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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5780 
The first take on the new room. 5774 
New Room, a first shot. 5773 
Wonderful 5773 
Adopted 5772 
The first relaxed night with the room 5770 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5769 
The listening room is ready. 5768 
New Room, a First Shot 5766 
Continue to work with the room 5766 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5766 
Room 5765 
I think it will take another month. 5765 
The Buttressing 5765 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5764 
The new place and the new noises. 5764 
Big listening room 5763 
Screw the "big" rooms 5763 
Big listening rooms 5763 
First reflection points 5762 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5762 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5759 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5758 
Squeezing the floor 5758 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5758 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5758 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5757 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5757 
The new room, the very first listening. 5757 
The 14.5 foot. 5756 
Again… 5755 
Romy's new Playground 5755 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5755 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5755 
For the uninitiated ... 5754 
NH guy 5754 
Room 5754 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5753 
The first base is done 5753 
Reentry time alignment. 5752 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5751 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5751 
Mid bass horn. 5751 
Guess is only a guess… 5751 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5751 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5750 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5750 
Diffusors 5750 
Diffuse injection 5750 
Let analyse why it so 5750 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5750 
Wheel and Deal 5750 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5750 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5750 
I Must Be Missing Something 5750 
I put sliders under my speakers 5749 
ROOM 5748 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5748 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5748 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5748 
No concerns 5748 
Speakers and room 5748 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5747 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5747 
Diaphram 5747 
Phram 5747 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5747 
Perfect piston 5747 
Decorater 5746 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5746 
New morning 5745 
The first take on the room with RTA 5744 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5744 
Axiomatic 5744 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5743 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5743 
The size of the bass. 5743 
Bass Factory 5743 
Crude Level, or something more? 5743 
I will play with it this week…. 5743 
Rent-A 5743 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5743 
Corner horns 5743 
Cheating from below 5743 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5743 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5742 
A possibly overly simplified view 5742 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5742 
Iceberg 5742 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5742 
Why not horn 5742 
A correction…. 5742 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5742 
They are just not related things at all. 5742 
Fertin 5740 
Low resonance is good... 5740 
Et tu, Brute? 5739 
The Room response at LF 5738 
Life On The Ground Floor 5738 
Bass arrays 5738 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5738 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5738 
The super sucks. 5738 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5738 
You may also try 5737 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5737 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5737 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5737 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5737 
60 Hz Resonance 5737 
No notching… so far. 5737 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5736 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5736 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5736 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5736 
Power to the People 5736 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5736 
Aura 5736 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5736 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5736 
All class D is the same 5736 
Interpreting the LF results. 5735 
The Halibut 5735 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5735 
The Big Picture 5735 
Power & ULF channels 5735 
The big picture indeed. 5735 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5735 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5735 
The Power and the Glory 5734 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5734 
I guess I did not get this memo 5734 
French LF drivers 5734 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5734 
(another) French LF approach 5733 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5733 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5733 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5733 
Limpschtick 5733 
Symmetry 5733 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5732 
Room correction 5732 
It migh be more complicated. 5732 
Bass EQ ? 5732 
Agree and not. 5732 
Two "diseases" 5732 
Parametric filters 5732 
Ceiling arrays 5732 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5732 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5732 
The Middle of the Room. 5732 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5732 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5732 
Stop! 5732 
Appendectomy 5732 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5731 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5731 
No Isolation 5731 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5728 
Potential contenders? 5727 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5727 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5727 
Those Crazy Canucks 5723 
Mo' Better Bass 5717 
Bird in the Hand? 5717 
A wet listening spot? 5710 
Storm 5707 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5707 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5693 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5663 
Polar Opposite ULF 5662 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5650 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5648 
Differently but the same. 5647 
PVC 5646 
The sail test try. 5646 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5646 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5646 
Trial 5645 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5645 
Some explanations 5645 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5644 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5643 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5642 
Acrylate 5641 
Magic blanket 5641 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5640 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5640 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5640 
I have a few options. 5640 
Foam color 5640 
Strange things with upperbass 5640 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5639 
Teatro reform. . . 5639 
The foaming room dilemma. 5638 
Melamine Foam 5638 
Foaming up the cat house 5638 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5638 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5638 
Acoustic revisions… 5637 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5634 
Surprises so far in the new room 5633 
The upperbass in the new room. 5633 
Slight change of hart. 5632 
Camco supply of Boston 5630 
Room acoustics 5630 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5589 
I need to kill dust first. 5589 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5587 
To feed the leeches? 5587 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5586 
Yh 5586 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5586 
DPOLs? 5586 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5586 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5583 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5583 
A HalfPipe solution? 5583 
I absolutely love it. 5583 
Piper work 5582 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5582 
Absorption 5582 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5581 
Cats life ? 5581 
Call me Pussy. 5581 
More about traps 5581 
Acoustic impedance? 5581 
You maybe right 5581 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5581 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5580 
Heavy Curtain 5580 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5579 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5579 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5579 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5576 
Fix speaker move chair? 5575 
Back and forth ceremony 5575 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5574 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5573 
Glass windows 5572 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5571 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5570 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5568 
How to use basement jacks? 5568 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5568 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5568 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5567 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5567 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5566 
Sore eyes... 5565 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5565 
The harvesting week! 5563 
I need an inspiration… 5562 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5561 
Like this? 5561 
Dramatically randomize MF 5561 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5560 
The room eats dynamic 5560 
Diffusers 5560 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5559 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5544 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5543 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5543 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5543 
About Width-Importance balance. 5541 
Letting the music scale up 5540 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5540 
To finish my house décor… 5536 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5535 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5534 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5534 
Calling the gods of music 5534 
Absolutely 5534 
Phase manipulation 5534 
No relation. 5534 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5534 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5534 
Dynamical mismatch 5533 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5533 
Stradiwinerius? 5530 
Dealing with the glass. 5529 
Boston 5529 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5529 
Added mass 5529 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5529 
It is about moderation…. 5529 
To hell with the wine... 5529 
Also for other surafaces 5528 
LEAD 5528 
LEAD & GLASS 5528 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5528 
Read carefully 5528 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5528 
Crooks and morons 5528 
Magiscopios 5527 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5507 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5507 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5506 
The LP setup in the new home. 5455 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5450 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5450 
Pianochord will do! 5450 
Spanyi heaven 5450 
I see no conflict at all. 5450 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5450 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5450 
A year after closing 5442 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5442 
Traveling antimatter 5435 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5429 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5428 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5402 
Cast Iron fireplace 5401 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5401 
The hardcore way 5401 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5365 
This is How It's Done 5364 
Listening room during summer. 5352 
What about those... 5351 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5351 
Reducing A/C Noise 5351 
HVAC the Cat 5351 
Big Ass fan 5350 
Variac dimmers 5350 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5350 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5350 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5282 
Some winter observations. 5173 
That Asian man…. 5142 
The Franz Schubert morning 5116 
Spring.... 5065 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5015 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4986 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4986 
Just good photography? 4986 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4986 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4986 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4985 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4985 
Sports car 4985 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4985 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4985 
Train Positioning 4985 
Kind of what I want 4985 
The lap listening… 4985 
Family Room 4985 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4982 
A super audio room. 4978 
Time Warp! 4978 
A piano in a listening room 4957 
Pianissimo 4957 
The plan in blue. 4957 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4957 
My doubts 4957 
It is exactly what I worry. 4956 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4956 
Musicians at home 4956 
Piano Measurements 4955 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4950 
The next step. 4936 
Midbass horns missing?? 4935 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4925 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4925 
Baby Grand 4924 
Wood floor 4924 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4924 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4924 
Amy’s baby. 4922 
Improvement 4922 
Agree with Scott 4922 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4910 
Integrated casters 4910 
Very nice, thanks. 4910 
Customization 4910 
Sliders 4910 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4903 
Congratulations 4903 
Holes in the floor... 4903 
Tubes and kids 4903 
Sweet spot enlargement 4903 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4901 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4900 
Wood Floors and Water 4900 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4895 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4894 
WAF is for Losers 4894 
WAF: it depends. 4894 
Integration 4893 
Here and there. 4893 
Life after WWIII 4893 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4893 
Cables management. 4891 
Featurizing 4891 
Kids and tubes cont. 4888 
Kid magnet 4888 
Kids and audio 4887 
Radars 4887 
Wow, what the days! 4883 
The comming weekend 4879 
It all was worth it! 4876 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4871 
Here is how it is look. 4871 
Resolving the carpet issue 4871 
Bonfire 4871 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4871 
Proof of concept? 4871 
Geometry 4871 
A view from listening position. 4871 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4871 
Some feedback 4871 
Evening 4871 
I wonder why. 4870 
Rugs and things 4870 
In defense… 4870 
I can’t get it. 4867 
Haze. 4866 
Front wall 4866 
It is very possible. 4866 
It is nice to be back. 4863 
My comfy corner. 4860 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4500 
WMD in house. 4322 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4225 
The third listening spot. 4204 
For sure a very different experience. 4166 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4161 
It's Jfretch's system. 4161 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4160 
Domestic games 4114 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3975 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3975 
Dynamic screening 3975 
Actually this is very good idea! 3975 
Volcanic fabric 3975 
I should have done this. 3973 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3969 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3938 
No worries 3938 
Awesome memories 3938 
Optimization of space 3938 
Child-ish considerations 3935 
Finding peace.... 3929 
"Fencing"? 3928 
I need to build something custom 3928 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3928 
Stressed Skin 3928 
NYC elevators 3928 
Kids toys and quantities. 3928 
Everything is completely reversible 3927 
Racks and things 3927 
Now it looks even more promising! 3927 
Quantity of rods 3927 
Avoiding diagonals 3925 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3924 
That's not fair! 3924 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3924 
Discrimination? 3919 
Vertical configuration 3912 
Impresive ! 3841 
Did you read the site? 3841 
Contact 3841 
Company's name is Rixrax 3841 
Stand 3840 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3796 
End of life headphone system 3796 
Something like this? 3796 
The "Second Living Room" 3796 
Mixing urban & suburban 3796 
Late night listening 3796 
Moving life... 3794 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3794 
A true listening room. 3770 
It started… 3755 
Levels of Interest 3755 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3755 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3755 
I can't not to post it.... 3755 
Do not leave him unattended. 3755 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3755 
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