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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5795 
The first take on the new room. 5789 
New Room, a first shot. 5788 
Wonderful 5788 
Adopted 5787 
The first relaxed night with the room 5785 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5784 
The listening room is ready. 5783 
New Room, a First Shot 5781 
Continue to work with the room 5781 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5781 
Room 5780 
I think it will take another month. 5780 
The Buttressing 5780 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5779 
The new place and the new noises. 5779 
Big listening room 5778 
Screw the "big" rooms 5778 
Big listening rooms 5778 
First reflection points 5777 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5777 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5774 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5773 
Squeezing the floor 5773 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5773 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5773 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5772 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5772 
The new room, the very first listening. 5772 
The 14.5 foot. 5771 
Again… 5770 
Romy's new Playground 5770 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5770 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5770 
For the uninitiated ... 5769 
NH guy 5769 
Room 5769 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5768 
The first base is done 5768 
Reentry time alignment. 5767 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5766 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5766 
Mid bass horn. 5766 
Guess is only a guess… 5766 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5766 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5765 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5765 
Diffusors 5765 
Diffuse injection 5765 
Let analyse why it so 5765 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5765 
Wheel and Deal 5765 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5765 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5765 
I Must Be Missing Something 5765 
I put sliders under my speakers 5764 
ROOM 5763 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5763 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5763 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5763 
No concerns 5763 
Speakers and room 5763 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5762 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5762 
Diaphram 5762 
Phram 5762 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5762 
Perfect piston 5762 
Decorater 5761 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5761 
New morning 5760 
The first take on the room with RTA 5759 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5759 
Axiomatic 5759 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5758 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5758 
The size of the bass. 5758 
Bass Factory 5758 
Crude Level, or something more? 5758 
I will play with it this week…. 5758 
Rent-A 5758 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5758 
Corner horns 5758 
Cheating from below 5758 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5758 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5757 
A possibly overly simplified view 5757 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5757 
Iceberg 5757 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5757 
Why not horn 5757 
A correction…. 5757 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5757 
They are just not related things at all. 5757 
Fertin 5755 
Low resonance is good... 5755 
Et tu, Brute? 5754 
The Room response at LF 5753 
Life On The Ground Floor 5753 
Bass arrays 5753 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5753 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5753 
The super sucks. 5753 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5753 
You may also try 5752 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5752 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5752 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5752 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5752 
60 Hz Resonance 5752 
No notching… so far. 5752 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5751 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5751 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5751 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5751 
Power to the People 5751 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5751 
Aura 5751 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5751 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5751 
All class D is the same 5751 
Interpreting the LF results. 5750 
The Halibut 5750 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5750 
The Big Picture 5750 
Power & ULF channels 5750 
The big picture indeed. 5750 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5750 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5750 
The Power and the Glory 5749 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5749 
I guess I did not get this memo 5749 
French LF drivers 5749 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5749 
(another) French LF approach 5748 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5748 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5748 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5748 
Limpschtick 5748 
Symmetry 5748 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5747 
Room correction 5747 
It migh be more complicated. 5747 
Bass EQ ? 5747 
Agree and not. 5747 
Two "diseases" 5747 
Parametric filters 5747 
Ceiling arrays 5747 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5747 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5747 
The Middle of the Room. 5747 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5747 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5747 
Stop! 5747 
Appendectomy 5747 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5746 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5746 
No Isolation 5746 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5743 
Potential contenders? 5742 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5742 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5742 
Those Crazy Canucks 5738 
Mo' Better Bass 5732 
Bird in the Hand? 5732 
A wet listening spot? 5725 
Storm 5722 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5722 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5708 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5678 
Polar Opposite ULF 5677 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5665 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5663 
Differently but the same. 5662 
PVC 5661 
The sail test try. 5661 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5661 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5661 
Trial 5660 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5660 
Some explanations 5660 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5659 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5658 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5657 
Acrylate 5656 
Magic blanket 5656 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5655 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5655 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5655 
I have a few options. 5655 
Foam color 5655 
Strange things with upperbass 5655 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5654 
Teatro reform. . . 5654 
The foaming room dilemma. 5653 
Melamine Foam 5653 
Foaming up the cat house 5653 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5653 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5653 
Acoustic revisions… 5652 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5649 
Surprises so far in the new room 5648 
The upperbass in the new room. 5648 
Slight change of hart. 5647 
Camco supply of Boston 5645 
Room acoustics 5645 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5604 
I need to kill dust first. 5604 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5602 
To feed the leeches? 5602 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5601 
Yh 5601 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5601 
DPOLs? 5601 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5601 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5598 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5598 
A HalfPipe solution? 5598 
I absolutely love it. 5598 
Piper work 5597 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5597 
Absorption 5597 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5596 
Cats life ? 5596 
Call me Pussy. 5596 
More about traps 5596 
Acoustic impedance? 5596 
You maybe right 5596 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5596 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5595 
Heavy Curtain 5595 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5594 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5594 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5594 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5591 
Fix speaker move chair? 5590 
Back and forth ceremony 5590 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5589 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5588 
Glass windows 5587 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5586 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5585 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5583 
How to use basement jacks? 5583 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5583 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5583 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5582 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5582 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5581 
Sore eyes... 5580 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5580 
The harvesting week! 5578 
I need an inspiration… 5577 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5576 
Like this? 5576 
Dramatically randomize MF 5576 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5575 
The room eats dynamic 5575 
Diffusers 5575 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5574 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5559 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5558 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5558 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5558 
About Width-Importance balance. 5556 
Letting the music scale up 5555 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5555 
To finish my house décor… 5551 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5550 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5549 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5549 
Calling the gods of music 5549 
Absolutely 5549 
Phase manipulation 5549 
No relation. 5549 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5549 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5549 
Dynamical mismatch 5548 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5548 
Stradiwinerius? 5545 
Dealing with the glass. 5544 
Boston 5544 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5544 
Added mass 5544 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5544 
It is about moderation…. 5544 
To hell with the wine... 5544 
Also for other surafaces 5543 
LEAD 5543 
LEAD & GLASS 5543 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5543 
Read carefully 5543 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5543 
Crooks and morons 5543 
Magiscopios 5542 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5522 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5522 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5521 
The LP setup in the new home. 5470 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5465 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5465 
Pianochord will do! 5465 
Spanyi heaven 5465 
I see no conflict at all. 5465 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5465 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5465 
A year after closing 5457 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5457 
Traveling antimatter 5450 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5444 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5443 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5417 
Cast Iron fireplace 5416 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5416 
The hardcore way 5416 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5380 
This is How It's Done 5379 
Listening room during summer. 5367 
What about those... 5366 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5366 
Reducing A/C Noise 5366 
HVAC the Cat 5366 
Big Ass fan 5365 
Variac dimmers 5365 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5365 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5365 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5297 
Some winter observations. 5188 
That Asian man…. 5157 
The Franz Schubert morning 5131 
Spring.... 5080 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5030 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5001 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5001 
Just good photography? 5001 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5001 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5001 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5000 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5000 
Sports car 5000 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5000 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5000 
Train Positioning 5000 
Kind of what I want 5000 
The lap listening… 5000 
Family Room 5000 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4997 
A super audio room. 4993 
Time Warp! 4993 
A piano in a listening room 4972 
Pianissimo 4972 
The plan in blue. 4972 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4972 
My doubts 4972 
It is exactly what I worry. 4971 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4971 
Musicians at home 4971 
Piano Measurements 4970 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4965 
The next step. 4951 
Midbass horns missing?? 4950 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4940 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4940 
Baby Grand 4939 
Wood floor 4939 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4939 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4939 
Amy’s baby. 4937 
Improvement 4937 
Agree with Scott 4937 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4925 
Integrated casters 4925 
Very nice, thanks. 4925 
Customization 4925 
Sliders 4925 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4918 
Congratulations 4918 
Holes in the floor... 4918 
Tubes and kids 4918 
Sweet spot enlargement 4918 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4916 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4915 
Wood Floors and Water 4915 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4910 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4909 
WAF is for Losers 4909 
WAF: it depends. 4909 
Integration 4908 
Here and there. 4908 
Life after WWIII 4908 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4908 
Cables management. 4906 
Featurizing 4906 
Kids and tubes cont. 4903 
Kid magnet 4903 
Kids and audio 4902 
Radars 4902 
Wow, what the days! 4898 
The comming weekend 4894 
It all was worth it! 4891 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4886 
Here is how it is look. 4886 
Resolving the carpet issue 4886 
Bonfire 4886 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4886 
Proof of concept? 4886 
Geometry 4886 
A view from listening position. 4886 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4886 
Some feedback 4886 
Evening 4886 
I wonder why. 4885 
Rugs and things 4885 
In defense… 4885 
I can’t get it. 4882 
Haze. 4881 
Front wall 4881 
It is very possible. 4881 
It is nice to be back. 4878 
My comfy corner. 4875 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4515 
WMD in house. 4337 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4240 
The third listening spot. 4219 
For sure a very different experience. 4181 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4176 
It's Jfretch's system. 4176 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4175 
Domestic games 4129 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3990 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3990 
Dynamic screening 3990 
Actually this is very good idea! 3990 
Volcanic fabric 3990 
I should have done this. 3988 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3984 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3953 
No worries 3953 
Awesome memories 3953 
Optimization of space 3953 
Child-ish considerations 3950 
Finding peace.... 3944 
"Fencing"? 3943 
I need to build something custom 3943 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3943 
Stressed Skin 3943 
NYC elevators 3943 
Kids toys and quantities. 3943 
Everything is completely reversible 3942 
Racks and things 3942 
Now it looks even more promising! 3942 
Quantity of rods 3942 
Avoiding diagonals 3940 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3939 
That's not fair! 3939 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3939 
Discrimination? 3934 
Vertical configuration 3927 
Impresive ! 3856 
Did you read the site? 3856 
Contact 3856 
Company's name is Rixrax 3856 
Stand 3855 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3811 
End of life headphone system 3811 
Something like this? 3811 
The "Second Living Room" 3811 
Mixing urban & suburban 3811 
Late night listening 3811 
Moving life... 3809 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3809 
A true listening room. 3785 
It started… 3770 
Levels of Interest 3770 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3770 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3770 
I can't not to post it.... 3770 
Do not leave him unattended. 3770 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3770 
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