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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5861 
The first take on the new room. 5855 
New Room, a first shot. 5854 
Wonderful 5854 
Adopted 5853 
The first relaxed night with the room 5851 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5850 
The listening room is ready. 5849 
New Room, a First Shot 5847 
Continue to work with the room 5847 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5847 
Room 5846 
I think it will take another month. 5846 
The Buttressing 5846 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5845 
The new place and the new noises. 5845 
Big listening room 5844 
Screw the "big" rooms 5844 
Big listening rooms 5844 
First reflection points 5843 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5843 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5840 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5839 
Squeezing the floor 5839 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5839 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5839 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5838 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5838 
The new room, the very first listening. 5838 
The 14.5 foot. 5837 
Again… 5836 
Romy's new Playground 5836 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5836 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5836 
For the uninitiated ... 5835 
NH guy 5835 
Room 5835 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5834 
The first base is done 5834 
Reentry time alignment. 5833 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5832 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5832 
Mid bass horn. 5832 
Guess is only a guess… 5832 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5832 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5831 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5831 
Diffusors 5831 
Diffuse injection 5831 
Let analyse why it so 5831 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5831 
Wheel and Deal 5831 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5831 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5831 
I Must Be Missing Something 5831 
I put sliders under my speakers 5830 
ROOM 5829 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5829 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5829 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5829 
No concerns 5829 
Speakers and room 5829 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5828 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5828 
Diaphram 5828 
Phram 5828 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5828 
Perfect piston 5828 
Decorater 5827 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5827 
New morning 5826 
The first take on the room with RTA 5825 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5825 
Axiomatic 5825 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5824 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5824 
The size of the bass. 5824 
Bass Factory 5824 
Crude Level, or something more? 5824 
I will play with it this week…. 5824 
Rent-A 5824 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5824 
Corner horns 5824 
Cheating from below 5824 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5824 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5823 
A possibly overly simplified view 5823 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5823 
Iceberg 5823 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5823 
Why not horn 5823 
A correction…. 5823 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5823 
They are just not related things at all. 5823 
Fertin 5821 
Low resonance is good... 5821 
Et tu, Brute? 5820 
The Room response at LF 5819 
Life On The Ground Floor 5819 
Bass arrays 5819 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5819 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5819 
The super sucks. 5819 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5819 
You may also try 5818 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5818 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5818 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5818 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5818 
60 Hz Resonance 5818 
No notching… so far. 5818 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5817 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5817 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5817 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5817 
Power to the People 5817 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5817 
Aura 5817 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5817 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5817 
All class D is the same 5817 
Interpreting the LF results. 5816 
The Halibut 5816 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5816 
The Big Picture 5816 
Power & ULF channels 5816 
The big picture indeed. 5816 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5816 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5816 
The Power and the Glory 5815 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5815 
I guess I did not get this memo 5815 
French LF drivers 5815 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5815 
(another) French LF approach 5814 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5814 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5814 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5814 
Limpschtick 5814 
Symmetry 5814 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5813 
Room correction 5813 
It migh be more complicated. 5813 
Bass EQ ? 5813 
Agree and not. 5813 
Two "diseases" 5813 
Parametric filters 5813 
Ceiling arrays 5813 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5813 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5813 
The Middle of the Room. 5813 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5813 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5813 
Stop! 5813 
Appendectomy 5813 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5812 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5812 
No Isolation 5812 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5809 
Potential contenders? 5808 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5808 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5808 
Those Crazy Canucks 5804 
Mo' Better Bass 5798 
Bird in the Hand? 5798 
A wet listening spot? 5791 
Storm 5788 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5788 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5774 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5744 
Polar Opposite ULF 5743 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5731 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5729 
Differently but the same. 5728 
PVC 5727 
The sail test try. 5727 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5727 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5727 
Trial 5726 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5726 
Some explanations 5726 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5725 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5724 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5723 
Acrylate 5722 
Magic blanket 5722 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5721 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5721 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5721 
I have a few options. 5721 
Foam color 5721 
Strange things with upperbass 5721 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5720 
Teatro reform. . . 5720 
The foaming room dilemma. 5719 
Melamine Foam 5719 
Foaming up the cat house 5719 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5719 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5719 
Acoustic revisions… 5718 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5715 
Surprises so far in the new room 5714 
The upperbass in the new room. 5714 
Slight change of hart. 5713 
Camco supply of Boston 5711 
Room acoustics 5711 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5670 
I need to kill dust first. 5670 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5668 
To feed the leeches? 5668 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5667 
Yh 5667 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5667 
DPOLs? 5667 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5667 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5664 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5664 
A HalfPipe solution? 5664 
I absolutely love it. 5664 
Piper work 5663 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5663 
Absorption 5663 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5662 
Cats life ? 5662 
Call me Pussy. 5662 
More about traps 5662 
Acoustic impedance? 5662 
You maybe right 5662 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5662 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5661 
Heavy Curtain 5661 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5660 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5660 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5660 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5657 
Fix speaker move chair? 5656 
Back and forth ceremony 5656 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5655 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5654 
Glass windows 5653 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5652 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5651 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5649 
How to use basement jacks? 5649 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5649 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5649 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5648 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5648 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5647 
Sore eyes... 5646 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5646 
The harvesting week! 5644 
I need an inspiration… 5643 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5642 
Like this? 5642 
Dramatically randomize MF 5642 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5641 
The room eats dynamic 5641 
Diffusers 5641 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5640 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5625 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5624 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5624 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5624 
About Width-Importance balance. 5622 
Letting the music scale up 5621 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5621 
To finish my house décor… 5617 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5616 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5615 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5615 
Calling the gods of music 5615 
Absolutely 5615 
Phase manipulation 5615 
No relation. 5615 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5615 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5615 
Dynamical mismatch 5614 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5614 
Stradiwinerius? 5611 
Dealing with the glass. 5610 
Boston 5610 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5610 
Added mass 5610 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5610 
It is about moderation…. 5610 
To hell with the wine... 5610 
Also for other surafaces 5609 
LEAD 5609 
LEAD & GLASS 5609 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5609 
Read carefully 5609 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5609 
Crooks and morons 5609 
Magiscopios 5608 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5588 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5588 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5587 
The LP setup in the new home. 5536 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5531 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5531 
Pianochord will do! 5531 
Spanyi heaven 5531 
I see no conflict at all. 5531 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5531 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5531 
A year after closing 5523 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5523 
Traveling antimatter 5516 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5510 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5509 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5483 
Cast Iron fireplace 5482 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5482 
The hardcore way 5482 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5446 
This is How It's Done 5445 
Listening room during summer. 5433 
What about those... 5432 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5432 
Reducing A/C Noise 5432 
HVAC the Cat 5432 
Big Ass fan 5431 
Variac dimmers 5431 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5431 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5431 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5363 
Some winter observations. 5254 
That Asian man…. 5223 
The Franz Schubert morning 5197 
Spring.... 5146 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5096 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5067 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5067 
Just good photography? 5067 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5067 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5067 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5066 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5066 
Sports car 5066 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5066 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5066 
Train Positioning 5066 
Kind of what I want 5066 
The lap listening… 5066 
Family Room 5066 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5063 
A super audio room. 5059 
Time Warp! 5059 
A piano in a listening room 5038 
Pianissimo 5038 
The plan in blue. 5038 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5038 
My doubts 5038 
It is exactly what I worry. 5037 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5037 
Musicians at home 5037 
Piano Measurements 5036 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5031 
The next step. 5017 
Midbass horns missing?? 5016 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5006 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5006 
Baby Grand 5005 
Wood floor 5005 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5005 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5005 
Amy’s baby. 5003 
Improvement 5003 
Agree with Scott 5003 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4991 
Integrated casters 4991 
Very nice, thanks. 4991 
Customization 4991 
Sliders 4991 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4984 
Congratulations 4984 
Holes in the floor... 4984 
Tubes and kids 4984 
Sweet spot enlargement 4984 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4982 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4981 
Wood Floors and Water 4981 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4976 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4975 
WAF is for Losers 4975 
WAF: it depends. 4975 
Integration 4974 
Here and there. 4974 
Life after WWIII 4974 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4974 
Cables management. 4972 
Featurizing 4972 
Kids and tubes cont. 4969 
Kid magnet 4969 
Kids and audio 4968 
Radars 4968 
Wow, what the days! 4964 
The comming weekend 4960 
It all was worth it! 4957 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4952 
Here is how it is look. 4952 
Resolving the carpet issue 4952 
Bonfire 4952 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4952 
Proof of concept? 4952 
Geometry 4952 
A view from listening position. 4952 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4952 
Some feedback 4952 
Evening 4952 
I wonder why. 4951 
Rugs and things 4951 
In defense… 4951 
I can’t get it. 4948 
Haze. 4947 
Front wall 4947 
It is very possible. 4947 
It is nice to be back. 4944 
My comfy corner. 4941 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4581 
WMD in house. 4403 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4306 
The third listening spot. 4285 
For sure a very different experience. 4247 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4242 
It's Jfretch's system. 4242 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4241 
Domestic games 4195 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4056 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4056 
Dynamic screening 4056 
Actually this is very good idea! 4056 
Volcanic fabric 4056 
I should have done this. 4054 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4050 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4019 
No worries 4019 
Awesome memories 4019 
Optimization of space 4019 
Child-ish considerations 4016 
Finding peace.... 4010 
"Fencing"? 4009 
I need to build something custom 4009 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4009 
Stressed Skin 4009 
NYC elevators 4009 
Kids toys and quantities. 4009 
Everything is completely reversible 4008 
Racks and things 4008 
Now it looks even more promising! 4008 
Quantity of rods 4008 
Avoiding diagonals 4006 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4005 
That's not fair! 4005 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4005 
Discrimination? 4000 
Vertical configuration 3993 
Impresive ! 3922 
Did you read the site? 3922 
Contact 3922 
Company's name is Rixrax 3922 
Stand 3921 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3877 
End of life headphone system 3877 
Something like this? 3877 
The "Second Living Room" 3877 
Mixing urban & suburban 3877 
Late night listening 3877 
Moving life... 3875 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3875 
A true listening room. 3851 
It started… 3836 
Levels of Interest 3836 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3836 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3836 
I can't not to post it.... 3836 
Do not leave him unattended. 3836 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3836 
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