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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5872 
The first take on the new room. 5866 
New Room, a first shot. 5865 
Wonderful 5865 
Adopted 5864 
The first relaxed night with the room 5862 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5861 
The listening room is ready. 5860 
New Room, a First Shot 5858 
Continue to work with the room 5858 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5858 
Room 5857 
I think it will take another month. 5857 
The Buttressing 5857 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5856 
The new place and the new noises. 5856 
Big listening room 5855 
Screw the "big" rooms 5855 
Big listening rooms 5855 
First reflection points 5854 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5854 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5851 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5850 
Squeezing the floor 5850 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5850 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5850 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5849 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5849 
The new room, the very first listening. 5849 
The 14.5 foot. 5848 
Again… 5847 
Romy's new Playground 5847 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5847 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5847 
For the uninitiated ... 5846 
NH guy 5846 
Room 5846 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5845 
The first base is done 5845 
Reentry time alignment. 5844 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5843 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5843 
Mid bass horn. 5843 
Guess is only a guess… 5843 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5843 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5842 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5842 
Diffusors 5842 
Diffuse injection 5842 
Let analyse why it so 5842 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5842 
Wheel and Deal 5842 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5842 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5842 
I Must Be Missing Something 5842 
I put sliders under my speakers 5841 
ROOM 5840 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5840 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5840 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5840 
No concerns 5840 
Speakers and room 5840 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5839 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5839 
Diaphram 5839 
Phram 5839 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5839 
Perfect piston 5839 
Decorater 5838 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5838 
New morning 5837 
The first take on the room with RTA 5836 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5836 
Axiomatic 5836 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5835 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5835 
The size of the bass. 5835 
Bass Factory 5835 
Crude Level, or something more? 5835 
I will play with it this week…. 5835 
Rent-A 5835 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5835 
Corner horns 5835 
Cheating from below 5835 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5835 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5834 
A possibly overly simplified view 5834 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5834 
Iceberg 5834 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5834 
Why not horn 5834 
A correction…. 5834 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5834 
They are just not related things at all. 5834 
Fertin 5832 
Low resonance is good... 5832 
Et tu, Brute? 5831 
The Room response at LF 5830 
Life On The Ground Floor 5830 
Bass arrays 5830 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5830 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5830 
The super sucks. 5830 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5830 
You may also try 5829 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5829 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5829 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5829 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5829 
60 Hz Resonance 5829 
No notching… so far. 5829 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5828 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5828 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5828 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5828 
Power to the People 5828 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5828 
Aura 5828 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5828 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5828 
All class D is the same 5828 
Interpreting the LF results. 5827 
The Halibut 5827 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5827 
The Big Picture 5827 
Power & ULF channels 5827 
The big picture indeed. 5827 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5827 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5827 
The Power and the Glory 5826 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5826 
I guess I did not get this memo 5826 
French LF drivers 5826 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5826 
(another) French LF approach 5825 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5825 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5825 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5825 
Limpschtick 5825 
Symmetry 5825 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5824 
Room correction 5824 
It migh be more complicated. 5824 
Bass EQ ? 5824 
Agree and not. 5824 
Two "diseases" 5824 
Parametric filters 5824 
Ceiling arrays 5824 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5824 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5824 
The Middle of the Room. 5824 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5824 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5824 
Stop! 5824 
Appendectomy 5824 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5823 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5823 
No Isolation 5823 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5820 
Potential contenders? 5819 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5819 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5819 
Those Crazy Canucks 5815 
Mo' Better Bass 5809 
Bird in the Hand? 5809 
A wet listening spot? 5802 
Storm 5799 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5799 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5785 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5755 
Polar Opposite ULF 5754 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5742 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5740 
Differently but the same. 5739 
PVC 5738 
The sail test try. 5738 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5738 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5738 
Trial 5737 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5737 
Some explanations 5737 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5736 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5735 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5734 
Acrylate 5733 
Magic blanket 5733 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5732 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5732 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5732 
I have a few options. 5732 
Foam color 5732 
Strange things with upperbass 5732 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5731 
Teatro reform. . . 5731 
The foaming room dilemma. 5730 
Melamine Foam 5730 
Foaming up the cat house 5730 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5730 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5730 
Acoustic revisions… 5729 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5726 
Surprises so far in the new room 5725 
The upperbass in the new room. 5725 
Slight change of hart. 5724 
Camco supply of Boston 5722 
Room acoustics 5722 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5681 
I need to kill dust first. 5681 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5679 
To feed the leeches? 5679 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5678 
Yh 5678 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5678 
DPOLs? 5678 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5678 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5675 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5675 
A HalfPipe solution? 5675 
I absolutely love it. 5675 
Piper work 5674 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5674 
Absorption 5674 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5673 
Cats life ? 5673 
Call me Pussy. 5673 
More about traps 5673 
Acoustic impedance? 5673 
You maybe right 5673 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5673 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5672 
Heavy Curtain 5672 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5671 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5671 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5671 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5668 
Fix speaker move chair? 5667 
Back and forth ceremony 5667 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5666 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5665 
Glass windows 5664 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5663 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5662 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5660 
How to use basement jacks? 5660 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5660 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5660 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5659 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5659 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5658 
Sore eyes... 5657 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5657 
The harvesting week! 5655 
I need an inspiration… 5654 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5653 
Like this? 5653 
Dramatically randomize MF 5653 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5652 
The room eats dynamic 5652 
Diffusers 5652 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5651 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5636 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5635 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5635 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5635 
About Width-Importance balance. 5633 
Letting the music scale up 5632 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5632 
To finish my house décor… 5628 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5627 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5626 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5626 
Calling the gods of music 5626 
Absolutely 5626 
Phase manipulation 5626 
No relation. 5626 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5626 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5626 
Dynamical mismatch 5625 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5625 
Stradiwinerius? 5622 
Dealing with the glass. 5621 
Boston 5621 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5621 
Added mass 5621 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5621 
It is about moderation…. 5621 
To hell with the wine... 5621 
Also for other surafaces 5620 
LEAD 5620 
LEAD & GLASS 5620 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5620 
Read carefully 5620 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5620 
Crooks and morons 5620 
Magiscopios 5619 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5599 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5599 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5598 
The LP setup in the new home. 5547 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5542 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5542 
Pianochord will do! 5542 
Spanyi heaven 5542 
I see no conflict at all. 5542 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5542 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5542 
A year after closing 5534 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5534 
Traveling antimatter 5527 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5521 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5520 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5494 
Cast Iron fireplace 5493 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5493 
The hardcore way 5493 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5457 
This is How It's Done 5456 
Listening room during summer. 5444 
What about those... 5443 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5443 
Reducing A/C Noise 5443 
HVAC the Cat 5443 
Big Ass fan 5442 
Variac dimmers 5442 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5442 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5442 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5374 
Some winter observations. 5265 
That Asian man…. 5234 
The Franz Schubert morning 5208 
Spring.... 5157 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5107 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5078 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5078 
Just good photography? 5078 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5078 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5078 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5077 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5077 
Sports car 5077 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5077 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5077 
Train Positioning 5077 
Kind of what I want 5077 
The lap listening… 5077 
Family Room 5077 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5074 
A super audio room. 5070 
Time Warp! 5070 
A piano in a listening room 5049 
Pianissimo 5049 
The plan in blue. 5049 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5049 
My doubts 5049 
It is exactly what I worry. 5048 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5048 
Musicians at home 5048 
Piano Measurements 5047 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5042 
The next step. 5028 
Midbass horns missing?? 5027 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5017 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5017 
Baby Grand 5016 
Wood floor 5016 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5016 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5016 
Amy’s baby. 5014 
Improvement 5014 
Agree with Scott 5014 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5002 
Integrated casters 5002 
Very nice, thanks. 5002 
Customization 5002 
Sliders 5002 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4995 
Congratulations 4995 
Holes in the floor... 4995 
Tubes and kids 4995 
Sweet spot enlargement 4995 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4993 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4992 
Wood Floors and Water 4992 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4987 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4986 
WAF is for Losers 4986 
WAF: it depends. 4986 
Integration 4985 
Here and there. 4985 
Life after WWIII 4985 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4985 
Cables management. 4983 
Featurizing 4983 
Kids and tubes cont. 4980 
Kid magnet 4980 
Kids and audio 4979 
Radars 4979 
Wow, what the days! 4975 
The comming weekend 4971 
It all was worth it! 4968 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4963 
Here is how it is look. 4963 
Resolving the carpet issue 4963 
Bonfire 4963 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4963 
Proof of concept? 4963 
Geometry 4963 
A view from listening position. 4963 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4963 
Some feedback 4963 
Evening 4963 
I wonder why. 4962 
Rugs and things 4962 
In defense… 4962 
I can’t get it. 4959 
Haze. 4958 
Front wall 4958 
It is very possible. 4958 
It is nice to be back. 4955 
My comfy corner. 4952 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4592 
WMD in house. 4414 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4317 
The third listening spot. 4296 
For sure a very different experience. 4258 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4253 
It's Jfretch's system. 4253 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4252 
Domestic games 4206 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4067 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4067 
Dynamic screening 4067 
Actually this is very good idea! 4067 
Volcanic fabric 4067 
I should have done this. 4065 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4061 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4030 
No worries 4030 
Awesome memories 4030 
Optimization of space 4030 
Child-ish considerations 4027 
Finding peace.... 4021 
"Fencing"? 4020 
I need to build something custom 4020 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4020 
Stressed Skin 4020 
NYC elevators 4020 
Kids toys and quantities. 4020 
Everything is completely reversible 4019 
Racks and things 4019 
Now it looks even more promising! 4019 
Quantity of rods 4019 
Avoiding diagonals 4017 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4016 
That's not fair! 4016 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4016 
Discrimination? 4011 
Vertical configuration 4004 
Impresive ! 3933 
Did you read the site? 3933 
Contact 3933 
Company's name is Rixrax 3933 
Stand 3932 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3888 
End of life headphone system 3888 
Something like this? 3888 
The "Second Living Room" 3888 
Mixing urban & suburban 3888 
Late night listening 3888 
Moving life... 3886 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3886 
A true listening room. 3862 
It started… 3847 
Levels of Interest 3847 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3847 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3847 
I can't not to post it.... 3847 
Do not leave him unattended. 3847 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3847 
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