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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5790 
The first take on the new room. 5784 
New Room, a first shot. 5783 
Wonderful 5783 
Adopted 5782 
The first relaxed night with the room 5780 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5779 
The listening room is ready. 5778 
New Room, a First Shot 5776 
Continue to work with the room 5776 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5776 
Room 5775 
I think it will take another month. 5775 
The Buttressing 5775 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5774 
The new place and the new noises. 5774 
Big listening room 5773 
Screw the "big" rooms 5773 
Big listening rooms 5773 
First reflection points 5772 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5772 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5769 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5768 
Squeezing the floor 5768 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5768 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5768 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5767 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5767 
The new room, the very first listening. 5767 
The 14.5 foot. 5766 
Again… 5765 
Romy's new Playground 5765 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5765 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5765 
For the uninitiated ... 5764 
NH guy 5764 
Room 5764 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5763 
The first base is done 5763 
Reentry time alignment. 5762 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5761 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5761 
Mid bass horn. 5761 
Guess is only a guess… 5761 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5761 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5760 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5760 
Diffusors 5760 
Diffuse injection 5760 
Let analyse why it so 5760 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5760 
Wheel and Deal 5760 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5760 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5760 
I Must Be Missing Something 5760 
I put sliders under my speakers 5759 
ROOM 5758 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5758 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5758 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5758 
No concerns 5758 
Speakers and room 5758 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5757 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5757 
Diaphram 5757 
Phram 5757 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5757 
Perfect piston 5757 
Decorater 5756 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5756 
New morning 5755 
The first take on the room with RTA 5754 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5754 
Axiomatic 5754 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5753 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5753 
The size of the bass. 5753 
Bass Factory 5753 
Crude Level, or something more? 5753 
I will play with it this week…. 5753 
Rent-A 5753 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5753 
Corner horns 5753 
Cheating from below 5753 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5753 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5752 
A possibly overly simplified view 5752 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5752 
Iceberg 5752 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5752 
Why not horn 5752 
A correction…. 5752 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5752 
They are just not related things at all. 5752 
Fertin 5750 
Low resonance is good... 5750 
Et tu, Brute? 5749 
The Room response at LF 5748 
Life On The Ground Floor 5748 
Bass arrays 5748 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5748 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5748 
The super sucks. 5748 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5748 
You may also try 5747 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5747 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5747 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5747 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5747 
60 Hz Resonance 5747 
No notching… so far. 5747 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5746 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5746 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5746 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5746 
Power to the People 5746 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5746 
Aura 5746 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5746 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5746 
All class D is the same 5746 
Interpreting the LF results. 5745 
The Halibut 5745 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5745 
The Big Picture 5745 
Power & ULF channels 5745 
The big picture indeed. 5745 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5745 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5745 
The Power and the Glory 5744 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5744 
I guess I did not get this memo 5744 
French LF drivers 5744 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5744 
(another) French LF approach 5743 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5743 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5743 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5743 
Limpschtick 5743 
Symmetry 5743 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5742 
Room correction 5742 
It migh be more complicated. 5742 
Bass EQ ? 5742 
Agree and not. 5742 
Two "diseases" 5742 
Parametric filters 5742 
Ceiling arrays 5742 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5742 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5742 
The Middle of the Room. 5742 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5742 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5742 
Stop! 5742 
Appendectomy 5742 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5741 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5741 
No Isolation 5741 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5738 
Potential contenders? 5737 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5737 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5737 
Those Crazy Canucks 5733 
Mo' Better Bass 5727 
Bird in the Hand? 5727 
A wet listening spot? 5720 
Storm 5717 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5717 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5703 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5673 
Polar Opposite ULF 5672 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5660 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5658 
Differently but the same. 5657 
PVC 5656 
The sail test try. 5656 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5656 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5656 
Trial 5655 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5655 
Some explanations 5655 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5654 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5653 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5652 
Acrylate 5651 
Magic blanket 5651 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5650 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5650 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5650 
I have a few options. 5650 
Foam color 5650 
Strange things with upperbass 5650 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5649 
Teatro reform. . . 5649 
The foaming room dilemma. 5648 
Melamine Foam 5648 
Foaming up the cat house 5648 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5648 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5648 
Acoustic revisions… 5647 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5644 
Surprises so far in the new room 5643 
The upperbass in the new room. 5643 
Slight change of hart. 5642 
Camco supply of Boston 5640 
Room acoustics 5640 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5599 
I need to kill dust first. 5599 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5597 
To feed the leeches? 5597 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5596 
Yh 5596 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5596 
DPOLs? 5596 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5596 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5593 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5593 
A HalfPipe solution? 5593 
I absolutely love it. 5593 
Piper work 5592 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5592 
Absorption 5592 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5591 
Cats life ? 5591 
Call me Pussy. 5591 
More about traps 5591 
Acoustic impedance? 5591 
You maybe right 5591 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5591 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5590 
Heavy Curtain 5590 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5589 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5589 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5589 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5586 
Fix speaker move chair? 5585 
Back and forth ceremony 5585 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5584 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5583 
Glass windows 5582 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5581 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5580 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5578 
How to use basement jacks? 5578 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5578 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5578 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5577 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5577 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5576 
Sore eyes... 5575 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5575 
The harvesting week! 5573 
I need an inspiration… 5572 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5571 
Like this? 5571 
Dramatically randomize MF 5571 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5570 
The room eats dynamic 5570 
Diffusers 5570 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5569 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5554 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5553 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5553 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5553 
About Width-Importance balance. 5551 
Letting the music scale up 5550 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5550 
To finish my house décor… 5546 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5545 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5544 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5544 
Calling the gods of music 5544 
Absolutely 5544 
Phase manipulation 5544 
No relation. 5544 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5544 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5544 
Dynamical mismatch 5543 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5543 
Stradiwinerius? 5540 
Dealing with the glass. 5539 
Boston 5539 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5539 
Added mass 5539 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5539 
It is about moderation…. 5539 
To hell with the wine... 5539 
Also for other surafaces 5538 
LEAD 5538 
LEAD & GLASS 5538 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5538 
Read carefully 5538 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5538 
Crooks and morons 5538 
Magiscopios 5537 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5517 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5517 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5516 
The LP setup in the new home. 5465 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5460 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5460 
Pianochord will do! 5460 
Spanyi heaven 5460 
I see no conflict at all. 5460 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5460 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5460 
A year after closing 5452 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5452 
Traveling antimatter 5445 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5439 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5438 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5412 
Cast Iron fireplace 5411 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5411 
The hardcore way 5411 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5375 
This is How It's Done 5374 
Listening room during summer. 5362 
What about those... 5361 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5361 
Reducing A/C Noise 5361 
HVAC the Cat 5361 
Big Ass fan 5360 
Variac dimmers 5360 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5360 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5360 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5292 
Some winter observations. 5183 
That Asian man…. 5152 
The Franz Schubert morning 5126 
Spring.... 5075 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5025 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4996 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4996 
Just good photography? 4996 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4996 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4996 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4995 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4995 
Sports car 4995 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4995 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4995 
Train Positioning 4995 
Kind of what I want 4995 
The lap listening… 4995 
Family Room 4995 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4992 
A super audio room. 4988 
Time Warp! 4988 
A piano in a listening room 4967 
Pianissimo 4967 
The plan in blue. 4967 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4967 
My doubts 4967 
It is exactly what I worry. 4966 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4966 
Musicians at home 4966 
Piano Measurements 4965 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4960 
The next step. 4946 
Midbass horns missing?? 4945 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4935 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4935 
Baby Grand 4934 
Wood floor 4934 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4934 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4934 
Amy’s baby. 4932 
Improvement 4932 
Agree with Scott 4932 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4920 
Integrated casters 4920 
Very nice, thanks. 4920 
Customization 4920 
Sliders 4920 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4913 
Congratulations 4913 
Holes in the floor... 4913 
Tubes and kids 4913 
Sweet spot enlargement 4913 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4911 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4910 
Wood Floors and Water 4910 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4905 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4904 
WAF is for Losers 4904 
WAF: it depends. 4904 
Integration 4903 
Here and there. 4903 
Life after WWIII 4903 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4903 
Cables management. 4901 
Featurizing 4901 
Kids and tubes cont. 4898 
Kid magnet 4898 
Kids and audio 4897 
Radars 4897 
Wow, what the days! 4893 
The comming weekend 4889 
It all was worth it! 4886 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4881 
Here is how it is look. 4881 
Resolving the carpet issue 4881 
Bonfire 4881 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4881 
Proof of concept? 4881 
Geometry 4881 
A view from listening position. 4881 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4881 
Some feedback 4881 
Evening 4881 
I wonder why. 4880 
Rugs and things 4880 
In defense… 4880 
I can’t get it. 4877 
Haze. 4876 
Front wall 4876 
It is very possible. 4876 
It is nice to be back. 4873 
My comfy corner. 4870 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4510 
WMD in house. 4332 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4235 
The third listening spot. 4214 
For sure a very different experience. 4176 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4171 
It's Jfretch's system. 4171 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4170 
Domestic games 4124 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3985 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3985 
Dynamic screening 3985 
Actually this is very good idea! 3985 
Volcanic fabric 3985 
I should have done this. 3983 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3979 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3948 
No worries 3948 
Awesome memories 3948 
Optimization of space 3948 
Child-ish considerations 3945 
Finding peace.... 3939 
"Fencing"? 3938 
I need to build something custom 3938 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3938 
Stressed Skin 3938 
NYC elevators 3938 
Kids toys and quantities. 3938 
Everything is completely reversible 3937 
Racks and things 3937 
Now it looks even more promising! 3937 
Quantity of rods 3937 
Avoiding diagonals 3935 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3934 
That's not fair! 3934 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3934 
Discrimination? 3929 
Vertical configuration 3922 
Impresive ! 3851 
Did you read the site? 3851 
Contact 3851 
Company's name is Rixrax 3851 
Stand 3850 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3806 
End of life headphone system 3806 
Something like this? 3806 
The "Second Living Room" 3806 
Mixing urban & suburban 3806 
Late night listening 3806 
Moving life... 3804 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3804 
A true listening room. 3780 
It started… 3765 
Levels of Interest 3765 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3765 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3765 
I can't not to post it.... 3765 
Do not leave him unattended. 3765 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3765 
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