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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5885 
The first take on the new room. 5879 
New Room, a first shot. 5878 
Wonderful 5878 
Adopted 5877 
The first relaxed night with the room 5875 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5874 
The listening room is ready. 5873 
New Room, a First Shot 5871 
Continue to work with the room 5871 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5871 
Room 5870 
I think it will take another month. 5870 
The Buttressing 5870 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5869 
The new place and the new noises. 5869 
Big listening room 5868 
Screw the "big" rooms 5868 
Big listening rooms 5868 
First reflection points 5867 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5867 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5864 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5863 
Squeezing the floor 5863 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5863 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5863 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5862 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5862 
The new room, the very first listening. 5862 
The 14.5 foot. 5861 
Again… 5860 
Romy's new Playground 5860 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5860 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5860 
For the uninitiated ... 5859 
NH guy 5859 
Room 5859 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5858 
The first base is done 5858 
Reentry time alignment. 5857 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5856 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5856 
Mid bass horn. 5856 
Guess is only a guess… 5856 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5856 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5855 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5855 
Diffusors 5855 
Diffuse injection 5855 
Let analyse why it so 5855 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5855 
Wheel and Deal 5855 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5855 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5855 
I Must Be Missing Something 5855 
I put sliders under my speakers 5854 
ROOM 5853 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5853 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5853 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5853 
No concerns 5853 
Speakers and room 5853 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5852 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5852 
Diaphram 5852 
Phram 5852 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5852 
Perfect piston 5852 
Decorater 5851 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5851 
New morning 5850 
The first take on the room with RTA 5849 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5849 
Axiomatic 5849 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5848 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5848 
The size of the bass. 5848 
Bass Factory 5848 
Crude Level, or something more? 5848 
I will play with it this week…. 5848 
Rent-A 5848 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5848 
Corner horns 5848 
Cheating from below 5848 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5848 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5847 
A possibly overly simplified view 5847 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5847 
Iceberg 5847 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5847 
Why not horn 5847 
A correction…. 5847 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5847 
They are just not related things at all. 5847 
Fertin 5845 
Low resonance is good... 5845 
Et tu, Brute? 5844 
The Room response at LF 5843 
Life On The Ground Floor 5843 
Bass arrays 5843 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5843 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5843 
The super sucks. 5843 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5843 
You may also try 5842 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5842 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5842 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5842 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5842 
60 Hz Resonance 5842 
No notching… so far. 5842 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5841 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5841 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5841 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5841 
Power to the People 5841 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5841 
Aura 5841 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5841 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5841 
All class D is the same 5841 
Interpreting the LF results. 5840 
The Halibut 5840 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5840 
The Big Picture 5840 
Power & ULF channels 5840 
The big picture indeed. 5840 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5840 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5840 
The Power and the Glory 5839 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5839 
I guess I did not get this memo 5839 
French LF drivers 5839 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5839 
(another) French LF approach 5838 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5838 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5838 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5838 
Limpschtick 5838 
Symmetry 5838 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5837 
Room correction 5837 
It migh be more complicated. 5837 
Bass EQ ? 5837 
Agree and not. 5837 
Two "diseases" 5837 
Parametric filters 5837 
Ceiling arrays 5837 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5837 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5837 
The Middle of the Room. 5837 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5837 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5837 
Stop! 5837 
Appendectomy 5837 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5836 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5836 
No Isolation 5836 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5833 
Potential contenders? 5832 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5832 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5832 
Those Crazy Canucks 5828 
Mo' Better Bass 5822 
Bird in the Hand? 5822 
A wet listening spot? 5815 
Storm 5812 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5812 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5798 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5768 
Polar Opposite ULF 5767 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5755 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5753 
Differently but the same. 5752 
PVC 5751 
The sail test try. 5751 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5751 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5751 
Trial 5750 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5750 
Some explanations 5750 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5749 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5748 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5747 
Acrylate 5746 
Magic blanket 5746 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5745 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5745 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5745 
I have a few options. 5745 
Foam color 5745 
Strange things with upperbass 5745 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5744 
Teatro reform. . . 5744 
The foaming room dilemma. 5743 
Melamine Foam 5743 
Foaming up the cat house 5743 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5743 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5743 
Acoustic revisions… 5742 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5739 
Surprises so far in the new room 5738 
The upperbass in the new room. 5738 
Slight change of hart. 5737 
Camco supply of Boston 5735 
Room acoustics 5735 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5694 
I need to kill dust first. 5694 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5692 
To feed the leeches? 5692 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5691 
Yh 5691 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5691 
DPOLs? 5691 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5691 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5688 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5688 
A HalfPipe solution? 5688 
I absolutely love it. 5688 
Piper work 5687 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5687 
Absorption 5687 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5686 
Cats life ? 5686 
Call me Pussy. 5686 
More about traps 5686 
Acoustic impedance? 5686 
You maybe right 5686 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5686 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5685 
Heavy Curtain 5685 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5684 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5684 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5684 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5681 
Fix speaker move chair? 5680 
Back and forth ceremony 5680 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5679 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5678 
Glass windows 5677 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5676 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5675 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5673 
How to use basement jacks? 5673 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5673 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5673 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5672 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5672 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5671 
Sore eyes... 5670 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5670 
The harvesting week! 5668 
I need an inspiration… 5667 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5666 
Like this? 5666 
Dramatically randomize MF 5666 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5665 
The room eats dynamic 5665 
Diffusers 5665 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5664 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5649 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5648 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5648 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5648 
About Width-Importance balance. 5646 
Letting the music scale up 5645 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5645 
To finish my house décor… 5641 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5640 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5639 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5639 
Calling the gods of music 5639 
Absolutely 5639 
Phase manipulation 5639 
No relation. 5639 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5639 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5639 
Dynamical mismatch 5638 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5638 
Stradiwinerius? 5635 
Dealing with the glass. 5634 
Boston 5634 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5634 
Added mass 5634 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5634 
It is about moderation…. 5634 
To hell with the wine... 5634 
Also for other surafaces 5633 
LEAD 5633 
LEAD & GLASS 5633 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5633 
Read carefully 5633 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5633 
Crooks and morons 5633 
Magiscopios 5632 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5612 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5612 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5611 
The LP setup in the new home. 5560 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5555 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5555 
Pianochord will do! 5555 
Spanyi heaven 5555 
I see no conflict at all. 5555 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5555 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5555 
A year after closing 5547 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5547 
Traveling antimatter 5540 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5534 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5533 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5507 
Cast Iron fireplace 5506 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5506 
The hardcore way 5506 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5470 
This is How It's Done 5469 
Listening room during summer. 5457 
What about those... 5456 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5456 
Reducing A/C Noise 5456 
HVAC the Cat 5456 
Big Ass fan 5455 
Variac dimmers 5455 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5455 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5455 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5387 
Some winter observations. 5278 
That Asian man…. 5247 
The Franz Schubert morning 5221 
Spring.... 5170 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5120 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5091 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5091 
Just good photography? 5091 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5091 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5091 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5090 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5090 
Sports car 5090 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5090 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5090 
Train Positioning 5090 
Kind of what I want 5090 
The lap listening… 5090 
Family Room 5090 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5087 
A super audio room. 5083 
Time Warp! 5083 
A piano in a listening room 5062 
Pianissimo 5062 
The plan in blue. 5062 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5062 
My doubts 5062 
It is exactly what I worry. 5061 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5061 
Musicians at home 5061 
Piano Measurements 5060 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5055 
The next step. 5041 
Midbass horns missing?? 5040 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5030 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5030 
Baby Grand 5029 
Wood floor 5029 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5029 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5029 
Amy’s baby. 5027 
Improvement 5027 
Agree with Scott 5027 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5015 
Integrated casters 5015 
Very nice, thanks. 5015 
Customization 5015 
Sliders 5015 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5008 
Congratulations 5008 
Holes in the floor... 5008 
Tubes and kids 5008 
Sweet spot enlargement 5008 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5006 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5005 
Wood Floors and Water 5005 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5000 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4999 
WAF is for Losers 4999 
WAF: it depends. 4999 
Integration 4998 
Here and there. 4998 
Life after WWIII 4998 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4998 
Cables management. 4996 
Featurizing 4996 
Kids and tubes cont. 4993 
Kid magnet 4993 
Kids and audio 4992 
Radars 4992 
Wow, what the days! 4988 
The comming weekend 4984 
It all was worth it! 4981 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4976 
Here is how it is look. 4976 
Resolving the carpet issue 4976 
Bonfire 4976 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4976 
Proof of concept? 4976 
Geometry 4976 
A view from listening position. 4976 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4976 
Some feedback 4976 
Evening 4976 
I wonder why. 4975 
Rugs and things 4975 
In defense… 4975 
I can’t get it. 4972 
Haze. 4971 
Front wall 4971 
It is very possible. 4971 
It is nice to be back. 4968 
My comfy corner. 4965 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4605 
WMD in house. 4427 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4330 
The third listening spot. 4309 
For sure a very different experience. 4271 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4266 
It's Jfretch's system. 4266 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4265 
Domestic games 4219 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4080 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4080 
Dynamic screening 4080 
Actually this is very good idea! 4080 
Volcanic fabric 4080 
I should have done this. 4078 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4074 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4043 
No worries 4043 
Awesome memories 4043 
Optimization of space 4043 
Child-ish considerations 4040 
Finding peace.... 4034 
"Fencing"? 4033 
I need to build something custom 4033 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4033 
Stressed Skin 4033 
NYC elevators 4033 
Kids toys and quantities. 4033 
Everything is completely reversible 4032 
Racks and things 4032 
Now it looks even more promising! 4032 
Quantity of rods 4032 
Avoiding diagonals 4030 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4029 
That's not fair! 4029 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4029 
Discrimination? 4024 
Vertical configuration 4017 
Impresive ! 3946 
Did you read the site? 3946 
Contact 3946 
Company's name is Rixrax 3946 
Stand 3945 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3901 
End of life headphone system 3901 
Something like this? 3901 
The "Second Living Room" 3901 
Mixing urban & suburban 3901 
Late night listening 3901 
Moving life... 3899 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3899 
A true listening room. 3875 
It started… 3860 
Levels of Interest 3860 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3860 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3860 
I can't not to post it.... 3860 
Do not leave him unattended. 3860 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3860 
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