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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5875 
The first take on the new room. 5869 
New Room, a first shot. 5868 
Wonderful 5868 
Adopted 5867 
The first relaxed night with the room 5865 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5864 
The listening room is ready. 5863 
New Room, a First Shot 5861 
Continue to work with the room 5861 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5861 
Room 5860 
I think it will take another month. 5860 
The Buttressing 5860 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5859 
The new place and the new noises. 5859 
Big listening room 5858 
Screw the "big" rooms 5858 
Big listening rooms 5858 
First reflection points 5857 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5857 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5854 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5853 
Squeezing the floor 5853 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5853 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5853 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5852 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5852 
The new room, the very first listening. 5852 
The 14.5 foot. 5851 
Again… 5850 
Romy's new Playground 5850 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5850 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5850 
For the uninitiated ... 5849 
NH guy 5849 
Room 5849 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5848 
The first base is done 5848 
Reentry time alignment. 5847 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5846 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5846 
Mid bass horn. 5846 
Guess is only a guess… 5846 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5846 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5845 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5845 
Diffusors 5845 
Diffuse injection 5845 
Let analyse why it so 5845 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5845 
Wheel and Deal 5845 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5845 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5845 
I Must Be Missing Something 5845 
I put sliders under my speakers 5844 
ROOM 5843 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5843 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5843 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5843 
No concerns 5843 
Speakers and room 5843 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5842 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5842 
Diaphram 5842 
Phram 5842 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5842 
Perfect piston 5842 
Decorater 5841 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5841 
New morning 5840 
The first take on the room with RTA 5839 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5839 
Axiomatic 5839 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5838 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5838 
The size of the bass. 5838 
Bass Factory 5838 
Crude Level, or something more? 5838 
I will play with it this week…. 5838 
Rent-A 5838 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5838 
Corner horns 5838 
Cheating from below 5838 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5838 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5837 
A possibly overly simplified view 5837 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5837 
Iceberg 5837 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5837 
Why not horn 5837 
A correction…. 5837 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5837 
They are just not related things at all. 5837 
Fertin 5835 
Low resonance is good... 5835 
Et tu, Brute? 5834 
The Room response at LF 5833 
Life On The Ground Floor 5833 
Bass arrays 5833 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5833 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5833 
The super sucks. 5833 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5833 
You may also try 5832 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5832 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5832 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5832 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5832 
60 Hz Resonance 5832 
No notching… so far. 5832 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5831 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5831 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5831 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5831 
Power to the People 5831 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5831 
Aura 5831 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5831 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5831 
All class D is the same 5831 
Interpreting the LF results. 5830 
The Halibut 5830 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5830 
The Big Picture 5830 
Power & ULF channels 5830 
The big picture indeed. 5830 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5830 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5830 
The Power and the Glory 5829 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5829 
I guess I did not get this memo 5829 
French LF drivers 5829 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5829 
(another) French LF approach 5828 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5828 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5828 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5828 
Limpschtick 5828 
Symmetry 5828 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5827 
Room correction 5827 
It migh be more complicated. 5827 
Bass EQ ? 5827 
Agree and not. 5827 
Two "diseases" 5827 
Parametric filters 5827 
Ceiling arrays 5827 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5827 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5827 
The Middle of the Room. 5827 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5827 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5827 
Stop! 5827 
Appendectomy 5827 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5826 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5826 
No Isolation 5826 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5823 
Potential contenders? 5822 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5822 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5822 
Those Crazy Canucks 5818 
Mo' Better Bass 5812 
Bird in the Hand? 5812 
A wet listening spot? 5805 
Storm 5802 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5802 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5788 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5758 
Polar Opposite ULF 5757 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5745 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5743 
Differently but the same. 5742 
PVC 5741 
The sail test try. 5741 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5741 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5741 
Trial 5740 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5740 
Some explanations 5740 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5739 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5738 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5737 
Acrylate 5736 
Magic blanket 5736 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5735 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5735 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5735 
I have a few options. 5735 
Foam color 5735 
Strange things with upperbass 5735 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5734 
Teatro reform. . . 5734 
The foaming room dilemma. 5733 
Melamine Foam 5733 
Foaming up the cat house 5733 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5733 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5733 
Acoustic revisions… 5732 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5729 
Surprises so far in the new room 5728 
The upperbass in the new room. 5728 
Slight change of hart. 5727 
Camco supply of Boston 5725 
Room acoustics 5725 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5684 
I need to kill dust first. 5684 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5682 
To feed the leeches? 5682 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5681 
Yh 5681 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5681 
DPOLs? 5681 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5681 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5678 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5678 
A HalfPipe solution? 5678 
I absolutely love it. 5678 
Piper work 5677 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5677 
Absorption 5677 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5676 
Cats life ? 5676 
Call me Pussy. 5676 
More about traps 5676 
Acoustic impedance? 5676 
You maybe right 5676 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5676 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5675 
Heavy Curtain 5675 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5674 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5674 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5674 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5671 
Fix speaker move chair? 5670 
Back and forth ceremony 5670 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5669 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5668 
Glass windows 5667 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5666 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5665 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5663 
How to use basement jacks? 5663 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5663 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5663 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5662 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5662 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5661 
Sore eyes... 5660 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5660 
The harvesting week! 5658 
I need an inspiration… 5657 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5656 
Like this? 5656 
Dramatically randomize MF 5656 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5655 
The room eats dynamic 5655 
Diffusers 5655 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5654 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5639 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5638 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5638 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5638 
About Width-Importance balance. 5636 
Letting the music scale up 5635 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5635 
To finish my house décor… 5631 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5630 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5629 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5629 
Calling the gods of music 5629 
Absolutely 5629 
Phase manipulation 5629 
No relation. 5629 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5629 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5629 
Dynamical mismatch 5628 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5628 
Stradiwinerius? 5625 
Dealing with the glass. 5624 
Boston 5624 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5624 
Added mass 5624 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5624 
It is about moderation…. 5624 
To hell with the wine... 5624 
Also for other surafaces 5623 
LEAD 5623 
LEAD & GLASS 5623 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5623 
Read carefully 5623 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5623 
Crooks and morons 5623 
Magiscopios 5622 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5602 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5602 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5601 
The LP setup in the new home. 5550 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5545 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5545 
Pianochord will do! 5545 
Spanyi heaven 5545 
I see no conflict at all. 5545 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5545 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5545 
A year after closing 5537 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5537 
Traveling antimatter 5530 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5524 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5523 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5497 
Cast Iron fireplace 5496 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5496 
The hardcore way 5496 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5460 
This is How It's Done 5459 
Listening room during summer. 5447 
What about those... 5446 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5446 
Reducing A/C Noise 5446 
HVAC the Cat 5446 
Big Ass fan 5445 
Variac dimmers 5445 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5445 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5445 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5377 
Some winter observations. 5268 
That Asian man…. 5237 
The Franz Schubert morning 5211 
Spring.... 5160 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5110 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5081 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5081 
Just good photography? 5081 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5081 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5081 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5080 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5080 
Sports car 5080 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5080 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5080 
Train Positioning 5080 
Kind of what I want 5080 
The lap listening… 5080 
Family Room 5080 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5077 
A super audio room. 5073 
Time Warp! 5073 
A piano in a listening room 5052 
Pianissimo 5052 
The plan in blue. 5052 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5052 
My doubts 5052 
It is exactly what I worry. 5051 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5051 
Musicians at home 5051 
Piano Measurements 5050 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5045 
The next step. 5031 
Midbass horns missing?? 5030 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5020 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5020 
Baby Grand 5019 
Wood floor 5019 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5019 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5019 
Amy’s baby. 5017 
Improvement 5017 
Agree with Scott 5017 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5005 
Integrated casters 5005 
Very nice, thanks. 5005 
Customization 5005 
Sliders 5005 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4998 
Congratulations 4998 
Holes in the floor... 4998 
Tubes and kids 4998 
Sweet spot enlargement 4998 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4996 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4995 
Wood Floors and Water 4995 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4990 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4989 
WAF is for Losers 4989 
WAF: it depends. 4989 
Integration 4988 
Here and there. 4988 
Life after WWIII 4988 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4988 
Cables management. 4986 
Featurizing 4986 
Kids and tubes cont. 4983 
Kid magnet 4983 
Kids and audio 4982 
Radars 4982 
Wow, what the days! 4978 
The comming weekend 4974 
It all was worth it! 4971 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4966 
Here is how it is look. 4966 
Resolving the carpet issue 4966 
Bonfire 4966 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4966 
Proof of concept? 4966 
Geometry 4966 
A view from listening position. 4966 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4966 
Some feedback 4966 
Evening 4966 
I wonder why. 4965 
Rugs and things 4965 
In defense… 4965 
I can’t get it. 4962 
Haze. 4961 
Front wall 4961 
It is very possible. 4961 
It is nice to be back. 4958 
My comfy corner. 4955 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4595 
WMD in house. 4417 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4320 
The third listening spot. 4299 
For sure a very different experience. 4261 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4256 
It's Jfretch's system. 4256 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4255 
Domestic games 4209 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4070 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4070 
Dynamic screening 4070 
Actually this is very good idea! 4070 
Volcanic fabric 4070 
I should have done this. 4068 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4064 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4033 
No worries 4033 
Awesome memories 4033 
Optimization of space 4033 
Child-ish considerations 4030 
Finding peace.... 4024 
"Fencing"? 4023 
I need to build something custom 4023 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4023 
Stressed Skin 4023 
NYC elevators 4023 
Kids toys and quantities. 4023 
Everything is completely reversible 4022 
Racks and things 4022 
Now it looks even more promising! 4022 
Quantity of rods 4022 
Avoiding diagonals 4020 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4019 
That's not fair! 4019 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4019 
Discrimination? 4014 
Vertical configuration 4007 
Impresive ! 3936 
Did you read the site? 3936 
Contact 3936 
Company's name is Rixrax 3936 
Stand 3935 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3891 
End of life headphone system 3891 
Something like this? 3891 
The "Second Living Room" 3891 
Mixing urban & suburban 3891 
Late night listening 3891 
Moving life... 3889 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3889 
A true listening room. 3865 
It started… 3850 
Levels of Interest 3850 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3850 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3850 
I can't not to post it.... 3850 
Do not leave him unattended. 3850 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3850 
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