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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5886 
The first take on the new room. 5880 
New Room, a first shot. 5879 
Wonderful 5879 
Adopted 5878 
The first relaxed night with the room 5876 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5875 
The listening room is ready. 5874 
New Room, a First Shot 5872 
Continue to work with the room 5872 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5872 
Room 5871 
I think it will take another month. 5871 
The Buttressing 5871 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5870 
The new place and the new noises. 5870 
Big listening room 5869 
Screw the "big" rooms 5869 
Big listening rooms 5869 
First reflection points 5868 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5868 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5865 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5864 
Squeezing the floor 5864 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5864 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5864 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5863 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5863 
The new room, the very first listening. 5863 
The 14.5 foot. 5862 
Again… 5861 
Romy's new Playground 5861 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5861 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5861 
For the uninitiated ... 5860 
NH guy 5860 
Room 5860 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5859 
The first base is done 5859 
Reentry time alignment. 5858 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5857 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5857 
Mid bass horn. 5857 
Guess is only a guess… 5857 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5857 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5856 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5856 
Diffusors 5856 
Diffuse injection 5856 
Let analyse why it so 5856 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5856 
Wheel and Deal 5856 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5856 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5856 
I Must Be Missing Something 5856 
I put sliders under my speakers 5855 
ROOM 5854 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5854 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5854 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5854 
No concerns 5854 
Speakers and room 5854 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5853 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5853 
Diaphram 5853 
Phram 5853 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5853 
Perfect piston 5853 
Decorater 5852 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5852 
New morning 5851 
The first take on the room with RTA 5850 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5850 
Axiomatic 5850 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5849 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5849 
The size of the bass. 5849 
Bass Factory 5849 
Crude Level, or something more? 5849 
I will play with it this week…. 5849 
Rent-A 5849 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5849 
Corner horns 5849 
Cheating from below 5849 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5849 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5848 
A possibly overly simplified view 5848 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5848 
Iceberg 5848 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5848 
Why not horn 5848 
A correction…. 5848 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5848 
They are just not related things at all. 5848 
Fertin 5846 
Low resonance is good... 5846 
Et tu, Brute? 5845 
The Room response at LF 5844 
Life On The Ground Floor 5844 
Bass arrays 5844 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5844 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5844 
The super sucks. 5844 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5844 
You may also try 5843 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5843 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5843 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5843 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5843 
60 Hz Resonance 5843 
No notching… so far. 5843 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5842 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5842 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5842 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5842 
Power to the People 5842 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5842 
Aura 5842 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5842 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5842 
All class D is the same 5842 
Interpreting the LF results. 5841 
The Halibut 5841 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5841 
The Big Picture 5841 
Power & ULF channels 5841 
The big picture indeed. 5841 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5841 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5841 
The Power and the Glory 5840 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5840 
I guess I did not get this memo 5840 
French LF drivers 5840 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5840 
(another) French LF approach 5839 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5839 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5839 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5839 
Limpschtick 5839 
Symmetry 5839 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5838 
Room correction 5838 
It migh be more complicated. 5838 
Bass EQ ? 5838 
Agree and not. 5838 
Two "diseases" 5838 
Parametric filters 5838 
Ceiling arrays 5838 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5838 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5838 
The Middle of the Room. 5838 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5838 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5838 
Stop! 5838 
Appendectomy 5838 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5837 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5837 
No Isolation 5837 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5834 
Potential contenders? 5833 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5833 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5833 
Those Crazy Canucks 5829 
Mo' Better Bass 5823 
Bird in the Hand? 5823 
A wet listening spot? 5816 
Storm 5813 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5813 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5799 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5769 
Polar Opposite ULF 5768 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5756 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5754 
Differently but the same. 5753 
PVC 5752 
The sail test try. 5752 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5752 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5752 
Trial 5751 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5751 
Some explanations 5751 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5750 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5749 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5748 
Acrylate 5747 
Magic blanket 5747 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5746 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5746 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5746 
I have a few options. 5746 
Foam color 5746 
Strange things with upperbass 5746 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5745 
Teatro reform. . . 5745 
The foaming room dilemma. 5744 
Melamine Foam 5744 
Foaming up the cat house 5744 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5744 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5744 
Acoustic revisions… 5743 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5740 
Surprises so far in the new room 5739 
The upperbass in the new room. 5739 
Slight change of hart. 5738 
Camco supply of Boston 5736 
Room acoustics 5736 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5695 
I need to kill dust first. 5695 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5693 
To feed the leeches? 5693 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5692 
Yh 5692 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5692 
DPOLs? 5692 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5692 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5689 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5689 
A HalfPipe solution? 5689 
I absolutely love it. 5689 
Piper work 5688 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5688 
Absorption 5688 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5687 
Cats life ? 5687 
Call me Pussy. 5687 
More about traps 5687 
Acoustic impedance? 5687 
You maybe right 5687 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5687 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5686 
Heavy Curtain 5686 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5685 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5685 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5685 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5682 
Fix speaker move chair? 5681 
Back and forth ceremony 5681 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5680 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5679 
Glass windows 5678 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5677 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5676 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5674 
How to use basement jacks? 5674 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5674 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5674 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5673 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5673 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5672 
Sore eyes... 5671 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5671 
The harvesting week! 5669 
I need an inspiration… 5668 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5667 
Like this? 5667 
Dramatically randomize MF 5667 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5666 
The room eats dynamic 5666 
Diffusers 5666 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5665 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5650 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5649 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5649 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5649 
About Width-Importance balance. 5647 
Letting the music scale up 5646 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5646 
To finish my house décor… 5642 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5641 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5640 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5640 
Calling the gods of music 5640 
Absolutely 5640 
Phase manipulation 5640 
No relation. 5640 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5640 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5640 
Dynamical mismatch 5639 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5639 
Stradiwinerius? 5636 
Dealing with the glass. 5635 
Boston 5635 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5635 
Added mass 5635 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5635 
It is about moderation…. 5635 
To hell with the wine... 5635 
Also for other surafaces 5634 
LEAD 5634 
LEAD & GLASS 5634 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5634 
Read carefully 5634 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5634 
Crooks and morons 5634 
Magiscopios 5633 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5613 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5613 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5612 
The LP setup in the new home. 5561 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5556 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5556 
Pianochord will do! 5556 
Spanyi heaven 5556 
I see no conflict at all. 5556 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5556 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5556 
A year after closing 5548 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5548 
Traveling antimatter 5541 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5535 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5534 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5508 
Cast Iron fireplace 5507 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5507 
The hardcore way 5507 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5471 
This is How It's Done 5470 
Listening room during summer. 5458 
What about those... 5457 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5457 
Reducing A/C Noise 5457 
HVAC the Cat 5457 
Big Ass fan 5456 
Variac dimmers 5456 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5456 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5456 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5388 
Some winter observations. 5279 
That Asian man…. 5248 
The Franz Schubert morning 5222 
Spring.... 5171 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5121 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5092 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5092 
Just good photography? 5092 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5092 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5092 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5091 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5091 
Sports car 5091 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5091 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5091 
Train Positioning 5091 
Kind of what I want 5091 
The lap listening… 5091 
Family Room 5091 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5088 
A super audio room. 5084 
Time Warp! 5084 
A piano in a listening room 5063 
Pianissimo 5063 
The plan in blue. 5063 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5063 
My doubts 5063 
It is exactly what I worry. 5062 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5062 
Musicians at home 5062 
Piano Measurements 5061 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5056 
The next step. 5042 
Midbass horns missing?? 5041 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5031 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5031 
Baby Grand 5030 
Wood floor 5030 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5030 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5030 
Amy’s baby. 5028 
Improvement 5028 
Agree with Scott 5028 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5016 
Integrated casters 5016 
Very nice, thanks. 5016 
Customization 5016 
Sliders 5016 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5009 
Congratulations 5009 
Holes in the floor... 5009 
Tubes and kids 5009 
Sweet spot enlargement 5009 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5007 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5006 
Wood Floors and Water 5006 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5001 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5000 
WAF is for Losers 5000 
WAF: it depends. 5000 
Integration 4999 
Here and there. 4999 
Life after WWIII 4999 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4999 
Cables management. 4997 
Featurizing 4997 
Kids and tubes cont. 4994 
Kid magnet 4994 
Kids and audio 4993 
Radars 4993 
Wow, what the days! 4989 
The comming weekend 4985 
It all was worth it! 4982 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4977 
Here is how it is look. 4977 
Resolving the carpet issue 4977 
Bonfire 4977 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4977 
Proof of concept? 4977 
Geometry 4977 
A view from listening position. 4977 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4977 
Some feedback 4977 
Evening 4977 
I wonder why. 4976 
Rugs and things 4976 
In defense… 4976 
I can’t get it. 4973 
Haze. 4972 
Front wall 4972 
It is very possible. 4972 
It is nice to be back. 4969 
My comfy corner. 4966 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4606 
WMD in house. 4428 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4331 
The third listening spot. 4310 
For sure a very different experience. 4272 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4267 
It's Jfretch's system. 4267 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4266 
Domestic games 4220 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4081 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4081 
Dynamic screening 4081 
Actually this is very good idea! 4081 
Volcanic fabric 4081 
I should have done this. 4079 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4075 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4044 
No worries 4044 
Awesome memories 4044 
Optimization of space 4044 
Child-ish considerations 4041 
Finding peace.... 4035 
"Fencing"? 4034 
I need to build something custom 4034 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4034 
Stressed Skin 4034 
NYC elevators 4034 
Kids toys and quantities. 4034 
Everything is completely reversible 4033 
Racks and things 4033 
Now it looks even more promising! 4033 
Quantity of rods 4033 
Avoiding diagonals 4031 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4030 
That's not fair! 4030 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4030 
Discrimination? 4025 
Vertical configuration 4018 
Impresive ! 3947 
Did you read the site? 3947 
Contact 3947 
Company's name is Rixrax 3947 
Stand 3946 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3902 
End of life headphone system 3902 
Something like this? 3902 
The "Second Living Room" 3902 
Mixing urban & suburban 3902 
Late night listening 3902 
Moving life... 3900 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3900 
A true listening room. 3876 
It started… 3861 
Levels of Interest 3861 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3861 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3861 
I can't not to post it.... 3861 
Do not leave him unattended. 3861 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3861 
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