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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5749 
The first take on the new room. 5743 
New Room, a first shot. 5742 
Wonderful 5742 
Adopted 5741 
The first relaxed night with the room 5739 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5738 
The listening room is ready. 5737 
New Room, a First Shot 5735 
Continue to work with the room 5735 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5735 
Room 5734 
I think it will take another month. 5734 
The Buttressing 5734 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5733 
The new place and the new noises. 5733 
Big listening room 5732 
Screw the "big" rooms 5732 
Big listening rooms 5732 
First reflection points 5731 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5731 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5728 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5727 
Squeezing the floor 5727 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5727 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5727 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5726 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5726 
The new room, the very first listening. 5726 
The 14.5 foot. 5725 
Again… 5724 
Romy's new Playground 5724 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5724 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5724 
For the uninitiated ... 5723 
NH guy 5723 
Room 5723 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5722 
The first base is done 5722 
Reentry time alignment. 5721 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5720 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5720 
Mid bass horn. 5720 
Guess is only a guess… 5720 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5720 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5719 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5719 
Diffusors 5719 
Diffuse injection 5719 
Let analyse why it so 5719 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5719 
Wheel and Deal 5719 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5719 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5719 
I Must Be Missing Something 5719 
I put sliders under my speakers 5718 
ROOM 5717 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5717 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5717 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5717 
No concerns 5717 
Speakers and room 5717 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5716 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5716 
Diaphram 5716 
Phram 5716 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5716 
Perfect piston 5716 
Decorater 5715 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5715 
New morning 5714 
The first take on the room with RTA 5713 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5713 
Axiomatic 5713 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5712 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5712 
The size of the bass. 5712 
Bass Factory 5712 
Crude Level, or something more? 5712 
I will play with it this week…. 5712 
Rent-A 5712 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5712 
Corner horns 5712 
Cheating from below 5712 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5712 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5711 
A possibly overly simplified view 5711 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5711 
Iceberg 5711 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5711 
Why not horn 5711 
A correction…. 5711 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5711 
They are just not related things at all. 5711 
Fertin 5709 
Low resonance is good... 5709 
Et tu, Brute? 5708 
The Room response at LF 5707 
Life On The Ground Floor 5707 
Bass arrays 5707 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5707 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5707 
The super sucks. 5707 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5707 
You may also try 5706 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5706 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5706 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5706 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5706 
60 Hz Resonance 5706 
No notching… so far. 5706 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5705 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5705 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5705 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5705 
Power to the People 5705 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5705 
Aura 5705 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5705 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5705 
All class D is the same 5705 
Interpreting the LF results. 5704 
The Halibut 5704 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5704 
The Big Picture 5704 
Power & ULF channels 5704 
The big picture indeed. 5704 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5704 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5704 
The Power and the Glory 5703 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5703 
I guess I did not get this memo 5703 
French LF drivers 5703 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5703 
(another) French LF approach 5702 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5702 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5702 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5702 
Limpschtick 5702 
Symmetry 5702 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5701 
Room correction 5701 
It migh be more complicated. 5701 
Bass EQ ? 5701 
Agree and not. 5701 
Two "diseases" 5701 
Parametric filters 5701 
Ceiling arrays 5701 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5701 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5701 
The Middle of the Room. 5701 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5701 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5701 
Stop! 5701 
Appendectomy 5701 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5700 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5700 
No Isolation 5700 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5697 
Potential contenders? 5696 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5696 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5696 
Those Crazy Canucks 5692 
Mo' Better Bass 5686 
Bird in the Hand? 5686 
A wet listening spot? 5679 
Storm 5676 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5676 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5662 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5632 
Polar Opposite ULF 5631 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5619 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5617 
Differently but the same. 5616 
PVC 5615 
The sail test try. 5615 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5615 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5615 
Trial 5614 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5614 
Some explanations 5614 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5613 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5612 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5611 
Acrylate 5610 
Magic blanket 5610 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5609 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5609 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5609 
I have a few options. 5609 
Foam color 5609 
Strange things with upperbass 5609 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5608 
Teatro reform. . . 5608 
The foaming room dilemma. 5607 
Melamine Foam 5607 
Foaming up the cat house 5607 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5607 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5607 
Acoustic revisions… 5606 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5603 
Surprises so far in the new room 5602 
The upperbass in the new room. 5602 
Slight change of hart. 5601 
Camco supply of Boston 5599 
Room acoustics 5599 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5558 
I need to kill dust first. 5558 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5556 
To feed the leeches? 5556 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5555 
Yh 5555 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5555 
DPOLs? 5555 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5555 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5552 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5552 
A HalfPipe solution? 5552 
I absolutely love it. 5552 
Piper work 5551 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5551 
Absorption 5551 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5550 
Cats life ? 5550 
Call me Pussy. 5550 
More about traps 5550 
Acoustic impedance? 5550 
You maybe right 5550 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5550 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5549 
Heavy Curtain 5549 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5548 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5548 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5548 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5545 
Fix speaker move chair? 5544 
Back and forth ceremony 5544 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5543 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5542 
Glass windows 5541 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5540 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5539 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5537 
How to use basement jacks? 5537 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5537 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5537 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5536 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5536 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5535 
Sore eyes... 5534 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5534 
The harvesting week! 5532 
I need an inspiration… 5531 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5530 
Like this? 5530 
Dramatically randomize MF 5530 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5529 
The room eats dynamic 5529 
Diffusers 5529 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5528 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5513 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5512 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5512 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5512 
About Width-Importance balance. 5510 
Letting the music scale up 5509 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5509 
To finish my house décor… 5505 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5504 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5503 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5503 
Calling the gods of music 5503 
Absolutely 5503 
Phase manipulation 5503 
No relation. 5503 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5503 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5503 
Dynamical mismatch 5502 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5502 
Stradiwinerius? 5499 
Dealing with the glass. 5498 
Boston 5498 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5498 
Added mass 5498 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5498 
It is about moderation…. 5498 
To hell with the wine... 5498 
Also for other surafaces 5497 
LEAD 5497 
LEAD & GLASS 5497 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5497 
Read carefully 5497 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5497 
Crooks and morons 5497 
Magiscopios 5496 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5476 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5476 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5475 
The LP setup in the new home. 5424 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5419 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5419 
Pianochord will do! 5419 
Spanyi heaven 5419 
I see no conflict at all. 5419 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5419 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5419 
A year after closing 5411 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5411 
Traveling antimatter 5404 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5398 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5397 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5371 
Cast Iron fireplace 5370 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5370 
The hardcore way 5370 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5334 
This is How It's Done 5333 
Listening room during summer. 5321 
What about those... 5320 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5320 
Reducing A/C Noise 5320 
HVAC the Cat 5320 
Big Ass fan 5319 
Variac dimmers 5319 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5319 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5319 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5251 
Some winter observations. 5142 
That Asian man…. 5111 
The Franz Schubert morning 5085 
Spring.... 5034 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4984 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4955 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4955 
Just good photography? 4955 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4955 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4955 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4954 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4954 
Sports car 4954 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4954 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4954 
Train Positioning 4954 
Kind of what I want 4954 
The lap listening… 4954 
Family Room 4954 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4951 
A super audio room. 4947 
Time Warp! 4947 
A piano in a listening room 4926 
Pianissimo 4926 
The plan in blue. 4926 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4926 
My doubts 4926 
It is exactly what I worry. 4925 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4925 
Musicians at home 4925 
Piano Measurements 4924 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4919 
The next step. 4905 
Midbass horns missing?? 4904 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4894 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4894 
Baby Grand 4893 
Wood floor 4893 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4893 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4893 
Amy’s baby. 4891 
Improvement 4891 
Agree with Scott 4891 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4879 
Integrated casters 4879 
Very nice, thanks. 4879 
Customization 4879 
Sliders 4879 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4872 
Congratulations 4872 
Holes in the floor... 4872 
Tubes and kids 4872 
Sweet spot enlargement 4872 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4870 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4869 
Wood Floors and Water 4869 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4864 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4863 
WAF is for Losers 4863 
WAF: it depends. 4863 
Integration 4862 
Here and there. 4862 
Life after WWIII 4862 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4862 
Cables management. 4860 
Featurizing 4860 
Kids and tubes cont. 4857 
Kid magnet 4857 
Kids and audio 4856 
Radars 4856 
Wow, what the days! 4852 
The comming weekend 4848 
It all was worth it! 4845 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4840 
Here is how it is look. 4840 
Resolving the carpet issue 4840 
Bonfire 4840 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4840 
Proof of concept? 4840 
Geometry 4840 
A view from listening position. 4840 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4840 
Some feedback 4840 
Evening 4840 
I wonder why. 4839 
Rugs and things 4839 
In defense… 4839 
I can’t get it. 4836 
Haze. 4835 
Front wall 4835 
It is very possible. 4835 
It is nice to be back. 4832 
My comfy corner. 4829 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4469 
WMD in house. 4291 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4194 
The third listening spot. 4173 
For sure a very different experience. 4135 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4130 
It's Jfretch's system. 4130 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4129 
Domestic games 4083 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3944 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3944 
Dynamic screening 3944 
Actually this is very good idea! 3944 
Volcanic fabric 3944 
I should have done this. 3942 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3938 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3907 
No worries 3907 
Awesome memories 3907 
Optimization of space 3907 
Child-ish considerations 3904 
Finding peace.... 3898 
"Fencing"? 3897 
I need to build something custom 3897 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3897 
Stressed Skin 3897 
NYC elevators 3897 
Kids toys and quantities. 3897 
Everything is completely reversible 3896 
Racks and things 3896 
Now it looks even more promising! 3896 
Quantity of rods 3896 
Avoiding diagonals 3894 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3893 
That's not fair! 3893 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3893 
Discrimination? 3888 
Vertical configuration 3881 
Impresive ! 3810 
Did you read the site? 3810 
Contact 3810 
Company's name is Rixrax 3810 
Stand 3809 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3765 
End of life headphone system 3765 
Something like this? 3765 
The "Second Living Room" 3765 
Mixing urban & suburban 3765 
Late night listening 3765 
Moving life... 3763 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3763 
A true listening room. 3739 
It started… 3724 
Levels of Interest 3724 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3724 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3724 
I can't not to post it.... 3724 
Do not leave him unattended. 3724 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3724 
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