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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5732 
The first take on the new room. 5726 
New Room, a first shot. 5725 
Wonderful 5725 
Adopted 5724 
The first relaxed night with the room 5722 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5721 
The listening room is ready. 5720 
New Room, a First Shot 5718 
Continue to work with the room 5718 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5718 
Room 5717 
I think it will take another month. 5717 
The Buttressing 5717 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5716 
The new place and the new noises. 5716 
Big listening room 5715 
Screw the "big" rooms 5715 
Big listening rooms 5715 
First reflection points 5714 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5714 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5711 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5710 
Squeezing the floor 5710 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5710 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5710 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5709 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5709 
The new room, the very first listening. 5709 
The 14.5 foot. 5708 
Again… 5707 
Romy's new Playground 5707 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5707 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5707 
For the uninitiated ... 5706 
NH guy 5706 
Room 5706 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5705 
The first base is done 5705 
Reentry time alignment. 5704 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5703 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5703 
Mid bass horn. 5703 
Guess is only a guess… 5703 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5703 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5702 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5702 
Diffusors 5702 
Diffuse injection 5702 
Let analyse why it so 5702 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5702 
Wheel and Deal 5702 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5702 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5702 
I Must Be Missing Something 5702 
I put sliders under my speakers 5701 
ROOM 5700 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5700 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5700 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5700 
No concerns 5700 
Speakers and room 5700 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5699 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5699 
Diaphram 5699 
Phram 5699 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5699 
Perfect piston 5699 
Decorater 5698 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5698 
New morning 5697 
The first take on the room with RTA 5696 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5696 
Axiomatic 5696 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5695 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5695 
The size of the bass. 5695 
Bass Factory 5695 
Crude Level, or something more? 5695 
I will play with it this week…. 5695 
Rent-A 5695 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5695 
Corner horns 5695 
Cheating from below 5695 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5695 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5694 
A possibly overly simplified view 5694 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5694 
Iceberg 5694 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5694 
Why not horn 5694 
A correction…. 5694 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5694 
They are just not related things at all. 5694 
Fertin 5692 
Low resonance is good... 5692 
Et tu, Brute? 5691 
The Room response at LF 5690 
Life On The Ground Floor 5690 
Bass arrays 5690 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5690 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5690 
The super sucks. 5690 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5690 
You may also try 5689 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5689 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5689 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5689 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5689 
60 Hz Resonance 5689 
No notching… so far. 5689 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5688 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5688 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5688 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5688 
Power to the People 5688 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5688 
Aura 5688 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5688 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5688 
All class D is the same 5688 
Interpreting the LF results. 5687 
The Halibut 5687 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5687 
The Big Picture 5687 
Power & ULF channels 5687 
The big picture indeed. 5687 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5687 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5687 
The Power and the Glory 5686 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5686 
I guess I did not get this memo 5686 
French LF drivers 5686 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5686 
(another) French LF approach 5685 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5685 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5685 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5685 
Limpschtick 5685 
Symmetry 5685 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5684 
Room correction 5684 
It migh be more complicated. 5684 
Bass EQ ? 5684 
Agree and not. 5684 
Two "diseases" 5684 
Parametric filters 5684 
Ceiling arrays 5684 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5684 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5684 
The Middle of the Room. 5684 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5684 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5684 
Stop! 5684 
Appendectomy 5684 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5683 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5683 
No Isolation 5683 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5680 
Potential contenders? 5679 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5679 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5679 
Those Crazy Canucks 5675 
Mo' Better Bass 5669 
Bird in the Hand? 5669 
A wet listening spot? 5662 
Storm 5659 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5659 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5645 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5615 
Polar Opposite ULF 5614 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5602 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5600 
Differently but the same. 5599 
PVC 5598 
The sail test try. 5598 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5598 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5598 
Trial 5597 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5597 
Some explanations 5597 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5596 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5595 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5594 
Acrylate 5593 
Magic blanket 5593 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5592 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5592 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5592 
I have a few options. 5592 
Foam color 5592 
Strange things with upperbass 5592 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5591 
Teatro reform. . . 5591 
The foaming room dilemma. 5590 
Melamine Foam 5590 
Foaming up the cat house 5590 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5590 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5590 
Acoustic revisions… 5589 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5586 
Surprises so far in the new room 5585 
The upperbass in the new room. 5585 
Slight change of hart. 5584 
Camco supply of Boston 5582 
Room acoustics 5582 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5541 
I need to kill dust first. 5541 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5539 
To feed the leeches? 5539 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5538 
Yh 5538 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5538 
DPOLs? 5538 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5538 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5535 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5535 
A HalfPipe solution? 5535 
I absolutely love it. 5535 
Piper work 5534 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5534 
Absorption 5534 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5533 
Cats life ? 5533 
Call me Pussy. 5533 
More about traps 5533 
Acoustic impedance? 5533 
You maybe right 5533 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5533 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5532 
Heavy Curtain 5532 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5531 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5531 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5531 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5528 
Fix speaker move chair? 5527 
Back and forth ceremony 5527 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5526 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5525 
Glass windows 5524 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5523 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5522 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5520 
How to use basement jacks? 5520 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5520 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5520 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5519 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5519 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5518 
Sore eyes... 5517 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5517 
The harvesting week! 5515 
I need an inspiration… 5514 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5513 
Like this? 5513 
Dramatically randomize MF 5513 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5512 
The room eats dynamic 5512 
Diffusers 5512 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5511 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5496 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5495 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5495 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5495 
About Width-Importance balance. 5493 
Letting the music scale up 5492 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5492 
To finish my house décor… 5488 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5487 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5486 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5486 
Calling the gods of music 5486 
Absolutely 5486 
Phase manipulation 5486 
No relation. 5486 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5486 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5486 
Dynamical mismatch 5485 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5485 
Stradiwinerius? 5482 
Dealing with the glass. 5481 
Boston 5481 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5481 
Added mass 5481 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5481 
It is about moderation…. 5481 
To hell with the wine... 5481 
Also for other surafaces 5480 
LEAD 5480 
LEAD & GLASS 5480 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5480 
Read carefully 5480 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5480 
Crooks and morons 5480 
Magiscopios 5479 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5459 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5459 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5458 
The LP setup in the new home. 5407 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5402 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5402 
Pianochord will do! 5402 
Spanyi heaven 5402 
I see no conflict at all. 5402 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5402 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5402 
A year after closing 5394 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5394 
Traveling antimatter 5387 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5381 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5380 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5354 
Cast Iron fireplace 5353 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5353 
The hardcore way 5353 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5317 
This is How It's Done 5316 
Listening room during summer. 5304 
What about those... 5303 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5303 
Reducing A/C Noise 5303 
HVAC the Cat 5303 
Big Ass fan 5302 
Variac dimmers 5302 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5302 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5302 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5234 
Some winter observations. 5125 
That Asian man…. 5094 
The Franz Schubert morning 5068 
Spring.... 5017 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4967 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4938 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4938 
Just good photography? 4938 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4938 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4938 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4937 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4937 
Sports car 4937 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4937 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4937 
Train Positioning 4937 
Kind of what I want 4937 
The lap listening… 4937 
Family Room 4937 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4934 
A super audio room. 4930 
Time Warp! 4930 
A piano in a listening room 4909 
Pianissimo 4909 
The plan in blue. 4909 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4909 
My doubts 4909 
It is exactly what I worry. 4908 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4908 
Musicians at home 4908 
Piano Measurements 4907 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4902 
The next step. 4888 
Midbass horns missing?? 4887 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4877 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4877 
Baby Grand 4876 
Wood floor 4876 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4876 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4876 
Amy’s baby. 4874 
Improvement 4874 
Agree with Scott 4874 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4862 
Integrated casters 4862 
Very nice, thanks. 4862 
Customization 4862 
Sliders 4862 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4855 
Congratulations 4855 
Holes in the floor... 4855 
Tubes and kids 4855 
Sweet spot enlargement 4855 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4853 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4852 
Wood Floors and Water 4852 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4847 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4846 
WAF is for Losers 4846 
WAF: it depends. 4846 
Integration 4845 
Here and there. 4845 
Life after WWIII 4845 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4845 
Cables management. 4843 
Featurizing 4843 
Kids and tubes cont. 4840 
Kid magnet 4840 
Kids and audio 4839 
Radars 4839 
Wow, what the days! 4835 
The comming weekend 4831 
It all was worth it! 4828 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4823 
Here is how it is look. 4823 
Resolving the carpet issue 4823 
Bonfire 4823 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4823 
Proof of concept? 4823 
Geometry 4823 
A view from listening position. 4823 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4823 
Some feedback 4823 
Evening 4823 
I wonder why. 4822 
Rugs and things 4822 
In defense… 4822 
I can’t get it. 4819 
Haze. 4818 
Front wall 4818 
It is very possible. 4818 
It is nice to be back. 4815 
My comfy corner. 4812 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4452 
WMD in house. 4274 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4177 
The third listening spot. 4156 
For sure a very different experience. 4118 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4113 
It's Jfretch's system. 4113 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4112 
Domestic games 4066 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3927 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3927 
Dynamic screening 3927 
Actually this is very good idea! 3927 
Volcanic fabric 3927 
I should have done this. 3925 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3921 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3890 
No worries 3890 
Awesome memories 3890 
Optimization of space 3890 
Child-ish considerations 3887 
Finding peace.... 3881 
"Fencing"? 3880 
I need to build something custom 3880 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3880 
Stressed Skin 3880 
NYC elevators 3880 
Kids toys and quantities. 3880 
Everything is completely reversible 3879 
Racks and things 3879 
Now it looks even more promising! 3879 
Quantity of rods 3879 
Avoiding diagonals 3877 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3876 
That's not fair! 3876 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3876 
Discrimination? 3871 
Vertical configuration 3864 
Impresive ! 3793 
Did you read the site? 3793 
Contact 3793 
Company's name is Rixrax 3793 
Stand 3792 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3748 
End of life headphone system 3748 
Something like this? 3748 
The "Second Living Room" 3748 
Mixing urban & suburban 3748 
Late night listening 3748 
Moving life... 3746 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3746 
A true listening room. 3722 
It started… 3707 
Levels of Interest 3707 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3707 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3707 
I can't not to post it.... 3707 
Do not leave him unattended. 3707 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3707 
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