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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5826 
The first take on the new room. 5820 
New Room, a first shot. 5819 
Wonderful 5819 
Adopted 5818 
The first relaxed night with the room 5816 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5815 
The listening room is ready. 5814 
New Room, a First Shot 5812 
Continue to work with the room 5812 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5812 
Room 5811 
I think it will take another month. 5811 
The Buttressing 5811 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5810 
The new place and the new noises. 5810 
Big listening room 5809 
Screw the "big" rooms 5809 
Big listening rooms 5809 
First reflection points 5808 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5808 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5805 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5804 
Squeezing the floor 5804 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5804 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5804 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5803 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5803 
The new room, the very first listening. 5803 
The 14.5 foot. 5802 
Again… 5801 
Romy's new Playground 5801 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5801 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5801 
For the uninitiated ... 5800 
NH guy 5800 
Room 5800 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5799 
The first base is done 5799 
Reentry time alignment. 5798 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5797 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5797 
Mid bass horn. 5797 
Guess is only a guess… 5797 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5797 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5796 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5796 
Diffusors 5796 
Diffuse injection 5796 
Let analyse why it so 5796 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5796 
Wheel and Deal 5796 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5796 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5796 
I Must Be Missing Something 5796 
I put sliders under my speakers 5795 
ROOM 5794 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5794 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5794 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5794 
No concerns 5794 
Speakers and room 5794 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5793 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5793 
Diaphram 5793 
Phram 5793 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5793 
Perfect piston 5793 
Decorater 5792 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5792 
New morning 5791 
The first take on the room with RTA 5790 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5790 
Axiomatic 5790 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5789 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5789 
The size of the bass. 5789 
Bass Factory 5789 
Crude Level, or something more? 5789 
I will play with it this week…. 5789 
Rent-A 5789 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5789 
Corner horns 5789 
Cheating from below 5789 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5789 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5788 
A possibly overly simplified view 5788 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5788 
Iceberg 5788 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5788 
Why not horn 5788 
A correction…. 5788 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5788 
They are just not related things at all. 5788 
Fertin 5786 
Low resonance is good... 5786 
Et tu, Brute? 5785 
The Room response at LF 5784 
Life On The Ground Floor 5784 
Bass arrays 5784 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5784 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5784 
The super sucks. 5784 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5784 
You may also try 5783 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5783 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5783 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5783 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5783 
60 Hz Resonance 5783 
No notching… so far. 5783 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5782 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5782 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5782 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5782 
Power to the People 5782 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5782 
Aura 5782 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5782 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5782 
All class D is the same 5782 
Interpreting the LF results. 5781 
The Halibut 5781 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5781 
The Big Picture 5781 
Power & ULF channels 5781 
The big picture indeed. 5781 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5781 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5781 
The Power and the Glory 5780 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5780 
I guess I did not get this memo 5780 
French LF drivers 5780 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5780 
(another) French LF approach 5779 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5779 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5779 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5779 
Limpschtick 5779 
Symmetry 5779 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5778 
Room correction 5778 
It migh be more complicated. 5778 
Bass EQ ? 5778 
Agree and not. 5778 
Two "diseases" 5778 
Parametric filters 5778 
Ceiling arrays 5778 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5778 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5778 
The Middle of the Room. 5778 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5778 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5778 
Stop! 5778 
Appendectomy 5778 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5777 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5777 
No Isolation 5777 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5774 
Potential contenders? 5773 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5773 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5773 
Those Crazy Canucks 5769 
Mo' Better Bass 5763 
Bird in the Hand? 5763 
A wet listening spot? 5756 
Storm 5753 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5753 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5739 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5709 
Polar Opposite ULF 5708 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5696 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5694 
Differently but the same. 5693 
PVC 5692 
The sail test try. 5692 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5692 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5692 
Trial 5691 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5691 
Some explanations 5691 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5690 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5689 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5688 
Acrylate 5687 
Magic blanket 5687 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5686 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5686 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5686 
I have a few options. 5686 
Foam color 5686 
Strange things with upperbass 5686 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5685 
Teatro reform. . . 5685 
The foaming room dilemma. 5684 
Melamine Foam 5684 
Foaming up the cat house 5684 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5684 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5684 
Acoustic revisions… 5683 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5680 
Surprises so far in the new room 5679 
The upperbass in the new room. 5679 
Slight change of hart. 5678 
Camco supply of Boston 5676 
Room acoustics 5676 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5635 
I need to kill dust first. 5635 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5633 
To feed the leeches? 5633 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5632 
Yh 5632 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5632 
DPOLs? 5632 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5632 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5629 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5629 
A HalfPipe solution? 5629 
I absolutely love it. 5629 
Piper work 5628 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5628 
Absorption 5628 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5627 
Cats life ? 5627 
Call me Pussy. 5627 
More about traps 5627 
Acoustic impedance? 5627 
You maybe right 5627 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5627 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5626 
Heavy Curtain 5626 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5625 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5625 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5625 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5622 
Fix speaker move chair? 5621 
Back and forth ceremony 5621 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5620 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5619 
Glass windows 5618 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5617 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5616 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5614 
How to use basement jacks? 5614 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5614 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5614 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5613 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5613 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5612 
Sore eyes... 5611 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5611 
The harvesting week! 5609 
I need an inspiration… 5608 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5607 
Like this? 5607 
Dramatically randomize MF 5607 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5606 
The room eats dynamic 5606 
Diffusers 5606 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5605 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5590 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5589 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5589 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5589 
About Width-Importance balance. 5587 
Letting the music scale up 5586 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5586 
To finish my house décor… 5582 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5581 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5580 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5580 
Calling the gods of music 5580 
Absolutely 5580 
Phase manipulation 5580 
No relation. 5580 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5580 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5580 
Dynamical mismatch 5579 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5579 
Stradiwinerius? 5576 
Dealing with the glass. 5575 
Boston 5575 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5575 
Added mass 5575 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5575 
It is about moderation…. 5575 
To hell with the wine... 5575 
Also for other surafaces 5574 
LEAD 5574 
LEAD & GLASS 5574 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5574 
Read carefully 5574 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5574 
Crooks and morons 5574 
Magiscopios 5573 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5553 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5553 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5552 
The LP setup in the new home. 5501 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5496 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5496 
Pianochord will do! 5496 
Spanyi heaven 5496 
I see no conflict at all. 5496 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5496 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5496 
A year after closing 5488 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5488 
Traveling antimatter 5481 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5475 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5474 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5448 
Cast Iron fireplace 5447 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5447 
The hardcore way 5447 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5411 
This is How It's Done 5410 
Listening room during summer. 5398 
What about those... 5397 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5397 
Reducing A/C Noise 5397 
HVAC the Cat 5397 
Big Ass fan 5396 
Variac dimmers 5396 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5396 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5396 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5328 
Some winter observations. 5219 
That Asian man…. 5188 
The Franz Schubert morning 5162 
Spring.... 5111 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5061 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5032 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5032 
Just good photography? 5032 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5032 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5032 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5031 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5031 
Sports car 5031 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5031 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5031 
Train Positioning 5031 
Kind of what I want 5031 
The lap listening… 5031 
Family Room 5031 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5028 
A super audio room. 5024 
Time Warp! 5024 
A piano in a listening room 5003 
Pianissimo 5003 
The plan in blue. 5003 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5003 
My doubts 5003 
It is exactly what I worry. 5002 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5002 
Musicians at home 5002 
Piano Measurements 5001 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4996 
The next step. 4982 
Midbass horns missing?? 4981 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4971 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4971 
Baby Grand 4970 
Wood floor 4970 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4970 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4970 
Amy’s baby. 4968 
Improvement 4968 
Agree with Scott 4968 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4956 
Integrated casters 4956 
Very nice, thanks. 4956 
Customization 4956 
Sliders 4956 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4949 
Congratulations 4949 
Holes in the floor... 4949 
Tubes and kids 4949 
Sweet spot enlargement 4949 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4947 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4946 
Wood Floors and Water 4946 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4941 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4940 
WAF is for Losers 4940 
WAF: it depends. 4940 
Integration 4939 
Here and there. 4939 
Life after WWIII 4939 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4939 
Cables management. 4937 
Featurizing 4937 
Kids and tubes cont. 4934 
Kid magnet 4934 
Kids and audio 4933 
Radars 4933 
Wow, what the days! 4929 
The comming weekend 4925 
It all was worth it! 4922 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4917 
Here is how it is look. 4917 
Resolving the carpet issue 4917 
Bonfire 4917 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4917 
Proof of concept? 4917 
Geometry 4917 
A view from listening position. 4917 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4917 
Some feedback 4917 
Evening 4917 
I wonder why. 4916 
Rugs and things 4916 
In defense… 4916 
I can’t get it. 4913 
Haze. 4912 
Front wall 4912 
It is very possible. 4912 
It is nice to be back. 4909 
My comfy corner. 4906 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4546 
WMD in house. 4368 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4271 
The third listening spot. 4250 
For sure a very different experience. 4212 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4207 
It's Jfretch's system. 4207 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4206 
Domestic games 4160 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4021 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4021 
Dynamic screening 4021 
Actually this is very good idea! 4021 
Volcanic fabric 4021 
I should have done this. 4019 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4015 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3984 
No worries 3984 
Awesome memories 3984 
Optimization of space 3984 
Child-ish considerations 3981 
Finding peace.... 3975 
"Fencing"? 3974 
I need to build something custom 3974 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3974 
Stressed Skin 3974 
NYC elevators 3974 
Kids toys and quantities. 3974 
Everything is completely reversible 3973 
Racks and things 3973 
Now it looks even more promising! 3973 
Quantity of rods 3973 
Avoiding diagonals 3971 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3970 
That's not fair! 3970 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3970 
Discrimination? 3965 
Vertical configuration 3958 
Impresive ! 3887 
Did you read the site? 3887 
Contact 3887 
Company's name is Rixrax 3887 
Stand 3886 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3842 
End of life headphone system 3842 
Something like this? 3842 
The "Second Living Room" 3842 
Mixing urban & suburban 3842 
Late night listening 3842 
Moving life... 3840 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3840 
A true listening room. 3816 
It started… 3801 
Levels of Interest 3801 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3801 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3801 
I can't not to post it.... 3801 
Do not leave him unattended. 3801 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3801 
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