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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5764 
The first take on the new room. 5758 
New Room, a first shot. 5757 
Wonderful 5757 
Adopted 5756 
The first relaxed night with the room 5754 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5753 
The listening room is ready. 5752 
New Room, a First Shot 5750 
Continue to work with the room 5750 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5750 
Room 5749 
I think it will take another month. 5749 
The Buttressing 5749 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5748 
The new place and the new noises. 5748 
Big listening room 5747 
Screw the "big" rooms 5747 
Big listening rooms 5747 
First reflection points 5746 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5746 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5743 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5742 
Squeezing the floor 5742 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5742 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5742 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5741 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5741 
The new room, the very first listening. 5741 
The 14.5 foot. 5740 
Again… 5739 
Romy's new Playground 5739 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5739 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5739 
For the uninitiated ... 5738 
NH guy 5738 
Room 5738 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5737 
The first base is done 5737 
Reentry time alignment. 5736 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5735 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5735 
Mid bass horn. 5735 
Guess is only a guess… 5735 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5735 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5734 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5734 
Diffusors 5734 
Diffuse injection 5734 
Let analyse why it so 5734 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5734 
Wheel and Deal 5734 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5734 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5734 
I Must Be Missing Something 5734 
I put sliders under my speakers 5733 
ROOM 5732 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5732 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5732 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5732 
No concerns 5732 
Speakers and room 5732 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5731 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5731 
Diaphram 5731 
Phram 5731 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5731 
Perfect piston 5731 
Decorater 5730 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5730 
New morning 5729 
The first take on the room with RTA 5728 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5728 
Axiomatic 5728 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5727 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5727 
The size of the bass. 5727 
Bass Factory 5727 
Crude Level, or something more? 5727 
I will play with it this week…. 5727 
Rent-A 5727 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5727 
Corner horns 5727 
Cheating from below 5727 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5727 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5726 
A possibly overly simplified view 5726 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5726 
Iceberg 5726 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5726 
Why not horn 5726 
A correction…. 5726 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5726 
They are just not related things at all. 5726 
Fertin 5724 
Low resonance is good... 5724 
Et tu, Brute? 5723 
The Room response at LF 5722 
Life On The Ground Floor 5722 
Bass arrays 5722 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5722 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5722 
The super sucks. 5722 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5722 
You may also try 5721 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5721 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5721 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5721 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5721 
60 Hz Resonance 5721 
No notching… so far. 5721 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5720 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5720 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5720 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5720 
Power to the People 5720 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5720 
Aura 5720 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5720 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5720 
All class D is the same 5720 
Interpreting the LF results. 5719 
The Halibut 5719 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5719 
The Big Picture 5719 
Power & ULF channels 5719 
The big picture indeed. 5719 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5719 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5719 
The Power and the Glory 5718 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5718 
I guess I did not get this memo 5718 
French LF drivers 5718 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5718 
(another) French LF approach 5717 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5717 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5717 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5717 
Limpschtick 5717 
Symmetry 5717 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5716 
Room correction 5716 
It migh be more complicated. 5716 
Bass EQ ? 5716 
Agree and not. 5716 
Two "diseases" 5716 
Parametric filters 5716 
Ceiling arrays 5716 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5716 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5716 
The Middle of the Room. 5716 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5716 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5716 
Stop! 5716 
Appendectomy 5716 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5715 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5715 
No Isolation 5715 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5712 
Potential contenders? 5711 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5711 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5711 
Those Crazy Canucks 5707 
Mo' Better Bass 5701 
Bird in the Hand? 5701 
A wet listening spot? 5694 
Storm 5691 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5691 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5677 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5647 
Polar Opposite ULF 5646 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5634 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5632 
Differently but the same. 5631 
PVC 5630 
The sail test try. 5630 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5630 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5630 
Trial 5629 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5629 
Some explanations 5629 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5628 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5627 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5626 
Acrylate 5625 
Magic blanket 5625 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5624 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5624 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5624 
I have a few options. 5624 
Foam color 5624 
Strange things with upperbass 5624 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5623 
Teatro reform. . . 5623 
The foaming room dilemma. 5622 
Melamine Foam 5622 
Foaming up the cat house 5622 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5622 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5622 
Acoustic revisions… 5621 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5618 
Surprises so far in the new room 5617 
The upperbass in the new room. 5617 
Slight change of hart. 5616 
Camco supply of Boston 5614 
Room acoustics 5614 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5573 
I need to kill dust first. 5573 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5571 
To feed the leeches? 5571 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5570 
Yh 5570 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5570 
DPOLs? 5570 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5570 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5567 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5567 
A HalfPipe solution? 5567 
I absolutely love it. 5567 
Piper work 5566 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5566 
Absorption 5566 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5565 
Cats life ? 5565 
Call me Pussy. 5565 
More about traps 5565 
Acoustic impedance? 5565 
You maybe right 5565 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5565 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5564 
Heavy Curtain 5564 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5563 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5563 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5563 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5560 
Fix speaker move chair? 5559 
Back and forth ceremony 5559 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5558 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5557 
Glass windows 5556 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5555 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5554 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5552 
How to use basement jacks? 5552 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5552 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5552 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5551 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5551 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5550 
Sore eyes... 5549 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5549 
The harvesting week! 5547 
I need an inspiration… 5546 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5545 
Like this? 5545 
Dramatically randomize MF 5545 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5544 
The room eats dynamic 5544 
Diffusers 5544 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5543 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5528 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5527 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5527 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5527 
About Width-Importance balance. 5525 
Letting the music scale up 5524 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5524 
To finish my house décor… 5520 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5519 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5518 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5518 
Calling the gods of music 5518 
Absolutely 5518 
Phase manipulation 5518 
No relation. 5518 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5518 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5518 
Dynamical mismatch 5517 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5517 
Stradiwinerius? 5514 
Dealing with the glass. 5513 
Boston 5513 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5513 
Added mass 5513 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5513 
It is about moderation…. 5513 
To hell with the wine... 5513 
Also for other surafaces 5512 
LEAD 5512 
LEAD & GLASS 5512 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5512 
Read carefully 5512 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5512 
Crooks and morons 5512 
Magiscopios 5511 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5491 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5491 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5490 
The LP setup in the new home. 5439 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5434 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5434 
Pianochord will do! 5434 
Spanyi heaven 5434 
I see no conflict at all. 5434 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5434 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5434 
A year after closing 5426 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5426 
Traveling antimatter 5419 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5413 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5412 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5386 
Cast Iron fireplace 5385 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5385 
The hardcore way 5385 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5349 
This is How It's Done 5348 
Listening room during summer. 5336 
What about those... 5335 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5335 
Reducing A/C Noise 5335 
HVAC the Cat 5335 
Big Ass fan 5334 
Variac dimmers 5334 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5334 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5334 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5266 
Some winter observations. 5157 
That Asian man…. 5126 
The Franz Schubert morning 5100 
Spring.... 5049 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4999 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4970 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4970 
Just good photography? 4970 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4970 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4970 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4969 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4969 
Sports car 4969 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4969 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4969 
Train Positioning 4969 
Kind of what I want 4969 
The lap listening… 4969 
Family Room 4969 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4966 
A super audio room. 4962 
Time Warp! 4962 
A piano in a listening room 4941 
Pianissimo 4941 
The plan in blue. 4941 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4941 
My doubts 4941 
It is exactly what I worry. 4940 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4940 
Musicians at home 4940 
Piano Measurements 4939 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4934 
The next step. 4920 
Midbass horns missing?? 4919 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4909 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4909 
Baby Grand 4908 
Wood floor 4908 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4908 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4908 
Amy’s baby. 4906 
Improvement 4906 
Agree with Scott 4906 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4894 
Integrated casters 4894 
Very nice, thanks. 4894 
Customization 4894 
Sliders 4894 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4887 
Congratulations 4887 
Holes in the floor... 4887 
Tubes and kids 4887 
Sweet spot enlargement 4887 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4885 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4884 
Wood Floors and Water 4884 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4879 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4878 
WAF is for Losers 4878 
WAF: it depends. 4878 
Integration 4877 
Here and there. 4877 
Life after WWIII 4877 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4877 
Cables management. 4875 
Featurizing 4875 
Kids and tubes cont. 4872 
Kid magnet 4872 
Kids and audio 4871 
Radars 4871 
Wow, what the days! 4867 
The comming weekend 4863 
It all was worth it! 4860 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4855 
Here is how it is look. 4855 
Resolving the carpet issue 4855 
Bonfire 4855 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4855 
Proof of concept? 4855 
Geometry 4855 
A view from listening position. 4855 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4855 
Some feedback 4855 
Evening 4855 
I wonder why. 4854 
Rugs and things 4854 
In defense… 4854 
I can’t get it. 4851 
Haze. 4850 
Front wall 4850 
It is very possible. 4850 
It is nice to be back. 4847 
My comfy corner. 4844 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4484 
WMD in house. 4306 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4209 
The third listening spot. 4188 
For sure a very different experience. 4150 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4145 
It's Jfretch's system. 4145 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4144 
Domestic games 4098 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3959 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3959 
Dynamic screening 3959 
Actually this is very good idea! 3959 
Volcanic fabric 3959 
I should have done this. 3957 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3953 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3922 
No worries 3922 
Awesome memories 3922 
Optimization of space 3922 
Child-ish considerations 3919 
Finding peace.... 3913 
"Fencing"? 3912 
I need to build something custom 3912 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3912 
Stressed Skin 3912 
NYC elevators 3912 
Kids toys and quantities. 3912 
Everything is completely reversible 3911 
Racks and things 3911 
Now it looks even more promising! 3911 
Quantity of rods 3911 
Avoiding diagonals 3909 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3908 
That's not fair! 3908 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3908 
Discrimination? 3903 
Vertical configuration 3896 
Impresive ! 3825 
Did you read the site? 3825 
Contact 3825 
Company's name is Rixrax 3825 
Stand 3824 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3780 
End of life headphone system 3780 
Something like this? 3780 
The "Second Living Room" 3780 
Mixing urban & suburban 3780 
Late night listening 3780 
Moving life... 3778 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3778 
A true listening room. 3754 
It started… 3739 
Levels of Interest 3739 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3739 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3739 
I can't not to post it.... 3739 
Do not leave him unattended. 3739 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3739 
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