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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5831 
The first take on the new room. 5825 
New Room, a first shot. 5824 
Wonderful 5824 
Adopted 5823 
The first relaxed night with the room 5821 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5820 
The listening room is ready. 5819 
New Room, a First Shot 5817 
Continue to work with the room 5817 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5817 
Room 5816 
I think it will take another month. 5816 
The Buttressing 5816 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5815 
The new place and the new noises. 5815 
Big listening room 5814 
Screw the "big" rooms 5814 
Big listening rooms 5814 
First reflection points 5813 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5813 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5810 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5809 
Squeezing the floor 5809 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5809 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5809 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5808 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5808 
The new room, the very first listening. 5808 
The 14.5 foot. 5807 
Again… 5806 
Romy's new Playground 5806 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5806 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5806 
For the uninitiated ... 5805 
NH guy 5805 
Room 5805 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5804 
The first base is done 5804 
Reentry time alignment. 5803 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5802 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5802 
Mid bass horn. 5802 
Guess is only a guess… 5802 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5802 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5801 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5801 
Diffusors 5801 
Diffuse injection 5801 
Let analyse why it so 5801 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5801 
Wheel and Deal 5801 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5801 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5801 
I Must Be Missing Something 5801 
I put sliders under my speakers 5800 
ROOM 5799 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5799 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5799 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5799 
No concerns 5799 
Speakers and room 5799 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5798 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5798 
Diaphram 5798 
Phram 5798 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5798 
Perfect piston 5798 
Decorater 5797 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5797 
New morning 5796 
The first take on the room with RTA 5795 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5795 
Axiomatic 5795 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5794 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5794 
The size of the bass. 5794 
Bass Factory 5794 
Crude Level, or something more? 5794 
I will play with it this week…. 5794 
Rent-A 5794 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5794 
Corner horns 5794 
Cheating from below 5794 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5794 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5793 
A possibly overly simplified view 5793 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5793 
Iceberg 5793 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5793 
Why not horn 5793 
A correction…. 5793 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5793 
They are just not related things at all. 5793 
Fertin 5791 
Low resonance is good... 5791 
Et tu, Brute? 5790 
The Room response at LF 5789 
Life On The Ground Floor 5789 
Bass arrays 5789 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5789 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5789 
The super sucks. 5789 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5789 
You may also try 5788 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5788 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5788 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5788 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5788 
60 Hz Resonance 5788 
No notching… so far. 5788 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5787 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5787 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5787 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5787 
Power to the People 5787 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5787 
Aura 5787 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5787 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5787 
All class D is the same 5787 
Interpreting the LF results. 5786 
The Halibut 5786 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5786 
The Big Picture 5786 
Power & ULF channels 5786 
The big picture indeed. 5786 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5786 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5786 
The Power and the Glory 5785 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5785 
I guess I did not get this memo 5785 
French LF drivers 5785 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5785 
(another) French LF approach 5784 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5784 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5784 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5784 
Limpschtick 5784 
Symmetry 5784 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5783 
Room correction 5783 
It migh be more complicated. 5783 
Bass EQ ? 5783 
Agree and not. 5783 
Two "diseases" 5783 
Parametric filters 5783 
Ceiling arrays 5783 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5783 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5783 
The Middle of the Room. 5783 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5783 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5783 
Stop! 5783 
Appendectomy 5783 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5782 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5782 
No Isolation 5782 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5779 
Potential contenders? 5778 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5778 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5778 
Those Crazy Canucks 5774 
Mo' Better Bass 5768 
Bird in the Hand? 5768 
A wet listening spot? 5761 
Storm 5758 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5758 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5744 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5714 
Polar Opposite ULF 5713 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5701 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5699 
Differently but the same. 5698 
PVC 5697 
The sail test try. 5697 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5697 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5697 
Trial 5696 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5696 
Some explanations 5696 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5695 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5694 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5693 
Acrylate 5692 
Magic blanket 5692 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5691 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5691 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5691 
I have a few options. 5691 
Foam color 5691 
Strange things with upperbass 5691 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5690 
Teatro reform. . . 5690 
The foaming room dilemma. 5689 
Melamine Foam 5689 
Foaming up the cat house 5689 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5689 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5689 
Acoustic revisions… 5688 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5685 
Surprises so far in the new room 5684 
The upperbass in the new room. 5684 
Slight change of hart. 5683 
Camco supply of Boston 5681 
Room acoustics 5681 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5640 
I need to kill dust first. 5640 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5638 
To feed the leeches? 5638 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5637 
Yh 5637 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5637 
DPOLs? 5637 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5637 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5634 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5634 
A HalfPipe solution? 5634 
I absolutely love it. 5634 
Piper work 5633 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5633 
Absorption 5633 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5632 
Cats life ? 5632 
Call me Pussy. 5632 
More about traps 5632 
Acoustic impedance? 5632 
You maybe right 5632 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5632 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5631 
Heavy Curtain 5631 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5630 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5630 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5630 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5627 
Fix speaker move chair? 5626 
Back and forth ceremony 5626 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5625 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5624 
Glass windows 5623 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5622 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5621 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5619 
How to use basement jacks? 5619 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5619 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5619 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5618 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5618 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5617 
Sore eyes... 5616 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5616 
The harvesting week! 5614 
I need an inspiration… 5613 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5612 
Like this? 5612 
Dramatically randomize MF 5612 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5611 
The room eats dynamic 5611 
Diffusers 5611 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5610 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5595 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5594 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5594 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5594 
About Width-Importance balance. 5592 
Letting the music scale up 5591 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5591 
To finish my house décor… 5587 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5586 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5585 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5585 
Calling the gods of music 5585 
Absolutely 5585 
Phase manipulation 5585 
No relation. 5585 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5585 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5585 
Dynamical mismatch 5584 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5584 
Stradiwinerius? 5581 
Dealing with the glass. 5580 
Boston 5580 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5580 
Added mass 5580 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5580 
It is about moderation…. 5580 
To hell with the wine... 5580 
Also for other surafaces 5579 
LEAD 5579 
LEAD & GLASS 5579 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5579 
Read carefully 5579 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5579 
Crooks and morons 5579 
Magiscopios 5578 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5558 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5558 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5557 
The LP setup in the new home. 5506 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5501 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5501 
Pianochord will do! 5501 
Spanyi heaven 5501 
I see no conflict at all. 5501 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5501 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5501 
A year after closing 5493 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5493 
Traveling antimatter 5486 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5480 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5479 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5453 
Cast Iron fireplace 5452 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5452 
The hardcore way 5452 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5416 
This is How It's Done 5415 
Listening room during summer. 5403 
What about those... 5402 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5402 
Reducing A/C Noise 5402 
HVAC the Cat 5402 
Big Ass fan 5401 
Variac dimmers 5401 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5401 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5401 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5333 
Some winter observations. 5224 
That Asian man…. 5193 
The Franz Schubert morning 5167 
Spring.... 5116 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5066 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5037 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5037 
Just good photography? 5037 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5037 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5037 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5036 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5036 
Sports car 5036 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5036 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5036 
Train Positioning 5036 
Kind of what I want 5036 
The lap listening… 5036 
Family Room 5036 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5033 
A super audio room. 5029 
Time Warp! 5029 
A piano in a listening room 5008 
Pianissimo 5008 
The plan in blue. 5008 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5008 
My doubts 5008 
It is exactly what I worry. 5007 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5007 
Musicians at home 5007 
Piano Measurements 5006 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5001 
The next step. 4987 
Midbass horns missing?? 4986 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4976 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4976 
Baby Grand 4975 
Wood floor 4975 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4975 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4975 
Amy’s baby. 4973 
Improvement 4973 
Agree with Scott 4973 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4961 
Integrated casters 4961 
Very nice, thanks. 4961 
Customization 4961 
Sliders 4961 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4954 
Congratulations 4954 
Holes in the floor... 4954 
Tubes and kids 4954 
Sweet spot enlargement 4954 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4952 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4951 
Wood Floors and Water 4951 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4946 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4945 
WAF is for Losers 4945 
WAF: it depends. 4945 
Integration 4944 
Here and there. 4944 
Life after WWIII 4944 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4944 
Cables management. 4942 
Featurizing 4942 
Kids and tubes cont. 4939 
Kid magnet 4939 
Kids and audio 4938 
Radars 4938 
Wow, what the days! 4934 
The comming weekend 4930 
It all was worth it! 4927 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4922 
Here is how it is look. 4922 
Resolving the carpet issue 4922 
Bonfire 4922 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4922 
Proof of concept? 4922 
Geometry 4922 
A view from listening position. 4922 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4922 
Some feedback 4922 
Evening 4922 
I wonder why. 4921 
Rugs and things 4921 
In defense… 4921 
I can’t get it. 4918 
Haze. 4917 
Front wall 4917 
It is very possible. 4917 
It is nice to be back. 4914 
My comfy corner. 4911 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4551 
WMD in house. 4373 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4276 
The third listening spot. 4255 
For sure a very different experience. 4217 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4212 
It's Jfretch's system. 4212 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4211 
Domestic games 4165 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4026 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4026 
Dynamic screening 4026 
Actually this is very good idea! 4026 
Volcanic fabric 4026 
I should have done this. 4024 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4020 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3989 
No worries 3989 
Awesome memories 3989 
Optimization of space 3989 
Child-ish considerations 3986 
Finding peace.... 3980 
"Fencing"? 3979 
I need to build something custom 3979 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3979 
Stressed Skin 3979 
NYC elevators 3979 
Kids toys and quantities. 3979 
Everything is completely reversible 3978 
Racks and things 3978 
Now it looks even more promising! 3978 
Quantity of rods 3978 
Avoiding diagonals 3976 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3975 
That's not fair! 3975 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3975 
Discrimination? 3970 
Vertical configuration 3963 
Impresive ! 3892 
Did you read the site? 3892 
Contact 3892 
Company's name is Rixrax 3892 
Stand 3891 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3847 
End of life headphone system 3847 
Something like this? 3847 
The "Second Living Room" 3847 
Mixing urban & suburban 3847 
Late night listening 3847 
Moving life... 3845 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3845 
A true listening room. 3821 
It started… 3806 
Levels of Interest 3806 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3806 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3806 
I can't not to post it.... 3806 
Do not leave him unattended. 3806 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3806 
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