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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5975 
The first take on the new room. 5969 
New Room, a first shot. 5968 
Wonderful 5968 
Adopted 5967 
The first relaxed night with the room 5965 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5964 
The listening room is ready. 5963 
New Room, a First Shot 5961 
Continue to work with the room 5961 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5961 
Room 5960 
I think it will take another month. 5960 
The Buttressing 5960 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5959 
The new place and the new noises. 5959 
Big listening room 5958 
Screw the "big" rooms 5958 
Big listening rooms 5958 
First reflection points 5957 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5957 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5954 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5953 
Squeezing the floor 5953 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5953 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5953 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5952 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5952 
The new room, the very first listening. 5952 
The 14.5 foot. 5951 
Again… 5950 
Romy's new Playground 5950 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5950 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5950 
For the uninitiated ... 5949 
NH guy 5949 
Room 5949 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5948 
The first base is done 5948 
Reentry time alignment. 5947 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5946 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5946 
Mid bass horn. 5946 
Guess is only a guess… 5946 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5946 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5945 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5945 
Diffusors 5945 
Diffuse injection 5945 
Let analyse why it so 5945 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5945 
Wheel and Deal 5945 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5945 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5945 
I Must Be Missing Something 5945 
I put sliders under my speakers 5944 
ROOM 5943 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5943 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5943 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5943 
No concerns 5943 
Speakers and room 5943 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5942 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5942 
Diaphram 5942 
Phram 5942 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5942 
Perfect piston 5942 
Decorater 5941 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5941 
New morning 5940 
The first take on the room with RTA 5939 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5939 
Axiomatic 5939 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5938 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5938 
The size of the bass. 5938 
Bass Factory 5938 
Crude Level, or something more? 5938 
I will play with it this week…. 5938 
Rent-A 5938 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5938 
Corner horns 5938 
Cheating from below 5938 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5938 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5937 
A possibly overly simplified view 5937 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5937 
Iceberg 5937 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5937 
Why not horn 5937 
A correction…. 5937 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5937 
They are just not related things at all. 5937 
Fertin 5935 
Low resonance is good... 5935 
Et tu, Brute? 5934 
The Room response at LF 5933 
Life On The Ground Floor 5933 
Bass arrays 5933 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5933 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5933 
The super sucks. 5933 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5933 
You may also try 5932 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5932 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5932 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5932 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5932 
60 Hz Resonance 5932 
No notching… so far. 5932 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5931 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5931 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5931 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5931 
Power to the People 5931 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5931 
Aura 5931 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5931 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5931 
All class D is the same 5931 
Interpreting the LF results. 5930 
The Halibut 5930 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5930 
The Big Picture 5930 
Power & ULF channels 5930 
The big picture indeed. 5930 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5930 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5930 
The Power and the Glory 5929 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5929 
I guess I did not get this memo 5929 
French LF drivers 5929 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5929 
(another) French LF approach 5928 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5928 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5928 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5928 
Limpschtick 5928 
Symmetry 5928 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5927 
Room correction 5927 
It migh be more complicated. 5927 
Bass EQ ? 5927 
Agree and not. 5927 
Two "diseases" 5927 
Parametric filters 5927 
Ceiling arrays 5927 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5927 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5927 
The Middle of the Room. 5927 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5927 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5927 
Stop! 5927 
Appendectomy 5927 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5926 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5926 
No Isolation 5926 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5923 
Potential contenders? 5922 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5922 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5922 
Those Crazy Canucks 5918 
Mo' Better Bass 5912 
Bird in the Hand? 5912 
A wet listening spot? 5905 
Storm 5902 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5902 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5888 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5858 
Polar Opposite ULF 5857 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5845 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5843 
Differently but the same. 5842 
PVC 5841 
The sail test try. 5841 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5841 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5841 
Trial 5840 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5840 
Some explanations 5840 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5839 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5838 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5837 
Acrylate 5836 
Magic blanket 5836 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5835 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5835 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5835 
I have a few options. 5835 
Foam color 5835 
Strange things with upperbass 5835 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5834 
Teatro reform. . . 5834 
The foaming room dilemma. 5833 
Melamine Foam 5833 
Foaming up the cat house 5833 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5833 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5833 
Acoustic revisions… 5832 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5829 
Surprises so far in the new room 5828 
The upperbass in the new room. 5828 
Slight change of hart. 5827 
Camco supply of Boston 5825 
Room acoustics 5825 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5784 
I need to kill dust first. 5784 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5782 
To feed the leeches? 5782 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5781 
Yh 5781 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5781 
DPOLs? 5781 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5781 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5778 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5778 
A HalfPipe solution? 5778 
I absolutely love it. 5778 
Piper work 5777 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5777 
Absorption 5777 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5776 
Cats life ? 5776 
Call me Pussy. 5776 
More about traps 5776 
Acoustic impedance? 5776 
You maybe right 5776 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5776 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5775 
Heavy Curtain 5775 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5774 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5774 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5774 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5771 
Fix speaker move chair? 5770 
Back and forth ceremony 5770 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5769 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5768 
Glass windows 5767 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5766 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5765 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5763 
How to use basement jacks? 5763 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5763 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5763 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5762 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5762 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5761 
Sore eyes... 5760 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5760 
The harvesting week! 5758 
I need an inspiration… 5757 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5756 
Like this? 5756 
Dramatically randomize MF 5756 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5755 
The room eats dynamic 5755 
Diffusers 5755 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5754 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5739 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5738 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5738 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5738 
About Width-Importance balance. 5736 
Letting the music scale up 5735 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5735 
To finish my house décor… 5731 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5730 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5729 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5729 
Calling the gods of music 5729 
Absolutely 5729 
Phase manipulation 5729 
No relation. 5729 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5729 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5729 
Dynamical mismatch 5728 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5728 
Stradiwinerius? 5725 
Dealing with the glass. 5724 
Boston 5724 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5724 
Added mass 5724 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5724 
It is about moderation…. 5724 
To hell with the wine... 5724 
Also for other surafaces 5723 
LEAD 5723 
LEAD & GLASS 5723 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5723 
Read carefully 5723 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5723 
Crooks and morons 5723 
Magiscopios 5722 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5702 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5702 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5701 
The LP setup in the new home. 5650 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5645 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5645 
Pianochord will do! 5645 
Spanyi heaven 5645 
I see no conflict at all. 5645 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5645 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5645 
A year after closing 5637 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5637 
Traveling antimatter 5630 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5624 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5623 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5597 
Cast Iron fireplace 5596 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5596 
The hardcore way 5596 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5560 
This is How It's Done 5559 
Listening room during summer. 5547 
What about those... 5546 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5546 
Reducing A/C Noise 5546 
HVAC the Cat 5546 
Big Ass fan 5545 
Variac dimmers 5545 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5545 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5545 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5477 
Some winter observations. 5368 
That Asian man…. 5337 
The Franz Schubert morning 5311 
Spring.... 5260 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5210 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5181 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5181 
Just good photography? 5181 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5181 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5181 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5180 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5180 
Sports car 5180 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5180 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5180 
Train Positioning 5180 
Kind of what I want 5180 
The lap listening… 5180 
Family Room 5180 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5177 
A super audio room. 5173 
Time Warp! 5173 
A piano in a listening room 5152 
Pianissimo 5152 
The plan in blue. 5152 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5152 
My doubts 5152 
It is exactly what I worry. 5151 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5151 
Musicians at home 5151 
Piano Measurements 5150 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5145 
The next step. 5131 
Midbass horns missing?? 5130 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5120 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5120 
Baby Grand 5119 
Wood floor 5119 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5119 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5119 
Amy’s baby. 5117 
Improvement 5117 
Agree with Scott 5117 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5105 
Integrated casters 5105 
Very nice, thanks. 5105 
Customization 5105 
Sliders 5105 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5098 
Congratulations 5098 
Holes in the floor... 5098 
Tubes and kids 5098 
Sweet spot enlargement 5098 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5096 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5095 
Wood Floors and Water 5095 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5090 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5089 
WAF is for Losers 5089 
WAF: it depends. 5089 
Integration 5088 
Here and there. 5088 
Life after WWIII 5088 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5088 
Cables management. 5086 
Featurizing 5086 
Kids and tubes cont. 5083 
Kid magnet 5083 
Kids and audio 5082 
Radars 5082 
Wow, what the days! 5078 
The comming weekend 5074 
It all was worth it! 5071 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5066 
Here is how it is look. 5066 
Resolving the carpet issue 5066 
Bonfire 5066 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5066 
Proof of concept? 5066 
Geometry 5066 
A view from listening position. 5066 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5066 
Some feedback 5066 
Evening 5066 
I wonder why. 5065 
Rugs and things 5065 
In defense… 5065 
I can’t get it. 5062 
Haze. 5061 
Front wall 5061 
It is very possible. 5061 
It is nice to be back. 5058 
My comfy corner. 5055 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4695 
WMD in house. 4517 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4420 
The third listening spot. 4399 
For sure a very different experience. 4361 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4356 
It's Jfretch's system. 4356 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4355 
Domestic games 4309 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4170 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4170 
Dynamic screening 4170 
Actually this is very good idea! 4170 
Volcanic fabric 4170 
I should have done this. 4168 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4164 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4133 
No worries 4133 
Awesome memories 4133 
Optimization of space 4133 
Child-ish considerations 4130 
Finding peace.... 4124 
"Fencing"? 4123 
I need to build something custom 4123 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4123 
Stressed Skin 4123 
NYC elevators 4123 
Kids toys and quantities. 4123 
Everything is completely reversible 4122 
Racks and things 4122 
Now it looks even more promising! 4122 
Quantity of rods 4122 
Avoiding diagonals 4120 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4119 
That's not fair! 4119 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4119 
Discrimination? 4114 
Vertical configuration 4107 
Impresive ! 4036 
Did you read the site? 4036 
Contact 4036 
Company's name is Rixrax 4036 
Stand 4035 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3991 
End of life headphone system 3991 
Something like this? 3991 
The "Second Living Room" 3991 
Mixing urban & suburban 3991 
Late night listening 3991 
Moving life... 3989 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3989 
A true listening room. 3965 
It started… 3950 
Levels of Interest 3950 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3950 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3950 
I can't not to post it.... 3950 
Do not leave him unattended. 3950 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3950 
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