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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5869 
The first take on the new room. 5863 
New Room, a first shot. 5862 
Wonderful 5862 
Adopted 5861 
The first relaxed night with the room 5859 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5858 
The listening room is ready. 5857 
New Room, a First Shot 5855 
Continue to work with the room 5855 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5855 
Room 5854 
I think it will take another month. 5854 
The Buttressing 5854 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5853 
The new place and the new noises. 5853 
Big listening room 5852 
Screw the "big" rooms 5852 
Big listening rooms 5852 
First reflection points 5851 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5851 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5848 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5847 
Squeezing the floor 5847 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5847 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5847 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5846 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5846 
The new room, the very first listening. 5846 
The 14.5 foot. 5845 
Again… 5844 
Romy's new Playground 5844 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5844 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5844 
For the uninitiated ... 5843 
NH guy 5843 
Room 5843 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5842 
The first base is done 5842 
Reentry time alignment. 5841 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5840 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5840 
Mid bass horn. 5840 
Guess is only a guess… 5840 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5840 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5839 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5839 
Diffusors 5839 
Diffuse injection 5839 
Let analyse why it so 5839 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5839 
Wheel and Deal 5839 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5839 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5839 
I Must Be Missing Something 5839 
I put sliders under my speakers 5838 
ROOM 5837 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5837 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5837 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5837 
No concerns 5837 
Speakers and room 5837 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5836 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5836 
Diaphram 5836 
Phram 5836 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5836 
Perfect piston 5836 
Decorater 5835 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5835 
New morning 5834 
The first take on the room with RTA 5833 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5833 
Axiomatic 5833 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5832 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5832 
The size of the bass. 5832 
Bass Factory 5832 
Crude Level, or something more? 5832 
I will play with it this week…. 5832 
Rent-A 5832 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5832 
Corner horns 5832 
Cheating from below 5832 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5832 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5831 
A possibly overly simplified view 5831 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5831 
Iceberg 5831 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5831 
Why not horn 5831 
A correction…. 5831 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5831 
They are just not related things at all. 5831 
Fertin 5829 
Low resonance is good... 5829 
Et tu, Brute? 5828 
The Room response at LF 5827 
Life On The Ground Floor 5827 
Bass arrays 5827 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5827 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5827 
The super sucks. 5827 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5827 
You may also try 5826 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5826 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5826 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5826 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5826 
60 Hz Resonance 5826 
No notching… so far. 5826 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5825 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5825 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5825 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5825 
Power to the People 5825 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5825 
Aura 5825 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5825 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5825 
All class D is the same 5825 
Interpreting the LF results. 5824 
The Halibut 5824 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5824 
The Big Picture 5824 
Power & ULF channels 5824 
The big picture indeed. 5824 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5824 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5824 
The Power and the Glory 5823 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5823 
I guess I did not get this memo 5823 
French LF drivers 5823 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5823 
(another) French LF approach 5822 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5822 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5822 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5822 
Limpschtick 5822 
Symmetry 5822 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5821 
Room correction 5821 
It migh be more complicated. 5821 
Bass EQ ? 5821 
Agree and not. 5821 
Two "diseases" 5821 
Parametric filters 5821 
Ceiling arrays 5821 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5821 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5821 
The Middle of the Room. 5821 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5821 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5821 
Stop! 5821 
Appendectomy 5821 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5820 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5820 
No Isolation 5820 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5817 
Potential contenders? 5816 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5816 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5816 
Those Crazy Canucks 5812 
Mo' Better Bass 5806 
Bird in the Hand? 5806 
A wet listening spot? 5799 
Storm 5796 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5796 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5782 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5752 
Polar Opposite ULF 5751 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5739 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5737 
Differently but the same. 5736 
PVC 5735 
The sail test try. 5735 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5735 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5735 
Trial 5734 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5734 
Some explanations 5734 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5733 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5732 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5731 
Acrylate 5730 
Magic blanket 5730 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5729 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5729 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5729 
I have a few options. 5729 
Foam color 5729 
Strange things with upperbass 5729 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5728 
Teatro reform. . . 5728 
The foaming room dilemma. 5727 
Melamine Foam 5727 
Foaming up the cat house 5727 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5727 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5727 
Acoustic revisions… 5726 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5723 
Surprises so far in the new room 5722 
The upperbass in the new room. 5722 
Slight change of hart. 5721 
Camco supply of Boston 5719 
Room acoustics 5719 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5678 
I need to kill dust first. 5678 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5676 
To feed the leeches? 5676 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5675 
Yh 5675 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5675 
DPOLs? 5675 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5675 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5672 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5672 
A HalfPipe solution? 5672 
I absolutely love it. 5672 
Piper work 5671 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5671 
Absorption 5671 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5670 
Cats life ? 5670 
Call me Pussy. 5670 
More about traps 5670 
Acoustic impedance? 5670 
You maybe right 5670 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5670 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5669 
Heavy Curtain 5669 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5668 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5668 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5668 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5665 
Fix speaker move chair? 5664 
Back and forth ceremony 5664 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5663 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5662 
Glass windows 5661 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5660 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5659 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5657 
How to use basement jacks? 5657 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5657 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5657 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5656 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5656 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5655 
Sore eyes... 5654 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5654 
The harvesting week! 5652 
I need an inspiration… 5651 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5650 
Like this? 5650 
Dramatically randomize MF 5650 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5649 
The room eats dynamic 5649 
Diffusers 5649 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5648 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5633 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5632 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5632 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5632 
About Width-Importance balance. 5630 
Letting the music scale up 5629 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5629 
To finish my house décor… 5625 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5624 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5623 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5623 
Calling the gods of music 5623 
Absolutely 5623 
Phase manipulation 5623 
No relation. 5623 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5623 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5623 
Dynamical mismatch 5622 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5622 
Stradiwinerius? 5619 
Dealing with the glass. 5618 
Boston 5618 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5618 
Added mass 5618 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5618 
It is about moderation…. 5618 
To hell with the wine... 5618 
Also for other surafaces 5617 
LEAD 5617 
LEAD & GLASS 5617 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5617 
Read carefully 5617 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5617 
Crooks and morons 5617 
Magiscopios 5616 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5596 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5596 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5595 
The LP setup in the new home. 5544 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5539 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5539 
Pianochord will do! 5539 
Spanyi heaven 5539 
I see no conflict at all. 5539 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5539 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5539 
A year after closing 5531 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5531 
Traveling antimatter 5524 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5518 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5517 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5491 
Cast Iron fireplace 5490 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5490 
The hardcore way 5490 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5454 
This is How It's Done 5453 
Listening room during summer. 5441 
What about those... 5440 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5440 
Reducing A/C Noise 5440 
HVAC the Cat 5440 
Big Ass fan 5439 
Variac dimmers 5439 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5439 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5439 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5371 
Some winter observations. 5262 
That Asian man…. 5231 
The Franz Schubert morning 5205 
Spring.... 5154 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5104 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5075 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5075 
Just good photography? 5075 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5075 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5075 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5074 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5074 
Sports car 5074 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5074 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5074 
Train Positioning 5074 
Kind of what I want 5074 
The lap listening… 5074 
Family Room 5074 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5071 
A super audio room. 5067 
Time Warp! 5067 
A piano in a listening room 5046 
Pianissimo 5046 
The plan in blue. 5046 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5046 
My doubts 5046 
It is exactly what I worry. 5045 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5045 
Musicians at home 5045 
Piano Measurements 5044 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5039 
The next step. 5025 
Midbass horns missing?? 5024 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5014 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5014 
Baby Grand 5013 
Wood floor 5013 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5013 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5013 
Amy’s baby. 5011 
Improvement 5011 
Agree with Scott 5011 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4999 
Integrated casters 4999 
Very nice, thanks. 4999 
Customization 4999 
Sliders 4999 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4992 
Congratulations 4992 
Holes in the floor... 4992 
Tubes and kids 4992 
Sweet spot enlargement 4992 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4990 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4989 
Wood Floors and Water 4989 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4984 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4983 
WAF is for Losers 4983 
WAF: it depends. 4983 
Integration 4982 
Here and there. 4982 
Life after WWIII 4982 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4982 
Cables management. 4980 
Featurizing 4980 
Kids and tubes cont. 4977 
Kid magnet 4977 
Kids and audio 4976 
Radars 4976 
Wow, what the days! 4972 
The comming weekend 4968 
It all was worth it! 4965 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4960 
Here is how it is look. 4960 
Resolving the carpet issue 4960 
Bonfire 4960 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4960 
Proof of concept? 4960 
Geometry 4960 
A view from listening position. 4960 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4960 
Some feedback 4960 
Evening 4960 
I wonder why. 4959 
Rugs and things 4959 
In defense… 4959 
I can’t get it. 4956 
Haze. 4955 
Front wall 4955 
It is very possible. 4955 
It is nice to be back. 4952 
My comfy corner. 4949 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4589 
WMD in house. 4411 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4314 
The third listening spot. 4293 
For sure a very different experience. 4255 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4250 
It's Jfretch's system. 4250 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4249 
Domestic games 4203 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4064 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4064 
Dynamic screening 4064 
Actually this is very good idea! 4064 
Volcanic fabric 4064 
I should have done this. 4062 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4058 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4027 
No worries 4027 
Awesome memories 4027 
Optimization of space 4027 
Child-ish considerations 4024 
Finding peace.... 4018 
"Fencing"? 4017 
I need to build something custom 4017 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4017 
Stressed Skin 4017 
NYC elevators 4017 
Kids toys and quantities. 4017 
Everything is completely reversible 4016 
Racks and things 4016 
Now it looks even more promising! 4016 
Quantity of rods 4016 
Avoiding diagonals 4014 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4013 
That's not fair! 4013 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4013 
Discrimination? 4008 
Vertical configuration 4001 
Impresive ! 3930 
Did you read the site? 3930 
Contact 3930 
Company's name is Rixrax 3930 
Stand 3929 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3885 
End of life headphone system 3885 
Something like this? 3885 
The "Second Living Room" 3885 
Mixing urban & suburban 3885 
Late night listening 3885 
Moving life... 3883 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3883 
A true listening room. 3859 
It started… 3844 
Levels of Interest 3844 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3844 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3844 
I can't not to post it.... 3844 
Do not leave him unattended. 3844 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3844 
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