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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5715 
The first take on the new room. 5709 
New Room, a first shot. 5708 
Wonderful 5708 
Adopted 5707 
The first relaxed night with the room 5705 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5704 
The listening room is ready. 5703 
New Room, a First Shot 5701 
Continue to work with the room 5701 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5701 
Room 5700 
I think it will take another month. 5700 
The Buttressing 5700 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5699 
The new place and the new noises. 5699 
Big listening room 5698 
Screw the "big" rooms 5698 
Big listening rooms 5698 
First reflection points 5697 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5697 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5694 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5693 
Squeezing the floor 5693 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5693 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5693 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5692 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5692 
The new room, the very first listening. 5692 
The 14.5 foot. 5691 
Again… 5690 
Romy's new Playground 5690 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5690 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5690 
For the uninitiated ... 5689 
NH guy 5689 
Room 5689 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5688 
The first base is done 5688 
Reentry time alignment. 5687 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5686 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5686 
Mid bass horn. 5686 
Guess is only a guess… 5686 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5686 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5685 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5685 
Diffusors 5685 
Diffuse injection 5685 
Let analyse why it so 5685 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5685 
Wheel and Deal 5685 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5685 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5685 
I Must Be Missing Something 5685 
I put sliders under my speakers 5684 
ROOM 5683 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5683 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5683 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5683 
No concerns 5683 
Speakers and room 5683 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5682 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5682 
Diaphram 5682 
Phram 5682 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5682 
Perfect piston 5682 
Decorater 5681 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5681 
New morning 5680 
The first take on the room with RTA 5679 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5679 
Axiomatic 5679 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5678 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5678 
The size of the bass. 5678 
Bass Factory 5678 
Crude Level, or something more? 5678 
I will play with it this week…. 5678 
Rent-A 5678 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5678 
Corner horns 5678 
Cheating from below 5678 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5678 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5677 
A possibly overly simplified view 5677 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5677 
Iceberg 5677 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5677 
Why not horn 5677 
A correction…. 5677 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5677 
They are just not related things at all. 5677 
Fertin 5675 
Low resonance is good... 5675 
Et tu, Brute? 5674 
The Room response at LF 5673 
Life On The Ground Floor 5673 
Bass arrays 5673 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5673 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5673 
The super sucks. 5673 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5673 
You may also try 5672 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5672 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5672 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5672 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5672 
60 Hz Resonance 5672 
No notching… so far. 5672 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5671 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5671 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5671 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5671 
Power to the People 5671 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5671 
Aura 5671 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5671 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5671 
All class D is the same 5671 
Interpreting the LF results. 5670 
The Halibut 5670 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5670 
The Big Picture 5670 
Power & ULF channels 5670 
The big picture indeed. 5670 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5670 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5670 
The Power and the Glory 5669 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5669 
I guess I did not get this memo 5669 
French LF drivers 5669 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5669 
(another) French LF approach 5668 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5668 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5668 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5668 
Limpschtick 5668 
Symmetry 5668 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5667 
Room correction 5667 
It migh be more complicated. 5667 
Bass EQ ? 5667 
Agree and not. 5667 
Two "diseases" 5667 
Parametric filters 5667 
Ceiling arrays 5667 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5667 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5667 
The Middle of the Room. 5667 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5667 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5667 
Stop! 5667 
Appendectomy 5667 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5666 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5666 
No Isolation 5666 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5663 
Potential contenders? 5662 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5662 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5662 
Those Crazy Canucks 5658 
Mo' Better Bass 5652 
Bird in the Hand? 5652 
A wet listening spot? 5645 
Storm 5642 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5642 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5628 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5598 
Polar Opposite ULF 5597 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5585 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5583 
Differently but the same. 5582 
PVC 5581 
The sail test try. 5581 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5581 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5581 
Trial 5580 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5580 
Some explanations 5580 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5579 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5578 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5577 
Acrylate 5576 
Magic blanket 5576 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5575 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5575 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5575 
I have a few options. 5575 
Foam color 5575 
Strange things with upperbass 5575 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5574 
Teatro reform. . . 5574 
The foaming room dilemma. 5573 
Melamine Foam 5573 
Foaming up the cat house 5573 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5573 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5573 
Acoustic revisions… 5572 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5569 
Surprises so far in the new room 5568 
The upperbass in the new room. 5568 
Slight change of hart. 5567 
Camco supply of Boston 5565 
Room acoustics 5565 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5524 
I need to kill dust first. 5524 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5522 
To feed the leeches? 5522 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5521 
Yh 5521 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5521 
DPOLs? 5521 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5521 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5518 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5518 
A HalfPipe solution? 5518 
I absolutely love it. 5518 
Piper work 5517 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5517 
Absorption 5517 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5516 
Cats life ? 5516 
Call me Pussy. 5516 
More about traps 5516 
Acoustic impedance? 5516 
You maybe right 5516 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5516 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5515 
Heavy Curtain 5515 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5514 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5514 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5514 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5511 
Fix speaker move chair? 5510 
Back and forth ceremony 5510 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5509 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5508 
Glass windows 5507 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5506 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5505 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5503 
How to use basement jacks? 5503 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5503 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5503 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5502 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5502 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5501 
Sore eyes... 5500 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5500 
The harvesting week! 5498 
I need an inspiration… 5497 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5496 
Like this? 5496 
Dramatically randomize MF 5496 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5495 
The room eats dynamic 5495 
Diffusers 5495 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5494 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5479 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5478 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5478 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5478 
About Width-Importance balance. 5476 
Letting the music scale up 5475 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5475 
To finish my house décor… 5471 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5470 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5469 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5469 
Calling the gods of music 5469 
Absolutely 5469 
Phase manipulation 5469 
No relation. 5469 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5469 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5469 
Dynamical mismatch 5468 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5468 
Stradiwinerius? 5465 
Dealing with the glass. 5464 
Boston 5464 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5464 
Added mass 5464 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5464 
It is about moderation…. 5464 
To hell with the wine... 5464 
Also for other surafaces 5463 
LEAD 5463 
LEAD & GLASS 5463 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5463 
Read carefully 5463 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5463 
Crooks and morons 5463 
Magiscopios 5462 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5442 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5442 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5441 
The LP setup in the new home. 5390 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5385 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5385 
Pianochord will do! 5385 
Spanyi heaven 5385 
I see no conflict at all. 5385 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5385 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5385 
A year after closing 5377 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5377 
Traveling antimatter 5370 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5364 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5363 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5337 
Cast Iron fireplace 5336 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5336 
The hardcore way 5336 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5300 
This is How It's Done 5299 
Listening room during summer. 5287 
What about those... 5286 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5286 
Reducing A/C Noise 5286 
HVAC the Cat 5286 
Big Ass fan 5285 
Variac dimmers 5285 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5285 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5285 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5217 
Some winter observations. 5108 
That Asian man…. 5077 
The Franz Schubert morning 5051 
Spring.... 5000 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4950 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4921 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4921 
Just good photography? 4921 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4921 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4921 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4920 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4920 
Sports car 4920 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4920 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4920 
Train Positioning 4920 
Kind of what I want 4920 
The lap listening… 4920 
Family Room 4920 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4917 
A super audio room. 4913 
Time Warp! 4913 
A piano in a listening room 4892 
Pianissimo 4892 
The plan in blue. 4892 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4892 
My doubts 4892 
It is exactly what I worry. 4891 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4891 
Musicians at home 4891 
Piano Measurements 4890 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4885 
The next step. 4871 
Midbass horns missing?? 4870 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4860 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4860 
Baby Grand 4859 
Wood floor 4859 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4859 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4859 
Amy’s baby. 4857 
Improvement 4857 
Agree with Scott 4857 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4845 
Integrated casters 4845 
Very nice, thanks. 4845 
Customization 4845 
Sliders 4845 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4838 
Congratulations 4838 
Holes in the floor... 4838 
Tubes and kids 4838 
Sweet spot enlargement 4838 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4836 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4835 
Wood Floors and Water 4835 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4830 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4829 
WAF is for Losers 4829 
WAF: it depends. 4829 
Integration 4828 
Here and there. 4828 
Life after WWIII 4828 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4828 
Cables management. 4826 
Featurizing 4826 
Kids and tubes cont. 4823 
Kid magnet 4823 
Kids and audio 4822 
Radars 4822 
Wow, what the days! 4818 
The comming weekend 4814 
It all was worth it! 4811 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4806 
Here is how it is look. 4806 
Resolving the carpet issue 4806 
Bonfire 4806 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4806 
Proof of concept? 4806 
Geometry 4806 
A view from listening position. 4806 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4806 
Some feedback 4806 
Evening 4806 
I wonder why. 4805 
Rugs and things 4805 
In defense… 4805 
I can’t get it. 4802 
Haze. 4801 
Front wall 4801 
It is very possible. 4801 
It is nice to be back. 4798 
My comfy corner. 4795 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4435 
WMD in house. 4257 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4160 
The third listening spot. 4139 
For sure a very different experience. 4101 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4096 
It's Jfretch's system. 4096 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4095 
Domestic games 4049 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3910 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3910 
Dynamic screening 3910 
Actually this is very good idea! 3910 
Volcanic fabric 3910 
I should have done this. 3908 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3904 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3873 
No worries 3873 
Awesome memories 3873 
Optimization of space 3873 
Child-ish considerations 3870 
Finding peace.... 3864 
"Fencing"? 3863 
I need to build something custom 3863 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3863 
Stressed Skin 3863 
NYC elevators 3863 
Kids toys and quantities. 3863 
Everything is completely reversible 3862 
Racks and things 3862 
Now it looks even more promising! 3862 
Quantity of rods 3862 
Avoiding diagonals 3860 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3859 
That's not fair! 3859 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3859 
Discrimination? 3854 
Vertical configuration 3847 
Impresive ! 3776 
Did you read the site? 3776 
Contact 3776 
Company's name is Rixrax 3776 
Stand 3775 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3731 
End of life headphone system 3731 
Something like this? 3731 
The "Second Living Room" 3731 
Mixing urban & suburban 3731 
Late night listening 3731 
Moving life... 3729 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3729 
A true listening room. 3705 
It started… 3690 
Levels of Interest 3690 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3690 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3690 
I can't not to post it.... 3690 
Do not leave him unattended. 3690 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3690 
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