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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5868 
The first take on the new room. 5862 
New Room, a first shot. 5861 
Wonderful 5861 
Adopted 5860 
The first relaxed night with the room 5858 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5857 
The listening room is ready. 5856 
New Room, a First Shot 5854 
Continue to work with the room 5854 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5854 
Room 5853 
I think it will take another month. 5853 
The Buttressing 5853 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5852 
The new place and the new noises. 5852 
Big listening room 5851 
Screw the "big" rooms 5851 
Big listening rooms 5851 
First reflection points 5850 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5850 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5847 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5846 
Squeezing the floor 5846 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5846 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5846 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5845 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5845 
The new room, the very first listening. 5845 
The 14.5 foot. 5844 
Again… 5843 
Romy's new Playground 5843 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5843 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5843 
For the uninitiated ... 5842 
NH guy 5842 
Room 5842 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5841 
The first base is done 5841 
Reentry time alignment. 5840 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5839 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5839 
Mid bass horn. 5839 
Guess is only a guess… 5839 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5839 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5838 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5838 
Diffusors 5838 
Diffuse injection 5838 
Let analyse why it so 5838 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5838 
Wheel and Deal 5838 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5838 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5838 
I Must Be Missing Something 5838 
I put sliders under my speakers 5837 
ROOM 5836 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5836 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5836 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5836 
No concerns 5836 
Speakers and room 5836 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5835 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5835 
Diaphram 5835 
Phram 5835 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5835 
Perfect piston 5835 
Decorater 5834 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5834 
New morning 5833 
The first take on the room with RTA 5832 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5832 
Axiomatic 5832 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5831 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5831 
The size of the bass. 5831 
Bass Factory 5831 
Crude Level, or something more? 5831 
I will play with it this week…. 5831 
Rent-A 5831 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5831 
Corner horns 5831 
Cheating from below 5831 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5831 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5830 
A possibly overly simplified view 5830 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5830 
Iceberg 5830 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5830 
Why not horn 5830 
A correction…. 5830 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5830 
They are just not related things at all. 5830 
Fertin 5828 
Low resonance is good... 5828 
Et tu, Brute? 5827 
The Room response at LF 5826 
Life On The Ground Floor 5826 
Bass arrays 5826 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5826 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5826 
The super sucks. 5826 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5826 
You may also try 5825 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5825 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5825 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5825 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5825 
60 Hz Resonance 5825 
No notching… so far. 5825 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5824 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5824 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5824 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5824 
Power to the People 5824 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5824 
Aura 5824 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5824 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5824 
All class D is the same 5824 
Interpreting the LF results. 5823 
The Halibut 5823 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5823 
The Big Picture 5823 
Power & ULF channels 5823 
The big picture indeed. 5823 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5823 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5823 
The Power and the Glory 5822 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5822 
I guess I did not get this memo 5822 
French LF drivers 5822 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5822 
(another) French LF approach 5821 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5821 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5821 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5821 
Limpschtick 5821 
Symmetry 5821 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5820 
Room correction 5820 
It migh be more complicated. 5820 
Bass EQ ? 5820 
Agree and not. 5820 
Two "diseases" 5820 
Parametric filters 5820 
Ceiling arrays 5820 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5820 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5820 
The Middle of the Room. 5820 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5820 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5820 
Stop! 5820 
Appendectomy 5820 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5819 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5819 
No Isolation 5819 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5816 
Potential contenders? 5815 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5815 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5815 
Those Crazy Canucks 5811 
Mo' Better Bass 5805 
Bird in the Hand? 5805 
A wet listening spot? 5798 
Storm 5795 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5795 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5781 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5751 
Polar Opposite ULF 5750 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5738 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5736 
Differently but the same. 5735 
PVC 5734 
The sail test try. 5734 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5734 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5734 
Trial 5733 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5733 
Some explanations 5733 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5732 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5731 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5730 
Acrylate 5729 
Magic blanket 5729 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5728 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5728 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5728 
I have a few options. 5728 
Foam color 5728 
Strange things with upperbass 5728 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5727 
Teatro reform. . . 5727 
The foaming room dilemma. 5726 
Melamine Foam 5726 
Foaming up the cat house 5726 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5726 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5726 
Acoustic revisions… 5725 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5722 
Surprises so far in the new room 5721 
The upperbass in the new room. 5721 
Slight change of hart. 5720 
Camco supply of Boston 5718 
Room acoustics 5718 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5677 
I need to kill dust first. 5677 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5675 
To feed the leeches? 5675 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5674 
Yh 5674 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5674 
DPOLs? 5674 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5674 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5671 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5671 
A HalfPipe solution? 5671 
I absolutely love it. 5671 
Piper work 5670 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5670 
Absorption 5670 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5669 
Cats life ? 5669 
Call me Pussy. 5669 
More about traps 5669 
Acoustic impedance? 5669 
You maybe right 5669 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5669 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5668 
Heavy Curtain 5668 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5667 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5667 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5667 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5664 
Fix speaker move chair? 5663 
Back and forth ceremony 5663 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5662 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5661 
Glass windows 5660 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5659 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5658 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5656 
How to use basement jacks? 5656 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5656 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5656 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5655 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5655 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5654 
Sore eyes... 5653 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5653 
The harvesting week! 5651 
I need an inspiration… 5650 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5649 
Like this? 5649 
Dramatically randomize MF 5649 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5648 
The room eats dynamic 5648 
Diffusers 5648 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5647 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5632 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5631 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5631 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5631 
About Width-Importance balance. 5629 
Letting the music scale up 5628 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5628 
To finish my house décor… 5624 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5623 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5622 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5622 
Calling the gods of music 5622 
Absolutely 5622 
Phase manipulation 5622 
No relation. 5622 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5622 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5622 
Dynamical mismatch 5621 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5621 
Stradiwinerius? 5618 
Dealing with the glass. 5617 
Boston 5617 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5617 
Added mass 5617 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5617 
It is about moderation…. 5617 
To hell with the wine... 5617 
Also for other surafaces 5616 
LEAD 5616 
LEAD & GLASS 5616 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5616 
Read carefully 5616 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5616 
Crooks and morons 5616 
Magiscopios 5615 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5595 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5595 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5594 
The LP setup in the new home. 5543 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5538 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5538 
Pianochord will do! 5538 
Spanyi heaven 5538 
I see no conflict at all. 5538 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5538 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5538 
A year after closing 5530 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5530 
Traveling antimatter 5523 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5517 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5516 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5490 
Cast Iron fireplace 5489 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5489 
The hardcore way 5489 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5453 
This is How It's Done 5452 
Listening room during summer. 5440 
What about those... 5439 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5439 
Reducing A/C Noise 5439 
HVAC the Cat 5439 
Big Ass fan 5438 
Variac dimmers 5438 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5438 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5438 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5370 
Some winter observations. 5261 
That Asian man…. 5230 
The Franz Schubert morning 5204 
Spring.... 5153 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5103 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5074 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5074 
Just good photography? 5074 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5074 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5074 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5073 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5073 
Sports car 5073 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5073 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5073 
Train Positioning 5073 
Kind of what I want 5073 
The lap listening… 5073 
Family Room 5073 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5070 
A super audio room. 5066 
Time Warp! 5066 
A piano in a listening room 5045 
Pianissimo 5045 
The plan in blue. 5045 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5045 
My doubts 5045 
It is exactly what I worry. 5044 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5044 
Musicians at home 5044 
Piano Measurements 5043 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5038 
The next step. 5024 
Midbass horns missing?? 5023 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5013 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5013 
Baby Grand 5012 
Wood floor 5012 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5012 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5012 
Amy’s baby. 5010 
Improvement 5010 
Agree with Scott 5010 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4998 
Integrated casters 4998 
Very nice, thanks. 4998 
Customization 4998 
Sliders 4998 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4991 
Congratulations 4991 
Holes in the floor... 4991 
Tubes and kids 4991 
Sweet spot enlargement 4991 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4989 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4988 
Wood Floors and Water 4988 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4983 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4982 
WAF is for Losers 4982 
WAF: it depends. 4982 
Integration 4981 
Here and there. 4981 
Life after WWIII 4981 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4981 
Cables management. 4979 
Featurizing 4979 
Kids and tubes cont. 4976 
Kid magnet 4976 
Kids and audio 4975 
Radars 4975 
Wow, what the days! 4971 
The comming weekend 4967 
It all was worth it! 4964 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4959 
Here is how it is look. 4959 
Resolving the carpet issue 4959 
Bonfire 4959 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4959 
Proof of concept? 4959 
Geometry 4959 
A view from listening position. 4959 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4959 
Some feedback 4959 
Evening 4959 
I wonder why. 4958 
Rugs and things 4958 
In defense… 4958 
I can’t get it. 4955 
Haze. 4954 
Front wall 4954 
It is very possible. 4954 
It is nice to be back. 4951 
My comfy corner. 4948 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4588 
WMD in house. 4410 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4313 
The third listening spot. 4292 
For sure a very different experience. 4254 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4249 
It's Jfretch's system. 4249 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4248 
Domestic games 4202 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4063 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4063 
Dynamic screening 4063 
Actually this is very good idea! 4063 
Volcanic fabric 4063 
I should have done this. 4061 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4057 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4026 
No worries 4026 
Awesome memories 4026 
Optimization of space 4026 
Child-ish considerations 4023 
Finding peace.... 4017 
"Fencing"? 4016 
I need to build something custom 4016 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4016 
Stressed Skin 4016 
NYC elevators 4016 
Kids toys and quantities. 4016 
Everything is completely reversible 4015 
Racks and things 4015 
Now it looks even more promising! 4015 
Quantity of rods 4015 
Avoiding diagonals 4013 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4012 
That's not fair! 4012 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4012 
Discrimination? 4007 
Vertical configuration 4000 
Impresive ! 3929 
Did you read the site? 3929 
Contact 3929 
Company's name is Rixrax 3929 
Stand 3928 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3884 
End of life headphone system 3884 
Something like this? 3884 
The "Second Living Room" 3884 
Mixing urban & suburban 3884 
Late night listening 3884 
Moving life... 3882 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3882 
A true listening room. 3858 
It started… 3843 
Levels of Interest 3843 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3843 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3843 
I can't not to post it.... 3843 
Do not leave him unattended. 3843 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3843 
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