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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5739 
The first take on the new room. 5733 
New Room, a first shot. 5732 
Wonderful 5732 
Adopted 5731 
The first relaxed night with the room 5729 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5728 
The listening room is ready. 5727 
New Room, a First Shot 5725 
Continue to work with the room 5725 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5725 
Room 5724 
I think it will take another month. 5724 
The Buttressing 5724 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5723 
The new place and the new noises. 5723 
Big listening room 5722 
Screw the "big" rooms 5722 
Big listening rooms 5722 
First reflection points 5721 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5721 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5718 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5717 
Squeezing the floor 5717 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5717 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5717 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5716 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5716 
The new room, the very first listening. 5716 
The 14.5 foot. 5715 
Again… 5714 
Romy's new Playground 5714 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5714 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5714 
For the uninitiated ... 5713 
NH guy 5713 
Room 5713 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5712 
The first base is done 5712 
Reentry time alignment. 5711 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5710 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5710 
Mid bass horn. 5710 
Guess is only a guess… 5710 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5710 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5709 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5709 
Diffusors 5709 
Diffuse injection 5709 
Let analyse why it so 5709 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5709 
Wheel and Deal 5709 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5709 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5709 
I Must Be Missing Something 5709 
I put sliders under my speakers 5708 
ROOM 5707 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5707 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5707 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5707 
No concerns 5707 
Speakers and room 5707 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5706 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5706 
Diaphram 5706 
Phram 5706 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5706 
Perfect piston 5706 
Decorater 5705 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5705 
New morning 5704 
The first take on the room with RTA 5703 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5703 
Axiomatic 5703 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5702 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5702 
The size of the bass. 5702 
Bass Factory 5702 
Crude Level, or something more? 5702 
I will play with it this week…. 5702 
Rent-A 5702 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5702 
Corner horns 5702 
Cheating from below 5702 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5702 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5701 
A possibly overly simplified view 5701 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5701 
Iceberg 5701 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5701 
Why not horn 5701 
A correction…. 5701 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5701 
They are just not related things at all. 5701 
Fertin 5699 
Low resonance is good... 5699 
Et tu, Brute? 5698 
The Room response at LF 5697 
Life On The Ground Floor 5697 
Bass arrays 5697 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5697 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5697 
The super sucks. 5697 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5697 
You may also try 5696 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5696 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5696 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5696 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5696 
60 Hz Resonance 5696 
No notching… so far. 5696 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5695 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5695 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5695 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5695 
Power to the People 5695 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5695 
Aura 5695 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5695 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5695 
All class D is the same 5695 
Interpreting the LF results. 5694 
The Halibut 5694 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5694 
The Big Picture 5694 
Power & ULF channels 5694 
The big picture indeed. 5694 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5694 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5694 
The Power and the Glory 5693 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5693 
I guess I did not get this memo 5693 
French LF drivers 5693 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5693 
(another) French LF approach 5692 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5692 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5692 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5692 
Limpschtick 5692 
Symmetry 5692 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5691 
Room correction 5691 
It migh be more complicated. 5691 
Bass EQ ? 5691 
Agree and not. 5691 
Two "diseases" 5691 
Parametric filters 5691 
Ceiling arrays 5691 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5691 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5691 
The Middle of the Room. 5691 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5691 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5691 
Stop! 5691 
Appendectomy 5691 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5690 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5690 
No Isolation 5690 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5687 
Potential contenders? 5686 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5686 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5686 
Those Crazy Canucks 5682 
Mo' Better Bass 5676 
Bird in the Hand? 5676 
A wet listening spot? 5669 
Storm 5666 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5666 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5652 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5622 
Polar Opposite ULF 5621 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5609 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5607 
Differently but the same. 5606 
PVC 5605 
The sail test try. 5605 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5605 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5605 
Trial 5604 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5604 
Some explanations 5604 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5603 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5602 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5601 
Acrylate 5600 
Magic blanket 5600 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5599 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5599 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5599 
I have a few options. 5599 
Foam color 5599 
Strange things with upperbass 5599 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5598 
Teatro reform. . . 5598 
The foaming room dilemma. 5597 
Melamine Foam 5597 
Foaming up the cat house 5597 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5597 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5597 
Acoustic revisions… 5596 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5593 
Surprises so far in the new room 5592 
The upperbass in the new room. 5592 
Slight change of hart. 5591 
Camco supply of Boston 5589 
Room acoustics 5589 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5548 
I need to kill dust first. 5548 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5546 
To feed the leeches? 5546 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5545 
Yh 5545 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5545 
DPOLs? 5545 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5545 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5542 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5542 
A HalfPipe solution? 5542 
I absolutely love it. 5542 
Piper work 5541 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5541 
Absorption 5541 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5540 
Cats life ? 5540 
Call me Pussy. 5540 
More about traps 5540 
Acoustic impedance? 5540 
You maybe right 5540 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5540 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5539 
Heavy Curtain 5539 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5538 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5538 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5538 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5535 
Fix speaker move chair? 5534 
Back and forth ceremony 5534 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5533 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5532 
Glass windows 5531 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5530 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5529 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5527 
How to use basement jacks? 5527 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5527 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5527 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5526 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5526 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5525 
Sore eyes... 5524 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5524 
The harvesting week! 5522 
I need an inspiration… 5521 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5520 
Like this? 5520 
Dramatically randomize MF 5520 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5519 
The room eats dynamic 5519 
Diffusers 5519 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5518 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5503 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5502 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5502 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5502 
About Width-Importance balance. 5500 
Letting the music scale up 5499 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5499 
To finish my house décor… 5495 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5494 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5493 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5493 
Calling the gods of music 5493 
Absolutely 5493 
Phase manipulation 5493 
No relation. 5493 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5493 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5493 
Dynamical mismatch 5492 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5492 
Stradiwinerius? 5489 
Dealing with the glass. 5488 
Boston 5488 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5488 
Added mass 5488 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5488 
It is about moderation…. 5488 
To hell with the wine... 5488 
Also for other surafaces 5487 
LEAD 5487 
LEAD & GLASS 5487 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5487 
Read carefully 5487 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5487 
Crooks and morons 5487 
Magiscopios 5486 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5466 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5466 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5465 
The LP setup in the new home. 5414 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5409 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5409 
Pianochord will do! 5409 
Spanyi heaven 5409 
I see no conflict at all. 5409 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5409 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5409 
A year after closing 5401 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5401 
Traveling antimatter 5394 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5388 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5387 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5361 
Cast Iron fireplace 5360 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5360 
The hardcore way 5360 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5324 
This is How It's Done 5323 
Listening room during summer. 5311 
What about those... 5310 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5310 
Reducing A/C Noise 5310 
HVAC the Cat 5310 
Big Ass fan 5309 
Variac dimmers 5309 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5309 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5309 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5241 
Some winter observations. 5132 
That Asian man…. 5101 
The Franz Schubert morning 5075 
Spring.... 5024 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4974 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4945 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4945 
Just good photography? 4945 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4945 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4945 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4944 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4944 
Sports car 4944 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4944 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4944 
Train Positioning 4944 
Kind of what I want 4944 
The lap listening… 4944 
Family Room 4944 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4941 
A super audio room. 4937 
Time Warp! 4937 
A piano in a listening room 4916 
Pianissimo 4916 
The plan in blue. 4916 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4916 
My doubts 4916 
It is exactly what I worry. 4915 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4915 
Musicians at home 4915 
Piano Measurements 4914 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4909 
The next step. 4895 
Midbass horns missing?? 4894 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4884 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4884 
Baby Grand 4883 
Wood floor 4883 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4883 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4883 
Amy’s baby. 4881 
Improvement 4881 
Agree with Scott 4881 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4869 
Integrated casters 4869 
Very nice, thanks. 4869 
Customization 4869 
Sliders 4869 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4862 
Congratulations 4862 
Holes in the floor... 4862 
Tubes and kids 4862 
Sweet spot enlargement 4862 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4860 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4859 
Wood Floors and Water 4859 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4854 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4853 
WAF is for Losers 4853 
WAF: it depends. 4853 
Integration 4852 
Here and there. 4852 
Life after WWIII 4852 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4852 
Cables management. 4850 
Featurizing 4850 
Kids and tubes cont. 4847 
Kid magnet 4847 
Kids and audio 4846 
Radars 4846 
Wow, what the days! 4842 
The comming weekend 4838 
It all was worth it! 4835 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4830 
Here is how it is look. 4830 
Resolving the carpet issue 4830 
Bonfire 4830 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4830 
Proof of concept? 4830 
Geometry 4830 
A view from listening position. 4830 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4830 
Some feedback 4830 
Evening 4830 
I wonder why. 4829 
Rugs and things 4829 
In defense… 4829 
I can’t get it. 4826 
Haze. 4825 
Front wall 4825 
It is very possible. 4825 
It is nice to be back. 4822 
My comfy corner. 4819 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4459 
WMD in house. 4281 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4184 
The third listening spot. 4163 
For sure a very different experience. 4125 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4120 
It's Jfretch's system. 4120 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4119 
Domestic games 4073 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3934 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3934 
Dynamic screening 3934 
Actually this is very good idea! 3934 
Volcanic fabric 3934 
I should have done this. 3932 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3928 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3897 
No worries 3897 
Awesome memories 3897 
Optimization of space 3897 
Child-ish considerations 3894 
Finding peace.... 3888 
"Fencing"? 3887 
I need to build something custom 3887 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3887 
Stressed Skin 3887 
NYC elevators 3887 
Kids toys and quantities. 3887 
Everything is completely reversible 3886 
Racks and things 3886 
Now it looks even more promising! 3886 
Quantity of rods 3886 
Avoiding diagonals 3884 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3883 
That's not fair! 3883 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3883 
Discrimination? 3878 
Vertical configuration 3871 
Impresive ! 3800 
Did you read the site? 3800 
Contact 3800 
Company's name is Rixrax 3800 
Stand 3799 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3755 
End of life headphone system 3755 
Something like this? 3755 
The "Second Living Room" 3755 
Mixing urban & suburban 3755 
Late night listening 3755 
Moving life... 3753 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3753 
A true listening room. 3729 
It started… 3714 
Levels of Interest 3714 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3714 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3714 
I can't not to post it.... 3714 
Do not leave him unattended. 3714 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3714 
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