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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6049 
The first take on the new room. 6043 
New Room, a first shot. 6042 
Wonderful 6042 
Adopted 6041 
The first relaxed night with the room 6039 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6038 
The listening room is ready. 6037 
New Room, a First Shot 6035 
Continue to work with the room 6035 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6035 
Room 6034 
I think it will take another month. 6034 
The Buttressing 6034 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6033 
The new place and the new noises. 6033 
Big listening room 6032 
Screw the "big" rooms 6032 
Big listening rooms 6032 
First reflection points 6031 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6031 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6028 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6027 
Squeezing the floor 6027 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6027 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6027 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6026 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6026 
The new room, the very first listening. 6026 
The 14.5 foot. 6025 
Again… 6024 
Romy's new Playground 6024 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6024 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6024 
For the uninitiated ... 6023 
NH guy 6023 
Room 6023 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6022 
The first base is done 6022 
Reentry time alignment. 6021 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6020 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6020 
Mid bass horn. 6020 
Guess is only a guess… 6020 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6020 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6019 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6019 
Diffusors 6019 
Diffuse injection 6019 
Let analyse why it so 6019 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6019 
Wheel and Deal 6019 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6019 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6019 
I Must Be Missing Something 6019 
I put sliders under my speakers 6018 
ROOM 6017 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6017 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6017 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6017 
No concerns 6017 
Speakers and room 6017 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6016 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6016 
Diaphram 6016 
Phram 6016 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6016 
Perfect piston 6016 
Decorater 6015 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6015 
New morning 6014 
The first take on the room with RTA 6013 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6013 
Axiomatic 6013 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6012 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6012 
The size of the bass. 6012 
Bass Factory 6012 
Crude Level, or something more? 6012 
I will play with it this week…. 6012 
Rent-A 6012 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6012 
Corner horns 6012 
Cheating from below 6012 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6012 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6011 
A possibly overly simplified view 6011 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6011 
Iceberg 6011 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6011 
Why not horn 6011 
A correction…. 6011 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6011 
They are just not related things at all. 6011 
Fertin 6009 
Low resonance is good... 6009 
Et tu, Brute? 6008 
The Room response at LF 6007 
Life On The Ground Floor 6007 
Bass arrays 6007 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6007 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6007 
The super sucks. 6007 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6007 
You may also try 6006 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6006 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6006 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6006 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6006 
60 Hz Resonance 6006 
No notching… so far. 6006 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6005 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6005 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6005 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6005 
Power to the People 6005 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6005 
Aura 6005 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6005 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6005 
All class D is the same 6005 
Interpreting the LF results. 6004 
The Halibut 6004 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6004 
The Big Picture 6004 
Power & ULF channels 6004 
The big picture indeed. 6004 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6004 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6004 
The Power and the Glory 6003 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6003 
I guess I did not get this memo 6003 
French LF drivers 6003 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6003 
(another) French LF approach 6002 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6002 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6002 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6002 
Limpschtick 6002 
Symmetry 6002 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6001 
Room correction 6001 
It migh be more complicated. 6001 
Bass EQ ? 6001 
Agree and not. 6001 
Two "diseases" 6001 
Parametric filters 6001 
Ceiling arrays 6001 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6001 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6001 
The Middle of the Room. 6001 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6001 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6001 
Stop! 6001 
Appendectomy 6001 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6000 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6000 
No Isolation 6000 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5997 
Potential contenders? 5996 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5996 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5996 
Those Crazy Canucks 5992 
Mo' Better Bass 5986 
Bird in the Hand? 5986 
A wet listening spot? 5979 
Storm 5976 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5976 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5962 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5932 
Polar Opposite ULF 5931 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5919 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5917 
Differently but the same. 5916 
PVC 5915 
The sail test try. 5915 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5915 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5915 
Trial 5914 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5914 
Some explanations 5914 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5913 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5912 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5911 
Acrylate 5910 
Magic blanket 5910 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5909 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5909 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5909 
I have a few options. 5909 
Foam color 5909 
Strange things with upperbass 5909 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5908 
Teatro reform. . . 5908 
The foaming room dilemma. 5907 
Melamine Foam 5907 
Foaming up the cat house 5907 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5907 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5907 
Acoustic revisions… 5906 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5903 
Surprises so far in the new room 5902 
The upperbass in the new room. 5902 
Slight change of hart. 5901 
Camco supply of Boston 5899 
Room acoustics 5899 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5858 
I need to kill dust first. 5858 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5856 
To feed the leeches? 5856 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5855 
Yh 5855 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5855 
DPOLs? 5855 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5855 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5852 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5852 
A HalfPipe solution? 5852 
I absolutely love it. 5852 
Piper work 5851 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5851 
Absorption 5851 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5850 
Cats life ? 5850 
Call me Pussy. 5850 
More about traps 5850 
Acoustic impedance? 5850 
You maybe right 5850 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5850 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5849 
Heavy Curtain 5849 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5848 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5848 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5848 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5845 
Fix speaker move chair? 5844 
Back and forth ceremony 5844 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5843 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5842 
Glass windows 5841 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5840 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5839 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5837 
How to use basement jacks? 5837 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5837 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5837 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5836 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5836 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5835 
Sore eyes... 5834 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5834 
The harvesting week! 5832 
I need an inspiration… 5831 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5830 
Like this? 5830 
Dramatically randomize MF 5830 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5829 
The room eats dynamic 5829 
Diffusers 5829 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5828 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5813 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5812 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5812 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5812 
About Width-Importance balance. 5810 
Letting the music scale up 5809 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5809 
To finish my house décor… 5805 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5804 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5803 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5803 
Calling the gods of music 5803 
Absolutely 5803 
Phase manipulation 5803 
No relation. 5803 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5803 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5803 
Dynamical mismatch 5802 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5802 
Stradiwinerius? 5799 
Dealing with the glass. 5798 
Boston 5798 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5798 
Added mass 5798 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5798 
It is about moderation…. 5798 
To hell with the wine... 5798 
Also for other surafaces 5797 
LEAD 5797 
LEAD & GLASS 5797 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5797 
Read carefully 5797 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5797 
Crooks and morons 5797 
Magiscopios 5796 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5776 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5776 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5775 
The LP setup in the new home. 5724 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5719 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5719 
Pianochord will do! 5719 
Spanyi heaven 5719 
I see no conflict at all. 5719 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5719 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5719 
A year after closing 5711 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5711 
Traveling antimatter 5704 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5698 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5697 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5671 
Cast Iron fireplace 5670 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5670 
The hardcore way 5670 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5634 
This is How It's Done 5633 
Listening room during summer. 5621 
What about those... 5620 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5620 
Reducing A/C Noise 5620 
HVAC the Cat 5620 
Big Ass fan 5619 
Variac dimmers 5619 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5619 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5619 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5551 
Some winter observations. 5442 
That Asian man…. 5411 
The Franz Schubert morning 5385 
Spring.... 5334 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5284 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5255 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5255 
Just good photography? 5255 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5255 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5255 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5254 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5254 
Sports car 5254 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5254 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5254 
Train Positioning 5254 
Kind of what I want 5254 
The lap listening… 5254 
Family Room 5254 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5251 
A super audio room. 5247 
Time Warp! 5247 
A piano in a listening room 5226 
Pianissimo 5226 
The plan in blue. 5226 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5226 
My doubts 5226 
It is exactly what I worry. 5225 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5225 
Musicians at home 5225 
Piano Measurements 5224 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5219 
The next step. 5205 
Midbass horns missing?? 5204 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5194 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5194 
Baby Grand 5193 
Wood floor 5193 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5193 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5193 
Amy’s baby. 5191 
Improvement 5191 
Agree with Scott 5191 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5179 
Integrated casters 5179 
Very nice, thanks. 5179 
Customization 5179 
Sliders 5179 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5172 
Congratulations 5172 
Holes in the floor... 5172 
Tubes and kids 5172 
Sweet spot enlargement 5172 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5170 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5169 
Wood Floors and Water 5169 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5164 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5163 
WAF is for Losers 5163 
WAF: it depends. 5163 
Integration 5162 
Here and there. 5162 
Life after WWIII 5162 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5162 
Cables management. 5160 
Featurizing 5160 
Kids and tubes cont. 5157 
Kid magnet 5157 
Kids and audio 5156 
Radars 5156 
Wow, what the days! 5152 
The comming weekend 5148 
It all was worth it! 5145 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5140 
Here is how it is look. 5140 
Resolving the carpet issue 5140 
Bonfire 5140 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5140 
Proof of concept? 5140 
Geometry 5140 
A view from listening position. 5140 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5140 
Some feedback 5140 
Evening 5140 
I wonder why. 5139 
Rugs and things 5139 
In defense… 5139 
I can’t get it. 5136 
Haze. 5135 
Front wall 5135 
It is very possible. 5135 
It is nice to be back. 5132 
My comfy corner. 5129 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4769 
WMD in house. 4591 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4494 
The third listening spot. 4473 
For sure a very different experience. 4435 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4430 
It's Jfretch's system. 4430 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4429 
Domestic games 4383 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4244 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4244 
Dynamic screening 4244 
Actually this is very good idea! 4244 
Volcanic fabric 4244 
I should have done this. 4242 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4238 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4207 
No worries 4207 
Awesome memories 4207 
Optimization of space 4207 
Child-ish considerations 4204 
Finding peace.... 4198 
"Fencing"? 4197 
I need to build something custom 4197 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4197 
Stressed Skin 4197 
NYC elevators 4197 
Kids toys and quantities. 4197 
Everything is completely reversible 4196 
Racks and things 4196 
Now it looks even more promising! 4196 
Quantity of rods 4196 
Avoiding diagonals 4194 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4193 
That's not fair! 4193 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4193 
Discrimination? 4188 
Vertical configuration 4181 
Impresive ! 4110 
Did you read the site? 4110 
Contact 4110 
Company's name is Rixrax 4110 
Stand 4109 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4065 
End of life headphone system 4065 
Something like this? 4065 
The "Second Living Room" 4065 
Mixing urban & suburban 4065 
Late night listening 4065 
Moving life... 4063 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4063 
A true listening room. 4039 
It started… 4024 
Levels of Interest 4024 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4024 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4024 
I can't not to post it.... 4024 
Do not leave him unattended. 4024 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4024 
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