 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5387 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5387 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5319 
Some winter observations. 5210 
That Asian man…. 5179 
The Franz Schubert morning 5153 
Spring.... 5102 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5052 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5023 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5023 
Just good photography? 5023 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5023 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5023 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5022 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5022 
Sports car 5022 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5022 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5022 
Train Positioning 5022 
Kind of what I want 5022 
The lap listening… 5022 
Family Room 5022 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5019 
A super audio room. 5015 
Time Warp! 5015 
A piano in a listening room 4994 
Pianissimo 4994 
The plan in blue. 4994 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4994 
My doubts 4994 
It is exactly what I worry. 4993 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4993 
Musicians at home 4993 
Piano Measurements 4992 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4987 
The next step. 4973 
Midbass horns missing?? 4972 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4962 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4962 
Baby Grand 4961 
Wood floor 4961 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4961 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4961 
Amy’s baby. 4959 
Improvement 4959 
Agree with Scott 4959 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4947 
Integrated casters 4947 
Very nice, thanks. 4947 
Customization 4947 
Sliders 4947 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4940 
Congratulations 4940 
Holes in the floor... 4940 
Tubes and kids 4940 
Sweet spot enlargement 4940 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4938 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4937 
Wood Floors and Water 4937 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4932 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4931 
WAF is for Losers 4931 
WAF: it depends. 4931 
Integration 4930 
Here and there. 4930 
Life after WWIII 4930 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4930 
Cables management. 4928 
Featurizing 4928 
Kids and tubes cont. 4925 
Kid magnet 4925 
Kids and audio 4924 
Radars 4924 
Wow, what the days! 4920 
The comming weekend 4916 
It all was worth it! 4913 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4908 
Here is how it is look. 4908 
Resolving the carpet issue 4908 
Bonfire 4908 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4908 
Proof of concept? 4908 
Geometry 4908 
A view from listening position. 4908 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4908 
Some feedback 4908 
Evening 4908 
I wonder why. 4907 
Rugs and things 4907 
In defense… 4907 
I can’t get it. 4904 
Haze. 4903 
Front wall 4903 
It is very possible. 4903 
It is nice to be back. 4900 
My comfy corner. 4897 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4537 
WMD in house. 4359 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4262 
The third listening spot. 4241 
For sure a very different experience. 4203 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4198 
It's Jfretch's system. 4198 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4197 
Domestic games 4151 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4012 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4012 
Dynamic screening 4012 
Actually this is very good idea! 4012 
Volcanic fabric 4012 
I should have done this. 4010 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4006 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3975 
No worries 3975 
Awesome memories 3975 
Optimization of space 3975 
Child-ish considerations 3972 
Finding peace.... 3966 
"Fencing"? 3965 
I need to build something custom 3965 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3965 
Stressed Skin 3965 
NYC elevators 3965 
Kids toys and quantities. 3965 
Everything is completely reversible 3964 
Racks and things 3964 
Now it looks even more promising! 3964 
Quantity of rods 3964 
Avoiding diagonals 3962 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3961 
That's not fair! 3961 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3961 
Discrimination? 3956 
Vertical configuration 3949 
Impresive ! 3878 
Did you read the site? 3878 
Contact 3878 
Company's name is Rixrax 3878 
Stand 3877 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3833 
End of life headphone system 3833 
Something like this? 3833 
The "Second Living Room" 3833 
Mixing urban & suburban 3833 
Late night listening 3833 
Moving life... 3831 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3831 
A true listening room. 3807 
It started… 3792 
Levels of Interest 3792 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3792 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3792 
I can't not to post it.... 3792 
Do not leave him unattended. 3792 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3792 
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