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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5946 
The first take on the new room. 5940 
New Room, a first shot. 5939 
Wonderful 5939 
Adopted 5938 
The first relaxed night with the room 5936 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5935 
The listening room is ready. 5934 
New Room, a First Shot 5932 
Continue to work with the room 5932 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5932 
Room 5931 
I think it will take another month. 5931 
The Buttressing 5931 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5930 
The new place and the new noises. 5930 
Big listening room 5929 
Screw the "big" rooms 5929 
Big listening rooms 5929 
First reflection points 5928 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5928 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5925 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5924 
Squeezing the floor 5924 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5924 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5924 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5923 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5923 
The new room, the very first listening. 5923 
The 14.5 foot. 5922 
Again… 5921 
Romy's new Playground 5921 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5921 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5921 
For the uninitiated ... 5920 
NH guy 5920 
Room 5920 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5919 
The first base is done 5919 
Reentry time alignment. 5918 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5917 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5917 
Mid bass horn. 5917 
Guess is only a guess… 5917 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5917 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5916 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5916 
Diffusors 5916 
Diffuse injection 5916 
Let analyse why it so 5916 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5916 
Wheel and Deal 5916 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5916 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5916 
I Must Be Missing Something 5916 
I put sliders under my speakers 5915 
ROOM 5914 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5914 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5914 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5914 
No concerns 5914 
Speakers and room 5914 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5913 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5913 
Diaphram 5913 
Phram 5913 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5913 
Perfect piston 5913 
Decorater 5912 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5912 
New morning 5911 
The first take on the room with RTA 5910 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5910 
Axiomatic 5910 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5909 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5909 
The size of the bass. 5909 
Bass Factory 5909 
Crude Level, or something more? 5909 
I will play with it this week…. 5909 
Rent-A 5909 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5909 
Corner horns 5909 
Cheating from below 5909 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5909 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5908 
A possibly overly simplified view 5908 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5908 
Iceberg 5908 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5908 
Why not horn 5908 
A correction…. 5908 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5908 
They are just not related things at all. 5908 
Fertin 5906 
Low resonance is good... 5906 
Et tu, Brute? 5905 
The Room response at LF 5904 
Life On The Ground Floor 5904 
Bass arrays 5904 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5904 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5904 
The super sucks. 5904 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5904 
You may also try 5903 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5903 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5903 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5903 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5903 
60 Hz Resonance 5903 
No notching… so far. 5903 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5902 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5902 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5902 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5902 
Power to the People 5902 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5902 
Aura 5902 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5902 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5902 
All class D is the same 5902 
Interpreting the LF results. 5901 
The Halibut 5901 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5901 
The Big Picture 5901 
Power & ULF channels 5901 
The big picture indeed. 5901 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5901 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5901 
The Power and the Glory 5900 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5900 
I guess I did not get this memo 5900 
French LF drivers 5900 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5900 
(another) French LF approach 5899 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5899 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5899 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5899 
Limpschtick 5899 
Symmetry 5899 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5898 
Room correction 5898 
It migh be more complicated. 5898 
Bass EQ ? 5898 
Agree and not. 5898 
Two "diseases" 5898 
Parametric filters 5898 
Ceiling arrays 5898 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5898 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5898 
The Middle of the Room. 5898 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5898 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5898 
Stop! 5898 
Appendectomy 5898 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5897 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5897 
No Isolation 5897 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5894 
Potential contenders? 5893 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5893 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5893 
Those Crazy Canucks 5889 
Mo' Better Bass 5883 
Bird in the Hand? 5883 
A wet listening spot? 5876 
Storm 5873 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5873 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5859 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5829 
Polar Opposite ULF 5828 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5816 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5814 
Differently but the same. 5813 
PVC 5812 
The sail test try. 5812 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5812 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5812 
Trial 5811 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5811 
Some explanations 5811 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5810 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5809 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5808 
Acrylate 5807 
Magic blanket 5807 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5806 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5806 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5806 
I have a few options. 5806 
Foam color 5806 
Strange things with upperbass 5806 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5805 
Teatro reform. . . 5805 
The foaming room dilemma. 5804 
Melamine Foam 5804 
Foaming up the cat house 5804 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5804 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5804 
Acoustic revisions… 5803 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5800 
Surprises so far in the new room 5799 
The upperbass in the new room. 5799 
Slight change of hart. 5798 
Camco supply of Boston 5796 
Room acoustics 5796 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5755 
I need to kill dust first. 5755 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5753 
To feed the leeches? 5753 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5752 
Yh 5752 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5752 
DPOLs? 5752 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5752 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5749 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5749 
A HalfPipe solution? 5749 
I absolutely love it. 5749 
Piper work 5748 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5748 
Absorption 5748 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5747 
Cats life ? 5747 
Call me Pussy. 5747 
More about traps 5747 
Acoustic impedance? 5747 
You maybe right 5747 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5747 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5746 
Heavy Curtain 5746 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5745 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5745 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5745 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5742 
Fix speaker move chair? 5741 
Back and forth ceremony 5741 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5740 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5739 
Glass windows 5738 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5737 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5736 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5734 
How to use basement jacks? 5734 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5734 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5734 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5733 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5733 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5732 
Sore eyes... 5731 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5731 
The harvesting week! 5729 
I need an inspiration… 5728 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5727 
Like this? 5727 
Dramatically randomize MF 5727 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5726 
The room eats dynamic 5726 
Diffusers 5726 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5725 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5710 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5709 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5709 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5709 
About Width-Importance balance. 5707 
Letting the music scale up 5706 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5706 
To finish my house décor… 5702 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5701 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5700 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5700 
Calling the gods of music 5700 
Absolutely 5700 
Phase manipulation 5700 
No relation. 5700 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5700 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5700 
Dynamical mismatch 5699 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5699 
Stradiwinerius? 5696 
Dealing with the glass. 5695 
Boston 5695 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5695 
Added mass 5695 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5695 
It is about moderation…. 5695 
To hell with the wine... 5695 
Also for other surafaces 5694 
LEAD 5694 
LEAD & GLASS 5694 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5694 
Read carefully 5694 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5694 
Crooks and morons 5694 
Magiscopios 5693 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5673 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5673 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5672 
The LP setup in the new home. 5621 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5616 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5616 
Pianochord will do! 5616 
Spanyi heaven 5616 
I see no conflict at all. 5616 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5616 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5616 
A year after closing 5608 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5608 
Traveling antimatter 5601 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5595 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5594 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5568 
Cast Iron fireplace 5567 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5567 
The hardcore way 5567 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5531 
This is How It's Done 5530 
Listening room during summer. 5518 
What about those... 5517 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5517 
Reducing A/C Noise 5517 
HVAC the Cat 5517 
Big Ass fan 5516 
Variac dimmers 5516 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5516 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5516 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5448 
Some winter observations. 5339 
That Asian man…. 5308 
The Franz Schubert morning 5282 
Spring.... 5231 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5181 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5152 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5152 
Just good photography? 5152 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5152 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5152 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5151 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5151 
Sports car 5151 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5151 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5151 
Train Positioning 5151 
Kind of what I want 5151 
The lap listening… 5151 
Family Room 5151 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5148 
A super audio room. 5144 
Time Warp! 5144 
A piano in a listening room 5123 
Pianissimo 5123 
The plan in blue. 5123 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5123 
My doubts 5123 
It is exactly what I worry. 5122 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5122 
Musicians at home 5122 
Piano Measurements 5121 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5116 
The next step. 5102 
Midbass horns missing?? 5101 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5091 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5091 
Baby Grand 5090 
Wood floor 5090 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5090 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5090 
Amy’s baby. 5088 
Improvement 5088 
Agree with Scott 5088 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5076 
Integrated casters 5076 
Very nice, thanks. 5076 
Customization 5076 
Sliders 5076 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5069 
Congratulations 5069 
Holes in the floor... 5069 
Tubes and kids 5069 
Sweet spot enlargement 5069 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5067 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5066 
Wood Floors and Water 5066 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5061 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5060 
WAF is for Losers 5060 
WAF: it depends. 5060 
Integration 5059 
Here and there. 5059 
Life after WWIII 5059 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5059 
Cables management. 5057 
Featurizing 5057 
Kids and tubes cont. 5054 
Kid magnet 5054 
Kids and audio 5053 
Radars 5053 
Wow, what the days! 5049 
The comming weekend 5045 
It all was worth it! 5042 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5037 
Here is how it is look. 5037 
Resolving the carpet issue 5037 
Bonfire 5037 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5037 
Proof of concept? 5037 
Geometry 5037 
A view from listening position. 5037 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5037 
Some feedback 5037 
Evening 5037 
I wonder why. 5036 
Rugs and things 5036 
In defense… 5036 
I can’t get it. 5033 
Haze. 5032 
Front wall 5032 
It is very possible. 5032 
It is nice to be back. 5029 
My comfy corner. 5026 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4666 
WMD in house. 4488 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4391 
The third listening spot. 4370 
For sure a very different experience. 4332 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4327 
It's Jfretch's system. 4327 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4326 
Domestic games 4280 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4141 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4141 
Dynamic screening 4141 
Actually this is very good idea! 4141 
Volcanic fabric 4141 
I should have done this. 4139 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4135 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4104 
No worries 4104 
Awesome memories 4104 
Optimization of space 4104 
Child-ish considerations 4101 
Finding peace.... 4095 
"Fencing"? 4094 
I need to build something custom 4094 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4094 
Stressed Skin 4094 
NYC elevators 4094 
Kids toys and quantities. 4094 
Everything is completely reversible 4093 
Racks and things 4093 
Now it looks even more promising! 4093 
Quantity of rods 4093 
Avoiding diagonals 4091 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4090 
That's not fair! 4090 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4090 
Discrimination? 4085 
Vertical configuration 4078 
Impresive ! 4007 
Did you read the site? 4007 
Contact 4007 
Company's name is Rixrax 4007 
Stand 4006 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3962 
End of life headphone system 3962 
Something like this? 3962 
The "Second Living Room" 3962 
Mixing urban & suburban 3962 
Late night listening 3962 
Moving life... 3960 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3960 
A true listening room. 3936 
It started… 3921 
Levels of Interest 3921 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3921 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3921 
I can't not to post it.... 3921 
Do not leave him unattended. 3921 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3921 
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