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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5807 
The first take on the new room. 5801 
New Room, a first shot. 5800 
Wonderful 5800 
Adopted 5799 
The first relaxed night with the room 5797 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5796 
The listening room is ready. 5795 
New Room, a First Shot 5793 
Continue to work with the room 5793 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5793 
Room 5792 
I think it will take another month. 5792 
The Buttressing 5792 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5791 
The new place and the new noises. 5791 
Big listening room 5790 
Screw the "big" rooms 5790 
Big listening rooms 5790 
First reflection points 5789 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5789 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5786 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5785 
Squeezing the floor 5785 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5785 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5785 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5784 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5784 
The new room, the very first listening. 5784 
The 14.5 foot. 5783 
Again… 5782 
Romy's new Playground 5782 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5782 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5782 
For the uninitiated ... 5781 
NH guy 5781 
Room 5781 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5780 
The first base is done 5780 
Reentry time alignment. 5779 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5778 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5778 
Mid bass horn. 5778 
Guess is only a guess… 5778 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5778 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5777 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5777 
Diffusors 5777 
Diffuse injection 5777 
Let analyse why it so 5777 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5777 
Wheel and Deal 5777 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5777 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5777 
I Must Be Missing Something 5777 
I put sliders under my speakers 5776 
ROOM 5775 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5775 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5775 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5775 
No concerns 5775 
Speakers and room 5775 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5774 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5774 
Diaphram 5774 
Phram 5774 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5774 
Perfect piston 5774 
Decorater 5773 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5773 
New morning 5772 
The first take on the room with RTA 5771 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5771 
Axiomatic 5771 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5770 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5770 
The size of the bass. 5770 
Bass Factory 5770 
Crude Level, or something more? 5770 
I will play with it this week…. 5770 
Rent-A 5770 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5770 
Corner horns 5770 
Cheating from below 5770 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5770 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5769 
A possibly overly simplified view 5769 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5769 
Iceberg 5769 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5769 
Why not horn 5769 
A correction…. 5769 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5769 
They are just not related things at all. 5769 
Fertin 5767 
Low resonance is good... 5767 
Et tu, Brute? 5766 
The Room response at LF 5765 
Life On The Ground Floor 5765 
Bass arrays 5765 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5765 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5765 
The super sucks. 5765 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5765 
You may also try 5764 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5764 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5764 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5764 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5764 
60 Hz Resonance 5764 
No notching… so far. 5764 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5763 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5763 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5763 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5763 
Power to the People 5763 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5763 
Aura 5763 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5763 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5763 
All class D is the same 5763 
Interpreting the LF results. 5762 
The Halibut 5762 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5762 
The Big Picture 5762 
Power & ULF channels 5762 
The big picture indeed. 5762 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5762 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5762 
The Power and the Glory 5761 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5761 
I guess I did not get this memo 5761 
French LF drivers 5761 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5761 
(another) French LF approach 5760 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5760 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5760 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5760 
Limpschtick 5760 
Symmetry 5760 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5759 
Room correction 5759 
It migh be more complicated. 5759 
Bass EQ ? 5759 
Agree and not. 5759 
Two "diseases" 5759 
Parametric filters 5759 
Ceiling arrays 5759 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5759 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5759 
The Middle of the Room. 5759 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5759 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5759 
Stop! 5759 
Appendectomy 5759 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5758 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5758 
No Isolation 5758 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5755 
Potential contenders? 5754 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5754 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5754 
Those Crazy Canucks 5750 
Mo' Better Bass 5744 
Bird in the Hand? 5744 
A wet listening spot? 5737 
Storm 5734 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5734 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5720 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5690 
Polar Opposite ULF 5689 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5677 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5675 
Differently but the same. 5674 
PVC 5673 
The sail test try. 5673 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5673 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5673 
Trial 5672 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5672 
Some explanations 5672 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5671 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5670 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5669 
Acrylate 5668 
Magic blanket 5668 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5667 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5667 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5667 
I have a few options. 5667 
Foam color 5667 
Strange things with upperbass 5667 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5666 
Teatro reform. . . 5666 
The foaming room dilemma. 5665 
Melamine Foam 5665 
Foaming up the cat house 5665 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5665 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5665 
Acoustic revisions… 5664 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5661 
Surprises so far in the new room 5660 
The upperbass in the new room. 5660 
Slight change of hart. 5659 
Camco supply of Boston 5657 
Room acoustics 5657 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5616 
I need to kill dust first. 5616 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5614 
To feed the leeches? 5614 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5613 
Yh 5613 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5613 
DPOLs? 5613 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5613 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5610 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5610 
A HalfPipe solution? 5610 
I absolutely love it. 5610 
Piper work 5609 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5609 
Absorption 5609 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5608 
Cats life ? 5608 
Call me Pussy. 5608 
More about traps 5608 
Acoustic impedance? 5608 
You maybe right 5608 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5608 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5607 
Heavy Curtain 5607 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5606 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5606 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5606 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5603 
Fix speaker move chair? 5602 
Back and forth ceremony 5602 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5601 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5600 
Glass windows 5599 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5598 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5597 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5595 
How to use basement jacks? 5595 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5595 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5595 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5594 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5594 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5593 
Sore eyes... 5592 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5592 
The harvesting week! 5590 
I need an inspiration… 5589 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5588 
Like this? 5588 
Dramatically randomize MF 5588 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5587 
The room eats dynamic 5587 
Diffusers 5587 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5586 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5571 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5570 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5570 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5570 
About Width-Importance balance. 5568 
Letting the music scale up 5567 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5567 
To finish my house décor… 5563 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5562 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5561 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5561 
Calling the gods of music 5561 
Absolutely 5561 
Phase manipulation 5561 
No relation. 5561 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5561 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5561 
Dynamical mismatch 5560 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5560 
Stradiwinerius? 5557 
Dealing with the glass. 5556 
Boston 5556 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5556 
Added mass 5556 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5556 
It is about moderation…. 5556 
To hell with the wine... 5556 
Also for other surafaces 5555 
LEAD 5555 
LEAD & GLASS 5555 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5555 
Read carefully 5555 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5555 
Crooks and morons 5555 
Magiscopios 5554 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5534 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5534 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5533 
The LP setup in the new home. 5482 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5477 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5477 
Pianochord will do! 5477 
Spanyi heaven 5477 
I see no conflict at all. 5477 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5477 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5477 
A year after closing 5469 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5469 
Traveling antimatter 5462 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5456 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5455 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5429 
Cast Iron fireplace 5428 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5428 
The hardcore way 5428 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5392 
This is How It's Done 5391 
Listening room during summer. 5379 
What about those... 5378 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5378 
Reducing A/C Noise 5378 
HVAC the Cat 5378 
Big Ass fan 5377 
Variac dimmers 5377 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5377 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5377 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5309 
Some winter observations. 5200 
That Asian man…. 5169 
The Franz Schubert morning 5143 
Spring.... 5092 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5042 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5013 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5013 
Just good photography? 5013 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5013 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5013 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5012 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5012 
Sports car 5012 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5012 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5012 
Train Positioning 5012 
Kind of what I want 5012 
The lap listening… 5012 
Family Room 5012 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5009 
A super audio room. 5005 
Time Warp! 5005 
A piano in a listening room 4984 
Pianissimo 4984 
The plan in blue. 4984 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4984 
My doubts 4984 
It is exactly what I worry. 4983 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4983 
Musicians at home 4983 
Piano Measurements 4982 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4977 
The next step. 4963 
Midbass horns missing?? 4962 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4952 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4952 
Baby Grand 4951 
Wood floor 4951 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4951 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4951 
Amy’s baby. 4949 
Improvement 4949 
Agree with Scott 4949 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4937 
Integrated casters 4937 
Very nice, thanks. 4937 
Customization 4937 
Sliders 4937 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4930 
Congratulations 4930 
Holes in the floor... 4930 
Tubes and kids 4930 
Sweet spot enlargement 4930 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4928 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4927 
Wood Floors and Water 4927 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4922 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4921 
WAF is for Losers 4921 
WAF: it depends. 4921 
Integration 4920 
Here and there. 4920 
Life after WWIII 4920 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4920 
Cables management. 4918 
Featurizing 4918 
Kids and tubes cont. 4915 
Kid magnet 4915 
Kids and audio 4914 
Radars 4914 
Wow, what the days! 4910 
The comming weekend 4906 
It all was worth it! 4903 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4898 
Here is how it is look. 4898 
Resolving the carpet issue 4898 
Bonfire 4898 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4898 
Proof of concept? 4898 
Geometry 4898 
A view from listening position. 4898 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4898 
Some feedback 4898 
Evening 4898 
I wonder why. 4897 
Rugs and things 4897 
In defense… 4897 
I can’t get it. 4894 
Haze. 4893 
Front wall 4893 
It is very possible. 4893 
It is nice to be back. 4890 
My comfy corner. 4887 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4527 
WMD in house. 4349 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4252 
The third listening spot. 4231 
For sure a very different experience. 4193 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4188 
It's Jfretch's system. 4188 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4187 
Domestic games 4141 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4002 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4002 
Dynamic screening 4002 
Actually this is very good idea! 4002 
Volcanic fabric 4002 
I should have done this. 4000 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3996 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3965 
No worries 3965 
Awesome memories 3965 
Optimization of space 3965 
Child-ish considerations 3962 
Finding peace.... 3956 
"Fencing"? 3955 
I need to build something custom 3955 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3955 
Stressed Skin 3955 
NYC elevators 3955 
Kids toys and quantities. 3955 
Everything is completely reversible 3954 
Racks and things 3954 
Now it looks even more promising! 3954 
Quantity of rods 3954 
Avoiding diagonals 3952 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3951 
That's not fair! 3951 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3951 
Discrimination? 3946 
Vertical configuration 3939 
Impresive ! 3868 
Did you read the site? 3868 
Contact 3868 
Company's name is Rixrax 3868 
Stand 3867 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3823 
End of life headphone system 3823 
Something like this? 3823 
The "Second Living Room" 3823 
Mixing urban & suburban 3823 
Late night listening 3823 
Moving life... 3821 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3821 
A true listening room. 3797 
It started… 3782 
Levels of Interest 3782 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3782 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3782 
I can't not to post it.... 3782 
Do not leave him unattended. 3782 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3782 
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