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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5742 
The first take on the new room. 5736 
New Room, a first shot. 5735 
Wonderful 5735 
Adopted 5734 
The first relaxed night with the room 5732 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5731 
The listening room is ready. 5730 
New Room, a First Shot 5728 
Continue to work with the room 5728 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5728 
Room 5727 
I think it will take another month. 5727 
The Buttressing 5727 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5726 
The new place and the new noises. 5726 
Big listening room 5725 
Screw the "big" rooms 5725 
Big listening rooms 5725 
First reflection points 5724 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5724 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5721 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5720 
Squeezing the floor 5720 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5720 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5720 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5719 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5719 
The new room, the very first listening. 5719 
The 14.5 foot. 5718 
Again… 5717 
Romy's new Playground 5717 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5717 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5717 
For the uninitiated ... 5716 
NH guy 5716 
Room 5716 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5715 
The first base is done 5715 
Reentry time alignment. 5714 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5713 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5713 
Mid bass horn. 5713 
Guess is only a guess… 5713 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5713 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5712 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5712 
Diffusors 5712 
Diffuse injection 5712 
Let analyse why it so 5712 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5712 
Wheel and Deal 5712 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5712 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5712 
I Must Be Missing Something 5712 
I put sliders under my speakers 5711 
ROOM 5710 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5710 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5710 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5710 
No concerns 5710 
Speakers and room 5710 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5709 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5709 
Diaphram 5709 
Phram 5709 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5709 
Perfect piston 5709 
Decorater 5708 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5708 
New morning 5707 
The first take on the room with RTA 5706 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5706 
Axiomatic 5706 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5705 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5705 
The size of the bass. 5705 
Bass Factory 5705 
Crude Level, or something more? 5705 
I will play with it this week…. 5705 
Rent-A 5705 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5705 
Corner horns 5705 
Cheating from below 5705 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5705 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5704 
A possibly overly simplified view 5704 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5704 
Iceberg 5704 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5704 
Why not horn 5704 
A correction…. 5704 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5704 
They are just not related things at all. 5704 
Fertin 5702 
Low resonance is good... 5702 
Et tu, Brute? 5701 
The Room response at LF 5700 
Life On The Ground Floor 5700 
Bass arrays 5700 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5700 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5700 
The super sucks. 5700 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5700 
You may also try 5699 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5699 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5699 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5699 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5699 
60 Hz Resonance 5699 
No notching… so far. 5699 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5698 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5698 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5698 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5698 
Power to the People 5698 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5698 
Aura 5698 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5698 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5698 
All class D is the same 5698 
Interpreting the LF results. 5697 
The Halibut 5697 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5697 
The Big Picture 5697 
Power & ULF channels 5697 
The big picture indeed. 5697 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5697 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5697 
The Power and the Glory 5696 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5696 
I guess I did not get this memo 5696 
French LF drivers 5696 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5696 
(another) French LF approach 5695 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5695 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5695 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5695 
Limpschtick 5695 
Symmetry 5695 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5694 
Room correction 5694 
It migh be more complicated. 5694 
Bass EQ ? 5694 
Agree and not. 5694 
Two "diseases" 5694 
Parametric filters 5694 
Ceiling arrays 5694 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5694 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5694 
The Middle of the Room. 5694 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5694 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5694 
Stop! 5694 
Appendectomy 5694 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5693 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5693 
No Isolation 5693 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5690 
Potential contenders? 5689 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5689 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5689 
Those Crazy Canucks 5685 
Mo' Better Bass 5679 
Bird in the Hand? 5679 
A wet listening spot? 5672 
Storm 5669 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5669 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5655 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5625 
Polar Opposite ULF 5624 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5612 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5610 
Differently but the same. 5609 
PVC 5608 
The sail test try. 5608 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5608 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5608 
Trial 5607 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5607 
Some explanations 5607 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5606 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5605 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5604 
Acrylate 5603 
Magic blanket 5603 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5602 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5602 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5602 
I have a few options. 5602 
Foam color 5602 
Strange things with upperbass 5602 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5601 
Teatro reform. . . 5601 
The foaming room dilemma. 5600 
Melamine Foam 5600 
Foaming up the cat house 5600 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5600 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5600 
Acoustic revisions… 5599 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5596 
Surprises so far in the new room 5595 
The upperbass in the new room. 5595 
Slight change of hart. 5594 
Camco supply of Boston 5592 
Room acoustics 5592 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5551 
I need to kill dust first. 5551 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5549 
To feed the leeches? 5549 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5548 
Yh 5548 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5548 
DPOLs? 5548 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5548 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5545 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5545 
A HalfPipe solution? 5545 
I absolutely love it. 5545 
Piper work 5544 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5544 
Absorption 5544 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5543 
Cats life ? 5543 
Call me Pussy. 5543 
More about traps 5543 
Acoustic impedance? 5543 
You maybe right 5543 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5543 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5542 
Heavy Curtain 5542 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5541 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5541 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5541 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5538 
Fix speaker move chair? 5537 
Back and forth ceremony 5537 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5536 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5535 
Glass windows 5534 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5533 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5532 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5530 
How to use basement jacks? 5530 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5530 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5530 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5529 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5529 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5528 
Sore eyes... 5527 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5527 
The harvesting week! 5525 
I need an inspiration… 5524 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5523 
Like this? 5523 
Dramatically randomize MF 5523 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5522 
The room eats dynamic 5522 
Diffusers 5522 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5521 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5506 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5505 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5505 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5505 
About Width-Importance balance. 5503 
Letting the music scale up 5502 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5502 
To finish my house décor… 5498 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5497 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5496 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5496 
Calling the gods of music 5496 
Absolutely 5496 
Phase manipulation 5496 
No relation. 5496 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5496 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5496 
Dynamical mismatch 5495 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5495 
Stradiwinerius? 5492 
Dealing with the glass. 5491 
Boston 5491 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5491 
Added mass 5491 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5491 
It is about moderation…. 5491 
To hell with the wine... 5491 
Also for other surafaces 5490 
LEAD 5490 
LEAD & GLASS 5490 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5490 
Read carefully 5490 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5490 
Crooks and morons 5490 
Magiscopios 5489 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5469 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5469 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5468 
The LP setup in the new home. 5417 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5412 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5412 
Pianochord will do! 5412 
Spanyi heaven 5412 
I see no conflict at all. 5412 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5412 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5412 
A year after closing 5404 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5404 
Traveling antimatter 5397 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5391 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5390 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5364 
Cast Iron fireplace 5363 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5363 
The hardcore way 5363 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5327 
This is How It's Done 5326 
Listening room during summer. 5314 
What about those... 5313 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5313 
Reducing A/C Noise 5313 
HVAC the Cat 5313 
Big Ass fan 5312 
Variac dimmers 5312 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5312 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5312 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5244 
Some winter observations. 5135 
That Asian man…. 5104 
The Franz Schubert morning 5078 
Spring.... 5027 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4977 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4948 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4948 
Just good photography? 4948 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4948 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4948 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4947 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4947 
Sports car 4947 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4947 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4947 
Train Positioning 4947 
Kind of what I want 4947 
The lap listening… 4947 
Family Room 4947 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4944 
A super audio room. 4940 
Time Warp! 4940 
A piano in a listening room 4919 
Pianissimo 4919 
The plan in blue. 4919 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4919 
My doubts 4919 
It is exactly what I worry. 4918 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4918 
Musicians at home 4918 
Piano Measurements 4917 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4912 
The next step. 4898 
Midbass horns missing?? 4897 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4887 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4887 
Baby Grand 4886 
Wood floor 4886 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4886 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4886 
Amy’s baby. 4884 
Improvement 4884 
Agree with Scott 4884 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4872 
Integrated casters 4872 
Very nice, thanks. 4872 
Customization 4872 
Sliders 4872 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4865 
Congratulations 4865 
Holes in the floor... 4865 
Tubes and kids 4865 
Sweet spot enlargement 4865 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4863 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4862 
Wood Floors and Water 4862 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4857 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4856 
WAF is for Losers 4856 
WAF: it depends. 4856 
Integration 4855 
Here and there. 4855 
Life after WWIII 4855 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4855 
Cables management. 4853 
Featurizing 4853 
Kids and tubes cont. 4850 
Kid magnet 4850 
Kids and audio 4849 
Radars 4849 
Wow, what the days! 4845 
The comming weekend 4841 
It all was worth it! 4838 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4833 
Here is how it is look. 4833 
Resolving the carpet issue 4833 
Bonfire 4833 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4833 
Proof of concept? 4833 
Geometry 4833 
A view from listening position. 4833 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4833 
Some feedback 4833 
Evening 4833 
I wonder why. 4832 
Rugs and things 4832 
In defense… 4832 
I can’t get it. 4829 
Haze. 4828 
Front wall 4828 
It is very possible. 4828 
It is nice to be back. 4825 
My comfy corner. 4822 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4462 
WMD in house. 4284 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4187 
The third listening spot. 4166 
For sure a very different experience. 4128 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4123 
It's Jfretch's system. 4123 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4122 
Domestic games 4076 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3937 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3937 
Dynamic screening 3937 
Actually this is very good idea! 3937 
Volcanic fabric 3937 
I should have done this. 3935 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3931 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3900 
No worries 3900 
Awesome memories 3900 
Optimization of space 3900 
Child-ish considerations 3897 
Finding peace.... 3891 
"Fencing"? 3890 
I need to build something custom 3890 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3890 
Stressed Skin 3890 
NYC elevators 3890 
Kids toys and quantities. 3890 
Everything is completely reversible 3889 
Racks and things 3889 
Now it looks even more promising! 3889 
Quantity of rods 3889 
Avoiding diagonals 3887 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3886 
That's not fair! 3886 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3886 
Discrimination? 3881 
Vertical configuration 3874 
Impresive ! 3803 
Did you read the site? 3803 
Contact 3803 
Company's name is Rixrax 3803 
Stand 3802 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3758 
End of life headphone system 3758 
Something like this? 3758 
The "Second Living Room" 3758 
Mixing urban & suburban 3758 
Late night listening 3758 
Moving life... 3756 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3756 
A true listening room. 3732 
It started… 3717 
Levels of Interest 3717 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3717 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3717 
I can't not to post it.... 3717 
Do not leave him unattended. 3717 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3717 
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