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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5729 
The first take on the new room. 5723 
New Room, a first shot. 5722 
Wonderful 5722 
Adopted 5721 
The first relaxed night with the room 5719 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5718 
The listening room is ready. 5717 
New Room, a First Shot 5715 
Continue to work with the room 5715 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5715 
Room 5714 
I think it will take another month. 5714 
The Buttressing 5714 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5713 
The new place and the new noises. 5713 
Big listening room 5712 
Screw the "big" rooms 5712 
Big listening rooms 5712 
First reflection points 5711 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5711 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5708 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5707 
Squeezing the floor 5707 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5707 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5707 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5706 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5706 
The new room, the very first listening. 5706 
The 14.5 foot. 5705 
Again… 5704 
Romy's new Playground 5704 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5704 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5704 
For the uninitiated ... 5703 
NH guy 5703 
Room 5703 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5702 
The first base is done 5702 
Reentry time alignment. 5701 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5700 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5700 
Mid bass horn. 5700 
Guess is only a guess… 5700 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5700 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5699 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5699 
Diffusors 5699 
Diffuse injection 5699 
Let analyse why it so 5699 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5699 
Wheel and Deal 5699 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5699 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5699 
I Must Be Missing Something 5699 
I put sliders under my speakers 5698 
ROOM 5697 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5697 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5697 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5697 
No concerns 5697 
Speakers and room 5697 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5696 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5696 
Diaphram 5696 
Phram 5696 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5696 
Perfect piston 5696 
Decorater 5695 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5695 
New morning 5694 
The first take on the room with RTA 5693 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5693 
Axiomatic 5693 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5692 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5692 
The size of the bass. 5692 
Bass Factory 5692 
Crude Level, or something more? 5692 
I will play with it this week…. 5692 
Rent-A 5692 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5692 
Corner horns 5692 
Cheating from below 5692 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5692 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5691 
A possibly overly simplified view 5691 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5691 
Iceberg 5691 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5691 
Why not horn 5691 
A correction…. 5691 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5691 
They are just not related things at all. 5691 
Fertin 5689 
Low resonance is good... 5689 
Et tu, Brute? 5688 
The Room response at LF 5687 
Life On The Ground Floor 5687 
Bass arrays 5687 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5687 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5687 
The super sucks. 5687 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5687 
You may also try 5686 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5686 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5686 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5686 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5686 
60 Hz Resonance 5686 
No notching… so far. 5686 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5685 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5685 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5685 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5685 
Power to the People 5685 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5685 
Aura 5685 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5685 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5685 
All class D is the same 5685 
Interpreting the LF results. 5684 
The Halibut 5684 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5684 
The Big Picture 5684 
Power & ULF channels 5684 
The big picture indeed. 5684 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5684 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5684 
The Power and the Glory 5683 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5683 
I guess I did not get this memo 5683 
French LF drivers 5683 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5683 
(another) French LF approach 5682 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5682 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5682 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5682 
Limpschtick 5682 
Symmetry 5682 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5681 
Room correction 5681 
It migh be more complicated. 5681 
Bass EQ ? 5681 
Agree and not. 5681 
Two "diseases" 5681 
Parametric filters 5681 
Ceiling arrays 5681 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5681 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5681 
The Middle of the Room. 5681 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5681 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5681 
Stop! 5681 
Appendectomy 5681 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5680 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5680 
No Isolation 5680 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5677 
Potential contenders? 5676 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5676 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5676 
Those Crazy Canucks 5672 
Mo' Better Bass 5666 
Bird in the Hand? 5666 
A wet listening spot? 5659 
Storm 5656 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5656 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5642 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5612 
Polar Opposite ULF 5611 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5599 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5597 
Differently but the same. 5596 
PVC 5595 
The sail test try. 5595 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5595 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5595 
Trial 5594 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5594 
Some explanations 5594 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5593 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5592 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5591 
Acrylate 5590 
Magic blanket 5590 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5589 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5589 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5589 
I have a few options. 5589 
Foam color 5589 
Strange things with upperbass 5589 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5588 
Teatro reform. . . 5588 
The foaming room dilemma. 5587 
Melamine Foam 5587 
Foaming up the cat house 5587 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5587 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5587 
Acoustic revisions… 5586 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5583 
Surprises so far in the new room 5582 
The upperbass in the new room. 5582 
Slight change of hart. 5581 
Camco supply of Boston 5579 
Room acoustics 5579 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5538 
I need to kill dust first. 5538 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5536 
To feed the leeches? 5536 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5535 
Yh 5535 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5535 
DPOLs? 5535 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5535 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5532 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5532 
A HalfPipe solution? 5532 
I absolutely love it. 5532 
Piper work 5531 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5531 
Absorption 5531 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5530 
Cats life ? 5530 
Call me Pussy. 5530 
More about traps 5530 
Acoustic impedance? 5530 
You maybe right 5530 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5530 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5529 
Heavy Curtain 5529 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5528 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5528 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5528 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5525 
Fix speaker move chair? 5524 
Back and forth ceremony 5524 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5523 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5522 
Glass windows 5521 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5520 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5519 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5517 
How to use basement jacks? 5517 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5517 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5517 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5516 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5516 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5515 
Sore eyes... 5514 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5514 
The harvesting week! 5512 
I need an inspiration… 5511 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5510 
Like this? 5510 
Dramatically randomize MF 5510 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5509 
The room eats dynamic 5509 
Diffusers 5509 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5508 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5493 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5492 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5492 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5492 
About Width-Importance balance. 5490 
Letting the music scale up 5489 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5489 
To finish my house décor… 5485 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5484 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5483 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5483 
Calling the gods of music 5483 
Absolutely 5483 
Phase manipulation 5483 
No relation. 5483 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5483 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5483 
Dynamical mismatch 5482 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5482 
Stradiwinerius? 5479 
Dealing with the glass. 5478 
Boston 5478 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5478 
Added mass 5478 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5478 
It is about moderation…. 5478 
To hell with the wine... 5478 
Also for other surafaces 5477 
LEAD 5477 
LEAD & GLASS 5477 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5477 
Read carefully 5477 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5477 
Crooks and morons 5477 
Magiscopios 5476 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5456 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5456 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5455 
The LP setup in the new home. 5404 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5399 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5399 
Pianochord will do! 5399 
Spanyi heaven 5399 
I see no conflict at all. 5399 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5399 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5399 
A year after closing 5391 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5391 
Traveling antimatter 5384 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5378 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5377 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5351 
Cast Iron fireplace 5350 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5350 
The hardcore way 5350 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5314 
This is How It's Done 5313 
Listening room during summer. 5301 
What about those... 5300 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5300 
Reducing A/C Noise 5300 
HVAC the Cat 5300 
Big Ass fan 5299 
Variac dimmers 5299 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5299 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5299 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5231 
Some winter observations. 5122 
That Asian man…. 5091 
The Franz Schubert morning 5065 
Spring.... 5014 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4964 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4935 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4935 
Just good photography? 4935 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4935 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4935 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4934 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4934 
Sports car 4934 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4934 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4934 
Train Positioning 4934 
Kind of what I want 4934 
The lap listening… 4934 
Family Room 4934 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4931 
A super audio room. 4927 
Time Warp! 4927 
A piano in a listening room 4906 
Pianissimo 4906 
The plan in blue. 4906 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4906 
My doubts 4906 
It is exactly what I worry. 4905 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4905 
Musicians at home 4905 
Piano Measurements 4904 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4899 
The next step. 4885 
Midbass horns missing?? 4884 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4874 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4874 
Baby Grand 4873 
Wood floor 4873 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4873 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4873 
Amy’s baby. 4871 
Improvement 4871 
Agree with Scott 4871 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4859 
Integrated casters 4859 
Very nice, thanks. 4859 
Customization 4859 
Sliders 4859 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4852 
Congratulations 4852 
Holes in the floor... 4852 
Tubes and kids 4852 
Sweet spot enlargement 4852 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4850 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4849 
Wood Floors and Water 4849 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4844 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4843 
WAF is for Losers 4843 
WAF: it depends. 4843 
Integration 4842 
Here and there. 4842 
Life after WWIII 4842 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4842 
Cables management. 4840 
Featurizing 4840 
Kids and tubes cont. 4837 
Kid magnet 4837 
Kids and audio 4836 
Radars 4836 
Wow, what the days! 4832 
The comming weekend 4828 
It all was worth it! 4825 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4820 
Here is how it is look. 4820 
Resolving the carpet issue 4820 
Bonfire 4820 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4820 
Proof of concept? 4820 
Geometry 4820 
A view from listening position. 4820 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4820 
Some feedback 4820 
Evening 4820 
I wonder why. 4819 
Rugs and things 4819 
In defense… 4819 
I can’t get it. 4816 
Haze. 4815 
Front wall 4815 
It is very possible. 4815 
It is nice to be back. 4812 
My comfy corner. 4809 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4449 
WMD in house. 4271 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4174 
The third listening spot. 4153 
For sure a very different experience. 4115 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4110 
It's Jfretch's system. 4110 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4109 
Domestic games 4063 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3924 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3924 
Dynamic screening 3924 
Actually this is very good idea! 3924 
Volcanic fabric 3924 
I should have done this. 3922 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3918 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3887 
No worries 3887 
Awesome memories 3887 
Optimization of space 3887 
Child-ish considerations 3884 
Finding peace.... 3878 
"Fencing"? 3877 
I need to build something custom 3877 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3877 
Stressed Skin 3877 
NYC elevators 3877 
Kids toys and quantities. 3877 
Everything is completely reversible 3876 
Racks and things 3876 
Now it looks even more promising! 3876 
Quantity of rods 3876 
Avoiding diagonals 3874 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3873 
That's not fair! 3873 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3873 
Discrimination? 3868 
Vertical configuration 3861 
Impresive ! 3790 
Did you read the site? 3790 
Contact 3790 
Company's name is Rixrax 3790 
Stand 3789 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3745 
End of life headphone system 3745 
Something like this? 3745 
The "Second Living Room" 3745 
Mixing urban & suburban 3745 
Late night listening 3745 
Moving life... 3743 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3743 
A true listening room. 3719 
It started… 3704 
Levels of Interest 3704 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3704 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3704 
I can't not to post it.... 3704 
Do not leave him unattended. 3704 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3704 
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