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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5740 
The first take on the new room. 5734 
New Room, a first shot. 5733 
Wonderful 5733 
Adopted 5732 
The first relaxed night with the room 5730 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5729 
The listening room is ready. 5728 
New Room, a First Shot 5726 
Continue to work with the room 5726 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5726 
Room 5725 
I think it will take another month. 5725 
The Buttressing 5725 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5724 
The new place and the new noises. 5724 
Big listening room 5723 
Screw the "big" rooms 5723 
Big listening rooms 5723 
First reflection points 5722 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5722 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5719 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5718 
Squeezing the floor 5718 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5718 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5718 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5717 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5717 
The new room, the very first listening. 5717 
The 14.5 foot. 5716 
Again… 5715 
Romy's new Playground 5715 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5715 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5715 
For the uninitiated ... 5714 
NH guy 5714 
Room 5714 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5713 
The first base is done 5713 
Reentry time alignment. 5712 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5711 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5711 
Mid bass horn. 5711 
Guess is only a guess… 5711 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5711 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5710 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5710 
Diffusors 5710 
Diffuse injection 5710 
Let analyse why it so 5710 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5710 
Wheel and Deal 5710 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5710 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5710 
I Must Be Missing Something 5710 
I put sliders under my speakers 5709 
ROOM 5708 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5708 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5708 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5708 
No concerns 5708 
Speakers and room 5708 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5707 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5707 
Diaphram 5707 
Phram 5707 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5707 
Perfect piston 5707 
Decorater 5706 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5706 
New morning 5705 
The first take on the room with RTA 5704 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5704 
Axiomatic 5704 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5703 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5703 
The size of the bass. 5703 
Bass Factory 5703 
Crude Level, or something more? 5703 
I will play with it this week…. 5703 
Rent-A 5703 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5703 
Corner horns 5703 
Cheating from below 5703 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5703 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5702 
A possibly overly simplified view 5702 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5702 
Iceberg 5702 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5702 
Why not horn 5702 
A correction…. 5702 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5702 
They are just not related things at all. 5702 
Fertin 5700 
Low resonance is good... 5700 
Et tu, Brute? 5699 
The Room response at LF 5698 
Life On The Ground Floor 5698 
Bass arrays 5698 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5698 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5698 
The super sucks. 5698 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5698 
You may also try 5697 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5697 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5697 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5697 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5697 
60 Hz Resonance 5697 
No notching… so far. 5697 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5696 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5696 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5696 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5696 
Power to the People 5696 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5696 
Aura 5696 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5696 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5696 
All class D is the same 5696 
Interpreting the LF results. 5695 
The Halibut 5695 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5695 
The Big Picture 5695 
Power & ULF channels 5695 
The big picture indeed. 5695 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5695 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5695 
The Power and the Glory 5694 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5694 
I guess I did not get this memo 5694 
French LF drivers 5694 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5694 
(another) French LF approach 5693 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5693 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5693 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5693 
Limpschtick 5693 
Symmetry 5693 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5692 
Room correction 5692 
It migh be more complicated. 5692 
Bass EQ ? 5692 
Agree and not. 5692 
Two "diseases" 5692 
Parametric filters 5692 
Ceiling arrays 5692 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5692 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5692 
The Middle of the Room. 5692 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5692 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5692 
Stop! 5692 
Appendectomy 5692 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5691 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5691 
No Isolation 5691 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5688 
Potential contenders? 5687 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5687 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5687 
Those Crazy Canucks 5683 
Mo' Better Bass 5677 
Bird in the Hand? 5677 
A wet listening spot? 5670 
Storm 5667 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5667 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5653 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5623 
Polar Opposite ULF 5622 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5610 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5608 
Differently but the same. 5607 
PVC 5606 
The sail test try. 5606 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5606 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5606 
Trial 5605 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5605 
Some explanations 5605 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5604 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5603 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5602 
Acrylate 5601 
Magic blanket 5601 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5600 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5600 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5600 
I have a few options. 5600 
Foam color 5600 
Strange things with upperbass 5600 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5599 
Teatro reform. . . 5599 
The foaming room dilemma. 5598 
Melamine Foam 5598 
Foaming up the cat house 5598 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5598 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5598 
Acoustic revisions… 5597 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5594 
Surprises so far in the new room 5593 
The upperbass in the new room. 5593 
Slight change of hart. 5592 
Camco supply of Boston 5590 
Room acoustics 5590 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5549 
I need to kill dust first. 5549 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5547 
To feed the leeches? 5547 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5546 
Yh 5546 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5546 
DPOLs? 5546 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5546 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5543 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5543 
A HalfPipe solution? 5543 
I absolutely love it. 5543 
Piper work 5542 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5542 
Absorption 5542 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5541 
Cats life ? 5541 
Call me Pussy. 5541 
More about traps 5541 
Acoustic impedance? 5541 
You maybe right 5541 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5541 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5540 
Heavy Curtain 5540 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5539 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5539 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5539 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5536 
Fix speaker move chair? 5535 
Back and forth ceremony 5535 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5534 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5533 
Glass windows 5532 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5531 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5530 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5528 
How to use basement jacks? 5528 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5528 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5528 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5527 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5527 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5526 
Sore eyes... 5525 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5525 
The harvesting week! 5523 
I need an inspiration… 5522 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5521 
Like this? 5521 
Dramatically randomize MF 5521 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5520 
The room eats dynamic 5520 
Diffusers 5520 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5519 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5504 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5503 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5503 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5503 
About Width-Importance balance. 5501 
Letting the music scale up 5500 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5500 
To finish my house décor… 5496 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5495 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5494 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5494 
Calling the gods of music 5494 
Absolutely 5494 
Phase manipulation 5494 
No relation. 5494 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5494 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5494 
Dynamical mismatch 5493 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5493 
Stradiwinerius? 5490 
Dealing with the glass. 5489 
Boston 5489 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5489 
Added mass 5489 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5489 
It is about moderation…. 5489 
To hell with the wine... 5489 
Also for other surafaces 5488 
LEAD 5488 
LEAD & GLASS 5488 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5488 
Read carefully 5488 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5488 
Crooks and morons 5488 
Magiscopios 5487 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5467 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5467 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5466 
The LP setup in the new home. 5415 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5410 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5410 
Pianochord will do! 5410 
Spanyi heaven 5410 
I see no conflict at all. 5410 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5410 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5410 
A year after closing 5402 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5402 
Traveling antimatter 5395 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5389 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5388 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5362 
Cast Iron fireplace 5361 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5361 
The hardcore way 5361 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5325 
This is How It's Done 5324 
Listening room during summer. 5312 
What about those... 5311 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5311 
Reducing A/C Noise 5311 
HVAC the Cat 5311 
Big Ass fan 5310 
Variac dimmers 5310 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5310 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5310 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5242 
Some winter observations. 5133 
That Asian man…. 5102 
The Franz Schubert morning 5076 
Spring.... 5025 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4975 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4946 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4946 
Just good photography? 4946 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4946 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4946 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4945 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4945 
Sports car 4945 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4945 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4945 
Train Positioning 4945 
Kind of what I want 4945 
The lap listening… 4945 
Family Room 4945 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4942 
A super audio room. 4938 
Time Warp! 4938 
A piano in a listening room 4917 
Pianissimo 4917 
The plan in blue. 4917 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4917 
My doubts 4917 
It is exactly what I worry. 4916 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4916 
Musicians at home 4916 
Piano Measurements 4915 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4910 
The next step. 4896 
Midbass horns missing?? 4895 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4885 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4885 
Baby Grand 4884 
Wood floor 4884 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4884 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4884 
Amy’s baby. 4882 
Improvement 4882 
Agree with Scott 4882 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4870 
Integrated casters 4870 
Very nice, thanks. 4870 
Customization 4870 
Sliders 4870 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4863 
Congratulations 4863 
Holes in the floor... 4863 
Tubes and kids 4863 
Sweet spot enlargement 4863 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4861 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4860 
Wood Floors and Water 4860 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4855 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4854 
WAF is for Losers 4854 
WAF: it depends. 4854 
Integration 4853 
Here and there. 4853 
Life after WWIII 4853 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4853 
Cables management. 4851 
Featurizing 4851 
Kids and tubes cont. 4848 
Kid magnet 4848 
Kids and audio 4847 
Radars 4847 
Wow, what the days! 4843 
The comming weekend 4839 
It all was worth it! 4836 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4831 
Here is how it is look. 4831 
Resolving the carpet issue 4831 
Bonfire 4831 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4831 
Proof of concept? 4831 
Geometry 4831 
A view from listening position. 4831 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4831 
Some feedback 4831 
Evening 4831 
I wonder why. 4830 
Rugs and things 4830 
In defense… 4830 
I can’t get it. 4827 
Haze. 4826 
Front wall 4826 
It is very possible. 4826 
It is nice to be back. 4823 
My comfy corner. 4820 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4460 
WMD in house. 4282 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4185 
The third listening spot. 4164 
For sure a very different experience. 4126 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4121 
It's Jfretch's system. 4121 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4120 
Domestic games 4074 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3935 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3935 
Dynamic screening 3935 
Actually this is very good idea! 3935 
Volcanic fabric 3935 
I should have done this. 3933 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3929 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3898 
No worries 3898 
Awesome memories 3898 
Optimization of space 3898 
Child-ish considerations 3895 
Finding peace.... 3889 
"Fencing"? 3888 
I need to build something custom 3888 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3888 
Stressed Skin 3888 
NYC elevators 3888 
Kids toys and quantities. 3888 
Everything is completely reversible 3887 
Racks and things 3887 
Now it looks even more promising! 3887 
Quantity of rods 3887 
Avoiding diagonals 3885 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3884 
That's not fair! 3884 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3884 
Discrimination? 3879 
Vertical configuration 3872 
Impresive ! 3801 
Did you read the site? 3801 
Contact 3801 
Company's name is Rixrax 3801 
Stand 3800 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3756 
End of life headphone system 3756 
Something like this? 3756 
The "Second Living Room" 3756 
Mixing urban & suburban 3756 
Late night listening 3756 
Moving life... 3754 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3754 
A true listening room. 3730 
It started… 3715 
Levels of Interest 3715 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3715 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3715 
I can't not to post it.... 3715 
Do not leave him unattended. 3715 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3715 
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