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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5828 
The first take on the new room. 5822 
New Room, a first shot. 5821 
Wonderful 5821 
Adopted 5820 
The first relaxed night with the room 5818 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5817 
The listening room is ready. 5816 
New Room, a First Shot 5814 
Continue to work with the room 5814 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5814 
Room 5813 
I think it will take another month. 5813 
The Buttressing 5813 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5812 
The new place and the new noises. 5812 
Big listening room 5811 
Screw the "big" rooms 5811 
Big listening rooms 5811 
First reflection points 5810 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5810 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5807 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5806 
Squeezing the floor 5806 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5806 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5806 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5805 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5805 
The new room, the very first listening. 5805 
The 14.5 foot. 5804 
Again… 5803 
Romy's new Playground 5803 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5803 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5803 
For the uninitiated ... 5802 
NH guy 5802 
Room 5802 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5801 
The first base is done 5801 
Reentry time alignment. 5800 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5799 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5799 
Mid bass horn. 5799 
Guess is only a guess… 5799 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5799 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5798 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5798 
Diffusors 5798 
Diffuse injection 5798 
Let analyse why it so 5798 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5798 
Wheel and Deal 5798 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5798 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5798 
I Must Be Missing Something 5798 
I put sliders under my speakers 5797 
ROOM 5796 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5796 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5796 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5796 
No concerns 5796 
Speakers and room 5796 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5795 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5795 
Diaphram 5795 
Phram 5795 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5795 
Perfect piston 5795 
Decorater 5794 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5794 
New morning 5793 
The first take on the room with RTA 5792 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5792 
Axiomatic 5792 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5791 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5791 
The size of the bass. 5791 
Bass Factory 5791 
Crude Level, or something more? 5791 
I will play with it this week…. 5791 
Rent-A 5791 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5791 
Corner horns 5791 
Cheating from below 5791 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5791 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5790 
A possibly overly simplified view 5790 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5790 
Iceberg 5790 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5790 
Why not horn 5790 
A correction…. 5790 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5790 
They are just not related things at all. 5790 
Fertin 5788 
Low resonance is good... 5788 
Et tu, Brute? 5787 
The Room response at LF 5786 
Life On The Ground Floor 5786 
Bass arrays 5786 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5786 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5786 
The super sucks. 5786 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5786 
You may also try 5785 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5785 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5785 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5785 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5785 
60 Hz Resonance 5785 
No notching… so far. 5785 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5784 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5784 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5784 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5784 
Power to the People 5784 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5784 
Aura 5784 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5784 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5784 
All class D is the same 5784 
Interpreting the LF results. 5783 
The Halibut 5783 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5783 
The Big Picture 5783 
Power & ULF channels 5783 
The big picture indeed. 5783 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5783 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5783 
The Power and the Glory 5782 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5782 
I guess I did not get this memo 5782 
French LF drivers 5782 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5782 
(another) French LF approach 5781 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5781 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5781 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5781 
Limpschtick 5781 
Symmetry 5781 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5780 
Room correction 5780 
It migh be more complicated. 5780 
Bass EQ ? 5780 
Agree and not. 5780 
Two "diseases" 5780 
Parametric filters 5780 
Ceiling arrays 5780 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5780 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5780 
The Middle of the Room. 5780 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5780 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5780 
Stop! 5780 
Appendectomy 5780 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5779 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5779 
No Isolation 5779 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5776 
Potential contenders? 5775 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5775 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5775 
Those Crazy Canucks 5771 
Mo' Better Bass 5765 
Bird in the Hand? 5765 
A wet listening spot? 5758 
Storm 5755 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5755 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5741 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5711 
Polar Opposite ULF 5710 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5698 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5696 
Differently but the same. 5695 
PVC 5694 
The sail test try. 5694 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5694 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5694 
Trial 5693 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5693 
Some explanations 5693 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5692 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5691 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5690 
Acrylate 5689 
Magic blanket 5689 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5688 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5688 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5688 
I have a few options. 5688 
Foam color 5688 
Strange things with upperbass 5688 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5687 
Teatro reform. . . 5687 
The foaming room dilemma. 5686 
Melamine Foam 5686 
Foaming up the cat house 5686 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5686 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5686 
Acoustic revisions… 5685 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5682 
Surprises so far in the new room 5681 
The upperbass in the new room. 5681 
Slight change of hart. 5680 
Camco supply of Boston 5678 
Room acoustics 5678 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5637 
I need to kill dust first. 5637 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5635 
To feed the leeches? 5635 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5634 
Yh 5634 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5634 
DPOLs? 5634 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5634 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5631 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5631 
A HalfPipe solution? 5631 
I absolutely love it. 5631 
Piper work 5630 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5630 
Absorption 5630 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5629 
Cats life ? 5629 
Call me Pussy. 5629 
More about traps 5629 
Acoustic impedance? 5629 
You maybe right 5629 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5629 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5628 
Heavy Curtain 5628 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5627 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5627 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5627 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5624 
Fix speaker move chair? 5623 
Back and forth ceremony 5623 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5622 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5621 
Glass windows 5620 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5619 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5618 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5616 
How to use basement jacks? 5616 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5616 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5616 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5615 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5615 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5614 
Sore eyes... 5613 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5613 
The harvesting week! 5611 
I need an inspiration… 5610 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5609 
Like this? 5609 
Dramatically randomize MF 5609 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5608 
The room eats dynamic 5608 
Diffusers 5608 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5607 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5592 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5591 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5591 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5591 
About Width-Importance balance. 5589 
Letting the music scale up 5588 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5588 
To finish my house décor… 5584 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5583 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5582 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5582 
Calling the gods of music 5582 
Absolutely 5582 
Phase manipulation 5582 
No relation. 5582 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5582 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5582 
Dynamical mismatch 5581 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5581 
Stradiwinerius? 5578 
Dealing with the glass. 5577 
Boston 5577 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5577 
Added mass 5577 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5577 
It is about moderation…. 5577 
To hell with the wine... 5577 
Also for other surafaces 5576 
LEAD 5576 
LEAD & GLASS 5576 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5576 
Read carefully 5576 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5576 
Crooks and morons 5576 
Magiscopios 5575 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5555 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5555 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5554 
The LP setup in the new home. 5503 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5498 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5498 
Pianochord will do! 5498 
Spanyi heaven 5498 
I see no conflict at all. 5498 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5498 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5498 
A year after closing 5490 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5490 
Traveling antimatter 5483 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5477 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5476 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5450 
Cast Iron fireplace 5449 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5449 
The hardcore way 5449 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5413 
This is How It's Done 5412 
Listening room during summer. 5400 
What about those... 5399 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5399 
Reducing A/C Noise 5399 
HVAC the Cat 5399 
Big Ass fan 5398 
Variac dimmers 5398 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5398 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5398 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5330 
Some winter observations. 5221 
That Asian man…. 5190 
The Franz Schubert morning 5164 
Spring.... 5113 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5063 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5034 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5034 
Just good photography? 5034 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5034 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5034 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5033 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5033 
Sports car 5033 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5033 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5033 
Train Positioning 5033 
Kind of what I want 5033 
The lap listening… 5033 
Family Room 5033 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5030 
A super audio room. 5026 
Time Warp! 5026 
A piano in a listening room 5005 
Pianissimo 5005 
The plan in blue. 5005 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5005 
My doubts 5005 
It is exactly what I worry. 5004 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5004 
Musicians at home 5004 
Piano Measurements 5003 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4998 
The next step. 4984 
Midbass horns missing?? 4983 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4973 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4973 
Baby Grand 4972 
Wood floor 4972 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4972 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4972 
Amy’s baby. 4970 
Improvement 4970 
Agree with Scott 4970 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4958 
Integrated casters 4958 
Very nice, thanks. 4958 
Customization 4958 
Sliders 4958 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4951 
Congratulations 4951 
Holes in the floor... 4951 
Tubes and kids 4951 
Sweet spot enlargement 4951 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4949 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4948 
Wood Floors and Water 4948 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4943 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4942 
WAF is for Losers 4942 
WAF: it depends. 4942 
Integration 4941 
Here and there. 4941 
Life after WWIII 4941 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4941 
Cables management. 4939 
Featurizing 4939 
Kids and tubes cont. 4936 
Kid magnet 4936 
Kids and audio 4935 
Radars 4935 
Wow, what the days! 4931 
The comming weekend 4927 
It all was worth it! 4924 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4919 
Here is how it is look. 4919 
Resolving the carpet issue 4919 
Bonfire 4919 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4919 
Proof of concept? 4919 
Geometry 4919 
A view from listening position. 4919 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4919 
Some feedback 4919 
Evening 4919 
I wonder why. 4918 
Rugs and things 4918 
In defense… 4918 
I can’t get it. 4915 
Haze. 4914 
Front wall 4914 
It is very possible. 4914 
It is nice to be back. 4911 
My comfy corner. 4908 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4548 
WMD in house. 4370 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4273 
The third listening spot. 4252 
For sure a very different experience. 4214 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4209 
It's Jfretch's system. 4209 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4208 
Domestic games 4162 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4023 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4023 
Dynamic screening 4023 
Actually this is very good idea! 4023 
Volcanic fabric 4023 
I should have done this. 4021 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4017 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3986 
No worries 3986 
Awesome memories 3986 
Optimization of space 3986 
Child-ish considerations 3983 
Finding peace.... 3977 
"Fencing"? 3976 
I need to build something custom 3976 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3976 
Stressed Skin 3976 
NYC elevators 3976 
Kids toys and quantities. 3976 
Everything is completely reversible 3975 
Racks and things 3975 
Now it looks even more promising! 3975 
Quantity of rods 3975 
Avoiding diagonals 3973 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3972 
That's not fair! 3972 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3972 
Discrimination? 3967 
Vertical configuration 3960 
Impresive ! 3889 
Did you read the site? 3889 
Contact 3889 
Company's name is Rixrax 3889 
Stand 3888 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3844 
End of life headphone system 3844 
Something like this? 3844 
The "Second Living Room" 3844 
Mixing urban & suburban 3844 
Late night listening 3844 
Moving life... 3842 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3842 
A true listening room. 3818 
It started… 3803 
Levels of Interest 3803 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3803 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3803 
I can't not to post it.... 3803 
Do not leave him unattended. 3803 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3803 
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