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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5811 
The first take on the new room. 5805 
New Room, a first shot. 5804 
Wonderful 5804 
Adopted 5803 
The first relaxed night with the room 5801 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5800 
The listening room is ready. 5799 
New Room, a First Shot 5797 
Continue to work with the room 5797 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5797 
Room 5796 
I think it will take another month. 5796 
The Buttressing 5796 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5795 
The new place and the new noises. 5795 
Big listening room 5794 
Screw the "big" rooms 5794 
Big listening rooms 5794 
First reflection points 5793 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5793 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5790 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5789 
Squeezing the floor 5789 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5789 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5789 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5788 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5788 
The new room, the very first listening. 5788 
The 14.5 foot. 5787 
Again… 5786 
Romy's new Playground 5786 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5786 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5786 
For the uninitiated ... 5785 
NH guy 5785 
Room 5785 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5784 
The first base is done 5784 
Reentry time alignment. 5783 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5782 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5782 
Mid bass horn. 5782 
Guess is only a guess… 5782 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5782 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5781 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5781 
Diffusors 5781 
Diffuse injection 5781 
Let analyse why it so 5781 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5781 
Wheel and Deal 5781 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5781 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5781 
I Must Be Missing Something 5781 
I put sliders under my speakers 5780 
ROOM 5779 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5779 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5779 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5779 
No concerns 5779 
Speakers and room 5779 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5778 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5778 
Diaphram 5778 
Phram 5778 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5778 
Perfect piston 5778 
Decorater 5777 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5777 
New morning 5776 
The first take on the room with RTA 5775 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5775 
Axiomatic 5775 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5774 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5774 
The size of the bass. 5774 
Bass Factory 5774 
Crude Level, or something more? 5774 
I will play with it this week…. 5774 
Rent-A 5774 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5774 
Corner horns 5774 
Cheating from below 5774 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5774 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5773 
A possibly overly simplified view 5773 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5773 
Iceberg 5773 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5773 
Why not horn 5773 
A correction…. 5773 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5773 
They are just not related things at all. 5773 
Fertin 5771 
Low resonance is good... 5771 
Et tu, Brute? 5770 
The Room response at LF 5769 
Life On The Ground Floor 5769 
Bass arrays 5769 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5769 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5769 
The super sucks. 5769 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5769 
You may also try 5768 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5768 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5768 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5768 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5768 
60 Hz Resonance 5768 
No notching… so far. 5768 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5767 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5767 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5767 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5767 
Power to the People 5767 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5767 
Aura 5767 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5767 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5767 
All class D is the same 5767 
Interpreting the LF results. 5766 
The Halibut 5766 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5766 
The Big Picture 5766 
Power & ULF channels 5766 
The big picture indeed. 5766 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5766 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5766 
The Power and the Glory 5765 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5765 
I guess I did not get this memo 5765 
French LF drivers 5765 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5765 
(another) French LF approach 5764 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5764 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5764 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5764 
Limpschtick 5764 
Symmetry 5764 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5763 
Room correction 5763 
It migh be more complicated. 5763 
Bass EQ ? 5763 
Agree and not. 5763 
Two "diseases" 5763 
Parametric filters 5763 
Ceiling arrays 5763 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5763 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5763 
The Middle of the Room. 5763 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5763 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5763 
Stop! 5763 
Appendectomy 5763 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5762 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5762 
No Isolation 5762 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5759 
Potential contenders? 5758 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5758 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5758 
Those Crazy Canucks 5754 
Mo' Better Bass 5748 
Bird in the Hand? 5748 
A wet listening spot? 5741 
Storm 5738 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5738 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5724 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5694 
Polar Opposite ULF 5693 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5681 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5679 
Differently but the same. 5678 
PVC 5677 
The sail test try. 5677 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5677 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5677 
Trial 5676 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5676 
Some explanations 5676 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5675 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5674 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5673 
Acrylate 5672 
Magic blanket 5672 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5671 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5671 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5671 
I have a few options. 5671 
Foam color 5671 
Strange things with upperbass 5671 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5670 
Teatro reform. . . 5670 
The foaming room dilemma. 5669 
Melamine Foam 5669 
Foaming up the cat house 5669 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5669 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5669 
Acoustic revisions… 5668 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5665 
Surprises so far in the new room 5664 
The upperbass in the new room. 5664 
Slight change of hart. 5663 
Camco supply of Boston 5661 
Room acoustics 5661 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5620 
I need to kill dust first. 5620 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5618 
To feed the leeches? 5618 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5617 
Yh 5617 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5617 
DPOLs? 5617 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5617 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5614 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5614 
A HalfPipe solution? 5614 
I absolutely love it. 5614 
Piper work 5613 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5613 
Absorption 5613 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5612 
Cats life ? 5612 
Call me Pussy. 5612 
More about traps 5612 
Acoustic impedance? 5612 
You maybe right 5612 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5612 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5611 
Heavy Curtain 5611 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5610 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5610 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5610 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5607 
Fix speaker move chair? 5606 
Back and forth ceremony 5606 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5605 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5604 
Glass windows 5603 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5602 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5601 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5599 
How to use basement jacks? 5599 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5599 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5599 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5598 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5598 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5597 
Sore eyes... 5596 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5596 
The harvesting week! 5594 
I need an inspiration… 5593 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5592 
Like this? 5592 
Dramatically randomize MF 5592 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5591 
The room eats dynamic 5591 
Diffusers 5591 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5590 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5575 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5574 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5574 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5574 
About Width-Importance balance. 5572 
Letting the music scale up 5571 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5571 
To finish my house décor… 5567 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5566 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5565 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5565 
Calling the gods of music 5565 
Absolutely 5565 
Phase manipulation 5565 
No relation. 5565 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5565 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5565 
Dynamical mismatch 5564 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5564 
Stradiwinerius? 5561 
Dealing with the glass. 5560 
Boston 5560 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5560 
Added mass 5560 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5560 
It is about moderation…. 5560 
To hell with the wine... 5560 
Also for other surafaces 5559 
LEAD 5559 
LEAD & GLASS 5559 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5559 
Read carefully 5559 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5559 
Crooks and morons 5559 
Magiscopios 5558 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5538 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5538 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5537 
The LP setup in the new home. 5486 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5481 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5481 
Pianochord will do! 5481 
Spanyi heaven 5481 
I see no conflict at all. 5481 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5481 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5481 
A year after closing 5473 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5473 
Traveling antimatter 5466 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5460 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5459 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5433 
Cast Iron fireplace 5432 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5432 
The hardcore way 5432 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5396 
This is How It's Done 5395 
Listening room during summer. 5383 
What about those... 5382 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5382 
Reducing A/C Noise 5382 
HVAC the Cat 5382 
Big Ass fan 5381 
Variac dimmers 5381 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5381 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5381 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5313 
Some winter observations. 5204 
That Asian man…. 5173 
The Franz Schubert morning 5147 
Spring.... 5096 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5046 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5017 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5017 
Just good photography? 5017 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5017 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5017 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5016 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5016 
Sports car 5016 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5016 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5016 
Train Positioning 5016 
Kind of what I want 5016 
The lap listening… 5016 
Family Room 5016 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5013 
A super audio room. 5009 
Time Warp! 5009 
A piano in a listening room 4988 
Pianissimo 4988 
The plan in blue. 4988 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4988 
My doubts 4988 
It is exactly what I worry. 4987 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4987 
Musicians at home 4987 
Piano Measurements 4986 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4981 
The next step. 4967 
Midbass horns missing?? 4966 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4956 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4956 
Baby Grand 4955 
Wood floor 4955 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4955 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4955 
Amy’s baby. 4953 
Improvement 4953 
Agree with Scott 4953 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4941 
Integrated casters 4941 
Very nice, thanks. 4941 
Customization 4941 
Sliders 4941 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4934 
Congratulations 4934 
Holes in the floor... 4934 
Tubes and kids 4934 
Sweet spot enlargement 4934 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4932 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4931 
Wood Floors and Water 4931 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4926 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4925 
WAF is for Losers 4925 
WAF: it depends. 4925 
Integration 4924 
Here and there. 4924 
Life after WWIII 4924 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4924 
Cables management. 4922 
Featurizing 4922 
Kids and tubes cont. 4919 
Kid magnet 4919 
Kids and audio 4918 
Radars 4918 
Wow, what the days! 4914 
The comming weekend 4910 
It all was worth it! 4907 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4902 
Here is how it is look. 4902 
Resolving the carpet issue 4902 
Bonfire 4902 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4902 
Proof of concept? 4902 
Geometry 4902 
A view from listening position. 4902 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4902 
Some feedback 4902 
Evening 4902 
I wonder why. 4901 
Rugs and things 4901 
In defense… 4901 
I can’t get it. 4898 
Haze. 4897 
Front wall 4897 
It is very possible. 4897 
It is nice to be back. 4894 
My comfy corner. 4891 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4531 
WMD in house. 4353 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4256 
The third listening spot. 4235 
For sure a very different experience. 4197 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4192 
It's Jfretch's system. 4192 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4191 
Domestic games 4145 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4006 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4006 
Dynamic screening 4006 
Actually this is very good idea! 4006 
Volcanic fabric 4006 
I should have done this. 4004 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4000 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3969 
No worries 3969 
Awesome memories 3969 
Optimization of space 3969 
Child-ish considerations 3966 
Finding peace.... 3960 
"Fencing"? 3959 
I need to build something custom 3959 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3959 
Stressed Skin 3959 
NYC elevators 3959 
Kids toys and quantities. 3959 
Everything is completely reversible 3958 
Racks and things 3958 
Now it looks even more promising! 3958 
Quantity of rods 3958 
Avoiding diagonals 3956 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3955 
That's not fair! 3955 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3955 
Discrimination? 3950 
Vertical configuration 3943 
Impresive ! 3872 
Did you read the site? 3872 
Contact 3872 
Company's name is Rixrax 3872 
Stand 3871 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3827 
End of life headphone system 3827 
Something like this? 3827 
The "Second Living Room" 3827 
Mixing urban & suburban 3827 
Late night listening 3827 
Moving life... 3825 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3825 
A true listening room. 3801 
It started… 3786 
Levels of Interest 3786 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3786 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3786 
I can't not to post it.... 3786 
Do not leave him unattended. 3786 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3786 
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