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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5941 
The first take on the new room. 5935 
New Room, a first shot. 5934 
Wonderful 5934 
Adopted 5933 
The first relaxed night with the room 5931 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5930 
The listening room is ready. 5929 
New Room, a First Shot 5927 
Continue to work with the room 5927 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5927 
Room 5926 
I think it will take another month. 5926 
The Buttressing 5926 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5925 
The new place and the new noises. 5925 
Big listening room 5924 
Screw the "big" rooms 5924 
Big listening rooms 5924 
First reflection points 5923 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5923 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5920 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5919 
Squeezing the floor 5919 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5919 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5919 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5918 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5918 
The new room, the very first listening. 5918 
The 14.5 foot. 5917 
Again… 5916 
Romy's new Playground 5916 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5916 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5916 
For the uninitiated ... 5915 
NH guy 5915 
Room 5915 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5914 
The first base is done 5914 
Reentry time alignment. 5913 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5912 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5912 
Mid bass horn. 5912 
Guess is only a guess… 5912 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5912 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5911 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5911 
Diffusors 5911 
Diffuse injection 5911 
Let analyse why it so 5911 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5911 
Wheel and Deal 5911 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5911 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5911 
I Must Be Missing Something 5911 
I put sliders under my speakers 5910 
ROOM 5909 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5909 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5909 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5909 
No concerns 5909 
Speakers and room 5909 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5908 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5908 
Diaphram 5908 
Phram 5908 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5908 
Perfect piston 5908 
Decorater 5907 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5907 
New morning 5906 
The first take on the room with RTA 5905 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5905 
Axiomatic 5905 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5904 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5904 
The size of the bass. 5904 
Bass Factory 5904 
Crude Level, or something more? 5904 
I will play with it this week…. 5904 
Rent-A 5904 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5904 
Corner horns 5904 
Cheating from below 5904 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5904 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5903 
A possibly overly simplified view 5903 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5903 
Iceberg 5903 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5903 
Why not horn 5903 
A correction…. 5903 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5903 
They are just not related things at all. 5903 
Fertin 5901 
Low resonance is good... 5901 
Et tu, Brute? 5900 
The Room response at LF 5899 
Life On The Ground Floor 5899 
Bass arrays 5899 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5899 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5899 
The super sucks. 5899 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5899 
You may also try 5898 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5898 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5898 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5898 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5898 
60 Hz Resonance 5898 
No notching… so far. 5898 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5897 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5897 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5897 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5897 
Power to the People 5897 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5897 
Aura 5897 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5897 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5897 
All class D is the same 5897 
Interpreting the LF results. 5896 
The Halibut 5896 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5896 
The Big Picture 5896 
Power & ULF channels 5896 
The big picture indeed. 5896 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5896 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5896 
The Power and the Glory 5895 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5895 
I guess I did not get this memo 5895 
French LF drivers 5895 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5895 
(another) French LF approach 5894 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5894 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5894 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5894 
Limpschtick 5894 
Symmetry 5894 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5893 
Room correction 5893 
It migh be more complicated. 5893 
Bass EQ ? 5893 
Agree and not. 5893 
Two "diseases" 5893 
Parametric filters 5893 
Ceiling arrays 5893 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5893 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5893 
The Middle of the Room. 5893 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5893 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5893 
Stop! 5893 
Appendectomy 5893 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5892 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5892 
No Isolation 5892 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5889 
Potential contenders? 5888 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5888 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5888 
Those Crazy Canucks 5884 
Mo' Better Bass 5878 
Bird in the Hand? 5878 
A wet listening spot? 5871 
Storm 5868 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5868 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5854 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5824 
Polar Opposite ULF 5823 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5811 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5809 
Differently but the same. 5808 
PVC 5807 
The sail test try. 5807 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5807 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5807 
Trial 5806 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5806 
Some explanations 5806 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5805 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5804 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5803 
Acrylate 5802 
Magic blanket 5802 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5801 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5801 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5801 
I have a few options. 5801 
Foam color 5801 
Strange things with upperbass 5801 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5800 
Teatro reform. . . 5800 
The foaming room dilemma. 5799 
Melamine Foam 5799 
Foaming up the cat house 5799 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5799 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5799 
Acoustic revisions… 5798 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5795 
Surprises so far in the new room 5794 
The upperbass in the new room. 5794 
Slight change of hart. 5793 
Camco supply of Boston 5791 
Room acoustics 5791 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5750 
I need to kill dust first. 5750 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5748 
To feed the leeches? 5748 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5747 
Yh 5747 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5747 
DPOLs? 5747 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5747 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5744 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5744 
A HalfPipe solution? 5744 
I absolutely love it. 5744 
Piper work 5743 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5743 
Absorption 5743 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5742 
Cats life ? 5742 
Call me Pussy. 5742 
More about traps 5742 
Acoustic impedance? 5742 
You maybe right 5742 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5742 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5741 
Heavy Curtain 5741 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5740 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5740 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5740 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5737 
Fix speaker move chair? 5736 
Back and forth ceremony 5736 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5735 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5734 
Glass windows 5733 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5732 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5731 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5729 
How to use basement jacks? 5729 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5729 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5729 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5728 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5728 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5727 
Sore eyes... 5726 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5726 
The harvesting week! 5724 
I need an inspiration… 5723 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5722 
Like this? 5722 
Dramatically randomize MF 5722 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5721 
The room eats dynamic 5721 
Diffusers 5721 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5720 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5705 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5704 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5704 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5704 
About Width-Importance balance. 5702 
Letting the music scale up 5701 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5701 
To finish my house décor… 5697 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5696 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5695 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5695 
Calling the gods of music 5695 
Absolutely 5695 
Phase manipulation 5695 
No relation. 5695 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5695 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5695 
Dynamical mismatch 5694 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5694 
Stradiwinerius? 5691 
Dealing with the glass. 5690 
Boston 5690 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5690 
Added mass 5690 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5690 
It is about moderation…. 5690 
To hell with the wine... 5690 
Also for other surafaces 5689 
LEAD 5689 
LEAD & GLASS 5689 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5689 
Read carefully 5689 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5689 
Crooks and morons 5689 
Magiscopios 5688 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5668 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5668 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5667 
The LP setup in the new home. 5616 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5611 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5611 
Pianochord will do! 5611 
Spanyi heaven 5611 
I see no conflict at all. 5611 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5611 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5611 
A year after closing 5603 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5603 
Traveling antimatter 5596 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5590 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5589 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5563 
Cast Iron fireplace 5562 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5562 
The hardcore way 5562 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5526 
This is How It's Done 5525 
Listening room during summer. 5513 
What about those... 5512 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5512 
Reducing A/C Noise 5512 
HVAC the Cat 5512 
Big Ass fan 5511 
Variac dimmers 5511 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5511 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5511 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5443 
Some winter observations. 5334 
That Asian man…. 5303 
The Franz Schubert morning 5277 
Spring.... 5226 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5176 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5147 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5147 
Just good photography? 5147 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5147 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5147 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5146 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5146 
Sports car 5146 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5146 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5146 
Train Positioning 5146 
Kind of what I want 5146 
The lap listening… 5146 
Family Room 5146 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5143 
A super audio room. 5139 
Time Warp! 5139 
A piano in a listening room 5118 
Pianissimo 5118 
The plan in blue. 5118 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5118 
My doubts 5118 
It is exactly what I worry. 5117 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5117 
Musicians at home 5117 
Piano Measurements 5116 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5111 
The next step. 5097 
Midbass horns missing?? 5096 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5086 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5086 
Baby Grand 5085 
Wood floor 5085 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5085 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5085 
Amy’s baby. 5083 
Improvement 5083 
Agree with Scott 5083 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5071 
Integrated casters 5071 
Very nice, thanks. 5071 
Customization 5071 
Sliders 5071 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5064 
Congratulations 5064 
Holes in the floor... 5064 
Tubes and kids 5064 
Sweet spot enlargement 5064 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5062 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5061 
Wood Floors and Water 5061 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5056 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5055 
WAF is for Losers 5055 
WAF: it depends. 5055 
Integration 5054 
Here and there. 5054 
Life after WWIII 5054 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5054 
Cables management. 5052 
Featurizing 5052 
Kids and tubes cont. 5049 
Kid magnet 5049 
Kids and audio 5048 
Radars 5048 
Wow, what the days! 5044 
The comming weekend 5040 
It all was worth it! 5037 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5032 
Here is how it is look. 5032 
Resolving the carpet issue 5032 
Bonfire 5032 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5032 
Proof of concept? 5032 
Geometry 5032 
A view from listening position. 5032 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5032 
Some feedback 5032 
Evening 5032 
I wonder why. 5031 
Rugs and things 5031 
In defense… 5031 
I can’t get it. 5028 
Haze. 5027 
Front wall 5027 
It is very possible. 5027 
It is nice to be back. 5024 
My comfy corner. 5021 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4661 
WMD in house. 4483 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4386 
The third listening spot. 4365 
For sure a very different experience. 4327 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4322 
It's Jfretch's system. 4322 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4321 
Domestic games 4275 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4136 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4136 
Dynamic screening 4136 
Actually this is very good idea! 4136 
Volcanic fabric 4136 
I should have done this. 4134 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4130 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4099 
No worries 4099 
Awesome memories 4099 
Optimization of space 4099 
Child-ish considerations 4096 
Finding peace.... 4090 
"Fencing"? 4089 
I need to build something custom 4089 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4089 
Stressed Skin 4089 
NYC elevators 4089 
Kids toys and quantities. 4089 
Everything is completely reversible 4088 
Racks and things 4088 
Now it looks even more promising! 4088 
Quantity of rods 4088 
Avoiding diagonals 4086 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4085 
That's not fair! 4085 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4085 
Discrimination? 4080 
Vertical configuration 4073 
Impresive ! 4002 
Did you read the site? 4002 
Contact 4002 
Company's name is Rixrax 4002 
Stand 4001 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3957 
End of life headphone system 3957 
Something like this? 3957 
The "Second Living Room" 3957 
Mixing urban & suburban 3957 
Late night listening 3957 
Moving life... 3955 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3955 
A true listening room. 3931 
It started… 3916 
Levels of Interest 3916 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3916 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3916 
I can't not to post it.... 3916 
Do not leave him unattended. 3916 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3916 
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