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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5909 
The first take on the new room. 5903 
New Room, a first shot. 5902 
Wonderful 5902 
Adopted 5901 
The first relaxed night with the room 5899 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5898 
The listening room is ready. 5897 
New Room, a First Shot 5895 
Continue to work with the room 5895 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5895 
Room 5894 
I think it will take another month. 5894 
The Buttressing 5894 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5893 
The new place and the new noises. 5893 
Big listening room 5892 
Screw the "big" rooms 5892 
Big listening rooms 5892 
First reflection points 5891 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5891 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5888 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5887 
Squeezing the floor 5887 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5887 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5887 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5886 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5886 
The new room, the very first listening. 5886 
The 14.5 foot. 5885 
Again… 5884 
Romy's new Playground 5884 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5884 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5884 
For the uninitiated ... 5883 
NH guy 5883 
Room 5883 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5882 
The first base is done 5882 
Reentry time alignment. 5881 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5880 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5880 
Mid bass horn. 5880 
Guess is only a guess… 5880 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5880 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5879 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5879 
Diffusors 5879 
Diffuse injection 5879 
Let analyse why it so 5879 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5879 
Wheel and Deal 5879 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5879 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5879 
I Must Be Missing Something 5879 
I put sliders under my speakers 5878 
ROOM 5877 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5877 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5877 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5877 
No concerns 5877 
Speakers and room 5877 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5876 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5876 
Diaphram 5876 
Phram 5876 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5876 
Perfect piston 5876 
Decorater 5875 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5875 
New morning 5874 
The first take on the room with RTA 5873 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5873 
Axiomatic 5873 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5872 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5872 
The size of the bass. 5872 
Bass Factory 5872 
Crude Level, or something more? 5872 
I will play with it this week…. 5872 
Rent-A 5872 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5872 
Corner horns 5872 
Cheating from below 5872 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5872 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5871 
A possibly overly simplified view 5871 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5871 
Iceberg 5871 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5871 
Why not horn 5871 
A correction…. 5871 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5871 
They are just not related things at all. 5871 
Fertin 5869 
Low resonance is good... 5869 
Et tu, Brute? 5868 
The Room response at LF 5867 
Life On The Ground Floor 5867 
Bass arrays 5867 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5867 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5867 
The super sucks. 5867 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5867 
You may also try 5866 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5866 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5866 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5866 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5866 
60 Hz Resonance 5866 
No notching… so far. 5866 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5865 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5865 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5865 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5865 
Power to the People 5865 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5865 
Aura 5865 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5865 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5865 
All class D is the same 5865 
Interpreting the LF results. 5864 
The Halibut 5864 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5864 
The Big Picture 5864 
Power & ULF channels 5864 
The big picture indeed. 5864 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5864 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5864 
The Power and the Glory 5863 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5863 
I guess I did not get this memo 5863 
French LF drivers 5863 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5863 
(another) French LF approach 5862 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5862 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5862 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5862 
Limpschtick 5862 
Symmetry 5862 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5861 
Room correction 5861 
It migh be more complicated. 5861 
Bass EQ ? 5861 
Agree and not. 5861 
Two "diseases" 5861 
Parametric filters 5861 
Ceiling arrays 5861 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5861 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5861 
The Middle of the Room. 5861 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5861 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5861 
Stop! 5861 
Appendectomy 5861 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5860 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5860 
No Isolation 5860 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5857 
Potential contenders? 5856 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5856 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5856 
Those Crazy Canucks 5852 
Mo' Better Bass 5846 
Bird in the Hand? 5846 
A wet listening spot? 5839 
Storm 5836 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5836 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5822 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5792 
Polar Opposite ULF 5791 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5779 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5777 
Differently but the same. 5776 
PVC 5775 
The sail test try. 5775 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5775 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5775 
Trial 5774 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5774 
Some explanations 5774 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5773 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5772 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5771 
Acrylate 5770 
Magic blanket 5770 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5769 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5769 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5769 
I have a few options. 5769 
Foam color 5769 
Strange things with upperbass 5769 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5768 
Teatro reform. . . 5768 
The foaming room dilemma. 5767 
Melamine Foam 5767 
Foaming up the cat house 5767 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5767 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5767 
Acoustic revisions… 5766 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5763 
Surprises so far in the new room 5762 
The upperbass in the new room. 5762 
Slight change of hart. 5761 
Camco supply of Boston 5759 
Room acoustics 5759 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5718 
I need to kill dust first. 5718 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5716 
To feed the leeches? 5716 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5715 
Yh 5715 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5715 
DPOLs? 5715 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5715 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5712 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5712 
A HalfPipe solution? 5712 
I absolutely love it. 5712 
Piper work 5711 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5711 
Absorption 5711 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5710 
Cats life ? 5710 
Call me Pussy. 5710 
More about traps 5710 
Acoustic impedance? 5710 
You maybe right 5710 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5710 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5709 
Heavy Curtain 5709 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5708 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5708 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5708 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5705 
Fix speaker move chair? 5704 
Back and forth ceremony 5704 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5703 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5702 
Glass windows 5701 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5700 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5699 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5697 
How to use basement jacks? 5697 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5697 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5697 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5696 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5696 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5695 
Sore eyes... 5694 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5694 
The harvesting week! 5692 
I need an inspiration… 5691 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5690 
Like this? 5690 
Dramatically randomize MF 5690 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5689 
The room eats dynamic 5689 
Diffusers 5689 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5688 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5673 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5672 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5672 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5672 
About Width-Importance balance. 5670 
Letting the music scale up 5669 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5669 
To finish my house décor… 5665 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5664 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5663 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5663 
Calling the gods of music 5663 
Absolutely 5663 
Phase manipulation 5663 
No relation. 5663 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5663 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5663 
Dynamical mismatch 5662 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5662 
Stradiwinerius? 5659 
Dealing with the glass. 5658 
Boston 5658 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5658 
Added mass 5658 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5658 
It is about moderation…. 5658 
To hell with the wine... 5658 
Also for other surafaces 5657 
LEAD 5657 
LEAD & GLASS 5657 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5657 
Read carefully 5657 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5657 
Crooks and morons 5657 
Magiscopios 5656 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5636 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5636 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5635 
The LP setup in the new home. 5584 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5579 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5579 
Pianochord will do! 5579 
Spanyi heaven 5579 
I see no conflict at all. 5579 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5579 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5579 
A year after closing 5571 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5571 
Traveling antimatter 5564 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5558 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5557 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5531 
Cast Iron fireplace 5530 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5530 
The hardcore way 5530 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5494 
This is How It's Done 5493 
Listening room during summer. 5481 
What about those... 5480 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5480 
Reducing A/C Noise 5480 
HVAC the Cat 5480 
Big Ass fan 5479 
Variac dimmers 5479 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5479 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5479 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5411 
Some winter observations. 5302 
That Asian man…. 5271 
The Franz Schubert morning 5245 
Spring.... 5194 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5144 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5115 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5115 
Just good photography? 5115 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5115 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5115 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5114 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5114 
Sports car 5114 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5114 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5114 
Train Positioning 5114 
Kind of what I want 5114 
The lap listening… 5114 
Family Room 5114 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5111 
A super audio room. 5107 
Time Warp! 5107 
A piano in a listening room 5086 
Pianissimo 5086 
The plan in blue. 5086 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5086 
My doubts 5086 
It is exactly what I worry. 5085 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5085 
Musicians at home 5085 
Piano Measurements 5084 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5079 
The next step. 5065 
Midbass horns missing?? 5064 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5054 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5054 
Baby Grand 5053 
Wood floor 5053 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5053 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5053 
Amy’s baby. 5051 
Improvement 5051 
Agree with Scott 5051 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5039 
Integrated casters 5039 
Very nice, thanks. 5039 
Customization 5039 
Sliders 5039 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5032 
Congratulations 5032 
Holes in the floor... 5032 
Tubes and kids 5032 
Sweet spot enlargement 5032 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5030 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5029 
Wood Floors and Water 5029 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5024 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5023 
WAF is for Losers 5023 
WAF: it depends. 5023 
Integration 5022 
Here and there. 5022 
Life after WWIII 5022 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5022 
Cables management. 5020 
Featurizing 5020 
Kids and tubes cont. 5017 
Kid magnet 5017 
Kids and audio 5016 
Radars 5016 
Wow, what the days! 5012 
The comming weekend 5008 
It all was worth it! 5005 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5000 
Here is how it is look. 5000 
Resolving the carpet issue 5000 
Bonfire 5000 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5000 
Proof of concept? 5000 
Geometry 5000 
A view from listening position. 5000 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5000 
Some feedback 5000 
Evening 5000 
I wonder why. 4999 
Rugs and things 4999 
In defense… 4999 
I can’t get it. 4996 
Haze. 4995 
Front wall 4995 
It is very possible. 4995 
It is nice to be back. 4992 
My comfy corner. 4989 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4629 
WMD in house. 4451 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4354 
The third listening spot. 4333 
For sure a very different experience. 4295 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4290 
It's Jfretch's system. 4290 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4289 
Domestic games 4243 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4104 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4104 
Dynamic screening 4104 
Actually this is very good idea! 4104 
Volcanic fabric 4104 
I should have done this. 4102 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4098 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4067 
No worries 4067 
Awesome memories 4067 
Optimization of space 4067 
Child-ish considerations 4064 
Finding peace.... 4058 
"Fencing"? 4057 
I need to build something custom 4057 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4057 
Stressed Skin 4057 
NYC elevators 4057 
Kids toys and quantities. 4057 
Everything is completely reversible 4056 
Racks and things 4056 
Now it looks even more promising! 4056 
Quantity of rods 4056 
Avoiding diagonals 4054 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4053 
That's not fair! 4053 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4053 
Discrimination? 4048 
Vertical configuration 4041 
Impresive ! 3970 
Did you read the site? 3970 
Contact 3970 
Company's name is Rixrax 3970 
Stand 3969 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3925 
End of life headphone system 3925 
Something like this? 3925 
The "Second Living Room" 3925 
Mixing urban & suburban 3925 
Late night listening 3925 
Moving life... 3923 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3923 
A true listening room. 3899 
It started… 3884 
Levels of Interest 3884 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3884 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3884 
I can't not to post it.... 3884 
Do not leave him unattended. 3884 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3884 
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