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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5808 
The first take on the new room. 5802 
New Room, a first shot. 5801 
Wonderful 5801 
Adopted 5800 
The first relaxed night with the room 5798 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5797 
The listening room is ready. 5796 
New Room, a First Shot 5794 
Continue to work with the room 5794 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5794 
Room 5793 
I think it will take another month. 5793 
The Buttressing 5793 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5792 
The new place and the new noises. 5792 
Big listening room 5791 
Screw the "big" rooms 5791 
Big listening rooms 5791 
First reflection points 5790 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5790 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5787 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5786 
Squeezing the floor 5786 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5786 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5786 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5785 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5785 
The new room, the very first listening. 5785 
The 14.5 foot. 5784 
Again… 5783 
Romy's new Playground 5783 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5783 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5783 
For the uninitiated ... 5782 
NH guy 5782 
Room 5782 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5781 
The first base is done 5781 
Reentry time alignment. 5780 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5779 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5779 
Mid bass horn. 5779 
Guess is only a guess… 5779 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5779 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5778 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5778 
Diffusors 5778 
Diffuse injection 5778 
Let analyse why it so 5778 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5778 
Wheel and Deal 5778 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5778 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5778 
I Must Be Missing Something 5778 
I put sliders under my speakers 5777 
ROOM 5776 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5776 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5776 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5776 
No concerns 5776 
Speakers and room 5776 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5775 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5775 
Diaphram 5775 
Phram 5775 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5775 
Perfect piston 5775 
Decorater 5774 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5774 
New morning 5773 
The first take on the room with RTA 5772 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5772 
Axiomatic 5772 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5771 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5771 
The size of the bass. 5771 
Bass Factory 5771 
Crude Level, or something more? 5771 
I will play with it this week…. 5771 
Rent-A 5771 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5771 
Corner horns 5771 
Cheating from below 5771 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5771 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5770 
A possibly overly simplified view 5770 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5770 
Iceberg 5770 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5770 
Why not horn 5770 
A correction…. 5770 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5770 
They are just not related things at all. 5770 
Fertin 5768 
Low resonance is good... 5768 
Et tu, Brute? 5767 
The Room response at LF 5766 
Life On The Ground Floor 5766 
Bass arrays 5766 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5766 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5766 
The super sucks. 5766 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5766 
You may also try 5765 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5765 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5765 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5765 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5765 
60 Hz Resonance 5765 
No notching… so far. 5765 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5764 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5764 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5764 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5764 
Power to the People 5764 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5764 
Aura 5764 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5764 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5764 
All class D is the same 5764 
Interpreting the LF results. 5763 
The Halibut 5763 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5763 
The Big Picture 5763 
Power & ULF channels 5763 
The big picture indeed. 5763 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5763 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5763 
The Power and the Glory 5762 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5762 
I guess I did not get this memo 5762 
French LF drivers 5762 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5762 
(another) French LF approach 5761 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5761 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5761 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5761 
Limpschtick 5761 
Symmetry 5761 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5760 
Room correction 5760 
It migh be more complicated. 5760 
Bass EQ ? 5760 
Agree and not. 5760 
Two "diseases" 5760 
Parametric filters 5760 
Ceiling arrays 5760 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5760 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5760 
The Middle of the Room. 5760 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5760 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5760 
Stop! 5760 
Appendectomy 5760 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5759 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5759 
No Isolation 5759 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5756 
Potential contenders? 5755 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5755 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5755 
Those Crazy Canucks 5751 
Mo' Better Bass 5745 
Bird in the Hand? 5745 
A wet listening spot? 5738 
Storm 5735 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5735 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5721 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5691 
Polar Opposite ULF 5690 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5678 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5676 
Differently but the same. 5675 
PVC 5674 
The sail test try. 5674 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5674 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5674 
Trial 5673 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5673 
Some explanations 5673 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5672 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5671 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5670 
Acrylate 5669 
Magic blanket 5669 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5668 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5668 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5668 
I have a few options. 5668 
Foam color 5668 
Strange things with upperbass 5668 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5667 
Teatro reform. . . 5667 
The foaming room dilemma. 5666 
Melamine Foam 5666 
Foaming up the cat house 5666 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5666 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5666 
Acoustic revisions… 5665 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5662 
Surprises so far in the new room 5661 
The upperbass in the new room. 5661 
Slight change of hart. 5660 
Camco supply of Boston 5658 
Room acoustics 5658 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5617 
I need to kill dust first. 5617 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5615 
To feed the leeches? 5615 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5614 
Yh 5614 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5614 
DPOLs? 5614 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5614 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5611 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5611 
A HalfPipe solution? 5611 
I absolutely love it. 5611 
Piper work 5610 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5610 
Absorption 5610 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5609 
Cats life ? 5609 
Call me Pussy. 5609 
More about traps 5609 
Acoustic impedance? 5609 
You maybe right 5609 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5609 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5608 
Heavy Curtain 5608 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5607 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5607 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5607 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5604 
Fix speaker move chair? 5603 
Back and forth ceremony 5603 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5602 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5601 
Glass windows 5600 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5599 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5598 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5596 
How to use basement jacks? 5596 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5596 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5596 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5595 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5595 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5594 
Sore eyes... 5593 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5593 
The harvesting week! 5591 
I need an inspiration… 5590 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5589 
Like this? 5589 
Dramatically randomize MF 5589 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5588 
The room eats dynamic 5588 
Diffusers 5588 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5587 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5572 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5571 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5571 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5571 
About Width-Importance balance. 5569 
Letting the music scale up 5568 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5568 
To finish my house décor… 5564 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5563 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5562 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5562 
Calling the gods of music 5562 
Absolutely 5562 
Phase manipulation 5562 
No relation. 5562 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5562 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5562 
Dynamical mismatch 5561 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5561 
Stradiwinerius? 5558 
Dealing with the glass. 5557 
Boston 5557 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5557 
Added mass 5557 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5557 
It is about moderation…. 5557 
To hell with the wine... 5557 
Also for other surafaces 5556 
LEAD 5556 
LEAD & GLASS 5556 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5556 
Read carefully 5556 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5556 
Crooks and morons 5556 
Magiscopios 5555 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5535 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5535 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5534 
The LP setup in the new home. 5483 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5478 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5478 
Pianochord will do! 5478 
Spanyi heaven 5478 
I see no conflict at all. 5478 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5478 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5478 
A year after closing 5470 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5470 
Traveling antimatter 5463 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5457 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5456 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5430 
Cast Iron fireplace 5429 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5429 
The hardcore way 5429 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5393 
This is How It's Done 5392 
Listening room during summer. 5380 
What about those... 5379 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5379 
Reducing A/C Noise 5379 
HVAC the Cat 5379 
Big Ass fan 5378 
Variac dimmers 5378 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5378 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5378 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5310 
Some winter observations. 5201 
That Asian man…. 5170 
The Franz Schubert morning 5144 
Spring.... 5093 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5043 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5014 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5014 
Just good photography? 5014 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5014 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5014 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5013 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5013 
Sports car 5013 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5013 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5013 
Train Positioning 5013 
Kind of what I want 5013 
The lap listening… 5013 
Family Room 5013 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5010 
A super audio room. 5006 
Time Warp! 5006 
A piano in a listening room 4985 
Pianissimo 4985 
The plan in blue. 4985 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4985 
My doubts 4985 
It is exactly what I worry. 4984 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4984 
Musicians at home 4984 
Piano Measurements 4983 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4978 
The next step. 4964 
Midbass horns missing?? 4963 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4953 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4953 
Baby Grand 4952 
Wood floor 4952 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4952 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4952 
Amy’s baby. 4950 
Improvement 4950 
Agree with Scott 4950 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4938 
Integrated casters 4938 
Very nice, thanks. 4938 
Customization 4938 
Sliders 4938 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4931 
Congratulations 4931 
Holes in the floor... 4931 
Tubes and kids 4931 
Sweet spot enlargement 4931 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4929 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4928 
Wood Floors and Water 4928 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4923 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4922 
WAF is for Losers 4922 
WAF: it depends. 4922 
Integration 4921 
Here and there. 4921 
Life after WWIII 4921 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4921 
Cables management. 4919 
Featurizing 4919 
Kids and tubes cont. 4916 
Kid magnet 4916 
Kids and audio 4915 
Radars 4915 
Wow, what the days! 4911 
The comming weekend 4907 
It all was worth it! 4904 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4899 
Here is how it is look. 4899 
Resolving the carpet issue 4899 
Bonfire 4899 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4899 
Proof of concept? 4899 
Geometry 4899 
A view from listening position. 4899 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4899 
Some feedback 4899 
Evening 4899 
I wonder why. 4898 
Rugs and things 4898 
In defense… 4898 
I can’t get it. 4895 
Haze. 4894 
Front wall 4894 
It is very possible. 4894 
It is nice to be back. 4891 
My comfy corner. 4888 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4528 
WMD in house. 4350 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4253 
The third listening spot. 4232 
For sure a very different experience. 4194 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4189 
It's Jfretch's system. 4189 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4188 
Domestic games 4142 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4003 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4003 
Dynamic screening 4003 
Actually this is very good idea! 4003 
Volcanic fabric 4003 
I should have done this. 4001 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3997 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3966 
No worries 3966 
Awesome memories 3966 
Optimization of space 3966 
Child-ish considerations 3963 
Finding peace.... 3957 
"Fencing"? 3956 
I need to build something custom 3956 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3956 
Stressed Skin 3956 
NYC elevators 3956 
Kids toys and quantities. 3956 
Everything is completely reversible 3955 
Racks and things 3955 
Now it looks even more promising! 3955 
Quantity of rods 3955 
Avoiding diagonals 3953 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3952 
That's not fair! 3952 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3952 
Discrimination? 3947 
Vertical configuration 3940 
Impresive ! 3869 
Did you read the site? 3869 
Contact 3869 
Company's name is Rixrax 3869 
Stand 3868 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3824 
End of life headphone system 3824 
Something like this? 3824 
The "Second Living Room" 3824 
Mixing urban & suburban 3824 
Late night listening 3824 
Moving life... 3822 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3822 
A true listening room. 3798 
It started… 3783 
Levels of Interest 3783 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3783 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3783 
I can't not to post it.... 3783 
Do not leave him unattended. 3783 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3783 
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