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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5857 
The first take on the new room. 5851 
New Room, a first shot. 5850 
Wonderful 5850 
Adopted 5849 
The first relaxed night with the room 5847 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5846 
The listening room is ready. 5845 
New Room, a First Shot 5843 
Continue to work with the room 5843 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5843 
Room 5842 
I think it will take another month. 5842 
The Buttressing 5842 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5841 
The new place and the new noises. 5841 
Big listening room 5840 
Screw the "big" rooms 5840 
Big listening rooms 5840 
First reflection points 5839 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5839 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5836 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5835 
Squeezing the floor 5835 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5835 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5835 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5834 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5834 
The new room, the very first listening. 5834 
The 14.5 foot. 5833 
Again… 5832 
Romy's new Playground 5832 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5832 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5832 
For the uninitiated ... 5831 
NH guy 5831 
Room 5831 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5830 
The first base is done 5830 
Reentry time alignment. 5829 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5828 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5828 
Mid bass horn. 5828 
Guess is only a guess… 5828 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5828 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5827 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5827 
Diffusors 5827 
Diffuse injection 5827 
Let analyse why it so 5827 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5827 
Wheel and Deal 5827 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5827 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5827 
I Must Be Missing Something 5827 
I put sliders under my speakers 5826 
ROOM 5825 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5825 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5825 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5825 
No concerns 5825 
Speakers and room 5825 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5824 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5824 
Diaphram 5824 
Phram 5824 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5824 
Perfect piston 5824 
Decorater 5823 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5823 
New morning 5822 
The first take on the room with RTA 5821 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5821 
Axiomatic 5821 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5820 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5820 
The size of the bass. 5820 
Bass Factory 5820 
Crude Level, or something more? 5820 
I will play with it this week…. 5820 
Rent-A 5820 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5820 
Corner horns 5820 
Cheating from below 5820 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5820 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5819 
A possibly overly simplified view 5819 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5819 
Iceberg 5819 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5819 
Why not horn 5819 
A correction…. 5819 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5819 
They are just not related things at all. 5819 
Fertin 5817 
Low resonance is good... 5817 
Et tu, Brute? 5816 
The Room response at LF 5815 
Life On The Ground Floor 5815 
Bass arrays 5815 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5815 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5815 
The super sucks. 5815 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5815 
You may also try 5814 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5814 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5814 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5814 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5814 
60 Hz Resonance 5814 
No notching… so far. 5814 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5813 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5813 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5813 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5813 
Power to the People 5813 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5813 
Aura 5813 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5813 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5813 
All class D is the same 5813 
Interpreting the LF results. 5812 
The Halibut 5812 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5812 
The Big Picture 5812 
Power & ULF channels 5812 
The big picture indeed. 5812 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5812 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5812 
The Power and the Glory 5811 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5811 
I guess I did not get this memo 5811 
French LF drivers 5811 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5811 
(another) French LF approach 5810 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5810 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5810 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5810 
Limpschtick 5810 
Symmetry 5810 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5809 
Room correction 5809 
It migh be more complicated. 5809 
Bass EQ ? 5809 
Agree and not. 5809 
Two "diseases" 5809 
Parametric filters 5809 
Ceiling arrays 5809 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5809 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5809 
The Middle of the Room. 5809 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5809 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5809 
Stop! 5809 
Appendectomy 5809 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5808 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5808 
No Isolation 5808 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5805 
Potential contenders? 5804 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5804 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5804 
Those Crazy Canucks 5800 
Mo' Better Bass 5794 
Bird in the Hand? 5794 
A wet listening spot? 5787 
Storm 5784 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5784 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5770 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5740 
Polar Opposite ULF 5739 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5727 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5725 
Differently but the same. 5724 
PVC 5723 
The sail test try. 5723 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5723 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5723 
Trial 5722 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5722 
Some explanations 5722 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5721 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5720 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5719 
Acrylate 5718 
Magic blanket 5718 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5717 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5717 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5717 
I have a few options. 5717 
Foam color 5717 
Strange things with upperbass 5717 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5716 
Teatro reform. . . 5716 
The foaming room dilemma. 5715 
Melamine Foam 5715 
Foaming up the cat house 5715 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5715 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5715 
Acoustic revisions… 5714 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5711 
Surprises so far in the new room 5710 
The upperbass in the new room. 5710 
Slight change of hart. 5709 
Camco supply of Boston 5707 
Room acoustics 5707 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5666 
I need to kill dust first. 5666 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5664 
To feed the leeches? 5664 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5663 
Yh 5663 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5663 
DPOLs? 5663 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5663 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5660 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5660 
A HalfPipe solution? 5660 
I absolutely love it. 5660 
Piper work 5659 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5659 
Absorption 5659 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5658 
Cats life ? 5658 
Call me Pussy. 5658 
More about traps 5658 
Acoustic impedance? 5658 
You maybe right 5658 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5658 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5657 
Heavy Curtain 5657 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5656 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5656 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5656 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5653 
Fix speaker move chair? 5652 
Back and forth ceremony 5652 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5651 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5650 
Glass windows 5649 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5648 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5647 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5645 
How to use basement jacks? 5645 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5645 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5645 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5644 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5644 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5643 
Sore eyes... 5642 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5642 
The harvesting week! 5640 
I need an inspiration… 5639 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5638 
Like this? 5638 
Dramatically randomize MF 5638 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5637 
The room eats dynamic 5637 
Diffusers 5637 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5636 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5621 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5620 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5620 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5620 
About Width-Importance balance. 5618 
Letting the music scale up 5617 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5617 
To finish my house décor… 5613 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5612 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5611 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5611 
Calling the gods of music 5611 
Absolutely 5611 
Phase manipulation 5611 
No relation. 5611 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5611 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5611 
Dynamical mismatch 5610 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5610 
Stradiwinerius? 5607 
Dealing with the glass. 5606 
Boston 5606 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5606 
Added mass 5606 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5606 
It is about moderation…. 5606 
To hell with the wine... 5606 
Also for other surafaces 5605 
LEAD 5605 
LEAD & GLASS 5605 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5605 
Read carefully 5605 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5605 
Crooks and morons 5605 
Magiscopios 5604 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5584 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5584 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5583 
The LP setup in the new home. 5532 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5527 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5527 
Pianochord will do! 5527 
Spanyi heaven 5527 
I see no conflict at all. 5527 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5527 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5527 
A year after closing 5519 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5519 
Traveling antimatter 5512 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5506 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5505 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5479 
Cast Iron fireplace 5478 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5478 
The hardcore way 5478 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5442 
This is How It's Done 5441 
Listening room during summer. 5429 
What about those... 5428 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5428 
Reducing A/C Noise 5428 
HVAC the Cat 5428 
Big Ass fan 5427 
Variac dimmers 5427 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5427 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5427 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5359 
Some winter observations. 5250 
That Asian man…. 5219 
The Franz Schubert morning 5193 
Spring.... 5142 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5092 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5063 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5063 
Just good photography? 5063 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5063 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5063 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5062 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5062 
Sports car 5062 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5062 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5062 
Train Positioning 5062 
Kind of what I want 5062 
The lap listening… 5062 
Family Room 5062 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5059 
A super audio room. 5055 
Time Warp! 5055 
A piano in a listening room 5034 
Pianissimo 5034 
The plan in blue. 5034 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5034 
My doubts 5034 
It is exactly what I worry. 5033 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5033 
Musicians at home 5033 
Piano Measurements 5032 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5027 
The next step. 5013 
Midbass horns missing?? 5012 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5002 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5002 
Baby Grand 5001 
Wood floor 5001 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5001 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5001 
Amy’s baby. 4999 
Improvement 4999 
Agree with Scott 4999 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4987 
Integrated casters 4987 
Very nice, thanks. 4987 
Customization 4987 
Sliders 4987 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4980 
Congratulations 4980 
Holes in the floor... 4980 
Tubes and kids 4980 
Sweet spot enlargement 4980 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4978 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4977 
Wood Floors and Water 4977 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4972 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4971 
WAF is for Losers 4971 
WAF: it depends. 4971 
Integration 4970 
Here and there. 4970 
Life after WWIII 4970 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4970 
Cables management. 4968 
Featurizing 4968 
Kids and tubes cont. 4965 
Kid magnet 4965 
Kids and audio 4964 
Radars 4964 
Wow, what the days! 4960 
The comming weekend 4956 
It all was worth it! 4953 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4948 
Here is how it is look. 4948 
Resolving the carpet issue 4948 
Bonfire 4948 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4948 
Proof of concept? 4948 
Geometry 4948 
A view from listening position. 4948 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4948 
Some feedback 4948 
Evening 4948 
I wonder why. 4947 
Rugs and things 4947 
In defense… 4947 
I can’t get it. 4944 
Haze. 4943 
Front wall 4943 
It is very possible. 4943 
It is nice to be back. 4940 
My comfy corner. 4937 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4577 
WMD in house. 4399 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4302 
The third listening spot. 4281 
For sure a very different experience. 4243 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4238 
It's Jfretch's system. 4238 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4237 
Domestic games 4191 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4052 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4052 
Dynamic screening 4052 
Actually this is very good idea! 4052 
Volcanic fabric 4052 
I should have done this. 4050 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4046 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4015 
No worries 4015 
Awesome memories 4015 
Optimization of space 4015 
Child-ish considerations 4012 
Finding peace.... 4006 
"Fencing"? 4005 
I need to build something custom 4005 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4005 
Stressed Skin 4005 
NYC elevators 4005 
Kids toys and quantities. 4005 
Everything is completely reversible 4004 
Racks and things 4004 
Now it looks even more promising! 4004 
Quantity of rods 4004 
Avoiding diagonals 4002 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4001 
That's not fair! 4001 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4001 
Discrimination? 3996 
Vertical configuration 3989 
Impresive ! 3918 
Did you read the site? 3918 
Contact 3918 
Company's name is Rixrax 3918 
Stand 3917 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3873 
End of life headphone system 3873 
Something like this? 3873 
The "Second Living Room" 3873 
Mixing urban & suburban 3873 
Late night listening 3873 
Moving life... 3871 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3871 
A true listening room. 3847 
It started… 3832 
Levels of Interest 3832 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3832 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3832 
I can't not to post it.... 3832 
Do not leave him unattended. 3832 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3832 
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