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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5847 
The first take on the new room. 5841 
New Room, a first shot. 5840 
Wonderful 5840 
Adopted 5839 
The first relaxed night with the room 5837 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5836 
The listening room is ready. 5835 
New Room, a First Shot 5833 
Continue to work with the room 5833 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5833 
Room 5832 
I think it will take another month. 5832 
The Buttressing 5832 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5831 
The new place and the new noises. 5831 
Big listening room 5830 
Screw the "big" rooms 5830 
Big listening rooms 5830 
First reflection points 5829 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5829 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5826 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5825 
Squeezing the floor 5825 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5825 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5825 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5824 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5824 
The new room, the very first listening. 5824 
The 14.5 foot. 5823 
Again… 5822 
Romy's new Playground 5822 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5822 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5822 
For the uninitiated ... 5821 
NH guy 5821 
Room 5821 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5820 
The first base is done 5820 
Reentry time alignment. 5819 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5818 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5818 
Mid bass horn. 5818 
Guess is only a guess… 5818 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5818 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5817 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5817 
Diffusors 5817 
Diffuse injection 5817 
Let analyse why it so 5817 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5817 
Wheel and Deal 5817 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5817 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5817 
I Must Be Missing Something 5817 
I put sliders under my speakers 5816 
ROOM 5815 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5815 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5815 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5815 
No concerns 5815 
Speakers and room 5815 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5814 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5814 
Diaphram 5814 
Phram 5814 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5814 
Perfect piston 5814 
Decorater 5813 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5813 
New morning 5812 
The first take on the room with RTA 5811 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5811 
Axiomatic 5811 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5810 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5810 
The size of the bass. 5810 
Bass Factory 5810 
Crude Level, or something more? 5810 
I will play with it this week…. 5810 
Rent-A 5810 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5810 
Corner horns 5810 
Cheating from below 5810 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5810 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5809 
A possibly overly simplified view 5809 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5809 
Iceberg 5809 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5809 
Why not horn 5809 
A correction…. 5809 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5809 
They are just not related things at all. 5809 
Fertin 5807 
Low resonance is good... 5807 
Et tu, Brute? 5806 
The Room response at LF 5805 
Life On The Ground Floor 5805 
Bass arrays 5805 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5805 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5805 
The super sucks. 5805 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5805 
You may also try 5804 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5804 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5804 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5804 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5804 
60 Hz Resonance 5804 
No notching… so far. 5804 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5803 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5803 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5803 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5803 
Power to the People 5803 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5803 
Aura 5803 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5803 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5803 
All class D is the same 5803 
Interpreting the LF results. 5802 
The Halibut 5802 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5802 
The Big Picture 5802 
Power & ULF channels 5802 
The big picture indeed. 5802 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5802 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5802 
The Power and the Glory 5801 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5801 
I guess I did not get this memo 5801 
French LF drivers 5801 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5801 
(another) French LF approach 5800 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5800 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5800 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5800 
Limpschtick 5800 
Symmetry 5800 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5799 
Room correction 5799 
It migh be more complicated. 5799 
Bass EQ ? 5799 
Agree and not. 5799 
Two "diseases" 5799 
Parametric filters 5799 
Ceiling arrays 5799 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5799 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5799 
The Middle of the Room. 5799 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5799 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5799 
Stop! 5799 
Appendectomy 5799 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5798 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5798 
No Isolation 5798 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5795 
Potential contenders? 5794 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5794 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5794 
Those Crazy Canucks 5790 
Mo' Better Bass 5784 
Bird in the Hand? 5784 
A wet listening spot? 5777 
Storm 5774 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5774 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5760 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5730 
Polar Opposite ULF 5729 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5717 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5715 
Differently but the same. 5714 
PVC 5713 
The sail test try. 5713 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5713 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5713 
Trial 5712 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5712 
Some explanations 5712 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5711 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5710 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5709 
Acrylate 5708 
Magic blanket 5708 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5707 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5707 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5707 
I have a few options. 5707 
Foam color 5707 
Strange things with upperbass 5707 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5706 
Teatro reform. . . 5706 
The foaming room dilemma. 5705 
Melamine Foam 5705 
Foaming up the cat house 5705 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5705 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5705 
Acoustic revisions… 5704 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5701 
Surprises so far in the new room 5700 
The upperbass in the new room. 5700 
Slight change of hart. 5699 
Camco supply of Boston 5697 
Room acoustics 5697 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5656 
I need to kill dust first. 5656 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5654 
To feed the leeches? 5654 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5653 
Yh 5653 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5653 
DPOLs? 5653 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5653 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5650 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5650 
A HalfPipe solution? 5650 
I absolutely love it. 5650 
Piper work 5649 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5649 
Absorption 5649 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5648 
Cats life ? 5648 
Call me Pussy. 5648 
More about traps 5648 
Acoustic impedance? 5648 
You maybe right 5648 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5648 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5647 
Heavy Curtain 5647 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5646 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5646 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5646 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5643 
Fix speaker move chair? 5642 
Back and forth ceremony 5642 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5641 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5640 
Glass windows 5639 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5638 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5637 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5635 
How to use basement jacks? 5635 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5635 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5635 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5634 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5634 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5633 
Sore eyes... 5632 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5632 
The harvesting week! 5630 
I need an inspiration… 5629 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5628 
Like this? 5628 
Dramatically randomize MF 5628 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5627 
The room eats dynamic 5627 
Diffusers 5627 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5626 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5611 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5610 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5610 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5610 
About Width-Importance balance. 5608 
Letting the music scale up 5607 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5607 
To finish my house décor… 5603 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5602 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5601 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5601 
Calling the gods of music 5601 
Absolutely 5601 
Phase manipulation 5601 
No relation. 5601 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5601 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5601 
Dynamical mismatch 5600 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5600 
Stradiwinerius? 5597 
Dealing with the glass. 5596 
Boston 5596 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5596 
Added mass 5596 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5596 
It is about moderation…. 5596 
To hell with the wine... 5596 
Also for other surafaces 5595 
LEAD 5595 
LEAD & GLASS 5595 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5595 
Read carefully 5595 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5595 
Crooks and morons 5595 
Magiscopios 5594 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5574 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5574 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5573 
The LP setup in the new home. 5522 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5517 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5517 
Pianochord will do! 5517 
Spanyi heaven 5517 
I see no conflict at all. 5517 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5517 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5517 
A year after closing 5509 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5509 
Traveling antimatter 5502 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5496 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5495 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5469 
Cast Iron fireplace 5468 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5468 
The hardcore way 5468 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5432 
This is How It's Done 5431 
Listening room during summer. 5419 
What about those... 5418 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5418 
Reducing A/C Noise 5418 
HVAC the Cat 5418 
Big Ass fan 5417 
Variac dimmers 5417 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5417 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5417 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5349 
Some winter observations. 5240 
That Asian man…. 5209 
The Franz Schubert morning 5183 
Spring.... 5132 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5082 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5053 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5053 
Just good photography? 5053 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5053 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5053 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5052 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5052 
Sports car 5052 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5052 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5052 
Train Positioning 5052 
Kind of what I want 5052 
The lap listening… 5052 
Family Room 5052 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5049 
A super audio room. 5045 
Time Warp! 5045 
A piano in a listening room 5024 
Pianissimo 5024 
The plan in blue. 5024 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5024 
My doubts 5024 
It is exactly what I worry. 5023 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5023 
Musicians at home 5023 
Piano Measurements 5022 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5017 
The next step. 5003 
Midbass horns missing?? 5002 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4992 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4992 
Baby Grand 4991 
Wood floor 4991 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4991 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4991 
Amy’s baby. 4989 
Improvement 4989 
Agree with Scott 4989 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4977 
Integrated casters 4977 
Very nice, thanks. 4977 
Customization 4977 
Sliders 4977 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4970 
Congratulations 4970 
Holes in the floor... 4970 
Tubes and kids 4970 
Sweet spot enlargement 4970 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4968 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4967 
Wood Floors and Water 4967 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4962 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4961 
WAF is for Losers 4961 
WAF: it depends. 4961 
Integration 4960 
Here and there. 4960 
Life after WWIII 4960 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4960 
Cables management. 4958 
Featurizing 4958 
Kids and tubes cont. 4955 
Kid magnet 4955 
Kids and audio 4954 
Radars 4954 
Wow, what the days! 4950 
The comming weekend 4946 
It all was worth it! 4943 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4938 
Here is how it is look. 4938 
Resolving the carpet issue 4938 
Bonfire 4938 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4938 
Proof of concept? 4938 
Geometry 4938 
A view from listening position. 4938 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4938 
Some feedback 4938 
Evening 4938 
I wonder why. 4937 
Rugs and things 4937 
In defense… 4937 
I can’t get it. 4934 
Haze. 4933 
Front wall 4933 
It is very possible. 4933 
It is nice to be back. 4930 
My comfy corner. 4927 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4567 
WMD in house. 4389 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4292 
The third listening spot. 4271 
For sure a very different experience. 4233 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4228 
It's Jfretch's system. 4228 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4227 
Domestic games 4181 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4042 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4042 
Dynamic screening 4042 
Actually this is very good idea! 4042 
Volcanic fabric 4042 
I should have done this. 4040 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4036 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4005 
No worries 4005 
Awesome memories 4005 
Optimization of space 4005 
Child-ish considerations 4002 
Finding peace.... 3996 
"Fencing"? 3995 
I need to build something custom 3995 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3995 
Stressed Skin 3995 
NYC elevators 3995 
Kids toys and quantities. 3995 
Everything is completely reversible 3994 
Racks and things 3994 
Now it looks even more promising! 3994 
Quantity of rods 3994 
Avoiding diagonals 3992 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3991 
That's not fair! 3991 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3991 
Discrimination? 3986 
Vertical configuration 3979 
Impresive ! 3908 
Did you read the site? 3908 
Contact 3908 
Company's name is Rixrax 3908 
Stand 3907 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3863 
End of life headphone system 3863 
Something like this? 3863 
The "Second Living Room" 3863 
Mixing urban & suburban 3863 
Late night listening 3863 
Moving life... 3861 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3861 
A true listening room. 3837 
It started… 3822 
Levels of Interest 3822 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3822 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3822 
I can't not to post it.... 3822 
Do not leave him unattended. 3822 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3822 
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