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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5942 
The first take on the new room. 5936 
New Room, a first shot. 5935 
Wonderful 5935 
Adopted 5934 
The first relaxed night with the room 5932 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5931 
The listening room is ready. 5930 
New Room, a First Shot 5928 
Continue to work with the room 5928 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5928 
Room 5927 
I think it will take another month. 5927 
The Buttressing 5927 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5926 
The new place and the new noises. 5926 
Big listening room 5925 
Screw the "big" rooms 5925 
Big listening rooms 5925 
First reflection points 5924 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5924 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5921 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5920 
Squeezing the floor 5920 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5920 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5920 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5919 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5919 
The new room, the very first listening. 5919 
The 14.5 foot. 5918 
Again… 5917 
Romy's new Playground 5917 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5917 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5917 
For the uninitiated ... 5916 
NH guy 5916 
Room 5916 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5915 
The first base is done 5915 
Reentry time alignment. 5914 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5913 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5913 
Mid bass horn. 5913 
Guess is only a guess… 5913 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5913 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5912 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5912 
Diffusors 5912 
Diffuse injection 5912 
Let analyse why it so 5912 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5912 
Wheel and Deal 5912 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5912 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5912 
I Must Be Missing Something 5912 
I put sliders under my speakers 5911 
ROOM 5910 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5910 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5910 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5910 
No concerns 5910 
Speakers and room 5910 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5909 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5909 
Diaphram 5909 
Phram 5909 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5909 
Perfect piston 5909 
Decorater 5908 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5908 
New morning 5907 
The first take on the room with RTA 5906 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5906 
Axiomatic 5906 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5905 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5905 
The size of the bass. 5905 
Bass Factory 5905 
Crude Level, or something more? 5905 
I will play with it this week…. 5905 
Rent-A 5905 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5905 
Corner horns 5905 
Cheating from below 5905 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5905 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5904 
A possibly overly simplified view 5904 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5904 
Iceberg 5904 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5904 
Why not horn 5904 
A correction…. 5904 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5904 
They are just not related things at all. 5904 
Fertin 5902 
Low resonance is good... 5902 
Et tu, Brute? 5901 
The Room response at LF 5900 
Life On The Ground Floor 5900 
Bass arrays 5900 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5900 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5900 
The super sucks. 5900 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5900 
You may also try 5899 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5899 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5899 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5899 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5899 
60 Hz Resonance 5899 
No notching… so far. 5899 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5898 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5898 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5898 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5898 
Power to the People 5898 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5898 
Aura 5898 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5898 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5898 
All class D is the same 5898 
Interpreting the LF results. 5897 
The Halibut 5897 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5897 
The Big Picture 5897 
Power & ULF channels 5897 
The big picture indeed. 5897 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5897 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5897 
The Power and the Glory 5896 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5896 
I guess I did not get this memo 5896 
French LF drivers 5896 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5896 
(another) French LF approach 5895 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5895 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5895 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5895 
Limpschtick 5895 
Symmetry 5895 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5894 
Room correction 5894 
It migh be more complicated. 5894 
Bass EQ ? 5894 
Agree and not. 5894 
Two "diseases" 5894 
Parametric filters 5894 
Ceiling arrays 5894 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5894 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5894 
The Middle of the Room. 5894 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5894 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5894 
Stop! 5894 
Appendectomy 5894 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5893 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5893 
No Isolation 5893 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5890 
Potential contenders? 5889 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5889 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5889 
Those Crazy Canucks 5885 
Mo' Better Bass 5879 
Bird in the Hand? 5879 
A wet listening spot? 5872 
Storm 5869 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5869 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5855 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5825 
Polar Opposite ULF 5824 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5812 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5810 
Differently but the same. 5809 
PVC 5808 
The sail test try. 5808 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5808 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5808 
Trial 5807 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5807 
Some explanations 5807 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5806 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5805 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5804 
Acrylate 5803 
Magic blanket 5803 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5802 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5802 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5802 
I have a few options. 5802 
Foam color 5802 
Strange things with upperbass 5802 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5801 
Teatro reform. . . 5801 
The foaming room dilemma. 5800 
Melamine Foam 5800 
Foaming up the cat house 5800 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5800 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5800 
Acoustic revisions… 5799 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5796 
Surprises so far in the new room 5795 
The upperbass in the new room. 5795 
Slight change of hart. 5794 
Camco supply of Boston 5792 
Room acoustics 5792 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5751 
I need to kill dust first. 5751 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5749 
To feed the leeches? 5749 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5748 
Yh 5748 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5748 
DPOLs? 5748 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5748 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5745 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5745 
A HalfPipe solution? 5745 
I absolutely love it. 5745 
Piper work 5744 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5744 
Absorption 5744 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5743 
Cats life ? 5743 
Call me Pussy. 5743 
More about traps 5743 
Acoustic impedance? 5743 
You maybe right 5743 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5743 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5742 
Heavy Curtain 5742 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5741 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5741 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5741 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5738 
Fix speaker move chair? 5737 
Back and forth ceremony 5737 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5736 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5735 
Glass windows 5734 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5733 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5732 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5730 
How to use basement jacks? 5730 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5730 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5730 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5729 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5729 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5728 
Sore eyes... 5727 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5727 
The harvesting week! 5725 
I need an inspiration… 5724 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5723 
Like this? 5723 
Dramatically randomize MF 5723 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5722 
The room eats dynamic 5722 
Diffusers 5722 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5721 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5706 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5705 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5705 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5705 
About Width-Importance balance. 5703 
Letting the music scale up 5702 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5702 
To finish my house décor… 5698 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5697 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5696 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5696 
Calling the gods of music 5696 
Absolutely 5696 
Phase manipulation 5696 
No relation. 5696 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5696 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5696 
Dynamical mismatch 5695 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5695 
Stradiwinerius? 5692 
Dealing with the glass. 5691 
Boston 5691 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5691 
Added mass 5691 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5691 
It is about moderation…. 5691 
To hell with the wine... 5691 
Also for other surafaces 5690 
LEAD 5690 
LEAD & GLASS 5690 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5690 
Read carefully 5690 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5690 
Crooks and morons 5690 
Magiscopios 5689 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5669 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5669 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5668 
The LP setup in the new home. 5617 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5612 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5612 
Pianochord will do! 5612 
Spanyi heaven 5612 
I see no conflict at all. 5612 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5612 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5612 
A year after closing 5604 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5604 
Traveling antimatter 5597 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5591 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5590 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5564 
Cast Iron fireplace 5563 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5563 
The hardcore way 5563 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5527 
This is How It's Done 5526 
Listening room during summer. 5514 
What about those... 5513 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5513 
Reducing A/C Noise 5513 
HVAC the Cat 5513 
Big Ass fan 5512 
Variac dimmers 5512 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5512 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5512 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5444 
Some winter observations. 5335 
That Asian man…. 5304 
The Franz Schubert morning 5278 
Spring.... 5227 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5177 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5148 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5148 
Just good photography? 5148 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5148 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5148 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5147 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5147 
Sports car 5147 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5147 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5147 
Train Positioning 5147 
Kind of what I want 5147 
The lap listening… 5147 
Family Room 5147 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5144 
A super audio room. 5140 
Time Warp! 5140 
A piano in a listening room 5119 
Pianissimo 5119 
The plan in blue. 5119 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5119 
My doubts 5119 
It is exactly what I worry. 5118 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5118 
Musicians at home 5118 
Piano Measurements 5117 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5112 
The next step. 5098 
Midbass horns missing?? 5097 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5087 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5087 
Baby Grand 5086 
Wood floor 5086 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5086 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5086 
Amy’s baby. 5084 
Improvement 5084 
Agree with Scott 5084 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5072 
Integrated casters 5072 
Very nice, thanks. 5072 
Customization 5072 
Sliders 5072 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5065 
Congratulations 5065 
Holes in the floor... 5065 
Tubes and kids 5065 
Sweet spot enlargement 5065 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5063 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5062 
Wood Floors and Water 5062 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5057 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5056 
WAF is for Losers 5056 
WAF: it depends. 5056 
Integration 5055 
Here and there. 5055 
Life after WWIII 5055 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5055 
Cables management. 5053 
Featurizing 5053 
Kids and tubes cont. 5050 
Kid magnet 5050 
Kids and audio 5049 
Radars 5049 
Wow, what the days! 5045 
The comming weekend 5041 
It all was worth it! 5038 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5033 
Here is how it is look. 5033 
Resolving the carpet issue 5033 
Bonfire 5033 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5033 
Proof of concept? 5033 
Geometry 5033 
A view from listening position. 5033 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5033 
Some feedback 5033 
Evening 5033 
I wonder why. 5032 
Rugs and things 5032 
In defense… 5032 
I can’t get it. 5029 
Haze. 5028 
Front wall 5028 
It is very possible. 5028 
It is nice to be back. 5025 
My comfy corner. 5022 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4662 
WMD in house. 4484 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4387 
The third listening spot. 4366 
For sure a very different experience. 4328 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4323 
It's Jfretch's system. 4323 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4322 
Domestic games 4276 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4137 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4137 
Dynamic screening 4137 
Actually this is very good idea! 4137 
Volcanic fabric 4137 
I should have done this. 4135 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4131 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4100 
No worries 4100 
Awesome memories 4100 
Optimization of space 4100 
Child-ish considerations 4097 
Finding peace.... 4091 
"Fencing"? 4090 
I need to build something custom 4090 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4090 
Stressed Skin 4090 
NYC elevators 4090 
Kids toys and quantities. 4090 
Everything is completely reversible 4089 
Racks and things 4089 
Now it looks even more promising! 4089 
Quantity of rods 4089 
Avoiding diagonals 4087 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4086 
That's not fair! 4086 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4086 
Discrimination? 4081 
Vertical configuration 4074 
Impresive ! 4003 
Did you read the site? 4003 
Contact 4003 
Company's name is Rixrax 4003 
Stand 4002 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3958 
End of life headphone system 3958 
Something like this? 3958 
The "Second Living Room" 3958 
Mixing urban & suburban 3958 
Late night listening 3958 
Moving life... 3956 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3956 
A true listening room. 3932 
It started… 3917 
Levels of Interest 3917 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3917 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3917 
I can't not to post it.... 3917 
Do not leave him unattended. 3917 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3917 
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