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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5966 
The first take on the new room. 5960 
New Room, a first shot. 5959 
Wonderful 5959 
Adopted 5958 
The first relaxed night with the room 5956 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5955 
The listening room is ready. 5954 
New Room, a First Shot 5952 
Continue to work with the room 5952 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5952 
Room 5951 
I think it will take another month. 5951 
The Buttressing 5951 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5950 
The new place and the new noises. 5950 
Big listening room 5949 
Screw the "big" rooms 5949 
Big listening rooms 5949 
First reflection points 5948 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5948 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5945 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5944 
Squeezing the floor 5944 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5944 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5944 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5943 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5943 
The new room, the very first listening. 5943 
The 14.5 foot. 5942 
Again… 5941 
Romy's new Playground 5941 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5941 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5941 
For the uninitiated ... 5940 
NH guy 5940 
Room 5940 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5939 
The first base is done 5939 
Reentry time alignment. 5938 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5937 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5937 
Mid bass horn. 5937 
Guess is only a guess… 5937 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5937 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5936 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5936 
Diffusors 5936 
Diffuse injection 5936 
Let analyse why it so 5936 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5936 
Wheel and Deal 5936 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5936 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5936 
I Must Be Missing Something 5936 
I put sliders under my speakers 5935 
ROOM 5934 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5934 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5934 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5934 
No concerns 5934 
Speakers and room 5934 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5933 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5933 
Diaphram 5933 
Phram 5933 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5933 
Perfect piston 5933 
Decorater 5932 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5932 
New morning 5931 
The first take on the room with RTA 5930 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5930 
Axiomatic 5930 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5929 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5929 
The size of the bass. 5929 
Bass Factory 5929 
Crude Level, or something more? 5929 
I will play with it this week…. 5929 
Rent-A 5929 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5929 
Corner horns 5929 
Cheating from below 5929 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5929 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5928 
A possibly overly simplified view 5928 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5928 
Iceberg 5928 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5928 
Why not horn 5928 
A correction…. 5928 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5928 
They are just not related things at all. 5928 
Fertin 5926 
Low resonance is good... 5926 
Et tu, Brute? 5925 
The Room response at LF 5924 
Life On The Ground Floor 5924 
Bass arrays 5924 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5924 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5924 
The super sucks. 5924 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5924 
You may also try 5923 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5923 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5923 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5923 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5923 
60 Hz Resonance 5923 
No notching… so far. 5923 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5922 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5922 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5922 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5922 
Power to the People 5922 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5922 
Aura 5922 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5922 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5922 
All class D is the same 5922 
Interpreting the LF results. 5921 
The Halibut 5921 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5921 
The Big Picture 5921 
Power & ULF channels 5921 
The big picture indeed. 5921 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5921 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5921 
The Power and the Glory 5920 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5920 
I guess I did not get this memo 5920 
French LF drivers 5920 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5920 
(another) French LF approach 5919 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5919 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5919 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5919 
Limpschtick 5919 
Symmetry 5919 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5918 
Room correction 5918 
It migh be more complicated. 5918 
Bass EQ ? 5918 
Agree and not. 5918 
Two "diseases" 5918 
Parametric filters 5918 
Ceiling arrays 5918 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5918 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5918 
The Middle of the Room. 5918 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5918 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5918 
Stop! 5918 
Appendectomy 5918 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5917 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5917 
No Isolation 5917 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5914 
Potential contenders? 5913 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5913 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5913 
Those Crazy Canucks 5909 
Mo' Better Bass 5903 
Bird in the Hand? 5903 
A wet listening spot? 5896 
Storm 5893 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5893 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5879 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5849 
Polar Opposite ULF 5848 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5836 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5834 
Differently but the same. 5833 
PVC 5832 
The sail test try. 5832 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5832 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5832 
Trial 5831 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5831 
Some explanations 5831 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5830 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5829 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5828 
Acrylate 5827 
Magic blanket 5827 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5826 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5826 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5826 
I have a few options. 5826 
Foam color 5826 
Strange things with upperbass 5826 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5825 
Teatro reform. . . 5825 
The foaming room dilemma. 5824 
Melamine Foam 5824 
Foaming up the cat house 5824 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5824 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5824 
Acoustic revisions… 5823 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5820 
Surprises so far in the new room 5819 
The upperbass in the new room. 5819 
Slight change of hart. 5818 
Camco supply of Boston 5816 
Room acoustics 5816 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5775 
I need to kill dust first. 5775 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5773 
To feed the leeches? 5773 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5772 
Yh 5772 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5772 
DPOLs? 5772 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5772 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5769 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5769 
A HalfPipe solution? 5769 
I absolutely love it. 5769 
Piper work 5768 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5768 
Absorption 5768 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5767 
Cats life ? 5767 
Call me Pussy. 5767 
More about traps 5767 
Acoustic impedance? 5767 
You maybe right 5767 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5767 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5766 
Heavy Curtain 5766 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5765 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5765 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5765 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5762 
Fix speaker move chair? 5761 
Back and forth ceremony 5761 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5760 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5759 
Glass windows 5758 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5757 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5756 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5754 
How to use basement jacks? 5754 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5754 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5754 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5753 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5753 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5752 
Sore eyes... 5751 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5751 
The harvesting week! 5749 
I need an inspiration… 5748 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5747 
Like this? 5747 
Dramatically randomize MF 5747 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5746 
The room eats dynamic 5746 
Diffusers 5746 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5745 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5730 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5729 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5729 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5729 
About Width-Importance balance. 5727 
Letting the music scale up 5726 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5726 
To finish my house décor… 5722 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5721 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5720 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5720 
Calling the gods of music 5720 
Absolutely 5720 
Phase manipulation 5720 
No relation. 5720 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5720 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5720 
Dynamical mismatch 5719 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5719 
Stradiwinerius? 5716 
Dealing with the glass. 5715 
Boston 5715 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5715 
Added mass 5715 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5715 
It is about moderation…. 5715 
To hell with the wine... 5715 
Also for other surafaces 5714 
LEAD 5714 
LEAD & GLASS 5714 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5714 
Read carefully 5714 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5714 
Crooks and morons 5714 
Magiscopios 5713 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5693 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5693 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5692 
The LP setup in the new home. 5641 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5636 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5636 
Pianochord will do! 5636 
Spanyi heaven 5636 
I see no conflict at all. 5636 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5636 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5636 
A year after closing 5628 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5628 
Traveling antimatter 5621 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5615 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5614 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5588 
Cast Iron fireplace 5587 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5587 
The hardcore way 5587 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5551 
This is How It's Done 5550 
Listening room during summer. 5538 
What about those... 5537 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5537 
Reducing A/C Noise 5537 
HVAC the Cat 5537 
Big Ass fan 5536 
Variac dimmers 5536 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5536 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5536 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5468 
Some winter observations. 5359 
That Asian man…. 5328 
The Franz Schubert morning 5302 
Spring.... 5251 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5201 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5172 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5172 
Just good photography? 5172 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5172 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5172 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5171 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5171 
Sports car 5171 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5171 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5171 
Train Positioning 5171 
Kind of what I want 5171 
The lap listening… 5171 
Family Room 5171 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5168 
A super audio room. 5164 
Time Warp! 5164 
A piano in a listening room 5143 
Pianissimo 5143 
The plan in blue. 5143 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5143 
My doubts 5143 
It is exactly what I worry. 5142 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5142 
Musicians at home 5142 
Piano Measurements 5141 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5136 
The next step. 5122 
Midbass horns missing?? 5121 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5111 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5111 
Baby Grand 5110 
Wood floor 5110 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5110 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5110 
Amy’s baby. 5108 
Improvement 5108 
Agree with Scott 5108 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5096 
Integrated casters 5096 
Very nice, thanks. 5096 
Customization 5096 
Sliders 5096 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5089 
Congratulations 5089 
Holes in the floor... 5089 
Tubes and kids 5089 
Sweet spot enlargement 5089 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5087 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5086 
Wood Floors and Water 5086 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5081 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5080 
WAF is for Losers 5080 
WAF: it depends. 5080 
Integration 5079 
Here and there. 5079 
Life after WWIII 5079 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5079 
Cables management. 5077 
Featurizing 5077 
Kids and tubes cont. 5074 
Kid magnet 5074 
Kids and audio 5073 
Radars 5073 
Wow, what the days! 5069 
The comming weekend 5065 
It all was worth it! 5062 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5057 
Here is how it is look. 5057 
Resolving the carpet issue 5057 
Bonfire 5057 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5057 
Proof of concept? 5057 
Geometry 5057 
A view from listening position. 5057 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5057 
Some feedback 5057 
Evening 5057 
I wonder why. 5056 
Rugs and things 5056 
In defense… 5056 
I can’t get it. 5053 
Haze. 5052 
Front wall 5052 
It is very possible. 5052 
It is nice to be back. 5049 
My comfy corner. 5046 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4686 
WMD in house. 4508 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4411 
The third listening spot. 4390 
For sure a very different experience. 4352 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4347 
It's Jfretch's system. 4347 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4346 
Domestic games 4300 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4161 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4161 
Dynamic screening 4161 
Actually this is very good idea! 4161 
Volcanic fabric 4161 
I should have done this. 4159 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4155 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4124 
No worries 4124 
Awesome memories 4124 
Optimization of space 4124 
Child-ish considerations 4121 
Finding peace.... 4115 
"Fencing"? 4114 
I need to build something custom 4114 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4114 
Stressed Skin 4114 
NYC elevators 4114 
Kids toys and quantities. 4114 
Everything is completely reversible 4113 
Racks and things 4113 
Now it looks even more promising! 4113 
Quantity of rods 4113 
Avoiding diagonals 4111 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4110 
That's not fair! 4110 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4110 
Discrimination? 4105 
Vertical configuration 4098 
Impresive ! 4027 
Did you read the site? 4027 
Contact 4027 
Company's name is Rixrax 4027 
Stand 4026 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3982 
End of life headphone system 3982 
Something like this? 3982 
The "Second Living Room" 3982 
Mixing urban & suburban 3982 
Late night listening 3982 
Moving life... 3980 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3980 
A true listening room. 3956 
It started… 3941 
Levels of Interest 3941 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3941 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3941 
I can't not to post it.... 3941 
Do not leave him unattended. 3941 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3941 
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