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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5987 
The first take on the new room. 5981 
New Room, a first shot. 5980 
Wonderful 5980 
Adopted 5979 
The first relaxed night with the room 5977 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5976 
The listening room is ready. 5975 
New Room, a First Shot 5973 
Continue to work with the room 5973 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5973 
Room 5972 
I think it will take another month. 5972 
The Buttressing 5972 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5971 
The new place and the new noises. 5971 
Big listening room 5970 
Screw the "big" rooms 5970 
Big listening rooms 5970 
First reflection points 5969 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5969 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5966 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5965 
Squeezing the floor 5965 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5965 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5965 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5964 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5964 
The new room, the very first listening. 5964 
The 14.5 foot. 5963 
Again… 5962 
Romy's new Playground 5962 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5962 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5962 
For the uninitiated ... 5961 
NH guy 5961 
Room 5961 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5960 
The first base is done 5960 
Reentry time alignment. 5959 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5958 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5958 
Mid bass horn. 5958 
Guess is only a guess… 5958 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5958 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5957 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5957 
Diffusors 5957 
Diffuse injection 5957 
Let analyse why it so 5957 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5957 
Wheel and Deal 5957 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5957 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5957 
I Must Be Missing Something 5957 
I put sliders under my speakers 5956 
ROOM 5955 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5955 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5955 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5955 
No concerns 5955 
Speakers and room 5955 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5954 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5954 
Diaphram 5954 
Phram 5954 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5954 
Perfect piston 5954 
Decorater 5953 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5953 
New morning 5952 
The first take on the room with RTA 5951 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5951 
Axiomatic 5951 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5950 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5950 
The size of the bass. 5950 
Bass Factory 5950 
Crude Level, or something more? 5950 
I will play with it this week…. 5950 
Rent-A 5950 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5950 
Corner horns 5950 
Cheating from below 5950 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5950 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5949 
A possibly overly simplified view 5949 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5949 
Iceberg 5949 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5949 
Why not horn 5949 
A correction…. 5949 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5949 
They are just not related things at all. 5949 
Fertin 5947 
Low resonance is good... 5947 
Et tu, Brute? 5946 
The Room response at LF 5945 
Life On The Ground Floor 5945 
Bass arrays 5945 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5945 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5945 
The super sucks. 5945 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5945 
You may also try 5944 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5944 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5944 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5944 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5944 
60 Hz Resonance 5944 
No notching… so far. 5944 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5943 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5943 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5943 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5943 
Power to the People 5943 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5943 
Aura 5943 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5943 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5943 
All class D is the same 5943 
Interpreting the LF results. 5942 
The Halibut 5942 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5942 
The Big Picture 5942 
Power & ULF channels 5942 
The big picture indeed. 5942 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5942 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5942 
The Power and the Glory 5941 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5941 
I guess I did not get this memo 5941 
French LF drivers 5941 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5941 
(another) French LF approach 5940 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5940 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5940 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5940 
Limpschtick 5940 
Symmetry 5940 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5939 
Room correction 5939 
It migh be more complicated. 5939 
Bass EQ ? 5939 
Agree and not. 5939 
Two "diseases" 5939 
Parametric filters 5939 
Ceiling arrays 5939 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5939 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5939 
The Middle of the Room. 5939 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5939 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5939 
Stop! 5939 
Appendectomy 5939 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5938 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5938 
No Isolation 5938 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5935 
Potential contenders? 5934 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5934 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5934 
Those Crazy Canucks 5930 
Mo' Better Bass 5924 
Bird in the Hand? 5924 
A wet listening spot? 5917 
Storm 5914 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5914 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5900 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5870 
Polar Opposite ULF 5869 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5857 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5855 
Differently but the same. 5854 
PVC 5853 
The sail test try. 5853 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5853 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5853 
Trial 5852 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5852 
Some explanations 5852 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5851 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5850 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5849 
Acrylate 5848 
Magic blanket 5848 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5847 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5847 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5847 
I have a few options. 5847 
Foam color 5847 
Strange things with upperbass 5847 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5846 
Teatro reform. . . 5846 
The foaming room dilemma. 5845 
Melamine Foam 5845 
Foaming up the cat house 5845 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5845 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5845 
Acoustic revisions… 5844 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5841 
Surprises so far in the new room 5840 
The upperbass in the new room. 5840 
Slight change of hart. 5839 
Camco supply of Boston 5837 
Room acoustics 5837 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5796 
I need to kill dust first. 5796 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5794 
To feed the leeches? 5794 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5793 
Yh 5793 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5793 
DPOLs? 5793 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5793 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5790 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5790 
A HalfPipe solution? 5790 
I absolutely love it. 5790 
Piper work 5789 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5789 
Absorption 5789 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5788 
Cats life ? 5788 
Call me Pussy. 5788 
More about traps 5788 
Acoustic impedance? 5788 
You maybe right 5788 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5788 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5787 
Heavy Curtain 5787 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5786 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5786 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5786 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5783 
Fix speaker move chair? 5782 
Back and forth ceremony 5782 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5781 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5780 
Glass windows 5779 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5778 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5777 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5775 
How to use basement jacks? 5775 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5775 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5775 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5774 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5774 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5773 
Sore eyes... 5772 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5772 
The harvesting week! 5770 
I need an inspiration… 5769 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5768 
Like this? 5768 
Dramatically randomize MF 5768 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5767 
The room eats dynamic 5767 
Diffusers 5767 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5766 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5751 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5750 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5750 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5750 
About Width-Importance balance. 5748 
Letting the music scale up 5747 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5747 
To finish my house décor… 5743 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5742 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5741 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5741 
Calling the gods of music 5741 
Absolutely 5741 
Phase manipulation 5741 
No relation. 5741 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5741 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5741 
Dynamical mismatch 5740 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5740 
Stradiwinerius? 5737 
Dealing with the glass. 5736 
Boston 5736 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5736 
Added mass 5736 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5736 
It is about moderation…. 5736 
To hell with the wine... 5736 
Also for other surafaces 5735 
LEAD 5735 
LEAD & GLASS 5735 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5735 
Read carefully 5735 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5735 
Crooks and morons 5735 
Magiscopios 5734 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5714 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5714 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5713 
The LP setup in the new home. 5662 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5657 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5657 
Pianochord will do! 5657 
Spanyi heaven 5657 
I see no conflict at all. 5657 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5657 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5657 
A year after closing 5649 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5649 
Traveling antimatter 5642 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5636 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5635 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5609 
Cast Iron fireplace 5608 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5608 
The hardcore way 5608 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5572 
This is How It's Done 5571 
Listening room during summer. 5559 
What about those... 5558 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5558 
Reducing A/C Noise 5558 
HVAC the Cat 5558 
Big Ass fan 5557 
Variac dimmers 5557 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5557 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5557 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5489 
Some winter observations. 5380 
That Asian man…. 5349 
The Franz Schubert morning 5323 
Spring.... 5272 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5222 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5193 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5193 
Just good photography? 5193 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5193 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5193 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5192 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5192 
Sports car 5192 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5192 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5192 
Train Positioning 5192 
Kind of what I want 5192 
The lap listening… 5192 
Family Room 5192 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5189 
A super audio room. 5185 
Time Warp! 5185 
A piano in a listening room 5164 
Pianissimo 5164 
The plan in blue. 5164 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5164 
My doubts 5164 
It is exactly what I worry. 5163 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5163 
Musicians at home 5163 
Piano Measurements 5162 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5157 
The next step. 5143 
Midbass horns missing?? 5142 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5132 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5132 
Baby Grand 5131 
Wood floor 5131 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5131 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5131 
Amy’s baby. 5129 
Improvement 5129 
Agree with Scott 5129 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5117 
Integrated casters 5117 
Very nice, thanks. 5117 
Customization 5117 
Sliders 5117 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5110 
Congratulations 5110 
Holes in the floor... 5110 
Tubes and kids 5110 
Sweet spot enlargement 5110 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5108 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5107 
Wood Floors and Water 5107 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5102 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5101 
WAF is for Losers 5101 
WAF: it depends. 5101 
Integration 5100 
Here and there. 5100 
Life after WWIII 5100 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5100 
Cables management. 5098 
Featurizing 5098 
Kids and tubes cont. 5095 
Kid magnet 5095 
Kids and audio 5094 
Radars 5094 
Wow, what the days! 5090 
The comming weekend 5086 
It all was worth it! 5083 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5078 
Here is how it is look. 5078 
Resolving the carpet issue 5078 
Bonfire 5078 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5078 
Proof of concept? 5078 
Geometry 5078 
A view from listening position. 5078 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5078 
Some feedback 5078 
Evening 5078 
I wonder why. 5077 
Rugs and things 5077 
In defense… 5077 
I can’t get it. 5074 
Haze. 5073 
Front wall 5073 
It is very possible. 5073 
It is nice to be back. 5070 
My comfy corner. 5067 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4707 
WMD in house. 4529 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4432 
The third listening spot. 4411 
For sure a very different experience. 4373 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4368 
It's Jfretch's system. 4368 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4367 
Domestic games 4321 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4182 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4182 
Dynamic screening 4182 
Actually this is very good idea! 4182 
Volcanic fabric 4182 
I should have done this. 4180 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4176 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4145 
No worries 4145 
Awesome memories 4145 
Optimization of space 4145 
Child-ish considerations 4142 
Finding peace.... 4136 
"Fencing"? 4135 
I need to build something custom 4135 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4135 
Stressed Skin 4135 
NYC elevators 4135 
Kids toys and quantities. 4135 
Everything is completely reversible 4134 
Racks and things 4134 
Now it looks even more promising! 4134 
Quantity of rods 4134 
Avoiding diagonals 4132 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4131 
That's not fair! 4131 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4131 
Discrimination? 4126 
Vertical configuration 4119 
Impresive ! 4048 
Did you read the site? 4048 
Contact 4048 
Company's name is Rixrax 4048 
Stand 4047 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4003 
End of life headphone system 4003 
Something like this? 4003 
The "Second Living Room" 4003 
Mixing urban & suburban 4003 
Late night listening 4003 
Moving life... 4001 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4001 
A true listening room. 3977 
It started… 3962 
Levels of Interest 3962 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3962 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3962 
I can't not to post it.... 3962 
Do not leave him unattended. 3962 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3962 
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