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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5983 
The first take on the new room. 5977 
New Room, a first shot. 5976 
Wonderful 5976 
Adopted 5975 
The first relaxed night with the room 5973 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5972 
The listening room is ready. 5971 
New Room, a First Shot 5969 
Continue to work with the room 5969 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5969 
Room 5968 
I think it will take another month. 5968 
The Buttressing 5968 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5967 
The new place and the new noises. 5967 
Big listening room 5966 
Screw the "big" rooms 5966 
Big listening rooms 5966 
First reflection points 5965 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5965 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5962 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5961 
Squeezing the floor 5961 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5961 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5961 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5960 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5960 
The new room, the very first listening. 5960 
The 14.5 foot. 5959 
Again… 5958 
Romy's new Playground 5958 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5958 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5958 
For the uninitiated ... 5957 
NH guy 5957 
Room 5957 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5956 
The first base is done 5956 
Reentry time alignment. 5955 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5954 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5954 
Mid bass horn. 5954 
Guess is only a guess… 5954 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5954 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5953 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5953 
Diffusors 5953 
Diffuse injection 5953 
Let analyse why it so 5953 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5953 
Wheel and Deal 5953 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5953 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5953 
I Must Be Missing Something 5953 
I put sliders under my speakers 5952 
ROOM 5951 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5951 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5951 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5951 
No concerns 5951 
Speakers and room 5951 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5950 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5950 
Diaphram 5950 
Phram 5950 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5950 
Perfect piston 5950 
Decorater 5949 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5949 
New morning 5948 
The first take on the room with RTA 5947 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5947 
Axiomatic 5947 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5946 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5946 
The size of the bass. 5946 
Bass Factory 5946 
Crude Level, or something more? 5946 
I will play with it this week…. 5946 
Rent-A 5946 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5946 
Corner horns 5946 
Cheating from below 5946 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5946 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5945 
A possibly overly simplified view 5945 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5945 
Iceberg 5945 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5945 
Why not horn 5945 
A correction…. 5945 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5945 
They are just not related things at all. 5945 
Fertin 5943 
Low resonance is good... 5943 
Et tu, Brute? 5942 
The Room response at LF 5941 
Life On The Ground Floor 5941 
Bass arrays 5941 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5941 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5941 
The super sucks. 5941 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5941 
You may also try 5940 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5940 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5940 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5940 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5940 
60 Hz Resonance 5940 
No notching… so far. 5940 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5939 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5939 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5939 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5939 
Power to the People 5939 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5939 
Aura 5939 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5939 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5939 
All class D is the same 5939 
Interpreting the LF results. 5938 
The Halibut 5938 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5938 
The Big Picture 5938 
Power & ULF channels 5938 
The big picture indeed. 5938 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5938 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5938 
The Power and the Glory 5937 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5937 
I guess I did not get this memo 5937 
French LF drivers 5937 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5937 
(another) French LF approach 5936 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5936 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5936 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5936 
Limpschtick 5936 
Symmetry 5936 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5935 
Room correction 5935 
It migh be more complicated. 5935 
Bass EQ ? 5935 
Agree and not. 5935 
Two "diseases" 5935 
Parametric filters 5935 
Ceiling arrays 5935 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5935 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5935 
The Middle of the Room. 5935 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5935 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5935 
Stop! 5935 
Appendectomy 5935 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5934 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5934 
No Isolation 5934 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5931 
Potential contenders? 5930 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5930 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5930 
Those Crazy Canucks 5926 
Mo' Better Bass 5920 
Bird in the Hand? 5920 
A wet listening spot? 5913 
Storm 5910 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5910 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5896 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5866 
Polar Opposite ULF 5865 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5853 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5851 
Differently but the same. 5850 
PVC 5849 
The sail test try. 5849 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5849 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5849 
Trial 5848 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5848 
Some explanations 5848 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5847 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5846 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5845 
Acrylate 5844 
Magic blanket 5844 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5843 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5843 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5843 
I have a few options. 5843 
Foam color 5843 
Strange things with upperbass 5843 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5842 
Teatro reform. . . 5842 
The foaming room dilemma. 5841 
Melamine Foam 5841 
Foaming up the cat house 5841 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5841 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5841 
Acoustic revisions… 5840 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5837 
Surprises so far in the new room 5836 
The upperbass in the new room. 5836 
Slight change of hart. 5835 
Camco supply of Boston 5833 
Room acoustics 5833 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5792 
I need to kill dust first. 5792 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5790 
To feed the leeches? 5790 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5789 
Yh 5789 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5789 
DPOLs? 5789 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5789 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5786 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5786 
A HalfPipe solution? 5786 
I absolutely love it. 5786 
Piper work 5785 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5785 
Absorption 5785 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5784 
Cats life ? 5784 
Call me Pussy. 5784 
More about traps 5784 
Acoustic impedance? 5784 
You maybe right 5784 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5784 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5783 
Heavy Curtain 5783 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5782 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5782 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5782 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5779 
Fix speaker move chair? 5778 
Back and forth ceremony 5778 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5777 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5776 
Glass windows 5775 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5774 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5773 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5771 
How to use basement jacks? 5771 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5771 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5771 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5770 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5770 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5769 
Sore eyes... 5768 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5768 
The harvesting week! 5766 
I need an inspiration… 5765 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5764 
Like this? 5764 
Dramatically randomize MF 5764 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5763 
The room eats dynamic 5763 
Diffusers 5763 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5762 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5747 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5746 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5746 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5746 
About Width-Importance balance. 5744 
Letting the music scale up 5743 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5743 
To finish my house décor… 5739 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5738 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5737 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5737 
Calling the gods of music 5737 
Absolutely 5737 
Phase manipulation 5737 
No relation. 5737 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5737 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5737 
Dynamical mismatch 5736 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5736 
Stradiwinerius? 5733 
Dealing with the glass. 5732 
Boston 5732 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5732 
Added mass 5732 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5732 
It is about moderation…. 5732 
To hell with the wine... 5732 
Also for other surafaces 5731 
LEAD 5731 
LEAD & GLASS 5731 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5731 
Read carefully 5731 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5731 
Crooks and morons 5731 
Magiscopios 5730 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5710 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5710 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5709 
The LP setup in the new home. 5658 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5653 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5653 
Pianochord will do! 5653 
Spanyi heaven 5653 
I see no conflict at all. 5653 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5653 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5653 
A year after closing 5645 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5645 
Traveling antimatter 5638 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5632 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5631 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5605 
Cast Iron fireplace 5604 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5604 
The hardcore way 5604 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5568 
This is How It's Done 5567 
Listening room during summer. 5555 
What about those... 5554 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5554 
Reducing A/C Noise 5554 
HVAC the Cat 5554 
Big Ass fan 5553 
Variac dimmers 5553 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5553 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5553 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5485 
Some winter observations. 5376 
That Asian man…. 5345 
The Franz Schubert morning 5319 
Spring.... 5268 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5218 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5189 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5189 
Just good photography? 5189 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5189 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5189 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5188 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5188 
Sports car 5188 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5188 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5188 
Train Positioning 5188 
Kind of what I want 5188 
The lap listening… 5188 
Family Room 5188 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5185 
A super audio room. 5181 
Time Warp! 5181 
A piano in a listening room 5160 
Pianissimo 5160 
The plan in blue. 5160 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5160 
My doubts 5160 
It is exactly what I worry. 5159 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5159 
Musicians at home 5159 
Piano Measurements 5158 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5153 
The next step. 5139 
Midbass horns missing?? 5138 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5128 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5128 
Baby Grand 5127 
Wood floor 5127 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5127 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5127 
Amy’s baby. 5125 
Improvement 5125 
Agree with Scott 5125 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5113 
Integrated casters 5113 
Very nice, thanks. 5113 
Customization 5113 
Sliders 5113 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5106 
Congratulations 5106 
Holes in the floor... 5106 
Tubes and kids 5106 
Sweet spot enlargement 5106 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5104 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5103 
Wood Floors and Water 5103 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5098 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5097 
WAF is for Losers 5097 
WAF: it depends. 5097 
Integration 5096 
Here and there. 5096 
Life after WWIII 5096 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5096 
Cables management. 5094 
Featurizing 5094 
Kids and tubes cont. 5091 
Kid magnet 5091 
Kids and audio 5090 
Radars 5090 
Wow, what the days! 5086 
The comming weekend 5082 
It all was worth it! 5079 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5074 
Here is how it is look. 5074 
Resolving the carpet issue 5074 
Bonfire 5074 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5074 
Proof of concept? 5074 
Geometry 5074 
A view from listening position. 5074 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5074 
Some feedback 5074 
Evening 5074 
I wonder why. 5073 
Rugs and things 5073 
In defense… 5073 
I can’t get it. 5070 
Haze. 5069 
Front wall 5069 
It is very possible. 5069 
It is nice to be back. 5066 
My comfy corner. 5063 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4703 
WMD in house. 4525 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4428 
The third listening spot. 4407 
For sure a very different experience. 4369 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4364 
It's Jfretch's system. 4364 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4363 
Domestic games 4317 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4178 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4178 
Dynamic screening 4178 
Actually this is very good idea! 4178 
Volcanic fabric 4178 
I should have done this. 4176 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4172 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4141 
No worries 4141 
Awesome memories 4141 
Optimization of space 4141 
Child-ish considerations 4138 
Finding peace.... 4132 
"Fencing"? 4131 
I need to build something custom 4131 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4131 
Stressed Skin 4131 
NYC elevators 4131 
Kids toys and quantities. 4131 
Everything is completely reversible 4130 
Racks and things 4130 
Now it looks even more promising! 4130 
Quantity of rods 4130 
Avoiding diagonals 4128 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4127 
That's not fair! 4127 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4127 
Discrimination? 4122 
Vertical configuration 4115 
Impresive ! 4044 
Did you read the site? 4044 
Contact 4044 
Company's name is Rixrax 4044 
Stand 4043 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3999 
End of life headphone system 3999 
Something like this? 3999 
The "Second Living Room" 3999 
Mixing urban & suburban 3999 
Late night listening 3999 
Moving life... 3997 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3997 
A true listening room. 3973 
It started… 3958 
Levels of Interest 3958 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3958 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3958 
I can't not to post it.... 3958 
Do not leave him unattended. 3958 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3958 
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