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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5958 
The first take on the new room. 5952 
New Room, a first shot. 5951 
Wonderful 5951 
Adopted 5950 
The first relaxed night with the room 5948 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5947 
The listening room is ready. 5946 
New Room, a First Shot 5944 
Continue to work with the room 5944 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5944 
Room 5943 
I think it will take another month. 5943 
The Buttressing 5943 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5942 
The new place and the new noises. 5942 
Big listening room 5941 
Screw the "big" rooms 5941 
Big listening rooms 5941 
First reflection points 5940 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5940 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5937 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5936 
Squeezing the floor 5936 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5936 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5936 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5935 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5935 
The new room, the very first listening. 5935 
The 14.5 foot. 5934 
Again… 5933 
Romy's new Playground 5933 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5933 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5933 
For the uninitiated ... 5932 
NH guy 5932 
Room 5932 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5931 
The first base is done 5931 
Reentry time alignment. 5930 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5929 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5929 
Mid bass horn. 5929 
Guess is only a guess… 5929 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5929 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5928 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5928 
Diffusors 5928 
Diffuse injection 5928 
Let analyse why it so 5928 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5928 
Wheel and Deal 5928 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5928 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5928 
I Must Be Missing Something 5928 
I put sliders under my speakers 5927 
ROOM 5926 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5926 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5926 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5926 
No concerns 5926 
Speakers and room 5926 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5925 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5925 
Diaphram 5925 
Phram 5925 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5925 
Perfect piston 5925 
Decorater 5924 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5924 
New morning 5923 
The first take on the room with RTA 5922 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5922 
Axiomatic 5922 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5921 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5921 
The size of the bass. 5921 
Bass Factory 5921 
Crude Level, or something more? 5921 
I will play with it this week…. 5921 
Rent-A 5921 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5921 
Corner horns 5921 
Cheating from below 5921 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5921 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5920 
A possibly overly simplified view 5920 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5920 
Iceberg 5920 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5920 
Why not horn 5920 
A correction…. 5920 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5920 
They are just not related things at all. 5920 
Fertin 5918 
Low resonance is good... 5918 
Et tu, Brute? 5917 
The Room response at LF 5916 
Life On The Ground Floor 5916 
Bass arrays 5916 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5916 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5916 
The super sucks. 5916 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5916 
You may also try 5915 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5915 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5915 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5915 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5915 
60 Hz Resonance 5915 
No notching… so far. 5915 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5914 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5914 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5914 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5914 
Power to the People 5914 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5914 
Aura 5914 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5914 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5914 
All class D is the same 5914 
Interpreting the LF results. 5913 
The Halibut 5913 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5913 
The Big Picture 5913 
Power & ULF channels 5913 
The big picture indeed. 5913 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5913 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5913 
The Power and the Glory 5912 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5912 
I guess I did not get this memo 5912 
French LF drivers 5912 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5912 
(another) French LF approach 5911 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5911 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5911 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5911 
Limpschtick 5911 
Symmetry 5911 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5910 
Room correction 5910 
It migh be more complicated. 5910 
Bass EQ ? 5910 
Agree and not. 5910 
Two "diseases" 5910 
Parametric filters 5910 
Ceiling arrays 5910 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5910 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5910 
The Middle of the Room. 5910 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5910 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5910 
Stop! 5910 
Appendectomy 5910 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5909 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5909 
No Isolation 5909 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5906 
Potential contenders? 5905 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5905 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5905 
Those Crazy Canucks 5901 
Mo' Better Bass 5895 
Bird in the Hand? 5895 
A wet listening spot? 5888 
Storm 5885 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5885 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5871 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5841 
Polar Opposite ULF 5840 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5828 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5826 
Differently but the same. 5825 
PVC 5824 
The sail test try. 5824 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5824 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5824 
Trial 5823 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5823 
Some explanations 5823 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5822 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5821 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5820 
Acrylate 5819 
Magic blanket 5819 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5818 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5818 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5818 
I have a few options. 5818 
Foam color 5818 
Strange things with upperbass 5818 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5817 
Teatro reform. . . 5817 
The foaming room dilemma. 5816 
Melamine Foam 5816 
Foaming up the cat house 5816 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5816 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5816 
Acoustic revisions… 5815 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5812 
Surprises so far in the new room 5811 
The upperbass in the new room. 5811 
Slight change of hart. 5810 
Camco supply of Boston 5808 
Room acoustics 5808 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5767 
I need to kill dust first. 5767 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5765 
To feed the leeches? 5765 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5764 
Yh 5764 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5764 
DPOLs? 5764 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5764 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5761 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5761 
A HalfPipe solution? 5761 
I absolutely love it. 5761 
Piper work 5760 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5760 
Absorption 5760 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5759 
Cats life ? 5759 
Call me Pussy. 5759 
More about traps 5759 
Acoustic impedance? 5759 
You maybe right 5759 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5759 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5758 
Heavy Curtain 5758 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5757 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5757 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5757 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5754 
Fix speaker move chair? 5753 
Back and forth ceremony 5753 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5752 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5751 
Glass windows 5750 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5749 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5748 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5746 
How to use basement jacks? 5746 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5746 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5746 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5745 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5745 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5744 
Sore eyes... 5743 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5743 
The harvesting week! 5741 
I need an inspiration… 5740 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5739 
Like this? 5739 
Dramatically randomize MF 5739 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5738 
The room eats dynamic 5738 
Diffusers 5738 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5737 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5722 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5721 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5721 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5721 
About Width-Importance balance. 5719 
Letting the music scale up 5718 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5718 
To finish my house décor… 5714 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5713 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5712 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5712 
Calling the gods of music 5712 
Absolutely 5712 
Phase manipulation 5712 
No relation. 5712 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5712 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5712 
Dynamical mismatch 5711 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5711 
Stradiwinerius? 5708 
Dealing with the glass. 5707 
Boston 5707 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5707 
Added mass 5707 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5707 
It is about moderation…. 5707 
To hell with the wine... 5707 
Also for other surafaces 5706 
LEAD 5706 
LEAD & GLASS 5706 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5706 
Read carefully 5706 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5706 
Crooks and morons 5706 
Magiscopios 5705 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5685 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5685 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5684 
The LP setup in the new home. 5633 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5628 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5628 
Pianochord will do! 5628 
Spanyi heaven 5628 
I see no conflict at all. 5628 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5628 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5628 
A year after closing 5620 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5620 
Traveling antimatter 5613 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5607 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5606 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5580 
Cast Iron fireplace 5579 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5579 
The hardcore way 5579 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5543 
This is How It's Done 5542 
Listening room during summer. 5530 
What about those... 5529 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5529 
Reducing A/C Noise 5529 
HVAC the Cat 5529 
Big Ass fan 5528 
Variac dimmers 5528 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5528 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5528 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5460 
Some winter observations. 5351 
That Asian man…. 5320 
The Franz Schubert morning 5294 
Spring.... 5243 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5193 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5164 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5164 
Just good photography? 5164 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5164 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5164 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5163 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5163 
Sports car 5163 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5163 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5163 
Train Positioning 5163 
Kind of what I want 5163 
The lap listening… 5163 
Family Room 5163 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5160 
A super audio room. 5156 
Time Warp! 5156 
A piano in a listening room 5135 
Pianissimo 5135 
The plan in blue. 5135 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5135 
My doubts 5135 
It is exactly what I worry. 5134 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5134 
Musicians at home 5134 
Piano Measurements 5133 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5128 
The next step. 5114 
Midbass horns missing?? 5113 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5103 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5103 
Baby Grand 5102 
Wood floor 5102 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5102 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5102 
Amy’s baby. 5100 
Improvement 5100 
Agree with Scott 5100 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5088 
Integrated casters 5088 
Very nice, thanks. 5088 
Customization 5088 
Sliders 5088 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5081 
Congratulations 5081 
Holes in the floor... 5081 
Tubes and kids 5081 
Sweet spot enlargement 5081 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5079 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5078 
Wood Floors and Water 5078 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5073 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5072 
WAF is for Losers 5072 
WAF: it depends. 5072 
Integration 5071 
Here and there. 5071 
Life after WWIII 5071 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5071 
Cables management. 5069 
Featurizing 5069 
Kids and tubes cont. 5066 
Kid magnet 5066 
Kids and audio 5065 
Radars 5065 
Wow, what the days! 5061 
The comming weekend 5057 
It all was worth it! 5054 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5049 
Here is how it is look. 5049 
Resolving the carpet issue 5049 
Bonfire 5049 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5049 
Proof of concept? 5049 
Geometry 5049 
A view from listening position. 5049 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5049 
Some feedback 5049 
Evening 5049 
I wonder why. 5048 
Rugs and things 5048 
In defense… 5048 
I can’t get it. 5045 
Haze. 5044 
Front wall 5044 
It is very possible. 5044 
It is nice to be back. 5041 
My comfy corner. 5038 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4678 
WMD in house. 4500 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4403 
The third listening spot. 4382 
For sure a very different experience. 4344 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4339 
It's Jfretch's system. 4339 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4338 
Domestic games 4292 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4153 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4153 
Dynamic screening 4153 
Actually this is very good idea! 4153 
Volcanic fabric 4153 
I should have done this. 4151 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4147 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4116 
No worries 4116 
Awesome memories 4116 
Optimization of space 4116 
Child-ish considerations 4113 
Finding peace.... 4107 
"Fencing"? 4106 
I need to build something custom 4106 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4106 
Stressed Skin 4106 
NYC elevators 4106 
Kids toys and quantities. 4106 
Everything is completely reversible 4105 
Racks and things 4105 
Now it looks even more promising! 4105 
Quantity of rods 4105 
Avoiding diagonals 4103 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4102 
That's not fair! 4102 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4102 
Discrimination? 4097 
Vertical configuration 4090 
Impresive ! 4019 
Did you read the site? 4019 
Contact 4019 
Company's name is Rixrax 4019 
Stand 4018 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3974 
End of life headphone system 3974 
Something like this? 3974 
The "Second Living Room" 3974 
Mixing urban & suburban 3974 
Late night listening 3974 
Moving life... 3972 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3972 
A true listening room. 3948 
It started… 3933 
Levels of Interest 3933 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3933 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3933 
I can't not to post it.... 3933 
Do not leave him unattended. 3933 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3933 
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