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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5957 
The first take on the new room. 5951 
New Room, a first shot. 5950 
Wonderful 5950 
Adopted 5949 
The first relaxed night with the room 5947 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5946 
The listening room is ready. 5945 
New Room, a First Shot 5943 
Continue to work with the room 5943 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5943 
Room 5942 
I think it will take another month. 5942 
The Buttressing 5942 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5941 
The new place and the new noises. 5941 
Big listening room 5940 
Screw the "big" rooms 5940 
Big listening rooms 5940 
First reflection points 5939 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5939 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5936 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5935 
Squeezing the floor 5935 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5935 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5935 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5934 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5934 
The new room, the very first listening. 5934 
The 14.5 foot. 5933 
Again… 5932 
Romy's new Playground 5932 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5932 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5932 
For the uninitiated ... 5931 
NH guy 5931 
Room 5931 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5930 
The first base is done 5930 
Reentry time alignment. 5929 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5928 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5928 
Mid bass horn. 5928 
Guess is only a guess… 5928 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5928 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5927 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5927 
Diffusors 5927 
Diffuse injection 5927 
Let analyse why it so 5927 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5927 
Wheel and Deal 5927 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5927 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5927 
I Must Be Missing Something 5927 
I put sliders under my speakers 5926 
ROOM 5925 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5925 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5925 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5925 
No concerns 5925 
Speakers and room 5925 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5924 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5924 
Diaphram 5924 
Phram 5924 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5924 
Perfect piston 5924 
Decorater 5923 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5923 
New morning 5922 
The first take on the room with RTA 5921 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5921 
Axiomatic 5921 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5920 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5920 
The size of the bass. 5920 
Bass Factory 5920 
Crude Level, or something more? 5920 
I will play with it this week…. 5920 
Rent-A 5920 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5920 
Corner horns 5920 
Cheating from below 5920 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5920 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5919 
A possibly overly simplified view 5919 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5919 
Iceberg 5919 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5919 
Why not horn 5919 
A correction…. 5919 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5919 
They are just not related things at all. 5919 
Fertin 5917 
Low resonance is good... 5917 
Et tu, Brute? 5916 
The Room response at LF 5915 
Life On The Ground Floor 5915 
Bass arrays 5915 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5915 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5915 
The super sucks. 5915 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5915 
You may also try 5914 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5914 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5914 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5914 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5914 
60 Hz Resonance 5914 
No notching… so far. 5914 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5913 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5913 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5913 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5913 
Power to the People 5913 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5913 
Aura 5913 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5913 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5913 
All class D is the same 5913 
Interpreting the LF results. 5912 
The Halibut 5912 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5912 
The Big Picture 5912 
Power & ULF channels 5912 
The big picture indeed. 5912 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5912 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5912 
The Power and the Glory 5911 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5911 
I guess I did not get this memo 5911 
French LF drivers 5911 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5911 
(another) French LF approach 5910 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5910 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5910 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5910 
Limpschtick 5910 
Symmetry 5910 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5909 
Room correction 5909 
It migh be more complicated. 5909 
Bass EQ ? 5909 
Agree and not. 5909 
Two "diseases" 5909 
Parametric filters 5909 
Ceiling arrays 5909 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5909 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5909 
The Middle of the Room. 5909 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5909 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5909 
Stop! 5909 
Appendectomy 5909 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5908 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5908 
No Isolation 5908 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5905 
Potential contenders? 5904 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5904 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5904 
Those Crazy Canucks 5900 
Mo' Better Bass 5894 
Bird in the Hand? 5894 
A wet listening spot? 5887 
Storm 5884 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5884 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5870 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5840 
Polar Opposite ULF 5839 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5827 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5825 
Differently but the same. 5824 
PVC 5823 
The sail test try. 5823 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5823 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5823 
Trial 5822 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5822 
Some explanations 5822 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5821 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5820 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5819 
Acrylate 5818 
Magic blanket 5818 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5817 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5817 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5817 
I have a few options. 5817 
Foam color 5817 
Strange things with upperbass 5817 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5816 
Teatro reform. . . 5816 
The foaming room dilemma. 5815 
Melamine Foam 5815 
Foaming up the cat house 5815 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5815 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5815 
Acoustic revisions… 5814 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5811 
Surprises so far in the new room 5810 
The upperbass in the new room. 5810 
Slight change of hart. 5809 
Camco supply of Boston 5807 
Room acoustics 5807 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5766 
I need to kill dust first. 5766 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5764 
To feed the leeches? 5764 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5763 
Yh 5763 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5763 
DPOLs? 5763 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5763 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5760 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5760 
A HalfPipe solution? 5760 
I absolutely love it. 5760 
Piper work 5759 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5759 
Absorption 5759 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5758 
Cats life ? 5758 
Call me Pussy. 5758 
More about traps 5758 
Acoustic impedance? 5758 
You maybe right 5758 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5758 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5757 
Heavy Curtain 5757 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5756 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5756 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5756 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5753 
Fix speaker move chair? 5752 
Back and forth ceremony 5752 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5751 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5750 
Glass windows 5749 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5748 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5747 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5745 
How to use basement jacks? 5745 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5745 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5745 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5744 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5744 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5743 
Sore eyes... 5742 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5742 
The harvesting week! 5740 
I need an inspiration… 5739 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5738 
Like this? 5738 
Dramatically randomize MF 5738 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5737 
The room eats dynamic 5737 
Diffusers 5737 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5736 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5721 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5720 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5720 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5720 
About Width-Importance balance. 5718 
Letting the music scale up 5717 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5717 
To finish my house décor… 5713 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5712 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5711 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5711 
Calling the gods of music 5711 
Absolutely 5711 
Phase manipulation 5711 
No relation. 5711 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5711 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5711 
Dynamical mismatch 5710 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5710 
Stradiwinerius? 5707 
Dealing with the glass. 5706 
Boston 5706 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5706 
Added mass 5706 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5706 
It is about moderation…. 5706 
To hell with the wine... 5706 
Also for other surafaces 5705 
LEAD 5705 
LEAD & GLASS 5705 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5705 
Read carefully 5705 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5705 
Crooks and morons 5705 
Magiscopios 5704 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5684 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5684 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5683 
The LP setup in the new home. 5632 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5627 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5627 
Pianochord will do! 5627 
Spanyi heaven 5627 
I see no conflict at all. 5627 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5627 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5627 
A year after closing 5619 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5619 
Traveling antimatter 5612 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5606 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5605 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5579 
Cast Iron fireplace 5578 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5578 
The hardcore way 5578 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5542 
This is How It's Done 5541 
Listening room during summer. 5529 
What about those... 5528 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5528 
Reducing A/C Noise 5528 
HVAC the Cat 5528 
Big Ass fan 5527 
Variac dimmers 5527 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5527 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5527 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5459 
Some winter observations. 5350 
That Asian man…. 5319 
The Franz Schubert morning 5293 
Spring.... 5242 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5192 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5163 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5163 
Just good photography? 5163 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5163 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5163 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5162 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5162 
Sports car 5162 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5162 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5162 
Train Positioning 5162 
Kind of what I want 5162 
The lap listening… 5162 
Family Room 5162 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5159 
A super audio room. 5155 
Time Warp! 5155 
A piano in a listening room 5134 
Pianissimo 5134 
The plan in blue. 5134 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5134 
My doubts 5134 
It is exactly what I worry. 5133 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5133 
Musicians at home 5133 
Piano Measurements 5132 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5127 
The next step. 5113 
Midbass horns missing?? 5112 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5102 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5102 
Baby Grand 5101 
Wood floor 5101 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5101 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5101 
Amy’s baby. 5099 
Improvement 5099 
Agree with Scott 5099 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5087 
Integrated casters 5087 
Very nice, thanks. 5087 
Customization 5087 
Sliders 5087 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5080 
Congratulations 5080 
Holes in the floor... 5080 
Tubes and kids 5080 
Sweet spot enlargement 5080 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5078 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5077 
Wood Floors and Water 5077 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5072 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5071 
WAF is for Losers 5071 
WAF: it depends. 5071 
Integration 5070 
Here and there. 5070 
Life after WWIII 5070 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5070 
Cables management. 5068 
Featurizing 5068 
Kids and tubes cont. 5065 
Kid magnet 5065 
Kids and audio 5064 
Radars 5064 
Wow, what the days! 5060 
The comming weekend 5056 
It all was worth it! 5053 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5048 
Here is how it is look. 5048 
Resolving the carpet issue 5048 
Bonfire 5048 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5048 
Proof of concept? 5048 
Geometry 5048 
A view from listening position. 5048 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5048 
Some feedback 5048 
Evening 5048 
I wonder why. 5047 
Rugs and things 5047 
In defense… 5047 
I can’t get it. 5044 
Haze. 5043 
Front wall 5043 
It is very possible. 5043 
It is nice to be back. 5040 
My comfy corner. 5037 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4677 
WMD in house. 4499 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4402 
The third listening spot. 4381 
For sure a very different experience. 4343 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4338 
It's Jfretch's system. 4338 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4337 
Domestic games 4291 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4152 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4152 
Dynamic screening 4152 
Actually this is very good idea! 4152 
Volcanic fabric 4152 
I should have done this. 4150 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4146 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4115 
No worries 4115 
Awesome memories 4115 
Optimization of space 4115 
Child-ish considerations 4112 
Finding peace.... 4106 
"Fencing"? 4105 
I need to build something custom 4105 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4105 
Stressed Skin 4105 
NYC elevators 4105 
Kids toys and quantities. 4105 
Everything is completely reversible 4104 
Racks and things 4104 
Now it looks even more promising! 4104 
Quantity of rods 4104 
Avoiding diagonals 4102 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4101 
That's not fair! 4101 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4101 
Discrimination? 4096 
Vertical configuration 4089 
Impresive ! 4018 
Did you read the site? 4018 
Contact 4018 
Company's name is Rixrax 4018 
Stand 4017 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3973 
End of life headphone system 3973 
Something like this? 3973 
The "Second Living Room" 3973 
Mixing urban & suburban 3973 
Late night listening 3973 
Moving life... 3971 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3971 
A true listening room. 3947 
It started… 3932 
Levels of Interest 3932 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3932 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3932 
I can't not to post it.... 3932 
Do not leave him unattended. 3932 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3932 
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