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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5745 
The first take on the new room. 5739 
New Room, a first shot. 5738 
Wonderful 5738 
Adopted 5737 
The first relaxed night with the room 5735 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5734 
The listening room is ready. 5733 
New Room, a First Shot 5731 
Continue to work with the room 5731 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5731 
Room 5730 
I think it will take another month. 5730 
The Buttressing 5730 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5729 
The new place and the new noises. 5729 
Big listening room 5728 
Screw the "big" rooms 5728 
Big listening rooms 5728 
First reflection points 5727 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5727 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5724 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5723 
Squeezing the floor 5723 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5723 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5723 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5722 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5722 
The new room, the very first listening. 5722 
The 14.5 foot. 5721 
Again… 5720 
Romy's new Playground 5720 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5720 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5720 
For the uninitiated ... 5719 
NH guy 5719 
Room 5719 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5718 
The first base is done 5718 
Reentry time alignment. 5717 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5716 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5716 
Mid bass horn. 5716 
Guess is only a guess… 5716 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5716 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5715 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5715 
Diffusors 5715 
Diffuse injection 5715 
Let analyse why it so 5715 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5715 
Wheel and Deal 5715 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5715 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5715 
I Must Be Missing Something 5715 
I put sliders under my speakers 5714 
ROOM 5713 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5713 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5713 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5713 
No concerns 5713 
Speakers and room 5713 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5712 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5712 
Diaphram 5712 
Phram 5712 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5712 
Perfect piston 5712 
Decorater 5711 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5711 
New morning 5710 
The first take on the room with RTA 5709 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5709 
Axiomatic 5709 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5708 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5708 
The size of the bass. 5708 
Bass Factory 5708 
Crude Level, or something more? 5708 
I will play with it this week…. 5708 
Rent-A 5708 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5708 
Corner horns 5708 
Cheating from below 5708 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5708 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5707 
A possibly overly simplified view 5707 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5707 
Iceberg 5707 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5707 
Why not horn 5707 
A correction…. 5707 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5707 
They are just not related things at all. 5707 
Fertin 5705 
Low resonance is good... 5705 
Et tu, Brute? 5704 
The Room response at LF 5703 
Life On The Ground Floor 5703 
Bass arrays 5703 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5703 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5703 
The super sucks. 5703 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5703 
You may also try 5702 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5702 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5702 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5702 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5702 
60 Hz Resonance 5702 
No notching… so far. 5702 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5701 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5701 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5701 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5701 
Power to the People 5701 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5701 
Aura 5701 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5701 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5701 
All class D is the same 5701 
Interpreting the LF results. 5700 
The Halibut 5700 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5700 
The Big Picture 5700 
Power & ULF channels 5700 
The big picture indeed. 5700 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5700 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5700 
The Power and the Glory 5699 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5699 
I guess I did not get this memo 5699 
French LF drivers 5699 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5699 
(another) French LF approach 5698 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5698 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5698 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5698 
Limpschtick 5698 
Symmetry 5698 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5697 
Room correction 5697 
It migh be more complicated. 5697 
Bass EQ ? 5697 
Agree and not. 5697 
Two "diseases" 5697 
Parametric filters 5697 
Ceiling arrays 5697 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5697 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5697 
The Middle of the Room. 5697 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5697 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5697 
Stop! 5697 
Appendectomy 5697 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5696 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5696 
No Isolation 5696 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5693 
Potential contenders? 5692 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5692 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5692 
Those Crazy Canucks 5688 
Mo' Better Bass 5682 
Bird in the Hand? 5682 
A wet listening spot? 5675 
Storm 5672 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5672 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5658 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5628 
Polar Opposite ULF 5627 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5615 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5613 
Differently but the same. 5612 
PVC 5611 
The sail test try. 5611 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5611 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5611 
Trial 5610 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5610 
Some explanations 5610 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5609 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5608 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5607 
Acrylate 5606 
Magic blanket 5606 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5605 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5605 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5605 
I have a few options. 5605 
Foam color 5605 
Strange things with upperbass 5605 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5604 
Teatro reform. . . 5604 
The foaming room dilemma. 5603 
Melamine Foam 5603 
Foaming up the cat house 5603 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5603 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5603 
Acoustic revisions… 5602 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5599 
Surprises so far in the new room 5598 
The upperbass in the new room. 5598 
Slight change of hart. 5597 
Camco supply of Boston 5595 
Room acoustics 5595 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5554 
I need to kill dust first. 5554 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5552 
To feed the leeches? 5552 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5551 
Yh 5551 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5551 
DPOLs? 5551 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5551 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5548 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5548 
A HalfPipe solution? 5548 
I absolutely love it. 5548 
Piper work 5547 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5547 
Absorption 5547 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5546 
Cats life ? 5546 
Call me Pussy. 5546 
More about traps 5546 
Acoustic impedance? 5546 
You maybe right 5546 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5546 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5545 
Heavy Curtain 5545 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5544 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5544 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5544 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5541 
Fix speaker move chair? 5540 
Back and forth ceremony 5540 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5539 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5538 
Glass windows 5537 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5536 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5535 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5533 
How to use basement jacks? 5533 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5533 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5533 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5532 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5532 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5531 
Sore eyes... 5530 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5530 
The harvesting week! 5528 
I need an inspiration… 5527 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5526 
Like this? 5526 
Dramatically randomize MF 5526 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5525 
The room eats dynamic 5525 
Diffusers 5525 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5524 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5509 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5508 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5508 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5508 
About Width-Importance balance. 5506 
Letting the music scale up 5505 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5505 
To finish my house décor… 5501 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5500 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5499 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5499 
Calling the gods of music 5499 
Absolutely 5499 
Phase manipulation 5499 
No relation. 5499 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5499 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5499 
Dynamical mismatch 5498 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5498 
Stradiwinerius? 5495 
Dealing with the glass. 5494 
Boston 5494 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5494 
Added mass 5494 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5494 
It is about moderation…. 5494 
To hell with the wine... 5494 
Also for other surafaces 5493 
LEAD 5493 
LEAD & GLASS 5493 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5493 
Read carefully 5493 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5493 
Crooks and morons 5493 
Magiscopios 5492 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5472 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5472 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5471 
The LP setup in the new home. 5420 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5415 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5415 
Pianochord will do! 5415 
Spanyi heaven 5415 
I see no conflict at all. 5415 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5415 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5415 
A year after closing 5407 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5407 
Traveling antimatter 5400 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5394 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5393 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5367 
Cast Iron fireplace 5366 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5366 
The hardcore way 5366 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5330 
This is How It's Done 5329 
Listening room during summer. 5317 
What about those... 5316 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5316 
Reducing A/C Noise 5316 
HVAC the Cat 5316 
Big Ass fan 5315 
Variac dimmers 5315 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5315 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5315 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5247 
Some winter observations. 5138 
That Asian man…. 5107 
The Franz Schubert morning 5081 
Spring.... 5030 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4980 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4951 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4951 
Just good photography? 4951 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4951 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4951 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4950 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4950 
Sports car 4950 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4950 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4950 
Train Positioning 4950 
Kind of what I want 4950 
The lap listening… 4950 
Family Room 4950 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4947 
A super audio room. 4943 
Time Warp! 4943 
A piano in a listening room 4922 
Pianissimo 4922 
The plan in blue. 4922 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4922 
My doubts 4922 
It is exactly what I worry. 4921 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4921 
Musicians at home 4921 
Piano Measurements 4920 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4915 
The next step. 4901 
Midbass horns missing?? 4900 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4890 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4890 
Baby Grand 4889 
Wood floor 4889 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4889 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4889 
Amy’s baby. 4887 
Improvement 4887 
Agree with Scott 4887 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4875 
Integrated casters 4875 
Very nice, thanks. 4875 
Customization 4875 
Sliders 4875 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4868 
Congratulations 4868 
Holes in the floor... 4868 
Tubes and kids 4868 
Sweet spot enlargement 4868 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4866 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4865 
Wood Floors and Water 4865 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4860 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4859 
WAF is for Losers 4859 
WAF: it depends. 4859 
Integration 4858 
Here and there. 4858 
Life after WWIII 4858 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4858 
Cables management. 4856 
Featurizing 4856 
Kids and tubes cont. 4853 
Kid magnet 4853 
Kids and audio 4852 
Radars 4852 
Wow, what the days! 4848 
The comming weekend 4844 
It all was worth it! 4841 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4836 
Here is how it is look. 4836 
Resolving the carpet issue 4836 
Bonfire 4836 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4836 
Proof of concept? 4836 
Geometry 4836 
A view from listening position. 4836 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4836 
Some feedback 4836 
Evening 4836 
I wonder why. 4835 
Rugs and things 4835 
In defense… 4835 
I can’t get it. 4832 
Haze. 4831 
Front wall 4831 
It is very possible. 4831 
It is nice to be back. 4828 
My comfy corner. 4825 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4465 
WMD in house. 4287 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4190 
The third listening spot. 4169 
For sure a very different experience. 4131 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4126 
It's Jfretch's system. 4126 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4125 
Domestic games 4079 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3940 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3940 
Dynamic screening 3940 
Actually this is very good idea! 3940 
Volcanic fabric 3940 
I should have done this. 3938 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3934 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3903 
No worries 3903 
Awesome memories 3903 
Optimization of space 3903 
Child-ish considerations 3900 
Finding peace.... 3894 
"Fencing"? 3893 
I need to build something custom 3893 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3893 
Stressed Skin 3893 
NYC elevators 3893 
Kids toys and quantities. 3893 
Everything is completely reversible 3892 
Racks and things 3892 
Now it looks even more promising! 3892 
Quantity of rods 3892 
Avoiding diagonals 3890 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3889 
That's not fair! 3889 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3889 
Discrimination? 3884 
Vertical configuration 3877 
Impresive ! 3806 
Did you read the site? 3806 
Contact 3806 
Company's name is Rixrax 3806 
Stand 3805 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3761 
End of life headphone system 3761 
Something like this? 3761 
The "Second Living Room" 3761 
Mixing urban & suburban 3761 
Late night listening 3761 
Moving life... 3759 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3759 
A true listening room. 3735 
It started… 3720 
Levels of Interest 3720 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3720 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3720 
I can't not to post it.... 3720 
Do not leave him unattended. 3720 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3720 
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