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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5976 
The first take on the new room. 5970 
New Room, a first shot. 5969 
Wonderful 5969 
Adopted 5968 
The first relaxed night with the room 5966 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5965 
The listening room is ready. 5964 
New Room, a First Shot 5962 
Continue to work with the room 5962 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5962 
Room 5961 
I think it will take another month. 5961 
The Buttressing 5961 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5960 
The new place and the new noises. 5960 
Big listening room 5959 
Screw the "big" rooms 5959 
Big listening rooms 5959 
First reflection points 5958 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5958 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5955 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5954 
Squeezing the floor 5954 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5954 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5954 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5953 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5953 
The new room, the very first listening. 5953 
The 14.5 foot. 5952 
Again… 5951 
Romy's new Playground 5951 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5951 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5951 
For the uninitiated ... 5950 
NH guy 5950 
Room 5950 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5949 
The first base is done 5949 
Reentry time alignment. 5948 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5947 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5947 
Mid bass horn. 5947 
Guess is only a guess… 5947 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5947 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5946 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5946 
Diffusors 5946 
Diffuse injection 5946 
Let analyse why it so 5946 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5946 
Wheel and Deal 5946 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5946 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5946 
I Must Be Missing Something 5946 
I put sliders under my speakers 5945 
ROOM 5944 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5944 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5944 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5944 
No concerns 5944 
Speakers and room 5944 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5943 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5943 
Diaphram 5943 
Phram 5943 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5943 
Perfect piston 5943 
Decorater 5942 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5942 
New morning 5941 
The first take on the room with RTA 5940 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5940 
Axiomatic 5940 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5939 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5939 
The size of the bass. 5939 
Bass Factory 5939 
Crude Level, or something more? 5939 
I will play with it this week…. 5939 
Rent-A 5939 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5939 
Corner horns 5939 
Cheating from below 5939 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5939 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5938 
A possibly overly simplified view 5938 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5938 
Iceberg 5938 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5938 
Why not horn 5938 
A correction…. 5938 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5938 
They are just not related things at all. 5938 
Fertin 5936 
Low resonance is good... 5936 
Et tu, Brute? 5935 
The Room response at LF 5934 
Life On The Ground Floor 5934 
Bass arrays 5934 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5934 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5934 
The super sucks. 5934 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5934 
You may also try 5933 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5933 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5933 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5933 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5933 
60 Hz Resonance 5933 
No notching… so far. 5933 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5932 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5932 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5932 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5932 
Power to the People 5932 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5932 
Aura 5932 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5932 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5932 
All class D is the same 5932 
Interpreting the LF results. 5931 
The Halibut 5931 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5931 
The Big Picture 5931 
Power & ULF channels 5931 
The big picture indeed. 5931 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5931 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5931 
The Power and the Glory 5930 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5930 
I guess I did not get this memo 5930 
French LF drivers 5930 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5930 
(another) French LF approach 5929 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5929 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5929 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5929 
Limpschtick 5929 
Symmetry 5929 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5928 
Room correction 5928 
It migh be more complicated. 5928 
Bass EQ ? 5928 
Agree and not. 5928 
Two "diseases" 5928 
Parametric filters 5928 
Ceiling arrays 5928 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5928 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5928 
The Middle of the Room. 5928 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5928 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5928 
Stop! 5928 
Appendectomy 5928 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5927 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5927 
No Isolation 5927 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5924 
Potential contenders? 5923 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5923 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5923 
Those Crazy Canucks 5919 
Mo' Better Bass 5913 
Bird in the Hand? 5913 
A wet listening spot? 5906 
Storm 5903 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5903 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5889 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5859 
Polar Opposite ULF 5858 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5846 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5844 
Differently but the same. 5843 
PVC 5842 
The sail test try. 5842 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5842 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5842 
Trial 5841 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5841 
Some explanations 5841 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5840 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5839 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5838 
Acrylate 5837 
Magic blanket 5837 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5836 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5836 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5836 
I have a few options. 5836 
Foam color 5836 
Strange things with upperbass 5836 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5835 
Teatro reform. . . 5835 
The foaming room dilemma. 5834 
Melamine Foam 5834 
Foaming up the cat house 5834 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5834 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5834 
Acoustic revisions… 5833 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5830 
Surprises so far in the new room 5829 
The upperbass in the new room. 5829 
Slight change of hart. 5828 
Camco supply of Boston 5826 
Room acoustics 5826 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5785 
I need to kill dust first. 5785 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5783 
To feed the leeches? 5783 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5782 
Yh 5782 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5782 
DPOLs? 5782 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5782 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5779 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5779 
A HalfPipe solution? 5779 
I absolutely love it. 5779 
Piper work 5778 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5778 
Absorption 5778 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5777 
Cats life ? 5777 
Call me Pussy. 5777 
More about traps 5777 
Acoustic impedance? 5777 
You maybe right 5777 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5777 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5776 
Heavy Curtain 5776 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5775 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5775 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5775 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5772 
Fix speaker move chair? 5771 
Back and forth ceremony 5771 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5770 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5769 
Glass windows 5768 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5767 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5766 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5764 
How to use basement jacks? 5764 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5764 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5764 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5763 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5763 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5762 
Sore eyes... 5761 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5761 
The harvesting week! 5759 
I need an inspiration… 5758 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5757 
Like this? 5757 
Dramatically randomize MF 5757 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5756 
The room eats dynamic 5756 
Diffusers 5756 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5755 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5740 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5739 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5739 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5739 
About Width-Importance balance. 5737 
Letting the music scale up 5736 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5736 
To finish my house décor… 5732 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5731 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5730 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5730 
Calling the gods of music 5730 
Absolutely 5730 
Phase manipulation 5730 
No relation. 5730 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5730 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5730 
Dynamical mismatch 5729 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5729 
Stradiwinerius? 5726 
Dealing with the glass. 5725 
Boston 5725 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5725 
Added mass 5725 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5725 
It is about moderation…. 5725 
To hell with the wine... 5725 
Also for other surafaces 5724 
LEAD 5724 
LEAD & GLASS 5724 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5724 
Read carefully 5724 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5724 
Crooks and morons 5724 
Magiscopios 5723 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5703 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5703 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5702 
The LP setup in the new home. 5651 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5646 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5646 
Pianochord will do! 5646 
Spanyi heaven 5646 
I see no conflict at all. 5646 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5646 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5646 
A year after closing 5638 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5638 
Traveling antimatter 5631 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5625 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5624 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5598 
Cast Iron fireplace 5597 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5597 
The hardcore way 5597 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5561 
This is How It's Done 5560 
Listening room during summer. 5548 
What about those... 5547 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5547 
Reducing A/C Noise 5547 
HVAC the Cat 5547 
Big Ass fan 5546 
Variac dimmers 5546 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5546 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5546 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5478 
Some winter observations. 5369 
That Asian man…. 5338 
The Franz Schubert morning 5312 
Spring.... 5261 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5211 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5182 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5182 
Just good photography? 5182 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5182 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5182 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5181 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5181 
Sports car 5181 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5181 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5181 
Train Positioning 5181 
Kind of what I want 5181 
The lap listening… 5181 
Family Room 5181 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5178 
A super audio room. 5174 
Time Warp! 5174 
A piano in a listening room 5153 
Pianissimo 5153 
The plan in blue. 5153 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5153 
My doubts 5153 
It is exactly what I worry. 5152 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5152 
Musicians at home 5152 
Piano Measurements 5151 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5146 
The next step. 5132 
Midbass horns missing?? 5131 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5121 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5121 
Baby Grand 5120 
Wood floor 5120 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5120 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5120 
Amy’s baby. 5118 
Improvement 5118 
Agree with Scott 5118 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5106 
Integrated casters 5106 
Very nice, thanks. 5106 
Customization 5106 
Sliders 5106 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5099 
Congratulations 5099 
Holes in the floor... 5099 
Tubes and kids 5099 
Sweet spot enlargement 5099 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5097 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5096 
Wood Floors and Water 5096 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5091 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5090 
WAF is for Losers 5090 
WAF: it depends. 5090 
Integration 5089 
Here and there. 5089 
Life after WWIII 5089 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5089 
Cables management. 5087 
Featurizing 5087 
Kids and tubes cont. 5084 
Kid magnet 5084 
Kids and audio 5083 
Radars 5083 
Wow, what the days! 5079 
The comming weekend 5075 
It all was worth it! 5072 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5067 
Here is how it is look. 5067 
Resolving the carpet issue 5067 
Bonfire 5067 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5067 
Proof of concept? 5067 
Geometry 5067 
A view from listening position. 5067 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5067 
Some feedback 5067 
Evening 5067 
I wonder why. 5066 
Rugs and things 5066 
In defense… 5066 
I can’t get it. 5063 
Haze. 5062 
Front wall 5062 
It is very possible. 5062 
It is nice to be back. 5059 
My comfy corner. 5056 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4696 
WMD in house. 4518 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4421 
The third listening spot. 4400 
For sure a very different experience. 4362 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4357 
It's Jfretch's system. 4357 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4356 
Domestic games 4310 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4171 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4171 
Dynamic screening 4171 
Actually this is very good idea! 4171 
Volcanic fabric 4171 
I should have done this. 4169 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4165 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4134 
No worries 4134 
Awesome memories 4134 
Optimization of space 4134 
Child-ish considerations 4131 
Finding peace.... 4125 
"Fencing"? 4124 
I need to build something custom 4124 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4124 
Stressed Skin 4124 
NYC elevators 4124 
Kids toys and quantities. 4124 
Everything is completely reversible 4123 
Racks and things 4123 
Now it looks even more promising! 4123 
Quantity of rods 4123 
Avoiding diagonals 4121 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4120 
That's not fair! 4120 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4120 
Discrimination? 4115 
Vertical configuration 4108 
Impresive ! 4037 
Did you read the site? 4037 
Contact 4037 
Company's name is Rixrax 4037 
Stand 4036 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3992 
End of life headphone system 3992 
Something like this? 3992 
The "Second Living Room" 3992 
Mixing urban & suburban 3992 
Late night listening 3992 
Moving life... 3990 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3990 
A true listening room. 3966 
It started… 3951 
Levels of Interest 3951 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3951 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3951 
I can't not to post it.... 3951 
Do not leave him unattended. 3951 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3951 
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