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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6004 
The first take on the new room. 5998 
New Room, a first shot. 5997 
Wonderful 5997 
Adopted 5996 
The first relaxed night with the room 5994 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5993 
The listening room is ready. 5992 
New Room, a First Shot 5990 
Continue to work with the room 5990 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5990 
Room 5989 
I think it will take another month. 5989 
The Buttressing 5989 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5988 
The new place and the new noises. 5988 
Big listening room 5987 
Screw the "big" rooms 5987 
Big listening rooms 5987 
First reflection points 5986 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5986 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5983 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5982 
Squeezing the floor 5982 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5982 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5982 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5981 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5981 
The new room, the very first listening. 5981 
The 14.5 foot. 5980 
Again… 5979 
Romy's new Playground 5979 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5979 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5979 
For the uninitiated ... 5978 
NH guy 5978 
Room 5978 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5977 
The first base is done 5977 
Reentry time alignment. 5976 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5975 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5975 
Mid bass horn. 5975 
Guess is only a guess… 5975 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5975 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5974 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5974 
Diffusors 5974 
Diffuse injection 5974 
Let analyse why it so 5974 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5974 
Wheel and Deal 5974 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5974 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5974 
I Must Be Missing Something 5974 
I put sliders under my speakers 5973 
ROOM 5972 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5972 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5972 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5972 
No concerns 5972 
Speakers and room 5972 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5971 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5971 
Diaphram 5971 
Phram 5971 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5971 
Perfect piston 5971 
Decorater 5970 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5970 
New morning 5969 
The first take on the room with RTA 5968 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5968 
Axiomatic 5968 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5967 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5967 
The size of the bass. 5967 
Bass Factory 5967 
Crude Level, or something more? 5967 
I will play with it this week…. 5967 
Rent-A 5967 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5967 
Corner horns 5967 
Cheating from below 5967 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5967 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5966 
A possibly overly simplified view 5966 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5966 
Iceberg 5966 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5966 
Why not horn 5966 
A correction…. 5966 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5966 
They are just not related things at all. 5966 
Fertin 5964 
Low resonance is good... 5964 
Et tu, Brute? 5963 
The Room response at LF 5962 
Life On The Ground Floor 5962 
Bass arrays 5962 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5962 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5962 
The super sucks. 5962 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5962 
You may also try 5961 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5961 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5961 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5961 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5961 
60 Hz Resonance 5961 
No notching… so far. 5961 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5960 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5960 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5960 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5960 
Power to the People 5960 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5960 
Aura 5960 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5960 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5960 
All class D is the same 5960 
Interpreting the LF results. 5959 
The Halibut 5959 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5959 
The Big Picture 5959 
Power & ULF channels 5959 
The big picture indeed. 5959 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5959 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5959 
The Power and the Glory 5958 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5958 
I guess I did not get this memo 5958 
French LF drivers 5958 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5958 
(another) French LF approach 5957 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5957 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5957 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5957 
Limpschtick 5957 
Symmetry 5957 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5956 
Room correction 5956 
It migh be more complicated. 5956 
Bass EQ ? 5956 
Agree and not. 5956 
Two "diseases" 5956 
Parametric filters 5956 
Ceiling arrays 5956 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5956 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5956 
The Middle of the Room. 5956 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5956 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5956 
Stop! 5956 
Appendectomy 5956 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5955 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5955 
No Isolation 5955 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5952 
Potential contenders? 5951 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5951 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5951 
Those Crazy Canucks 5947 
Mo' Better Bass 5941 
Bird in the Hand? 5941 
A wet listening spot? 5934 
Storm 5931 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5931 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5917 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5887 
Polar Opposite ULF 5886 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5874 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5872 
Differently but the same. 5871 
PVC 5870 
The sail test try. 5870 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5870 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5870 
Trial 5869 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5869 
Some explanations 5869 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5868 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5867 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5866 
Acrylate 5865 
Magic blanket 5865 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5864 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5864 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5864 
I have a few options. 5864 
Foam color 5864 
Strange things with upperbass 5864 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5863 
Teatro reform. . . 5863 
The foaming room dilemma. 5862 
Melamine Foam 5862 
Foaming up the cat house 5862 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5862 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5862 
Acoustic revisions… 5861 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5858 
Surprises so far in the new room 5857 
The upperbass in the new room. 5857 
Slight change of hart. 5856 
Camco supply of Boston 5854 
Room acoustics 5854 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5813 
I need to kill dust first. 5813 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5811 
To feed the leeches? 5811 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5810 
Yh 5810 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5810 
DPOLs? 5810 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5810 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5807 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5807 
A HalfPipe solution? 5807 
I absolutely love it. 5807 
Piper work 5806 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5806 
Absorption 5806 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5805 
Cats life ? 5805 
Call me Pussy. 5805 
More about traps 5805 
Acoustic impedance? 5805 
You maybe right 5805 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5805 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5804 
Heavy Curtain 5804 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5803 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5803 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5803 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5800 
Fix speaker move chair? 5799 
Back and forth ceremony 5799 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5798 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5797 
Glass windows 5796 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5795 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5794 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5792 
How to use basement jacks? 5792 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5792 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5792 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5791 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5791 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5790 
Sore eyes... 5789 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5789 
The harvesting week! 5787 
I need an inspiration… 5786 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5785 
Like this? 5785 
Dramatically randomize MF 5785 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5784 
The room eats dynamic 5784 
Diffusers 5784 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5783 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5768 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5767 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5767 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5767 
About Width-Importance balance. 5765 
Letting the music scale up 5764 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5764 
To finish my house décor… 5760 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5759 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5758 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5758 
Calling the gods of music 5758 
Absolutely 5758 
Phase manipulation 5758 
No relation. 5758 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5758 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5758 
Dynamical mismatch 5757 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5757 
Stradiwinerius? 5754 
Dealing with the glass. 5753 
Boston 5753 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5753 
Added mass 5753 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5753 
It is about moderation…. 5753 
To hell with the wine... 5753 
Also for other surafaces 5752 
LEAD 5752 
LEAD & GLASS 5752 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5752 
Read carefully 5752 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5752 
Crooks and morons 5752 
Magiscopios 5751 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5731 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5731 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5730 
The LP setup in the new home. 5679 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5674 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5674 
Pianochord will do! 5674 
Spanyi heaven 5674 
I see no conflict at all. 5674 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5674 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5674 
A year after closing 5666 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5666 
Traveling antimatter 5659 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5653 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5652 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5626 
Cast Iron fireplace 5625 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5625 
The hardcore way 5625 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5589 
This is How It's Done 5588 
Listening room during summer. 5576 
What about those... 5575 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5575 
Reducing A/C Noise 5575 
HVAC the Cat 5575 
Big Ass fan 5574 
Variac dimmers 5574 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5574 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5574 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5506 
Some winter observations. 5397 
That Asian man…. 5366 
The Franz Schubert morning 5340 
Spring.... 5289 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5239 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5210 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5210 
Just good photography? 5210 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5210 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5210 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5209 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5209 
Sports car 5209 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5209 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5209 
Train Positioning 5209 
Kind of what I want 5209 
The lap listening… 5209 
Family Room 5209 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5206 
A super audio room. 5202 
Time Warp! 5202 
A piano in a listening room 5181 
Pianissimo 5181 
The plan in blue. 5181 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5181 
My doubts 5181 
It is exactly what I worry. 5180 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5180 
Musicians at home 5180 
Piano Measurements 5179 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5174 
The next step. 5160 
Midbass horns missing?? 5159 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5149 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5149 
Baby Grand 5148 
Wood floor 5148 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5148 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5148 
Amy’s baby. 5146 
Improvement 5146 
Agree with Scott 5146 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5134 
Integrated casters 5134 
Very nice, thanks. 5134 
Customization 5134 
Sliders 5134 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5127 
Congratulations 5127 
Holes in the floor... 5127 
Tubes and kids 5127 
Sweet spot enlargement 5127 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5125 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5124 
Wood Floors and Water 5124 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5119 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5118 
WAF is for Losers 5118 
WAF: it depends. 5118 
Integration 5117 
Here and there. 5117 
Life after WWIII 5117 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5117 
Cables management. 5115 
Featurizing 5115 
Kids and tubes cont. 5112 
Kid magnet 5112 
Kids and audio 5111 
Radars 5111 
Wow, what the days! 5107 
The comming weekend 5103 
It all was worth it! 5100 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5095 
Here is how it is look. 5095 
Resolving the carpet issue 5095 
Bonfire 5095 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5095 
Proof of concept? 5095 
Geometry 5095 
A view from listening position. 5095 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5095 
Some feedback 5095 
Evening 5095 
I wonder why. 5094 
Rugs and things 5094 
In defense… 5094 
I can’t get it. 5091 
Haze. 5090 
Front wall 5090 
It is very possible. 5090 
It is nice to be back. 5087 
My comfy corner. 5084 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4724 
WMD in house. 4546 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4449 
The third listening spot. 4428 
For sure a very different experience. 4390 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4385 
It's Jfretch's system. 4385 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4384 
Domestic games 4338 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4199 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4199 
Dynamic screening 4199 
Actually this is very good idea! 4199 
Volcanic fabric 4199 
I should have done this. 4197 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4193 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4162 
No worries 4162 
Awesome memories 4162 
Optimization of space 4162 
Child-ish considerations 4159 
Finding peace.... 4153 
"Fencing"? 4152 
I need to build something custom 4152 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4152 
Stressed Skin 4152 
NYC elevators 4152 
Kids toys and quantities. 4152 
Everything is completely reversible 4151 
Racks and things 4151 
Now it looks even more promising! 4151 
Quantity of rods 4151 
Avoiding diagonals 4149 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4148 
That's not fair! 4148 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4148 
Discrimination? 4143 
Vertical configuration 4136 
Impresive ! 4065 
Did you read the site? 4065 
Contact 4065 
Company's name is Rixrax 4065 
Stand 4064 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4020 
End of life headphone system 4020 
Something like this? 4020 
The "Second Living Room" 4020 
Mixing urban & suburban 4020 
Late night listening 4020 
Moving life... 4018 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4018 
A true listening room. 3994 
It started… 3979 
Levels of Interest 3979 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3979 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3979 
I can't not to post it.... 3979 
Do not leave him unattended. 3979 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3979 
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