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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5824 
The first take on the new room. 5818 
New Room, a first shot. 5817 
Wonderful 5817 
Adopted 5816 
The first relaxed night with the room 5814 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5813 
The listening room is ready. 5812 
New Room, a First Shot 5810 
Continue to work with the room 5810 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5810 
Room 5809 
I think it will take another month. 5809 
The Buttressing 5809 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5808 
The new place and the new noises. 5808 
Big listening room 5807 
Screw the "big" rooms 5807 
Big listening rooms 5807 
First reflection points 5806 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5806 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5803 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5802 
Squeezing the floor 5802 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5802 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5802 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5801 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5801 
The new room, the very first listening. 5801 
The 14.5 foot. 5800 
Again… 5799 
Romy's new Playground 5799 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5799 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5799 
For the uninitiated ... 5798 
NH guy 5798 
Room 5798 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5797 
The first base is done 5797 
Reentry time alignment. 5796 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5795 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5795 
Mid bass horn. 5795 
Guess is only a guess… 5795 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5795 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5794 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5794 
Diffusors 5794 
Diffuse injection 5794 
Let analyse why it so 5794 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5794 
Wheel and Deal 5794 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5794 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5794 
I Must Be Missing Something 5794 
I put sliders under my speakers 5793 
ROOM 5792 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5792 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5792 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5792 
No concerns 5792 
Speakers and room 5792 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5791 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5791 
Diaphram 5791 
Phram 5791 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5791 
Perfect piston 5791 
Decorater 5790 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5790 
New morning 5789 
The first take on the room with RTA 5788 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5788 
Axiomatic 5788 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5787 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5787 
The size of the bass. 5787 
Bass Factory 5787 
Crude Level, or something more? 5787 
I will play with it this week…. 5787 
Rent-A 5787 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5787 
Corner horns 5787 
Cheating from below 5787 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5787 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5786 
A possibly overly simplified view 5786 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5786 
Iceberg 5786 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5786 
Why not horn 5786 
A correction…. 5786 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5786 
They are just not related things at all. 5786 
Fertin 5784 
Low resonance is good... 5784 
Et tu, Brute? 5783 
The Room response at LF 5782 
Life On The Ground Floor 5782 
Bass arrays 5782 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5782 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5782 
The super sucks. 5782 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5782 
You may also try 5781 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5781 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5781 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5781 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5781 
60 Hz Resonance 5781 
No notching… so far. 5781 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5780 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5780 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5780 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5780 
Power to the People 5780 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5780 
Aura 5780 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5780 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5780 
All class D is the same 5780 
Interpreting the LF results. 5779 
The Halibut 5779 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5779 
The Big Picture 5779 
Power & ULF channels 5779 
The big picture indeed. 5779 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5779 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5779 
The Power and the Glory 5778 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5778 
I guess I did not get this memo 5778 
French LF drivers 5778 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5778 
(another) French LF approach 5777 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5777 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5777 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5777 
Limpschtick 5777 
Symmetry 5777 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5776 
Room correction 5776 
It migh be more complicated. 5776 
Bass EQ ? 5776 
Agree and not. 5776 
Two "diseases" 5776 
Parametric filters 5776 
Ceiling arrays 5776 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5776 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5776 
The Middle of the Room. 5776 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5776 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5776 
Stop! 5776 
Appendectomy 5776 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5775 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5775 
No Isolation 5775 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5772 
Potential contenders? 5771 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5771 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5771 
Those Crazy Canucks 5767 
Mo' Better Bass 5761 
Bird in the Hand? 5761 
A wet listening spot? 5754 
Storm 5751 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5751 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5737 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5707 
Polar Opposite ULF 5706 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5694 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5692 
Differently but the same. 5691 
PVC 5690 
The sail test try. 5690 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5690 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5690 
Trial 5689 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5689 
Some explanations 5689 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5688 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5687 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5686 
Acrylate 5685 
Magic blanket 5685 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5684 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5684 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5684 
I have a few options. 5684 
Foam color 5684 
Strange things with upperbass 5684 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5683 
Teatro reform. . . 5683 
The foaming room dilemma. 5682 
Melamine Foam 5682 
Foaming up the cat house 5682 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5682 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5682 
Acoustic revisions… 5681 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5678 
Surprises so far in the new room 5677 
The upperbass in the new room. 5677 
Slight change of hart. 5676 
Camco supply of Boston 5674 
Room acoustics 5674 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5633 
I need to kill dust first. 5633 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5631 
To feed the leeches? 5631 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5630 
Yh 5630 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5630 
DPOLs? 5630 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5630 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5627 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5627 
A HalfPipe solution? 5627 
I absolutely love it. 5627 
Piper work 5626 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5626 
Absorption 5626 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5625 
Cats life ? 5625 
Call me Pussy. 5625 
More about traps 5625 
Acoustic impedance? 5625 
You maybe right 5625 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5625 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5624 
Heavy Curtain 5624 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5623 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5623 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5623 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5620 
Fix speaker move chair? 5619 
Back and forth ceremony 5619 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5618 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5617 
Glass windows 5616 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5615 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5614 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5612 
How to use basement jacks? 5612 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5612 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5612 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5611 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5611 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5610 
Sore eyes... 5609 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5609 
The harvesting week! 5607 
I need an inspiration… 5606 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5605 
Like this? 5605 
Dramatically randomize MF 5605 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5604 
The room eats dynamic 5604 
Diffusers 5604 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5603 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5588 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5587 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5587 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5587 
About Width-Importance balance. 5585 
Letting the music scale up 5584 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5584 
To finish my house décor… 5580 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5579 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5578 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5578 
Calling the gods of music 5578 
Absolutely 5578 
Phase manipulation 5578 
No relation. 5578 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5578 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5578 
Dynamical mismatch 5577 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5577 
Stradiwinerius? 5574 
Dealing with the glass. 5573 
Boston 5573 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5573 
Added mass 5573 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5573 
It is about moderation…. 5573 
To hell with the wine... 5573 
Also for other surafaces 5572 
LEAD 5572 
LEAD & GLASS 5572 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5572 
Read carefully 5572 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5572 
Crooks and morons 5572 
Magiscopios 5571 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5551 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5551 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5550 
The LP setup in the new home. 5499 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5494 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5494 
Pianochord will do! 5494 
Spanyi heaven 5494 
I see no conflict at all. 5494 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5494 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5494 
A year after closing 5486 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5486 
Traveling antimatter 5479 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5473 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5472 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5446 
Cast Iron fireplace 5445 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5445 
The hardcore way 5445 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5409 
This is How It's Done 5408 
Listening room during summer. 5396 
What about those... 5395 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5395 
Reducing A/C Noise 5395 
HVAC the Cat 5395 
Big Ass fan 5394 
Variac dimmers 5394 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5394 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5394 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5326 
Some winter observations. 5217 
That Asian man…. 5186 
The Franz Schubert morning 5160 
Spring.... 5109 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5059 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5030 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5030 
Just good photography? 5030 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5030 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5030 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5029 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5029 
Sports car 5029 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5029 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5029 
Train Positioning 5029 
Kind of what I want 5029 
The lap listening… 5029 
Family Room 5029 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5026 
A super audio room. 5022 
Time Warp! 5022 
A piano in a listening room 5001 
Pianissimo 5001 
The plan in blue. 5001 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5001 
My doubts 5001 
It is exactly what I worry. 5000 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5000 
Musicians at home 5000 
Piano Measurements 4999 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4994 
The next step. 4980 
Midbass horns missing?? 4979 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4969 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4969 
Baby Grand 4968 
Wood floor 4968 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4968 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4968 
Amy’s baby. 4966 
Improvement 4966 
Agree with Scott 4966 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4954 
Integrated casters 4954 
Very nice, thanks. 4954 
Customization 4954 
Sliders 4954 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4947 
Congratulations 4947 
Holes in the floor... 4947 
Tubes and kids 4947 
Sweet spot enlargement 4947 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4945 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4944 
Wood Floors and Water 4944 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4939 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4938 
WAF is for Losers 4938 
WAF: it depends. 4938 
Integration 4937 
Here and there. 4937 
Life after WWIII 4937 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4937 
Cables management. 4935 
Featurizing 4935 
Kids and tubes cont. 4932 
Kid magnet 4932 
Kids and audio 4931 
Radars 4931 
Wow, what the days! 4927 
The comming weekend 4923 
It all was worth it! 4920 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4915 
Here is how it is look. 4915 
Resolving the carpet issue 4915 
Bonfire 4915 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4915 
Proof of concept? 4915 
Geometry 4915 
A view from listening position. 4915 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4915 
Some feedback 4915 
Evening 4915 
I wonder why. 4914 
Rugs and things 4914 
In defense… 4914 
I can’t get it. 4911 
Haze. 4910 
Front wall 4910 
It is very possible. 4910 
It is nice to be back. 4907 
My comfy corner. 4904 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4544 
WMD in house. 4366 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4269 
The third listening spot. 4248 
For sure a very different experience. 4210 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4205 
It's Jfretch's system. 4205 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4204 
Domestic games 4158 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4019 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4019 
Dynamic screening 4019 
Actually this is very good idea! 4019 
Volcanic fabric 4019 
I should have done this. 4017 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4013 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3982 
No worries 3982 
Awesome memories 3982 
Optimization of space 3982 
Child-ish considerations 3979 
Finding peace.... 3973 
"Fencing"? 3972 
I need to build something custom 3972 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3972 
Stressed Skin 3972 
NYC elevators 3972 
Kids toys and quantities. 3972 
Everything is completely reversible 3971 
Racks and things 3971 
Now it looks even more promising! 3971 
Quantity of rods 3971 
Avoiding diagonals 3969 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3968 
That's not fair! 3968 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3968 
Discrimination? 3963 
Vertical configuration 3956 
Impresive ! 3885 
Did you read the site? 3885 
Contact 3885 
Company's name is Rixrax 3885 
Stand 3884 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3840 
End of life headphone system 3840 
Something like this? 3840 
The "Second Living Room" 3840 
Mixing urban & suburban 3840 
Late night listening 3840 
Moving life... 3838 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3838 
A true listening room. 3814 
It started… 3799 
Levels of Interest 3799 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3799 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3799 
I can't not to post it.... 3799 
Do not leave him unattended. 3799 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3799 
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