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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5937 
The first take on the new room. 5931 
New Room, a first shot. 5930 
Wonderful 5930 
Adopted 5929 
The first relaxed night with the room 5927 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5926 
The listening room is ready. 5925 
New Room, a First Shot 5923 
Continue to work with the room 5923 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5923 
Room 5922 
I think it will take another month. 5922 
The Buttressing 5922 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5921 
The new place and the new noises. 5921 
Big listening room 5920 
Screw the "big" rooms 5920 
Big listening rooms 5920 
First reflection points 5919 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5919 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5916 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5915 
Squeezing the floor 5915 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5915 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5915 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5914 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5914 
The new room, the very first listening. 5914 
The 14.5 foot. 5913 
Again… 5912 
Romy's new Playground 5912 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5912 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5912 
For the uninitiated ... 5911 
NH guy 5911 
Room 5911 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5910 
The first base is done 5910 
Reentry time alignment. 5909 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5908 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5908 
Mid bass horn. 5908 
Guess is only a guess… 5908 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5908 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5907 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5907 
Diffusors 5907 
Diffuse injection 5907 
Let analyse why it so 5907 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5907 
Wheel and Deal 5907 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5907 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5907 
I Must Be Missing Something 5907 
I put sliders under my speakers 5906 
ROOM 5905 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5905 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5905 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5905 
No concerns 5905 
Speakers and room 5905 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5904 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5904 
Diaphram 5904 
Phram 5904 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5904 
Perfect piston 5904 
Decorater 5903 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5903 
New morning 5902 
The first take on the room with RTA 5901 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5901 
Axiomatic 5901 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5900 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5900 
The size of the bass. 5900 
Bass Factory 5900 
Crude Level, or something more? 5900 
I will play with it this week…. 5900 
Rent-A 5900 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5900 
Corner horns 5900 
Cheating from below 5900 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5900 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5899 
A possibly overly simplified view 5899 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5899 
Iceberg 5899 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5899 
Why not horn 5899 
A correction…. 5899 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5899 
They are just not related things at all. 5899 
Fertin 5897 
Low resonance is good... 5897 
Et tu, Brute? 5896 
The Room response at LF 5895 
Life On The Ground Floor 5895 
Bass arrays 5895 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5895 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5895 
The super sucks. 5895 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5895 
You may also try 5894 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5894 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5894 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5894 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5894 
60 Hz Resonance 5894 
No notching… so far. 5894 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5893 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5893 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5893 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5893 
Power to the People 5893 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5893 
Aura 5893 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5893 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5893 
All class D is the same 5893 
Interpreting the LF results. 5892 
The Halibut 5892 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5892 
The Big Picture 5892 
Power & ULF channels 5892 
The big picture indeed. 5892 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5892 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5892 
The Power and the Glory 5891 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5891 
I guess I did not get this memo 5891 
French LF drivers 5891 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5891 
(another) French LF approach 5890 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5890 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5890 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5890 
Limpschtick 5890 
Symmetry 5890 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5889 
Room correction 5889 
It migh be more complicated. 5889 
Bass EQ ? 5889 
Agree and not. 5889 
Two "diseases" 5889 
Parametric filters 5889 
Ceiling arrays 5889 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5889 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5889 
The Middle of the Room. 5889 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5889 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5889 
Stop! 5889 
Appendectomy 5889 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5888 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5888 
No Isolation 5888 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5885 
Potential contenders? 5884 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5884 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5884 
Those Crazy Canucks 5880 
Mo' Better Bass 5874 
Bird in the Hand? 5874 
A wet listening spot? 5867 
Storm 5864 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5864 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5850 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5820 
Polar Opposite ULF 5819 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5807 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5805 
Differently but the same. 5804 
PVC 5803 
The sail test try. 5803 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5803 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5803 
Trial 5802 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5802 
Some explanations 5802 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5801 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5800 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5799 
Acrylate 5798 
Magic blanket 5798 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5797 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5797 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5797 
I have a few options. 5797 
Foam color 5797 
Strange things with upperbass 5797 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5796 
Teatro reform. . . 5796 
The foaming room dilemma. 5795 
Melamine Foam 5795 
Foaming up the cat house 5795 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5795 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5795 
Acoustic revisions… 5794 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5791 
Surprises so far in the new room 5790 
The upperbass in the new room. 5790 
Slight change of hart. 5789 
Camco supply of Boston 5787 
Room acoustics 5787 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5746 
I need to kill dust first. 5746 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5744 
To feed the leeches? 5744 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5743 
Yh 5743 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5743 
DPOLs? 5743 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5743 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5740 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5740 
A HalfPipe solution? 5740 
I absolutely love it. 5740 
Piper work 5739 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5739 
Absorption 5739 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5738 
Cats life ? 5738 
Call me Pussy. 5738 
More about traps 5738 
Acoustic impedance? 5738 
You maybe right 5738 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5738 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5737 
Heavy Curtain 5737 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5736 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5736 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5736 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5733 
Fix speaker move chair? 5732 
Back and forth ceremony 5732 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5731 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5730 
Glass windows 5729 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5728 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5727 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5725 
How to use basement jacks? 5725 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5725 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5725 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5724 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5724 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5723 
Sore eyes... 5722 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5722 
The harvesting week! 5720 
I need an inspiration… 5719 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5718 
Like this? 5718 
Dramatically randomize MF 5718 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5717 
The room eats dynamic 5717 
Diffusers 5717 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5716 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5701 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5700 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5700 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5700 
About Width-Importance balance. 5698 
Letting the music scale up 5697 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5697 
To finish my house décor… 5693 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5692 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5691 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5691 
Calling the gods of music 5691 
Absolutely 5691 
Phase manipulation 5691 
No relation. 5691 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5691 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5691 
Dynamical mismatch 5690 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5690 
Stradiwinerius? 5687 
Dealing with the glass. 5686 
Boston 5686 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5686 
Added mass 5686 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5686 
It is about moderation…. 5686 
To hell with the wine... 5686 
Also for other surafaces 5685 
LEAD 5685 
LEAD & GLASS 5685 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5685 
Read carefully 5685 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5685 
Crooks and morons 5685 
Magiscopios 5684 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5664 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5664 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5663 
The LP setup in the new home. 5612 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5607 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5607 
Pianochord will do! 5607 
Spanyi heaven 5607 
I see no conflict at all. 5607 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5607 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5607 
A year after closing 5599 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5599 
Traveling antimatter 5592 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5586 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5585 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5559 
Cast Iron fireplace 5558 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5558 
The hardcore way 5558 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5522 
This is How It's Done 5521 
Listening room during summer. 5509 
What about those... 5508 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5508 
Reducing A/C Noise 5508 
HVAC the Cat 5508 
Big Ass fan 5507 
Variac dimmers 5507 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5507 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5507 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5439 
Some winter observations. 5330 
That Asian man…. 5299 
The Franz Schubert morning 5273 
Spring.... 5222 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5172 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5143 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5143 
Just good photography? 5143 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5143 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5143 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5142 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5142 
Sports car 5142 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5142 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5142 
Train Positioning 5142 
Kind of what I want 5142 
The lap listening… 5142 
Family Room 5142 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5139 
A super audio room. 5135 
Time Warp! 5135 
A piano in a listening room 5114 
Pianissimo 5114 
The plan in blue. 5114 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5114 
My doubts 5114 
It is exactly what I worry. 5113 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5113 
Musicians at home 5113 
Piano Measurements 5112 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5107 
The next step. 5093 
Midbass horns missing?? 5092 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5082 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5082 
Baby Grand 5081 
Wood floor 5081 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5081 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5081 
Amy’s baby. 5079 
Improvement 5079 
Agree with Scott 5079 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5067 
Integrated casters 5067 
Very nice, thanks. 5067 
Customization 5067 
Sliders 5067 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5060 
Congratulations 5060 
Holes in the floor... 5060 
Tubes and kids 5060 
Sweet spot enlargement 5060 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5058 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5057 
Wood Floors and Water 5057 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5052 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5051 
WAF is for Losers 5051 
WAF: it depends. 5051 
Integration 5050 
Here and there. 5050 
Life after WWIII 5050 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5050 
Cables management. 5048 
Featurizing 5048 
Kids and tubes cont. 5045 
Kid magnet 5045 
Kids and audio 5044 
Radars 5044 
Wow, what the days! 5040 
The comming weekend 5036 
It all was worth it! 5033 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5028 
Here is how it is look. 5028 
Resolving the carpet issue 5028 
Bonfire 5028 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5028 
Proof of concept? 5028 
Geometry 5028 
A view from listening position. 5028 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5028 
Some feedback 5028 
Evening 5028 
I wonder why. 5027 
Rugs and things 5027 
In defense… 5027 
I can’t get it. 5024 
Haze. 5023 
Front wall 5023 
It is very possible. 5023 
It is nice to be back. 5020 
My comfy corner. 5017 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4657 
WMD in house. 4479 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4382 
The third listening spot. 4361 
For sure a very different experience. 4323 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4318 
It's Jfretch's system. 4318 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4317 
Domestic games 4271 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4132 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4132 
Dynamic screening 4132 
Actually this is very good idea! 4132 
Volcanic fabric 4132 
I should have done this. 4130 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4126 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4095 
No worries 4095 
Awesome memories 4095 
Optimization of space 4095 
Child-ish considerations 4092 
Finding peace.... 4086 
"Fencing"? 4085 
I need to build something custom 4085 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4085 
Stressed Skin 4085 
NYC elevators 4085 
Kids toys and quantities. 4085 
Everything is completely reversible 4084 
Racks and things 4084 
Now it looks even more promising! 4084 
Quantity of rods 4084 
Avoiding diagonals 4082 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4081 
That's not fair! 4081 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4081 
Discrimination? 4076 
Vertical configuration 4069 
Impresive ! 3998 
Did you read the site? 3998 
Contact 3998 
Company's name is Rixrax 3998 
Stand 3997 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3953 
End of life headphone system 3953 
Something like this? 3953 
The "Second Living Room" 3953 
Mixing urban & suburban 3953 
Late night listening 3953 
Moving life... 3951 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3951 
A true listening room. 3927 
It started… 3912 
Levels of Interest 3912 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3912 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3912 
I can't not to post it.... 3912 
Do not leave him unattended. 3912 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3912 
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