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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5827 
The first take on the new room. 5821 
New Room, a first shot. 5820 
Wonderful 5820 
Adopted 5819 
The first relaxed night with the room 5817 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5816 
The listening room is ready. 5815 
New Room, a First Shot 5813 
Continue to work with the room 5813 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5813 
Room 5812 
I think it will take another month. 5812 
The Buttressing 5812 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5811 
The new place and the new noises. 5811 
Big listening room 5810 
Screw the "big" rooms 5810 
Big listening rooms 5810 
First reflection points 5809 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5809 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5806 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5805 
Squeezing the floor 5805 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5805 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5805 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5804 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5804 
The new room, the very first listening. 5804 
The 14.5 foot. 5803 
Again… 5802 
Romy's new Playground 5802 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5802 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5802 
For the uninitiated ... 5801 
NH guy 5801 
Room 5801 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5800 
The first base is done 5800 
Reentry time alignment. 5799 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5798 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5798 
Mid bass horn. 5798 
Guess is only a guess… 5798 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5798 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5797 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5797 
Diffusors 5797 
Diffuse injection 5797 
Let analyse why it so 5797 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5797 
Wheel and Deal 5797 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5797 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5797 
I Must Be Missing Something 5797 
I put sliders under my speakers 5796 
ROOM 5795 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5795 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5795 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5795 
No concerns 5795 
Speakers and room 5795 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5794 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5794 
Diaphram 5794 
Phram 5794 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5794 
Perfect piston 5794 
Decorater 5793 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5793 
New morning 5792 
The first take on the room with RTA 5791 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5791 
Axiomatic 5791 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5790 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5790 
The size of the bass. 5790 
Bass Factory 5790 
Crude Level, or something more? 5790 
I will play with it this week…. 5790 
Rent-A 5790 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5790 
Corner horns 5790 
Cheating from below 5790 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5790 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5789 
A possibly overly simplified view 5789 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5789 
Iceberg 5789 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5789 
Why not horn 5789 
A correction…. 5789 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5789 
They are just not related things at all. 5789 
Fertin 5787 
Low resonance is good... 5787 
Et tu, Brute? 5786 
The Room response at LF 5785 
Life On The Ground Floor 5785 
Bass arrays 5785 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5785 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5785 
The super sucks. 5785 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5785 
You may also try 5784 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5784 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5784 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5784 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5784 
60 Hz Resonance 5784 
No notching… so far. 5784 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5783 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5783 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5783 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5783 
Power to the People 5783 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5783 
Aura 5783 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5783 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5783 
All class D is the same 5783 
Interpreting the LF results. 5782 
The Halibut 5782 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5782 
The Big Picture 5782 
Power & ULF channels 5782 
The big picture indeed. 5782 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5782 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5782 
The Power and the Glory 5781 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5781 
I guess I did not get this memo 5781 
French LF drivers 5781 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5781 
(another) French LF approach 5780 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5780 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5780 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5780 
Limpschtick 5780 
Symmetry 5780 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5779 
Room correction 5779 
It migh be more complicated. 5779 
Bass EQ ? 5779 
Agree and not. 5779 
Two "diseases" 5779 
Parametric filters 5779 
Ceiling arrays 5779 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5779 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5779 
The Middle of the Room. 5779 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5779 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5779 
Stop! 5779 
Appendectomy 5779 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5778 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5778 
No Isolation 5778 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5775 
Potential contenders? 5774 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5774 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5774 
Those Crazy Canucks 5770 
Mo' Better Bass 5764 
Bird in the Hand? 5764 
A wet listening spot? 5757 
Storm 5754 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5754 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5740 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5710 
Polar Opposite ULF 5709 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5697 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5695 
Differently but the same. 5694 
PVC 5693 
The sail test try. 5693 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5693 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5693 
Trial 5692 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5692 
Some explanations 5692 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5691 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5690 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5689 
Acrylate 5688 
Magic blanket 5688 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5687 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5687 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5687 
I have a few options. 5687 
Foam color 5687 
Strange things with upperbass 5687 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5686 
Teatro reform. . . 5686 
The foaming room dilemma. 5685 
Melamine Foam 5685 
Foaming up the cat house 5685 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5685 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5685 
Acoustic revisions… 5684 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5681 
Surprises so far in the new room 5680 
The upperbass in the new room. 5680 
Slight change of hart. 5679 
Camco supply of Boston 5677 
Room acoustics 5677 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5636 
I need to kill dust first. 5636 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5634 
To feed the leeches? 5634 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5633 
Yh 5633 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5633 
DPOLs? 5633 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5633 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5630 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5630 
A HalfPipe solution? 5630 
I absolutely love it. 5630 
Piper work 5629 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5629 
Absorption 5629 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5628 
Cats life ? 5628 
Call me Pussy. 5628 
More about traps 5628 
Acoustic impedance? 5628 
You maybe right 5628 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5628 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5627 
Heavy Curtain 5627 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5626 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5626 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5626 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5623 
Fix speaker move chair? 5622 
Back and forth ceremony 5622 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5621 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5620 
Glass windows 5619 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5618 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5617 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5615 
How to use basement jacks? 5615 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5615 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5615 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5614 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5614 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5613 
Sore eyes... 5612 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5612 
The harvesting week! 5610 
I need an inspiration… 5609 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5608 
Like this? 5608 
Dramatically randomize MF 5608 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5607 
The room eats dynamic 5607 
Diffusers 5607 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5606 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5591 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5590 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5590 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5590 
About Width-Importance balance. 5588 
Letting the music scale up 5587 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5587 
To finish my house décor… 5583 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5582 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5581 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5581 
Calling the gods of music 5581 
Absolutely 5581 
Phase manipulation 5581 
No relation. 5581 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5581 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5581 
Dynamical mismatch 5580 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5580 
Stradiwinerius? 5577 
Dealing with the glass. 5576 
Boston 5576 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5576 
Added mass 5576 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5576 
It is about moderation…. 5576 
To hell with the wine... 5576 
Also for other surafaces 5575 
LEAD 5575 
LEAD & GLASS 5575 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5575 
Read carefully 5575 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5575 
Crooks and morons 5575 
Magiscopios 5574 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5554 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5554 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5553 
The LP setup in the new home. 5502 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5497 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5497 
Pianochord will do! 5497 
Spanyi heaven 5497 
I see no conflict at all. 5497 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5497 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5497 
A year after closing 5489 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5489 
Traveling antimatter 5482 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5476 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5475 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5449 
Cast Iron fireplace 5448 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5448 
The hardcore way 5448 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5412 
This is How It's Done 5411 
Listening room during summer. 5399 
What about those... 5398 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5398 
Reducing A/C Noise 5398 
HVAC the Cat 5398 
Big Ass fan 5397 
Variac dimmers 5397 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5397 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5397 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5329 
Some winter observations. 5220 
That Asian man…. 5189 
The Franz Schubert morning 5163 
Spring.... 5112 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5062 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5033 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5033 
Just good photography? 5033 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5033 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5033 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5032 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5032 
Sports car 5032 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5032 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5032 
Train Positioning 5032 
Kind of what I want 5032 
The lap listening… 5032 
Family Room 5032 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5029 
A super audio room. 5025 
Time Warp! 5025 
A piano in a listening room 5004 
Pianissimo 5004 
The plan in blue. 5004 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5004 
My doubts 5004 
It is exactly what I worry. 5003 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5003 
Musicians at home 5003 
Piano Measurements 5002 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4997 
The next step. 4983 
Midbass horns missing?? 4982 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4972 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4972 
Baby Grand 4971 
Wood floor 4971 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4971 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4971 
Amy’s baby. 4969 
Improvement 4969 
Agree with Scott 4969 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4957 
Integrated casters 4957 
Very nice, thanks. 4957 
Customization 4957 
Sliders 4957 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4950 
Congratulations 4950 
Holes in the floor... 4950 
Tubes and kids 4950 
Sweet spot enlargement 4950 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4948 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4947 
Wood Floors and Water 4947 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4942 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4941 
WAF is for Losers 4941 
WAF: it depends. 4941 
Integration 4940 
Here and there. 4940 
Life after WWIII 4940 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4940 
Cables management. 4938 
Featurizing 4938 
Kids and tubes cont. 4935 
Kid magnet 4935 
Kids and audio 4934 
Radars 4934 
Wow, what the days! 4930 
The comming weekend 4926 
It all was worth it! 4923 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4918 
Here is how it is look. 4918 
Resolving the carpet issue 4918 
Bonfire 4918 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4918 
Proof of concept? 4918 
Geometry 4918 
A view from listening position. 4918 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4918 
Some feedback 4918 
Evening 4918 
I wonder why. 4917 
Rugs and things 4917 
In defense… 4917 
I can’t get it. 4914 
Haze. 4913 
Front wall 4913 
It is very possible. 4913 
It is nice to be back. 4910 
My comfy corner. 4907 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4547 
WMD in house. 4369 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4272 
The third listening spot. 4251 
For sure a very different experience. 4213 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4208 
It's Jfretch's system. 4208 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4207 
Domestic games 4161 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4022 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4022 
Dynamic screening 4022 
Actually this is very good idea! 4022 
Volcanic fabric 4022 
I should have done this. 4020 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4016 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3985 
No worries 3985 
Awesome memories 3985 
Optimization of space 3985 
Child-ish considerations 3982 
Finding peace.... 3976 
"Fencing"? 3975 
I need to build something custom 3975 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3975 
Stressed Skin 3975 
NYC elevators 3975 
Kids toys and quantities. 3975 
Everything is completely reversible 3974 
Racks and things 3974 
Now it looks even more promising! 3974 
Quantity of rods 3974 
Avoiding diagonals 3972 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3971 
That's not fair! 3971 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3971 
Discrimination? 3966 
Vertical configuration 3959 
Impresive ! 3888 
Did you read the site? 3888 
Contact 3888 
Company's name is Rixrax 3888 
Stand 3887 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3843 
End of life headphone system 3843 
Something like this? 3843 
The "Second Living Room" 3843 
Mixing urban & suburban 3843 
Late night listening 3843 
Moving life... 3841 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3841 
A true listening room. 3817 
It started… 3802 
Levels of Interest 3802 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3802 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3802 
I can't not to post it.... 3802 
Do not leave him unattended. 3802 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3802 
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