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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5977 
The first take on the new room. 5971 
New Room, a first shot. 5970 
Wonderful 5970 
Adopted 5969 
The first relaxed night with the room 5967 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5966 
The listening room is ready. 5965 
New Room, a First Shot 5963 
Continue to work with the room 5963 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5963 
Room 5962 
I think it will take another month. 5962 
The Buttressing 5962 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5961 
The new place and the new noises. 5961 
Big listening room 5960 
Screw the "big" rooms 5960 
Big listening rooms 5960 
First reflection points 5959 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5959 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5956 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5955 
Squeezing the floor 5955 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5955 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5955 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5954 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5954 
The new room, the very first listening. 5954 
The 14.5 foot. 5953 
Again… 5952 
Romy's new Playground 5952 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5952 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5952 
For the uninitiated ... 5951 
NH guy 5951 
Room 5951 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5950 
The first base is done 5950 
Reentry time alignment. 5949 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5948 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5948 
Mid bass horn. 5948 
Guess is only a guess… 5948 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5948 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5947 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5947 
Diffusors 5947 
Diffuse injection 5947 
Let analyse why it so 5947 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5947 
Wheel and Deal 5947 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5947 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5947 
I Must Be Missing Something 5947 
I put sliders under my speakers 5946 
ROOM 5945 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5945 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5945 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5945 
No concerns 5945 
Speakers and room 5945 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5944 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5944 
Diaphram 5944 
Phram 5944 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5944 
Perfect piston 5944 
Decorater 5943 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5943 
New morning 5942 
The first take on the room with RTA 5941 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5941 
Axiomatic 5941 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5940 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5940 
The size of the bass. 5940 
Bass Factory 5940 
Crude Level, or something more? 5940 
I will play with it this week…. 5940 
Rent-A 5940 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5940 
Corner horns 5940 
Cheating from below 5940 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5940 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5939 
A possibly overly simplified view 5939 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5939 
Iceberg 5939 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5939 
Why not horn 5939 
A correction…. 5939 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5939 
They are just not related things at all. 5939 
Fertin 5937 
Low resonance is good... 5937 
Et tu, Brute? 5936 
The Room response at LF 5935 
Life On The Ground Floor 5935 
Bass arrays 5935 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5935 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5935 
The super sucks. 5935 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5935 
You may also try 5934 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5934 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5934 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5934 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5934 
60 Hz Resonance 5934 
No notching… so far. 5934 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5933 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5933 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5933 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5933 
Power to the People 5933 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5933 
Aura 5933 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5933 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5933 
All class D is the same 5933 
Interpreting the LF results. 5932 
The Halibut 5932 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5932 
The Big Picture 5932 
Power & ULF channels 5932 
The big picture indeed. 5932 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5932 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5932 
The Power and the Glory 5931 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5931 
I guess I did not get this memo 5931 
French LF drivers 5931 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5931 
(another) French LF approach 5930 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5930 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5930 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5930 
Limpschtick 5930 
Symmetry 5930 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5929 
Room correction 5929 
It migh be more complicated. 5929 
Bass EQ ? 5929 
Agree and not. 5929 
Two "diseases" 5929 
Parametric filters 5929 
Ceiling arrays 5929 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5929 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5929 
The Middle of the Room. 5929 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5929 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5929 
Stop! 5929 
Appendectomy 5929 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5928 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5928 
No Isolation 5928 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5925 
Potential contenders? 5924 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5924 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5924 
Those Crazy Canucks 5920 
Mo' Better Bass 5914 
Bird in the Hand? 5914 
A wet listening spot? 5907 
Storm 5904 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5904 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5890 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5860 
Polar Opposite ULF 5859 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5847 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5845 
Differently but the same. 5844 
PVC 5843 
The sail test try. 5843 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5843 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5843 
Trial 5842 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5842 
Some explanations 5842 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5841 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5840 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5839 
Acrylate 5838 
Magic blanket 5838 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5837 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5837 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5837 
I have a few options. 5837 
Foam color 5837 
Strange things with upperbass 5837 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5836 
Teatro reform. . . 5836 
The foaming room dilemma. 5835 
Melamine Foam 5835 
Foaming up the cat house 5835 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5835 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5835 
Acoustic revisions… 5834 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5831 
Surprises so far in the new room 5830 
The upperbass in the new room. 5830 
Slight change of hart. 5829 
Camco supply of Boston 5827 
Room acoustics 5827 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5786 
I need to kill dust first. 5786 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5784 
To feed the leeches? 5784 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5783 
Yh 5783 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5783 
DPOLs? 5783 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5783 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5780 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5780 
A HalfPipe solution? 5780 
I absolutely love it. 5780 
Piper work 5779 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5779 
Absorption 5779 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5778 
Cats life ? 5778 
Call me Pussy. 5778 
More about traps 5778 
Acoustic impedance? 5778 
You maybe right 5778 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5778 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5777 
Heavy Curtain 5777 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5776 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5776 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5776 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5773 
Fix speaker move chair? 5772 
Back and forth ceremony 5772 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5771 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5770 
Glass windows 5769 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5768 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5767 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5765 
How to use basement jacks? 5765 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5765 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5765 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5764 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5764 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5763 
Sore eyes... 5762 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5762 
The harvesting week! 5760 
I need an inspiration… 5759 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5758 
Like this? 5758 
Dramatically randomize MF 5758 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5757 
The room eats dynamic 5757 
Diffusers 5757 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5756 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5741 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5740 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5740 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5740 
About Width-Importance balance. 5738 
Letting the music scale up 5737 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5737 
To finish my house décor… 5733 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5732 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5731 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5731 
Calling the gods of music 5731 
Absolutely 5731 
Phase manipulation 5731 
No relation. 5731 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5731 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5731 
Dynamical mismatch 5730 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5730 
Stradiwinerius? 5727 
Dealing with the glass. 5726 
Boston 5726 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5726 
Added mass 5726 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5726 
It is about moderation…. 5726 
To hell with the wine... 5726 
Also for other surafaces 5725 
LEAD 5725 
LEAD & GLASS 5725 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5725 
Read carefully 5725 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5725 
Crooks and morons 5725 
Magiscopios 5724 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5704 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5704 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5703 
The LP setup in the new home. 5652 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5647 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5647 
Pianochord will do! 5647 
Spanyi heaven 5647 
I see no conflict at all. 5647 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5647 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5647 
A year after closing 5639 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5639 
Traveling antimatter 5632 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5626 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5625 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5599 
Cast Iron fireplace 5598 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5598 
The hardcore way 5598 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5562 
This is How It's Done 5561 
Listening room during summer. 5549 
What about those... 5548 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5548 
Reducing A/C Noise 5548 
HVAC the Cat 5548 
Big Ass fan 5547 
Variac dimmers 5547 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5547 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5547 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5479 
Some winter observations. 5370 
That Asian man…. 5339 
The Franz Schubert morning 5313 
Spring.... 5262 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5212 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5183 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5183 
Just good photography? 5183 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5183 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5183 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5182 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5182 
Sports car 5182 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5182 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5182 
Train Positioning 5182 
Kind of what I want 5182 
The lap listening… 5182 
Family Room 5182 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5179 
A super audio room. 5175 
Time Warp! 5175 
A piano in a listening room 5154 
Pianissimo 5154 
The plan in blue. 5154 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5154 
My doubts 5154 
It is exactly what I worry. 5153 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5153 
Musicians at home 5153 
Piano Measurements 5152 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5147 
The next step. 5133 
Midbass horns missing?? 5132 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5122 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5122 
Baby Grand 5121 
Wood floor 5121 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5121 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5121 
Amy’s baby. 5119 
Improvement 5119 
Agree with Scott 5119 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5107 
Integrated casters 5107 
Very nice, thanks. 5107 
Customization 5107 
Sliders 5107 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5100 
Congratulations 5100 
Holes in the floor... 5100 
Tubes and kids 5100 
Sweet spot enlargement 5100 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5098 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5097 
Wood Floors and Water 5097 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5092 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5091 
WAF is for Losers 5091 
WAF: it depends. 5091 
Integration 5090 
Here and there. 5090 
Life after WWIII 5090 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5090 
Cables management. 5088 
Featurizing 5088 
Kids and tubes cont. 5085 
Kid magnet 5085 
Kids and audio 5084 
Radars 5084 
Wow, what the days! 5080 
The comming weekend 5076 
It all was worth it! 5073 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5068 
Here is how it is look. 5068 
Resolving the carpet issue 5068 
Bonfire 5068 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5068 
Proof of concept? 5068 
Geometry 5068 
A view from listening position. 5068 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5068 
Some feedback 5068 
Evening 5068 
I wonder why. 5067 
Rugs and things 5067 
In defense… 5067 
I can’t get it. 5064 
Haze. 5063 
Front wall 5063 
It is very possible. 5063 
It is nice to be back. 5060 
My comfy corner. 5057 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4697 
WMD in house. 4519 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4422 
The third listening spot. 4401 
For sure a very different experience. 4363 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4358 
It's Jfretch's system. 4358 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4357 
Domestic games 4311 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4172 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4172 
Dynamic screening 4172 
Actually this is very good idea! 4172 
Volcanic fabric 4172 
I should have done this. 4170 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4166 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4135 
No worries 4135 
Awesome memories 4135 
Optimization of space 4135 
Child-ish considerations 4132 
Finding peace.... 4126 
"Fencing"? 4125 
I need to build something custom 4125 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4125 
Stressed Skin 4125 
NYC elevators 4125 
Kids toys and quantities. 4125 
Everything is completely reversible 4124 
Racks and things 4124 
Now it looks even more promising! 4124 
Quantity of rods 4124 
Avoiding diagonals 4122 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4121 
That's not fair! 4121 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4121 
Discrimination? 4116 
Vertical configuration 4109 
Impresive ! 4038 
Did you read the site? 4038 
Contact 4038 
Company's name is Rixrax 4038 
Stand 4037 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3993 
End of life headphone system 3993 
Something like this? 3993 
The "Second Living Room" 3993 
Mixing urban & suburban 3993 
Late night listening 3993 
Moving life... 3991 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3991 
A true listening room. 3967 
It started… 3952 
Levels of Interest 3952 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3952 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3952 
I can't not to post it.... 3952 
Do not leave him unattended. 3952 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3952 
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