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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5859 
The first take on the new room. 5853 
New Room, a first shot. 5852 
Wonderful 5852 
Adopted 5851 
The first relaxed night with the room 5849 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5848 
The listening room is ready. 5847 
New Room, a First Shot 5845 
Continue to work with the room 5845 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5845 
Room 5844 
I think it will take another month. 5844 
The Buttressing 5844 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5843 
The new place and the new noises. 5843 
Big listening room 5842 
Screw the "big" rooms 5842 
Big listening rooms 5842 
First reflection points 5841 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5841 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5838 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5837 
Squeezing the floor 5837 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5837 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5837 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5836 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5836 
The new room, the very first listening. 5836 
The 14.5 foot. 5835 
Again… 5834 
Romy's new Playground 5834 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5834 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5834 
For the uninitiated ... 5833 
NH guy 5833 
Room 5833 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5832 
The first base is done 5832 
Reentry time alignment. 5831 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5830 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5830 
Mid bass horn. 5830 
Guess is only a guess… 5830 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5830 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5829 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5829 
Diffusors 5829 
Diffuse injection 5829 
Let analyse why it so 5829 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5829 
Wheel and Deal 5829 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5829 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5829 
I Must Be Missing Something 5829 
I put sliders under my speakers 5828 
ROOM 5827 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5827 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5827 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5827 
No concerns 5827 
Speakers and room 5827 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5826 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5826 
Diaphram 5826 
Phram 5826 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5826 
Perfect piston 5826 
Decorater 5825 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5825 
New morning 5824 
The first take on the room with RTA 5823 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5823 
Axiomatic 5823 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5822 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5822 
The size of the bass. 5822 
Bass Factory 5822 
Crude Level, or something more? 5822 
I will play with it this week…. 5822 
Rent-A 5822 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5822 
Corner horns 5822 
Cheating from below 5822 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5822 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5821 
A possibly overly simplified view 5821 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5821 
Iceberg 5821 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5821 
Why not horn 5821 
A correction…. 5821 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5821 
They are just not related things at all. 5821 
Fertin 5819 
Low resonance is good... 5819 
Et tu, Brute? 5818 
The Room response at LF 5817 
Life On The Ground Floor 5817 
Bass arrays 5817 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5817 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5817 
The super sucks. 5817 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5817 
You may also try 5816 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5816 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5816 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5816 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5816 
60 Hz Resonance 5816 
No notching… so far. 5816 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5815 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5815 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5815 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5815 
Power to the People 5815 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5815 
Aura 5815 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5815 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5815 
All class D is the same 5815 
Interpreting the LF results. 5814 
The Halibut 5814 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5814 
The Big Picture 5814 
Power & ULF channels 5814 
The big picture indeed. 5814 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5814 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5814 
The Power and the Glory 5813 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5813 
I guess I did not get this memo 5813 
French LF drivers 5813 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5813 
(another) French LF approach 5812 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5812 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5812 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5812 
Limpschtick 5812 
Symmetry 5812 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5811 
Room correction 5811 
It migh be more complicated. 5811 
Bass EQ ? 5811 
Agree and not. 5811 
Two "diseases" 5811 
Parametric filters 5811 
Ceiling arrays 5811 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5811 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5811 
The Middle of the Room. 5811 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5811 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5811 
Stop! 5811 
Appendectomy 5811 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5810 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5810 
No Isolation 5810 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5807 
Potential contenders? 5806 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5806 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5806 
Those Crazy Canucks 5802 
Mo' Better Bass 5796 
Bird in the Hand? 5796 
A wet listening spot? 5789 
Storm 5786 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5786 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5772 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5742 
Polar Opposite ULF 5741 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5729 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5727 
Differently but the same. 5726 
PVC 5725 
The sail test try. 5725 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5725 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5725 
Trial 5724 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5724 
Some explanations 5724 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5723 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5722 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5721 
Acrylate 5720 
Magic blanket 5720 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5719 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5719 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5719 
I have a few options. 5719 
Foam color 5719 
Strange things with upperbass 5719 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5718 
Teatro reform. . . 5718 
The foaming room dilemma. 5717 
Melamine Foam 5717 
Foaming up the cat house 5717 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5717 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5717 
Acoustic revisions… 5716 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5713 
Surprises so far in the new room 5712 
The upperbass in the new room. 5712 
Slight change of hart. 5711 
Camco supply of Boston 5709 
Room acoustics 5709 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5668 
I need to kill dust first. 5668 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5666 
To feed the leeches? 5666 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5665 
Yh 5665 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5665 
DPOLs? 5665 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5665 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5662 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5662 
A HalfPipe solution? 5662 
I absolutely love it. 5662 
Piper work 5661 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5661 
Absorption 5661 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5660 
Cats life ? 5660 
Call me Pussy. 5660 
More about traps 5660 
Acoustic impedance? 5660 
You maybe right 5660 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5660 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5659 
Heavy Curtain 5659 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5658 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5658 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5658 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5655 
Fix speaker move chair? 5654 
Back and forth ceremony 5654 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5653 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5652 
Glass windows 5651 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5650 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5649 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5647 
How to use basement jacks? 5647 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5647 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5647 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5646 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5646 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5645 
Sore eyes... 5644 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5644 
The harvesting week! 5642 
I need an inspiration… 5641 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5640 
Like this? 5640 
Dramatically randomize MF 5640 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5639 
The room eats dynamic 5639 
Diffusers 5639 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5638 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5623 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5622 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5622 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5622 
About Width-Importance balance. 5620 
Letting the music scale up 5619 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5619 
To finish my house décor… 5615 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5614 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5613 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5613 
Calling the gods of music 5613 
Absolutely 5613 
Phase manipulation 5613 
No relation. 5613 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5613 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5613 
Dynamical mismatch 5612 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5612 
Stradiwinerius? 5609 
Dealing with the glass. 5608 
Boston 5608 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5608 
Added mass 5608 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5608 
It is about moderation…. 5608 
To hell with the wine... 5608 
Also for other surafaces 5607 
LEAD 5607 
LEAD & GLASS 5607 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5607 
Read carefully 5607 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5607 
Crooks and morons 5607 
Magiscopios 5606 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5586 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5586 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5585 
The LP setup in the new home. 5534 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5529 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5529 
Pianochord will do! 5529 
Spanyi heaven 5529 
I see no conflict at all. 5529 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5529 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5529 
A year after closing 5521 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5521 
Traveling antimatter 5514 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5508 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5507 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5481 
Cast Iron fireplace 5480 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5480 
The hardcore way 5480 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5444 
This is How It's Done 5443 
Listening room during summer. 5431 
What about those... 5430 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5430 
Reducing A/C Noise 5430 
HVAC the Cat 5430 
Big Ass fan 5429 
Variac dimmers 5429 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5429 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5429 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5361 
Some winter observations. 5252 
That Asian man…. 5221 
The Franz Schubert morning 5195 
Spring.... 5144 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5094 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5065 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5065 
Just good photography? 5065 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5065 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5065 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5064 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5064 
Sports car 5064 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5064 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5064 
Train Positioning 5064 
Kind of what I want 5064 
The lap listening… 5064 
Family Room 5064 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5061 
A super audio room. 5057 
Time Warp! 5057 
A piano in a listening room 5036 
Pianissimo 5036 
The plan in blue. 5036 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5036 
My doubts 5036 
It is exactly what I worry. 5035 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5035 
Musicians at home 5035 
Piano Measurements 5034 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5029 
The next step. 5015 
Midbass horns missing?? 5014 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5004 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5004 
Baby Grand 5003 
Wood floor 5003 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5003 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5003 
Amy’s baby. 5001 
Improvement 5001 
Agree with Scott 5001 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4989 
Integrated casters 4989 
Very nice, thanks. 4989 
Customization 4989 
Sliders 4989 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4982 
Congratulations 4982 
Holes in the floor... 4982 
Tubes and kids 4982 
Sweet spot enlargement 4982 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4980 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4979 
Wood Floors and Water 4979 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4974 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4973 
WAF is for Losers 4973 
WAF: it depends. 4973 
Integration 4972 
Here and there. 4972 
Life after WWIII 4972 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4972 
Cables management. 4970 
Featurizing 4970 
Kids and tubes cont. 4967 
Kid magnet 4967 
Kids and audio 4966 
Radars 4966 
Wow, what the days! 4962 
The comming weekend 4958 
It all was worth it! 4955 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4950 
Here is how it is look. 4950 
Resolving the carpet issue 4950 
Bonfire 4950 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4950 
Proof of concept? 4950 
Geometry 4950 
A view from listening position. 4950 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4950 
Some feedback 4950 
Evening 4950 
I wonder why. 4949 
Rugs and things 4949 
In defense… 4949 
I can’t get it. 4946 
Haze. 4945 
Front wall 4945 
It is very possible. 4945 
It is nice to be back. 4942 
My comfy corner. 4939 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4579 
WMD in house. 4401 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4304 
The third listening spot. 4283 
For sure a very different experience. 4245 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4240 
It's Jfretch's system. 4240 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4239 
Domestic games 4193 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4054 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4054 
Dynamic screening 4054 
Actually this is very good idea! 4054 
Volcanic fabric 4054 
I should have done this. 4052 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4048 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4017 
No worries 4017 
Awesome memories 4017 
Optimization of space 4017 
Child-ish considerations 4014 
Finding peace.... 4008 
"Fencing"? 4007 
I need to build something custom 4007 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4007 
Stressed Skin 4007 
NYC elevators 4007 
Kids toys and quantities. 4007 
Everything is completely reversible 4006 
Racks and things 4006 
Now it looks even more promising! 4006 
Quantity of rods 4006 
Avoiding diagonals 4004 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4003 
That's not fair! 4003 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4003 
Discrimination? 3998 
Vertical configuration 3991 
Impresive ! 3920 
Did you read the site? 3920 
Contact 3920 
Company's name is Rixrax 3920 
Stand 3919 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3875 
End of life headphone system 3875 
Something like this? 3875 
The "Second Living Room" 3875 
Mixing urban & suburban 3875 
Late night listening 3875 
Moving life... 3873 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3873 
A true listening room. 3849 
It started… 3834 
Levels of Interest 3834 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3834 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3834 
I can't not to post it.... 3834 
Do not leave him unattended. 3834 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3834 
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