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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6071 
The first take on the new room. 6065 
New Room, a first shot. 6064 
Wonderful 6064 
Adopted 6063 
The first relaxed night with the room 6061 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6060 
The listening room is ready. 6059 
New Room, a First Shot 6057 
Continue to work with the room 6057 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6057 
Room 6056 
I think it will take another month. 6056 
The Buttressing 6056 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6055 
The new place and the new noises. 6055 
Big listening room 6054 
Screw the "big" rooms 6054 
Big listening rooms 6054 
First reflection points 6053 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6053 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6050 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6049 
Squeezing the floor 6049 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6049 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6049 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6048 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6048 
The new room, the very first listening. 6048 
The 14.5 foot. 6047 
Again… 6046 
Romy's new Playground 6046 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6046 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6046 
For the uninitiated ... 6045 
NH guy 6045 
Room 6045 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6044 
The first base is done 6044 
Reentry time alignment. 6043 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6042 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6042 
Mid bass horn. 6042 
Guess is only a guess… 6042 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6042 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6041 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6041 
Diffusors 6041 
Diffuse injection 6041 
Let analyse why it so 6041 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6041 
Wheel and Deal 6041 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6041 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6041 
I Must Be Missing Something 6041 
I put sliders under my speakers 6040 
ROOM 6039 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6039 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6039 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6039 
No concerns 6039 
Speakers and room 6039 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6038 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6038 
Diaphram 6038 
Phram 6038 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6038 
Perfect piston 6038 
Decorater 6037 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6037 
New morning 6036 
The first take on the room with RTA 6035 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6035 
Axiomatic 6035 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6034 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6034 
The size of the bass. 6034 
Bass Factory 6034 
Crude Level, or something more? 6034 
I will play with it this week…. 6034 
Rent-A 6034 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6034 
Corner horns 6034 
Cheating from below 6034 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6034 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6033 
A possibly overly simplified view 6033 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6033 
Iceberg 6033 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6033 
Why not horn 6033 
A correction…. 6033 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6033 
They are just not related things at all. 6033 
Fertin 6031 
Low resonance is good... 6031 
Et tu, Brute? 6030 
The Room response at LF 6029 
Life On The Ground Floor 6029 
Bass arrays 6029 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6029 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6029 
The super sucks. 6029 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6029 
You may also try 6028 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6028 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6028 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6028 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6028 
60 Hz Resonance 6028 
No notching… so far. 6028 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6027 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6027 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6027 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6027 
Power to the People 6027 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6027 
Aura 6027 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6027 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6027 
All class D is the same 6027 
Interpreting the LF results. 6026 
The Halibut 6026 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6026 
The Big Picture 6026 
Power & ULF channels 6026 
The big picture indeed. 6026 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6026 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6026 
The Power and the Glory 6025 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6025 
I guess I did not get this memo 6025 
French LF drivers 6025 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6025 
(another) French LF approach 6024 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6024 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6024 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6024 
Limpschtick 6024 
Symmetry 6024 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6023 
Room correction 6023 
It migh be more complicated. 6023 
Bass EQ ? 6023 
Agree and not. 6023 
Two "diseases" 6023 
Parametric filters 6023 
Ceiling arrays 6023 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6023 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6023 
The Middle of the Room. 6023 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6023 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6023 
Stop! 6023 
Appendectomy 6023 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6022 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6022 
No Isolation 6022 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6019 
Potential contenders? 6018 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6018 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6018 
Those Crazy Canucks 6014 
Mo' Better Bass 6008 
Bird in the Hand? 6008 
A wet listening spot? 6001 
Storm 5998 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5998 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5984 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5954 
Polar Opposite ULF 5953 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5941 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5939 
Differently but the same. 5938 
PVC 5937 
The sail test try. 5937 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5937 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5937 
Trial 5936 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5936 
Some explanations 5936 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5935 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5934 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5933 
Acrylate 5932 
Magic blanket 5932 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5931 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5931 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5931 
I have a few options. 5931 
Foam color 5931 
Strange things with upperbass 5931 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5930 
Teatro reform. . . 5930 
The foaming room dilemma. 5929 
Melamine Foam 5929 
Foaming up the cat house 5929 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5929 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5929 
Acoustic revisions… 5928 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5925 
Surprises so far in the new room 5924 
The upperbass in the new room. 5924 
Slight change of hart. 5923 
Camco supply of Boston 5921 
Room acoustics 5921 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5880 
I need to kill dust first. 5880 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5878 
To feed the leeches? 5878 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5877 
Yh 5877 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5877 
DPOLs? 5877 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5877 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5874 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5874 
A HalfPipe solution? 5874 
I absolutely love it. 5874 
Piper work 5873 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5873 
Absorption 5873 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5872 
Cats life ? 5872 
Call me Pussy. 5872 
More about traps 5872 
Acoustic impedance? 5872 
You maybe right 5872 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5872 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5871 
Heavy Curtain 5871 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5870 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5870 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5870 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5867 
Fix speaker move chair? 5866 
Back and forth ceremony 5866 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5865 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5864 
Glass windows 5863 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5862 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5861 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5859 
How to use basement jacks? 5859 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5859 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5859 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5858 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5858 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5857 
Sore eyes... 5856 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5856 
The harvesting week! 5854 
I need an inspiration… 5853 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5852 
Like this? 5852 
Dramatically randomize MF 5852 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5851 
The room eats dynamic 5851 
Diffusers 5851 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5850 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5835 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5834 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5834 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5834 
About Width-Importance balance. 5832 
Letting the music scale up 5831 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5831 
To finish my house décor… 5827 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5826 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5825 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5825 
Calling the gods of music 5825 
Absolutely 5825 
Phase manipulation 5825 
No relation. 5825 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5825 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5825 
Dynamical mismatch 5824 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5824 
Stradiwinerius? 5821 
Dealing with the glass. 5820 
Boston 5820 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5820 
Added mass 5820 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5820 
It is about moderation…. 5820 
To hell with the wine... 5820 
Also for other surafaces 5819 
LEAD 5819 
LEAD & GLASS 5819 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5819 
Read carefully 5819 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5819 
Crooks and morons 5819 
Magiscopios 5818 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5798 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5798 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5797 
The LP setup in the new home. 5746 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5741 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5741 
Pianochord will do! 5741 
Spanyi heaven 5741 
I see no conflict at all. 5741 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5741 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5741 
A year after closing 5733 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5733 
Traveling antimatter 5726 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5720 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5719 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5693 
Cast Iron fireplace 5692 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5692 
The hardcore way 5692 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5656 
This is How It's Done 5655 
Listening room during summer. 5643 
What about those... 5642 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5642 
Reducing A/C Noise 5642 
HVAC the Cat 5642 
Big Ass fan 5641 
Variac dimmers 5641 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5641 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5641 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5573 
Some winter observations. 5464 
That Asian man…. 5433 
The Franz Schubert morning 5407 
Spring.... 5356 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5306 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5277 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5277 
Just good photography? 5277 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5277 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5277 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5276 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5276 
Sports car 5276 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5276 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5276 
Train Positioning 5276 
Kind of what I want 5276 
The lap listening… 5276 
Family Room 5276 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5273 
A super audio room. 5269 
Time Warp! 5269 
A piano in a listening room 5248 
Pianissimo 5248 
The plan in blue. 5248 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5248 
My doubts 5248 
It is exactly what I worry. 5247 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5247 
Musicians at home 5247 
Piano Measurements 5246 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5241 
The next step. 5227 
Midbass horns missing?? 5226 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5216 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5216 
Baby Grand 5215 
Wood floor 5215 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5215 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5215 
Amy’s baby. 5213 
Improvement 5213 
Agree with Scott 5213 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5201 
Integrated casters 5201 
Very nice, thanks. 5201 
Customization 5201 
Sliders 5201 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5194 
Congratulations 5194 
Holes in the floor... 5194 
Tubes and kids 5194 
Sweet spot enlargement 5194 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5192 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5191 
Wood Floors and Water 5191 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5186 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5185 
WAF is for Losers 5185 
WAF: it depends. 5185 
Integration 5184 
Here and there. 5184 
Life after WWIII 5184 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5184 
Cables management. 5182 
Featurizing 5182 
Kids and tubes cont. 5179 
Kid magnet 5179 
Kids and audio 5178 
Radars 5178 
Wow, what the days! 5174 
The comming weekend 5170 
It all was worth it! 5167 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5162 
Here is how it is look. 5162 
Resolving the carpet issue 5162 
Bonfire 5162 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5162 
Proof of concept? 5162 
Geometry 5162 
A view from listening position. 5162 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5162 
Some feedback 5162 
Evening 5162 
I wonder why. 5161 
Rugs and things 5161 
In defense… 5161 
I can’t get it. 5158 
Haze. 5157 
Front wall 5157 
It is very possible. 5157 
It is nice to be back. 5154 
My comfy corner. 5151 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4791 
WMD in house. 4613 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4516 
The third listening spot. 4495 
For sure a very different experience. 4457 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4452 
It's Jfretch's system. 4452 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4451 
Domestic games 4405 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4266 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4266 
Dynamic screening 4266 
Actually this is very good idea! 4266 
Volcanic fabric 4266 
I should have done this. 4264 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4260 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4229 
No worries 4229 
Awesome memories 4229 
Optimization of space 4229 
Child-ish considerations 4226 
Finding peace.... 4220 
"Fencing"? 4219 
I need to build something custom 4219 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4219 
Stressed Skin 4219 
NYC elevators 4219 
Kids toys and quantities. 4219 
Everything is completely reversible 4218 
Racks and things 4218 
Now it looks even more promising! 4218 
Quantity of rods 4218 
Avoiding diagonals 4216 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4215 
That's not fair! 4215 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4215 
Discrimination? 4210 
Vertical configuration 4203 
Impresive ! 4132 
Did you read the site? 4132 
Contact 4132 
Company's name is Rixrax 4132 
Stand 4131 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4087 
End of life headphone system 4087 
Something like this? 4087 
The "Second Living Room" 4087 
Mixing urban & suburban 4087 
Late night listening 4087 
Moving life... 4085 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4085 
A true listening room. 4061 
It started… 4046 
Levels of Interest 4046 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4046 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4046 
I can't not to post it.... 4046 
Do not leave him unattended. 4046 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4046 
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