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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5768 
The first take on the new room. 5762 
New Room, a first shot. 5761 
Wonderful 5761 
Adopted 5760 
The first relaxed night with the room 5758 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5757 
The listening room is ready. 5756 
New Room, a First Shot 5754 
Continue to work with the room 5754 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5754 
Room 5753 
I think it will take another month. 5753 
The Buttressing 5753 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5752 
The new place and the new noises. 5752 
Big listening room 5751 
Screw the "big" rooms 5751 
Big listening rooms 5751 
First reflection points 5750 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5750 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5747 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5746 
Squeezing the floor 5746 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5746 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5746 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5745 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5745 
The new room, the very first listening. 5745 
The 14.5 foot. 5744 
Again… 5743 
Romy's new Playground 5743 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5743 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5743 
For the uninitiated ... 5742 
NH guy 5742 
Room 5742 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5741 
The first base is done 5741 
Reentry time alignment. 5740 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5739 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5739 
Mid bass horn. 5739 
Guess is only a guess… 5739 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5739 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5738 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5738 
Diffusors 5738 
Diffuse injection 5738 
Let analyse why it so 5738 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5738 
Wheel and Deal 5738 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5738 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5738 
I Must Be Missing Something 5738 
I put sliders under my speakers 5737 
ROOM 5736 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5736 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5736 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5736 
No concerns 5736 
Speakers and room 5736 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5735 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5735 
Diaphram 5735 
Phram 5735 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5735 
Perfect piston 5735 
Decorater 5734 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5734 
New morning 5733 
The first take on the room with RTA 5732 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5732 
Axiomatic 5732 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5731 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5731 
The size of the bass. 5731 
Bass Factory 5731 
Crude Level, or something more? 5731 
I will play with it this week…. 5731 
Rent-A 5731 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5731 
Corner horns 5731 
Cheating from below 5731 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5731 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5730 
A possibly overly simplified view 5730 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5730 
Iceberg 5730 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5730 
Why not horn 5730 
A correction…. 5730 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5730 
They are just not related things at all. 5730 
Fertin 5728 
Low resonance is good... 5728 
Et tu, Brute? 5727 
The Room response at LF 5726 
Life On The Ground Floor 5726 
Bass arrays 5726 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5726 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5726 
The super sucks. 5726 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5726 
You may also try 5725 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5725 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5725 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5725 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5725 
60 Hz Resonance 5725 
No notching… so far. 5725 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5724 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5724 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5724 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5724 
Power to the People 5724 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5724 
Aura 5724 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5724 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5724 
All class D is the same 5724 
Interpreting the LF results. 5723 
The Halibut 5723 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5723 
The Big Picture 5723 
Power & ULF channels 5723 
The big picture indeed. 5723 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5723 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5723 
The Power and the Glory 5722 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5722 
I guess I did not get this memo 5722 
French LF drivers 5722 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5722 
(another) French LF approach 5721 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5721 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5721 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5721 
Limpschtick 5721 
Symmetry 5721 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5720 
Room correction 5720 
It migh be more complicated. 5720 
Bass EQ ? 5720 
Agree and not. 5720 
Two "diseases" 5720 
Parametric filters 5720 
Ceiling arrays 5720 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5720 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5720 
The Middle of the Room. 5720 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5720 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5720 
Stop! 5720 
Appendectomy 5720 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5719 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5719 
No Isolation 5719 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5716 
Potential contenders? 5715 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5715 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5715 
Those Crazy Canucks 5711 
Mo' Better Bass 5705 
Bird in the Hand? 5705 
A wet listening spot? 5698 
Storm 5695 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5695 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5681 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5651 
Polar Opposite ULF 5650 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5638 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5636 
Differently but the same. 5635 
PVC 5634 
The sail test try. 5634 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5634 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5634 
Trial 5633 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5633 
Some explanations 5633 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5632 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5631 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5630 
Acrylate 5629 
Magic blanket 5629 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5628 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5628 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5628 
I have a few options. 5628 
Foam color 5628 
Strange things with upperbass 5628 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5627 
Teatro reform. . . 5627 
The foaming room dilemma. 5626 
Melamine Foam 5626 
Foaming up the cat house 5626 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5626 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5626 
Acoustic revisions… 5625 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5622 
Surprises so far in the new room 5621 
The upperbass in the new room. 5621 
Slight change of hart. 5620 
Camco supply of Boston 5618 
Room acoustics 5618 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5577 
I need to kill dust first. 5577 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5575 
To feed the leeches? 5575 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5574 
Yh 5574 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5574 
DPOLs? 5574 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5574 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5571 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5571 
A HalfPipe solution? 5571 
I absolutely love it. 5571 
Piper work 5570 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5570 
Absorption 5570 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5569 
Cats life ? 5569 
Call me Pussy. 5569 
More about traps 5569 
Acoustic impedance? 5569 
You maybe right 5569 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5569 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5568 
Heavy Curtain 5568 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5567 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5567 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5567 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5564 
Fix speaker move chair? 5563 
Back and forth ceremony 5563 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5562 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5561 
Glass windows 5560 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5559 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5558 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5556 
How to use basement jacks? 5556 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5556 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5556 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5555 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5555 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5554 
Sore eyes... 5553 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5553 
The harvesting week! 5551 
I need an inspiration… 5550 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5549 
Like this? 5549 
Dramatically randomize MF 5549 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5548 
The room eats dynamic 5548 
Diffusers 5548 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5547 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5532 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5531 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5531 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5531 
About Width-Importance balance. 5529 
Letting the music scale up 5528 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5528 
To finish my house décor… 5524 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5523 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5522 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5522 
Calling the gods of music 5522 
Absolutely 5522 
Phase manipulation 5522 
No relation. 5522 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5522 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5522 
Dynamical mismatch 5521 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5521 
Stradiwinerius? 5518 
Dealing with the glass. 5517 
Boston 5517 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5517 
Added mass 5517 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5517 
It is about moderation…. 5517 
To hell with the wine... 5517 
Also for other surafaces 5516 
LEAD 5516 
LEAD & GLASS 5516 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5516 
Read carefully 5516 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5516 
Crooks and morons 5516 
Magiscopios 5515 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5495 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5495 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5494 
The LP setup in the new home. 5443 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5438 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5438 
Pianochord will do! 5438 
Spanyi heaven 5438 
I see no conflict at all. 5438 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5438 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5438 
A year after closing 5430 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5430 
Traveling antimatter 5423 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5417 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5416 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5390 
Cast Iron fireplace 5389 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5389 
The hardcore way 5389 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5353 
This is How It's Done 5352 
Listening room during summer. 5340 
What about those... 5339 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5339 
Reducing A/C Noise 5339 
HVAC the Cat 5339 
Big Ass fan 5338 
Variac dimmers 5338 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5338 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5338 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5270 
Some winter observations. 5161 
That Asian man…. 5130 
The Franz Schubert morning 5104 
Spring.... 5053 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5003 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4974 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4974 
Just good photography? 4974 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4974 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4974 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4973 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4973 
Sports car 4973 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4973 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4973 
Train Positioning 4973 
Kind of what I want 4973 
The lap listening… 4973 
Family Room 4973 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4970 
A super audio room. 4966 
Time Warp! 4966 
A piano in a listening room 4945 
Pianissimo 4945 
The plan in blue. 4945 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4945 
My doubts 4945 
It is exactly what I worry. 4944 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4944 
Musicians at home 4944 
Piano Measurements 4943 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4938 
The next step. 4924 
Midbass horns missing?? 4923 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4913 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4913 
Baby Grand 4912 
Wood floor 4912 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4912 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4912 
Amy’s baby. 4910 
Improvement 4910 
Agree with Scott 4910 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4898 
Integrated casters 4898 
Very nice, thanks. 4898 
Customization 4898 
Sliders 4898 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4891 
Congratulations 4891 
Holes in the floor... 4891 
Tubes and kids 4891 
Sweet spot enlargement 4891 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4889 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4888 
Wood Floors and Water 4888 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4883 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4882 
WAF is for Losers 4882 
WAF: it depends. 4882 
Integration 4881 
Here and there. 4881 
Life after WWIII 4881 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4881 
Cables management. 4879 
Featurizing 4879 
Kids and tubes cont. 4876 
Kid magnet 4876 
Kids and audio 4875 
Radars 4875 
Wow, what the days! 4871 
The comming weekend 4867 
It all was worth it! 4864 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4859 
Here is how it is look. 4859 
Resolving the carpet issue 4859 
Bonfire 4859 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4859 
Proof of concept? 4859 
Geometry 4859 
A view from listening position. 4859 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4859 
Some feedback 4859 
Evening 4859 
I wonder why. 4858 
Rugs and things 4858 
In defense… 4858 
I can’t get it. 4855 
Haze. 4854 
Front wall 4854 
It is very possible. 4854 
It is nice to be back. 4851 
My comfy corner. 4848 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4488 
WMD in house. 4310 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4213 
The third listening spot. 4192 
For sure a very different experience. 4154 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4149 
It's Jfretch's system. 4149 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4148 
Domestic games 4102 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3963 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3963 
Dynamic screening 3963 
Actually this is very good idea! 3963 
Volcanic fabric 3963 
I should have done this. 3961 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3957 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3926 
No worries 3926 
Awesome memories 3926 
Optimization of space 3926 
Child-ish considerations 3923 
Finding peace.... 3917 
"Fencing"? 3916 
I need to build something custom 3916 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3916 
Stressed Skin 3916 
NYC elevators 3916 
Kids toys and quantities. 3916 
Everything is completely reversible 3915 
Racks and things 3915 
Now it looks even more promising! 3915 
Quantity of rods 3915 
Avoiding diagonals 3913 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3912 
That's not fair! 3912 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3912 
Discrimination? 3907 
Vertical configuration 3900 
Impresive ! 3829 
Did you read the site? 3829 
Contact 3829 
Company's name is Rixrax 3829 
Stand 3828 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3784 
End of life headphone system 3784 
Something like this? 3784 
The "Second Living Room" 3784 
Mixing urban & suburban 3784 
Late night listening 3784 
Moving life... 3782 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3782 
A true listening room. 3758 
It started… 3743 
Levels of Interest 3743 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3743 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3743 
I can't not to post it.... 3743 
Do not leave him unattended. 3743 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3743 
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