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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5797 
The first take on the new room. 5791 
New Room, a first shot. 5790 
Wonderful 5790 
Adopted 5789 
The first relaxed night with the room 5787 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5786 
The listening room is ready. 5785 
New Room, a First Shot 5783 
Continue to work with the room 5783 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5783 
Room 5782 
I think it will take another month. 5782 
The Buttressing 5782 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5781 
The new place and the new noises. 5781 
Big listening room 5780 
Screw the "big" rooms 5780 
Big listening rooms 5780 
First reflection points 5779 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5779 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5776 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5775 
Squeezing the floor 5775 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5775 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5775 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5774 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5774 
The new room, the very first listening. 5774 
The 14.5 foot. 5773 
Again… 5772 
Romy's new Playground 5772 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5772 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5772 
For the uninitiated ... 5771 
NH guy 5771 
Room 5771 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5770 
The first base is done 5770 
Reentry time alignment. 5769 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5768 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5768 
Mid bass horn. 5768 
Guess is only a guess… 5768 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5768 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5767 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5767 
Diffusors 5767 
Diffuse injection 5767 
Let analyse why it so 5767 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5767 
Wheel and Deal 5767 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5767 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5767 
I Must Be Missing Something 5767 
I put sliders under my speakers 5766 
ROOM 5765 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5765 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5765 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5765 
No concerns 5765 
Speakers and room 5765 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5764 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5764 
Diaphram 5764 
Phram 5764 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5764 
Perfect piston 5764 
Decorater 5763 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5763 
New morning 5762 
The first take on the room with RTA 5761 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5761 
Axiomatic 5761 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5760 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5760 
The size of the bass. 5760 
Bass Factory 5760 
Crude Level, or something more? 5760 
I will play with it this week…. 5760 
Rent-A 5760 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5760 
Corner horns 5760 
Cheating from below 5760 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5760 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5759 
A possibly overly simplified view 5759 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5759 
Iceberg 5759 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5759 
Why not horn 5759 
A correction…. 5759 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5759 
They are just not related things at all. 5759 
Fertin 5757 
Low resonance is good... 5757 
Et tu, Brute? 5756 
The Room response at LF 5755 
Life On The Ground Floor 5755 
Bass arrays 5755 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5755 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5755 
The super sucks. 5755 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5755 
You may also try 5754 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5754 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5754 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5754 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5754 
60 Hz Resonance 5754 
No notching… so far. 5754 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5753 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5753 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5753 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5753 
Power to the People 5753 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5753 
Aura 5753 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5753 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5753 
All class D is the same 5753 
Interpreting the LF results. 5752 
The Halibut 5752 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5752 
The Big Picture 5752 
Power & ULF channels 5752 
The big picture indeed. 5752 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5752 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5752 
The Power and the Glory 5751 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5751 
I guess I did not get this memo 5751 
French LF drivers 5751 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5751 
(another) French LF approach 5750 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5750 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5750 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5750 
Limpschtick 5750 
Symmetry 5750 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5749 
Room correction 5749 
It migh be more complicated. 5749 
Bass EQ ? 5749 
Agree and not. 5749 
Two "diseases" 5749 
Parametric filters 5749 
Ceiling arrays 5749 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5749 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5749 
The Middle of the Room. 5749 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5749 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5749 
Stop! 5749 
Appendectomy 5749 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5748 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5748 
No Isolation 5748 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5745 
Potential contenders? 5744 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5744 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5744 
Those Crazy Canucks 5740 
Mo' Better Bass 5734 
Bird in the Hand? 5734 
A wet listening spot? 5727 
Storm 5724 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5724 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5710 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5680 
Polar Opposite ULF 5679 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5667 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5665 
Differently but the same. 5664 
PVC 5663 
The sail test try. 5663 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5663 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5663 
Trial 5662 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5662 
Some explanations 5662 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5661 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5660 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5659 
Acrylate 5658 
Magic blanket 5658 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5657 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5657 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5657 
I have a few options. 5657 
Foam color 5657 
Strange things with upperbass 5657 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5656 
Teatro reform. . . 5656 
The foaming room dilemma. 5655 
Melamine Foam 5655 
Foaming up the cat house 5655 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5655 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5655 
Acoustic revisions… 5654 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5651 
Surprises so far in the new room 5650 
The upperbass in the new room. 5650 
Slight change of hart. 5649 
Camco supply of Boston 5647 
Room acoustics 5647 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5606 
I need to kill dust first. 5606 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5604 
To feed the leeches? 5604 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5603 
Yh 5603 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5603 
DPOLs? 5603 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5603 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5600 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5600 
A HalfPipe solution? 5600 
I absolutely love it. 5600 
Piper work 5599 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5599 
Absorption 5599 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5598 
Cats life ? 5598 
Call me Pussy. 5598 
More about traps 5598 
Acoustic impedance? 5598 
You maybe right 5598 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5598 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5597 
Heavy Curtain 5597 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5596 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5596 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5596 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5593 
Fix speaker move chair? 5592 
Back and forth ceremony 5592 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5591 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5590 
Glass windows 5589 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5588 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5587 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5585 
How to use basement jacks? 5585 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5585 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5585 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5584 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5584 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5583 
Sore eyes... 5582 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5582 
The harvesting week! 5580 
I need an inspiration… 5579 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5578 
Like this? 5578 
Dramatically randomize MF 5578 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5577 
The room eats dynamic 5577 
Diffusers 5577 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5576 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5561 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5560 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5560 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5560 
About Width-Importance balance. 5558 
Letting the music scale up 5557 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5557 
To finish my house décor… 5553 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5552 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5551 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5551 
Calling the gods of music 5551 
Absolutely 5551 
Phase manipulation 5551 
No relation. 5551 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5551 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5551 
Dynamical mismatch 5550 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5550 
Stradiwinerius? 5547 
Dealing with the glass. 5546 
Boston 5546 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5546 
Added mass 5546 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5546 
It is about moderation…. 5546 
To hell with the wine... 5546 
Also for other surafaces 5545 
LEAD 5545 
LEAD & GLASS 5545 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5545 
Read carefully 5545 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5545 
Crooks and morons 5545 
Magiscopios 5544 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5524 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5524 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5523 
The LP setup in the new home. 5472 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5467 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5467 
Pianochord will do! 5467 
Spanyi heaven 5467 
I see no conflict at all. 5467 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5467 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5467 
A year after closing 5459 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5459 
Traveling antimatter 5452 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5446 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5445 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5419 
Cast Iron fireplace 5418 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5418 
The hardcore way 5418 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5382 
This is How It's Done 5381 
Listening room during summer. 5369 
What about those... 5368 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5368 
Reducing A/C Noise 5368 
HVAC the Cat 5368 
Big Ass fan 5367 
Variac dimmers 5367 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5367 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5367 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5299 
Some winter observations. 5190 
That Asian man…. 5159 
The Franz Schubert morning 5133 
Spring.... 5082 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5032 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5003 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5003 
Just good photography? 5003 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5003 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5003 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5002 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5002 
Sports car 5002 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5002 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5002 
Train Positioning 5002 
Kind of what I want 5002 
The lap listening… 5002 
Family Room 5002 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4999 
A super audio room. 4995 
Time Warp! 4995 
A piano in a listening room 4974 
Pianissimo 4974 
The plan in blue. 4974 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4974 
My doubts 4974 
It is exactly what I worry. 4973 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4973 
Musicians at home 4973 
Piano Measurements 4972 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4967 
The next step. 4953 
Midbass horns missing?? 4952 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4942 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4942 
Baby Grand 4941 
Wood floor 4941 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4941 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4941 
Amy’s baby. 4939 
Improvement 4939 
Agree with Scott 4939 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4927 
Integrated casters 4927 
Very nice, thanks. 4927 
Customization 4927 
Sliders 4927 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4920 
Congratulations 4920 
Holes in the floor... 4920 
Tubes and kids 4920 
Sweet spot enlargement 4920 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4918 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4917 
Wood Floors and Water 4917 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4912 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4911 
WAF is for Losers 4911 
WAF: it depends. 4911 
Integration 4910 
Here and there. 4910 
Life after WWIII 4910 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4910 
Cables management. 4908 
Featurizing 4908 
Kids and tubes cont. 4905 
Kid magnet 4905 
Kids and audio 4904 
Radars 4904 
Wow, what the days! 4900 
The comming weekend 4896 
It all was worth it! 4893 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4888 
Here is how it is look. 4888 
Resolving the carpet issue 4888 
Bonfire 4888 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4888 
Proof of concept? 4888 
Geometry 4888 
A view from listening position. 4888 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4888 
Some feedback 4888 
Evening 4888 
I wonder why. 4887 
Rugs and things 4887 
In defense… 4887 
I can’t get it. 4884 
Haze. 4883 
Front wall 4883 
It is very possible. 4883 
It is nice to be back. 4880 
My comfy corner. 4877 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4517 
WMD in house. 4339 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4242 
The third listening spot. 4221 
For sure a very different experience. 4183 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4178 
It's Jfretch's system. 4178 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4177 
Domestic games 4131 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3992 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3992 
Dynamic screening 3992 
Actually this is very good idea! 3992 
Volcanic fabric 3992 
I should have done this. 3990 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3986 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3955 
No worries 3955 
Awesome memories 3955 
Optimization of space 3955 
Child-ish considerations 3952 
Finding peace.... 3946 
"Fencing"? 3945 
I need to build something custom 3945 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3945 
Stressed Skin 3945 
NYC elevators 3945 
Kids toys and quantities. 3945 
Everything is completely reversible 3944 
Racks and things 3944 
Now it looks even more promising! 3944 
Quantity of rods 3944 
Avoiding diagonals 3942 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3941 
That's not fair! 3941 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3941 
Discrimination? 3936 
Vertical configuration 3929 
Impresive ! 3858 
Did you read the site? 3858 
Contact 3858 
Company's name is Rixrax 3858 
Stand 3857 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3813 
End of life headphone system 3813 
Something like this? 3813 
The "Second Living Room" 3813 
Mixing urban & suburban 3813 
Late night listening 3813 
Moving life... 3811 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3811 
A true listening room. 3787 
It started… 3772 
Levels of Interest 3772 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3772 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3772 
I can't not to post it.... 3772 
Do not leave him unattended. 3772 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3772 
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