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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5744 
The first take on the new room. 5738 
New Room, a first shot. 5737 
Wonderful 5737 
Adopted 5736 
The first relaxed night with the room 5734 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5733 
The listening room is ready. 5732 
New Room, a First Shot 5730 
Continue to work with the room 5730 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5730 
Room 5729 
I think it will take another month. 5729 
The Buttressing 5729 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5728 
The new place and the new noises. 5728 
Big listening room 5727 
Screw the "big" rooms 5727 
Big listening rooms 5727 
First reflection points 5726 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5726 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5723 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5722 
Squeezing the floor 5722 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5722 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5722 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5721 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5721 
The new room, the very first listening. 5721 
The 14.5 foot. 5720 
Again… 5719 
Romy's new Playground 5719 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5719 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5719 
For the uninitiated ... 5718 
NH guy 5718 
Room 5718 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5717 
The first base is done 5717 
Reentry time alignment. 5716 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5715 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5715 
Mid bass horn. 5715 
Guess is only a guess… 5715 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5715 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5714 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5714 
Diffusors 5714 
Diffuse injection 5714 
Let analyse why it so 5714 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5714 
Wheel and Deal 5714 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5714 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5714 
I Must Be Missing Something 5714 
I put sliders under my speakers 5713 
ROOM 5712 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5712 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5712 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5712 
No concerns 5712 
Speakers and room 5712 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5711 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5711 
Diaphram 5711 
Phram 5711 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5711 
Perfect piston 5711 
Decorater 5710 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5710 
New morning 5709 
The first take on the room with RTA 5708 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5708 
Axiomatic 5708 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5707 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5707 
The size of the bass. 5707 
Bass Factory 5707 
Crude Level, or something more? 5707 
I will play with it this week…. 5707 
Rent-A 5707 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5707 
Corner horns 5707 
Cheating from below 5707 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5707 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5706 
A possibly overly simplified view 5706 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5706 
Iceberg 5706 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5706 
Why not horn 5706 
A correction…. 5706 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5706 
They are just not related things at all. 5706 
Fertin 5704 
Low resonance is good... 5704 
Et tu, Brute? 5703 
The Room response at LF 5702 
Life On The Ground Floor 5702 
Bass arrays 5702 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5702 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5702 
The super sucks. 5702 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5702 
You may also try 5701 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5701 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5701 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5701 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5701 
60 Hz Resonance 5701 
No notching… so far. 5701 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5700 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5700 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5700 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5700 
Power to the People 5700 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5700 
Aura 5700 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5700 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5700 
All class D is the same 5700 
Interpreting the LF results. 5699 
The Halibut 5699 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5699 
The Big Picture 5699 
Power & ULF channels 5699 
The big picture indeed. 5699 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5699 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5699 
The Power and the Glory 5698 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5698 
I guess I did not get this memo 5698 
French LF drivers 5698 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5698 
(another) French LF approach 5697 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5697 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5697 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5697 
Limpschtick 5697 
Symmetry 5697 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5696 
Room correction 5696 
It migh be more complicated. 5696 
Bass EQ ? 5696 
Agree and not. 5696 
Two "diseases" 5696 
Parametric filters 5696 
Ceiling arrays 5696 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5696 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5696 
The Middle of the Room. 5696 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5696 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5696 
Stop! 5696 
Appendectomy 5696 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5695 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5695 
No Isolation 5695 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5692 
Potential contenders? 5691 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5691 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5691 
Those Crazy Canucks 5687 
Mo' Better Bass 5681 
Bird in the Hand? 5681 
A wet listening spot? 5674 
Storm 5671 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5671 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5657 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5627 
Polar Opposite ULF 5626 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5614 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5612 
Differently but the same. 5611 
PVC 5610 
The sail test try. 5610 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5610 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5610 
Trial 5609 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5609 
Some explanations 5609 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5608 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5607 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5606 
Acrylate 5605 
Magic blanket 5605 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5604 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5604 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5604 
I have a few options. 5604 
Foam color 5604 
Strange things with upperbass 5604 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5603 
Teatro reform. . . 5603 
The foaming room dilemma. 5602 
Melamine Foam 5602 
Foaming up the cat house 5602 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5602 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5602 
Acoustic revisions… 5601 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5598 
Surprises so far in the new room 5597 
The upperbass in the new room. 5597 
Slight change of hart. 5596 
Camco supply of Boston 5594 
Room acoustics 5594 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5553 
I need to kill dust first. 5553 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5551 
To feed the leeches? 5551 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5550 
Yh 5550 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5550 
DPOLs? 5550 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5550 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5547 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5547 
A HalfPipe solution? 5547 
I absolutely love it. 5547 
Piper work 5546 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5546 
Absorption 5546 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5545 
Cats life ? 5545 
Call me Pussy. 5545 
More about traps 5545 
Acoustic impedance? 5545 
You maybe right 5545 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5545 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5544 
Heavy Curtain 5544 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5543 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5543 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5543 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5540 
Fix speaker move chair? 5539 
Back and forth ceremony 5539 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5538 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5537 
Glass windows 5536 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5535 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5534 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5532 
How to use basement jacks? 5532 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5532 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5532 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5531 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5531 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5530 
Sore eyes... 5529 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5529 
The harvesting week! 5527 
I need an inspiration… 5526 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5525 
Like this? 5525 
Dramatically randomize MF 5525 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5524 
The room eats dynamic 5524 
Diffusers 5524 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5523 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5508 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5507 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5507 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5507 
About Width-Importance balance. 5505 
Letting the music scale up 5504 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5504 
To finish my house décor… 5500 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5499 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5498 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5498 
Calling the gods of music 5498 
Absolutely 5498 
Phase manipulation 5498 
No relation. 5498 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5498 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5498 
Dynamical mismatch 5497 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5497 
Stradiwinerius? 5494 
Dealing with the glass. 5493 
Boston 5493 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5493 
Added mass 5493 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5493 
It is about moderation…. 5493 
To hell with the wine... 5493 
Also for other surafaces 5492 
LEAD 5492 
LEAD & GLASS 5492 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5492 
Read carefully 5492 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5492 
Crooks and morons 5492 
Magiscopios 5491 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5471 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5471 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5470 
The LP setup in the new home. 5419 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5414 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5414 
Pianochord will do! 5414 
Spanyi heaven 5414 
I see no conflict at all. 5414 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5414 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5414 
A year after closing 5406 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5406 
Traveling antimatter 5399 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5393 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5392 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5366 
Cast Iron fireplace 5365 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5365 
The hardcore way 5365 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5329 
This is How It's Done 5328 
Listening room during summer. 5316 
What about those... 5315 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5315 
Reducing A/C Noise 5315 
HVAC the Cat 5315 
Big Ass fan 5314 
Variac dimmers 5314 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5314 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5314 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5246 
Some winter observations. 5137 
That Asian man…. 5106 
The Franz Schubert morning 5080 
Spring.... 5029 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4979 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4950 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4950 
Just good photography? 4950 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4950 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4950 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4949 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4949 
Sports car 4949 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4949 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4949 
Train Positioning 4949 
Kind of what I want 4949 
The lap listening… 4949 
Family Room 4949 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4946 
A super audio room. 4942 
Time Warp! 4942 
A piano in a listening room 4921 
Pianissimo 4921 
The plan in blue. 4921 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4921 
My doubts 4921 
It is exactly what I worry. 4920 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4920 
Musicians at home 4920 
Piano Measurements 4919 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4914 
The next step. 4900 
Midbass horns missing?? 4899 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4889 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4889 
Baby Grand 4888 
Wood floor 4888 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4888 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4888 
Amy’s baby. 4886 
Improvement 4886 
Agree with Scott 4886 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4874 
Integrated casters 4874 
Very nice, thanks. 4874 
Customization 4874 
Sliders 4874 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4867 
Congratulations 4867 
Holes in the floor... 4867 
Tubes and kids 4867 
Sweet spot enlargement 4867 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4865 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4864 
Wood Floors and Water 4864 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4859 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4858 
WAF is for Losers 4858 
WAF: it depends. 4858 
Integration 4857 
Here and there. 4857 
Life after WWIII 4857 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4857 
Cables management. 4855 
Featurizing 4855 
Kids and tubes cont. 4852 
Kid magnet 4852 
Kids and audio 4851 
Radars 4851 
Wow, what the days! 4847 
The comming weekend 4843 
It all was worth it! 4840 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4835 
Here is how it is look. 4835 
Resolving the carpet issue 4835 
Bonfire 4835 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4835 
Proof of concept? 4835 
Geometry 4835 
A view from listening position. 4835 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4835 
Some feedback 4835 
Evening 4835 
I wonder why. 4834 
Rugs and things 4834 
In defense… 4834 
I can’t get it. 4831 
Haze. 4830 
Front wall 4830 
It is very possible. 4830 
It is nice to be back. 4827 
My comfy corner. 4824 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4464 
WMD in house. 4286 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4189 
The third listening spot. 4168 
For sure a very different experience. 4130 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4125 
It's Jfretch's system. 4125 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4124 
Domestic games 4078 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3939 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3939 
Dynamic screening 3939 
Actually this is very good idea! 3939 
Volcanic fabric 3939 
I should have done this. 3937 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3933 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3902 
No worries 3902 
Awesome memories 3902 
Optimization of space 3902 
Child-ish considerations 3899 
Finding peace.... 3893 
"Fencing"? 3892 
I need to build something custom 3892 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3892 
Stressed Skin 3892 
NYC elevators 3892 
Kids toys and quantities. 3892 
Everything is completely reversible 3891 
Racks and things 3891 
Now it looks even more promising! 3891 
Quantity of rods 3891 
Avoiding diagonals 3889 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3888 
That's not fair! 3888 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3888 
Discrimination? 3883 
Vertical configuration 3876 
Impresive ! 3805 
Did you read the site? 3805 
Contact 3805 
Company's name is Rixrax 3805 
Stand 3804 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3760 
End of life headphone system 3760 
Something like this? 3760 
The "Second Living Room" 3760 
Mixing urban & suburban 3760 
Late night listening 3760 
Moving life... 3758 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3758 
A true listening room. 3734 
It started… 3719 
Levels of Interest 3719 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3719 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3719 
I can't not to post it.... 3719 
Do not leave him unattended. 3719 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3719 
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