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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5748 
The first take on the new room. 5742 
New Room, a first shot. 5741 
Wonderful 5741 
Adopted 5740 
The first relaxed night with the room 5738 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5737 
The listening room is ready. 5736 
New Room, a First Shot 5734 
Continue to work with the room 5734 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5734 
Room 5733 
I think it will take another month. 5733 
The Buttressing 5733 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5732 
The new place and the new noises. 5732 
Big listening room 5731 
Screw the "big" rooms 5731 
Big listening rooms 5731 
First reflection points 5730 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5730 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5727 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5726 
Squeezing the floor 5726 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5726 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5726 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5725 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5725 
The new room, the very first listening. 5725 
The 14.5 foot. 5724 
Again… 5723 
Romy's new Playground 5723 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5723 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5723 
For the uninitiated ... 5722 
NH guy 5722 
Room 5722 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5721 
The first base is done 5721 
Reentry time alignment. 5720 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5719 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5719 
Mid bass horn. 5719 
Guess is only a guess… 5719 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5719 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5718 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5718 
Diffusors 5718 
Diffuse injection 5718 
Let analyse why it so 5718 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5718 
Wheel and Deal 5718 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5718 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5718 
I Must Be Missing Something 5718 
I put sliders under my speakers 5717 
ROOM 5716 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5716 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5716 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5716 
No concerns 5716 
Speakers and room 5716 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5715 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5715 
Diaphram 5715 
Phram 5715 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5715 
Perfect piston 5715 
Decorater 5714 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5714 
New morning 5713 
The first take on the room with RTA 5712 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5712 
Axiomatic 5712 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5711 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5711 
The size of the bass. 5711 
Bass Factory 5711 
Crude Level, or something more? 5711 
I will play with it this week…. 5711 
Rent-A 5711 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5711 
Corner horns 5711 
Cheating from below 5711 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5711 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5710 
A possibly overly simplified view 5710 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5710 
Iceberg 5710 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5710 
Why not horn 5710 
A correction…. 5710 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5710 
They are just not related things at all. 5710 
Fertin 5708 
Low resonance is good... 5708 
Et tu, Brute? 5707 
The Room response at LF 5706 
Life On The Ground Floor 5706 
Bass arrays 5706 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5706 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5706 
The super sucks. 5706 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5706 
You may also try 5705 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5705 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5705 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5705 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5705 
60 Hz Resonance 5705 
No notching… so far. 5705 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5704 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5704 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5704 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5704 
Power to the People 5704 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5704 
Aura 5704 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5704 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5704 
All class D is the same 5704 
Interpreting the LF results. 5703 
The Halibut 5703 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5703 
The Big Picture 5703 
Power & ULF channels 5703 
The big picture indeed. 5703 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5703 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5703 
The Power and the Glory 5702 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5702 
I guess I did not get this memo 5702 
French LF drivers 5702 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5702 
(another) French LF approach 5701 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5701 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5701 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5701 
Limpschtick 5701 
Symmetry 5701 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5700 
Room correction 5700 
It migh be more complicated. 5700 
Bass EQ ? 5700 
Agree and not. 5700 
Two "diseases" 5700 
Parametric filters 5700 
Ceiling arrays 5700 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5700 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5700 
The Middle of the Room. 5700 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5700 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5700 
Stop! 5700 
Appendectomy 5700 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5699 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5699 
No Isolation 5699 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5696 
Potential contenders? 5695 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5695 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5695 
Those Crazy Canucks 5691 
Mo' Better Bass 5685 
Bird in the Hand? 5685 
A wet listening spot? 5678 
Storm 5675 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5675 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5661 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5631 
Polar Opposite ULF 5630 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5618 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5616 
Differently but the same. 5615 
PVC 5614 
The sail test try. 5614 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5614 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5614 
Trial 5613 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5613 
Some explanations 5613 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5612 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5611 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5610 
Acrylate 5609 
Magic blanket 5609 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5608 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5608 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5608 
I have a few options. 5608 
Foam color 5608 
Strange things with upperbass 5608 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5607 
Teatro reform. . . 5607 
The foaming room dilemma. 5606 
Melamine Foam 5606 
Foaming up the cat house 5606 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5606 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5606 
Acoustic revisions… 5605 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5602 
Surprises so far in the new room 5601 
The upperbass in the new room. 5601 
Slight change of hart. 5600 
Camco supply of Boston 5598 
Room acoustics 5598 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5557 
I need to kill dust first. 5557 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5555 
To feed the leeches? 5555 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5554 
Yh 5554 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5554 
DPOLs? 5554 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5554 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5551 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5551 
A HalfPipe solution? 5551 
I absolutely love it. 5551 
Piper work 5550 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5550 
Absorption 5550 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5549 
Cats life ? 5549 
Call me Pussy. 5549 
More about traps 5549 
Acoustic impedance? 5549 
You maybe right 5549 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5549 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5548 
Heavy Curtain 5548 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5547 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5547 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5547 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5544 
Fix speaker move chair? 5543 
Back and forth ceremony 5543 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5542 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5541 
Glass windows 5540 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5539 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5538 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5536 
How to use basement jacks? 5536 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5536 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5536 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5535 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5535 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5534 
Sore eyes... 5533 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5533 
The harvesting week! 5531 
I need an inspiration… 5530 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5529 
Like this? 5529 
Dramatically randomize MF 5529 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5528 
The room eats dynamic 5528 
Diffusers 5528 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5527 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5512 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5511 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5511 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5511 
About Width-Importance balance. 5509 
Letting the music scale up 5508 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5508 
To finish my house décor… 5504 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5503 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5502 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5502 
Calling the gods of music 5502 
Absolutely 5502 
Phase manipulation 5502 
No relation. 5502 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5502 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5502 
Dynamical mismatch 5501 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5501 
Stradiwinerius? 5498 
Dealing with the glass. 5497 
Boston 5497 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5497 
Added mass 5497 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5497 
It is about moderation…. 5497 
To hell with the wine... 5497 
Also for other surafaces 5496 
LEAD 5496 
LEAD & GLASS 5496 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5496 
Read carefully 5496 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5496 
Crooks and morons 5496 
Magiscopios 5495 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5475 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5475 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5474 
The LP setup in the new home. 5423 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5418 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5418 
Pianochord will do! 5418 
Spanyi heaven 5418 
I see no conflict at all. 5418 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5418 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5418 
A year after closing 5410 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5410 
Traveling antimatter 5403 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5397 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5396 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5370 
Cast Iron fireplace 5369 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5369 
The hardcore way 5369 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5333 
This is How It's Done 5332 
Listening room during summer. 5320 
What about those... 5319 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5319 
Reducing A/C Noise 5319 
HVAC the Cat 5319 
Big Ass fan 5318 
Variac dimmers 5318 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5318 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5318 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5250 
Some winter observations. 5141 
That Asian man…. 5110 
The Franz Schubert morning 5084 
Spring.... 5033 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4983 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4954 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4954 
Just good photography? 4954 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4954 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4954 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4953 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4953 
Sports car 4953 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4953 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4953 
Train Positioning 4953 
Kind of what I want 4953 
The lap listening… 4953 
Family Room 4953 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4950 
A super audio room. 4946 
Time Warp! 4946 
A piano in a listening room 4925 
Pianissimo 4925 
The plan in blue. 4925 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4925 
My doubts 4925 
It is exactly what I worry. 4924 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4924 
Musicians at home 4924 
Piano Measurements 4923 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4918 
The next step. 4904 
Midbass horns missing?? 4903 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4893 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4893 
Baby Grand 4892 
Wood floor 4892 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4892 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4892 
Amy’s baby. 4890 
Improvement 4890 
Agree with Scott 4890 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4878 
Integrated casters 4878 
Very nice, thanks. 4878 
Customization 4878 
Sliders 4878 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4871 
Congratulations 4871 
Holes in the floor... 4871 
Tubes and kids 4871 
Sweet spot enlargement 4871 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4869 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4868 
Wood Floors and Water 4868 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4863 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4862 
WAF is for Losers 4862 
WAF: it depends. 4862 
Integration 4861 
Here and there. 4861 
Life after WWIII 4861 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4861 
Cables management. 4859 
Featurizing 4859 
Kids and tubes cont. 4856 
Kid magnet 4856 
Kids and audio 4855 
Radars 4855 
Wow, what the days! 4851 
The comming weekend 4847 
It all was worth it! 4844 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4839 
Here is how it is look. 4839 
Resolving the carpet issue 4839 
Bonfire 4839 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4839 
Proof of concept? 4839 
Geometry 4839 
A view from listening position. 4839 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4839 
Some feedback 4839 
Evening 4839 
I wonder why. 4838 
Rugs and things 4838 
In defense… 4838 
I can’t get it. 4835 
Haze. 4834 
Front wall 4834 
It is very possible. 4834 
It is nice to be back. 4831 
My comfy corner. 4828 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4468 
WMD in house. 4290 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4193 
The third listening spot. 4172 
For sure a very different experience. 4134 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4129 
It's Jfretch's system. 4129 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4128 
Domestic games 4082 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3943 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3943 
Dynamic screening 3943 
Actually this is very good idea! 3943 
Volcanic fabric 3943 
I should have done this. 3941 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3937 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3906 
No worries 3906 
Awesome memories 3906 
Optimization of space 3906 
Child-ish considerations 3903 
Finding peace.... 3897 
"Fencing"? 3896 
I need to build something custom 3896 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3896 
Stressed Skin 3896 
NYC elevators 3896 
Kids toys and quantities. 3896 
Everything is completely reversible 3895 
Racks and things 3895 
Now it looks even more promising! 3895 
Quantity of rods 3895 
Avoiding diagonals 3893 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3892 
That's not fair! 3892 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3892 
Discrimination? 3887 
Vertical configuration 3880 
Impresive ! 3809 
Did you read the site? 3809 
Contact 3809 
Company's name is Rixrax 3809 
Stand 3808 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3764 
End of life headphone system 3764 
Something like this? 3764 
The "Second Living Room" 3764 
Mixing urban & suburban 3764 
Late night listening 3764 
Moving life... 3762 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3762 
A true listening room. 3738 
It started… 3723 
Levels of Interest 3723 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3723 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3723 
I can't not to post it.... 3723 
Do not leave him unattended. 3723 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3723 
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