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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5798 
The first take on the new room. 5792 
New Room, a first shot. 5791 
Wonderful 5791 
Adopted 5790 
The first relaxed night with the room 5788 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5787 
The listening room is ready. 5786 
New Room, a First Shot 5784 
Continue to work with the room 5784 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5784 
Room 5783 
I think it will take another month. 5783 
The Buttressing 5783 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5782 
The new place and the new noises. 5782 
Big listening room 5781 
Screw the "big" rooms 5781 
Big listening rooms 5781 
First reflection points 5780 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5780 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5777 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5776 
Squeezing the floor 5776 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5776 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5776 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5775 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5775 
The new room, the very first listening. 5775 
The 14.5 foot. 5774 
Again… 5773 
Romy's new Playground 5773 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5773 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5773 
For the uninitiated ... 5772 
NH guy 5772 
Room 5772 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5771 
The first base is done 5771 
Reentry time alignment. 5770 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5769 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5769 
Mid bass horn. 5769 
Guess is only a guess… 5769 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5769 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5768 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5768 
Diffusors 5768 
Diffuse injection 5768 
Let analyse why it so 5768 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5768 
Wheel and Deal 5768 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5768 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5768 
I Must Be Missing Something 5768 
I put sliders under my speakers 5767 
ROOM 5766 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5766 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5766 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5766 
No concerns 5766 
Speakers and room 5766 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5765 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5765 
Diaphram 5765 
Phram 5765 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5765 
Perfect piston 5765 
Decorater 5764 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5764 
New morning 5763 
The first take on the room with RTA 5762 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5762 
Axiomatic 5762 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5761 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5761 
The size of the bass. 5761 
Bass Factory 5761 
Crude Level, or something more? 5761 
I will play with it this week…. 5761 
Rent-A 5761 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5761 
Corner horns 5761 
Cheating from below 5761 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5761 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5760 
A possibly overly simplified view 5760 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5760 
Iceberg 5760 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5760 
Why not horn 5760 
A correction…. 5760 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5760 
They are just not related things at all. 5760 
Fertin 5758 
Low resonance is good... 5758 
Et tu, Brute? 5757 
The Room response at LF 5756 
Life On The Ground Floor 5756 
Bass arrays 5756 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5756 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5756 
The super sucks. 5756 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5756 
You may also try 5755 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5755 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5755 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5755 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5755 
60 Hz Resonance 5755 
No notching… so far. 5755 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5754 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5754 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5754 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5754 
Power to the People 5754 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5754 
Aura 5754 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5754 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5754 
All class D is the same 5754 
Interpreting the LF results. 5753 
The Halibut 5753 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5753 
The Big Picture 5753 
Power & ULF channels 5753 
The big picture indeed. 5753 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5753 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5753 
The Power and the Glory 5752 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5752 
I guess I did not get this memo 5752 
French LF drivers 5752 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5752 
(another) French LF approach 5751 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5751 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5751 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5751 
Limpschtick 5751 
Symmetry 5751 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5750 
Room correction 5750 
It migh be more complicated. 5750 
Bass EQ ? 5750 
Agree and not. 5750 
Two "diseases" 5750 
Parametric filters 5750 
Ceiling arrays 5750 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5750 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5750 
The Middle of the Room. 5750 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5750 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5750 
Stop! 5750 
Appendectomy 5750 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5749 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5749 
No Isolation 5749 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5746 
Potential contenders? 5745 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5745 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5745 
Those Crazy Canucks 5741 
Mo' Better Bass 5735 
Bird in the Hand? 5735 
A wet listening spot? 5728 
Storm 5725 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5725 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5711 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5681 
Polar Opposite ULF 5680 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5668 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5666 
Differently but the same. 5665 
PVC 5664 
The sail test try. 5664 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5664 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5664 
Trial 5663 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5663 
Some explanations 5663 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5662 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5661 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5660 
Acrylate 5659 
Magic blanket 5659 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5658 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5658 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5658 
I have a few options. 5658 
Foam color 5658 
Strange things with upperbass 5658 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5657 
Teatro reform. . . 5657 
The foaming room dilemma. 5656 
Melamine Foam 5656 
Foaming up the cat house 5656 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5656 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5656 
Acoustic revisions… 5655 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5652 
Surprises so far in the new room 5651 
The upperbass in the new room. 5651 
Slight change of hart. 5650 
Camco supply of Boston 5648 
Room acoustics 5648 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5607 
I need to kill dust first. 5607 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5605 
To feed the leeches? 5605 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5604 
Yh 5604 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5604 
DPOLs? 5604 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5604 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5601 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5601 
A HalfPipe solution? 5601 
I absolutely love it. 5601 
Piper work 5600 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5600 
Absorption 5600 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5599 
Cats life ? 5599 
Call me Pussy. 5599 
More about traps 5599 
Acoustic impedance? 5599 
You maybe right 5599 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5599 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5598 
Heavy Curtain 5598 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5597 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5597 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5597 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5594 
Fix speaker move chair? 5593 
Back and forth ceremony 5593 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5592 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5591 
Glass windows 5590 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5589 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5588 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5586 
How to use basement jacks? 5586 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5586 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5586 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5585 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5585 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5584 
Sore eyes... 5583 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5583 
The harvesting week! 5581 
I need an inspiration… 5580 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5579 
Like this? 5579 
Dramatically randomize MF 5579 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5578 
The room eats dynamic 5578 
Diffusers 5578 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5577 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5562 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5561 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5561 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5561 
About Width-Importance balance. 5559 
Letting the music scale up 5558 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5558 
To finish my house décor… 5554 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5553 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5552 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5552 
Calling the gods of music 5552 
Absolutely 5552 
Phase manipulation 5552 
No relation. 5552 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5552 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5552 
Dynamical mismatch 5551 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5551 
Stradiwinerius? 5548 
Dealing with the glass. 5547 
Boston 5547 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5547 
Added mass 5547 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5547 
It is about moderation…. 5547 
To hell with the wine... 5547 
Also for other surafaces 5546 
LEAD 5546 
LEAD & GLASS 5546 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5546 
Read carefully 5546 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5546 
Crooks and morons 5546 
Magiscopios 5545 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5525 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5525 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5524 
The LP setup in the new home. 5473 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5468 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5468 
Pianochord will do! 5468 
Spanyi heaven 5468 
I see no conflict at all. 5468 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5468 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5468 
A year after closing 5460 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5460 
Traveling antimatter 5453 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5447 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5446 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5420 
Cast Iron fireplace 5419 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5419 
The hardcore way 5419 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5383 
This is How It's Done 5382 
Listening room during summer. 5370 
What about those... 5369 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5369 
Reducing A/C Noise 5369 
HVAC the Cat 5369 
Big Ass fan 5368 
Variac dimmers 5368 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5368 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5368 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5300 
Some winter observations. 5191 
That Asian man…. 5160 
The Franz Schubert morning 5134 
Spring.... 5083 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5033 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5004 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5004 
Just good photography? 5004 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5004 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5004 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5003 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5003 
Sports car 5003 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5003 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5003 
Train Positioning 5003 
Kind of what I want 5003 
The lap listening… 5003 
Family Room 5003 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5000 
A super audio room. 4996 
Time Warp! 4996 
A piano in a listening room 4975 
Pianissimo 4975 
The plan in blue. 4975 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4975 
My doubts 4975 
It is exactly what I worry. 4974 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4974 
Musicians at home 4974 
Piano Measurements 4973 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4968 
The next step. 4954 
Midbass horns missing?? 4953 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4943 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4943 
Baby Grand 4942 
Wood floor 4942 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4942 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4942 
Amy’s baby. 4940 
Improvement 4940 
Agree with Scott 4940 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4928 
Integrated casters 4928 
Very nice, thanks. 4928 
Customization 4928 
Sliders 4928 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4921 
Congratulations 4921 
Holes in the floor... 4921 
Tubes and kids 4921 
Sweet spot enlargement 4921 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4919 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4918 
Wood Floors and Water 4918 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4913 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4912 
WAF is for Losers 4912 
WAF: it depends. 4912 
Integration 4911 
Here and there. 4911 
Life after WWIII 4911 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4911 
Cables management. 4909 
Featurizing 4909 
Kids and tubes cont. 4906 
Kid magnet 4906 
Kids and audio 4905 
Radars 4905 
Wow, what the days! 4901 
The comming weekend 4897 
It all was worth it! 4894 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4889 
Here is how it is look. 4889 
Resolving the carpet issue 4889 
Bonfire 4889 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4889 
Proof of concept? 4889 
Geometry 4889 
A view from listening position. 4889 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4889 
Some feedback 4889 
Evening 4889 
I wonder why. 4888 
Rugs and things 4888 
In defense… 4888 
I can’t get it. 4885 
Haze. 4884 
Front wall 4884 
It is very possible. 4884 
It is nice to be back. 4881 
My comfy corner. 4878 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4518 
WMD in house. 4340 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4243 
The third listening spot. 4222 
For sure a very different experience. 4184 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4179 
It's Jfretch's system. 4179 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4178 
Domestic games 4132 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3993 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3993 
Dynamic screening 3993 
Actually this is very good idea! 3993 
Volcanic fabric 3993 
I should have done this. 3991 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3987 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3956 
No worries 3956 
Awesome memories 3956 
Optimization of space 3956 
Child-ish considerations 3953 
Finding peace.... 3947 
"Fencing"? 3946 
I need to build something custom 3946 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3946 
Stressed Skin 3946 
NYC elevators 3946 
Kids toys and quantities. 3946 
Everything is completely reversible 3945 
Racks and things 3945 
Now it looks even more promising! 3945 
Quantity of rods 3945 
Avoiding diagonals 3943 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3942 
That's not fair! 3942 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3942 
Discrimination? 3937 
Vertical configuration 3930 
Impresive ! 3859 
Did you read the site? 3859 
Contact 3859 
Company's name is Rixrax 3859 
Stand 3858 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3814 
End of life headphone system 3814 
Something like this? 3814 
The "Second Living Room" 3814 
Mixing urban & suburban 3814 
Late night listening 3814 
Moving life... 3812 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3812 
A true listening room. 3788 
It started… 3773 
Levels of Interest 3773 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3773 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3773 
I can't not to post it.... 3773 
Do not leave him unattended. 3773 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3773 
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