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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5935 
The first take on the new room. 5929 
New Room, a first shot. 5928 
Wonderful 5928 
Adopted 5927 
The first relaxed night with the room 5925 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5924 
The listening room is ready. 5923 
New Room, a First Shot 5921 
Continue to work with the room 5921 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5921 
Room 5920 
I think it will take another month. 5920 
The Buttressing 5920 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5919 
The new place and the new noises. 5919 
Big listening room 5918 
Screw the "big" rooms 5918 
Big listening rooms 5918 
First reflection points 5917 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5917 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5914 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5913 
Squeezing the floor 5913 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5913 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5913 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5912 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5912 
The new room, the very first listening. 5912 
The 14.5 foot. 5911 
Again… 5910 
Romy's new Playground 5910 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5910 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5910 
For the uninitiated ... 5909 
NH guy 5909 
Room 5909 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5908 
The first base is done 5908 
Reentry time alignment. 5907 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5906 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5906 
Mid bass horn. 5906 
Guess is only a guess… 5906 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5906 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5905 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5905 
Diffusors 5905 
Diffuse injection 5905 
Let analyse why it so 5905 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5905 
Wheel and Deal 5905 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5905 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5905 
I Must Be Missing Something 5905 
I put sliders under my speakers 5904 
ROOM 5903 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5903 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5903 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5903 
No concerns 5903 
Speakers and room 5903 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5902 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5902 
Diaphram 5902 
Phram 5902 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5902 
Perfect piston 5902 
Decorater 5901 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5901 
New morning 5900 
The first take on the room with RTA 5899 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5899 
Axiomatic 5899 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5898 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5898 
The size of the bass. 5898 
Bass Factory 5898 
Crude Level, or something more? 5898 
I will play with it this week…. 5898 
Rent-A 5898 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5898 
Corner horns 5898 
Cheating from below 5898 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5898 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5897 
A possibly overly simplified view 5897 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5897 
Iceberg 5897 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5897 
Why not horn 5897 
A correction…. 5897 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5897 
They are just not related things at all. 5897 
Fertin 5895 
Low resonance is good... 5895 
Et tu, Brute? 5894 
The Room response at LF 5893 
Life On The Ground Floor 5893 
Bass arrays 5893 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5893 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5893 
The super sucks. 5893 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5893 
You may also try 5892 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5892 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5892 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5892 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5892 
60 Hz Resonance 5892 
No notching… so far. 5892 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5891 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5891 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5891 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5891 
Power to the People 5891 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5891 
Aura 5891 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5891 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5891 
All class D is the same 5891 
Interpreting the LF results. 5890 
The Halibut 5890 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5890 
The Big Picture 5890 
Power & ULF channels 5890 
The big picture indeed. 5890 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5890 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5890 
The Power and the Glory 5889 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5889 
I guess I did not get this memo 5889 
French LF drivers 5889 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5889 
(another) French LF approach 5888 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5888 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5888 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5888 
Limpschtick 5888 
Symmetry 5888 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5887 
Room correction 5887 
It migh be more complicated. 5887 
Bass EQ ? 5887 
Agree and not. 5887 
Two "diseases" 5887 
Parametric filters 5887 
Ceiling arrays 5887 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5887 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5887 
The Middle of the Room. 5887 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5887 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5887 
Stop! 5887 
Appendectomy 5887 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5886 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5886 
No Isolation 5886 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5883 
Potential contenders? 5882 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5882 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5882 
Those Crazy Canucks 5878 
Mo' Better Bass 5872 
Bird in the Hand? 5872 
A wet listening spot? 5865 
Storm 5862 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5862 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5848 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5818 
Polar Opposite ULF 5817 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5805 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5803 
Differently but the same. 5802 
PVC 5801 
The sail test try. 5801 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5801 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5801 
Trial 5800 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5800 
Some explanations 5800 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5799 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5798 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5797 
Acrylate 5796 
Magic blanket 5796 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5795 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5795 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5795 
I have a few options. 5795 
Foam color 5795 
Strange things with upperbass 5795 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5794 
Teatro reform. . . 5794 
The foaming room dilemma. 5793 
Melamine Foam 5793 
Foaming up the cat house 5793 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5793 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5793 
Acoustic revisions… 5792 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5789 
Surprises so far in the new room 5788 
The upperbass in the new room. 5788 
Slight change of hart. 5787 
Camco supply of Boston 5785 
Room acoustics 5785 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5744 
I need to kill dust first. 5744 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5742 
To feed the leeches? 5742 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5741 
Yh 5741 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5741 
DPOLs? 5741 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5741 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5738 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5738 
A HalfPipe solution? 5738 
I absolutely love it. 5738 
Piper work 5737 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5737 
Absorption 5737 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5736 
Cats life ? 5736 
Call me Pussy. 5736 
More about traps 5736 
Acoustic impedance? 5736 
You maybe right 5736 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5736 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5735 
Heavy Curtain 5735 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5734 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5734 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5734 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5731 
Fix speaker move chair? 5730 
Back and forth ceremony 5730 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5729 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5728 
Glass windows 5727 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5726 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5725 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5723 
How to use basement jacks? 5723 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5723 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5723 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5722 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5722 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5721 
Sore eyes... 5720 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5720 
The harvesting week! 5718 
I need an inspiration… 5717 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5716 
Like this? 5716 
Dramatically randomize MF 5716 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5715 
The room eats dynamic 5715 
Diffusers 5715 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5714 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5699 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5698 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5698 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5698 
About Width-Importance balance. 5696 
Letting the music scale up 5695 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5695 
To finish my house décor… 5691 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5690 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5689 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5689 
Calling the gods of music 5689 
Absolutely 5689 
Phase manipulation 5689 
No relation. 5689 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5689 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5689 
Dynamical mismatch 5688 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5688 
Stradiwinerius? 5685 
Dealing with the glass. 5684 
Boston 5684 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5684 
Added mass 5684 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5684 
It is about moderation…. 5684 
To hell with the wine... 5684 
Also for other surafaces 5683 
LEAD 5683 
LEAD & GLASS 5683 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5683 
Read carefully 5683 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5683 
Crooks and morons 5683 
Magiscopios 5682 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5662 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5662 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5661 
The LP setup in the new home. 5610 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5605 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5605 
Pianochord will do! 5605 
Spanyi heaven 5605 
I see no conflict at all. 5605 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5605 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5605 
A year after closing 5597 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5597 
Traveling antimatter 5590 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5584 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5583 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5557 
Cast Iron fireplace 5556 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5556 
The hardcore way 5556 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5520 
This is How It's Done 5519 
Listening room during summer. 5507 
What about those... 5506 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5506 
Reducing A/C Noise 5506 
HVAC the Cat 5506 
Big Ass fan 5505 
Variac dimmers 5505 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5505 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5505 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5437 
Some winter observations. 5328 
That Asian man…. 5297 
The Franz Schubert morning 5271 
Spring.... 5220 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5170 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5141 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5141 
Just good photography? 5141 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5141 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5141 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5140 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5140 
Sports car 5140 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5140 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5140 
Train Positioning 5140 
Kind of what I want 5140 
The lap listening… 5140 
Family Room 5140 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5137 
A super audio room. 5133 
Time Warp! 5133 
A piano in a listening room 5112 
Pianissimo 5112 
The plan in blue. 5112 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5112 
My doubts 5112 
It is exactly what I worry. 5111 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5111 
Musicians at home 5111 
Piano Measurements 5110 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5105 
The next step. 5091 
Midbass horns missing?? 5090 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5080 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5080 
Baby Grand 5079 
Wood floor 5079 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5079 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5079 
Amy’s baby. 5077 
Improvement 5077 
Agree with Scott 5077 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5065 
Integrated casters 5065 
Very nice, thanks. 5065 
Customization 5065 
Sliders 5065 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5058 
Congratulations 5058 
Holes in the floor... 5058 
Tubes and kids 5058 
Sweet spot enlargement 5058 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5056 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5055 
Wood Floors and Water 5055 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5050 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5049 
WAF is for Losers 5049 
WAF: it depends. 5049 
Integration 5048 
Here and there. 5048 
Life after WWIII 5048 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5048 
Cables management. 5046 
Featurizing 5046 
Kids and tubes cont. 5043 
Kid magnet 5043 
Kids and audio 5042 
Radars 5042 
Wow, what the days! 5038 
The comming weekend 5034 
It all was worth it! 5031 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5026 
Here is how it is look. 5026 
Resolving the carpet issue 5026 
Bonfire 5026 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5026 
Proof of concept? 5026 
Geometry 5026 
A view from listening position. 5026 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5026 
Some feedback 5026 
Evening 5026 
I wonder why. 5025 
Rugs and things 5025 
In defense… 5025 
I can’t get it. 5022 
Haze. 5021 
Front wall 5021 
It is very possible. 5021 
It is nice to be back. 5018 
My comfy corner. 5015 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4655 
WMD in house. 4477 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4380 
The third listening spot. 4359 
For sure a very different experience. 4321 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4316 
It's Jfretch's system. 4316 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4315 
Domestic games 4269 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4130 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4130 
Dynamic screening 4130 
Actually this is very good idea! 4130 
Volcanic fabric 4130 
I should have done this. 4128 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4124 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4093 
No worries 4093 
Awesome memories 4093 
Optimization of space 4093 
Child-ish considerations 4090 
Finding peace.... 4084 
"Fencing"? 4083 
I need to build something custom 4083 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4083 
Stressed Skin 4083 
NYC elevators 4083 
Kids toys and quantities. 4083 
Everything is completely reversible 4082 
Racks and things 4082 
Now it looks even more promising! 4082 
Quantity of rods 4082 
Avoiding diagonals 4080 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4079 
That's not fair! 4079 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4079 
Discrimination? 4074 
Vertical configuration 4067 
Impresive ! 3996 
Did you read the site? 3996 
Contact 3996 
Company's name is Rixrax 3996 
Stand 3995 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3951 
End of life headphone system 3951 
Something like this? 3951 
The "Second Living Room" 3951 
Mixing urban & suburban 3951 
Late night listening 3951 
Moving life... 3949 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3949 
A true listening room. 3925 
It started… 3910 
Levels of Interest 3910 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3910 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3910 
I can't not to post it.... 3910 
Do not leave him unattended. 3910 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3910 
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