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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5722 
The first take on the new room. 5716 
New Room, a first shot. 5715 
Wonderful 5715 
Adopted 5714 
The first relaxed night with the room 5712 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5711 
The listening room is ready. 5710 
New Room, a First Shot 5708 
Continue to work with the room 5708 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5708 
Room 5707 
I think it will take another month. 5707 
The Buttressing 5707 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5706 
The new place and the new noises. 5706 
Big listening room 5705 
Screw the "big" rooms 5705 
Big listening rooms 5705 
First reflection points 5704 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5704 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5701 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5700 
Squeezing the floor 5700 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5700 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5700 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5699 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5699 
The new room, the very first listening. 5699 
The 14.5 foot. 5698 
Again… 5697 
Romy's new Playground 5697 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5697 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5697 
For the uninitiated ... 5696 
NH guy 5696 
Room 5696 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5695 
The first base is done 5695 
Reentry time alignment. 5694 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5693 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5693 
Mid bass horn. 5693 
Guess is only a guess… 5693 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5693 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5692 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5692 
Diffusors 5692 
Diffuse injection 5692 
Let analyse why it so 5692 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5692 
Wheel and Deal 5692 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5692 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5692 
I Must Be Missing Something 5692 
I put sliders under my speakers 5691 
ROOM 5690 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5690 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5690 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5690 
No concerns 5690 
Speakers and room 5690 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5689 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5689 
Diaphram 5689 
Phram 5689 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5689 
Perfect piston 5689 
Decorater 5688 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5688 
New morning 5687 
The first take on the room with RTA 5686 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5686 
Axiomatic 5686 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5685 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5685 
The size of the bass. 5685 
Bass Factory 5685 
Crude Level, or something more? 5685 
I will play with it this week…. 5685 
Rent-A 5685 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5685 
Corner horns 5685 
Cheating from below 5685 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5685 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5684 
A possibly overly simplified view 5684 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5684 
Iceberg 5684 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5684 
Why not horn 5684 
A correction…. 5684 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5684 
They are just not related things at all. 5684 
Fertin 5682 
Low resonance is good... 5682 
Et tu, Brute? 5681 
The Room response at LF 5680 
Life On The Ground Floor 5680 
Bass arrays 5680 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5680 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5680 
The super sucks. 5680 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5680 
You may also try 5679 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5679 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5679 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5679 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5679 
60 Hz Resonance 5679 
No notching… so far. 5679 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5678 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5678 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5678 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5678 
Power to the People 5678 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5678 
Aura 5678 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5678 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5678 
All class D is the same 5678 
Interpreting the LF results. 5677 
The Halibut 5677 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5677 
The Big Picture 5677 
Power & ULF channels 5677 
The big picture indeed. 5677 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5677 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5677 
The Power and the Glory 5676 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5676 
I guess I did not get this memo 5676 
French LF drivers 5676 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5676 
(another) French LF approach 5675 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5675 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5675 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5675 
Limpschtick 5675 
Symmetry 5675 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5674 
Room correction 5674 
It migh be more complicated. 5674 
Bass EQ ? 5674 
Agree and not. 5674 
Two "diseases" 5674 
Parametric filters 5674 
Ceiling arrays 5674 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5674 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5674 
The Middle of the Room. 5674 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5674 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5674 
Stop! 5674 
Appendectomy 5674 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5673 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5673 
No Isolation 5673 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5670 
Potential contenders? 5669 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5669 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5669 
Those Crazy Canucks 5665 
Mo' Better Bass 5659 
Bird in the Hand? 5659 
A wet listening spot? 5652 
Storm 5649 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5649 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5635 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5605 
Polar Opposite ULF 5604 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5592 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5590 
Differently but the same. 5589 
PVC 5588 
The sail test try. 5588 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5588 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5588 
Trial 5587 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5587 
Some explanations 5587 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5586 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5585 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5584 
Acrylate 5583 
Magic blanket 5583 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5582 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5582 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5582 
I have a few options. 5582 
Foam color 5582 
Strange things with upperbass 5582 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5581 
Teatro reform. . . 5581 
The foaming room dilemma. 5580 
Melamine Foam 5580 
Foaming up the cat house 5580 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5580 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5580 
Acoustic revisions… 5579 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5576 
Surprises so far in the new room 5575 
The upperbass in the new room. 5575 
Slight change of hart. 5574 
Camco supply of Boston 5572 
Room acoustics 5572 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5531 
I need to kill dust first. 5531 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5529 
To feed the leeches? 5529 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5528 
Yh 5528 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5528 
DPOLs? 5528 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5528 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5525 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5525 
A HalfPipe solution? 5525 
I absolutely love it. 5525 
Piper work 5524 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5524 
Absorption 5524 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5523 
Cats life ? 5523 
Call me Pussy. 5523 
More about traps 5523 
Acoustic impedance? 5523 
You maybe right 5523 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5523 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5522 
Heavy Curtain 5522 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5521 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5521 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5521 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5518 
Fix speaker move chair? 5517 
Back and forth ceremony 5517 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5516 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5515 
Glass windows 5514 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5513 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5512 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5510 
How to use basement jacks? 5510 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5510 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5510 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5509 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5509 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5508 
Sore eyes... 5507 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5507 
The harvesting week! 5505 
I need an inspiration… 5504 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5503 
Like this? 5503 
Dramatically randomize MF 5503 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5502 
The room eats dynamic 5502 
Diffusers 5502 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5501 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5486 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5485 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5485 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5485 
About Width-Importance balance. 5483 
Letting the music scale up 5482 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5482 
To finish my house décor… 5478 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5477 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5476 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5476 
Calling the gods of music 5476 
Absolutely 5476 
Phase manipulation 5476 
No relation. 5476 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5476 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5476 
Dynamical mismatch 5475 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5475 
Stradiwinerius? 5472 
Dealing with the glass. 5471 
Boston 5471 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5471 
Added mass 5471 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5471 
It is about moderation…. 5471 
To hell with the wine... 5471 
Also for other surafaces 5470 
LEAD 5470 
LEAD & GLASS 5470 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5470 
Read carefully 5470 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5470 
Crooks and morons 5470 
Magiscopios 5469 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5449 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5449 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5448 
The LP setup in the new home. 5397 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5392 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5392 
Pianochord will do! 5392 
Spanyi heaven 5392 
I see no conflict at all. 5392 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5392 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5392 
A year after closing 5384 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5384 
Traveling antimatter 5377 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5371 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5370 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5344 
Cast Iron fireplace 5343 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5343 
The hardcore way 5343 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5307 
This is How It's Done 5306 
Listening room during summer. 5294 
What about those... 5293 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5293 
Reducing A/C Noise 5293 
HVAC the Cat 5293 
Big Ass fan 5292 
Variac dimmers 5292 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5292 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5292 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5224 
Some winter observations. 5115 
That Asian man…. 5084 
The Franz Schubert morning 5058 
Spring.... 5007 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4957 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4928 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4928 
Just good photography? 4928 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4928 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4928 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4927 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4927 
Sports car 4927 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4927 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4927 
Train Positioning 4927 
Kind of what I want 4927 
The lap listening… 4927 
Family Room 4927 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4924 
A super audio room. 4920 
Time Warp! 4920 
A piano in a listening room 4899 
Pianissimo 4899 
The plan in blue. 4899 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4899 
My doubts 4899 
It is exactly what I worry. 4898 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4898 
Musicians at home 4898 
Piano Measurements 4897 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4892 
The next step. 4878 
Midbass horns missing?? 4877 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4867 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4867 
Baby Grand 4866 
Wood floor 4866 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4866 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4866 
Amy’s baby. 4864 
Improvement 4864 
Agree with Scott 4864 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4852 
Integrated casters 4852 
Very nice, thanks. 4852 
Customization 4852 
Sliders 4852 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4845 
Congratulations 4845 
Holes in the floor... 4845 
Tubes and kids 4845 
Sweet spot enlargement 4845 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4843 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4842 
Wood Floors and Water 4842 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4837 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4836 
WAF is for Losers 4836 
WAF: it depends. 4836 
Integration 4835 
Here and there. 4835 
Life after WWIII 4835 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4835 
Cables management. 4833 
Featurizing 4833 
Kids and tubes cont. 4830 
Kid magnet 4830 
Kids and audio 4829 
Radars 4829 
Wow, what the days! 4825 
The comming weekend 4821 
It all was worth it! 4818 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4813 
Here is how it is look. 4813 
Resolving the carpet issue 4813 
Bonfire 4813 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4813 
Proof of concept? 4813 
Geometry 4813 
A view from listening position. 4813 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4813 
Some feedback 4813 
Evening 4813 
I wonder why. 4812 
Rugs and things 4812 
In defense… 4812 
I can’t get it. 4809 
Haze. 4808 
Front wall 4808 
It is very possible. 4808 
It is nice to be back. 4805 
My comfy corner. 4802 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4442 
WMD in house. 4264 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4167 
The third listening spot. 4146 
For sure a very different experience. 4108 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4103 
It's Jfretch's system. 4103 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4102 
Domestic games 4056 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3917 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3917 
Dynamic screening 3917 
Actually this is very good idea! 3917 
Volcanic fabric 3917 
I should have done this. 3915 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3911 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3880 
No worries 3880 
Awesome memories 3880 
Optimization of space 3880 
Child-ish considerations 3877 
Finding peace.... 3871 
"Fencing"? 3870 
I need to build something custom 3870 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3870 
Stressed Skin 3870 
NYC elevators 3870 
Kids toys and quantities. 3870 
Everything is completely reversible 3869 
Racks and things 3869 
Now it looks even more promising! 3869 
Quantity of rods 3869 
Avoiding diagonals 3867 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3866 
That's not fair! 3866 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3866 
Discrimination? 3861 
Vertical configuration 3854 
Impresive ! 3783 
Did you read the site? 3783 
Contact 3783 
Company's name is Rixrax 3783 
Stand 3782 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3738 
End of life headphone system 3738 
Something like this? 3738 
The "Second Living Room" 3738 
Mixing urban & suburban 3738 
Late night listening 3738 
Moving life... 3736 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3736 
A true listening room. 3712 
It started… 3697 
Levels of Interest 3697 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3697 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3697 
I can't not to post it.... 3697 
Do not leave him unattended. 3697 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3697 
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