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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6057 
The first take on the new room. 6051 
New Room, a first shot. 6050 
Wonderful 6050 
Adopted 6049 
The first relaxed night with the room 6047 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6046 
The listening room is ready. 6045 
New Room, a First Shot 6043 
Continue to work with the room 6043 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6043 
Room 6042 
I think it will take another month. 6042 
The Buttressing 6042 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6041 
The new place and the new noises. 6041 
Big listening room 6040 
Screw the "big" rooms 6040 
Big listening rooms 6040 
First reflection points 6039 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6039 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6036 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6035 
Squeezing the floor 6035 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6035 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6035 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6034 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6034 
The new room, the very first listening. 6034 
The 14.5 foot. 6033 
Again… 6032 
Romy's new Playground 6032 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6032 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6032 
For the uninitiated ... 6031 
NH guy 6031 
Room 6031 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6030 
The first base is done 6030 
Reentry time alignment. 6029 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6028 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6028 
Mid bass horn. 6028 
Guess is only a guess… 6028 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6028 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6027 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6027 
Diffusors 6027 
Diffuse injection 6027 
Let analyse why it so 6027 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6027 
Wheel and Deal 6027 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6027 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6027 
I Must Be Missing Something 6027 
I put sliders under my speakers 6026 
ROOM 6025 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6025 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6025 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6025 
No concerns 6025 
Speakers and room 6025 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6024 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6024 
Diaphram 6024 
Phram 6024 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6024 
Perfect piston 6024 
Decorater 6023 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6023 
New morning 6022 
The first take on the room with RTA 6021 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6021 
Axiomatic 6021 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6020 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6020 
The size of the bass. 6020 
Bass Factory 6020 
Crude Level, or something more? 6020 
I will play with it this week…. 6020 
Rent-A 6020 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6020 
Corner horns 6020 
Cheating from below 6020 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6020 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6019 
A possibly overly simplified view 6019 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6019 
Iceberg 6019 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6019 
Why not horn 6019 
A correction…. 6019 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6019 
They are just not related things at all. 6019 
Fertin 6017 
Low resonance is good... 6017 
Et tu, Brute? 6016 
The Room response at LF 6015 
Life On The Ground Floor 6015 
Bass arrays 6015 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6015 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6015 
The super sucks. 6015 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6015 
You may also try 6014 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6014 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6014 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6014 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6014 
60 Hz Resonance 6014 
No notching… so far. 6014 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6013 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6013 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6013 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6013 
Power to the People 6013 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6013 
Aura 6013 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6013 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6013 
All class D is the same 6013 
Interpreting the LF results. 6012 
The Halibut 6012 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6012 
The Big Picture 6012 
Power & ULF channels 6012 
The big picture indeed. 6012 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6012 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6012 
The Power and the Glory 6011 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6011 
I guess I did not get this memo 6011 
French LF drivers 6011 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6011 
(another) French LF approach 6010 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6010 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6010 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6010 
Limpschtick 6010 
Symmetry 6010 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6009 
Room correction 6009 
It migh be more complicated. 6009 
Bass EQ ? 6009 
Agree and not. 6009 
Two "diseases" 6009 
Parametric filters 6009 
Ceiling arrays 6009 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6009 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6009 
The Middle of the Room. 6009 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6009 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6009 
Stop! 6009 
Appendectomy 6009 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6008 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6008 
No Isolation 6008 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6005 
Potential contenders? 6004 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6004 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6004 
Those Crazy Canucks 6000 
Mo' Better Bass 5994 
Bird in the Hand? 5994 
A wet listening spot? 5987 
Storm 5984 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5984 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5970 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5940 
Polar Opposite ULF 5939 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5927 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5925 
Differently but the same. 5924 
PVC 5923 
The sail test try. 5923 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5923 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5923 
Trial 5922 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5922 
Some explanations 5922 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5921 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5920 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5919 
Acrylate 5918 
Magic blanket 5918 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5917 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5917 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5917 
I have a few options. 5917 
Foam color 5917 
Strange things with upperbass 5917 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5916 
Teatro reform. . . 5916 
The foaming room dilemma. 5915 
Melamine Foam 5915 
Foaming up the cat house 5915 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5915 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5915 
Acoustic revisions… 5914 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5911 
Surprises so far in the new room 5910 
The upperbass in the new room. 5910 
Slight change of hart. 5909 
Camco supply of Boston 5907 
Room acoustics 5907 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5866 
I need to kill dust first. 5866 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5864 
To feed the leeches? 5864 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5863 
Yh 5863 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5863 
DPOLs? 5863 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5863 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5860 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5860 
A HalfPipe solution? 5860 
I absolutely love it. 5860 
Piper work 5859 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5859 
Absorption 5859 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5858 
Cats life ? 5858 
Call me Pussy. 5858 
More about traps 5858 
Acoustic impedance? 5858 
You maybe right 5858 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5858 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5857 
Heavy Curtain 5857 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5856 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5856 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5856 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5853 
Fix speaker move chair? 5852 
Back and forth ceremony 5852 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5851 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5850 
Glass windows 5849 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5848 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5847 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5845 
How to use basement jacks? 5845 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5845 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5845 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5844 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5844 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5843 
Sore eyes... 5842 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5842 
The harvesting week! 5840 
I need an inspiration… 5839 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5838 
Like this? 5838 
Dramatically randomize MF 5838 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5837 
The room eats dynamic 5837 
Diffusers 5837 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5836 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5821 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5820 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5820 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5820 
About Width-Importance balance. 5818 
Letting the music scale up 5817 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5817 
To finish my house décor… 5813 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5812 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5811 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5811 
Calling the gods of music 5811 
Absolutely 5811 
Phase manipulation 5811 
No relation. 5811 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5811 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5811 
Dynamical mismatch 5810 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5810 
Stradiwinerius? 5807 
Dealing with the glass. 5806 
Boston 5806 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5806 
Added mass 5806 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5806 
It is about moderation…. 5806 
To hell with the wine... 5806 
Also for other surafaces 5805 
LEAD 5805 
LEAD & GLASS 5805 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5805 
Read carefully 5805 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5805 
Crooks and morons 5805 
Magiscopios 5804 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5784 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5784 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5783 
The LP setup in the new home. 5732 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5727 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5727 
Pianochord will do! 5727 
Spanyi heaven 5727 
I see no conflict at all. 5727 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5727 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5727 
A year after closing 5719 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5719 
Traveling antimatter 5712 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5706 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5705 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5679 
Cast Iron fireplace 5678 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5678 
The hardcore way 5678 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5642 
This is How It's Done 5641 
Listening room during summer. 5629 
What about those... 5628 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5628 
Reducing A/C Noise 5628 
HVAC the Cat 5628 
Big Ass fan 5627 
Variac dimmers 5627 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5627 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5627 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5559 
Some winter observations. 5450 
That Asian man…. 5419 
The Franz Schubert morning 5393 
Spring.... 5342 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5292 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5263 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5263 
Just good photography? 5263 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5263 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5263 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5262 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5262 
Sports car 5262 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5262 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5262 
Train Positioning 5262 
Kind of what I want 5262 
The lap listening… 5262 
Family Room 5262 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5259 
A super audio room. 5255 
Time Warp! 5255 
A piano in a listening room 5234 
Pianissimo 5234 
The plan in blue. 5234 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5234 
My doubts 5234 
It is exactly what I worry. 5233 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5233 
Musicians at home 5233 
Piano Measurements 5232 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5227 
The next step. 5213 
Midbass horns missing?? 5212 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5202 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5202 
Baby Grand 5201 
Wood floor 5201 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5201 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5201 
Amy’s baby. 5199 
Improvement 5199 
Agree with Scott 5199 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5187 
Integrated casters 5187 
Very nice, thanks. 5187 
Customization 5187 
Sliders 5187 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5180 
Congratulations 5180 
Holes in the floor... 5180 
Tubes and kids 5180 
Sweet spot enlargement 5180 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5178 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5177 
Wood Floors and Water 5177 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5172 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5171 
WAF is for Losers 5171 
WAF: it depends. 5171 
Integration 5170 
Here and there. 5170 
Life after WWIII 5170 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5170 
Cables management. 5168 
Featurizing 5168 
Kids and tubes cont. 5165 
Kid magnet 5165 
Kids and audio 5164 
Radars 5164 
Wow, what the days! 5160 
The comming weekend 5156 
It all was worth it! 5153 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5148 
Here is how it is look. 5148 
Resolving the carpet issue 5148 
Bonfire 5148 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5148 
Proof of concept? 5148 
Geometry 5148 
A view from listening position. 5148 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5148 
Some feedback 5148 
Evening 5148 
I wonder why. 5147 
Rugs and things 5147 
In defense… 5147 
I can’t get it. 5144 
Haze. 5143 
Front wall 5143 
It is very possible. 5143 
It is nice to be back. 5140 
My comfy corner. 5137 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4777 
WMD in house. 4599 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4502 
The third listening spot. 4481 
For sure a very different experience. 4443 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4438 
It's Jfretch's system. 4438 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4437 
Domestic games 4391 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4252 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4252 
Dynamic screening 4252 
Actually this is very good idea! 4252 
Volcanic fabric 4252 
I should have done this. 4250 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4246 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4215 
No worries 4215 
Awesome memories 4215 
Optimization of space 4215 
Child-ish considerations 4212 
Finding peace.... 4206 
"Fencing"? 4205 
I need to build something custom 4205 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4205 
Stressed Skin 4205 
NYC elevators 4205 
Kids toys and quantities. 4205 
Everything is completely reversible 4204 
Racks and things 4204 
Now it looks even more promising! 4204 
Quantity of rods 4204 
Avoiding diagonals 4202 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4201 
That's not fair! 4201 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4201 
Discrimination? 4196 
Vertical configuration 4189 
Impresive ! 4118 
Did you read the site? 4118 
Contact 4118 
Company's name is Rixrax 4118 
Stand 4117 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4073 
End of life headphone system 4073 
Something like this? 4073 
The "Second Living Room" 4073 
Mixing urban & suburban 4073 
Late night listening 4073 
Moving life... 4071 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4071 
A true listening room. 4047 
It started… 4032 
Levels of Interest 4032 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4032 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4032 
I can't not to post it.... 4032 
Do not leave him unattended. 4032 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4032 
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