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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5765 
The first take on the new room. 5759 
New Room, a first shot. 5758 
Wonderful 5758 
Adopted 5757 
The first relaxed night with the room 5755 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5754 
The listening room is ready. 5753 
New Room, a First Shot 5751 
Continue to work with the room 5751 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5751 
Room 5750 
I think it will take another month. 5750 
The Buttressing 5750 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5749 
The new place and the new noises. 5749 
Big listening room 5748 
Screw the "big" rooms 5748 
Big listening rooms 5748 
First reflection points 5747 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5747 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5744 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5743 
Squeezing the floor 5743 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5743 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5743 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5742 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5742 
The new room, the very first listening. 5742 
The 14.5 foot. 5741 
Again… 5740 
Romy's new Playground 5740 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5740 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5740 
For the uninitiated ... 5739 
NH guy 5739 
Room 5739 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5738 
The first base is done 5738 
Reentry time alignment. 5737 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5736 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5736 
Mid bass horn. 5736 
Guess is only a guess… 5736 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5736 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5735 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5735 
Diffusors 5735 
Diffuse injection 5735 
Let analyse why it so 5735 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5735 
Wheel and Deal 5735 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5735 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5735 
I Must Be Missing Something 5735 
I put sliders under my speakers 5734 
ROOM 5733 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5733 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5733 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5733 
No concerns 5733 
Speakers and room 5733 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5732 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5732 
Diaphram 5732 
Phram 5732 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5732 
Perfect piston 5732 
Decorater 5731 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5731 
New morning 5730 
The first take on the room with RTA 5729 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5729 
Axiomatic 5729 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5728 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5728 
The size of the bass. 5728 
Bass Factory 5728 
Crude Level, or something more? 5728 
I will play with it this week…. 5728 
Rent-A 5728 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5728 
Corner horns 5728 
Cheating from below 5728 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5728 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5727 
A possibly overly simplified view 5727 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5727 
Iceberg 5727 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5727 
Why not horn 5727 
A correction…. 5727 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5727 
They are just not related things at all. 5727 
Fertin 5725 
Low resonance is good... 5725 
Et tu, Brute? 5724 
The Room response at LF 5723 
Life On The Ground Floor 5723 
Bass arrays 5723 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5723 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5723 
The super sucks. 5723 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5723 
You may also try 5722 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5722 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5722 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5722 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5722 
60 Hz Resonance 5722 
No notching… so far. 5722 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5721 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5721 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5721 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5721 
Power to the People 5721 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5721 
Aura 5721 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5721 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5721 
All class D is the same 5721 
Interpreting the LF results. 5720 
The Halibut 5720 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5720 
The Big Picture 5720 
Power & ULF channels 5720 
The big picture indeed. 5720 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5720 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5720 
The Power and the Glory 5719 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5719 
I guess I did not get this memo 5719 
French LF drivers 5719 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5719 
(another) French LF approach 5718 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5718 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5718 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5718 
Limpschtick 5718 
Symmetry 5718 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5717 
Room correction 5717 
It migh be more complicated. 5717 
Bass EQ ? 5717 
Agree and not. 5717 
Two "diseases" 5717 
Parametric filters 5717 
Ceiling arrays 5717 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5717 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5717 
The Middle of the Room. 5717 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5717 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5717 
Stop! 5717 
Appendectomy 5717 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5716 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5716 
No Isolation 5716 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5713 
Potential contenders? 5712 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5712 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5712 
Those Crazy Canucks 5708 
Mo' Better Bass 5702 
Bird in the Hand? 5702 
A wet listening spot? 5695 
Storm 5692 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5692 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5678 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5648 
Polar Opposite ULF 5647 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5635 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5633 
Differently but the same. 5632 
PVC 5631 
The sail test try. 5631 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5631 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5631 
Trial 5630 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5630 
Some explanations 5630 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5629 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5628 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5627 
Acrylate 5626 
Magic blanket 5626 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5625 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5625 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5625 
I have a few options. 5625 
Foam color 5625 
Strange things with upperbass 5625 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5624 
Teatro reform. . . 5624 
The foaming room dilemma. 5623 
Melamine Foam 5623 
Foaming up the cat house 5623 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5623 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5623 
Acoustic revisions… 5622 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5619 
Surprises so far in the new room 5618 
The upperbass in the new room. 5618 
Slight change of hart. 5617 
Camco supply of Boston 5615 
Room acoustics 5615 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5574 
I need to kill dust first. 5574 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5572 
To feed the leeches? 5572 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5571 
Yh 5571 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5571 
DPOLs? 5571 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5571 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5568 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5568 
A HalfPipe solution? 5568 
I absolutely love it. 5568 
Piper work 5567 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5567 
Absorption 5567 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5566 
Cats life ? 5566 
Call me Pussy. 5566 
More about traps 5566 
Acoustic impedance? 5566 
You maybe right 5566 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5566 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5565 
Heavy Curtain 5565 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5564 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5564 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5564 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5561 
Fix speaker move chair? 5560 
Back and forth ceremony 5560 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5559 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5558 
Glass windows 5557 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5556 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5555 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5553 
How to use basement jacks? 5553 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5553 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5553 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5552 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5552 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5551 
Sore eyes... 5550 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5550 
The harvesting week! 5548 
I need an inspiration… 5547 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5546 
Like this? 5546 
Dramatically randomize MF 5546 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5545 
The room eats dynamic 5545 
Diffusers 5545 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5544 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5529 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5528 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5528 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5528 
About Width-Importance balance. 5526 
Letting the music scale up 5525 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5525 
To finish my house décor… 5521 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5520 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5519 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5519 
Calling the gods of music 5519 
Absolutely 5519 
Phase manipulation 5519 
No relation. 5519 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5519 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5519 
Dynamical mismatch 5518 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5518 
Stradiwinerius? 5515 
Dealing with the glass. 5514 
Boston 5514 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5514 
Added mass 5514 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5514 
It is about moderation…. 5514 
To hell with the wine... 5514 
Also for other surafaces 5513 
LEAD 5513 
LEAD & GLASS 5513 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5513 
Read carefully 5513 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5513 
Crooks and morons 5513 
Magiscopios 5512 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5492 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5492 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5491 
The LP setup in the new home. 5440 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5435 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5435 
Pianochord will do! 5435 
Spanyi heaven 5435 
I see no conflict at all. 5435 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5435 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5435 
A year after closing 5427 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5427 
Traveling antimatter 5420 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5414 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5413 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5387 
Cast Iron fireplace 5386 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5386 
The hardcore way 5386 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5350 
This is How It's Done 5349 
Listening room during summer. 5337 
What about those... 5336 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5336 
Reducing A/C Noise 5336 
HVAC the Cat 5336 
Big Ass fan 5335 
Variac dimmers 5335 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5335 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5335 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5267 
Some winter observations. 5158 
That Asian man…. 5127 
The Franz Schubert morning 5101 
Spring.... 5050 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5000 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4971 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4971 
Just good photography? 4971 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4971 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4971 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4970 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4970 
Sports car 4970 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4970 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4970 
Train Positioning 4970 
Kind of what I want 4970 
The lap listening… 4970 
Family Room 4970 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4967 
A super audio room. 4963 
Time Warp! 4963 
A piano in a listening room 4942 
Pianissimo 4942 
The plan in blue. 4942 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4942 
My doubts 4942 
It is exactly what I worry. 4941 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4941 
Musicians at home 4941 
Piano Measurements 4940 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4935 
The next step. 4921 
Midbass horns missing?? 4920 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4910 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4910 
Baby Grand 4909 
Wood floor 4909 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4909 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4909 
Amy’s baby. 4907 
Improvement 4907 
Agree with Scott 4907 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4895 
Integrated casters 4895 
Very nice, thanks. 4895 
Customization 4895 
Sliders 4895 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4888 
Congratulations 4888 
Holes in the floor... 4888 
Tubes and kids 4888 
Sweet spot enlargement 4888 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4886 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4885 
Wood Floors and Water 4885 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4880 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4879 
WAF is for Losers 4879 
WAF: it depends. 4879 
Integration 4878 
Here and there. 4878 
Life after WWIII 4878 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4878 
Cables management. 4876 
Featurizing 4876 
Kids and tubes cont. 4873 
Kid magnet 4873 
Kids and audio 4872 
Radars 4872 
Wow, what the days! 4868 
The comming weekend 4864 
It all was worth it! 4861 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4856 
Here is how it is look. 4856 
Resolving the carpet issue 4856 
Bonfire 4856 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4856 
Proof of concept? 4856 
Geometry 4856 
A view from listening position. 4856 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4856 
Some feedback 4856 
Evening 4856 
I wonder why. 4855 
Rugs and things 4855 
In defense… 4855 
I can’t get it. 4852 
Haze. 4851 
Front wall 4851 
It is very possible. 4851 
It is nice to be back. 4848 
My comfy corner. 4845 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4485 
WMD in house. 4307 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4210 
The third listening spot. 4189 
For sure a very different experience. 4151 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4146 
It's Jfretch's system. 4146 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4145 
Domestic games 4099 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3960 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3960 
Dynamic screening 3960 
Actually this is very good idea! 3960 
Volcanic fabric 3960 
I should have done this. 3958 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3954 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3923 
No worries 3923 
Awesome memories 3923 
Optimization of space 3923 
Child-ish considerations 3920 
Finding peace.... 3914 
"Fencing"? 3913 
I need to build something custom 3913 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3913 
Stressed Skin 3913 
NYC elevators 3913 
Kids toys and quantities. 3913 
Everything is completely reversible 3912 
Racks and things 3912 
Now it looks even more promising! 3912 
Quantity of rods 3912 
Avoiding diagonals 3910 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3909 
That's not fair! 3909 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3909 
Discrimination? 3904 
Vertical configuration 3897 
Impresive ! 3826 
Did you read the site? 3826 
Contact 3826 
Company's name is Rixrax 3826 
Stand 3825 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3781 
End of life headphone system 3781 
Something like this? 3781 
The "Second Living Room" 3781 
Mixing urban & suburban 3781 
Late night listening 3781 
Moving life... 3779 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3779 
A true listening room. 3755 
It started… 3740 
Levels of Interest 3740 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3740 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3740 
I can't not to post it.... 3740 
Do not leave him unattended. 3740 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3740 
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