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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5733 
The first take on the new room. 5727 
New Room, a first shot. 5726 
Wonderful 5726 
Adopted 5725 
The first relaxed night with the room 5723 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5722 
The listening room is ready. 5721 
New Room, a First Shot 5719 
Continue to work with the room 5719 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5719 
Room 5718 
I think it will take another month. 5718 
The Buttressing 5718 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5717 
The new place and the new noises. 5717 
Big listening room 5716 
Screw the "big" rooms 5716 
Big listening rooms 5716 
First reflection points 5715 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5715 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5712 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5711 
Squeezing the floor 5711 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5711 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5711 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5710 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5710 
The new room, the very first listening. 5710 
The 14.5 foot. 5709 
Again… 5708 
Romy's new Playground 5708 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5708 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5708 
For the uninitiated ... 5707 
NH guy 5707 
Room 5707 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5706 
The first base is done 5706 
Reentry time alignment. 5705 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5704 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5704 
Mid bass horn. 5704 
Guess is only a guess… 5704 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5704 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5703 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5703 
Diffusors 5703 
Diffuse injection 5703 
Let analyse why it so 5703 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5703 
Wheel and Deal 5703 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5703 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5703 
I Must Be Missing Something 5703 
I put sliders under my speakers 5702 
ROOM 5701 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5701 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5701 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5701 
No concerns 5701 
Speakers and room 5701 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5700 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5700 
Diaphram 5700 
Phram 5700 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5700 
Perfect piston 5700 
Decorater 5699 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5699 
New morning 5698 
The first take on the room with RTA 5697 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5697 
Axiomatic 5697 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5696 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5696 
The size of the bass. 5696 
Bass Factory 5696 
Crude Level, or something more? 5696 
I will play with it this week…. 5696 
Rent-A 5696 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5696 
Corner horns 5696 
Cheating from below 5696 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5696 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5695 
A possibly overly simplified view 5695 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5695 
Iceberg 5695 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5695 
Why not horn 5695 
A correction…. 5695 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5695 
They are just not related things at all. 5695 
Fertin 5693 
Low resonance is good... 5693 
Et tu, Brute? 5692 
The Room response at LF 5691 
Life On The Ground Floor 5691 
Bass arrays 5691 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5691 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5691 
The super sucks. 5691 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5691 
You may also try 5690 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5690 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5690 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5690 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5690 
60 Hz Resonance 5690 
No notching… so far. 5690 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5689 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5689 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5689 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5689 
Power to the People 5689 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5689 
Aura 5689 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5689 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5689 
All class D is the same 5689 
Interpreting the LF results. 5688 
The Halibut 5688 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5688 
The Big Picture 5688 
Power & ULF channels 5688 
The big picture indeed. 5688 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5688 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5688 
The Power and the Glory 5687 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5687 
I guess I did not get this memo 5687 
French LF drivers 5687 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5687 
(another) French LF approach 5686 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5686 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5686 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5686 
Limpschtick 5686 
Symmetry 5686 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5685 
Room correction 5685 
It migh be more complicated. 5685 
Bass EQ ? 5685 
Agree and not. 5685 
Two "diseases" 5685 
Parametric filters 5685 
Ceiling arrays 5685 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5685 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5685 
The Middle of the Room. 5685 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5685 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5685 
Stop! 5685 
Appendectomy 5685 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5684 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5684 
No Isolation 5684 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5681 
Potential contenders? 5680 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5680 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5680 
Those Crazy Canucks 5676 
Mo' Better Bass 5670 
Bird in the Hand? 5670 
A wet listening spot? 5663 
Storm 5660 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5660 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5646 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5616 
Polar Opposite ULF 5615 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5603 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5601 
Differently but the same. 5600 
PVC 5599 
The sail test try. 5599 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5599 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5599 
Trial 5598 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5598 
Some explanations 5598 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5597 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5596 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5595 
Acrylate 5594 
Magic blanket 5594 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5593 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5593 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5593 
I have a few options. 5593 
Foam color 5593 
Strange things with upperbass 5593 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5592 
Teatro reform. . . 5592 
The foaming room dilemma. 5591 
Melamine Foam 5591 
Foaming up the cat house 5591 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5591 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5591 
Acoustic revisions… 5590 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5587 
Surprises so far in the new room 5586 
The upperbass in the new room. 5586 
Slight change of hart. 5585 
Camco supply of Boston 5583 
Room acoustics 5583 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5542 
I need to kill dust first. 5542 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5540 
To feed the leeches? 5540 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5539 
Yh 5539 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5539 
DPOLs? 5539 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5539 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5536 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5536 
A HalfPipe solution? 5536 
I absolutely love it. 5536 
Piper work 5535 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5535 
Absorption 5535 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5534 
Cats life ? 5534 
Call me Pussy. 5534 
More about traps 5534 
Acoustic impedance? 5534 
You maybe right 5534 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5534 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5533 
Heavy Curtain 5533 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5532 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5532 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5532 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5529 
Fix speaker move chair? 5528 
Back and forth ceremony 5528 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5527 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5526 
Glass windows 5525 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5524 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5523 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5521 
How to use basement jacks? 5521 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5521 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5521 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5520 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5520 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5519 
Sore eyes... 5518 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5518 
The harvesting week! 5516 
I need an inspiration… 5515 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5514 
Like this? 5514 
Dramatically randomize MF 5514 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5513 
The room eats dynamic 5513 
Diffusers 5513 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5512 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5497 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5496 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5496 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5496 
About Width-Importance balance. 5494 
Letting the music scale up 5493 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5493 
To finish my house décor… 5489 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5488 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5487 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5487 
Calling the gods of music 5487 
Absolutely 5487 
Phase manipulation 5487 
No relation. 5487 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5487 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5487 
Dynamical mismatch 5486 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5486 
Stradiwinerius? 5483 
Dealing with the glass. 5482 
Boston 5482 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5482 
Added mass 5482 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5482 
It is about moderation…. 5482 
To hell with the wine... 5482 
Also for other surafaces 5481 
LEAD 5481 
LEAD & GLASS 5481 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5481 
Read carefully 5481 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5481 
Crooks and morons 5481 
Magiscopios 5480 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5460 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5460 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5459 
The LP setup in the new home. 5408 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5403 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5403 
Pianochord will do! 5403 
Spanyi heaven 5403 
I see no conflict at all. 5403 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5403 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5403 
A year after closing 5395 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5395 
Traveling antimatter 5388 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5382 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5381 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5355 
Cast Iron fireplace 5354 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5354 
The hardcore way 5354 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5318 
This is How It's Done 5317 
Listening room during summer. 5305 
What about those... 5304 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5304 
Reducing A/C Noise 5304 
HVAC the Cat 5304 
Big Ass fan 5303 
Variac dimmers 5303 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5303 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5303 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5235 
Some winter observations. 5126 
That Asian man…. 5095 
The Franz Schubert morning 5069 
Spring.... 5018 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4968 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4939 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4939 
Just good photography? 4939 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4939 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4939 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4938 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4938 
Sports car 4938 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4938 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4938 
Train Positioning 4938 
Kind of what I want 4938 
The lap listening… 4938 
Family Room 4938 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4935 
A super audio room. 4931 
Time Warp! 4931 
A piano in a listening room 4910 
Pianissimo 4910 
The plan in blue. 4910 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4910 
My doubts 4910 
It is exactly what I worry. 4909 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4909 
Musicians at home 4909 
Piano Measurements 4908 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4903 
The next step. 4889 
Midbass horns missing?? 4888 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4878 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4878 
Baby Grand 4877 
Wood floor 4877 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4877 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4877 
Amy’s baby. 4875 
Improvement 4875 
Agree with Scott 4875 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4863 
Integrated casters 4863 
Very nice, thanks. 4863 
Customization 4863 
Sliders 4863 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4856 
Congratulations 4856 
Holes in the floor... 4856 
Tubes and kids 4856 
Sweet spot enlargement 4856 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4854 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4853 
Wood Floors and Water 4853 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4848 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4847 
WAF is for Losers 4847 
WAF: it depends. 4847 
Integration 4846 
Here and there. 4846 
Life after WWIII 4846 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4846 
Cables management. 4844 
Featurizing 4844 
Kids and tubes cont. 4841 
Kid magnet 4841 
Kids and audio 4840 
Radars 4840 
Wow, what the days! 4836 
The comming weekend 4832 
It all was worth it! 4829 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4824 
Here is how it is look. 4824 
Resolving the carpet issue 4824 
Bonfire 4824 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4824 
Proof of concept? 4824 
Geometry 4824 
A view from listening position. 4824 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4824 
Some feedback 4824 
Evening 4824 
I wonder why. 4823 
Rugs and things 4823 
In defense… 4823 
I can’t get it. 4820 
Haze. 4819 
Front wall 4819 
It is very possible. 4819 
It is nice to be back. 4816 
My comfy corner. 4813 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4453 
WMD in house. 4275 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4178 
The third listening spot. 4157 
For sure a very different experience. 4119 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4114 
It's Jfretch's system. 4114 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4113 
Domestic games 4067 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3928 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3928 
Dynamic screening 3928 
Actually this is very good idea! 3928 
Volcanic fabric 3928 
I should have done this. 3926 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3922 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3891 
No worries 3891 
Awesome memories 3891 
Optimization of space 3891 
Child-ish considerations 3888 
Finding peace.... 3882 
"Fencing"? 3881 
I need to build something custom 3881 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3881 
Stressed Skin 3881 
NYC elevators 3881 
Kids toys and quantities. 3881 
Everything is completely reversible 3880 
Racks and things 3880 
Now it looks even more promising! 3880 
Quantity of rods 3880 
Avoiding diagonals 3878 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3877 
That's not fair! 3877 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3877 
Discrimination? 3872 
Vertical configuration 3865 
Impresive ! 3794 
Did you read the site? 3794 
Contact 3794 
Company's name is Rixrax 3794 
Stand 3793 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3749 
End of life headphone system 3749 
Something like this? 3749 
The "Second Living Room" 3749 
Mixing urban & suburban 3749 
Late night listening 3749 
Moving life... 3747 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3747 
A true listening room. 3723 
It started… 3708 
Levels of Interest 3708 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3708 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3708 
I can't not to post it.... 3708 
Do not leave him unattended. 3708 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3708 
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