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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5894 
The first take on the new room. 5888 
New Room, a first shot. 5887 
Wonderful 5887 
Adopted 5886 
The first relaxed night with the room 5884 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5883 
The listening room is ready. 5882 
New Room, a First Shot 5880 
Continue to work with the room 5880 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5880 
Room 5879 
I think it will take another month. 5879 
The Buttressing 5879 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5878 
The new place and the new noises. 5878 
Big listening room 5877 
Screw the "big" rooms 5877 
Big listening rooms 5877 
First reflection points 5876 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5876 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5873 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5872 
Squeezing the floor 5872 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5872 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5872 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5871 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5871 
The new room, the very first listening. 5871 
The 14.5 foot. 5870 
Again… 5869 
Romy's new Playground 5869 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5869 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5869 
For the uninitiated ... 5868 
NH guy 5868 
Room 5868 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5867 
The first base is done 5867 
Reentry time alignment. 5866 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5865 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5865 
Mid bass horn. 5865 
Guess is only a guess… 5865 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5865 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5864 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5864 
Diffusors 5864 
Diffuse injection 5864 
Let analyse why it so 5864 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5864 
Wheel and Deal 5864 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5864 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5864 
I Must Be Missing Something 5864 
I put sliders under my speakers 5863 
ROOM 5862 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5862 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5862 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5862 
No concerns 5862 
Speakers and room 5862 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5861 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5861 
Diaphram 5861 
Phram 5861 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5861 
Perfect piston 5861 
Decorater 5860 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5860 
New morning 5859 
The first take on the room with RTA 5858 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5858 
Axiomatic 5858 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5857 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5857 
The size of the bass. 5857 
Bass Factory 5857 
Crude Level, or something more? 5857 
I will play with it this week…. 5857 
Rent-A 5857 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5857 
Corner horns 5857 
Cheating from below 5857 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5857 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5856 
A possibly overly simplified view 5856 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5856 
Iceberg 5856 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5856 
Why not horn 5856 
A correction…. 5856 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5856 
They are just not related things at all. 5856 
Fertin 5854 
Low resonance is good... 5854 
Et tu, Brute? 5853 
The Room response at LF 5852 
Life On The Ground Floor 5852 
Bass arrays 5852 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5852 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5852 
The super sucks. 5852 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5852 
You may also try 5851 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5851 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5851 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5851 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5851 
60 Hz Resonance 5851 
No notching… so far. 5851 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5850 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5850 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5850 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5850 
Power to the People 5850 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5850 
Aura 5850 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5850 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5850 
All class D is the same 5850 
Interpreting the LF results. 5849 
The Halibut 5849 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5849 
The Big Picture 5849 
Power & ULF channels 5849 
The big picture indeed. 5849 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5849 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5849 
The Power and the Glory 5848 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5848 
I guess I did not get this memo 5848 
French LF drivers 5848 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5848 
(another) French LF approach 5847 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5847 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5847 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5847 
Limpschtick 5847 
Symmetry 5847 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5846 
Room correction 5846 
It migh be more complicated. 5846 
Bass EQ ? 5846 
Agree and not. 5846 
Two "diseases" 5846 
Parametric filters 5846 
Ceiling arrays 5846 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5846 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5846 
The Middle of the Room. 5846 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5846 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5846 
Stop! 5846 
Appendectomy 5846 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5845 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5845 
No Isolation 5845 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5842 
Potential contenders? 5841 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5841 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5841 
Those Crazy Canucks 5837 
Mo' Better Bass 5831 
Bird in the Hand? 5831 
A wet listening spot? 5824 
Storm 5821 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5821 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5807 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5777 
Polar Opposite ULF 5776 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5764 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5762 
Differently but the same. 5761 
PVC 5760 
The sail test try. 5760 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5760 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5760 
Trial 5759 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5759 
Some explanations 5759 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5758 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5757 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5756 
Acrylate 5755 
Magic blanket 5755 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5754 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5754 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5754 
I have a few options. 5754 
Foam color 5754 
Strange things with upperbass 5754 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5753 
Teatro reform. . . 5753 
The foaming room dilemma. 5752 
Melamine Foam 5752 
Foaming up the cat house 5752 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5752 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5752 
Acoustic revisions… 5751 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5748 
Surprises so far in the new room 5747 
The upperbass in the new room. 5747 
Slight change of hart. 5746 
Camco supply of Boston 5744 
Room acoustics 5744 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5703 
I need to kill dust first. 5703 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5701 
To feed the leeches? 5701 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5700 
Yh 5700 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5700 
DPOLs? 5700 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5700 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5697 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5697 
A HalfPipe solution? 5697 
I absolutely love it. 5697 
Piper work 5696 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5696 
Absorption 5696 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5695 
Cats life ? 5695 
Call me Pussy. 5695 
More about traps 5695 
Acoustic impedance? 5695 
You maybe right 5695 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5695 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5694 
Heavy Curtain 5694 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5693 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5693 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5693 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5690 
Fix speaker move chair? 5689 
Back and forth ceremony 5689 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5688 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5687 
Glass windows 5686 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5685 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5684 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5682 
How to use basement jacks? 5682 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5682 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5682 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5681 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5681 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5680 
Sore eyes... 5679 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5679 
The harvesting week! 5677 
I need an inspiration… 5676 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5675 
Like this? 5675 
Dramatically randomize MF 5675 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5674 
The room eats dynamic 5674 
Diffusers 5674 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5673 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5658 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5657 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5657 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5657 
About Width-Importance balance. 5655 
Letting the music scale up 5654 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5654 
To finish my house décor… 5650 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5649 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5648 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5648 
Calling the gods of music 5648 
Absolutely 5648 
Phase manipulation 5648 
No relation. 5648 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5648 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5648 
Dynamical mismatch 5647 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5647 
Stradiwinerius? 5644 
Dealing with the glass. 5643 
Boston 5643 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5643 
Added mass 5643 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5643 
It is about moderation…. 5643 
To hell with the wine... 5643 
Also for other surafaces 5642 
LEAD 5642 
LEAD & GLASS 5642 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5642 
Read carefully 5642 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5642 
Crooks and morons 5642 
Magiscopios 5641 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5621 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5621 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5620 
The LP setup in the new home. 5569 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5564 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5564 
Pianochord will do! 5564 
Spanyi heaven 5564 
I see no conflict at all. 5564 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5564 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5564 
A year after closing 5556 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5556 
Traveling antimatter 5549 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5543 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5542 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5516 
Cast Iron fireplace 5515 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5515 
The hardcore way 5515 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5479 
This is How It's Done 5478 
Listening room during summer. 5466 
What about those... 5465 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5465 
Reducing A/C Noise 5465 
HVAC the Cat 5465 
Big Ass fan 5464 
Variac dimmers 5464 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5464 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5464 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5396 
Some winter observations. 5287 
That Asian man…. 5256 
The Franz Schubert morning 5230 
Spring.... 5179 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5129 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5100 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5100 
Just good photography? 5100 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5100 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5100 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5099 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5099 
Sports car 5099 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5099 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5099 
Train Positioning 5099 
Kind of what I want 5099 
The lap listening… 5099 
Family Room 5099 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5096 
A super audio room. 5092 
Time Warp! 5092 
A piano in a listening room 5071 
Pianissimo 5071 
The plan in blue. 5071 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5071 
My doubts 5071 
It is exactly what I worry. 5070 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5070 
Musicians at home 5070 
Piano Measurements 5069 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5064 
The next step. 5050 
Midbass horns missing?? 5049 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5039 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5039 
Baby Grand 5038 
Wood floor 5038 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5038 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5038 
Amy’s baby. 5036 
Improvement 5036 
Agree with Scott 5036 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5024 
Integrated casters 5024 
Very nice, thanks. 5024 
Customization 5024 
Sliders 5024 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5017 
Congratulations 5017 
Holes in the floor... 5017 
Tubes and kids 5017 
Sweet spot enlargement 5017 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5015 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5014 
Wood Floors and Water 5014 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5009 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5008 
WAF is for Losers 5008 
WAF: it depends. 5008 
Integration 5007 
Here and there. 5007 
Life after WWIII 5007 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5007 
Cables management. 5005 
Featurizing 5005 
Kids and tubes cont. 5002 
Kid magnet 5002 
Kids and audio 5001 
Radars 5001 
Wow, what the days! 4997 
The comming weekend 4993 
It all was worth it! 4990 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4985 
Here is how it is look. 4985 
Resolving the carpet issue 4985 
Bonfire 4985 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4985 
Proof of concept? 4985 
Geometry 4985 
A view from listening position. 4985 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4985 
Some feedback 4985 
Evening 4985 
I wonder why. 4984 
Rugs and things 4984 
In defense… 4984 
I can’t get it. 4981 
Haze. 4980 
Front wall 4980 
It is very possible. 4980 
It is nice to be back. 4977 
My comfy corner. 4974 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4614 
WMD in house. 4436 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4339 
The third listening spot. 4318 
For sure a very different experience. 4280 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4275 
It's Jfretch's system. 4275 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4274 
Domestic games 4228 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4089 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4089 
Dynamic screening 4089 
Actually this is very good idea! 4089 
Volcanic fabric 4089 
I should have done this. 4087 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4083 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4052 
No worries 4052 
Awesome memories 4052 
Optimization of space 4052 
Child-ish considerations 4049 
Finding peace.... 4043 
"Fencing"? 4042 
I need to build something custom 4042 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4042 
Stressed Skin 4042 
NYC elevators 4042 
Kids toys and quantities. 4042 
Everything is completely reversible 4041 
Racks and things 4041 
Now it looks even more promising! 4041 
Quantity of rods 4041 
Avoiding diagonals 4039 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4038 
That's not fair! 4038 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4038 
Discrimination? 4033 
Vertical configuration 4026 
Impresive ! 3955 
Did you read the site? 3955 
Contact 3955 
Company's name is Rixrax 3955 
Stand 3954 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3910 
End of life headphone system 3910 
Something like this? 3910 
The "Second Living Room" 3910 
Mixing urban & suburban 3910 
Late night listening 3910 
Moving life... 3908 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3908 
A true listening room. 3884 
It started… 3869 
Levels of Interest 3869 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3869 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3869 
I can't not to post it.... 3869 
Do not leave him unattended. 3869 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3869 
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