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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5854 
The first take on the new room. 5848 
New Room, a first shot. 5847 
Wonderful 5847 
Adopted 5846 
The first relaxed night with the room 5844 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5843 
The listening room is ready. 5842 
New Room, a First Shot 5840 
Continue to work with the room 5840 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5840 
Room 5839 
I think it will take another month. 5839 
The Buttressing 5839 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5838 
The new place and the new noises. 5838 
Big listening room 5837 
Screw the "big" rooms 5837 
Big listening rooms 5837 
First reflection points 5836 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5836 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5833 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5832 
Squeezing the floor 5832 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5832 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5832 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5831 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5831 
The new room, the very first listening. 5831 
The 14.5 foot. 5830 
Again… 5829 
Romy's new Playground 5829 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5829 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5829 
For the uninitiated ... 5828 
NH guy 5828 
Room 5828 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5827 
The first base is done 5827 
Reentry time alignment. 5826 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5825 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5825 
Mid bass horn. 5825 
Guess is only a guess… 5825 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5825 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5824 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5824 
Diffusors 5824 
Diffuse injection 5824 
Let analyse why it so 5824 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5824 
Wheel and Deal 5824 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5824 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5824 
I Must Be Missing Something 5824 
I put sliders under my speakers 5823 
ROOM 5822 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5822 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5822 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5822 
No concerns 5822 
Speakers and room 5822 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5821 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5821 
Diaphram 5821 
Phram 5821 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5821 
Perfect piston 5821 
Decorater 5820 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5820 
New morning 5819 
The first take on the room with RTA 5818 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5818 
Axiomatic 5818 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5817 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5817 
The size of the bass. 5817 
Bass Factory 5817 
Crude Level, or something more? 5817 
I will play with it this week…. 5817 
Rent-A 5817 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5817 
Corner horns 5817 
Cheating from below 5817 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5817 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5816 
A possibly overly simplified view 5816 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5816 
Iceberg 5816 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5816 
Why not horn 5816 
A correction…. 5816 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5816 
They are just not related things at all. 5816 
Fertin 5814 
Low resonance is good... 5814 
Et tu, Brute? 5813 
The Room response at LF 5812 
Life On The Ground Floor 5812 
Bass arrays 5812 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5812 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5812 
The super sucks. 5812 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5812 
You may also try 5811 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5811 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5811 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5811 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5811 
60 Hz Resonance 5811 
No notching… so far. 5811 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5810 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5810 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5810 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5810 
Power to the People 5810 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5810 
Aura 5810 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5810 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5810 
All class D is the same 5810 
Interpreting the LF results. 5809 
The Halibut 5809 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5809 
The Big Picture 5809 
Power & ULF channels 5809 
The big picture indeed. 5809 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5809 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5809 
The Power and the Glory 5808 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5808 
I guess I did not get this memo 5808 
French LF drivers 5808 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5808 
(another) French LF approach 5807 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5807 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5807 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5807 
Limpschtick 5807 
Symmetry 5807 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5806 
Room correction 5806 
It migh be more complicated. 5806 
Bass EQ ? 5806 
Agree and not. 5806 
Two "diseases" 5806 
Parametric filters 5806 
Ceiling arrays 5806 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5806 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5806 
The Middle of the Room. 5806 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5806 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5806 
Stop! 5806 
Appendectomy 5806 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5805 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5805 
No Isolation 5805 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5802 
Potential contenders? 5801 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5801 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5801 
Those Crazy Canucks 5797 
Mo' Better Bass 5791 
Bird in the Hand? 5791 
A wet listening spot? 5784 
Storm 5781 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5781 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5767 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5737 
Polar Opposite ULF 5736 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5724 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5722 
Differently but the same. 5721 
PVC 5720 
The sail test try. 5720 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5720 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5720 
Trial 5719 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5719 
Some explanations 5719 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5718 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5717 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5716 
Acrylate 5715 
Magic blanket 5715 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5714 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5714 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5714 
I have a few options. 5714 
Foam color 5714 
Strange things with upperbass 5714 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5713 
Teatro reform. . . 5713 
The foaming room dilemma. 5712 
Melamine Foam 5712 
Foaming up the cat house 5712 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5712 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5712 
Acoustic revisions… 5711 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5708 
Surprises so far in the new room 5707 
The upperbass in the new room. 5707 
Slight change of hart. 5706 
Camco supply of Boston 5704 
Room acoustics 5704 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5663 
I need to kill dust first. 5663 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5661 
To feed the leeches? 5661 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5660 
Yh 5660 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5660 
DPOLs? 5660 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5660 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5657 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5657 
A HalfPipe solution? 5657 
I absolutely love it. 5657 
Piper work 5656 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5656 
Absorption 5656 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5655 
Cats life ? 5655 
Call me Pussy. 5655 
More about traps 5655 
Acoustic impedance? 5655 
You maybe right 5655 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5655 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5654 
Heavy Curtain 5654 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5653 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5653 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5653 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5650 
Fix speaker move chair? 5649 
Back and forth ceremony 5649 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5648 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5647 
Glass windows 5646 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5645 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5644 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5642 
How to use basement jacks? 5642 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5642 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5642 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5641 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5641 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5640 
Sore eyes... 5639 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5639 
The harvesting week! 5637 
I need an inspiration… 5636 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5635 
Like this? 5635 
Dramatically randomize MF 5635 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5634 
The room eats dynamic 5634 
Diffusers 5634 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5633 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5618 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5617 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5617 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5617 
About Width-Importance balance. 5615 
Letting the music scale up 5614 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5614 
To finish my house décor… 5610 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5609 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5608 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5608 
Calling the gods of music 5608 
Absolutely 5608 
Phase manipulation 5608 
No relation. 5608 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5608 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5608 
Dynamical mismatch 5607 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5607 
Stradiwinerius? 5604 
Dealing with the glass. 5603 
Boston 5603 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5603 
Added mass 5603 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5603 
It is about moderation…. 5603 
To hell with the wine... 5603 
Also for other surafaces 5602 
LEAD 5602 
LEAD & GLASS 5602 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5602 
Read carefully 5602 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5602 
Crooks and morons 5602 
Magiscopios 5601 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5581 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5581 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5580 
The LP setup in the new home. 5529 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5524 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5524 
Pianochord will do! 5524 
Spanyi heaven 5524 
I see no conflict at all. 5524 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5524 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5524 
A year after closing 5516 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5516 
Traveling antimatter 5509 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5503 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5502 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5476 
Cast Iron fireplace 5475 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5475 
The hardcore way 5475 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5439 
This is How It's Done 5438 
Listening room during summer. 5426 
What about those... 5425 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5425 
Reducing A/C Noise 5425 
HVAC the Cat 5425 
Big Ass fan 5424 
Variac dimmers 5424 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5424 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5424 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5356 
Some winter observations. 5247 
That Asian man…. 5216 
The Franz Schubert morning 5190 
Spring.... 5139 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5089 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5060 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5060 
Just good photography? 5060 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5060 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5060 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5059 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5059 
Sports car 5059 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5059 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5059 
Train Positioning 5059 
Kind of what I want 5059 
The lap listening… 5059 
Family Room 5059 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5056 
A super audio room. 5052 
Time Warp! 5052 
A piano in a listening room 5031 
Pianissimo 5031 
The plan in blue. 5031 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5031 
My doubts 5031 
It is exactly what I worry. 5030 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5030 
Musicians at home 5030 
Piano Measurements 5029 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5024 
The next step. 5010 
Midbass horns missing?? 5009 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4999 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4999 
Baby Grand 4998 
Wood floor 4998 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4998 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4998 
Amy’s baby. 4996 
Improvement 4996 
Agree with Scott 4996 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4984 
Integrated casters 4984 
Very nice, thanks. 4984 
Customization 4984 
Sliders 4984 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4977 
Congratulations 4977 
Holes in the floor... 4977 
Tubes and kids 4977 
Sweet spot enlargement 4977 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4975 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4974 
Wood Floors and Water 4974 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4969 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4968 
WAF is for Losers 4968 
WAF: it depends. 4968 
Integration 4967 
Here and there. 4967 
Life after WWIII 4967 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4967 
Cables management. 4965 
Featurizing 4965 
Kids and tubes cont. 4962 
Kid magnet 4962 
Kids and audio 4961 
Radars 4961 
Wow, what the days! 4957 
The comming weekend 4953 
It all was worth it! 4950 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4945 
Here is how it is look. 4945 
Resolving the carpet issue 4945 
Bonfire 4945 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4945 
Proof of concept? 4945 
Geometry 4945 
A view from listening position. 4945 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4945 
Some feedback 4945 
Evening 4945 
I wonder why. 4944 
Rugs and things 4944 
In defense… 4944 
I can’t get it. 4941 
Haze. 4940 
Front wall 4940 
It is very possible. 4940 
It is nice to be back. 4937 
My comfy corner. 4934 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4574 
WMD in house. 4396 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4299 
The third listening spot. 4278 
For sure a very different experience. 4240 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4235 
It's Jfretch's system. 4235 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4234 
Domestic games 4188 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4049 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4049 
Dynamic screening 4049 
Actually this is very good idea! 4049 
Volcanic fabric 4049 
I should have done this. 4047 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4043 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4012 
No worries 4012 
Awesome memories 4012 
Optimization of space 4012 
Child-ish considerations 4009 
Finding peace.... 4003 
"Fencing"? 4002 
I need to build something custom 4002 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4002 
Stressed Skin 4002 
NYC elevators 4002 
Kids toys and quantities. 4002 
Everything is completely reversible 4001 
Racks and things 4001 
Now it looks even more promising! 4001 
Quantity of rods 4001 
Avoiding diagonals 3999 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3998 
That's not fair! 3998 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3998 
Discrimination? 3993 
Vertical configuration 3986 
Impresive ! 3915 
Did you read the site? 3915 
Contact 3915 
Company's name is Rixrax 3915 
Stand 3914 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3870 
End of life headphone system 3870 
Something like this? 3870 
The "Second Living Room" 3870 
Mixing urban & suburban 3870 
Late night listening 3870 
Moving life... 3868 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3868 
A true listening room. 3844 
It started… 3829 
Levels of Interest 3829 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3829 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3829 
I can't not to post it.... 3829 
Do not leave him unattended. 3829 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3829 
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