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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5879 
The first take on the new room. 5873 
New Room, a first shot. 5872 
Wonderful 5872 
Adopted 5871 
The first relaxed night with the room 5869 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5868 
The listening room is ready. 5867 
New Room, a First Shot 5865 
Continue to work with the room 5865 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5865 
Room 5864 
I think it will take another month. 5864 
The Buttressing 5864 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5863 
The new place and the new noises. 5863 
Big listening room 5862 
Screw the "big" rooms 5862 
Big listening rooms 5862 
First reflection points 5861 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5861 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5858 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5857 
Squeezing the floor 5857 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5857 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5857 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5856 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5856 
The new room, the very first listening. 5856 
The 14.5 foot. 5855 
Again… 5854 
Romy's new Playground 5854 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5854 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5854 
For the uninitiated ... 5853 
NH guy 5853 
Room 5853 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5852 
The first base is done 5852 
Reentry time alignment. 5851 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5850 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5850 
Mid bass horn. 5850 
Guess is only a guess… 5850 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5850 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5849 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5849 
Diffusors 5849 
Diffuse injection 5849 
Let analyse why it so 5849 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5849 
Wheel and Deal 5849 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5849 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5849 
I Must Be Missing Something 5849 
I put sliders under my speakers 5848 
ROOM 5847 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5847 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5847 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5847 
No concerns 5847 
Speakers and room 5847 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5846 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5846 
Diaphram 5846 
Phram 5846 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5846 
Perfect piston 5846 
Decorater 5845 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5845 
New morning 5844 
The first take on the room with RTA 5843 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5843 
Axiomatic 5843 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5842 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5842 
The size of the bass. 5842 
Bass Factory 5842 
Crude Level, or something more? 5842 
I will play with it this week…. 5842 
Rent-A 5842 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5842 
Corner horns 5842 
Cheating from below 5842 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5842 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5841 
A possibly overly simplified view 5841 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5841 
Iceberg 5841 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5841 
Why not horn 5841 
A correction…. 5841 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5841 
They are just not related things at all. 5841 
Fertin 5839 
Low resonance is good... 5839 
Et tu, Brute? 5838 
The Room response at LF 5837 
Life On The Ground Floor 5837 
Bass arrays 5837 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5837 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5837 
The super sucks. 5837 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5837 
You may also try 5836 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5836 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5836 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5836 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5836 
60 Hz Resonance 5836 
No notching… so far. 5836 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5835 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5835 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5835 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5835 
Power to the People 5835 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5835 
Aura 5835 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5835 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5835 
All class D is the same 5835 
Interpreting the LF results. 5834 
The Halibut 5834 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5834 
The Big Picture 5834 
Power & ULF channels 5834 
The big picture indeed. 5834 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5834 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5834 
The Power and the Glory 5833 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5833 
I guess I did not get this memo 5833 
French LF drivers 5833 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5833 
(another) French LF approach 5832 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5832 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5832 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5832 
Limpschtick 5832 
Symmetry 5832 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5831 
Room correction 5831 
It migh be more complicated. 5831 
Bass EQ ? 5831 
Agree and not. 5831 
Two "diseases" 5831 
Parametric filters 5831 
Ceiling arrays 5831 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5831 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5831 
The Middle of the Room. 5831 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5831 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5831 
Stop! 5831 
Appendectomy 5831 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5830 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5830 
No Isolation 5830 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5827 
Potential contenders? 5826 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5826 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5826 
Those Crazy Canucks 5822 
Mo' Better Bass 5816 
Bird in the Hand? 5816 
A wet listening spot? 5809 
Storm 5806 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5806 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5792 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5762 
Polar Opposite ULF 5761 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5749 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5747 
Differently but the same. 5746 
PVC 5745 
The sail test try. 5745 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5745 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5745 
Trial 5744 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5744 
Some explanations 5744 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5743 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5742 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5741 
Acrylate 5740 
Magic blanket 5740 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5739 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5739 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5739 
I have a few options. 5739 
Foam color 5739 
Strange things with upperbass 5739 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5738 
Teatro reform. . . 5738 
The foaming room dilemma. 5737 
Melamine Foam 5737 
Foaming up the cat house 5737 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5737 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5737 
Acoustic revisions… 5736 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5733 
Surprises so far in the new room 5732 
The upperbass in the new room. 5732 
Slight change of hart. 5731 
Camco supply of Boston 5729 
Room acoustics 5729 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5688 
I need to kill dust first. 5688 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5686 
To feed the leeches? 5686 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5685 
Yh 5685 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5685 
DPOLs? 5685 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5685 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5682 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5682 
A HalfPipe solution? 5682 
I absolutely love it. 5682 
Piper work 5681 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5681 
Absorption 5681 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5680 
Cats life ? 5680 
Call me Pussy. 5680 
More about traps 5680 
Acoustic impedance? 5680 
You maybe right 5680 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5680 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5679 
Heavy Curtain 5679 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5678 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5678 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5678 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5675 
Fix speaker move chair? 5674 
Back and forth ceremony 5674 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5673 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5672 
Glass windows 5671 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5670 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5669 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5667 
How to use basement jacks? 5667 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5667 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5667 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5666 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5666 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5665 
Sore eyes... 5664 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5664 
The harvesting week! 5662 
I need an inspiration… 5661 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5660 
Like this? 5660 
Dramatically randomize MF 5660 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5659 
The room eats dynamic 5659 
Diffusers 5659 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5658 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5643 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5642 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5642 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5642 
About Width-Importance balance. 5640 
Letting the music scale up 5639 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5639 
To finish my house décor… 5635 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5634 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5633 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5633 
Calling the gods of music 5633 
Absolutely 5633 
Phase manipulation 5633 
No relation. 5633 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5633 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5633 
Dynamical mismatch 5632 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5632 
Stradiwinerius? 5629 
Dealing with the glass. 5628 
Boston 5628 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5628 
Added mass 5628 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5628 
It is about moderation…. 5628 
To hell with the wine... 5628 
Also for other surafaces 5627 
LEAD 5627 
LEAD & GLASS 5627 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5627 
Read carefully 5627 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5627 
Crooks and morons 5627 
Magiscopios 5626 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5606 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5606 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5605 
The LP setup in the new home. 5554 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5549 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5549 
Pianochord will do! 5549 
Spanyi heaven 5549 
I see no conflict at all. 5549 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5549 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5549 
A year after closing 5541 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5541 
Traveling antimatter 5534 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5528 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5527 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5501 
Cast Iron fireplace 5500 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5500 
The hardcore way 5500 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5464 
This is How It's Done 5463 
Listening room during summer. 5451 
What about those... 5450 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5450 
Reducing A/C Noise 5450 
HVAC the Cat 5450 
Big Ass fan 5449 
Variac dimmers 5449 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5449 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5449 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5381 
Some winter observations. 5272 
That Asian man…. 5241 
The Franz Schubert morning 5215 
Spring.... 5164 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5114 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5085 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5085 
Just good photography? 5085 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5085 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5085 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5084 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5084 
Sports car 5084 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5084 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5084 
Train Positioning 5084 
Kind of what I want 5084 
The lap listening… 5084 
Family Room 5084 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5081 
A super audio room. 5077 
Time Warp! 5077 
A piano in a listening room 5056 
Pianissimo 5056 
The plan in blue. 5056 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5056 
My doubts 5056 
It is exactly what I worry. 5055 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5055 
Musicians at home 5055 
Piano Measurements 5054 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5049 
The next step. 5035 
Midbass horns missing?? 5034 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5024 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5024 
Baby Grand 5023 
Wood floor 5023 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5023 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5023 
Amy’s baby. 5021 
Improvement 5021 
Agree with Scott 5021 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5009 
Integrated casters 5009 
Very nice, thanks. 5009 
Customization 5009 
Sliders 5009 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5002 
Congratulations 5002 
Holes in the floor... 5002 
Tubes and kids 5002 
Sweet spot enlargement 5002 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5000 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4999 
Wood Floors and Water 4999 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4994 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4993 
WAF is for Losers 4993 
WAF: it depends. 4993 
Integration 4992 
Here and there. 4992 
Life after WWIII 4992 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4992 
Cables management. 4990 
Featurizing 4990 
Kids and tubes cont. 4987 
Kid magnet 4987 
Kids and audio 4986 
Radars 4986 
Wow, what the days! 4982 
The comming weekend 4978 
It all was worth it! 4975 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4970 
Here is how it is look. 4970 
Resolving the carpet issue 4970 
Bonfire 4970 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4970 
Proof of concept? 4970 
Geometry 4970 
A view from listening position. 4970 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4970 
Some feedback 4970 
Evening 4970 
I wonder why. 4969 
Rugs and things 4969 
In defense… 4969 
I can’t get it. 4966 
Haze. 4965 
Front wall 4965 
It is very possible. 4965 
It is nice to be back. 4962 
My comfy corner. 4959 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4599 
WMD in house. 4421 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4324 
The third listening spot. 4303 
For sure a very different experience. 4265 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4260 
It's Jfretch's system. 4260 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4259 
Domestic games 4213 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4074 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4074 
Dynamic screening 4074 
Actually this is very good idea! 4074 
Volcanic fabric 4074 
I should have done this. 4072 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4068 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4037 
No worries 4037 
Awesome memories 4037 
Optimization of space 4037 
Child-ish considerations 4034 
Finding peace.... 4028 
"Fencing"? 4027 
I need to build something custom 4027 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4027 
Stressed Skin 4027 
NYC elevators 4027 
Kids toys and quantities. 4027 
Everything is completely reversible 4026 
Racks and things 4026 
Now it looks even more promising! 4026 
Quantity of rods 4026 
Avoiding diagonals 4024 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4023 
That's not fair! 4023 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4023 
Discrimination? 4018 
Vertical configuration 4011 
Impresive ! 3940 
Did you read the site? 3940 
Contact 3940 
Company's name is Rixrax 3940 
Stand 3939 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3895 
End of life headphone system 3895 
Something like this? 3895 
The "Second Living Room" 3895 
Mixing urban & suburban 3895 
Late night listening 3895 
Moving life... 3893 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3893 
A true listening room. 3869 
It started… 3854 
Levels of Interest 3854 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3854 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3854 
I can't not to post it.... 3854 
Do not leave him unattended. 3854 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3854 
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