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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6066 
The first take on the new room. 6060 
New Room, a first shot. 6059 
Wonderful 6059 
Adopted 6058 
The first relaxed night with the room 6056 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6055 
The listening room is ready. 6054 
New Room, a First Shot 6052 
Continue to work with the room 6052 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6052 
Room 6051 
I think it will take another month. 6051 
The Buttressing 6051 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6050 
The new place and the new noises. 6050 
Big listening room 6049 
Screw the "big" rooms 6049 
Big listening rooms 6049 
First reflection points 6048 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6048 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6045 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6044 
Squeezing the floor 6044 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6044 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6044 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6043 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6043 
The new room, the very first listening. 6043 
The 14.5 foot. 6042 
Again… 6041 
Romy's new Playground 6041 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6041 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6041 
For the uninitiated ... 6040 
NH guy 6040 
Room 6040 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6039 
The first base is done 6039 
Reentry time alignment. 6038 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6037 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6037 
Mid bass horn. 6037 
Guess is only a guess… 6037 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6037 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6036 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6036 
Diffusors 6036 
Diffuse injection 6036 
Let analyse why it so 6036 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6036 
Wheel and Deal 6036 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6036 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6036 
I Must Be Missing Something 6036 
I put sliders under my speakers 6035 
ROOM 6034 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6034 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6034 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6034 
No concerns 6034 
Speakers and room 6034 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6033 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6033 
Diaphram 6033 
Phram 6033 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6033 
Perfect piston 6033 
Decorater 6032 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6032 
New morning 6031 
The first take on the room with RTA 6030 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6030 
Axiomatic 6030 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6029 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6029 
The size of the bass. 6029 
Bass Factory 6029 
Crude Level, or something more? 6029 
I will play with it this week…. 6029 
Rent-A 6029 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6029 
Corner horns 6029 
Cheating from below 6029 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6029 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6028 
A possibly overly simplified view 6028 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6028 
Iceberg 6028 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6028 
Why not horn 6028 
A correction…. 6028 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6028 
They are just not related things at all. 6028 
Fertin 6026 
Low resonance is good... 6026 
Et tu, Brute? 6025 
The Room response at LF 6024 
Life On The Ground Floor 6024 
Bass arrays 6024 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6024 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6024 
The super sucks. 6024 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6024 
You may also try 6023 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6023 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6023 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6023 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6023 
60 Hz Resonance 6023 
No notching… so far. 6023 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6022 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6022 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6022 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6022 
Power to the People 6022 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6022 
Aura 6022 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6022 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6022 
All class D is the same 6022 
Interpreting the LF results. 6021 
The Halibut 6021 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6021 
The Big Picture 6021 
Power & ULF channels 6021 
The big picture indeed. 6021 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6021 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6021 
The Power and the Glory 6020 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6020 
I guess I did not get this memo 6020 
French LF drivers 6020 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6020 
(another) French LF approach 6019 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6019 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6019 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6019 
Limpschtick 6019 
Symmetry 6019 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6018 
Room correction 6018 
It migh be more complicated. 6018 
Bass EQ ? 6018 
Agree and not. 6018 
Two "diseases" 6018 
Parametric filters 6018 
Ceiling arrays 6018 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6018 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6018 
The Middle of the Room. 6018 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6018 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6018 
Stop! 6018 
Appendectomy 6018 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6017 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6017 
No Isolation 6017 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6014 
Potential contenders? 6013 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6013 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6013 
Those Crazy Canucks 6009 
Mo' Better Bass 6003 
Bird in the Hand? 6003 
A wet listening spot? 5996 
Storm 5993 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5993 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5979 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5949 
Polar Opposite ULF 5948 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5936 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5934 
Differently but the same. 5933 
PVC 5932 
The sail test try. 5932 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5932 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5932 
Trial 5931 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5931 
Some explanations 5931 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5930 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5929 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5928 
Acrylate 5927 
Magic blanket 5927 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5926 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5926 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5926 
I have a few options. 5926 
Foam color 5926 
Strange things with upperbass 5926 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5925 
Teatro reform. . . 5925 
The foaming room dilemma. 5924 
Melamine Foam 5924 
Foaming up the cat house 5924 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5924 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5924 
Acoustic revisions… 5923 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5920 
Surprises so far in the new room 5919 
The upperbass in the new room. 5919 
Slight change of hart. 5918 
Camco supply of Boston 5916 
Room acoustics 5916 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5875 
I need to kill dust first. 5875 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5873 
To feed the leeches? 5873 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5872 
Yh 5872 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5872 
DPOLs? 5872 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5872 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5869 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5869 
A HalfPipe solution? 5869 
I absolutely love it. 5869 
Piper work 5868 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5868 
Absorption 5868 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5867 
Cats life ? 5867 
Call me Pussy. 5867 
More about traps 5867 
Acoustic impedance? 5867 
You maybe right 5867 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5867 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5866 
Heavy Curtain 5866 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5865 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5865 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5865 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5862 
Fix speaker move chair? 5861 
Back and forth ceremony 5861 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5860 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5859 
Glass windows 5858 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5857 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5856 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5854 
How to use basement jacks? 5854 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5854 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5854 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5853 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5853 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5852 
Sore eyes... 5851 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5851 
The harvesting week! 5849 
I need an inspiration… 5848 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5847 
Like this? 5847 
Dramatically randomize MF 5847 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5846 
The room eats dynamic 5846 
Diffusers 5846 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5845 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5830 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5829 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5829 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5829 
About Width-Importance balance. 5827 
Letting the music scale up 5826 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5826 
To finish my house décor… 5822 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5821 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5820 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5820 
Calling the gods of music 5820 
Absolutely 5820 
Phase manipulation 5820 
No relation. 5820 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5820 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5820 
Dynamical mismatch 5819 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5819 
Stradiwinerius? 5816 
Dealing with the glass. 5815 
Boston 5815 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5815 
Added mass 5815 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5815 
It is about moderation…. 5815 
To hell with the wine... 5815 
Also for other surafaces 5814 
LEAD 5814 
LEAD & GLASS 5814 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5814 
Read carefully 5814 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5814 
Crooks and morons 5814 
Magiscopios 5813 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5793 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5793 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5792 
The LP setup in the new home. 5741 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5736 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5736 
Pianochord will do! 5736 
Spanyi heaven 5736 
I see no conflict at all. 5736 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5736 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5736 
A year after closing 5728 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5728 
Traveling antimatter 5721 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5715 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5714 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5688 
Cast Iron fireplace 5687 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5687 
The hardcore way 5687 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5651 
This is How It's Done 5650 
Listening room during summer. 5638 
What about those... 5637 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5637 
Reducing A/C Noise 5637 
HVAC the Cat 5637 
Big Ass fan 5636 
Variac dimmers 5636 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5636 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5636 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5568 
Some winter observations. 5459 
That Asian man…. 5428 
The Franz Schubert morning 5402 
Spring.... 5351 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5301 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5272 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5272 
Just good photography? 5272 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5272 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5272 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5271 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5271 
Sports car 5271 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5271 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5271 
Train Positioning 5271 
Kind of what I want 5271 
The lap listening… 5271 
Family Room 5271 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5268 
A super audio room. 5264 
Time Warp! 5264 
A piano in a listening room 5243 
Pianissimo 5243 
The plan in blue. 5243 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5243 
My doubts 5243 
It is exactly what I worry. 5242 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5242 
Musicians at home 5242 
Piano Measurements 5241 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5236 
The next step. 5222 
Midbass horns missing?? 5221 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5211 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5211 
Baby Grand 5210 
Wood floor 5210 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5210 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5210 
Amy’s baby. 5208 
Improvement 5208 
Agree with Scott 5208 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5196 
Integrated casters 5196 
Very nice, thanks. 5196 
Customization 5196 
Sliders 5196 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5189 
Congratulations 5189 
Holes in the floor... 5189 
Tubes and kids 5189 
Sweet spot enlargement 5189 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5187 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5186 
Wood Floors and Water 5186 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5181 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5180 
WAF is for Losers 5180 
WAF: it depends. 5180 
Integration 5179 
Here and there. 5179 
Life after WWIII 5179 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5179 
Cables management. 5177 
Featurizing 5177 
Kids and tubes cont. 5174 
Kid magnet 5174 
Kids and audio 5173 
Radars 5173 
Wow, what the days! 5169 
The comming weekend 5165 
It all was worth it! 5162 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5157 
Here is how it is look. 5157 
Resolving the carpet issue 5157 
Bonfire 5157 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5157 
Proof of concept? 5157 
Geometry 5157 
A view from listening position. 5157 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5157 
Some feedback 5157 
Evening 5157 
I wonder why. 5156 
Rugs and things 5156 
In defense… 5156 
I can’t get it. 5153 
Haze. 5152 
Front wall 5152 
It is very possible. 5152 
It is nice to be back. 5149 
My comfy corner. 5146 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4786 
WMD in house. 4608 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4511 
The third listening spot. 4490 
For sure a very different experience. 4452 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4447 
It's Jfretch's system. 4447 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4446 
Domestic games 4400 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4261 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4261 
Dynamic screening 4261 
Actually this is very good idea! 4261 
Volcanic fabric 4261 
I should have done this. 4259 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4255 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4224 
No worries 4224 
Awesome memories 4224 
Optimization of space 4224 
Child-ish considerations 4221 
Finding peace.... 4215 
"Fencing"? 4214 
I need to build something custom 4214 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4214 
Stressed Skin 4214 
NYC elevators 4214 
Kids toys and quantities. 4214 
Everything is completely reversible 4213 
Racks and things 4213 
Now it looks even more promising! 4213 
Quantity of rods 4213 
Avoiding diagonals 4211 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4210 
That's not fair! 4210 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4210 
Discrimination? 4205 
Vertical configuration 4198 
Impresive ! 4127 
Did you read the site? 4127 
Contact 4127 
Company's name is Rixrax 4127 
Stand 4126 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4082 
End of life headphone system 4082 
Something like this? 4082 
The "Second Living Room" 4082 
Mixing urban & suburban 4082 
Late night listening 4082 
Moving life... 4080 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4080 
A true listening room. 4056 
It started… 4041 
Levels of Interest 4041 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4041 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4041 
I can't not to post it.... 4041 
Do not leave him unattended. 4041 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4041 
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