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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5788 
The first take on the new room. 5782 
New Room, a first shot. 5781 
Wonderful 5781 
Adopted 5780 
The first relaxed night with the room 5778 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5777 
The listening room is ready. 5776 
New Room, a First Shot 5774 
Continue to work with the room 5774 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5774 
Room 5773 
I think it will take another month. 5773 
The Buttressing 5773 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5772 
The new place and the new noises. 5772 
Big listening room 5771 
Screw the "big" rooms 5771 
Big listening rooms 5771 
First reflection points 5770 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5770 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5767 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5766 
Squeezing the floor 5766 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5766 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5766 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5765 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5765 
The new room, the very first listening. 5765 
The 14.5 foot. 5764 
Again… 5763 
Romy's new Playground 5763 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5763 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5763 
For the uninitiated ... 5762 
NH guy 5762 
Room 5762 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5761 
The first base is done 5761 
Reentry time alignment. 5760 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5759 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5759 
Mid bass horn. 5759 
Guess is only a guess… 5759 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5759 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5758 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5758 
Diffusors 5758 
Diffuse injection 5758 
Let analyse why it so 5758 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5758 
Wheel and Deal 5758 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5758 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5758 
I Must Be Missing Something 5758 
I put sliders under my speakers 5757 
ROOM 5756 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5756 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5756 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5756 
No concerns 5756 
Speakers and room 5756 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5755 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5755 
Diaphram 5755 
Phram 5755 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5755 
Perfect piston 5755 
Decorater 5754 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5754 
New morning 5753 
The first take on the room with RTA 5752 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5752 
Axiomatic 5752 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5751 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5751 
The size of the bass. 5751 
Bass Factory 5751 
Crude Level, or something more? 5751 
I will play with it this week…. 5751 
Rent-A 5751 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5751 
Corner horns 5751 
Cheating from below 5751 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5751 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5750 
A possibly overly simplified view 5750 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5750 
Iceberg 5750 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5750 
Why not horn 5750 
A correction…. 5750 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5750 
They are just not related things at all. 5750 
Fertin 5748 
Low resonance is good... 5748 
Et tu, Brute? 5747 
The Room response at LF 5746 
Life On The Ground Floor 5746 
Bass arrays 5746 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5746 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5746 
The super sucks. 5746 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5746 
You may also try 5745 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5745 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5745 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5745 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5745 
60 Hz Resonance 5745 
No notching… so far. 5745 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5744 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5744 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5744 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5744 
Power to the People 5744 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5744 
Aura 5744 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5744 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5744 
All class D is the same 5744 
Interpreting the LF results. 5743 
The Halibut 5743 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5743 
The Big Picture 5743 
Power & ULF channels 5743 
The big picture indeed. 5743 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5743 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5743 
The Power and the Glory 5742 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5742 
I guess I did not get this memo 5742 
French LF drivers 5742 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5742 
(another) French LF approach 5741 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5741 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5741 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5741 
Limpschtick 5741 
Symmetry 5741 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5740 
Room correction 5740 
It migh be more complicated. 5740 
Bass EQ ? 5740 
Agree and not. 5740 
Two "diseases" 5740 
Parametric filters 5740 
Ceiling arrays 5740 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5740 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5740 
The Middle of the Room. 5740 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5740 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5740 
Stop! 5740 
Appendectomy 5740 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5739 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5739 
No Isolation 5739 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5736 
Potential contenders? 5735 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5735 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5735 
Those Crazy Canucks 5731 
Mo' Better Bass 5725 
Bird in the Hand? 5725 
A wet listening spot? 5718 
Storm 5715 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5715 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5701 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5671 
Polar Opposite ULF 5670 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5658 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5656 
Differently but the same. 5655 
PVC 5654 
The sail test try. 5654 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5654 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5654 
Trial 5653 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5653 
Some explanations 5653 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5652 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5651 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5650 
Acrylate 5649 
Magic blanket 5649 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5648 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5648 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5648 
I have a few options. 5648 
Foam color 5648 
Strange things with upperbass 5648 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5647 
Teatro reform. . . 5647 
The foaming room dilemma. 5646 
Melamine Foam 5646 
Foaming up the cat house 5646 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5646 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5646 
Acoustic revisions… 5645 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5642 
Surprises so far in the new room 5641 
The upperbass in the new room. 5641 
Slight change of hart. 5640 
Camco supply of Boston 5638 
Room acoustics 5638 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5597 
I need to kill dust first. 5597 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5595 
To feed the leeches? 5595 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5594 
Yh 5594 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5594 
DPOLs? 5594 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5594 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5591 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5591 
A HalfPipe solution? 5591 
I absolutely love it. 5591 
Piper work 5590 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5590 
Absorption 5590 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5589 
Cats life ? 5589 
Call me Pussy. 5589 
More about traps 5589 
Acoustic impedance? 5589 
You maybe right 5589 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5589 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5588 
Heavy Curtain 5588 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5587 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5587 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5587 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5584 
Fix speaker move chair? 5583 
Back and forth ceremony 5583 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5582 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5581 
Glass windows 5580 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5579 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5578 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5576 
How to use basement jacks? 5576 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5576 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5576 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5575 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5575 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5574 
Sore eyes... 5573 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5573 
The harvesting week! 5571 
I need an inspiration… 5570 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5569 
Like this? 5569 
Dramatically randomize MF 5569 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5568 
The room eats dynamic 5568 
Diffusers 5568 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5567 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5552 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5551 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5551 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5551 
About Width-Importance balance. 5549 
Letting the music scale up 5548 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5548 
To finish my house décor… 5544 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5543 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5542 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5542 
Calling the gods of music 5542 
Absolutely 5542 
Phase manipulation 5542 
No relation. 5542 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5542 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5542 
Dynamical mismatch 5541 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5541 
Stradiwinerius? 5538 
Dealing with the glass. 5537 
Boston 5537 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5537 
Added mass 5537 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5537 
It is about moderation…. 5537 
To hell with the wine... 5537 
Also for other surafaces 5536 
LEAD 5536 
LEAD & GLASS 5536 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5536 
Read carefully 5536 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5536 
Crooks and morons 5536 
Magiscopios 5535 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5515 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5515 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5514 
The LP setup in the new home. 5463 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5458 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5458 
Pianochord will do! 5458 
Spanyi heaven 5458 
I see no conflict at all. 5458 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5458 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5458 
A year after closing 5450 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5450 
Traveling antimatter 5443 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5437 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5436 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5410 
Cast Iron fireplace 5409 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5409 
The hardcore way 5409 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5373 
This is How It's Done 5372 
Listening room during summer. 5360 
What about those... 5359 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5359 
Reducing A/C Noise 5359 
HVAC the Cat 5359 
Big Ass fan 5358 
Variac dimmers 5358 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5358 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5358 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5290 
Some winter observations. 5181 
That Asian man…. 5150 
The Franz Schubert morning 5124 
Spring.... 5073 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5023 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4994 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4994 
Just good photography? 4994 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4994 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4994 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4993 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4993 
Sports car 4993 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4993 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4993 
Train Positioning 4993 
Kind of what I want 4993 
The lap listening… 4993 
Family Room 4993 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4990 
A super audio room. 4986 
Time Warp! 4986 
A piano in a listening room 4965 
Pianissimo 4965 
The plan in blue. 4965 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4965 
My doubts 4965 
It is exactly what I worry. 4964 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4964 
Musicians at home 4964 
Piano Measurements 4963 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4958 
The next step. 4944 
Midbass horns missing?? 4943 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4933 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4933 
Baby Grand 4932 
Wood floor 4932 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4932 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4932 
Amy’s baby. 4930 
Improvement 4930 
Agree with Scott 4930 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4918 
Integrated casters 4918 
Very nice, thanks. 4918 
Customization 4918 
Sliders 4918 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4911 
Congratulations 4911 
Holes in the floor... 4911 
Tubes and kids 4911 
Sweet spot enlargement 4911 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4909 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4908 
Wood Floors and Water 4908 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4903 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4902 
WAF is for Losers 4902 
WAF: it depends. 4902 
Integration 4901 
Here and there. 4901 
Life after WWIII 4901 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4901 
Cables management. 4899 
Featurizing 4899 
Kids and tubes cont. 4896 
Kid magnet 4896 
Kids and audio 4895 
Radars 4895 
Wow, what the days! 4891 
The comming weekend 4887 
It all was worth it! 4884 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4879 
Here is how it is look. 4879 
Resolving the carpet issue 4879 
Bonfire 4879 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4879 
Proof of concept? 4879 
Geometry 4879 
A view from listening position. 4879 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4879 
Some feedback 4879 
Evening 4879 
I wonder why. 4878 
Rugs and things 4878 
In defense… 4878 
I can’t get it. 4875 
Haze. 4874 
Front wall 4874 
It is very possible. 4874 
It is nice to be back. 4871 
My comfy corner. 4868 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4508 
WMD in house. 4330 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4233 
The third listening spot. 4212 
For sure a very different experience. 4174 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4169 
It's Jfretch's system. 4169 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4168 
Domestic games 4122 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3983 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3983 
Dynamic screening 3983 
Actually this is very good idea! 3983 
Volcanic fabric 3983 
I should have done this. 3981 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3977 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3946 
No worries 3946 
Awesome memories 3946 
Optimization of space 3946 
Child-ish considerations 3943 
Finding peace.... 3937 
"Fencing"? 3936 
I need to build something custom 3936 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3936 
Stressed Skin 3936 
NYC elevators 3936 
Kids toys and quantities. 3936 
Everything is completely reversible 3935 
Racks and things 3935 
Now it looks even more promising! 3935 
Quantity of rods 3935 
Avoiding diagonals 3933 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3932 
That's not fair! 3932 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3932 
Discrimination? 3927 
Vertical configuration 3920 
Impresive ! 3849 
Did you read the site? 3849 
Contact 3849 
Company's name is Rixrax 3849 
Stand 3848 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3804 
End of life headphone system 3804 
Something like this? 3804 
The "Second Living Room" 3804 
Mixing urban & suburban 3804 
Late night listening 3804 
Moving life... 3802 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3802 
A true listening room. 3778 
It started… 3763 
Levels of Interest 3763 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3763 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3763 
I can't not to post it.... 3763 
Do not leave him unattended. 3763 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3763 
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