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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5789 
The first take on the new room. 5783 
New Room, a first shot. 5782 
Wonderful 5782 
Adopted 5781 
The first relaxed night with the room 5779 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5778 
The listening room is ready. 5777 
New Room, a First Shot 5775 
Continue to work with the room 5775 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5775 
Room 5774 
I think it will take another month. 5774 
The Buttressing 5774 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5773 
The new place and the new noises. 5773 
Big listening room 5772 
Screw the "big" rooms 5772 
Big listening rooms 5772 
First reflection points 5771 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5771 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5768 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5767 
Squeezing the floor 5767 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5767 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5767 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5766 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5766 
The new room, the very first listening. 5766 
The 14.5 foot. 5765 
Again… 5764 
Romy's new Playground 5764 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5764 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5764 
For the uninitiated ... 5763 
NH guy 5763 
Room 5763 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5762 
The first base is done 5762 
Reentry time alignment. 5761 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5760 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5760 
Mid bass horn. 5760 
Guess is only a guess… 5760 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5760 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5759 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5759 
Diffusors 5759 
Diffuse injection 5759 
Let analyse why it so 5759 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5759 
Wheel and Deal 5759 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5759 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5759 
I Must Be Missing Something 5759 
I put sliders under my speakers 5758 
ROOM 5757 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5757 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5757 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5757 
No concerns 5757 
Speakers and room 5757 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5756 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5756 
Diaphram 5756 
Phram 5756 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5756 
Perfect piston 5756 
Decorater 5755 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5755 
New morning 5754 
The first take on the room with RTA 5753 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5753 
Axiomatic 5753 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5752 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5752 
The size of the bass. 5752 
Bass Factory 5752 
Crude Level, or something more? 5752 
I will play with it this week…. 5752 
Rent-A 5752 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5752 
Corner horns 5752 
Cheating from below 5752 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5752 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5751 
A possibly overly simplified view 5751 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5751 
Iceberg 5751 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5751 
Why not horn 5751 
A correction…. 5751 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5751 
They are just not related things at all. 5751 
Fertin 5749 
Low resonance is good... 5749 
Et tu, Brute? 5748 
The Room response at LF 5747 
Life On The Ground Floor 5747 
Bass arrays 5747 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5747 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5747 
The super sucks. 5747 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5747 
You may also try 5746 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5746 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5746 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5746 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5746 
60 Hz Resonance 5746 
No notching… so far. 5746 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5745 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5745 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5745 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5745 
Power to the People 5745 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5745 
Aura 5745 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5745 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5745 
All class D is the same 5745 
Interpreting the LF results. 5744 
The Halibut 5744 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5744 
The Big Picture 5744 
Power & ULF channels 5744 
The big picture indeed. 5744 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5744 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5744 
The Power and the Glory 5743 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5743 
I guess I did not get this memo 5743 
French LF drivers 5743 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5743 
(another) French LF approach 5742 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5742 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5742 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5742 
Limpschtick 5742 
Symmetry 5742 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5741 
Room correction 5741 
It migh be more complicated. 5741 
Bass EQ ? 5741 
Agree and not. 5741 
Two "diseases" 5741 
Parametric filters 5741 
Ceiling arrays 5741 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5741 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5741 
The Middle of the Room. 5741 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5741 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5741 
Stop! 5741 
Appendectomy 5741 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5740 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5740 
No Isolation 5740 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5737 
Potential contenders? 5736 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5736 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5736 
Those Crazy Canucks 5732 
Mo' Better Bass 5726 
Bird in the Hand? 5726 
A wet listening spot? 5719 
Storm 5716 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5716 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5702 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5672 
Polar Opposite ULF 5671 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5659 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5657 
Differently but the same. 5656 
PVC 5655 
The sail test try. 5655 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5655 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5655 
Trial 5654 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5654 
Some explanations 5654 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5653 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5652 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5651 
Acrylate 5650 
Magic blanket 5650 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5649 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5649 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5649 
I have a few options. 5649 
Foam color 5649 
Strange things with upperbass 5649 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5648 
Teatro reform. . . 5648 
The foaming room dilemma. 5647 
Melamine Foam 5647 
Foaming up the cat house 5647 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5647 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5647 
Acoustic revisions… 5646 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5643 
Surprises so far in the new room 5642 
The upperbass in the new room. 5642 
Slight change of hart. 5641 
Camco supply of Boston 5639 
Room acoustics 5639 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5598 
I need to kill dust first. 5598 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5596 
To feed the leeches? 5596 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5595 
Yh 5595 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5595 
DPOLs? 5595 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5595 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5592 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5592 
A HalfPipe solution? 5592 
I absolutely love it. 5592 
Piper work 5591 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5591 
Absorption 5591 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5590 
Cats life ? 5590 
Call me Pussy. 5590 
More about traps 5590 
Acoustic impedance? 5590 
You maybe right 5590 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5590 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5589 
Heavy Curtain 5589 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5588 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5588 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5588 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5585 
Fix speaker move chair? 5584 
Back and forth ceremony 5584 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5583 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5582 
Glass windows 5581 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5580 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5579 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5577 
How to use basement jacks? 5577 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5577 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5577 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5576 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5576 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5575 
Sore eyes... 5574 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5574 
The harvesting week! 5572 
I need an inspiration… 5571 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5570 
Like this? 5570 
Dramatically randomize MF 5570 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5569 
The room eats dynamic 5569 
Diffusers 5569 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5568 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5553 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5552 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5552 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5552 
About Width-Importance balance. 5550 
Letting the music scale up 5549 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5549 
To finish my house décor… 5545 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5544 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5543 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5543 
Calling the gods of music 5543 
Absolutely 5543 
Phase manipulation 5543 
No relation. 5543 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5543 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5543 
Dynamical mismatch 5542 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5542 
Stradiwinerius? 5539 
Dealing with the glass. 5538 
Boston 5538 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5538 
Added mass 5538 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5538 
It is about moderation…. 5538 
To hell with the wine... 5538 
Also for other surafaces 5537 
LEAD 5537 
LEAD & GLASS 5537 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5537 
Read carefully 5537 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5537 
Crooks and morons 5537 
Magiscopios 5536 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5516 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5516 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5515 
The LP setup in the new home. 5464 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5459 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5459 
Pianochord will do! 5459 
Spanyi heaven 5459 
I see no conflict at all. 5459 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5459 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5459 
A year after closing 5451 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5451 
Traveling antimatter 5444 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5438 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5437 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5411 
Cast Iron fireplace 5410 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5410 
The hardcore way 5410 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5374 
This is How It's Done 5373 
Listening room during summer. 5361 
What about those... 5360 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5360 
Reducing A/C Noise 5360 
HVAC the Cat 5360 
Big Ass fan 5359 
Variac dimmers 5359 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5359 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5359 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5291 
Some winter observations. 5182 
That Asian man…. 5151 
The Franz Schubert morning 5125 
Spring.... 5074 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5024 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4995 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4995 
Just good photography? 4995 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4995 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4995 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4994 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4994 
Sports car 4994 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4994 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4994 
Train Positioning 4994 
Kind of what I want 4994 
The lap listening… 4994 
Family Room 4994 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4991 
A super audio room. 4987 
Time Warp! 4987 
A piano in a listening room 4966 
Pianissimo 4966 
The plan in blue. 4966 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4966 
My doubts 4966 
It is exactly what I worry. 4965 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4965 
Musicians at home 4965 
Piano Measurements 4964 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4959 
The next step. 4945 
Midbass horns missing?? 4944 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4934 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4934 
Baby Grand 4933 
Wood floor 4933 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4933 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4933 
Amy’s baby. 4931 
Improvement 4931 
Agree with Scott 4931 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4919 
Integrated casters 4919 
Very nice, thanks. 4919 
Customization 4919 
Sliders 4919 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4912 
Congratulations 4912 
Holes in the floor... 4912 
Tubes and kids 4912 
Sweet spot enlargement 4912 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4910 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4909 
Wood Floors and Water 4909 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4904 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4903 
WAF is for Losers 4903 
WAF: it depends. 4903 
Integration 4902 
Here and there. 4902 
Life after WWIII 4902 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4902 
Cables management. 4900 
Featurizing 4900 
Kids and tubes cont. 4897 
Kid magnet 4897 
Kids and audio 4896 
Radars 4896 
Wow, what the days! 4892 
The comming weekend 4888 
It all was worth it! 4885 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4880 
Here is how it is look. 4880 
Resolving the carpet issue 4880 
Bonfire 4880 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4880 
Proof of concept? 4880 
Geometry 4880 
A view from listening position. 4880 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4880 
Some feedback 4880 
Evening 4880 
I wonder why. 4879 
Rugs and things 4879 
In defense… 4879 
I can’t get it. 4876 
Haze. 4875 
Front wall 4875 
It is very possible. 4875 
It is nice to be back. 4872 
My comfy corner. 4869 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4509 
WMD in house. 4331 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4234 
The third listening spot. 4213 
For sure a very different experience. 4175 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4170 
It's Jfretch's system. 4170 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4169 
Domestic games 4123 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3984 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3984 
Dynamic screening 3984 
Actually this is very good idea! 3984 
Volcanic fabric 3984 
I should have done this. 3982 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3978 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3947 
No worries 3947 
Awesome memories 3947 
Optimization of space 3947 
Child-ish considerations 3944 
Finding peace.... 3938 
"Fencing"? 3937 
I need to build something custom 3937 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3937 
Stressed Skin 3937 
NYC elevators 3937 
Kids toys and quantities. 3937 
Everything is completely reversible 3936 
Racks and things 3936 
Now it looks even more promising! 3936 
Quantity of rods 3936 
Avoiding diagonals 3934 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3933 
That's not fair! 3933 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3933 
Discrimination? 3928 
Vertical configuration 3921 
Impresive ! 3850 
Did you read the site? 3850 
Contact 3850 
Company's name is Rixrax 3850 
Stand 3849 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3805 
End of life headphone system 3805 
Something like this? 3805 
The "Second Living Room" 3805 
Mixing urban & suburban 3805 
Late night listening 3805 
Moving life... 3803 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3803 
A true listening room. 3779 
It started… 3764 
Levels of Interest 3764 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3764 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3764 
I can't not to post it.... 3764 
Do not leave him unattended. 3764 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3764 
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