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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5884 
The first take on the new room. 5878 
New Room, a first shot. 5877 
Wonderful 5877 
Adopted 5876 
The first relaxed night with the room 5874 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5873 
The listening room is ready. 5872 
New Room, a First Shot 5870 
Continue to work with the room 5870 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5870 
Room 5869 
I think it will take another month. 5869 
The Buttressing 5869 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5868 
The new place and the new noises. 5868 
Big listening room 5867 
Screw the "big" rooms 5867 
Big listening rooms 5867 
First reflection points 5866 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5866 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5863 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5862 
Squeezing the floor 5862 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5862 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5862 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5861 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5861 
The new room, the very first listening. 5861 
The 14.5 foot. 5860 
Again… 5859 
Romy's new Playground 5859 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5859 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5859 
For the uninitiated ... 5858 
NH guy 5858 
Room 5858 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5857 
The first base is done 5857 
Reentry time alignment. 5856 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5855 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5855 
Mid bass horn. 5855 
Guess is only a guess… 5855 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5855 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5854 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5854 
Diffusors 5854 
Diffuse injection 5854 
Let analyse why it so 5854 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5854 
Wheel and Deal 5854 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5854 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5854 
I Must Be Missing Something 5854 
I put sliders under my speakers 5853 
ROOM 5852 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5852 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5852 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5852 
No concerns 5852 
Speakers and room 5852 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5851 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5851 
Diaphram 5851 
Phram 5851 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5851 
Perfect piston 5851 
Decorater 5850 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5850 
New morning 5849 
The first take on the room with RTA 5848 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5848 
Axiomatic 5848 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5847 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5847 
The size of the bass. 5847 
Bass Factory 5847 
Crude Level, or something more? 5847 
I will play with it this week…. 5847 
Rent-A 5847 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5847 
Corner horns 5847 
Cheating from below 5847 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5847 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5846 
A possibly overly simplified view 5846 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5846 
Iceberg 5846 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5846 
Why not horn 5846 
A correction…. 5846 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5846 
They are just not related things at all. 5846 
Fertin 5844 
Low resonance is good... 5844 
Et tu, Brute? 5843 
The Room response at LF 5842 
Life On The Ground Floor 5842 
Bass arrays 5842 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5842 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5842 
The super sucks. 5842 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5842 
You may also try 5841 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5841 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5841 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5841 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5841 
60 Hz Resonance 5841 
No notching… so far. 5841 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5840 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5840 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5840 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5840 
Power to the People 5840 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5840 
Aura 5840 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5840 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5840 
All class D is the same 5840 
Interpreting the LF results. 5839 
The Halibut 5839 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5839 
The Big Picture 5839 
Power & ULF channels 5839 
The big picture indeed. 5839 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5839 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5839 
The Power and the Glory 5838 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5838 
I guess I did not get this memo 5838 
French LF drivers 5838 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5838 
(another) French LF approach 5837 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5837 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5837 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5837 
Limpschtick 5837 
Symmetry 5837 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5836 
Room correction 5836 
It migh be more complicated. 5836 
Bass EQ ? 5836 
Agree and not. 5836 
Two "diseases" 5836 
Parametric filters 5836 
Ceiling arrays 5836 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5836 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5836 
The Middle of the Room. 5836 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5836 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5836 
Stop! 5836 
Appendectomy 5836 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5835 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5835 
No Isolation 5835 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5832 
Potential contenders? 5831 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5831 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5831 
Those Crazy Canucks 5827 
Mo' Better Bass 5821 
Bird in the Hand? 5821 
A wet listening spot? 5814 
Storm 5811 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5811 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5797 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5767 
Polar Opposite ULF 5766 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5754 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5752 
Differently but the same. 5751 
PVC 5750 
The sail test try. 5750 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5750 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5750 
Trial 5749 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5749 
Some explanations 5749 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5748 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5747 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5746 
Acrylate 5745 
Magic blanket 5745 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5744 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5744 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5744 
I have a few options. 5744 
Foam color 5744 
Strange things with upperbass 5744 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5743 
Teatro reform. . . 5743 
The foaming room dilemma. 5742 
Melamine Foam 5742 
Foaming up the cat house 5742 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5742 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5742 
Acoustic revisions… 5741 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5738 
Surprises so far in the new room 5737 
The upperbass in the new room. 5737 
Slight change of hart. 5736 
Camco supply of Boston 5734 
Room acoustics 5734 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5693 
I need to kill dust first. 5693 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5691 
To feed the leeches? 5691 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5690 
Yh 5690 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5690 
DPOLs? 5690 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5690 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5687 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5687 
A HalfPipe solution? 5687 
I absolutely love it. 5687 
Piper work 5686 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5686 
Absorption 5686 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5685 
Cats life ? 5685 
Call me Pussy. 5685 
More about traps 5685 
Acoustic impedance? 5685 
You maybe right 5685 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5685 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5684 
Heavy Curtain 5684 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5683 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5683 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5683 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5680 
Fix speaker move chair? 5679 
Back and forth ceremony 5679 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5678 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5677 
Glass windows 5676 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5675 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5674 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5672 
How to use basement jacks? 5672 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5672 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5672 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5671 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5671 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5670 
Sore eyes... 5669 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5669 
The harvesting week! 5667 
I need an inspiration… 5666 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5665 
Like this? 5665 
Dramatically randomize MF 5665 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5664 
The room eats dynamic 5664 
Diffusers 5664 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5663 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5648 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5647 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5647 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5647 
About Width-Importance balance. 5645 
Letting the music scale up 5644 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5644 
To finish my house décor… 5640 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5639 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5638 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5638 
Calling the gods of music 5638 
Absolutely 5638 
Phase manipulation 5638 
No relation. 5638 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5638 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5638 
Dynamical mismatch 5637 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5637 
Stradiwinerius? 5634 
Dealing with the glass. 5633 
Boston 5633 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5633 
Added mass 5633 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5633 
It is about moderation…. 5633 
To hell with the wine... 5633 
Also for other surafaces 5632 
LEAD 5632 
LEAD & GLASS 5632 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5632 
Read carefully 5632 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5632 
Crooks and morons 5632 
Magiscopios 5631 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5611 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5611 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5610 
The LP setup in the new home. 5559 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5554 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5554 
Pianochord will do! 5554 
Spanyi heaven 5554 
I see no conflict at all. 5554 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5554 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5554 
A year after closing 5546 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5546 
Traveling antimatter 5539 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5533 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5532 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5506 
Cast Iron fireplace 5505 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5505 
The hardcore way 5505 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5469 
This is How It's Done 5468 
Listening room during summer. 5456 
What about those... 5455 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5455 
Reducing A/C Noise 5455 
HVAC the Cat 5455 
Big Ass fan 5454 
Variac dimmers 5454 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5454 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5454 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5386 
Some winter observations. 5277 
That Asian man…. 5246 
The Franz Schubert morning 5220 
Spring.... 5169 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5119 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5090 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5090 
Just good photography? 5090 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5090 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5090 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5089 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5089 
Sports car 5089 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5089 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5089 
Train Positioning 5089 
Kind of what I want 5089 
The lap listening… 5089 
Family Room 5089 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5086 
A super audio room. 5082 
Time Warp! 5082 
A piano in a listening room 5061 
Pianissimo 5061 
The plan in blue. 5061 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5061 
My doubts 5061 
It is exactly what I worry. 5060 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5060 
Musicians at home 5060 
Piano Measurements 5059 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5054 
The next step. 5040 
Midbass horns missing?? 5039 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5029 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5029 
Baby Grand 5028 
Wood floor 5028 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5028 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5028 
Amy’s baby. 5026 
Improvement 5026 
Agree with Scott 5026 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5014 
Integrated casters 5014 
Very nice, thanks. 5014 
Customization 5014 
Sliders 5014 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5007 
Congratulations 5007 
Holes in the floor... 5007 
Tubes and kids 5007 
Sweet spot enlargement 5007 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5005 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5004 
Wood Floors and Water 5004 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4999 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4998 
WAF is for Losers 4998 
WAF: it depends. 4998 
Integration 4997 
Here and there. 4997 
Life after WWIII 4997 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4997 
Cables management. 4995 
Featurizing 4995 
Kids and tubes cont. 4992 
Kid magnet 4992 
Kids and audio 4991 
Radars 4991 
Wow, what the days! 4987 
The comming weekend 4983 
It all was worth it! 4980 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4975 
Here is how it is look. 4975 
Resolving the carpet issue 4975 
Bonfire 4975 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4975 
Proof of concept? 4975 
Geometry 4975 
A view from listening position. 4975 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4975 
Some feedback 4975 
Evening 4975 
I wonder why. 4974 
Rugs and things 4974 
In defense… 4974 
I can’t get it. 4971 
Haze. 4970 
Front wall 4970 
It is very possible. 4970 
It is nice to be back. 4967 
My comfy corner. 4964 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4604 
WMD in house. 4426 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4329 
The third listening spot. 4308 
For sure a very different experience. 4270 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4265 
It's Jfretch's system. 4265 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4264 
Domestic games 4218 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4079 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4079 
Dynamic screening 4079 
Actually this is very good idea! 4079 
Volcanic fabric 4079 
I should have done this. 4077 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4073 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4042 
No worries 4042 
Awesome memories 4042 
Optimization of space 4042 
Child-ish considerations 4039 
Finding peace.... 4033 
"Fencing"? 4032 
I need to build something custom 4032 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4032 
Stressed Skin 4032 
NYC elevators 4032 
Kids toys and quantities. 4032 
Everything is completely reversible 4031 
Racks and things 4031 
Now it looks even more promising! 4031 
Quantity of rods 4031 
Avoiding diagonals 4029 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4028 
That's not fair! 4028 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4028 
Discrimination? 4023 
Vertical configuration 4016 
Impresive ! 3945 
Did you read the site? 3945 
Contact 3945 
Company's name is Rixrax 3945 
Stand 3944 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3900 
End of life headphone system 3900 
Something like this? 3900 
The "Second Living Room" 3900 
Mixing urban & suburban 3900 
Late night listening 3900 
Moving life... 3898 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3898 
A true listening room. 3874 
It started… 3859 
Levels of Interest 3859 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3859 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3859 
I can't not to post it.... 3859 
Do not leave him unattended. 3859 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3859 
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