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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5888 
The first take on the new room. 5882 
New Room, a first shot. 5881 
Wonderful 5881 
Adopted 5880 
The first relaxed night with the room 5878 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5877 
The listening room is ready. 5876 
New Room, a First Shot 5874 
Continue to work with the room 5874 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5874 
Room 5873 
I think it will take another month. 5873 
The Buttressing 5873 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5872 
The new place and the new noises. 5872 
Big listening room 5871 
Screw the "big" rooms 5871 
Big listening rooms 5871 
First reflection points 5870 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5870 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5867 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5866 
Squeezing the floor 5866 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5866 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5866 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5865 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5865 
The new room, the very first listening. 5865 
The 14.5 foot. 5864 
Again… 5863 
Romy's new Playground 5863 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5863 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5863 
For the uninitiated ... 5862 
NH guy 5862 
Room 5862 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5861 
The first base is done 5861 
Reentry time alignment. 5860 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5859 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5859 
Mid bass horn. 5859 
Guess is only a guess… 5859 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5859 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5858 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5858 
Diffusors 5858 
Diffuse injection 5858 
Let analyse why it so 5858 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5858 
Wheel and Deal 5858 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5858 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5858 
I Must Be Missing Something 5858 
I put sliders under my speakers 5857 
ROOM 5856 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5856 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5856 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5856 
No concerns 5856 
Speakers and room 5856 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5855 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5855 
Diaphram 5855 
Phram 5855 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5855 
Perfect piston 5855 
Decorater 5854 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5854 
New morning 5853 
The first take on the room with RTA 5852 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5852 
Axiomatic 5852 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5851 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5851 
The size of the bass. 5851 
Bass Factory 5851 
Crude Level, or something more? 5851 
I will play with it this week…. 5851 
Rent-A 5851 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5851 
Corner horns 5851 
Cheating from below 5851 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5851 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5850 
A possibly overly simplified view 5850 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5850 
Iceberg 5850 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5850 
Why not horn 5850 
A correction…. 5850 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5850 
They are just not related things at all. 5850 
Fertin 5848 
Low resonance is good... 5848 
Et tu, Brute? 5847 
The Room response at LF 5846 
Life On The Ground Floor 5846 
Bass arrays 5846 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5846 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5846 
The super sucks. 5846 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5846 
You may also try 5845 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5845 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5845 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5845 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5845 
60 Hz Resonance 5845 
No notching… so far. 5845 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5844 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5844 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5844 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5844 
Power to the People 5844 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5844 
Aura 5844 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5844 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5844 
All class D is the same 5844 
Interpreting the LF results. 5843 
The Halibut 5843 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5843 
The Big Picture 5843 
Power & ULF channels 5843 
The big picture indeed. 5843 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5843 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5843 
The Power and the Glory 5842 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5842 
I guess I did not get this memo 5842 
French LF drivers 5842 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5842 
(another) French LF approach 5841 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5841 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5841 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5841 
Limpschtick 5841 
Symmetry 5841 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5840 
Room correction 5840 
It migh be more complicated. 5840 
Bass EQ ? 5840 
Agree and not. 5840 
Two "diseases" 5840 
Parametric filters 5840 
Ceiling arrays 5840 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5840 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5840 
The Middle of the Room. 5840 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5840 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5840 
Stop! 5840 
Appendectomy 5840 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5839 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5839 
No Isolation 5839 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5836 
Potential contenders? 5835 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5835 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5835 
Those Crazy Canucks 5831 
Mo' Better Bass 5825 
Bird in the Hand? 5825 
A wet listening spot? 5818 
Storm 5815 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5815 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5801 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5771 
Polar Opposite ULF 5770 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5758 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5756 
Differently but the same. 5755 
PVC 5754 
The sail test try. 5754 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5754 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5754 
Trial 5753 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5753 
Some explanations 5753 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5752 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5751 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5750 
Acrylate 5749 
Magic blanket 5749 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5748 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5748 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5748 
I have a few options. 5748 
Foam color 5748 
Strange things with upperbass 5748 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5747 
Teatro reform. . . 5747 
The foaming room dilemma. 5746 
Melamine Foam 5746 
Foaming up the cat house 5746 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5746 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5746 
Acoustic revisions… 5745 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5742 
Surprises so far in the new room 5741 
The upperbass in the new room. 5741 
Slight change of hart. 5740 
Camco supply of Boston 5738 
Room acoustics 5738 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5697 
I need to kill dust first. 5697 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5695 
To feed the leeches? 5695 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5694 
Yh 5694 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5694 
DPOLs? 5694 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5694 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5691 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5691 
A HalfPipe solution? 5691 
I absolutely love it. 5691 
Piper work 5690 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5690 
Absorption 5690 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5689 
Cats life ? 5689 
Call me Pussy. 5689 
More about traps 5689 
Acoustic impedance? 5689 
You maybe right 5689 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5689 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5688 
Heavy Curtain 5688 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5687 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5687 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5687 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5684 
Fix speaker move chair? 5683 
Back and forth ceremony 5683 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5682 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5681 
Glass windows 5680 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5679 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5678 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5676 
How to use basement jacks? 5676 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5676 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5676 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5675 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5675 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5674 
Sore eyes... 5673 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5673 
The harvesting week! 5671 
I need an inspiration… 5670 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5669 
Like this? 5669 
Dramatically randomize MF 5669 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5668 
The room eats dynamic 5668 
Diffusers 5668 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5667 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5652 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5651 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5651 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5651 
About Width-Importance balance. 5649 
Letting the music scale up 5648 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5648 
To finish my house décor… 5644 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5643 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5642 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5642 
Calling the gods of music 5642 
Absolutely 5642 
Phase manipulation 5642 
No relation. 5642 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5642 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5642 
Dynamical mismatch 5641 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5641 
Stradiwinerius? 5638 
Dealing with the glass. 5637 
Boston 5637 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5637 
Added mass 5637 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5637 
It is about moderation…. 5637 
To hell with the wine... 5637 
Also for other surafaces 5636 
LEAD 5636 
LEAD & GLASS 5636 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5636 
Read carefully 5636 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5636 
Crooks and morons 5636 
Magiscopios 5635 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5615 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5615 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5614 
The LP setup in the new home. 5563 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5558 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5558 
Pianochord will do! 5558 
Spanyi heaven 5558 
I see no conflict at all. 5558 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5558 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5558 
A year after closing 5550 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5550 
Traveling antimatter 5543 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5537 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5536 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5510 
Cast Iron fireplace 5509 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5509 
The hardcore way 5509 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5473 
This is How It's Done 5472 
Listening room during summer. 5460 
What about those... 5459 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5459 
Reducing A/C Noise 5459 
HVAC the Cat 5459 
Big Ass fan 5458 
Variac dimmers 5458 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5458 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5458 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5390 
Some winter observations. 5281 
That Asian man…. 5250 
The Franz Schubert morning 5224 
Spring.... 5173 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5123 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5094 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5094 
Just good photography? 5094 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5094 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5094 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5093 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5093 
Sports car 5093 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5093 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5093 
Train Positioning 5093 
Kind of what I want 5093 
The lap listening… 5093 
Family Room 5093 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5090 
A super audio room. 5086 
Time Warp! 5086 
A piano in a listening room 5065 
Pianissimo 5065 
The plan in blue. 5065 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5065 
My doubts 5065 
It is exactly what I worry. 5064 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5064 
Musicians at home 5064 
Piano Measurements 5063 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5058 
The next step. 5044 
Midbass horns missing?? 5043 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5033 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5033 
Baby Grand 5032 
Wood floor 5032 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5032 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5032 
Amy’s baby. 5030 
Improvement 5030 
Agree with Scott 5030 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5018 
Integrated casters 5018 
Very nice, thanks. 5018 
Customization 5018 
Sliders 5018 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5011 
Congratulations 5011 
Holes in the floor... 5011 
Tubes and kids 5011 
Sweet spot enlargement 5011 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5009 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5008 
Wood Floors and Water 5008 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5003 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5002 
WAF is for Losers 5002 
WAF: it depends. 5002 
Integration 5001 
Here and there. 5001 
Life after WWIII 5001 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5001 
Cables management. 4999 
Featurizing 4999 
Kids and tubes cont. 4996 
Kid magnet 4996 
Kids and audio 4995 
Radars 4995 
Wow, what the days! 4991 
The comming weekend 4987 
It all was worth it! 4984 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4979 
Here is how it is look. 4979 
Resolving the carpet issue 4979 
Bonfire 4979 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4979 
Proof of concept? 4979 
Geometry 4979 
A view from listening position. 4979 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4979 
Some feedback 4979 
Evening 4979 
I wonder why. 4978 
Rugs and things 4978 
In defense… 4978 
I can’t get it. 4975 
Haze. 4974 
Front wall 4974 
It is very possible. 4974 
It is nice to be back. 4971 
My comfy corner. 4968 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4608 
WMD in house. 4430 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4333 
The third listening spot. 4312 
For sure a very different experience. 4274 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4269 
It's Jfretch's system. 4269 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4268 
Domestic games 4222 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4083 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4083 
Dynamic screening 4083 
Actually this is very good idea! 4083 
Volcanic fabric 4083 
I should have done this. 4081 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4077 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4046 
No worries 4046 
Awesome memories 4046 
Optimization of space 4046 
Child-ish considerations 4043 
Finding peace.... 4037 
"Fencing"? 4036 
I need to build something custom 4036 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4036 
Stressed Skin 4036 
NYC elevators 4036 
Kids toys and quantities. 4036 
Everything is completely reversible 4035 
Racks and things 4035 
Now it looks even more promising! 4035 
Quantity of rods 4035 
Avoiding diagonals 4033 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4032 
That's not fair! 4032 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4032 
Discrimination? 4027 
Vertical configuration 4020 
Impresive ! 3949 
Did you read the site? 3949 
Contact 3949 
Company's name is Rixrax 3949 
Stand 3948 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3904 
End of life headphone system 3904 
Something like this? 3904 
The "Second Living Room" 3904 
Mixing urban & suburban 3904 
Late night listening 3904 
Moving life... 3902 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3902 
A true listening room. 3878 
It started… 3863 
Levels of Interest 3863 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3863 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3863 
I can't not to post it.... 3863 
Do not leave him unattended. 3863 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3863 
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