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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5799 
The first take on the new room. 5793 
New Room, a first shot. 5792 
Wonderful 5792 
Adopted 5791 
The first relaxed night with the room 5789 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5788 
The listening room is ready. 5787 
New Room, a First Shot 5785 
Continue to work with the room 5785 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5785 
Room 5784 
I think it will take another month. 5784 
The Buttressing 5784 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5783 
The new place and the new noises. 5783 
Big listening room 5782 
Screw the "big" rooms 5782 
Big listening rooms 5782 
First reflection points 5781 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5781 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5778 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5777 
Squeezing the floor 5777 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5777 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5777 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5776 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5776 
The new room, the very first listening. 5776 
The 14.5 foot. 5775 
Again… 5774 
Romy's new Playground 5774 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5774 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5774 
For the uninitiated ... 5773 
NH guy 5773 
Room 5773 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5772 
The first base is done 5772 
Reentry time alignment. 5771 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5770 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5770 
Mid bass horn. 5770 
Guess is only a guess… 5770 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5770 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5769 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5769 
Diffusors 5769 
Diffuse injection 5769 
Let analyse why it so 5769 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5769 
Wheel and Deal 5769 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5769 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5769 
I Must Be Missing Something 5769 
I put sliders under my speakers 5768 
ROOM 5767 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5767 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5767 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5767 
No concerns 5767 
Speakers and room 5767 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5766 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5766 
Diaphram 5766 
Phram 5766 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5766 
Perfect piston 5766 
Decorater 5765 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5765 
New morning 5764 
The first take on the room with RTA 5763 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5763 
Axiomatic 5763 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5762 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5762 
The size of the bass. 5762 
Bass Factory 5762 
Crude Level, or something more? 5762 
I will play with it this week…. 5762 
Rent-A 5762 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5762 
Corner horns 5762 
Cheating from below 5762 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5762 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5761 
A possibly overly simplified view 5761 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5761 
Iceberg 5761 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5761 
Why not horn 5761 
A correction…. 5761 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5761 
They are just not related things at all. 5761 
Fertin 5759 
Low resonance is good... 5759 
Et tu, Brute? 5758 
The Room response at LF 5757 
Life On The Ground Floor 5757 
Bass arrays 5757 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5757 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5757 
The super sucks. 5757 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5757 
You may also try 5756 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5756 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5756 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5756 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5756 
60 Hz Resonance 5756 
No notching… so far. 5756 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5755 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5755 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5755 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5755 
Power to the People 5755 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5755 
Aura 5755 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5755 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5755 
All class D is the same 5755 
Interpreting the LF results. 5754 
The Halibut 5754 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5754 
The Big Picture 5754 
Power & ULF channels 5754 
The big picture indeed. 5754 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5754 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5754 
The Power and the Glory 5753 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5753 
I guess I did not get this memo 5753 
French LF drivers 5753 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5753 
(another) French LF approach 5752 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5752 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5752 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5752 
Limpschtick 5752 
Symmetry 5752 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5751 
Room correction 5751 
It migh be more complicated. 5751 
Bass EQ ? 5751 
Agree and not. 5751 
Two "diseases" 5751 
Parametric filters 5751 
Ceiling arrays 5751 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5751 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5751 
The Middle of the Room. 5751 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5751 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5751 
Stop! 5751 
Appendectomy 5751 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5750 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5750 
No Isolation 5750 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5747 
Potential contenders? 5746 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5746 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5746 
Those Crazy Canucks 5742 
Mo' Better Bass 5736 
Bird in the Hand? 5736 
A wet listening spot? 5729 
Storm 5726 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5726 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5712 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5682 
Polar Opposite ULF 5681 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5669 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5667 
Differently but the same. 5666 
PVC 5665 
The sail test try. 5665 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5665 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5665 
Trial 5664 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5664 
Some explanations 5664 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5663 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5662 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5661 
Acrylate 5660 
Magic blanket 5660 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5659 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5659 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5659 
I have a few options. 5659 
Foam color 5659 
Strange things with upperbass 5659 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5658 
Teatro reform. . . 5658 
The foaming room dilemma. 5657 
Melamine Foam 5657 
Foaming up the cat house 5657 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5657 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5657 
Acoustic revisions… 5656 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5653 
Surprises so far in the new room 5652 
The upperbass in the new room. 5652 
Slight change of hart. 5651 
Camco supply of Boston 5649 
Room acoustics 5649 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5608 
I need to kill dust first. 5608 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5606 
To feed the leeches? 5606 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5605 
Yh 5605 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5605 
DPOLs? 5605 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5605 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5602 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5602 
A HalfPipe solution? 5602 
I absolutely love it. 5602 
Piper work 5601 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5601 
Absorption 5601 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5600 
Cats life ? 5600 
Call me Pussy. 5600 
More about traps 5600 
Acoustic impedance? 5600 
You maybe right 5600 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5600 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5599 
Heavy Curtain 5599 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5598 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5598 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5598 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5595 
Fix speaker move chair? 5594 
Back and forth ceremony 5594 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5593 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5592 
Glass windows 5591 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5590 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5589 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5587 
How to use basement jacks? 5587 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5587 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5587 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5586 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5586 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5585 
Sore eyes... 5584 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5584 
The harvesting week! 5582 
I need an inspiration… 5581 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5580 
Like this? 5580 
Dramatically randomize MF 5580 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5579 
The room eats dynamic 5579 
Diffusers 5579 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5578 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5563 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5562 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5562 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5562 
About Width-Importance balance. 5560 
Letting the music scale up 5559 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5559 
To finish my house décor… 5555 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5554 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5553 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5553 
Calling the gods of music 5553 
Absolutely 5553 
Phase manipulation 5553 
No relation. 5553 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5553 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5553 
Dynamical mismatch 5552 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5552 
Stradiwinerius? 5549 
Dealing with the glass. 5548 
Boston 5548 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5548 
Added mass 5548 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5548 
It is about moderation…. 5548 
To hell with the wine... 5548 
Also for other surafaces 5547 
LEAD 5547 
LEAD & GLASS 5547 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5547 
Read carefully 5547 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5547 
Crooks and morons 5547 
Magiscopios 5546 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5526 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5526 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5525 
The LP setup in the new home. 5474 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5469 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5469 
Pianochord will do! 5469 
Spanyi heaven 5469 
I see no conflict at all. 5469 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5469 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5469 
A year after closing 5461 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5461 
Traveling antimatter 5454 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5448 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5447 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5421 
Cast Iron fireplace 5420 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5420 
The hardcore way 5420 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5384 
This is How It's Done 5383 
Listening room during summer. 5371 
What about those... 5370 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5370 
Reducing A/C Noise 5370 
HVAC the Cat 5370 
Big Ass fan 5369 
Variac dimmers 5369 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5369 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5369 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5301 
Some winter observations. 5192 
That Asian man…. 5161 
The Franz Schubert morning 5135 
Spring.... 5084 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5034 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5005 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5005 
Just good photography? 5005 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5005 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5005 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5004 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5004 
Sports car 5004 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5004 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5004 
Train Positioning 5004 
Kind of what I want 5004 
The lap listening… 5004 
Family Room 5004 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5001 
A super audio room. 4997 
Time Warp! 4997 
A piano in a listening room 4976 
Pianissimo 4976 
The plan in blue. 4976 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4976 
My doubts 4976 
It is exactly what I worry. 4975 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4975 
Musicians at home 4975 
Piano Measurements 4974 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4969 
The next step. 4955 
Midbass horns missing?? 4954 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4944 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4944 
Baby Grand 4943 
Wood floor 4943 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4943 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4943 
Amy’s baby. 4941 
Improvement 4941 
Agree with Scott 4941 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4929 
Integrated casters 4929 
Very nice, thanks. 4929 
Customization 4929 
Sliders 4929 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4922 
Congratulations 4922 
Holes in the floor... 4922 
Tubes and kids 4922 
Sweet spot enlargement 4922 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4920 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4919 
Wood Floors and Water 4919 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4914 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4913 
WAF is for Losers 4913 
WAF: it depends. 4913 
Integration 4912 
Here and there. 4912 
Life after WWIII 4912 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4912 
Cables management. 4910 
Featurizing 4910 
Kids and tubes cont. 4907 
Kid magnet 4907 
Kids and audio 4906 
Radars 4906 
Wow, what the days! 4902 
The comming weekend 4898 
It all was worth it! 4895 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4890 
Here is how it is look. 4890 
Resolving the carpet issue 4890 
Bonfire 4890 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4890 
Proof of concept? 4890 
Geometry 4890 
A view from listening position. 4890 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4890 
Some feedback 4890 
Evening 4890 
I wonder why. 4889 
Rugs and things 4889 
In defense… 4889 
I can’t get it. 4886 
Haze. 4885 
Front wall 4885 
It is very possible. 4885 
It is nice to be back. 4882 
My comfy corner. 4879 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4519 
WMD in house. 4341 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4244 
The third listening spot. 4223 
For sure a very different experience. 4185 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4180 
It's Jfretch's system. 4180 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4179 
Domestic games 4133 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3994 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3994 
Dynamic screening 3994 
Actually this is very good idea! 3994 
Volcanic fabric 3994 
I should have done this. 3992 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3988 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3957 
No worries 3957 
Awesome memories 3957 
Optimization of space 3957 
Child-ish considerations 3954 
Finding peace.... 3948 
"Fencing"? 3947 
I need to build something custom 3947 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3947 
Stressed Skin 3947 
NYC elevators 3947 
Kids toys and quantities. 3947 
Everything is completely reversible 3946 
Racks and things 3946 
Now it looks even more promising! 3946 
Quantity of rods 3946 
Avoiding diagonals 3944 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3943 
That's not fair! 3943 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3943 
Discrimination? 3938 
Vertical configuration 3931 
Impresive ! 3860 
Did you read the site? 3860 
Contact 3860 
Company's name is Rixrax 3860 
Stand 3859 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3815 
End of life headphone system 3815 
Something like this? 3815 
The "Second Living Room" 3815 
Mixing urban & suburban 3815 
Late night listening 3815 
Moving life... 3813 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3813 
A true listening room. 3789 
It started… 3774 
Levels of Interest 3774 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3774 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3774 
I can't not to post it.... 3774 
Do not leave him unattended. 3774 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3774 
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