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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5717 
The first take on the new room. 5711 
New Room, a first shot. 5710 
Wonderful 5710 
Adopted 5709 
The first relaxed night with the room 5707 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5706 
The listening room is ready. 5705 
New Room, a First Shot 5703 
Continue to work with the room 5703 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5703 
Room 5702 
I think it will take another month. 5702 
The Buttressing 5702 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5701 
The new place and the new noises. 5701 
Big listening room 5700 
Screw the "big" rooms 5700 
Big listening rooms 5700 
First reflection points 5699 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5699 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5696 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5695 
Squeezing the floor 5695 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5695 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5695 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5694 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5694 
The new room, the very first listening. 5694 
The 14.5 foot. 5693 
Again… 5692 
Romy's new Playground 5692 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5692 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5692 
For the uninitiated ... 5691 
NH guy 5691 
Room 5691 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5690 
The first base is done 5690 
Reentry time alignment. 5689 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5688 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5688 
Mid bass horn. 5688 
Guess is only a guess… 5688 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5688 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5687 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5687 
Diffusors 5687 
Diffuse injection 5687 
Let analyse why it so 5687 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5687 
Wheel and Deal 5687 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5687 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5687 
I Must Be Missing Something 5687 
I put sliders under my speakers 5686 
ROOM 5685 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5685 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5685 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5685 
No concerns 5685 
Speakers and room 5685 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5684 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5684 
Diaphram 5684 
Phram 5684 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5684 
Perfect piston 5684 
Decorater 5683 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5683 
New morning 5682 
The first take on the room with RTA 5681 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5681 
Axiomatic 5681 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5680 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5680 
The size of the bass. 5680 
Bass Factory 5680 
Crude Level, or something more? 5680 
I will play with it this week…. 5680 
Rent-A 5680 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5680 
Corner horns 5680 
Cheating from below 5680 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5680 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5679 
A possibly overly simplified view 5679 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5679 
Iceberg 5679 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5679 
Why not horn 5679 
A correction…. 5679 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5679 
They are just not related things at all. 5679 
Fertin 5677 
Low resonance is good... 5677 
Et tu, Brute? 5676 
The Room response at LF 5675 
Life On The Ground Floor 5675 
Bass arrays 5675 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5675 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5675 
The super sucks. 5675 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5675 
You may also try 5674 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5674 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5674 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5674 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5674 
60 Hz Resonance 5674 
No notching… so far. 5674 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5673 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5673 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5673 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5673 
Power to the People 5673 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5673 
Aura 5673 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5673 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5673 
All class D is the same 5673 
Interpreting the LF results. 5672 
The Halibut 5672 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5672 
The Big Picture 5672 
Power & ULF channels 5672 
The big picture indeed. 5672 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5672 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5672 
The Power and the Glory 5671 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5671 
I guess I did not get this memo 5671 
French LF drivers 5671 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5671 
(another) French LF approach 5670 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5670 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5670 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5670 
Limpschtick 5670 
Symmetry 5670 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5669 
Room correction 5669 
It migh be more complicated. 5669 
Bass EQ ? 5669 
Agree and not. 5669 
Two "diseases" 5669 
Parametric filters 5669 
Ceiling arrays 5669 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5669 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5669 
The Middle of the Room. 5669 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5669 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5669 
Stop! 5669 
Appendectomy 5669 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5668 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5668 
No Isolation 5668 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5665 
Potential contenders? 5664 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5664 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5664 
Those Crazy Canucks 5660 
Mo' Better Bass 5654 
Bird in the Hand? 5654 
A wet listening spot? 5647 
Storm 5644 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5644 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5630 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5600 
Polar Opposite ULF 5599 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5587 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5585 
Differently but the same. 5584 
PVC 5583 
The sail test try. 5583 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5583 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5583 
Trial 5582 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5582 
Some explanations 5582 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5581 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5580 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5579 
Acrylate 5578 
Magic blanket 5578 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5577 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5577 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5577 
I have a few options. 5577 
Foam color 5577 
Strange things with upperbass 5577 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5576 
Teatro reform. . . 5576 
The foaming room dilemma. 5575 
Melamine Foam 5575 
Foaming up the cat house 5575 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5575 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5575 
Acoustic revisions… 5574 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5571 
Surprises so far in the new room 5570 
The upperbass in the new room. 5570 
Slight change of hart. 5569 
Camco supply of Boston 5567 
Room acoustics 5567 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5526 
I need to kill dust first. 5526 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5524 
To feed the leeches? 5524 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5523 
Yh 5523 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5523 
DPOLs? 5523 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5523 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5520 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5520 
A HalfPipe solution? 5520 
I absolutely love it. 5520 
Piper work 5519 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5519 
Absorption 5519 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5518 
Cats life ? 5518 
Call me Pussy. 5518 
More about traps 5518 
Acoustic impedance? 5518 
You maybe right 5518 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5518 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5517 
Heavy Curtain 5517 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5516 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5516 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5516 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5513 
Fix speaker move chair? 5512 
Back and forth ceremony 5512 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5511 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5510 
Glass windows 5509 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5508 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5507 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5505 
How to use basement jacks? 5505 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5505 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5505 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5504 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5504 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5503 
Sore eyes... 5502 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5502 
The harvesting week! 5500 
I need an inspiration… 5499 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5498 
Like this? 5498 
Dramatically randomize MF 5498 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5497 
The room eats dynamic 5497 
Diffusers 5497 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5496 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5481 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5480 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5480 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5480 
About Width-Importance balance. 5478 
Letting the music scale up 5477 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5477 
To finish my house décor… 5473 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5472 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5471 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5471 
Calling the gods of music 5471 
Absolutely 5471 
Phase manipulation 5471 
No relation. 5471 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5471 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5471 
Dynamical mismatch 5470 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5470 
Stradiwinerius? 5467 
Dealing with the glass. 5466 
Boston 5466 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5466 
Added mass 5466 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5466 
It is about moderation…. 5466 
To hell with the wine... 5466 
Also for other surafaces 5465 
LEAD 5465 
LEAD & GLASS 5465 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5465 
Read carefully 5465 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5465 
Crooks and morons 5465 
Magiscopios 5464 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5444 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5444 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5443 
The LP setup in the new home. 5392 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5387 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5387 
Pianochord will do! 5387 
Spanyi heaven 5387 
I see no conflict at all. 5387 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5387 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5387 
A year after closing 5379 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5379 
Traveling antimatter 5372 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5366 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5365 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5339 
Cast Iron fireplace 5338 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5338 
The hardcore way 5338 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5302 
This is How It's Done 5301 
Listening room during summer. 5289 
What about those... 5288 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5288 
Reducing A/C Noise 5288 
HVAC the Cat 5288 
Big Ass fan 5287 
Variac dimmers 5287 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5287 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5287 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5219 
Some winter observations. 5110 
That Asian man…. 5079 
The Franz Schubert morning 5053 
Spring.... 5002 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4952 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4923 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4923 
Just good photography? 4923 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4923 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4923 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4922 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4922 
Sports car 4922 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4922 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4922 
Train Positioning 4922 
Kind of what I want 4922 
The lap listening… 4922 
Family Room 4922 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4919 
A super audio room. 4915 
Time Warp! 4915 
A piano in a listening room 4894 
Pianissimo 4894 
The plan in blue. 4894 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4894 
My doubts 4894 
It is exactly what I worry. 4893 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4893 
Musicians at home 4893 
Piano Measurements 4892 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4887 
The next step. 4873 
Midbass horns missing?? 4872 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4862 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4862 
Baby Grand 4861 
Wood floor 4861 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4861 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4861 
Amy’s baby. 4859 
Improvement 4859 
Agree with Scott 4859 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4847 
Integrated casters 4847 
Very nice, thanks. 4847 
Customization 4847 
Sliders 4847 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4840 
Congratulations 4840 
Holes in the floor... 4840 
Tubes and kids 4840 
Sweet spot enlargement 4840 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4838 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4837 
Wood Floors and Water 4837 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4832 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4831 
WAF is for Losers 4831 
WAF: it depends. 4831 
Integration 4830 
Here and there. 4830 
Life after WWIII 4830 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4830 
Cables management. 4828 
Featurizing 4828 
Kids and tubes cont. 4825 
Kid magnet 4825 
Kids and audio 4824 
Radars 4824 
Wow, what the days! 4820 
The comming weekend 4816 
It all was worth it! 4813 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4808 
Here is how it is look. 4808 
Resolving the carpet issue 4808 
Bonfire 4808 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4808 
Proof of concept? 4808 
Geometry 4808 
A view from listening position. 4808 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4808 
Some feedback 4808 
Evening 4808 
I wonder why. 4807 
Rugs and things 4807 
In defense… 4807 
I can’t get it. 4804 
Haze. 4803 
Front wall 4803 
It is very possible. 4803 
It is nice to be back. 4800 
My comfy corner. 4797 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4437 
WMD in house. 4259 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4162 
The third listening spot. 4141 
For sure a very different experience. 4103 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4098 
It's Jfretch's system. 4098 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4097 
Domestic games 4051 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3912 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3912 
Dynamic screening 3912 
Actually this is very good idea! 3912 
Volcanic fabric 3912 
I should have done this. 3910 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3906 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3875 
No worries 3875 
Awesome memories 3875 
Optimization of space 3875 
Child-ish considerations 3872 
Finding peace.... 3866 
"Fencing"? 3865 
I need to build something custom 3865 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3865 
Stressed Skin 3865 
NYC elevators 3865 
Kids toys and quantities. 3865 
Everything is completely reversible 3864 
Racks and things 3864 
Now it looks even more promising! 3864 
Quantity of rods 3864 
Avoiding diagonals 3862 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3861 
That's not fair! 3861 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3861 
Discrimination? 3856 
Vertical configuration 3849 
Impresive ! 3778 
Did you read the site? 3778 
Contact 3778 
Company's name is Rixrax 3778 
Stand 3777 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3733 
End of life headphone system 3733 
Something like this? 3733 
The "Second Living Room" 3733 
Mixing urban & suburban 3733 
Late night listening 3733 
Moving life... 3731 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3731 
A true listening room. 3707 
It started… 3692 
Levels of Interest 3692 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3692 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3692 
I can't not to post it.... 3692 
Do not leave him unattended. 3692 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3692 
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