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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5997 
The first take on the new room. 5991 
New Room, a first shot. 5990 
Wonderful 5990 
Adopted 5989 
The first relaxed night with the room 5987 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5986 
The listening room is ready. 5985 
New Room, a First Shot 5983 
Continue to work with the room 5983 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5983 
Room 5982 
I think it will take another month. 5982 
The Buttressing 5982 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5981 
The new place and the new noises. 5981 
Big listening room 5980 
Screw the "big" rooms 5980 
Big listening rooms 5980 
First reflection points 5979 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5979 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5976 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5975 
Squeezing the floor 5975 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5975 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5975 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5974 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5974 
The new room, the very first listening. 5974 
The 14.5 foot. 5973 
Again… 5972 
Romy's new Playground 5972 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5972 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5972 
For the uninitiated ... 5971 
NH guy 5971 
Room 5971 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5970 
The first base is done 5970 
Reentry time alignment. 5969 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5968 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5968 
Mid bass horn. 5968 
Guess is only a guess… 5968 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5968 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5967 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5967 
Diffusors 5967 
Diffuse injection 5967 
Let analyse why it so 5967 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5967 
Wheel and Deal 5967 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5967 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5967 
I Must Be Missing Something 5967 
I put sliders under my speakers 5966 
ROOM 5965 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5965 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5965 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5965 
No concerns 5965 
Speakers and room 5965 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5964 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5964 
Diaphram 5964 
Phram 5964 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5964 
Perfect piston 5964 
Decorater 5963 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5963 
New morning 5962 
The first take on the room with RTA 5961 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5961 
Axiomatic 5961 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5960 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5960 
The size of the bass. 5960 
Bass Factory 5960 
Crude Level, or something more? 5960 
I will play with it this week…. 5960 
Rent-A 5960 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5960 
Corner horns 5960 
Cheating from below 5960 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5960 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5959 
A possibly overly simplified view 5959 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5959 
Iceberg 5959 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5959 
Why not horn 5959 
A correction…. 5959 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5959 
They are just not related things at all. 5959 
Fertin 5957 
Low resonance is good... 5957 
Et tu, Brute? 5956 
The Room response at LF 5955 
Life On The Ground Floor 5955 
Bass arrays 5955 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5955 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5955 
The super sucks. 5955 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5955 
You may also try 5954 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5954 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5954 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5954 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5954 
60 Hz Resonance 5954 
No notching… so far. 5954 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5953 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5953 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5953 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5953 
Power to the People 5953 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5953 
Aura 5953 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5953 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5953 
All class D is the same 5953 
Interpreting the LF results. 5952 
The Halibut 5952 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5952 
The Big Picture 5952 
Power & ULF channels 5952 
The big picture indeed. 5952 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5952 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5952 
The Power and the Glory 5951 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5951 
I guess I did not get this memo 5951 
French LF drivers 5951 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5951 
(another) French LF approach 5950 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5950 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5950 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5950 
Limpschtick 5950 
Symmetry 5950 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5949 
Room correction 5949 
It migh be more complicated. 5949 
Bass EQ ? 5949 
Agree and not. 5949 
Two "diseases" 5949 
Parametric filters 5949 
Ceiling arrays 5949 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5949 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5949 
The Middle of the Room. 5949 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5949 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5949 
Stop! 5949 
Appendectomy 5949 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5948 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5948 
No Isolation 5948 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5945 
Potential contenders? 5944 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5944 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5944 
Those Crazy Canucks 5940 
Mo' Better Bass 5934 
Bird in the Hand? 5934 
A wet listening spot? 5927 
Storm 5924 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5924 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5910 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5880 
Polar Opposite ULF 5879 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5867 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5865 
Differently but the same. 5864 
PVC 5863 
The sail test try. 5863 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5863 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5863 
Trial 5862 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5862 
Some explanations 5862 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5861 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5860 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5859 
Acrylate 5858 
Magic blanket 5858 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5857 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5857 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5857 
I have a few options. 5857 
Foam color 5857 
Strange things with upperbass 5857 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5856 
Teatro reform. . . 5856 
The foaming room dilemma. 5855 
Melamine Foam 5855 
Foaming up the cat house 5855 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5855 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5855 
Acoustic revisions… 5854 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5851 
Surprises so far in the new room 5850 
The upperbass in the new room. 5850 
Slight change of hart. 5849 
Camco supply of Boston 5847 
Room acoustics 5847 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5806 
I need to kill dust first. 5806 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5804 
To feed the leeches? 5804 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5803 
Yh 5803 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5803 
DPOLs? 5803 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5803 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5800 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5800 
A HalfPipe solution? 5800 
I absolutely love it. 5800 
Piper work 5799 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5799 
Absorption 5799 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5798 
Cats life ? 5798 
Call me Pussy. 5798 
More about traps 5798 
Acoustic impedance? 5798 
You maybe right 5798 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5798 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5797 
Heavy Curtain 5797 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5796 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5796 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5796 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5793 
Fix speaker move chair? 5792 
Back and forth ceremony 5792 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5791 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5790 
Glass windows 5789 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5788 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5787 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5785 
How to use basement jacks? 5785 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5785 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5785 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5784 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5784 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5783 
Sore eyes... 5782 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5782 
The harvesting week! 5780 
I need an inspiration… 5779 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5778 
Like this? 5778 
Dramatically randomize MF 5778 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5777 
The room eats dynamic 5777 
Diffusers 5777 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5776 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5761 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5760 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5760 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5760 
About Width-Importance balance. 5758 
Letting the music scale up 5757 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5757 
To finish my house décor… 5753 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5752 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5751 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5751 
Calling the gods of music 5751 
Absolutely 5751 
Phase manipulation 5751 
No relation. 5751 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5751 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5751 
Dynamical mismatch 5750 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5750 
Stradiwinerius? 5747 
Dealing with the glass. 5746 
Boston 5746 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5746 
Added mass 5746 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5746 
It is about moderation…. 5746 
To hell with the wine... 5746 
Also for other surafaces 5745 
LEAD 5745 
LEAD & GLASS 5745 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5745 
Read carefully 5745 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5745 
Crooks and morons 5745 
Magiscopios 5744 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5724 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5724 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5723 
The LP setup in the new home. 5672 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5667 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5667 
Pianochord will do! 5667 
Spanyi heaven 5667 
I see no conflict at all. 5667 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5667 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5667 
A year after closing 5659 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5659 
Traveling antimatter 5652 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5646 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5645 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5619 
Cast Iron fireplace 5618 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5618 
The hardcore way 5618 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5582 
This is How It's Done 5581 
Listening room during summer. 5569 
What about those... 5568 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5568 
Reducing A/C Noise 5568 
HVAC the Cat 5568 
Big Ass fan 5567 
Variac dimmers 5567 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5567 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5567 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5499 
Some winter observations. 5390 
That Asian man…. 5359 
The Franz Schubert morning 5333 
Spring.... 5282 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5232 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5203 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5203 
Just good photography? 5203 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5203 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5203 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5202 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5202 
Sports car 5202 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5202 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5202 
Train Positioning 5202 
Kind of what I want 5202 
The lap listening… 5202 
Family Room 5202 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5199 
A super audio room. 5195 
Time Warp! 5195 
A piano in a listening room 5174 
Pianissimo 5174 
The plan in blue. 5174 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5174 
My doubts 5174 
It is exactly what I worry. 5173 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5173 
Musicians at home 5173 
Piano Measurements 5172 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5167 
The next step. 5153 
Midbass horns missing?? 5152 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5142 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5142 
Baby Grand 5141 
Wood floor 5141 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5141 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5141 
Amy’s baby. 5139 
Improvement 5139 
Agree with Scott 5139 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5127 
Integrated casters 5127 
Very nice, thanks. 5127 
Customization 5127 
Sliders 5127 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5120 
Congratulations 5120 
Holes in the floor... 5120 
Tubes and kids 5120 
Sweet spot enlargement 5120 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5118 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5117 
Wood Floors and Water 5117 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5112 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5111 
WAF is for Losers 5111 
WAF: it depends. 5111 
Integration 5110 
Here and there. 5110 
Life after WWIII 5110 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5110 
Cables management. 5108 
Featurizing 5108 
Kids and tubes cont. 5105 
Kid magnet 5105 
Kids and audio 5104 
Radars 5104 
Wow, what the days! 5100 
The comming weekend 5096 
It all was worth it! 5093 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5088 
Here is how it is look. 5088 
Resolving the carpet issue 5088 
Bonfire 5088 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5088 
Proof of concept? 5088 
Geometry 5088 
A view from listening position. 5088 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5088 
Some feedback 5088 
Evening 5088 
I wonder why. 5087 
Rugs and things 5087 
In defense… 5087 
I can’t get it. 5084 
Haze. 5083 
Front wall 5083 
It is very possible. 5083 
It is nice to be back. 5080 
My comfy corner. 5077 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4717 
WMD in house. 4539 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4442 
The third listening spot. 4421 
For sure a very different experience. 4383 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4378 
It's Jfretch's system. 4378 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4377 
Domestic games 4331 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4192 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4192 
Dynamic screening 4192 
Actually this is very good idea! 4192 
Volcanic fabric 4192 
I should have done this. 4190 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4186 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4155 
No worries 4155 
Awesome memories 4155 
Optimization of space 4155 
Child-ish considerations 4152 
Finding peace.... 4146 
"Fencing"? 4145 
I need to build something custom 4145 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4145 
Stressed Skin 4145 
NYC elevators 4145 
Kids toys and quantities. 4145 
Everything is completely reversible 4144 
Racks and things 4144 
Now it looks even more promising! 4144 
Quantity of rods 4144 
Avoiding diagonals 4142 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4141 
That's not fair! 4141 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4141 
Discrimination? 4136 
Vertical configuration 4129 
Impresive ! 4058 
Did you read the site? 4058 
Contact 4058 
Company's name is Rixrax 4058 
Stand 4057 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4013 
End of life headphone system 4013 
Something like this? 4013 
The "Second Living Room" 4013 
Mixing urban & suburban 4013 
Late night listening 4013 
Moving life... 4011 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4011 
A true listening room. 3987 
It started… 3972 
Levels of Interest 3972 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3972 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3972 
I can't not to post it.... 3972 
Do not leave him unattended. 3972 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3972 
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