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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5927 
The first take on the new room. 5921 
New Room, a first shot. 5920 
Wonderful 5920 
Adopted 5919 
The first relaxed night with the room 5917 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5916 
The listening room is ready. 5915 
New Room, a First Shot 5913 
Continue to work with the room 5913 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5913 
Room 5912 
I think it will take another month. 5912 
The Buttressing 5912 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5911 
The new place and the new noises. 5911 
Big listening room 5910 
Screw the "big" rooms 5910 
Big listening rooms 5910 
First reflection points 5909 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5909 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5906 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5905 
Squeezing the floor 5905 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5905 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5905 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5904 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5904 
The new room, the very first listening. 5904 
The 14.5 foot. 5903 
Again… 5902 
Romy's new Playground 5902 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5902 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5902 
For the uninitiated ... 5901 
NH guy 5901 
Room 5901 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5900 
The first base is done 5900 
Reentry time alignment. 5899 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5898 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5898 
Mid bass horn. 5898 
Guess is only a guess… 5898 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5898 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5897 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5897 
Diffusors 5897 
Diffuse injection 5897 
Let analyse why it so 5897 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5897 
Wheel and Deal 5897 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5897 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5897 
I Must Be Missing Something 5897 
I put sliders under my speakers 5896 
ROOM 5895 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5895 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5895 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5895 
No concerns 5895 
Speakers and room 5895 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5894 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5894 
Diaphram 5894 
Phram 5894 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5894 
Perfect piston 5894 
Decorater 5893 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5893 
New morning 5892 
The first take on the room with RTA 5891 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5891 
Axiomatic 5891 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5890 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5890 
The size of the bass. 5890 
Bass Factory 5890 
Crude Level, or something more? 5890 
I will play with it this week…. 5890 
Rent-A 5890 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5890 
Corner horns 5890 
Cheating from below 5890 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5890 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5889 
A possibly overly simplified view 5889 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5889 
Iceberg 5889 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5889 
Why not horn 5889 
A correction…. 5889 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5889 
They are just not related things at all. 5889 
Fertin 5887 
Low resonance is good... 5887 
Et tu, Brute? 5886 
The Room response at LF 5885 
Life On The Ground Floor 5885 
Bass arrays 5885 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5885 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5885 
The super sucks. 5885 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5885 
You may also try 5884 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5884 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5884 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5884 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5884 
60 Hz Resonance 5884 
No notching… so far. 5884 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5883 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5883 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5883 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5883 
Power to the People 5883 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5883 
Aura 5883 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5883 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5883 
All class D is the same 5883 
Interpreting the LF results. 5882 
The Halibut 5882 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5882 
The Big Picture 5882 
Power & ULF channels 5882 
The big picture indeed. 5882 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5882 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5882 
The Power and the Glory 5881 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5881 
I guess I did not get this memo 5881 
French LF drivers 5881 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5881 
(another) French LF approach 5880 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5880 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5880 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5880 
Limpschtick 5880 
Symmetry 5880 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5879 
Room correction 5879 
It migh be more complicated. 5879 
Bass EQ ? 5879 
Agree and not. 5879 
Two "diseases" 5879 
Parametric filters 5879 
Ceiling arrays 5879 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5879 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5879 
The Middle of the Room. 5879 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5879 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5879 
Stop! 5879 
Appendectomy 5879 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5878 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5878 
No Isolation 5878 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5875 
Potential contenders? 5874 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5874 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5874 
Those Crazy Canucks 5870 
Mo' Better Bass 5864 
Bird in the Hand? 5864 
A wet listening spot? 5857 
Storm 5854 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5854 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5840 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5810 
Polar Opposite ULF 5809 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5797 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5795 
Differently but the same. 5794 
PVC 5793 
The sail test try. 5793 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5793 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5793 
Trial 5792 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5792 
Some explanations 5792 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5791 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5790 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5789 
Acrylate 5788 
Magic blanket 5788 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5787 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5787 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5787 
I have a few options. 5787 
Foam color 5787 
Strange things with upperbass 5787 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5786 
Teatro reform. . . 5786 
The foaming room dilemma. 5785 
Melamine Foam 5785 
Foaming up the cat house 5785 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5785 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5785 
Acoustic revisions… 5784 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5781 
Surprises so far in the new room 5780 
The upperbass in the new room. 5780 
Slight change of hart. 5779 
Camco supply of Boston 5777 
Room acoustics 5777 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5736 
I need to kill dust first. 5736 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5734 
To feed the leeches? 5734 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5733 
Yh 5733 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5733 
DPOLs? 5733 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5733 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5730 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5730 
A HalfPipe solution? 5730 
I absolutely love it. 5730 
Piper work 5729 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5729 
Absorption 5729 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5728 
Cats life ? 5728 
Call me Pussy. 5728 
More about traps 5728 
Acoustic impedance? 5728 
You maybe right 5728 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5728 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5727 
Heavy Curtain 5727 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5726 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5726 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5726 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5723 
Fix speaker move chair? 5722 
Back and forth ceremony 5722 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5721 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5720 
Glass windows 5719 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5718 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5717 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5715 
How to use basement jacks? 5715 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5715 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5715 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5714 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5714 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5713 
Sore eyes... 5712 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5712 
The harvesting week! 5710 
I need an inspiration… 5709 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5708 
Like this? 5708 
Dramatically randomize MF 5708 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5707 
The room eats dynamic 5707 
Diffusers 5707 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5706 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5691 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5690 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5690 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5690 
About Width-Importance balance. 5688 
Letting the music scale up 5687 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5687 
To finish my house décor… 5683 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5682 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5681 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5681 
Calling the gods of music 5681 
Absolutely 5681 
Phase manipulation 5681 
No relation. 5681 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5681 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5681 
Dynamical mismatch 5680 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5680 
Stradiwinerius? 5677 
Dealing with the glass. 5676 
Boston 5676 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5676 
Added mass 5676 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5676 
It is about moderation…. 5676 
To hell with the wine... 5676 
Also for other surafaces 5675 
LEAD 5675 
LEAD & GLASS 5675 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5675 
Read carefully 5675 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5675 
Crooks and morons 5675 
Magiscopios 5674 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5654 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5654 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5653 
The LP setup in the new home. 5602 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5597 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5597 
Pianochord will do! 5597 
Spanyi heaven 5597 
I see no conflict at all. 5597 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5597 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5597 
A year after closing 5589 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5589 
Traveling antimatter 5582 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5576 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5575 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5549 
Cast Iron fireplace 5548 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5548 
The hardcore way 5548 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5512 
This is How It's Done 5511 
Listening room during summer. 5499 
What about those... 5498 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5498 
Reducing A/C Noise 5498 
HVAC the Cat 5498 
Big Ass fan 5497 
Variac dimmers 5497 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5497 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5497 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5429 
Some winter observations. 5320 
That Asian man…. 5289 
The Franz Schubert morning 5263 
Spring.... 5212 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5162 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5133 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5133 
Just good photography? 5133 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5133 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5133 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5132 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5132 
Sports car 5132 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5132 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5132 
Train Positioning 5132 
Kind of what I want 5132 
The lap listening… 5132 
Family Room 5132 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5129 
A super audio room. 5125 
Time Warp! 5125 
A piano in a listening room 5104 
Pianissimo 5104 
The plan in blue. 5104 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5104 
My doubts 5104 
It is exactly what I worry. 5103 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5103 
Musicians at home 5103 
Piano Measurements 5102 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5097 
The next step. 5083 
Midbass horns missing?? 5082 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5072 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5072 
Baby Grand 5071 
Wood floor 5071 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5071 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5071 
Amy’s baby. 5069 
Improvement 5069 
Agree with Scott 5069 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5057 
Integrated casters 5057 
Very nice, thanks. 5057 
Customization 5057 
Sliders 5057 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5050 
Congratulations 5050 
Holes in the floor... 5050 
Tubes and kids 5050 
Sweet spot enlargement 5050 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5048 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5047 
Wood Floors and Water 5047 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5042 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5041 
WAF is for Losers 5041 
WAF: it depends. 5041 
Integration 5040 
Here and there. 5040 
Life after WWIII 5040 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5040 
Cables management. 5038 
Featurizing 5038 
Kids and tubes cont. 5035 
Kid magnet 5035 
Kids and audio 5034 
Radars 5034 
Wow, what the days! 5030 
The comming weekend 5026 
It all was worth it! 5023 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5018 
Here is how it is look. 5018 
Resolving the carpet issue 5018 
Bonfire 5018 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5018 
Proof of concept? 5018 
Geometry 5018 
A view from listening position. 5018 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5018 
Some feedback 5018 
Evening 5018 
I wonder why. 5017 
Rugs and things 5017 
In defense… 5017 
I can’t get it. 5014 
Haze. 5013 
Front wall 5013 
It is very possible. 5013 
It is nice to be back. 5010 
My comfy corner. 5007 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4647 
WMD in house. 4469 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4372 
The third listening spot. 4351 
For sure a very different experience. 4313 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4308 
It's Jfretch's system. 4308 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4307 
Domestic games 4261 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4122 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4122 
Dynamic screening 4122 
Actually this is very good idea! 4122 
Volcanic fabric 4122 
I should have done this. 4120 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4116 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4085 
No worries 4085 
Awesome memories 4085 
Optimization of space 4085 
Child-ish considerations 4082 
Finding peace.... 4076 
"Fencing"? 4075 
I need to build something custom 4075 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4075 
Stressed Skin 4075 
NYC elevators 4075 
Kids toys and quantities. 4075 
Everything is completely reversible 4074 
Racks and things 4074 
Now it looks even more promising! 4074 
Quantity of rods 4074 
Avoiding diagonals 4072 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4071 
That's not fair! 4071 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4071 
Discrimination? 4066 
Vertical configuration 4059 
Impresive ! 3988 
Did you read the site? 3988 
Contact 3988 
Company's name is Rixrax 3988 
Stand 3987 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3943 
End of life headphone system 3943 
Something like this? 3943 
The "Second Living Room" 3943 
Mixing urban & suburban 3943 
Late night listening 3943 
Moving life... 3941 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3941 
A true listening room. 3917 
It started… 3902 
Levels of Interest 3902 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3902 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3902 
I can't not to post it.... 3902 
Do not leave him unattended. 3902 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3902 
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