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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5871 
The first take on the new room. 5865 
New Room, a first shot. 5864 
Wonderful 5864 
Adopted 5863 
The first relaxed night with the room 5861 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5860 
The listening room is ready. 5859 
New Room, a First Shot 5857 
Continue to work with the room 5857 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5857 
Room 5856 
I think it will take another month. 5856 
The Buttressing 5856 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5855 
The new place and the new noises. 5855 
Big listening room 5854 
Screw the "big" rooms 5854 
Big listening rooms 5854 
First reflection points 5853 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5853 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5850 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5849 
Squeezing the floor 5849 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5849 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5849 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5848 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5848 
The new room, the very first listening. 5848 
The 14.5 foot. 5847 
Again… 5846 
Romy's new Playground 5846 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5846 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5846 
For the uninitiated ... 5845 
NH guy 5845 
Room 5845 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5844 
The first base is done 5844 
Reentry time alignment. 5843 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5842 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5842 
Mid bass horn. 5842 
Guess is only a guess… 5842 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5842 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5841 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5841 
Diffusors 5841 
Diffuse injection 5841 
Let analyse why it so 5841 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5841 
Wheel and Deal 5841 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5841 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5841 
I Must Be Missing Something 5841 
I put sliders under my speakers 5840 
ROOM 5839 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5839 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5839 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5839 
No concerns 5839 
Speakers and room 5839 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5838 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5838 
Diaphram 5838 
Phram 5838 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5838 
Perfect piston 5838 
Decorater 5837 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5837 
New morning 5836 
The first take on the room with RTA 5835 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5835 
Axiomatic 5835 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5834 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5834 
The size of the bass. 5834 
Bass Factory 5834 
Crude Level, or something more? 5834 
I will play with it this week…. 5834 
Rent-A 5834 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5834 
Corner horns 5834 
Cheating from below 5834 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5834 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5833 
A possibly overly simplified view 5833 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5833 
Iceberg 5833 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5833 
Why not horn 5833 
A correction…. 5833 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5833 
They are just not related things at all. 5833 
Fertin 5831 
Low resonance is good... 5831 
Et tu, Brute? 5830 
The Room response at LF 5829 
Life On The Ground Floor 5829 
Bass arrays 5829 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5829 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5829 
The super sucks. 5829 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5829 
You may also try 5828 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5828 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5828 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5828 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5828 
60 Hz Resonance 5828 
No notching… so far. 5828 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5827 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5827 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5827 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5827 
Power to the People 5827 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5827 
Aura 5827 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5827 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5827 
All class D is the same 5827 
Interpreting the LF results. 5826 
The Halibut 5826 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5826 
The Big Picture 5826 
Power & ULF channels 5826 
The big picture indeed. 5826 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5826 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5826 
The Power and the Glory 5825 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5825 
I guess I did not get this memo 5825 
French LF drivers 5825 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5825 
(another) French LF approach 5824 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5824 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5824 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5824 
Limpschtick 5824 
Symmetry 5824 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5823 
Room correction 5823 
It migh be more complicated. 5823 
Bass EQ ? 5823 
Agree and not. 5823 
Two "diseases" 5823 
Parametric filters 5823 
Ceiling arrays 5823 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5823 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5823 
The Middle of the Room. 5823 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5823 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5823 
Stop! 5823 
Appendectomy 5823 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5822 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5822 
No Isolation 5822 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5819 
Potential contenders? 5818 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5818 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5818 
Those Crazy Canucks 5814 
Mo' Better Bass 5808 
Bird in the Hand? 5808 
A wet listening spot? 5801 
Storm 5798 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5798 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5784 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5754 
Polar Opposite ULF 5753 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5741 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5739 
Differently but the same. 5738 
PVC 5737 
The sail test try. 5737 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5737 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5737 
Trial 5736 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5736 
Some explanations 5736 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5735 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5734 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5733 
Acrylate 5732 
Magic blanket 5732 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5731 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5731 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5731 
I have a few options. 5731 
Foam color 5731 
Strange things with upperbass 5731 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5730 
Teatro reform. . . 5730 
The foaming room dilemma. 5729 
Melamine Foam 5729 
Foaming up the cat house 5729 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5729 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5729 
Acoustic revisions… 5728 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5725 
Surprises so far in the new room 5724 
The upperbass in the new room. 5724 
Slight change of hart. 5723 
Camco supply of Boston 5721 
Room acoustics 5721 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5680 
I need to kill dust first. 5680 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5678 
To feed the leeches? 5678 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5677 
Yh 5677 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5677 
DPOLs? 5677 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5677 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5674 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5674 
A HalfPipe solution? 5674 
I absolutely love it. 5674 
Piper work 5673 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5673 
Absorption 5673 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5672 
Cats life ? 5672 
Call me Pussy. 5672 
More about traps 5672 
Acoustic impedance? 5672 
You maybe right 5672 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5672 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5671 
Heavy Curtain 5671 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5670 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5670 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5670 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5667 
Fix speaker move chair? 5666 
Back and forth ceremony 5666 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5665 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5664 
Glass windows 5663 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5662 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5661 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5659 
How to use basement jacks? 5659 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5659 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5659 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5658 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5658 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5657 
Sore eyes... 5656 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5656 
The harvesting week! 5654 
I need an inspiration… 5653 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5652 
Like this? 5652 
Dramatically randomize MF 5652 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5651 
The room eats dynamic 5651 
Diffusers 5651 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5650 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5635 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5634 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5634 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5634 
About Width-Importance balance. 5632 
Letting the music scale up 5631 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5631 
To finish my house décor… 5627 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5626 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5625 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5625 
Calling the gods of music 5625 
Absolutely 5625 
Phase manipulation 5625 
No relation. 5625 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5625 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5625 
Dynamical mismatch 5624 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5624 
Stradiwinerius? 5621 
Dealing with the glass. 5620 
Boston 5620 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5620 
Added mass 5620 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5620 
It is about moderation…. 5620 
To hell with the wine... 5620 
Also for other surafaces 5619 
LEAD 5619 
LEAD & GLASS 5619 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5619 
Read carefully 5619 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5619 
Crooks and morons 5619 
Magiscopios 5618 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5598 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5598 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5597 
The LP setup in the new home. 5546 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5541 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5541 
Pianochord will do! 5541 
Spanyi heaven 5541 
I see no conflict at all. 5541 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5541 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5541 
A year after closing 5533 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5533 
Traveling antimatter 5526 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5520 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5519 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5493 
Cast Iron fireplace 5492 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5492 
The hardcore way 5492 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5456 
This is How It's Done 5455 
Listening room during summer. 5443 
What about those... 5442 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5442 
Reducing A/C Noise 5442 
HVAC the Cat 5442 
Big Ass fan 5441 
Variac dimmers 5441 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5441 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5441 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5373 
Some winter observations. 5264 
That Asian man…. 5233 
The Franz Schubert morning 5207 
Spring.... 5156 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5106 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5077 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5077 
Just good photography? 5077 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5077 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5077 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5076 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5076 
Sports car 5076 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5076 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5076 
Train Positioning 5076 
Kind of what I want 5076 
The lap listening… 5076 
Family Room 5076 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5073 
A super audio room. 5069 
Time Warp! 5069 
A piano in a listening room 5048 
Pianissimo 5048 
The plan in blue. 5048 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5048 
My doubts 5048 
It is exactly what I worry. 5047 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5047 
Musicians at home 5047 
Piano Measurements 5046 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5041 
The next step. 5027 
Midbass horns missing?? 5026 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5016 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5016 
Baby Grand 5015 
Wood floor 5015 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5015 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5015 
Amy’s baby. 5013 
Improvement 5013 
Agree with Scott 5013 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5001 
Integrated casters 5001 
Very nice, thanks. 5001 
Customization 5001 
Sliders 5001 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4994 
Congratulations 4994 
Holes in the floor... 4994 
Tubes and kids 4994 
Sweet spot enlargement 4994 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4992 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4991 
Wood Floors and Water 4991 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4986 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4985 
WAF is for Losers 4985 
WAF: it depends. 4985 
Integration 4984 
Here and there. 4984 
Life after WWIII 4984 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4984 
Cables management. 4982 
Featurizing 4982 
Kids and tubes cont. 4979 
Kid magnet 4979 
Kids and audio 4978 
Radars 4978 
Wow, what the days! 4974 
The comming weekend 4970 
It all was worth it! 4967 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4962 
Here is how it is look. 4962 
Resolving the carpet issue 4962 
Bonfire 4962 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4962 
Proof of concept? 4962 
Geometry 4962 
A view from listening position. 4962 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4962 
Some feedback 4962 
Evening 4962 
I wonder why. 4961 
Rugs and things 4961 
In defense… 4961 
I can’t get it. 4958 
Haze. 4957 
Front wall 4957 
It is very possible. 4957 
It is nice to be back. 4954 
My comfy corner. 4951 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4591 
WMD in house. 4413 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4316 
The third listening spot. 4295 
For sure a very different experience. 4257 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4252 
It's Jfretch's system. 4252 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4251 
Domestic games 4205 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4066 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4066 
Dynamic screening 4066 
Actually this is very good idea! 4066 
Volcanic fabric 4066 
I should have done this. 4064 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4060 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4029 
No worries 4029 
Awesome memories 4029 
Optimization of space 4029 
Child-ish considerations 4026 
Finding peace.... 4020 
"Fencing"? 4019 
I need to build something custom 4019 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4019 
Stressed Skin 4019 
NYC elevators 4019 
Kids toys and quantities. 4019 
Everything is completely reversible 4018 
Racks and things 4018 
Now it looks even more promising! 4018 
Quantity of rods 4018 
Avoiding diagonals 4016 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4015 
That's not fair! 4015 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4015 
Discrimination? 4010 
Vertical configuration 4003 
Impresive ! 3932 
Did you read the site? 3932 
Contact 3932 
Company's name is Rixrax 3932 
Stand 3931 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3887 
End of life headphone system 3887 
Something like this? 3887 
The "Second Living Room" 3887 
Mixing urban & suburban 3887 
Late night listening 3887 
Moving life... 3885 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3885 
A true listening room. 3861 
It started… 3846 
Levels of Interest 3846 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3846 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3846 
I can't not to post it.... 3846 
Do not leave him unattended. 3846 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3846 
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