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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5880 
The first take on the new room. 5874 
New Room, a first shot. 5873 
Wonderful 5873 
Adopted 5872 
The first relaxed night with the room 5870 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5869 
The listening room is ready. 5868 
New Room, a First Shot 5866 
Continue to work with the room 5866 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5866 
Room 5865 
I think it will take another month. 5865 
The Buttressing 5865 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5864 
The new place and the new noises. 5864 
Big listening room 5863 
Screw the "big" rooms 5863 
Big listening rooms 5863 
First reflection points 5862 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5862 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5859 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5858 
Squeezing the floor 5858 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5858 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5858 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5857 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5857 
The new room, the very first listening. 5857 
The 14.5 foot. 5856 
Again… 5855 
Romy's new Playground 5855 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5855 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5855 
For the uninitiated ... 5854 
NH guy 5854 
Room 5854 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5853 
The first base is done 5853 
Reentry time alignment. 5852 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5851 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5851 
Mid bass horn. 5851 
Guess is only a guess… 5851 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5851 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5850 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5850 
Diffusors 5850 
Diffuse injection 5850 
Let analyse why it so 5850 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5850 
Wheel and Deal 5850 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5850 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5850 
I Must Be Missing Something 5850 
I put sliders under my speakers 5849 
ROOM 5848 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5848 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5848 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5848 
No concerns 5848 
Speakers and room 5848 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5847 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5847 
Diaphram 5847 
Phram 5847 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5847 
Perfect piston 5847 
Decorater 5846 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5846 
New morning 5845 
The first take on the room with RTA 5844 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5844 
Axiomatic 5844 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5843 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5843 
The size of the bass. 5843 
Bass Factory 5843 
Crude Level, or something more? 5843 
I will play with it this week…. 5843 
Rent-A 5843 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5843 
Corner horns 5843 
Cheating from below 5843 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5843 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5842 
A possibly overly simplified view 5842 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5842 
Iceberg 5842 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5842 
Why not horn 5842 
A correction…. 5842 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5842 
They are just not related things at all. 5842 
Fertin 5840 
Low resonance is good... 5840 
Et tu, Brute? 5839 
The Room response at LF 5838 
Life On The Ground Floor 5838 
Bass arrays 5838 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5838 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5838 
The super sucks. 5838 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5838 
You may also try 5837 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5837 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5837 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5837 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5837 
60 Hz Resonance 5837 
No notching… so far. 5837 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5836 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5836 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5836 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5836 
Power to the People 5836 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5836 
Aura 5836 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5836 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5836 
All class D is the same 5836 
Interpreting the LF results. 5835 
The Halibut 5835 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5835 
The Big Picture 5835 
Power & ULF channels 5835 
The big picture indeed. 5835 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5835 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5835 
The Power and the Glory 5834 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5834 
I guess I did not get this memo 5834 
French LF drivers 5834 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5834 
(another) French LF approach 5833 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5833 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5833 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5833 
Limpschtick 5833 
Symmetry 5833 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5832 
Room correction 5832 
It migh be more complicated. 5832 
Bass EQ ? 5832 
Agree and not. 5832 
Two "diseases" 5832 
Parametric filters 5832 
Ceiling arrays 5832 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5832 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5832 
The Middle of the Room. 5832 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5832 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5832 
Stop! 5832 
Appendectomy 5832 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5831 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5831 
No Isolation 5831 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5828 
Potential contenders? 5827 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5827 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5827 
Those Crazy Canucks 5823 
Mo' Better Bass 5817 
Bird in the Hand? 5817 
A wet listening spot? 5810 
Storm 5807 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5807 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5793 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5763 
Polar Opposite ULF 5762 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5750 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5748 
Differently but the same. 5747 
PVC 5746 
The sail test try. 5746 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5746 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5746 
Trial 5745 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5745 
Some explanations 5745 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5744 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5743 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5742 
Acrylate 5741 
Magic blanket 5741 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5740 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5740 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5740 
I have a few options. 5740 
Foam color 5740 
Strange things with upperbass 5740 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5739 
Teatro reform. . . 5739 
The foaming room dilemma. 5738 
Melamine Foam 5738 
Foaming up the cat house 5738 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5738 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5738 
Acoustic revisions… 5737 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5734 
Surprises so far in the new room 5733 
The upperbass in the new room. 5733 
Slight change of hart. 5732 
Camco supply of Boston 5730 
Room acoustics 5730 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5689 
I need to kill dust first. 5689 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5687 
To feed the leeches? 5687 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5686 
Yh 5686 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5686 
DPOLs? 5686 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5686 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5683 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5683 
A HalfPipe solution? 5683 
I absolutely love it. 5683 
Piper work 5682 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5682 
Absorption 5682 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5681 
Cats life ? 5681 
Call me Pussy. 5681 
More about traps 5681 
Acoustic impedance? 5681 
You maybe right 5681 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5681 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5680 
Heavy Curtain 5680 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5679 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5679 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5679 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5676 
Fix speaker move chair? 5675 
Back and forth ceremony 5675 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5674 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5673 
Glass windows 5672 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5671 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5670 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5668 
How to use basement jacks? 5668 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5668 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5668 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5667 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5667 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5666 
Sore eyes... 5665 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5665 
The harvesting week! 5663 
I need an inspiration… 5662 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5661 
Like this? 5661 
Dramatically randomize MF 5661 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5660 
The room eats dynamic 5660 
Diffusers 5660 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5659 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5644 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5643 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5643 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5643 
About Width-Importance balance. 5641 
Letting the music scale up 5640 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5640 
To finish my house décor… 5636 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5635 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5634 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5634 
Calling the gods of music 5634 
Absolutely 5634 
Phase manipulation 5634 
No relation. 5634 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5634 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5634 
Dynamical mismatch 5633 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5633 
Stradiwinerius? 5630 
Dealing with the glass. 5629 
Boston 5629 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5629 
Added mass 5629 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5629 
It is about moderation…. 5629 
To hell with the wine... 5629 
Also for other surafaces 5628 
LEAD 5628 
LEAD & GLASS 5628 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5628 
Read carefully 5628 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5628 
Crooks and morons 5628 
Magiscopios 5627 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5607 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5607 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5606 
The LP setup in the new home. 5555 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5550 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5550 
Pianochord will do! 5550 
Spanyi heaven 5550 
I see no conflict at all. 5550 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5550 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5550 
A year after closing 5542 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5542 
Traveling antimatter 5535 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5529 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5528 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5502 
Cast Iron fireplace 5501 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5501 
The hardcore way 5501 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5465 
This is How It's Done 5464 
Listening room during summer. 5452 
What about those... 5451 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5451 
Reducing A/C Noise 5451 
HVAC the Cat 5451 
Big Ass fan 5450 
Variac dimmers 5450 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5450 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5450 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5382 
Some winter observations. 5273 
That Asian man…. 5242 
The Franz Schubert morning 5216 
Spring.... 5165 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5115 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5086 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5086 
Just good photography? 5086 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5086 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5086 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5085 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5085 
Sports car 5085 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5085 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5085 
Train Positioning 5085 
Kind of what I want 5085 
The lap listening… 5085 
Family Room 5085 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5082 
A super audio room. 5078 
Time Warp! 5078 
A piano in a listening room 5057 
Pianissimo 5057 
The plan in blue. 5057 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5057 
My doubts 5057 
It is exactly what I worry. 5056 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5056 
Musicians at home 5056 
Piano Measurements 5055 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5050 
The next step. 5036 
Midbass horns missing?? 5035 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5025 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5025 
Baby Grand 5024 
Wood floor 5024 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5024 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5024 
Amy’s baby. 5022 
Improvement 5022 
Agree with Scott 5022 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5010 
Integrated casters 5010 
Very nice, thanks. 5010 
Customization 5010 
Sliders 5010 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5003 
Congratulations 5003 
Holes in the floor... 5003 
Tubes and kids 5003 
Sweet spot enlargement 5003 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5001 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5000 
Wood Floors and Water 5000 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4995 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4994 
WAF is for Losers 4994 
WAF: it depends. 4994 
Integration 4993 
Here and there. 4993 
Life after WWIII 4993 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4993 
Cables management. 4991 
Featurizing 4991 
Kids and tubes cont. 4988 
Kid magnet 4988 
Kids and audio 4987 
Radars 4987 
Wow, what the days! 4983 
The comming weekend 4979 
It all was worth it! 4976 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4971 
Here is how it is look. 4971 
Resolving the carpet issue 4971 
Bonfire 4971 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4971 
Proof of concept? 4971 
Geometry 4971 
A view from listening position. 4971 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4971 
Some feedback 4971 
Evening 4971 
I wonder why. 4970 
Rugs and things 4970 
In defense… 4970 
I can’t get it. 4967 
Haze. 4966 
Front wall 4966 
It is very possible. 4966 
It is nice to be back. 4963 
My comfy corner. 4960 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4600 
WMD in house. 4422 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4325 
The third listening spot. 4304 
For sure a very different experience. 4266 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4261 
It's Jfretch's system. 4261 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4260 
Domestic games 4214 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4075 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4075 
Dynamic screening 4075 
Actually this is very good idea! 4075 
Volcanic fabric 4075 
I should have done this. 4073 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4069 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4038 
No worries 4038 
Awesome memories 4038 
Optimization of space 4038 
Child-ish considerations 4035 
Finding peace.... 4029 
"Fencing"? 4028 
I need to build something custom 4028 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4028 
Stressed Skin 4028 
NYC elevators 4028 
Kids toys and quantities. 4028 
Everything is completely reversible 4027 
Racks and things 4027 
Now it looks even more promising! 4027 
Quantity of rods 4027 
Avoiding diagonals 4025 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4024 
That's not fair! 4024 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4024 
Discrimination? 4019 
Vertical configuration 4012 
Impresive ! 3941 
Did you read the site? 3941 
Contact 3941 
Company's name is Rixrax 3941 
Stand 3940 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3896 
End of life headphone system 3896 
Something like this? 3896 
The "Second Living Room" 3896 
Mixing urban & suburban 3896 
Late night listening 3896 
Moving life... 3894 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3894 
A true listening room. 3870 
It started… 3855 
Levels of Interest 3855 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3855 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3855 
I can't not to post it.... 3855 
Do not leave him unattended. 3855 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3855 
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