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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5794 
The first take on the new room. 5788 
New Room, a first shot. 5787 
Wonderful 5787 
Adopted 5786 
The first relaxed night with the room 5784 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5783 
The listening room is ready. 5782 
New Room, a First Shot 5780 
Continue to work with the room 5780 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5780 
Room 5779 
I think it will take another month. 5779 
The Buttressing 5779 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5778 
The new place and the new noises. 5778 
Big listening room 5777 
Screw the "big" rooms 5777 
Big listening rooms 5777 
First reflection points 5776 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5776 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5773 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5772 
Squeezing the floor 5772 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5772 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5772 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5771 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5771 
The new room, the very first listening. 5771 
The 14.5 foot. 5770 
Again… 5769 
Romy's new Playground 5769 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5769 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5769 
For the uninitiated ... 5768 
NH guy 5768 
Room 5768 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5767 
The first base is done 5767 
Reentry time alignment. 5766 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5765 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5765 
Mid bass horn. 5765 
Guess is only a guess… 5765 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5765 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5764 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5764 
Diffusors 5764 
Diffuse injection 5764 
Let analyse why it so 5764 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5764 
Wheel and Deal 5764 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5764 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5764 
I Must Be Missing Something 5764 
I put sliders under my speakers 5763 
ROOM 5762 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5762 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5762 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5762 
No concerns 5762 
Speakers and room 5762 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5761 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5761 
Diaphram 5761 
Phram 5761 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5761 
Perfect piston 5761 
Decorater 5760 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5760 
New morning 5759 
The first take on the room with RTA 5758 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5758 
Axiomatic 5758 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5757 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5757 
The size of the bass. 5757 
Bass Factory 5757 
Crude Level, or something more? 5757 
I will play with it this week…. 5757 
Rent-A 5757 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5757 
Corner horns 5757 
Cheating from below 5757 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5757 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5756 
A possibly overly simplified view 5756 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5756 
Iceberg 5756 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5756 
Why not horn 5756 
A correction…. 5756 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5756 
They are just not related things at all. 5756 
Fertin 5754 
Low resonance is good... 5754 
Et tu, Brute? 5753 
The Room response at LF 5752 
Life On The Ground Floor 5752 
Bass arrays 5752 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5752 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5752 
The super sucks. 5752 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5752 
You may also try 5751 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5751 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5751 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5751 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5751 
60 Hz Resonance 5751 
No notching… so far. 5751 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5750 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5750 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5750 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5750 
Power to the People 5750 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5750 
Aura 5750 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5750 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5750 
All class D is the same 5750 
Interpreting the LF results. 5749 
The Halibut 5749 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5749 
The Big Picture 5749 
Power & ULF channels 5749 
The big picture indeed. 5749 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5749 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5749 
The Power and the Glory 5748 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5748 
I guess I did not get this memo 5748 
French LF drivers 5748 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5748 
(another) French LF approach 5747 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5747 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5747 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5747 
Limpschtick 5747 
Symmetry 5747 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5746 
Room correction 5746 
It migh be more complicated. 5746 
Bass EQ ? 5746 
Agree and not. 5746 
Two "diseases" 5746 
Parametric filters 5746 
Ceiling arrays 5746 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5746 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5746 
The Middle of the Room. 5746 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5746 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5746 
Stop! 5746 
Appendectomy 5746 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5745 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5745 
No Isolation 5745 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5742 
Potential contenders? 5741 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5741 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5741 
Those Crazy Canucks 5737 
Mo' Better Bass 5731 
Bird in the Hand? 5731 
A wet listening spot? 5724 
Storm 5721 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5721 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5707 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5677 
Polar Opposite ULF 5676 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5664 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5662 
Differently but the same. 5661 
PVC 5660 
The sail test try. 5660 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5660 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5660 
Trial 5659 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5659 
Some explanations 5659 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5658 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5657 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5656 
Acrylate 5655 
Magic blanket 5655 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5654 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5654 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5654 
I have a few options. 5654 
Foam color 5654 
Strange things with upperbass 5654 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5653 
Teatro reform. . . 5653 
The foaming room dilemma. 5652 
Melamine Foam 5652 
Foaming up the cat house 5652 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5652 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5652 
Acoustic revisions… 5651 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5648 
Surprises so far in the new room 5647 
The upperbass in the new room. 5647 
Slight change of hart. 5646 
Camco supply of Boston 5644 
Room acoustics 5644 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5603 
I need to kill dust first. 5603 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5601 
To feed the leeches? 5601 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5600 
Yh 5600 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5600 
DPOLs? 5600 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5600 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5597 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5597 
A HalfPipe solution? 5597 
I absolutely love it. 5597 
Piper work 5596 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5596 
Absorption 5596 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5595 
Cats life ? 5595 
Call me Pussy. 5595 
More about traps 5595 
Acoustic impedance? 5595 
You maybe right 5595 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5595 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5594 
Heavy Curtain 5594 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5593 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5593 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5593 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5590 
Fix speaker move chair? 5589 
Back and forth ceremony 5589 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5588 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5587 
Glass windows 5586 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5585 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5584 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5582 
How to use basement jacks? 5582 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5582 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5582 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5581 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5581 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5580 
Sore eyes... 5579 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5579 
The harvesting week! 5577 
I need an inspiration… 5576 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5575 
Like this? 5575 
Dramatically randomize MF 5575 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5574 
The room eats dynamic 5574 
Diffusers 5574 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5573 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5558 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5557 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5557 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5557 
About Width-Importance balance. 5555 
Letting the music scale up 5554 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5554 
To finish my house décor… 5550 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5549 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5548 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5548 
Calling the gods of music 5548 
Absolutely 5548 
Phase manipulation 5548 
No relation. 5548 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5548 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5548 
Dynamical mismatch 5547 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5547 
Stradiwinerius? 5544 
Dealing with the glass. 5543 
Boston 5543 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5543 
Added mass 5543 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5543 
It is about moderation…. 5543 
To hell with the wine... 5543 
Also for other surafaces 5542 
LEAD 5542 
LEAD & GLASS 5542 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5542 
Read carefully 5542 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5542 
Crooks and morons 5542 
Magiscopios 5541 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5521 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5521 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5520 
The LP setup in the new home. 5469 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5464 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5464 
Pianochord will do! 5464 
Spanyi heaven 5464 
I see no conflict at all. 5464 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5464 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5464 
A year after closing 5456 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5456 
Traveling antimatter 5449 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5443 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5442 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5416 
Cast Iron fireplace 5415 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5415 
The hardcore way 5415 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5379 
This is How It's Done 5378 
Listening room during summer. 5366 
What about those... 5365 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5365 
Reducing A/C Noise 5365 
HVAC the Cat 5365 
Big Ass fan 5364 
Variac dimmers 5364 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5364 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5364 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5296 
Some winter observations. 5187 
That Asian man…. 5156 
The Franz Schubert morning 5130 
Spring.... 5079 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5029 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5000 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5000 
Just good photography? 5000 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5000 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5000 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4999 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4999 
Sports car 4999 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4999 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4999 
Train Positioning 4999 
Kind of what I want 4999 
The lap listening… 4999 
Family Room 4999 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4996 
A super audio room. 4992 
Time Warp! 4992 
A piano in a listening room 4971 
Pianissimo 4971 
The plan in blue. 4971 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4971 
My doubts 4971 
It is exactly what I worry. 4970 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4970 
Musicians at home 4970 
Piano Measurements 4969 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4964 
The next step. 4950 
Midbass horns missing?? 4949 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4939 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4939 
Baby Grand 4938 
Wood floor 4938 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4938 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4938 
Amy’s baby. 4936 
Improvement 4936 
Agree with Scott 4936 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4924 
Integrated casters 4924 
Very nice, thanks. 4924 
Customization 4924 
Sliders 4924 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4917 
Congratulations 4917 
Holes in the floor... 4917 
Tubes and kids 4917 
Sweet spot enlargement 4917 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4915 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4914 
Wood Floors and Water 4914 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4909 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4908 
WAF is for Losers 4908 
WAF: it depends. 4908 
Integration 4907 
Here and there. 4907 
Life after WWIII 4907 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4907 
Cables management. 4905 
Featurizing 4905 
Kids and tubes cont. 4902 
Kid magnet 4902 
Kids and audio 4901 
Radars 4901 
Wow, what the days! 4897 
The comming weekend 4893 
It all was worth it! 4890 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4885 
Here is how it is look. 4885 
Resolving the carpet issue 4885 
Bonfire 4885 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4885 
Proof of concept? 4885 
Geometry 4885 
A view from listening position. 4885 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4885 
Some feedback 4885 
Evening 4885 
I wonder why. 4884 
Rugs and things 4884 
In defense… 4884 
I can’t get it. 4881 
Haze. 4880 
Front wall 4880 
It is very possible. 4880 
It is nice to be back. 4877 
My comfy corner. 4874 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4514 
WMD in house. 4336 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4239 
The third listening spot. 4218 
For sure a very different experience. 4180 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4175 
It's Jfretch's system. 4175 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4174 
Domestic games 4128 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3989 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3989 
Dynamic screening 3989 
Actually this is very good idea! 3989 
Volcanic fabric 3989 
I should have done this. 3987 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3983 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3952 
No worries 3952 
Awesome memories 3952 
Optimization of space 3952 
Child-ish considerations 3949 
Finding peace.... 3943 
"Fencing"? 3942 
I need to build something custom 3942 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3942 
Stressed Skin 3942 
NYC elevators 3942 
Kids toys and quantities. 3942 
Everything is completely reversible 3941 
Racks and things 3941 
Now it looks even more promising! 3941 
Quantity of rods 3941 
Avoiding diagonals 3939 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3938 
That's not fair! 3938 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3938 
Discrimination? 3933 
Vertical configuration 3926 
Impresive ! 3855 
Did you read the site? 3855 
Contact 3855 
Company's name is Rixrax 3855 
Stand 3854 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3810 
End of life headphone system 3810 
Something like this? 3810 
The "Second Living Room" 3810 
Mixing urban & suburban 3810 
Late night listening 3810 
Moving life... 3808 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3808 
A true listening room. 3784 
It started… 3769 
Levels of Interest 3769 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3769 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3769 
I can't not to post it.... 3769 
Do not leave him unattended. 3769 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3769 
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