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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5736 
The first take on the new room. 5730 
New Room, a first shot. 5729 
Wonderful 5729 
Adopted 5728 
The first relaxed night with the room 5726 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5725 
The listening room is ready. 5724 
New Room, a First Shot 5722 
Continue to work with the room 5722 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5722 
Room 5721 
I think it will take another month. 5721 
The Buttressing 5721 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5720 
The new place and the new noises. 5720 
Big listening room 5719 
Screw the "big" rooms 5719 
Big listening rooms 5719 
First reflection points 5718 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5718 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5715 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5714 
Squeezing the floor 5714 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5714 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5714 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5713 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5713 
The new room, the very first listening. 5713 
The 14.5 foot. 5712 
Again… 5711 
Romy's new Playground 5711 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5711 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5711 
For the uninitiated ... 5710 
NH guy 5710 
Room 5710 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5709 
The first base is done 5709 
Reentry time alignment. 5708 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5707 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5707 
Mid bass horn. 5707 
Guess is only a guess… 5707 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5707 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5706 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5706 
Diffusors 5706 
Diffuse injection 5706 
Let analyse why it so 5706 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5706 
Wheel and Deal 5706 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5706 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5706 
I Must Be Missing Something 5706 
I put sliders under my speakers 5705 
ROOM 5704 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5704 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5704 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5704 
No concerns 5704 
Speakers and room 5704 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5703 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5703 
Diaphram 5703 
Phram 5703 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5703 
Perfect piston 5703 
Decorater 5702 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5702 
New morning 5701 
The first take on the room with RTA 5700 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5700 
Axiomatic 5700 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5699 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5699 
The size of the bass. 5699 
Bass Factory 5699 
Crude Level, or something more? 5699 
I will play with it this week…. 5699 
Rent-A 5699 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5699 
Corner horns 5699 
Cheating from below 5699 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5699 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5698 
A possibly overly simplified view 5698 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5698 
Iceberg 5698 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5698 
Why not horn 5698 
A correction…. 5698 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5698 
They are just not related things at all. 5698 
Fertin 5696 
Low resonance is good... 5696 
Et tu, Brute? 5695 
The Room response at LF 5694 
Life On The Ground Floor 5694 
Bass arrays 5694 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5694 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5694 
The super sucks. 5694 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5694 
You may also try 5693 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5693 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5693 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5693 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5693 
60 Hz Resonance 5693 
No notching… so far. 5693 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5692 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5692 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5692 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5692 
Power to the People 5692 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5692 
Aura 5692 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5692 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5692 
All class D is the same 5692 
Interpreting the LF results. 5691 
The Halibut 5691 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5691 
The Big Picture 5691 
Power & ULF channels 5691 
The big picture indeed. 5691 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5691 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5691 
The Power and the Glory 5690 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5690 
I guess I did not get this memo 5690 
French LF drivers 5690 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5690 
(another) French LF approach 5689 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5689 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5689 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5689 
Limpschtick 5689 
Symmetry 5689 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5688 
Room correction 5688 
It migh be more complicated. 5688 
Bass EQ ? 5688 
Agree and not. 5688 
Two "diseases" 5688 
Parametric filters 5688 
Ceiling arrays 5688 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5688 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5688 
The Middle of the Room. 5688 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5688 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5688 
Stop! 5688 
Appendectomy 5688 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5687 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5687 
No Isolation 5687 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5684 
Potential contenders? 5683 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5683 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5683 
Those Crazy Canucks 5679 
Mo' Better Bass 5673 
Bird in the Hand? 5673 
A wet listening spot? 5666 
Storm 5663 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5663 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5649 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5619 
Polar Opposite ULF 5618 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5606 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5604 
Differently but the same. 5603 
PVC 5602 
The sail test try. 5602 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5602 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5602 
Trial 5601 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5601 
Some explanations 5601 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5600 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5599 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5598 
Acrylate 5597 
Magic blanket 5597 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5596 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5596 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5596 
I have a few options. 5596 
Foam color 5596 
Strange things with upperbass 5596 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5595 
Teatro reform. . . 5595 
The foaming room dilemma. 5594 
Melamine Foam 5594 
Foaming up the cat house 5594 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5594 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5594 
Acoustic revisions… 5593 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5590 
Surprises so far in the new room 5589 
The upperbass in the new room. 5589 
Slight change of hart. 5588 
Camco supply of Boston 5586 
Room acoustics 5586 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5545 
I need to kill dust first. 5545 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5543 
To feed the leeches? 5543 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5542 
Yh 5542 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5542 
DPOLs? 5542 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5542 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5539 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5539 
A HalfPipe solution? 5539 
I absolutely love it. 5539 
Piper work 5538 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5538 
Absorption 5538 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5537 
Cats life ? 5537 
Call me Pussy. 5537 
More about traps 5537 
Acoustic impedance? 5537 
You maybe right 5537 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5537 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5536 
Heavy Curtain 5536 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5535 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5535 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5535 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5532 
Fix speaker move chair? 5531 
Back and forth ceremony 5531 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5530 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5529 
Glass windows 5528 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5527 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5526 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5524 
How to use basement jacks? 5524 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5524 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5524 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5523 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5523 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5522 
Sore eyes... 5521 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5521 
The harvesting week! 5519 
I need an inspiration… 5518 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5517 
Like this? 5517 
Dramatically randomize MF 5517 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5516 
The room eats dynamic 5516 
Diffusers 5516 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5515 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5500 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5499 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5499 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5499 
About Width-Importance balance. 5497 
Letting the music scale up 5496 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5496 
To finish my house décor… 5492 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5491 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5490 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5490 
Calling the gods of music 5490 
Absolutely 5490 
Phase manipulation 5490 
No relation. 5490 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5490 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5490 
Dynamical mismatch 5489 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5489 
Stradiwinerius? 5486 
Dealing with the glass. 5485 
Boston 5485 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5485 
Added mass 5485 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5485 
It is about moderation…. 5485 
To hell with the wine... 5485 
Also for other surafaces 5484 
LEAD 5484 
LEAD & GLASS 5484 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5484 
Read carefully 5484 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5484 
Crooks and morons 5484 
Magiscopios 5483 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5463 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5463 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5462 
The LP setup in the new home. 5411 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5406 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5406 
Pianochord will do! 5406 
Spanyi heaven 5406 
I see no conflict at all. 5406 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5406 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5406 
A year after closing 5398 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5398 
Traveling antimatter 5391 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5385 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5384 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5358 
Cast Iron fireplace 5357 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5357 
The hardcore way 5357 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5321 
This is How It's Done 5320 
Listening room during summer. 5308 
What about those... 5307 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5307 
Reducing A/C Noise 5307 
HVAC the Cat 5307 
Big Ass fan 5306 
Variac dimmers 5306 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5306 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5306 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5238 
Some winter observations. 5129 
That Asian man…. 5098 
The Franz Schubert morning 5072 
Spring.... 5021 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4971 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4942 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4942 
Just good photography? 4942 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4942 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4942 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4941 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4941 
Sports car 4941 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4941 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4941 
Train Positioning 4941 
Kind of what I want 4941 
The lap listening… 4941 
Family Room 4941 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4938 
A super audio room. 4934 
Time Warp! 4934 
A piano in a listening room 4913 
Pianissimo 4913 
The plan in blue. 4913 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4913 
My doubts 4913 
It is exactly what I worry. 4912 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4912 
Musicians at home 4912 
Piano Measurements 4911 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4906 
The next step. 4892 
Midbass horns missing?? 4891 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4881 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4881 
Baby Grand 4880 
Wood floor 4880 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4880 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4880 
Amy’s baby. 4878 
Improvement 4878 
Agree with Scott 4878 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4866 
Integrated casters 4866 
Very nice, thanks. 4866 
Customization 4866 
Sliders 4866 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4859 
Congratulations 4859 
Holes in the floor... 4859 
Tubes and kids 4859 
Sweet spot enlargement 4859 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4857 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4856 
Wood Floors and Water 4856 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4851 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4850 
WAF is for Losers 4850 
WAF: it depends. 4850 
Integration 4849 
Here and there. 4849 
Life after WWIII 4849 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4849 
Cables management. 4847 
Featurizing 4847 
Kids and tubes cont. 4844 
Kid magnet 4844 
Kids and audio 4843 
Radars 4843 
Wow, what the days! 4839 
The comming weekend 4835 
It all was worth it! 4832 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4827 
Here is how it is look. 4827 
Resolving the carpet issue 4827 
Bonfire 4827 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4827 
Proof of concept? 4827 
Geometry 4827 
A view from listening position. 4827 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4827 
Some feedback 4827 
Evening 4827 
I wonder why. 4826 
Rugs and things 4826 
In defense… 4826 
I can’t get it. 4823 
Haze. 4822 
Front wall 4822 
It is very possible. 4822 
It is nice to be back. 4819 
My comfy corner. 4816 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4456 
WMD in house. 4278 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4181 
The third listening spot. 4160 
For sure a very different experience. 4122 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4117 
It's Jfretch's system. 4117 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4116 
Domestic games 4070 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3931 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3931 
Dynamic screening 3931 
Actually this is very good idea! 3931 
Volcanic fabric 3931 
I should have done this. 3929 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3925 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3894 
No worries 3894 
Awesome memories 3894 
Optimization of space 3894 
Child-ish considerations 3891 
Finding peace.... 3885 
"Fencing"? 3884 
I need to build something custom 3884 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3884 
Stressed Skin 3884 
NYC elevators 3884 
Kids toys and quantities. 3884 
Everything is completely reversible 3883 
Racks and things 3883 
Now it looks even more promising! 3883 
Quantity of rods 3883 
Avoiding diagonals 3881 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3880 
That's not fair! 3880 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3880 
Discrimination? 3875 
Vertical configuration 3868 
Impresive ! 3797 
Did you read the site? 3797 
Contact 3797 
Company's name is Rixrax 3797 
Stand 3796 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3752 
End of life headphone system 3752 
Something like this? 3752 
The "Second Living Room" 3752 
Mixing urban & suburban 3752 
Late night listening 3752 
Moving life... 3750 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3750 
A true listening room. 3726 
It started… 3711 
Levels of Interest 3711 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3711 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3711 
I can't not to post it.... 3711 
Do not leave him unattended. 3711 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3711 
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