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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5881 
The first take on the new room. 5875 
New Room, a first shot. 5874 
Wonderful 5874 
Adopted 5873 
The first relaxed night with the room 5871 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5870 
The listening room is ready. 5869 
New Room, a First Shot 5867 
Continue to work with the room 5867 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5867 
Room 5866 
I think it will take another month. 5866 
The Buttressing 5866 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5865 
The new place and the new noises. 5865 
Big listening room 5864 
Screw the "big" rooms 5864 
Big listening rooms 5864 
First reflection points 5863 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5863 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5860 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5859 
Squeezing the floor 5859 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5859 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5859 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5858 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5858 
The new room, the very first listening. 5858 
The 14.5 foot. 5857 
Again… 5856 
Romy's new Playground 5856 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5856 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5856 
For the uninitiated ... 5855 
NH guy 5855 
Room 5855 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5854 
The first base is done 5854 
Reentry time alignment. 5853 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5852 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5852 
Mid bass horn. 5852 
Guess is only a guess… 5852 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5852 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5851 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5851 
Diffusors 5851 
Diffuse injection 5851 
Let analyse why it so 5851 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5851 
Wheel and Deal 5851 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5851 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5851 
I Must Be Missing Something 5851 
I put sliders under my speakers 5850 
ROOM 5849 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5849 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5849 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5849 
No concerns 5849 
Speakers and room 5849 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5848 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5848 
Diaphram 5848 
Phram 5848 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5848 
Perfect piston 5848 
Decorater 5847 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5847 
New morning 5846 
The first take on the room with RTA 5845 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5845 
Axiomatic 5845 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5844 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5844 
The size of the bass. 5844 
Bass Factory 5844 
Crude Level, or something more? 5844 
I will play with it this week…. 5844 
Rent-A 5844 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5844 
Corner horns 5844 
Cheating from below 5844 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5844 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5843 
A possibly overly simplified view 5843 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5843 
Iceberg 5843 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5843 
Why not horn 5843 
A correction…. 5843 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5843 
They are just not related things at all. 5843 
Fertin 5841 
Low resonance is good... 5841 
Et tu, Brute? 5840 
The Room response at LF 5839 
Life On The Ground Floor 5839 
Bass arrays 5839 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5839 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5839 
The super sucks. 5839 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5839 
You may also try 5838 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5838 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5838 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5838 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5838 
60 Hz Resonance 5838 
No notching… so far. 5838 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5837 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5837 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5837 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5837 
Power to the People 5837 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5837 
Aura 5837 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5837 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5837 
All class D is the same 5837 
Interpreting the LF results. 5836 
The Halibut 5836 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5836 
The Big Picture 5836 
Power & ULF channels 5836 
The big picture indeed. 5836 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5836 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5836 
The Power and the Glory 5835 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5835 
I guess I did not get this memo 5835 
French LF drivers 5835 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5835 
(another) French LF approach 5834 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5834 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5834 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5834 
Limpschtick 5834 
Symmetry 5834 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5833 
Room correction 5833 
It migh be more complicated. 5833 
Bass EQ ? 5833 
Agree and not. 5833 
Two "diseases" 5833 
Parametric filters 5833 
Ceiling arrays 5833 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5833 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5833 
The Middle of the Room. 5833 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5833 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5833 
Stop! 5833 
Appendectomy 5833 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5832 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5832 
No Isolation 5832 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5829 
Potential contenders? 5828 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5828 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5828 
Those Crazy Canucks 5824 
Mo' Better Bass 5818 
Bird in the Hand? 5818 
A wet listening spot? 5811 
Storm 5808 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5808 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5794 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5764 
Polar Opposite ULF 5763 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5751 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5749 
Differently but the same. 5748 
PVC 5747 
The sail test try. 5747 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5747 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5747 
Trial 5746 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5746 
Some explanations 5746 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5745 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5744 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5743 
Acrylate 5742 
Magic blanket 5742 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5741 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5741 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5741 
I have a few options. 5741 
Foam color 5741 
Strange things with upperbass 5741 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5740 
Teatro reform. . . 5740 
The foaming room dilemma. 5739 
Melamine Foam 5739 
Foaming up the cat house 5739 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5739 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5739 
Acoustic revisions… 5738 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5735 
Surprises so far in the new room 5734 
The upperbass in the new room. 5734 
Slight change of hart. 5733 
Camco supply of Boston 5731 
Room acoustics 5731 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5690 
I need to kill dust first. 5690 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5688 
To feed the leeches? 5688 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5687 
Yh 5687 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5687 
DPOLs? 5687 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5687 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5684 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5684 
A HalfPipe solution? 5684 
I absolutely love it. 5684 
Piper work 5683 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5683 
Absorption 5683 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5682 
Cats life ? 5682 
Call me Pussy. 5682 
More about traps 5682 
Acoustic impedance? 5682 
You maybe right 5682 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5682 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5681 
Heavy Curtain 5681 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5680 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5680 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5680 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5677 
Fix speaker move chair? 5676 
Back and forth ceremony 5676 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5675 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5674 
Glass windows 5673 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5672 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5671 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5669 
How to use basement jacks? 5669 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5669 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5669 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5668 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5668 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5667 
Sore eyes... 5666 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5666 
The harvesting week! 5664 
I need an inspiration… 5663 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5662 
Like this? 5662 
Dramatically randomize MF 5662 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5661 
The room eats dynamic 5661 
Diffusers 5661 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5660 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5645 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5644 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5644 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5644 
About Width-Importance balance. 5642 
Letting the music scale up 5641 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5641 
To finish my house décor… 5637 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5636 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5635 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5635 
Calling the gods of music 5635 
Absolutely 5635 
Phase manipulation 5635 
No relation. 5635 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5635 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5635 
Dynamical mismatch 5634 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5634 
Stradiwinerius? 5631 
Dealing with the glass. 5630 
Boston 5630 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5630 
Added mass 5630 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5630 
It is about moderation…. 5630 
To hell with the wine... 5630 
Also for other surafaces 5629 
LEAD 5629 
LEAD & GLASS 5629 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5629 
Read carefully 5629 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5629 
Crooks and morons 5629 
Magiscopios 5628 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5608 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5608 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5607 
The LP setup in the new home. 5556 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5551 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5551 
Pianochord will do! 5551 
Spanyi heaven 5551 
I see no conflict at all. 5551 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5551 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5551 
A year after closing 5543 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5543 
Traveling antimatter 5536 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5530 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5529 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5503 
Cast Iron fireplace 5502 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5502 
The hardcore way 5502 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5466 
This is How It's Done 5465 
Listening room during summer. 5453 
What about those... 5452 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5452 
Reducing A/C Noise 5452 
HVAC the Cat 5452 
Big Ass fan 5451 
Variac dimmers 5451 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5451 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5451 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5383 
Some winter observations. 5274 
That Asian man…. 5243 
The Franz Schubert morning 5217 
Spring.... 5166 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5116 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5087 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5087 
Just good photography? 5087 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5087 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5087 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5086 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5086 
Sports car 5086 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5086 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5086 
Train Positioning 5086 
Kind of what I want 5086 
The lap listening… 5086 
Family Room 5086 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5083 
A super audio room. 5079 
Time Warp! 5079 
A piano in a listening room 5058 
Pianissimo 5058 
The plan in blue. 5058 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5058 
My doubts 5058 
It is exactly what I worry. 5057 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5057 
Musicians at home 5057 
Piano Measurements 5056 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5051 
The next step. 5037 
Midbass horns missing?? 5036 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5026 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5026 
Baby Grand 5025 
Wood floor 5025 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5025 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5025 
Amy’s baby. 5023 
Improvement 5023 
Agree with Scott 5023 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5011 
Integrated casters 5011 
Very nice, thanks. 5011 
Customization 5011 
Sliders 5011 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5004 
Congratulations 5004 
Holes in the floor... 5004 
Tubes and kids 5004 
Sweet spot enlargement 5004 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5002 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5001 
Wood Floors and Water 5001 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4996 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4995 
WAF is for Losers 4995 
WAF: it depends. 4995 
Integration 4994 
Here and there. 4994 
Life after WWIII 4994 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4994 
Cables management. 4992 
Featurizing 4992 
Kids and tubes cont. 4989 
Kid magnet 4989 
Kids and audio 4988 
Radars 4988 
Wow, what the days! 4984 
The comming weekend 4980 
It all was worth it! 4977 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4972 
Here is how it is look. 4972 
Resolving the carpet issue 4972 
Bonfire 4972 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4972 
Proof of concept? 4972 
Geometry 4972 
A view from listening position. 4972 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4972 
Some feedback 4972 
Evening 4972 
I wonder why. 4971 
Rugs and things 4971 
In defense… 4971 
I can’t get it. 4968 
Haze. 4967 
Front wall 4967 
It is very possible. 4967 
It is nice to be back. 4964 
My comfy corner. 4961 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4601 
WMD in house. 4423 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4326 
The third listening spot. 4305 
For sure a very different experience. 4267 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4262 
It's Jfretch's system. 4262 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4261 
Domestic games 4215 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4076 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4076 
Dynamic screening 4076 
Actually this is very good idea! 4076 
Volcanic fabric 4076 
I should have done this. 4074 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4070 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4039 
No worries 4039 
Awesome memories 4039 
Optimization of space 4039 
Child-ish considerations 4036 
Finding peace.... 4030 
"Fencing"? 4029 
I need to build something custom 4029 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4029 
Stressed Skin 4029 
NYC elevators 4029 
Kids toys and quantities. 4029 
Everything is completely reversible 4028 
Racks and things 4028 
Now it looks even more promising! 4028 
Quantity of rods 4028 
Avoiding diagonals 4026 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4025 
That's not fair! 4025 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4025 
Discrimination? 4020 
Vertical configuration 4013 
Impresive ! 3942 
Did you read the site? 3942 
Contact 3942 
Company's name is Rixrax 3942 
Stand 3941 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3897 
End of life headphone system 3897 
Something like this? 3897 
The "Second Living Room" 3897 
Mixing urban & suburban 3897 
Late night listening 3897 
Moving life... 3895 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3895 
A true listening room. 3871 
It started… 3856 
Levels of Interest 3856 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3856 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3856 
I can't not to post it.... 3856 
Do not leave him unattended. 3856 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3856 
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