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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5705 
The first take on the new room. 5699 
New Room, a first shot. 5698 
Wonderful 5698 
Adopted 5697 
The first relaxed night with the room 5695 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5694 
The listening room is ready. 5693 
New Room, a First Shot 5691 
Continue to work with the room 5691 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5691 
Room 5690 
I think it will take another month. 5690 
The Buttressing 5690 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5689 
The new place and the new noises. 5689 
Big listening room 5688 
Screw the "big" rooms 5688 
Big listening rooms 5688 
First reflection points 5687 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5687 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5684 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5683 
Squeezing the floor 5683 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5683 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5683 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5682 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5682 
The new room, the very first listening. 5682 
The 14.5 foot. 5681 
Again… 5680 
Romy's new Playground 5680 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5680 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5680 
For the uninitiated ... 5679 
NH guy 5679 
Room 5679 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5678 
The first base is done 5678 
Reentry time alignment. 5677 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5676 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5676 
Mid bass horn. 5676 
Guess is only a guess… 5676 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5676 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5675 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5675 
Diffusors 5675 
Diffuse injection 5675 
Let analyse why it so 5675 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5675 
Wheel and Deal 5675 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5675 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5675 
I Must Be Missing Something 5675 
I put sliders under my speakers 5674 
ROOM 5673 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5673 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5673 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5673 
No concerns 5673 
Speakers and room 5673 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5672 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5672 
Diaphram 5672 
Phram 5672 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5672 
Perfect piston 5672 
Decorater 5671 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5671 
New morning 5670 
The first take on the room with RTA 5669 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5669 
Axiomatic 5669 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5668 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5668 
The size of the bass. 5668 
Bass Factory 5668 
Crude Level, or something more? 5668 
I will play with it this week…. 5668 
Rent-A 5668 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5668 
Corner horns 5668 
Cheating from below 5668 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5668 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5667 
A possibly overly simplified view 5667 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5667 
Iceberg 5667 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5667 
Why not horn 5667 
A correction…. 5667 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5667 
They are just not related things at all. 5667 
Fertin 5665 
Low resonance is good... 5665 
Et tu, Brute? 5664 
The Room response at LF 5663 
Life On The Ground Floor 5663 
Bass arrays 5663 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5663 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5663 
The super sucks. 5663 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5663 
You may also try 5662 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5662 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5662 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5662 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5662 
60 Hz Resonance 5662 
No notching… so far. 5662 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5661 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5661 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5661 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5661 
Power to the People 5661 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5661 
Aura 5661 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5661 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5661 
All class D is the same 5661 
Interpreting the LF results. 5660 
The Halibut 5660 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5660 
The Big Picture 5660 
Power & ULF channels 5660 
The big picture indeed. 5660 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5660 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5660 
The Power and the Glory 5659 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5659 
I guess I did not get this memo 5659 
French LF drivers 5659 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5659 
(another) French LF approach 5658 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5658 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5658 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5658 
Limpschtick 5658 
Symmetry 5658 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5657 
Room correction 5657 
It migh be more complicated. 5657 
Bass EQ ? 5657 
Agree and not. 5657 
Two "diseases" 5657 
Parametric filters 5657 
Ceiling arrays 5657 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5657 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5657 
The Middle of the Room. 5657 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5657 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5657 
Stop! 5657 
Appendectomy 5657 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5656 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5656 
No Isolation 5656 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5653 
Potential contenders? 5652 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5652 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5652 
Those Crazy Canucks 5648 
Mo' Better Bass 5642 
Bird in the Hand? 5642 
A wet listening spot? 5635 
Storm 5632 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5632 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5618 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5588 
Polar Opposite ULF 5587 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5575 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5573 
Differently but the same. 5572 
PVC 5571 
The sail test try. 5571 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5571 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5571 
Trial 5570 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5570 
Some explanations 5570 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5569 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5568 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5567 
Acrylate 5566 
Magic blanket 5566 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5565 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5565 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5565 
I have a few options. 5565 
Foam color 5565 
Strange things with upperbass 5565 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5564 
Teatro reform. . . 5564 
The foaming room dilemma. 5563 
Melamine Foam 5563 
Foaming up the cat house 5563 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5563 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5563 
Acoustic revisions… 5562 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5559 
Surprises so far in the new room 5558 
The upperbass in the new room. 5558 
Slight change of hart. 5557 
Camco supply of Boston 5555 
Room acoustics 5555 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5514 
I need to kill dust first. 5514 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5512 
To feed the leeches? 5512 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5511 
Yh 5511 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5511 
DPOLs? 5511 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5511 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5508 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5508 
A HalfPipe solution? 5508 
I absolutely love it. 5508 
Piper work 5507 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5507 
Absorption 5507 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5506 
Cats life ? 5506 
Call me Pussy. 5506 
More about traps 5506 
Acoustic impedance? 5506 
You maybe right 5506 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5506 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5505 
Heavy Curtain 5505 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5504 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5504 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5504 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5501 
Fix speaker move chair? 5500 
Back and forth ceremony 5500 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5499 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5498 
Glass windows 5497 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5496 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5495 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5493 
How to use basement jacks? 5493 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5493 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5493 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5492 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5492 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5491 
Sore eyes... 5490 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5490 
The harvesting week! 5488 
I need an inspiration… 5487 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5486 
Like this? 5486 
Dramatically randomize MF 5486 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5485 
The room eats dynamic 5485 
Diffusers 5485 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5484 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5469 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5468 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5468 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5468 
About Width-Importance balance. 5466 
Letting the music scale up 5465 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5465 
To finish my house décor… 5461 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5460 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5459 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5459 
Calling the gods of music 5459 
Absolutely 5459 
Phase manipulation 5459 
No relation. 5459 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5459 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5459 
Dynamical mismatch 5458 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5458 
Stradiwinerius? 5455 
Dealing with the glass. 5454 
Boston 5454 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5454 
Added mass 5454 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5454 
It is about moderation…. 5454 
To hell with the wine... 5454 
Also for other surafaces 5453 
LEAD 5453 
LEAD & GLASS 5453 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5453 
Read carefully 5453 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5453 
Crooks and morons 5453 
Magiscopios 5452 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5432 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5432 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5431 
The LP setup in the new home. 5380 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5375 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5375 
Pianochord will do! 5375 
Spanyi heaven 5375 
I see no conflict at all. 5375 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5375 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5375 
A year after closing 5367 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5367 
Traveling antimatter 5360 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5354 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5353 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5327 
Cast Iron fireplace 5326 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5326 
The hardcore way 5326 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5290 
This is How It's Done 5289 
Listening room during summer. 5277 
What about those... 5276 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5276 
Reducing A/C Noise 5276 
HVAC the Cat 5276 
Big Ass fan 5275 
Variac dimmers 5275 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5275 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5275 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5207 
Some winter observations. 5098 
That Asian man…. 5067 
The Franz Schubert morning 5041 
Spring.... 4990 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4940 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4911 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4911 
Just good photography? 4911 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4911 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4911 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4910 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4910 
Sports car 4910 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4910 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4910 
Train Positioning 4910 
Kind of what I want 4910 
The lap listening… 4910 
Family Room 4910 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4907 
A super audio room. 4903 
Time Warp! 4903 
A piano in a listening room 4882 
Pianissimo 4882 
The plan in blue. 4882 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4882 
My doubts 4882 
It is exactly what I worry. 4881 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4881 
Musicians at home 4881 
Piano Measurements 4880 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4875 
The next step. 4861 
Midbass horns missing?? 4860 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4850 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4850 
Baby Grand 4849 
Wood floor 4849 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4849 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4849 
Amy’s baby. 4847 
Improvement 4847 
Agree with Scott 4847 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4835 
Integrated casters 4835 
Very nice, thanks. 4835 
Customization 4835 
Sliders 4835 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4828 
Congratulations 4828 
Holes in the floor... 4828 
Tubes and kids 4828 
Sweet spot enlargement 4828 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4826 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4825 
Wood Floors and Water 4825 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4820 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4819 
WAF is for Losers 4819 
WAF: it depends. 4819 
Integration 4818 
Here and there. 4818 
Life after WWIII 4818 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4818 
Cables management. 4816 
Featurizing 4816 
Kids and tubes cont. 4813 
Kid magnet 4813 
Kids and audio 4812 
Radars 4812 
Wow, what the days! 4808 
The comming weekend 4804 
It all was worth it! 4801 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4796 
Here is how it is look. 4796 
Resolving the carpet issue 4796 
Bonfire 4796 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4796 
Proof of concept? 4796 
Geometry 4796 
A view from listening position. 4796 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4796 
Some feedback 4796 
Evening 4796 
I wonder why. 4795 
Rugs and things 4795 
In defense… 4795 
I can’t get it. 4792 
Haze. 4791 
Front wall 4791 
It is very possible. 4791 
It is nice to be back. 4788 
My comfy corner. 4785 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4425 
WMD in house. 4247 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4150 
The third listening spot. 4129 
For sure a very different experience. 4091 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4086 
It's Jfretch's system. 4086 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4085 
Domestic games 4039 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3900 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3900 
Dynamic screening 3900 
Actually this is very good idea! 3900 
Volcanic fabric 3900 
I should have done this. 3898 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3894 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3863 
No worries 3863 
Awesome memories 3863 
Optimization of space 3863 
Child-ish considerations 3860 
Finding peace.... 3854 
"Fencing"? 3853 
I need to build something custom 3853 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3853 
Stressed Skin 3853 
NYC elevators 3853 
Kids toys and quantities. 3853 
Everything is completely reversible 3852 
Racks and things 3852 
Now it looks even more promising! 3852 
Quantity of rods 3852 
Avoiding diagonals 3850 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3849 
That's not fair! 3849 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3849 
Discrimination? 3844 
Vertical configuration 3837 
Impresive ! 3766 
Did you read the site? 3766 
Contact 3766 
Company's name is Rixrax 3766 
Stand 3765 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3721 
End of life headphone system 3721 
Something like this? 3721 
The "Second Living Room" 3721 
Mixing urban & suburban 3721 
Late night listening 3721 
Moving life... 3719 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3719 
A true listening room. 3695 
It started… 3680 
Levels of Interest 3680 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3680 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3680 
I can't not to post it.... 3680 
Do not leave him unattended. 3680 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3680 
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