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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5887 
The first take on the new room. 5881 
New Room, a first shot. 5880 
Wonderful 5880 
Adopted 5879 
The first relaxed night with the room 5877 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5876 
The listening room is ready. 5875 
New Room, a First Shot 5873 
Continue to work with the room 5873 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5873 
Room 5872 
I think it will take another month. 5872 
The Buttressing 5872 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5871 
The new place and the new noises. 5871 
Big listening room 5870 
Screw the "big" rooms 5870 
Big listening rooms 5870 
First reflection points 5869 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5869 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5866 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5865 
Squeezing the floor 5865 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5865 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5865 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5864 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5864 
The new room, the very first listening. 5864 
The 14.5 foot. 5863 
Again… 5862 
Romy's new Playground 5862 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5862 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5862 
For the uninitiated ... 5861 
NH guy 5861 
Room 5861 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5860 
The first base is done 5860 
Reentry time alignment. 5859 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5858 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5858 
Mid bass horn. 5858 
Guess is only a guess… 5858 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5858 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5857 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5857 
Diffusors 5857 
Diffuse injection 5857 
Let analyse why it so 5857 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5857 
Wheel and Deal 5857 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5857 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5857 
I Must Be Missing Something 5857 
I put sliders under my speakers 5856 
ROOM 5855 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5855 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5855 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5855 
No concerns 5855 
Speakers and room 5855 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5854 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5854 
Diaphram 5854 
Phram 5854 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5854 
Perfect piston 5854 
Decorater 5853 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5853 
New morning 5852 
The first take on the room with RTA 5851 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5851 
Axiomatic 5851 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5850 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5850 
The size of the bass. 5850 
Bass Factory 5850 
Crude Level, or something more? 5850 
I will play with it this week…. 5850 
Rent-A 5850 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5850 
Corner horns 5850 
Cheating from below 5850 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5850 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5849 
A possibly overly simplified view 5849 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5849 
Iceberg 5849 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5849 
Why not horn 5849 
A correction…. 5849 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5849 
They are just not related things at all. 5849 
Fertin 5847 
Low resonance is good... 5847 
Et tu, Brute? 5846 
The Room response at LF 5845 
Life On The Ground Floor 5845 
Bass arrays 5845 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5845 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5845 
The super sucks. 5845 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5845 
You may also try 5844 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5844 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5844 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5844 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5844 
60 Hz Resonance 5844 
No notching… so far. 5844 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5843 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5843 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5843 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5843 
Power to the People 5843 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5843 
Aura 5843 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5843 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5843 
All class D is the same 5843 
Interpreting the LF results. 5842 
The Halibut 5842 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5842 
The Big Picture 5842 
Power & ULF channels 5842 
The big picture indeed. 5842 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5842 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5842 
The Power and the Glory 5841 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5841 
I guess I did not get this memo 5841 
French LF drivers 5841 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5841 
(another) French LF approach 5840 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5840 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5840 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5840 
Limpschtick 5840 
Symmetry 5840 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5839 
Room correction 5839 
It migh be more complicated. 5839 
Bass EQ ? 5839 
Agree and not. 5839 
Two "diseases" 5839 
Parametric filters 5839 
Ceiling arrays 5839 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5839 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5839 
The Middle of the Room. 5839 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5839 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5839 
Stop! 5839 
Appendectomy 5839 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5838 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5838 
No Isolation 5838 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5835 
Potential contenders? 5834 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5834 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5834 
Those Crazy Canucks 5830 
Mo' Better Bass 5824 
Bird in the Hand? 5824 
A wet listening spot? 5817 
Storm 5814 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5814 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5800 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5770 
Polar Opposite ULF 5769 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5757 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5755 
Differently but the same. 5754 
PVC 5753 
The sail test try. 5753 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5753 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5753 
Trial 5752 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5752 
Some explanations 5752 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5751 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5750 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5749 
Acrylate 5748 
Magic blanket 5748 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5747 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5747 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5747 
I have a few options. 5747 
Foam color 5747 
Strange things with upperbass 5747 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5746 
Teatro reform. . . 5746 
The foaming room dilemma. 5745 
Melamine Foam 5745 
Foaming up the cat house 5745 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5745 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5745 
Acoustic revisions… 5744 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5741 
Surprises so far in the new room 5740 
The upperbass in the new room. 5740 
Slight change of hart. 5739 
Camco supply of Boston 5737 
Room acoustics 5737 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5696 
I need to kill dust first. 5696 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5694 
To feed the leeches? 5694 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5693 
Yh 5693 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5693 
DPOLs? 5693 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5693 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5690 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5690 
A HalfPipe solution? 5690 
I absolutely love it. 5690 
Piper work 5689 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5689 
Absorption 5689 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5688 
Cats life ? 5688 
Call me Pussy. 5688 
More about traps 5688 
Acoustic impedance? 5688 
You maybe right 5688 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5688 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5687 
Heavy Curtain 5687 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5686 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5686 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5686 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5683 
Fix speaker move chair? 5682 
Back and forth ceremony 5682 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5681 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5680 
Glass windows 5679 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5678 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5677 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5675 
How to use basement jacks? 5675 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5675 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5675 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5674 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5674 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5673 
Sore eyes... 5672 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5672 
The harvesting week! 5670 
I need an inspiration… 5669 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5668 
Like this? 5668 
Dramatically randomize MF 5668 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5667 
The room eats dynamic 5667 
Diffusers 5667 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5666 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5651 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5650 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5650 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5650 
About Width-Importance balance. 5648 
Letting the music scale up 5647 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5647 
To finish my house décor… 5643 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5642 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5641 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5641 
Calling the gods of music 5641 
Absolutely 5641 
Phase manipulation 5641 
No relation. 5641 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5641 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5641 
Dynamical mismatch 5640 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5640 
Stradiwinerius? 5637 
Dealing with the glass. 5636 
Boston 5636 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5636 
Added mass 5636 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5636 
It is about moderation…. 5636 
To hell with the wine... 5636 
Also for other surafaces 5635 
LEAD 5635 
LEAD & GLASS 5635 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5635 
Read carefully 5635 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5635 
Crooks and morons 5635 
Magiscopios 5634 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5614 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5614 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5613 
The LP setup in the new home. 5562 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5557 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5557 
Pianochord will do! 5557 
Spanyi heaven 5557 
I see no conflict at all. 5557 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5557 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5557 
A year after closing 5549 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5549 
Traveling antimatter 5542 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5536 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5535 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5509 
Cast Iron fireplace 5508 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5508 
The hardcore way 5508 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5472 
This is How It's Done 5471 
Listening room during summer. 5459 
What about those... 5458 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5458 
Reducing A/C Noise 5458 
HVAC the Cat 5458 
Big Ass fan 5457 
Variac dimmers 5457 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5457 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5457 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5389 
Some winter observations. 5280 
That Asian man…. 5249 
The Franz Schubert morning 5223 
Spring.... 5172 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5122 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5093 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5093 
Just good photography? 5093 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5093 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5093 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5092 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5092 
Sports car 5092 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5092 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5092 
Train Positioning 5092 
Kind of what I want 5092 
The lap listening… 5092 
Family Room 5092 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5089 
A super audio room. 5085 
Time Warp! 5085 
A piano in a listening room 5064 
Pianissimo 5064 
The plan in blue. 5064 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5064 
My doubts 5064 
It is exactly what I worry. 5063 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5063 
Musicians at home 5063 
Piano Measurements 5062 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5057 
The next step. 5043 
Midbass horns missing?? 5042 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5032 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5032 
Baby Grand 5031 
Wood floor 5031 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5031 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5031 
Amy’s baby. 5029 
Improvement 5029 
Agree with Scott 5029 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5017 
Integrated casters 5017 
Very nice, thanks. 5017 
Customization 5017 
Sliders 5017 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5010 
Congratulations 5010 
Holes in the floor... 5010 
Tubes and kids 5010 
Sweet spot enlargement 5010 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5008 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5007 
Wood Floors and Water 5007 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5002 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5001 
WAF is for Losers 5001 
WAF: it depends. 5001 
Integration 5000 
Here and there. 5000 
Life after WWIII 5000 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5000 
Cables management. 4998 
Featurizing 4998 
Kids and tubes cont. 4995 
Kid magnet 4995 
Kids and audio 4994 
Radars 4994 
Wow, what the days! 4990 
The comming weekend 4986 
It all was worth it! 4983 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4978 
Here is how it is look. 4978 
Resolving the carpet issue 4978 
Bonfire 4978 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4978 
Proof of concept? 4978 
Geometry 4978 
A view from listening position. 4978 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4978 
Some feedback 4978 
Evening 4978 
I wonder why. 4977 
Rugs and things 4977 
In defense… 4977 
I can’t get it. 4974 
Haze. 4973 
Front wall 4973 
It is very possible. 4973 
It is nice to be back. 4970 
My comfy corner. 4967 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4607 
WMD in house. 4429 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4332 
The third listening spot. 4311 
For sure a very different experience. 4273 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4268 
It's Jfretch's system. 4268 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4267 
Domestic games 4221 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4082 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4082 
Dynamic screening 4082 
Actually this is very good idea! 4082 
Volcanic fabric 4082 
I should have done this. 4080 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4076 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4045 
No worries 4045 
Awesome memories 4045 
Optimization of space 4045 
Child-ish considerations 4042 
Finding peace.... 4036 
"Fencing"? 4035 
I need to build something custom 4035 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4035 
Stressed Skin 4035 
NYC elevators 4035 
Kids toys and quantities. 4035 
Everything is completely reversible 4034 
Racks and things 4034 
Now it looks even more promising! 4034 
Quantity of rods 4034 
Avoiding diagonals 4032 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4031 
That's not fair! 4031 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4031 
Discrimination? 4026 
Vertical configuration 4019 
Impresive ! 3948 
Did you read the site? 3948 
Contact 3948 
Company's name is Rixrax 3948 
Stand 3947 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3903 
End of life headphone system 3903 
Something like this? 3903 
The "Second Living Room" 3903 
Mixing urban & suburban 3903 
Late night listening 3903 
Moving life... 3901 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3901 
A true listening room. 3877 
It started… 3862 
Levels of Interest 3862 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3862 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3862 
I can't not to post it.... 3862 
Do not leave him unattended. 3862 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3862 
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