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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5814 
The first take on the new room. 5808 
New Room, a first shot. 5807 
Wonderful 5807 
Adopted 5806 
The first relaxed night with the room 5804 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5803 
The listening room is ready. 5802 
New Room, a First Shot 5800 
Continue to work with the room 5800 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5800 
Room 5799 
I think it will take another month. 5799 
The Buttressing 5799 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5798 
The new place and the new noises. 5798 
Big listening room 5797 
Screw the "big" rooms 5797 
Big listening rooms 5797 
First reflection points 5796 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5796 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5793 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5792 
Squeezing the floor 5792 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5792 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5792 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5791 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5791 
The new room, the very first listening. 5791 
The 14.5 foot. 5790 
Again… 5789 
Romy's new Playground 5789 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5789 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5789 
For the uninitiated ... 5788 
NH guy 5788 
Room 5788 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5787 
The first base is done 5787 
Reentry time alignment. 5786 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5785 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5785 
Mid bass horn. 5785 
Guess is only a guess… 5785 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5785 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5784 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5784 
Diffusors 5784 
Diffuse injection 5784 
Let analyse why it so 5784 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5784 
Wheel and Deal 5784 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5784 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5784 
I Must Be Missing Something 5784 
I put sliders under my speakers 5783 
ROOM 5782 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5782 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5782 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5782 
No concerns 5782 
Speakers and room 5782 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5781 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5781 
Diaphram 5781 
Phram 5781 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5781 
Perfect piston 5781 
Decorater 5780 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5780 
New morning 5779 
The first take on the room with RTA 5778 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5778 
Axiomatic 5778 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5777 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5777 
The size of the bass. 5777 
Bass Factory 5777 
Crude Level, or something more? 5777 
I will play with it this week…. 5777 
Rent-A 5777 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5777 
Corner horns 5777 
Cheating from below 5777 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5777 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5776 
A possibly overly simplified view 5776 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5776 
Iceberg 5776 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5776 
Why not horn 5776 
A correction…. 5776 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5776 
They are just not related things at all. 5776 
Fertin 5774 
Low resonance is good... 5774 
Et tu, Brute? 5773 
The Room response at LF 5772 
Life On The Ground Floor 5772 
Bass arrays 5772 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5772 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5772 
The super sucks. 5772 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5772 
You may also try 5771 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5771 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5771 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5771 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5771 
60 Hz Resonance 5771 
No notching… so far. 5771 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5770 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5770 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5770 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5770 
Power to the People 5770 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5770 
Aura 5770 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5770 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5770 
All class D is the same 5770 
Interpreting the LF results. 5769 
The Halibut 5769 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5769 
The Big Picture 5769 
Power & ULF channels 5769 
The big picture indeed. 5769 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5769 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5769 
The Power and the Glory 5768 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5768 
I guess I did not get this memo 5768 
French LF drivers 5768 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5768 
(another) French LF approach 5767 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5767 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5767 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5767 
Limpschtick 5767 
Symmetry 5767 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5766 
Room correction 5766 
It migh be more complicated. 5766 
Bass EQ ? 5766 
Agree and not. 5766 
Two "diseases" 5766 
Parametric filters 5766 
Ceiling arrays 5766 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5766 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5766 
The Middle of the Room. 5766 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5766 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5766 
Stop! 5766 
Appendectomy 5766 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5765 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5765 
No Isolation 5765 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5762 
Potential contenders? 5761 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5761 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5761 
Those Crazy Canucks 5757 
Mo' Better Bass 5751 
Bird in the Hand? 5751 
A wet listening spot? 5744 
Storm 5741 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5741 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5727 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5697 
Polar Opposite ULF 5696 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5684 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5682 
Differently but the same. 5681 
PVC 5680 
The sail test try. 5680 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5680 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5680 
Trial 5679 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5679 
Some explanations 5679 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5678 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5677 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5676 
Acrylate 5675 
Magic blanket 5675 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5674 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5674 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5674 
I have a few options. 5674 
Foam color 5674 
Strange things with upperbass 5674 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5673 
Teatro reform. . . 5673 
The foaming room dilemma. 5672 
Melamine Foam 5672 
Foaming up the cat house 5672 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5672 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5672 
Acoustic revisions… 5671 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5668 
Surprises so far in the new room 5667 
The upperbass in the new room. 5667 
Slight change of hart. 5666 
Camco supply of Boston 5664 
Room acoustics 5664 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5623 
I need to kill dust first. 5623 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5621 
To feed the leeches? 5621 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5620 
Yh 5620 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5620 
DPOLs? 5620 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5620 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5617 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5617 
A HalfPipe solution? 5617 
I absolutely love it. 5617 
Piper work 5616 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5616 
Absorption 5616 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5615 
Cats life ? 5615 
Call me Pussy. 5615 
More about traps 5615 
Acoustic impedance? 5615 
You maybe right 5615 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5615 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5614 
Heavy Curtain 5614 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5613 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5613 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5613 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5610 
Fix speaker move chair? 5609 
Back and forth ceremony 5609 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5608 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5607 
Glass windows 5606 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5605 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5604 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5602 
How to use basement jacks? 5602 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5602 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5602 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5601 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5601 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5600 
Sore eyes... 5599 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5599 
The harvesting week! 5597 
I need an inspiration… 5596 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5595 
Like this? 5595 
Dramatically randomize MF 5595 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5594 
The room eats dynamic 5594 
Diffusers 5594 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5593 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5578 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5577 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5577 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5577 
About Width-Importance balance. 5575 
Letting the music scale up 5574 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5574 
To finish my house décor… 5570 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5569 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5568 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5568 
Calling the gods of music 5568 
Absolutely 5568 
Phase manipulation 5568 
No relation. 5568 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5568 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5568 
Dynamical mismatch 5567 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5567 
Stradiwinerius? 5564 
Dealing with the glass. 5563 
Boston 5563 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5563 
Added mass 5563 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5563 
It is about moderation…. 5563 
To hell with the wine... 5563 
Also for other surafaces 5562 
LEAD 5562 
LEAD & GLASS 5562 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5562 
Read carefully 5562 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5562 
Crooks and morons 5562 
Magiscopios 5561 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5541 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5541 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5540 
The LP setup in the new home. 5489 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5484 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5484 
Pianochord will do! 5484 
Spanyi heaven 5484 
I see no conflict at all. 5484 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5484 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5484 
A year after closing 5476 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5476 
Traveling antimatter 5469 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5463 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5462 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5436 
Cast Iron fireplace 5435 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5435 
The hardcore way 5435 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5399 
This is How It's Done 5398 
Listening room during summer. 5386 
What about those... 5385 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5385 
Reducing A/C Noise 5385 
HVAC the Cat 5385 
Big Ass fan 5384 
Variac dimmers 5384 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5384 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5384 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5316 
Some winter observations. 5207 
That Asian man…. 5176 
The Franz Schubert morning 5150 
Spring.... 5099 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5049 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5020 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5020 
Just good photography? 5020 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5020 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5020 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5019 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5019 
Sports car 5019 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5019 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5019 
Train Positioning 5019 
Kind of what I want 5019 
The lap listening… 5019 
Family Room 5019 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5016 
A super audio room. 5012 
Time Warp! 5012 
A piano in a listening room 4991 
Pianissimo 4991 
The plan in blue. 4991 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4991 
My doubts 4991 
It is exactly what I worry. 4990 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4990 
Musicians at home 4990 
Piano Measurements 4989 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4984 
The next step. 4970 
Midbass horns missing?? 4969 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4959 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4959 
Baby Grand 4958 
Wood floor 4958 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4958 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4958 
Amy’s baby. 4956 
Improvement 4956 
Agree with Scott 4956 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4944 
Integrated casters 4944 
Very nice, thanks. 4944 
Customization 4944 
Sliders 4944 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4937 
Congratulations 4937 
Holes in the floor... 4937 
Tubes and kids 4937 
Sweet spot enlargement 4937 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4935 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4934 
Wood Floors and Water 4934 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4929 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4928 
WAF is for Losers 4928 
WAF: it depends. 4928 
Integration 4927 
Here and there. 4927 
Life after WWIII 4927 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4927 
Cables management. 4925 
Featurizing 4925 
Kids and tubes cont. 4922 
Kid magnet 4922 
Kids and audio 4921 
Radars 4921 
Wow, what the days! 4917 
The comming weekend 4913 
It all was worth it! 4910 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4905 
Here is how it is look. 4905 
Resolving the carpet issue 4905 
Bonfire 4905 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4905 
Proof of concept? 4905 
Geometry 4905 
A view from listening position. 4905 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4905 
Some feedback 4905 
Evening 4905 
I wonder why. 4904 
Rugs and things 4904 
In defense… 4904 
I can’t get it. 4901 
Haze. 4900 
Front wall 4900 
It is very possible. 4900 
It is nice to be back. 4897 
My comfy corner. 4894 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4534 
WMD in house. 4356 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4259 
The third listening spot. 4238 
For sure a very different experience. 4200 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4195 
It's Jfretch's system. 4195 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4194 
Domestic games 4148 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4009 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4009 
Dynamic screening 4009 
Actually this is very good idea! 4009 
Volcanic fabric 4009 
I should have done this. 4007 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4003 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3972 
No worries 3972 
Awesome memories 3972 
Optimization of space 3972 
Child-ish considerations 3969 
Finding peace.... 3963 
"Fencing"? 3962 
I need to build something custom 3962 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3962 
Stressed Skin 3962 
NYC elevators 3962 
Kids toys and quantities. 3962 
Everything is completely reversible 3961 
Racks and things 3961 
Now it looks even more promising! 3961 
Quantity of rods 3961 
Avoiding diagonals 3959 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3958 
That's not fair! 3958 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3958 
Discrimination? 3953 
Vertical configuration 3946 
Impresive ! 3875 
Did you read the site? 3875 
Contact 3875 
Company's name is Rixrax 3875 
Stand 3874 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3830 
End of life headphone system 3830 
Something like this? 3830 
The "Second Living Room" 3830 
Mixing urban & suburban 3830 
Late night listening 3830 
Moving life... 3828 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3828 
A true listening room. 3804 
It started… 3789 
Levels of Interest 3789 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3789 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3789 
I can't not to post it.... 3789 
Do not leave him unattended. 3789 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3789 
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