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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5772 
The first take on the new room. 5766 
New Room, a first shot. 5765 
Wonderful 5765 
Adopted 5764 
The first relaxed night with the room 5762 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5761 
The listening room is ready. 5760 
New Room, a First Shot 5758 
Continue to work with the room 5758 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5758 
Room 5757 
I think it will take another month. 5757 
The Buttressing 5757 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5756 
The new place and the new noises. 5756 
Big listening room 5755 
Screw the "big" rooms 5755 
Big listening rooms 5755 
First reflection points 5754 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5754 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5751 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5750 
Squeezing the floor 5750 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5750 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5750 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5749 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5749 
The new room, the very first listening. 5749 
The 14.5 foot. 5748 
Again… 5747 
Romy's new Playground 5747 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5747 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5747 
For the uninitiated ... 5746 
NH guy 5746 
Room 5746 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5745 
The first base is done 5745 
Reentry time alignment. 5744 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5743 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5743 
Mid bass horn. 5743 
Guess is only a guess… 5743 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5743 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5742 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5742 
Diffusors 5742 
Diffuse injection 5742 
Let analyse why it so 5742 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5742 
Wheel and Deal 5742 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5742 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5742 
I Must Be Missing Something 5742 
I put sliders under my speakers 5741 
ROOM 5740 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5740 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5740 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5740 
No concerns 5740 
Speakers and room 5740 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5739 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5739 
Diaphram 5739 
Phram 5739 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5739 
Perfect piston 5739 
Decorater 5738 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5738 
New morning 5737 
The first take on the room with RTA 5736 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5736 
Axiomatic 5736 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5735 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5735 
The size of the bass. 5735 
Bass Factory 5735 
Crude Level, or something more? 5735 
I will play with it this week…. 5735 
Rent-A 5735 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5735 
Corner horns 5735 
Cheating from below 5735 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5735 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5734 
A possibly overly simplified view 5734 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5734 
Iceberg 5734 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5734 
Why not horn 5734 
A correction…. 5734 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5734 
They are just not related things at all. 5734 
Fertin 5732 
Low resonance is good... 5732 
Et tu, Brute? 5731 
The Room response at LF 5730 
Life On The Ground Floor 5730 
Bass arrays 5730 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5730 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5730 
The super sucks. 5730 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5730 
You may also try 5729 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5729 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5729 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5729 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5729 
60 Hz Resonance 5729 
No notching… so far. 5729 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5728 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5728 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5728 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5728 
Power to the People 5728 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5728 
Aura 5728 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5728 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5728 
All class D is the same 5728 
Interpreting the LF results. 5727 
The Halibut 5727 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5727 
The Big Picture 5727 
Power & ULF channels 5727 
The big picture indeed. 5727 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5727 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5727 
The Power and the Glory 5726 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5726 
I guess I did not get this memo 5726 
French LF drivers 5726 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5726 
(another) French LF approach 5725 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5725 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5725 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5725 
Limpschtick 5725 
Symmetry 5725 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5724 
Room correction 5724 
It migh be more complicated. 5724 
Bass EQ ? 5724 
Agree and not. 5724 
Two "diseases" 5724 
Parametric filters 5724 
Ceiling arrays 5724 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5724 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5724 
The Middle of the Room. 5724 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5724 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5724 
Stop! 5724 
Appendectomy 5724 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5723 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5723 
No Isolation 5723 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5720 
Potential contenders? 5719 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5719 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5719 
Those Crazy Canucks 5715 
Mo' Better Bass 5709 
Bird in the Hand? 5709 
A wet listening spot? 5702 
Storm 5699 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5699 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5685 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5655 
Polar Opposite ULF 5654 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5642 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5640 
Differently but the same. 5639 
PVC 5638 
The sail test try. 5638 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5638 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5638 
Trial 5637 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5637 
Some explanations 5637 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5636 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5635 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5634 
Acrylate 5633 
Magic blanket 5633 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5632 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5632 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5632 
I have a few options. 5632 
Foam color 5632 
Strange things with upperbass 5632 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5631 
Teatro reform. . . 5631 
The foaming room dilemma. 5630 
Melamine Foam 5630 
Foaming up the cat house 5630 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5630 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5630 
Acoustic revisions… 5629 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5626 
Surprises so far in the new room 5625 
The upperbass in the new room. 5625 
Slight change of hart. 5624 
Camco supply of Boston 5622 
Room acoustics 5622 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5581 
I need to kill dust first. 5581 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5579 
To feed the leeches? 5579 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5578 
Yh 5578 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5578 
DPOLs? 5578 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5578 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5575 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5575 
A HalfPipe solution? 5575 
I absolutely love it. 5575 
Piper work 5574 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5574 
Absorption 5574 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5573 
Cats life ? 5573 
Call me Pussy. 5573 
More about traps 5573 
Acoustic impedance? 5573 
You maybe right 5573 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5573 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5572 
Heavy Curtain 5572 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5571 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5571 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5571 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5568 
Fix speaker move chair? 5567 
Back and forth ceremony 5567 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5566 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5565 
Glass windows 5564 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5563 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5562 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5560 
How to use basement jacks? 5560 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5560 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5560 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5559 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5559 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5558 
Sore eyes... 5557 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5557 
The harvesting week! 5555 
I need an inspiration… 5554 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5553 
Like this? 5553 
Dramatically randomize MF 5553 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5552 
The room eats dynamic 5552 
Diffusers 5552 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5551 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5536 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5535 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5535 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5535 
About Width-Importance balance. 5533 
Letting the music scale up 5532 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5532 
To finish my house décor… 5528 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5527 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5526 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5526 
Calling the gods of music 5526 
Absolutely 5526 
Phase manipulation 5526 
No relation. 5526 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5526 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5526 
Dynamical mismatch 5525 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5525 
Stradiwinerius? 5522 
Dealing with the glass. 5521 
Boston 5521 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5521 
Added mass 5521 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5521 
It is about moderation…. 5521 
To hell with the wine... 5521 
Also for other surafaces 5520 
LEAD 5520 
LEAD & GLASS 5520 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5520 
Read carefully 5520 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5520 
Crooks and morons 5520 
Magiscopios 5519 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5499 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5499 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5498 
The LP setup in the new home. 5447 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5442 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5442 
Pianochord will do! 5442 
Spanyi heaven 5442 
I see no conflict at all. 5442 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5442 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5442 
A year after closing 5434 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5434 
Traveling antimatter 5427 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5421 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5420 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5394 
Cast Iron fireplace 5393 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5393 
The hardcore way 5393 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5357 
This is How It's Done 5356 
Listening room during summer. 5344 
What about those... 5343 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5343 
Reducing A/C Noise 5343 
HVAC the Cat 5343 
Big Ass fan 5342 
Variac dimmers 5342 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5342 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5342 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5274 
Some winter observations. 5165 
That Asian man…. 5134 
The Franz Schubert morning 5108 
Spring.... 5057 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5007 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4978 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4978 
Just good photography? 4978 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4978 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4978 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4977 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4977 
Sports car 4977 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4977 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4977 
Train Positioning 4977 
Kind of what I want 4977 
The lap listening… 4977 
Family Room 4977 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4974 
A super audio room. 4970 
Time Warp! 4970 
A piano in a listening room 4949 
Pianissimo 4949 
The plan in blue. 4949 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4949 
My doubts 4949 
It is exactly what I worry. 4948 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4948 
Musicians at home 4948 
Piano Measurements 4947 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4942 
The next step. 4928 
Midbass horns missing?? 4927 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4917 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4917 
Baby Grand 4916 
Wood floor 4916 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4916 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4916 
Amy’s baby. 4914 
Improvement 4914 
Agree with Scott 4914 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4902 
Integrated casters 4902 
Very nice, thanks. 4902 
Customization 4902 
Sliders 4902 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4895 
Congratulations 4895 
Holes in the floor... 4895 
Tubes and kids 4895 
Sweet spot enlargement 4895 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4893 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4892 
Wood Floors and Water 4892 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4887 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4886 
WAF is for Losers 4886 
WAF: it depends. 4886 
Integration 4885 
Here and there. 4885 
Life after WWIII 4885 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4885 
Cables management. 4883 
Featurizing 4883 
Kids and tubes cont. 4880 
Kid magnet 4880 
Kids and audio 4879 
Radars 4879 
Wow, what the days! 4875 
The comming weekend 4871 
It all was worth it! 4868 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4863 
Here is how it is look. 4863 
Resolving the carpet issue 4863 
Bonfire 4863 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4863 
Proof of concept? 4863 
Geometry 4863 
A view from listening position. 4863 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4863 
Some feedback 4863 
Evening 4863 
I wonder why. 4862 
Rugs and things 4862 
In defense… 4862 
I can’t get it. 4859 
Haze. 4858 
Front wall 4858 
It is very possible. 4858 
It is nice to be back. 4855 
My comfy corner. 4852 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4492 
WMD in house. 4314 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4217 
The third listening spot. 4196 
For sure a very different experience. 4158 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4153 
It's Jfretch's system. 4153 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4152 
Domestic games 4106 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3967 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3967 
Dynamic screening 3967 
Actually this is very good idea! 3967 
Volcanic fabric 3967 
I should have done this. 3965 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3961 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3930 
No worries 3930 
Awesome memories 3930 
Optimization of space 3930 
Child-ish considerations 3927 
Finding peace.... 3921 
"Fencing"? 3920 
I need to build something custom 3920 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3920 
Stressed Skin 3920 
NYC elevators 3920 
Kids toys and quantities. 3920 
Everything is completely reversible 3919 
Racks and things 3919 
Now it looks even more promising! 3919 
Quantity of rods 3919 
Avoiding diagonals 3917 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3916 
That's not fair! 3916 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3916 
Discrimination? 3911 
Vertical configuration 3904 
Impresive ! 3833 
Did you read the site? 3833 
Contact 3833 
Company's name is Rixrax 3833 
Stand 3832 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3788 
End of life headphone system 3788 
Something like this? 3788 
The "Second Living Room" 3788 
Mixing urban & suburban 3788 
Late night listening 3788 
Moving life... 3786 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3786 
A true listening room. 3762 
It started… 3747 
Levels of Interest 3747 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3747 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3747 
I can't not to post it.... 3747 
Do not leave him unattended. 3747 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3747 
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