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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5728 
The first take on the new room. 5722 
New Room, a first shot. 5721 
Wonderful 5721 
Adopted 5720 
The first relaxed night with the room 5718 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5717 
The listening room is ready. 5716 
New Room, a First Shot 5714 
Continue to work with the room 5714 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5714 
Room 5713 
I think it will take another month. 5713 
The Buttressing 5713 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5712 
The new place and the new noises. 5712 
Big listening room 5711 
Screw the "big" rooms 5711 
Big listening rooms 5711 
First reflection points 5710 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5710 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5707 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5706 
Squeezing the floor 5706 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5706 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5706 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5705 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5705 
The new room, the very first listening. 5705 
The 14.5 foot. 5704 
Again… 5703 
Romy's new Playground 5703 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5703 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5703 
For the uninitiated ... 5702 
NH guy 5702 
Room 5702 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5701 
The first base is done 5701 
Reentry time alignment. 5700 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5699 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5699 
Mid bass horn. 5699 
Guess is only a guess… 5699 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5699 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5698 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5698 
Diffusors 5698 
Diffuse injection 5698 
Let analyse why it so 5698 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5698 
Wheel and Deal 5698 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5698 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5698 
I Must Be Missing Something 5698 
I put sliders under my speakers 5697 
ROOM 5696 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5696 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5696 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5696 
No concerns 5696 
Speakers and room 5696 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5695 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5695 
Diaphram 5695 
Phram 5695 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5695 
Perfect piston 5695 
Decorater 5694 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5694 
New morning 5693 
The first take on the room with RTA 5692 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5692 
Axiomatic 5692 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5691 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5691 
The size of the bass. 5691 
Bass Factory 5691 
Crude Level, or something more? 5691 
I will play with it this week…. 5691 
Rent-A 5691 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5691 
Corner horns 5691 
Cheating from below 5691 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5691 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5690 
A possibly overly simplified view 5690 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5690 
Iceberg 5690 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5690 
Why not horn 5690 
A correction…. 5690 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5690 
They are just not related things at all. 5690 
Fertin 5688 
Low resonance is good... 5688 
Et tu, Brute? 5687 
The Room response at LF 5686 
Life On The Ground Floor 5686 
Bass arrays 5686 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5686 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5686 
The super sucks. 5686 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5686 
You may also try 5685 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5685 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5685 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5685 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5685 
60 Hz Resonance 5685 
No notching… so far. 5685 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5684 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5684 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5684 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5684 
Power to the People 5684 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5684 
Aura 5684 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5684 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5684 
All class D is the same 5684 
Interpreting the LF results. 5683 
The Halibut 5683 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5683 
The Big Picture 5683 
Power & ULF channels 5683 
The big picture indeed. 5683 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5683 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5683 
The Power and the Glory 5682 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5682 
I guess I did not get this memo 5682 
French LF drivers 5682 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5682 
(another) French LF approach 5681 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5681 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5681 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5681 
Limpschtick 5681 
Symmetry 5681 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5680 
Room correction 5680 
It migh be more complicated. 5680 
Bass EQ ? 5680 
Agree and not. 5680 
Two "diseases" 5680 
Parametric filters 5680 
Ceiling arrays 5680 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5680 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5680 
The Middle of the Room. 5680 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5680 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5680 
Stop! 5680 
Appendectomy 5680 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5679 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5679 
No Isolation 5679 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5676 
Potential contenders? 5675 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5675 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5675 
Those Crazy Canucks 5671 
Mo' Better Bass 5665 
Bird in the Hand? 5665 
A wet listening spot? 5658 
Storm 5655 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5655 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5641 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5611 
Polar Opposite ULF 5610 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5598 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5596 
Differently but the same. 5595 
PVC 5594 
The sail test try. 5594 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5594 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5594 
Trial 5593 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5593 
Some explanations 5593 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5592 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5591 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5590 
Acrylate 5589 
Magic blanket 5589 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5588 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5588 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5588 
I have a few options. 5588 
Foam color 5588 
Strange things with upperbass 5588 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5587 
Teatro reform. . . 5587 
The foaming room dilemma. 5586 
Melamine Foam 5586 
Foaming up the cat house 5586 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5586 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5586 
Acoustic revisions… 5585 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5582 
Surprises so far in the new room 5581 
The upperbass in the new room. 5581 
Slight change of hart. 5580 
Camco supply of Boston 5578 
Room acoustics 5578 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5537 
I need to kill dust first. 5537 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5535 
To feed the leeches? 5535 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5534 
Yh 5534 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5534 
DPOLs? 5534 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5534 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5531 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5531 
A HalfPipe solution? 5531 
I absolutely love it. 5531 
Piper work 5530 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5530 
Absorption 5530 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5529 
Cats life ? 5529 
Call me Pussy. 5529 
More about traps 5529 
Acoustic impedance? 5529 
You maybe right 5529 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5529 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5528 
Heavy Curtain 5528 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5527 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5527 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5527 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5524 
Fix speaker move chair? 5523 
Back and forth ceremony 5523 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5522 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5521 
Glass windows 5520 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5519 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5518 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5516 
How to use basement jacks? 5516 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5516 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5516 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5515 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5515 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5514 
Sore eyes... 5513 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5513 
The harvesting week! 5511 
I need an inspiration… 5510 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5509 
Like this? 5509 
Dramatically randomize MF 5509 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5508 
The room eats dynamic 5508 
Diffusers 5508 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5507 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5492 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5491 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5491 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5491 
About Width-Importance balance. 5489 
Letting the music scale up 5488 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5488 
To finish my house décor… 5484 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5483 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5482 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5482 
Calling the gods of music 5482 
Absolutely 5482 
Phase manipulation 5482 
No relation. 5482 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5482 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5482 
Dynamical mismatch 5481 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5481 
Stradiwinerius? 5478 
Dealing with the glass. 5477 
Boston 5477 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5477 
Added mass 5477 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5477 
It is about moderation…. 5477 
To hell with the wine... 5477 
Also for other surafaces 5476 
LEAD 5476 
LEAD & GLASS 5476 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5476 
Read carefully 5476 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5476 
Crooks and morons 5476 
Magiscopios 5475 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5455 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5455 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5454 
The LP setup in the new home. 5403 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5398 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5398 
Pianochord will do! 5398 
Spanyi heaven 5398 
I see no conflict at all. 5398 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5398 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5398 
A year after closing 5390 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5390 
Traveling antimatter 5383 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5377 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5376 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5350 
Cast Iron fireplace 5349 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5349 
The hardcore way 5349 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5313 
This is How It's Done 5312 
Listening room during summer. 5300 
What about those... 5299 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5299 
Reducing A/C Noise 5299 
HVAC the Cat 5299 
Big Ass fan 5298 
Variac dimmers 5298 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5298 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5298 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5230 
Some winter observations. 5121 
That Asian man…. 5090 
The Franz Schubert morning 5064 
Spring.... 5013 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4963 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4934 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4934 
Just good photography? 4934 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4934 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4934 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4933 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4933 
Sports car 4933 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4933 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4933 
Train Positioning 4933 
Kind of what I want 4933 
The lap listening… 4933 
Family Room 4933 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4930 
A super audio room. 4926 
Time Warp! 4926 
A piano in a listening room 4905 
Pianissimo 4905 
The plan in blue. 4905 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4905 
My doubts 4905 
It is exactly what I worry. 4904 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4904 
Musicians at home 4904 
Piano Measurements 4903 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4898 
The next step. 4884 
Midbass horns missing?? 4883 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4873 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4873 
Baby Grand 4872 
Wood floor 4872 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4872 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4872 
Amy’s baby. 4870 
Improvement 4870 
Agree with Scott 4870 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4858 
Integrated casters 4858 
Very nice, thanks. 4858 
Customization 4858 
Sliders 4858 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4851 
Congratulations 4851 
Holes in the floor... 4851 
Tubes and kids 4851 
Sweet spot enlargement 4851 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4849 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4848 
Wood Floors and Water 4848 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4843 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4842 
WAF is for Losers 4842 
WAF: it depends. 4842 
Integration 4841 
Here and there. 4841 
Life after WWIII 4841 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4841 
Cables management. 4839 
Featurizing 4839 
Kids and tubes cont. 4836 
Kid magnet 4836 
Kids and audio 4835 
Radars 4835 
Wow, what the days! 4831 
The comming weekend 4827 
It all was worth it! 4824 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4819 
Here is how it is look. 4819 
Resolving the carpet issue 4819 
Bonfire 4819 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4819 
Proof of concept? 4819 
Geometry 4819 
A view from listening position. 4819 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4819 
Some feedback 4819 
Evening 4819 
I wonder why. 4818 
Rugs and things 4818 
In defense… 4818 
I can’t get it. 4815 
Haze. 4814 
Front wall 4814 
It is very possible. 4814 
It is nice to be back. 4811 
My comfy corner. 4808 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4448 
WMD in house. 4270 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4173 
The third listening spot. 4152 
For sure a very different experience. 4114 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4109 
It's Jfretch's system. 4109 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4108 
Domestic games 4062 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3923 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3923 
Dynamic screening 3923 
Actually this is very good idea! 3923 
Volcanic fabric 3923 
I should have done this. 3921 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3917 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3886 
No worries 3886 
Awesome memories 3886 
Optimization of space 3886 
Child-ish considerations 3883 
Finding peace.... 3877 
"Fencing"? 3876 
I need to build something custom 3876 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3876 
Stressed Skin 3876 
NYC elevators 3876 
Kids toys and quantities. 3876 
Everything is completely reversible 3875 
Racks and things 3875 
Now it looks even more promising! 3875 
Quantity of rods 3875 
Avoiding diagonals 3873 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3872 
That's not fair! 3872 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3872 
Discrimination? 3867 
Vertical configuration 3860 
Impresive ! 3789 
Did you read the site? 3789 
Contact 3789 
Company's name is Rixrax 3789 
Stand 3788 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3744 
End of life headphone system 3744 
Something like this? 3744 
The "Second Living Room" 3744 
Mixing urban & suburban 3744 
Late night listening 3744 
Moving life... 3742 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3742 
A true listening room. 3718 
It started… 3703 
Levels of Interest 3703 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3703 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3703 
I can't not to post it.... 3703 
Do not leave him unattended. 3703 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3703 
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