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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5818 
The first take on the new room. 5812 
New Room, a first shot. 5811 
Wonderful 5811 
Adopted 5810 
The first relaxed night with the room 5808 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5807 
The listening room is ready. 5806 
New Room, a First Shot 5804 
Continue to work with the room 5804 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5804 
Room 5803 
I think it will take another month. 5803 
The Buttressing 5803 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5802 
The new place and the new noises. 5802 
Big listening room 5801 
Screw the "big" rooms 5801 
Big listening rooms 5801 
First reflection points 5800 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5800 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5797 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5796 
Squeezing the floor 5796 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5796 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5796 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5795 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5795 
The new room, the very first listening. 5795 
The 14.5 foot. 5794 
Again… 5793 
Romy's new Playground 5793 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5793 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5793 
For the uninitiated ... 5792 
NH guy 5792 
Room 5792 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5791 
The first base is done 5791 
Reentry time alignment. 5790 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5789 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5789 
Mid bass horn. 5789 
Guess is only a guess… 5789 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5789 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5788 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5788 
Diffusors 5788 
Diffuse injection 5788 
Let analyse why it so 5788 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5788 
Wheel and Deal 5788 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5788 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5788 
I Must Be Missing Something 5788 
I put sliders under my speakers 5787 
ROOM 5786 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5786 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5786 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5786 
No concerns 5786 
Speakers and room 5786 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5785 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5785 
Diaphram 5785 
Phram 5785 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5785 
Perfect piston 5785 
Decorater 5784 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5784 
New morning 5783 
The first take on the room with RTA 5782 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5782 
Axiomatic 5782 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5781 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5781 
The size of the bass. 5781 
Bass Factory 5781 
Crude Level, or something more? 5781 
I will play with it this week…. 5781 
Rent-A 5781 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5781 
Corner horns 5781 
Cheating from below 5781 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5781 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5780 
A possibly overly simplified view 5780 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5780 
Iceberg 5780 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5780 
Why not horn 5780 
A correction…. 5780 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5780 
They are just not related things at all. 5780 
Fertin 5778 
Low resonance is good... 5778 
Et tu, Brute? 5777 
The Room response at LF 5776 
Life On The Ground Floor 5776 
Bass arrays 5776 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5776 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5776 
The super sucks. 5776 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5776 
You may also try 5775 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5775 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5775 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5775 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5775 
60 Hz Resonance 5775 
No notching… so far. 5775 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5774 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5774 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5774 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5774 
Power to the People 5774 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5774 
Aura 5774 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5774 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5774 
All class D is the same 5774 
Interpreting the LF results. 5773 
The Halibut 5773 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5773 
The Big Picture 5773 
Power & ULF channels 5773 
The big picture indeed. 5773 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5773 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5773 
The Power and the Glory 5772 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5772 
I guess I did not get this memo 5772 
French LF drivers 5772 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5772 
(another) French LF approach 5771 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5771 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5771 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5771 
Limpschtick 5771 
Symmetry 5771 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5770 
Room correction 5770 
It migh be more complicated. 5770 
Bass EQ ? 5770 
Agree and not. 5770 
Two "diseases" 5770 
Parametric filters 5770 
Ceiling arrays 5770 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5770 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5770 
The Middle of the Room. 5770 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5770 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5770 
Stop! 5770 
Appendectomy 5770 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5769 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5769 
No Isolation 5769 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5766 
Potential contenders? 5765 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5765 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5765 
Those Crazy Canucks 5761 
Mo' Better Bass 5755 
Bird in the Hand? 5755 
A wet listening spot? 5748 
Storm 5745 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5745 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5731 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5701 
Polar Opposite ULF 5700 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5688 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5686 
Differently but the same. 5685 
PVC 5684 
The sail test try. 5684 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5684 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5684 
Trial 5683 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5683 
Some explanations 5683 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5682 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5681 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5680 
Acrylate 5679 
Magic blanket 5679 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5678 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5678 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5678 
I have a few options. 5678 
Foam color 5678 
Strange things with upperbass 5678 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5677 
Teatro reform. . . 5677 
The foaming room dilemma. 5676 
Melamine Foam 5676 
Foaming up the cat house 5676 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5676 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5676 
Acoustic revisions… 5675 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5672 
Surprises so far in the new room 5671 
The upperbass in the new room. 5671 
Slight change of hart. 5670 
Camco supply of Boston 5668 
Room acoustics 5668 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5627 
I need to kill dust first. 5627 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5625 
To feed the leeches? 5625 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5624 
Yh 5624 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5624 
DPOLs? 5624 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5624 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5621 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5621 
A HalfPipe solution? 5621 
I absolutely love it. 5621 
Piper work 5620 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5620 
Absorption 5620 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5619 
Cats life ? 5619 
Call me Pussy. 5619 
More about traps 5619 
Acoustic impedance? 5619 
You maybe right 5619 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5619 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5618 
Heavy Curtain 5618 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5617 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5617 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5617 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5614 
Fix speaker move chair? 5613 
Back and forth ceremony 5613 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5612 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5611 
Glass windows 5610 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5609 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5608 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5606 
How to use basement jacks? 5606 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5606 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5606 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5605 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5605 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5604 
Sore eyes... 5603 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5603 
The harvesting week! 5601 
I need an inspiration… 5600 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5599 
Like this? 5599 
Dramatically randomize MF 5599 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5598 
The room eats dynamic 5598 
Diffusers 5598 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5597 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5582 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5581 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5581 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5581 
About Width-Importance balance. 5579 
Letting the music scale up 5578 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5578 
To finish my house décor… 5574 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5573 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5572 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5572 
Calling the gods of music 5572 
Absolutely 5572 
Phase manipulation 5572 
No relation. 5572 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5572 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5572 
Dynamical mismatch 5571 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5571 
Stradiwinerius? 5568 
Dealing with the glass. 5567 
Boston 5567 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5567 
Added mass 5567 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5567 
It is about moderation…. 5567 
To hell with the wine... 5567 
Also for other surafaces 5566 
LEAD 5566 
LEAD & GLASS 5566 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5566 
Read carefully 5566 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5566 
Crooks and morons 5566 
Magiscopios 5565 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5545 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5545 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5544 
The LP setup in the new home. 5493 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5488 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5488 
Pianochord will do! 5488 
Spanyi heaven 5488 
I see no conflict at all. 5488 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5488 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5488 
A year after closing 5480 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5480 
Traveling antimatter 5473 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5467 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5466 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5440 
Cast Iron fireplace 5439 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5439 
The hardcore way 5439 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5403 
This is How It's Done 5402 
Listening room during summer. 5390 
What about those... 5389 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5389 
Reducing A/C Noise 5389 
HVAC the Cat 5389 
Big Ass fan 5388 
Variac dimmers 5388 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5388 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5388 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5320 
Some winter observations. 5211 
That Asian man…. 5180 
The Franz Schubert morning 5154 
Spring.... 5103 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5053 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5024 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5024 
Just good photography? 5024 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5024 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5024 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5023 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5023 
Sports car 5023 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5023 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5023 
Train Positioning 5023 
Kind of what I want 5023 
The lap listening… 5023 
Family Room 5023 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5020 
A super audio room. 5016 
Time Warp! 5016 
A piano in a listening room 4995 
Pianissimo 4995 
The plan in blue. 4995 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4995 
My doubts 4995 
It is exactly what I worry. 4994 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4994 
Musicians at home 4994 
Piano Measurements 4993 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4988 
The next step. 4974 
Midbass horns missing?? 4973 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4963 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4963 
Baby Grand 4962 
Wood floor 4962 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4962 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4962 
Amy’s baby. 4960 
Improvement 4960 
Agree with Scott 4960 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4948 
Integrated casters 4948 
Very nice, thanks. 4948 
Customization 4948 
Sliders 4948 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4941 
Congratulations 4941 
Holes in the floor... 4941 
Tubes and kids 4941 
Sweet spot enlargement 4941 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4939 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4938 
Wood Floors and Water 4938 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4933 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4932 
WAF is for Losers 4932 
WAF: it depends. 4932 
Integration 4931 
Here and there. 4931 
Life after WWIII 4931 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4931 
Cables management. 4929 
Featurizing 4929 
Kids and tubes cont. 4926 
Kid magnet 4926 
Kids and audio 4925 
Radars 4925 
Wow, what the days! 4921 
The comming weekend 4917 
It all was worth it! 4914 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4909 
Here is how it is look. 4909 
Resolving the carpet issue 4909 
Bonfire 4909 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4909 
Proof of concept? 4909 
Geometry 4909 
A view from listening position. 4909 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4909 
Some feedback 4909 
Evening 4909 
I wonder why. 4908 
Rugs and things 4908 
In defense… 4908 
I can’t get it. 4905 
Haze. 4904 
Front wall 4904 
It is very possible. 4904 
It is nice to be back. 4901 
My comfy corner. 4898 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4538 
WMD in house. 4360 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4263 
The third listening spot. 4242 
For sure a very different experience. 4204 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4199 
It's Jfretch's system. 4199 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4198 
Domestic games 4152 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4013 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4013 
Dynamic screening 4013 
Actually this is very good idea! 4013 
Volcanic fabric 4013 
I should have done this. 4011 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4007 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3976 
No worries 3976 
Awesome memories 3976 
Optimization of space 3976 
Child-ish considerations 3973 
Finding peace.... 3967 
"Fencing"? 3966 
I need to build something custom 3966 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3966 
Stressed Skin 3966 
NYC elevators 3966 
Kids toys and quantities. 3966 
Everything is completely reversible 3965 
Racks and things 3965 
Now it looks even more promising! 3965 
Quantity of rods 3965 
Avoiding diagonals 3963 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3962 
That's not fair! 3962 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3962 
Discrimination? 3957 
Vertical configuration 3950 
Impresive ! 3879 
Did you read the site? 3879 
Contact 3879 
Company's name is Rixrax 3879 
Stand 3878 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3834 
End of life headphone system 3834 
Something like this? 3834 
The "Second Living Room" 3834 
Mixing urban & suburban 3834 
Late night listening 3834 
Moving life... 3832 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3832 
A true listening room. 3808 
It started… 3793 
Levels of Interest 3793 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3793 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3793 
I can't not to post it.... 3793 
Do not leave him unattended. 3793 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3793 
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