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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5812 
The first take on the new room. 5806 
New Room, a first shot. 5805 
Wonderful 5805 
Adopted 5804 
The first relaxed night with the room 5802 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5801 
The listening room is ready. 5800 
New Room, a First Shot 5798 
Continue to work with the room 5798 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5798 
Room 5797 
I think it will take another month. 5797 
The Buttressing 5797 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5796 
The new place and the new noises. 5796 
Big listening room 5795 
Screw the "big" rooms 5795 
Big listening rooms 5795 
First reflection points 5794 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5794 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5791 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5790 
Squeezing the floor 5790 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5790 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5790 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5789 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5789 
The new room, the very first listening. 5789 
The 14.5 foot. 5788 
Again… 5787 
Romy's new Playground 5787 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5787 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5787 
For the uninitiated ... 5786 
NH guy 5786 
Room 5786 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5785 
The first base is done 5785 
Reentry time alignment. 5784 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5783 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5783 
Mid bass horn. 5783 
Guess is only a guess… 5783 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5783 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5782 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5782 
Diffusors 5782 
Diffuse injection 5782 
Let analyse why it so 5782 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5782 
Wheel and Deal 5782 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5782 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5782 
I Must Be Missing Something 5782 
I put sliders under my speakers 5781 
ROOM 5780 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5780 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5780 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5780 
No concerns 5780 
Speakers and room 5780 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5779 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5779 
Diaphram 5779 
Phram 5779 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5779 
Perfect piston 5779 
Decorater 5778 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5778 
New morning 5777 
The first take on the room with RTA 5776 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5776 
Axiomatic 5776 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5775 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5775 
The size of the bass. 5775 
Bass Factory 5775 
Crude Level, or something more? 5775 
I will play with it this week…. 5775 
Rent-A 5775 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5775 
Corner horns 5775 
Cheating from below 5775 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5775 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5774 
A possibly overly simplified view 5774 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5774 
Iceberg 5774 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5774 
Why not horn 5774 
A correction…. 5774 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5774 
They are just not related things at all. 5774 
Fertin 5772 
Low resonance is good... 5772 
Et tu, Brute? 5771 
The Room response at LF 5770 
Life On The Ground Floor 5770 
Bass arrays 5770 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5770 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5770 
The super sucks. 5770 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5770 
You may also try 5769 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5769 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5769 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5769 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5769 
60 Hz Resonance 5769 
No notching… so far. 5769 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5768 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5768 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5768 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5768 
Power to the People 5768 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5768 
Aura 5768 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5768 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5768 
All class D is the same 5768 
Interpreting the LF results. 5767 
The Halibut 5767 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5767 
The Big Picture 5767 
Power & ULF channels 5767 
The big picture indeed. 5767 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5767 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5767 
The Power and the Glory 5766 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5766 
I guess I did not get this memo 5766 
French LF drivers 5766 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5766 
(another) French LF approach 5765 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5765 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5765 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5765 
Limpschtick 5765 
Symmetry 5765 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5764 
Room correction 5764 
It migh be more complicated. 5764 
Bass EQ ? 5764 
Agree and not. 5764 
Two "diseases" 5764 
Parametric filters 5764 
Ceiling arrays 5764 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5764 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5764 
The Middle of the Room. 5764 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5764 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5764 
Stop! 5764 
Appendectomy 5764 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5763 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5763 
No Isolation 5763 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5760 
Potential contenders? 5759 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5759 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5759 
Those Crazy Canucks 5755 
Mo' Better Bass 5749 
Bird in the Hand? 5749 
A wet listening spot? 5742 
Storm 5739 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5739 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5725 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5695 
Polar Opposite ULF 5694 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5682 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5680 
Differently but the same. 5679 
PVC 5678 
The sail test try. 5678 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5678 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5678 
Trial 5677 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5677 
Some explanations 5677 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5676 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5675 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5674 
Acrylate 5673 
Magic blanket 5673 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5672 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5672 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5672 
I have a few options. 5672 
Foam color 5672 
Strange things with upperbass 5672 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5671 
Teatro reform. . . 5671 
The foaming room dilemma. 5670 
Melamine Foam 5670 
Foaming up the cat house 5670 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5670 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5670 
Acoustic revisions… 5669 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5666 
Surprises so far in the new room 5665 
The upperbass in the new room. 5665 
Slight change of hart. 5664 
Camco supply of Boston 5662 
Room acoustics 5662 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5621 
I need to kill dust first. 5621 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5619 
To feed the leeches? 5619 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5618 
Yh 5618 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5618 
DPOLs? 5618 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5618 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5615 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5615 
A HalfPipe solution? 5615 
I absolutely love it. 5615 
Piper work 5614 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5614 
Absorption 5614 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5613 
Cats life ? 5613 
Call me Pussy. 5613 
More about traps 5613 
Acoustic impedance? 5613 
You maybe right 5613 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5613 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5612 
Heavy Curtain 5612 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5611 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5611 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5611 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5608 
Fix speaker move chair? 5607 
Back and forth ceremony 5607 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5606 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5605 
Glass windows 5604 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5603 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5602 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5600 
How to use basement jacks? 5600 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5600 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5600 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5599 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5599 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5598 
Sore eyes... 5597 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5597 
The harvesting week! 5595 
I need an inspiration… 5594 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5593 
Like this? 5593 
Dramatically randomize MF 5593 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5592 
The room eats dynamic 5592 
Diffusers 5592 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5591 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5576 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5575 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5575 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5575 
About Width-Importance balance. 5573 
Letting the music scale up 5572 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5572 
To finish my house décor… 5568 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5567 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5566 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5566 
Calling the gods of music 5566 
Absolutely 5566 
Phase manipulation 5566 
No relation. 5566 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5566 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5566 
Dynamical mismatch 5565 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5565 
Stradiwinerius? 5562 
Dealing with the glass. 5561 
Boston 5561 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5561 
Added mass 5561 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5561 
It is about moderation…. 5561 
To hell with the wine... 5561 
Also for other surafaces 5560 
LEAD 5560 
LEAD & GLASS 5560 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5560 
Read carefully 5560 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5560 
Crooks and morons 5560 
Magiscopios 5559 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5539 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5539 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5538 
The LP setup in the new home. 5487 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5482 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5482 
Pianochord will do! 5482 
Spanyi heaven 5482 
I see no conflict at all. 5482 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5482 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5482 
A year after closing 5474 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5474 
Traveling antimatter 5467 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5461 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5460 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5434 
Cast Iron fireplace 5433 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5433 
The hardcore way 5433 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5397 
This is How It's Done 5396 
Listening room during summer. 5384 
What about those... 5383 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5383 
Reducing A/C Noise 5383 
HVAC the Cat 5383 
Big Ass fan 5382 
Variac dimmers 5382 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5382 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5382 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5314 
Some winter observations. 5205 
That Asian man…. 5174 
The Franz Schubert morning 5148 
Spring.... 5097 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5047 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5018 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5018 
Just good photography? 5018 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5018 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5018 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5017 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5017 
Sports car 5017 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5017 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5017 
Train Positioning 5017 
Kind of what I want 5017 
The lap listening… 5017 
Family Room 5017 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5014 
A super audio room. 5010 
Time Warp! 5010 
A piano in a listening room 4989 
Pianissimo 4989 
The plan in blue. 4989 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4989 
My doubts 4989 
It is exactly what I worry. 4988 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4988 
Musicians at home 4988 
Piano Measurements 4987 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4982 
The next step. 4968 
Midbass horns missing?? 4967 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4957 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4957 
Baby Grand 4956 
Wood floor 4956 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4956 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4956 
Amy’s baby. 4954 
Improvement 4954 
Agree with Scott 4954 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4942 
Integrated casters 4942 
Very nice, thanks. 4942 
Customization 4942 
Sliders 4942 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4935 
Congratulations 4935 
Holes in the floor... 4935 
Tubes and kids 4935 
Sweet spot enlargement 4935 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4933 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4932 
Wood Floors and Water 4932 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4927 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4926 
WAF is for Losers 4926 
WAF: it depends. 4926 
Integration 4925 
Here and there. 4925 
Life after WWIII 4925 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4925 
Cables management. 4923 
Featurizing 4923 
Kids and tubes cont. 4920 
Kid magnet 4920 
Kids and audio 4919 
Radars 4919 
Wow, what the days! 4915 
The comming weekend 4911 
It all was worth it! 4908 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4903 
Here is how it is look. 4903 
Resolving the carpet issue 4903 
Bonfire 4903 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4903 
Proof of concept? 4903 
Geometry 4903 
A view from listening position. 4903 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4903 
Some feedback 4903 
Evening 4903 
I wonder why. 4902 
Rugs and things 4902 
In defense… 4902 
I can’t get it. 4899 
Haze. 4898 
Front wall 4898 
It is very possible. 4898 
It is nice to be back. 4895 
My comfy corner. 4892 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4532 
WMD in house. 4354 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4257 
The third listening spot. 4236 
For sure a very different experience. 4198 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4193 
It's Jfretch's system. 4193 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4192 
Domestic games 4146 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4007 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4007 
Dynamic screening 4007 
Actually this is very good idea! 4007 
Volcanic fabric 4007 
I should have done this. 4005 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4001 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3970 
No worries 3970 
Awesome memories 3970 
Optimization of space 3970 
Child-ish considerations 3967 
Finding peace.... 3961 
"Fencing"? 3960 
I need to build something custom 3960 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3960 
Stressed Skin 3960 
NYC elevators 3960 
Kids toys and quantities. 3960 
Everything is completely reversible 3959 
Racks and things 3959 
Now it looks even more promising! 3959 
Quantity of rods 3959 
Avoiding diagonals 3957 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3956 
That's not fair! 3956 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3956 
Discrimination? 3951 
Vertical configuration 3944 
Impresive ! 3873 
Did you read the site? 3873 
Contact 3873 
Company's name is Rixrax 3873 
Stand 3872 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3828 
End of life headphone system 3828 
Something like this? 3828 
The "Second Living Room" 3828 
Mixing urban & suburban 3828 
Late night listening 3828 
Moving life... 3826 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3826 
A true listening room. 3802 
It started… 3787 
Levels of Interest 3787 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3787 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3787 
I can't not to post it.... 3787 
Do not leave him unattended. 3787 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3787 
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