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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5753 
The first take on the new room. 5747 
New Room, a first shot. 5746 
Wonderful 5746 
Adopted 5745 
The first relaxed night with the room 5743 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5742 
The listening room is ready. 5741 
New Room, a First Shot 5739 
Continue to work with the room 5739 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5739 
Room 5738 
I think it will take another month. 5738 
The Buttressing 5738 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5737 
The new place and the new noises. 5737 
Big listening room 5736 
Screw the "big" rooms 5736 
Big listening rooms 5736 
First reflection points 5735 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5735 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5732 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5731 
Squeezing the floor 5731 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5731 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5731 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5730 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5730 
The new room, the very first listening. 5730 
The 14.5 foot. 5729 
Again… 5728 
Romy's new Playground 5728 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5728 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5728 
For the uninitiated ... 5727 
NH guy 5727 
Room 5727 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5726 
The first base is done 5726 
Reentry time alignment. 5725 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5724 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5724 
Mid bass horn. 5724 
Guess is only a guess… 5724 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5724 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5723 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5723 
Diffusors 5723 
Diffuse injection 5723 
Let analyse why it so 5723 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5723 
Wheel and Deal 5723 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5723 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5723 
I Must Be Missing Something 5723 
I put sliders under my speakers 5722 
ROOM 5721 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5721 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5721 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5721 
No concerns 5721 
Speakers and room 5721 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5720 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5720 
Diaphram 5720 
Phram 5720 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5720 
Perfect piston 5720 
Decorater 5719 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5719 
New morning 5718 
The first take on the room with RTA 5717 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5717 
Axiomatic 5717 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5716 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5716 
The size of the bass. 5716 
Bass Factory 5716 
Crude Level, or something more? 5716 
I will play with it this week…. 5716 
Rent-A 5716 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5716 
Corner horns 5716 
Cheating from below 5716 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5716 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5715 
A possibly overly simplified view 5715 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5715 
Iceberg 5715 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5715 
Why not horn 5715 
A correction…. 5715 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5715 
They are just not related things at all. 5715 
Fertin 5713 
Low resonance is good... 5713 
Et tu, Brute? 5712 
The Room response at LF 5711 
Life On The Ground Floor 5711 
Bass arrays 5711 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5711 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5711 
The super sucks. 5711 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5711 
You may also try 5710 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5710 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5710 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5710 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5710 
60 Hz Resonance 5710 
No notching… so far. 5710 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5709 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5709 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5709 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5709 
Power to the People 5709 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5709 
Aura 5709 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5709 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5709 
All class D is the same 5709 
Interpreting the LF results. 5708 
The Halibut 5708 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5708 
The Big Picture 5708 
Power & ULF channels 5708 
The big picture indeed. 5708 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5708 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5708 
The Power and the Glory 5707 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5707 
I guess I did not get this memo 5707 
French LF drivers 5707 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5707 
(another) French LF approach 5706 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5706 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5706 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5706 
Limpschtick 5706 
Symmetry 5706 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5705 
Room correction 5705 
It migh be more complicated. 5705 
Bass EQ ? 5705 
Agree and not. 5705 
Two "diseases" 5705 
Parametric filters 5705 
Ceiling arrays 5705 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5705 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5705 
The Middle of the Room. 5705 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5705 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5705 
Stop! 5705 
Appendectomy 5705 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5704 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5704 
No Isolation 5704 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5701 
Potential contenders? 5700 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5700 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5700 
Those Crazy Canucks 5696 
Mo' Better Bass 5690 
Bird in the Hand? 5690 
A wet listening spot? 5683 
Storm 5680 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5680 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5666 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5636 
Polar Opposite ULF 5635 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5623 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5621 
Differently but the same. 5620 
PVC 5619 
The sail test try. 5619 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5619 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5619 
Trial 5618 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5618 
Some explanations 5618 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5617 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5616 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5615 
Acrylate 5614 
Magic blanket 5614 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5613 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5613 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5613 
I have a few options. 5613 
Foam color 5613 
Strange things with upperbass 5613 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5612 
Teatro reform. . . 5612 
The foaming room dilemma. 5611 
Melamine Foam 5611 
Foaming up the cat house 5611 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5611 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5611 
Acoustic revisions… 5610 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5607 
Surprises so far in the new room 5606 
The upperbass in the new room. 5606 
Slight change of hart. 5605 
Camco supply of Boston 5603 
Room acoustics 5603 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5562 
I need to kill dust first. 5562 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5560 
To feed the leeches? 5560 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5559 
Yh 5559 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5559 
DPOLs? 5559 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5559 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5556 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5556 
A HalfPipe solution? 5556 
I absolutely love it. 5556 
Piper work 5555 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5555 
Absorption 5555 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5554 
Cats life ? 5554 
Call me Pussy. 5554 
More about traps 5554 
Acoustic impedance? 5554 
You maybe right 5554 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5554 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5553 
Heavy Curtain 5553 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5552 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5552 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5552 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5549 
Fix speaker move chair? 5548 
Back and forth ceremony 5548 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5547 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5546 
Glass windows 5545 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5544 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5543 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5541 
How to use basement jacks? 5541 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5541 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5541 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5540 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5540 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5539 
Sore eyes... 5538 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5538 
The harvesting week! 5536 
I need an inspiration… 5535 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5534 
Like this? 5534 
Dramatically randomize MF 5534 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5533 
The room eats dynamic 5533 
Diffusers 5533 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5532 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5517 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5516 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5516 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5516 
About Width-Importance balance. 5514 
Letting the music scale up 5513 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5513 
To finish my house décor… 5509 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5508 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5507 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5507 
Calling the gods of music 5507 
Absolutely 5507 
Phase manipulation 5507 
No relation. 5507 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5507 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5507 
Dynamical mismatch 5506 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5506 
Stradiwinerius? 5503 
Dealing with the glass. 5502 
Boston 5502 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5502 
Added mass 5502 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5502 
It is about moderation…. 5502 
To hell with the wine... 5502 
Also for other surafaces 5501 
LEAD 5501 
LEAD & GLASS 5501 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5501 
Read carefully 5501 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5501 
Crooks and morons 5501 
Magiscopios 5500 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5480 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5480 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5479 
The LP setup in the new home. 5428 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5423 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5423 
Pianochord will do! 5423 
Spanyi heaven 5423 
I see no conflict at all. 5423 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5423 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5423 
A year after closing 5415 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5415 
Traveling antimatter 5408 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5402 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5401 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5375 
Cast Iron fireplace 5374 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5374 
The hardcore way 5374 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5338 
This is How It's Done 5337 
Listening room during summer. 5325 
What about those... 5324 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5324 
Reducing A/C Noise 5324 
HVAC the Cat 5324 
Big Ass fan 5323 
Variac dimmers 5323 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5323 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5323 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5255 
Some winter observations. 5146 
That Asian man…. 5115 
The Franz Schubert morning 5089 
Spring.... 5038 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4988 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4959 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4959 
Just good photography? 4959 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4959 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4959 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4958 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4958 
Sports car 4958 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4958 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4958 
Train Positioning 4958 
Kind of what I want 4958 
The lap listening… 4958 
Family Room 4958 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4955 
A super audio room. 4951 
Time Warp! 4951 
A piano in a listening room 4930 
Pianissimo 4930 
The plan in blue. 4930 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4930 
My doubts 4930 
It is exactly what I worry. 4929 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4929 
Musicians at home 4929 
Piano Measurements 4928 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4923 
The next step. 4909 
Midbass horns missing?? 4908 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4898 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4898 
Baby Grand 4897 
Wood floor 4897 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4897 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4897 
Amy’s baby. 4895 
Improvement 4895 
Agree with Scott 4895 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4883 
Integrated casters 4883 
Very nice, thanks. 4883 
Customization 4883 
Sliders 4883 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4876 
Congratulations 4876 
Holes in the floor... 4876 
Tubes and kids 4876 
Sweet spot enlargement 4876 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4874 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4873 
Wood Floors and Water 4873 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4868 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4867 
WAF is for Losers 4867 
WAF: it depends. 4867 
Integration 4866 
Here and there. 4866 
Life after WWIII 4866 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4866 
Cables management. 4864 
Featurizing 4864 
Kids and tubes cont. 4861 
Kid magnet 4861 
Kids and audio 4860 
Radars 4860 
Wow, what the days! 4856 
The comming weekend 4852 
It all was worth it! 4849 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4844 
Here is how it is look. 4844 
Resolving the carpet issue 4844 
Bonfire 4844 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4844 
Proof of concept? 4844 
Geometry 4844 
A view from listening position. 4844 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4844 
Some feedback 4844 
Evening 4844 
I wonder why. 4843 
Rugs and things 4843 
In defense… 4843 
I can’t get it. 4840 
Haze. 4839 
Front wall 4839 
It is very possible. 4839 
It is nice to be back. 4836 
My comfy corner. 4833 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4473 
WMD in house. 4295 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4198 
The third listening spot. 4177 
For sure a very different experience. 4139 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4134 
It's Jfretch's system. 4134 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4133 
Domestic games 4087 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3948 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3948 
Dynamic screening 3948 
Actually this is very good idea! 3948 
Volcanic fabric 3948 
I should have done this. 3946 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3942 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3911 
No worries 3911 
Awesome memories 3911 
Optimization of space 3911 
Child-ish considerations 3908 
Finding peace.... 3902 
"Fencing"? 3901 
I need to build something custom 3901 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3901 
Stressed Skin 3901 
NYC elevators 3901 
Kids toys and quantities. 3901 
Everything is completely reversible 3900 
Racks and things 3900 
Now it looks even more promising! 3900 
Quantity of rods 3900 
Avoiding diagonals 3898 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3897 
That's not fair! 3897 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3897 
Discrimination? 3892 
Vertical configuration 3885 
Impresive ! 3814 
Did you read the site? 3814 
Contact 3814 
Company's name is Rixrax 3814 
Stand 3813 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3769 
End of life headphone system 3769 
Something like this? 3769 
The "Second Living Room" 3769 
Mixing urban & suburban 3769 
Late night listening 3769 
Moving life... 3767 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3767 
A true listening room. 3743 
It started… 3728 
Levels of Interest 3728 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3728 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3728 
I can't not to post it.... 3728 
Do not leave him unattended. 3728 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3728 
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