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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5979 
The first take on the new room. 5973 
New Room, a first shot. 5972 
Wonderful 5972 
Adopted 5971 
The first relaxed night with the room 5969 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5968 
The listening room is ready. 5967 
New Room, a First Shot 5965 
Continue to work with the room 5965 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5965 
Room 5964 
I think it will take another month. 5964 
The Buttressing 5964 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5963 
The new place and the new noises. 5963 
Big listening room 5962 
Screw the "big" rooms 5962 
Big listening rooms 5962 
First reflection points 5961 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5961 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5958 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5957 
Squeezing the floor 5957 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5957 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5957 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5956 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5956 
The new room, the very first listening. 5956 
The 14.5 foot. 5955 
Again… 5954 
Romy's new Playground 5954 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5954 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5954 
For the uninitiated ... 5953 
NH guy 5953 
Room 5953 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5952 
The first base is done 5952 
Reentry time alignment. 5951 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5950 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5950 
Mid bass horn. 5950 
Guess is only a guess… 5950 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5950 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5949 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5949 
Diffusors 5949 
Diffuse injection 5949 
Let analyse why it so 5949 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5949 
Wheel and Deal 5949 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5949 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5949 
I Must Be Missing Something 5949 
I put sliders under my speakers 5948 
ROOM 5947 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5947 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5947 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5947 
No concerns 5947 
Speakers and room 5947 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5946 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5946 
Diaphram 5946 
Phram 5946 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5946 
Perfect piston 5946 
Decorater 5945 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5945 
New morning 5944 
The first take on the room with RTA 5943 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5943 
Axiomatic 5943 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5942 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5942 
The size of the bass. 5942 
Bass Factory 5942 
Crude Level, or something more? 5942 
I will play with it this week…. 5942 
Rent-A 5942 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5942 
Corner horns 5942 
Cheating from below 5942 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5942 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5941 
A possibly overly simplified view 5941 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5941 
Iceberg 5941 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5941 
Why not horn 5941 
A correction…. 5941 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5941 
They are just not related things at all. 5941 
Fertin 5939 
Low resonance is good... 5939 
Et tu, Brute? 5938 
The Room response at LF 5937 
Life On The Ground Floor 5937 
Bass arrays 5937 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5937 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5937 
The super sucks. 5937 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5937 
You may also try 5936 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5936 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5936 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5936 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5936 
60 Hz Resonance 5936 
No notching… so far. 5936 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5935 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5935 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5935 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5935 
Power to the People 5935 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5935 
Aura 5935 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5935 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5935 
All class D is the same 5935 
Interpreting the LF results. 5934 
The Halibut 5934 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5934 
The Big Picture 5934 
Power & ULF channels 5934 
The big picture indeed. 5934 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5934 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5934 
The Power and the Glory 5933 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5933 
I guess I did not get this memo 5933 
French LF drivers 5933 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5933 
(another) French LF approach 5932 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5932 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5932 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5932 
Limpschtick 5932 
Symmetry 5932 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5931 
Room correction 5931 
It migh be more complicated. 5931 
Bass EQ ? 5931 
Agree and not. 5931 
Two "diseases" 5931 
Parametric filters 5931 
Ceiling arrays 5931 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5931 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5931 
The Middle of the Room. 5931 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5931 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5931 
Stop! 5931 
Appendectomy 5931 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5930 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5930 
No Isolation 5930 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5927 
Potential contenders? 5926 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5926 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5926 
Those Crazy Canucks 5922 
Mo' Better Bass 5916 
Bird in the Hand? 5916 
A wet listening spot? 5909 
Storm 5906 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5906 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5892 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5862 
Polar Opposite ULF 5861 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5849 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5847 
Differently but the same. 5846 
PVC 5845 
The sail test try. 5845 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5845 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5845 
Trial 5844 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5844 
Some explanations 5844 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5843 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5842 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5841 
Acrylate 5840 
Magic blanket 5840 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5839 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5839 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5839 
I have a few options. 5839 
Foam color 5839 
Strange things with upperbass 5839 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5838 
Teatro reform. . . 5838 
The foaming room dilemma. 5837 
Melamine Foam 5837 
Foaming up the cat house 5837 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5837 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5837 
Acoustic revisions… 5836 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5833 
Surprises so far in the new room 5832 
The upperbass in the new room. 5832 
Slight change of hart. 5831 
Camco supply of Boston 5829 
Room acoustics 5829 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5788 
I need to kill dust first. 5788 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5786 
To feed the leeches? 5786 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5785 
Yh 5785 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5785 
DPOLs? 5785 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5785 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5782 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5782 
A HalfPipe solution? 5782 
I absolutely love it. 5782 
Piper work 5781 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5781 
Absorption 5781 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5780 
Cats life ? 5780 
Call me Pussy. 5780 
More about traps 5780 
Acoustic impedance? 5780 
You maybe right 5780 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5780 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5779 
Heavy Curtain 5779 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5778 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5778 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5778 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5775 
Fix speaker move chair? 5774 
Back and forth ceremony 5774 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5773 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5772 
Glass windows 5771 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5770 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5769 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5767 
How to use basement jacks? 5767 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5767 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5767 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5766 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5766 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5765 
Sore eyes... 5764 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5764 
The harvesting week! 5762 
I need an inspiration… 5761 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5760 
Like this? 5760 
Dramatically randomize MF 5760 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5759 
The room eats dynamic 5759 
Diffusers 5759 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5758 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5743 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5742 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5742 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5742 
About Width-Importance balance. 5740 
Letting the music scale up 5739 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5739 
To finish my house décor… 5735 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5734 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5733 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5733 
Calling the gods of music 5733 
Absolutely 5733 
Phase manipulation 5733 
No relation. 5733 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5733 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5733 
Dynamical mismatch 5732 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5732 
Stradiwinerius? 5729 
Dealing with the glass. 5728 
Boston 5728 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5728 
Added mass 5728 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5728 
It is about moderation…. 5728 
To hell with the wine... 5728 
Also for other surafaces 5727 
LEAD 5727 
LEAD & GLASS 5727 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5727 
Read carefully 5727 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5727 
Crooks and morons 5727 
Magiscopios 5726 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5706 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5706 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5705 
The LP setup in the new home. 5654 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5649 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5649 
Pianochord will do! 5649 
Spanyi heaven 5649 
I see no conflict at all. 5649 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5649 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5649 
A year after closing 5641 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5641 
Traveling antimatter 5634 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5628 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5627 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5601 
Cast Iron fireplace 5600 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5600 
The hardcore way 5600 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5564 
This is How It's Done 5563 
Listening room during summer. 5551 
What about those... 5550 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5550 
Reducing A/C Noise 5550 
HVAC the Cat 5550 
Big Ass fan 5549 
Variac dimmers 5549 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5549 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5549 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5481 
Some winter observations. 5372 
That Asian man…. 5341 
The Franz Schubert morning 5315 
Spring.... 5264 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5214 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5185 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5185 
Just good photography? 5185 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5185 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5185 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5184 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5184 
Sports car 5184 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5184 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5184 
Train Positioning 5184 
Kind of what I want 5184 
The lap listening… 5184 
Family Room 5184 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5181 
A super audio room. 5177 
Time Warp! 5177 
A piano in a listening room 5156 
Pianissimo 5156 
The plan in blue. 5156 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5156 
My doubts 5156 
It is exactly what I worry. 5155 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5155 
Musicians at home 5155 
Piano Measurements 5154 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5149 
The next step. 5135 
Midbass horns missing?? 5134 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5124 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5124 
Baby Grand 5123 
Wood floor 5123 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5123 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5123 
Amy’s baby. 5121 
Improvement 5121 
Agree with Scott 5121 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5109 
Integrated casters 5109 
Very nice, thanks. 5109 
Customization 5109 
Sliders 5109 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5102 
Congratulations 5102 
Holes in the floor... 5102 
Tubes and kids 5102 
Sweet spot enlargement 5102 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5100 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5099 
Wood Floors and Water 5099 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5094 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5093 
WAF is for Losers 5093 
WAF: it depends. 5093 
Integration 5092 
Here and there. 5092 
Life after WWIII 5092 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5092 
Cables management. 5090 
Featurizing 5090 
Kids and tubes cont. 5087 
Kid magnet 5087 
Kids and audio 5086 
Radars 5086 
Wow, what the days! 5082 
The comming weekend 5078 
It all was worth it! 5075 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5070 
Here is how it is look. 5070 
Resolving the carpet issue 5070 
Bonfire 5070 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5070 
Proof of concept? 5070 
Geometry 5070 
A view from listening position. 5070 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5070 
Some feedback 5070 
Evening 5070 
I wonder why. 5069 
Rugs and things 5069 
In defense… 5069 
I can’t get it. 5066 
Haze. 5065 
Front wall 5065 
It is very possible. 5065 
It is nice to be back. 5062 
My comfy corner. 5059 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4699 
WMD in house. 4521 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4424 
The third listening spot. 4403 
For sure a very different experience. 4365 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4360 
It's Jfretch's system. 4360 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4359 
Domestic games 4313 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4174 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4174 
Dynamic screening 4174 
Actually this is very good idea! 4174 
Volcanic fabric 4174 
I should have done this. 4172 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4168 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4137 
No worries 4137 
Awesome memories 4137 
Optimization of space 4137 
Child-ish considerations 4134 
Finding peace.... 4128 
"Fencing"? 4127 
I need to build something custom 4127 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4127 
Stressed Skin 4127 
NYC elevators 4127 
Kids toys and quantities. 4127 
Everything is completely reversible 4126 
Racks and things 4126 
Now it looks even more promising! 4126 
Quantity of rods 4126 
Avoiding diagonals 4124 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4123 
That's not fair! 4123 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4123 
Discrimination? 4118 
Vertical configuration 4111 
Impresive ! 4040 
Did you read the site? 4040 
Contact 4040 
Company's name is Rixrax 4040 
Stand 4039 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3995 
End of life headphone system 3995 
Something like this? 3995 
The "Second Living Room" 3995 
Mixing urban & suburban 3995 
Late night listening 3995 
Moving life... 3993 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3993 
A true listening room. 3969 
It started… 3954 
Levels of Interest 3954 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3954 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3954 
I can't not to post it.... 3954 
Do not leave him unattended. 3954 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3954 
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