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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5750 
The first take on the new room. 5744 
New Room, a first shot. 5743 
Wonderful 5743 
Adopted 5742 
The first relaxed night with the room 5740 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5739 
The listening room is ready. 5738 
New Room, a First Shot 5736 
Continue to work with the room 5736 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5736 
Room 5735 
I think it will take another month. 5735 
The Buttressing 5735 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5734 
The new place and the new noises. 5734 
Big listening room 5733 
Screw the "big" rooms 5733 
Big listening rooms 5733 
First reflection points 5732 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5732 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5729 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5728 
Squeezing the floor 5728 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5728 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5728 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5727 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5727 
The new room, the very first listening. 5727 
The 14.5 foot. 5726 
Again… 5725 
Romy's new Playground 5725 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5725 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5725 
For the uninitiated ... 5724 
NH guy 5724 
Room 5724 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5723 
The first base is done 5723 
Reentry time alignment. 5722 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5721 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5721 
Mid bass horn. 5721 
Guess is only a guess… 5721 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5721 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5720 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5720 
Diffusors 5720 
Diffuse injection 5720 
Let analyse why it so 5720 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5720 
Wheel and Deal 5720 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5720 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5720 
I Must Be Missing Something 5720 
I put sliders under my speakers 5719 
ROOM 5718 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5718 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5718 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5718 
No concerns 5718 
Speakers and room 5718 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5717 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5717 
Diaphram 5717 
Phram 5717 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5717 
Perfect piston 5717 
Decorater 5716 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5716 
New morning 5715 
The first take on the room with RTA 5714 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5714 
Axiomatic 5714 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5713 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5713 
The size of the bass. 5713 
Bass Factory 5713 
Crude Level, or something more? 5713 
I will play with it this week…. 5713 
Rent-A 5713 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5713 
Corner horns 5713 
Cheating from below 5713 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5713 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5712 
A possibly overly simplified view 5712 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5712 
Iceberg 5712 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5712 
Why not horn 5712 
A correction…. 5712 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5712 
They are just not related things at all. 5712 
Fertin 5710 
Low resonance is good... 5710 
Et tu, Brute? 5709 
The Room response at LF 5708 
Life On The Ground Floor 5708 
Bass arrays 5708 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5708 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5708 
The super sucks. 5708 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5708 
You may also try 5707 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5707 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5707 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5707 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5707 
60 Hz Resonance 5707 
No notching… so far. 5707 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5706 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5706 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5706 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5706 
Power to the People 5706 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5706 
Aura 5706 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5706 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5706 
All class D is the same 5706 
Interpreting the LF results. 5705 
The Halibut 5705 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5705 
The Big Picture 5705 
Power & ULF channels 5705 
The big picture indeed. 5705 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5705 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5705 
The Power and the Glory 5704 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5704 
I guess I did not get this memo 5704 
French LF drivers 5704 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5704 
(another) French LF approach 5703 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5703 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5703 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5703 
Limpschtick 5703 
Symmetry 5703 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5702 
Room correction 5702 
It migh be more complicated. 5702 
Bass EQ ? 5702 
Agree and not. 5702 
Two "diseases" 5702 
Parametric filters 5702 
Ceiling arrays 5702 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5702 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5702 
The Middle of the Room. 5702 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5702 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5702 
Stop! 5702 
Appendectomy 5702 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5701 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5701 
No Isolation 5701 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5698 
Potential contenders? 5697 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5697 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5697 
Those Crazy Canucks 5693 
Mo' Better Bass 5687 
Bird in the Hand? 5687 
A wet listening spot? 5680 
Storm 5677 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5677 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5663 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5633 
Polar Opposite ULF 5632 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5620 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5618 
Differently but the same. 5617 
PVC 5616 
The sail test try. 5616 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5616 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5616 
Trial 5615 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5615 
Some explanations 5615 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5614 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5613 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5612 
Acrylate 5611 
Magic blanket 5611 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5610 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5610 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5610 
I have a few options. 5610 
Foam color 5610 
Strange things with upperbass 5610 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5609 
Teatro reform. . . 5609 
The foaming room dilemma. 5608 
Melamine Foam 5608 
Foaming up the cat house 5608 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5608 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5608 
Acoustic revisions… 5607 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5604 
Surprises so far in the new room 5603 
The upperbass in the new room. 5603 
Slight change of hart. 5602 
Camco supply of Boston 5600 
Room acoustics 5600 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5559 
I need to kill dust first. 5559 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5557 
To feed the leeches? 5557 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5556 
Yh 5556 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5556 
DPOLs? 5556 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5556 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5553 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5553 
A HalfPipe solution? 5553 
I absolutely love it. 5553 
Piper work 5552 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5552 
Absorption 5552 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5551 
Cats life ? 5551 
Call me Pussy. 5551 
More about traps 5551 
Acoustic impedance? 5551 
You maybe right 5551 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5551 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5550 
Heavy Curtain 5550 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5549 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5549 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5549 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5546 
Fix speaker move chair? 5545 
Back and forth ceremony 5545 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5544 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5543 
Glass windows 5542 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5541 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5540 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5538 
How to use basement jacks? 5538 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5538 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5538 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5537 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5537 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5536 
Sore eyes... 5535 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5535 
The harvesting week! 5533 
I need an inspiration… 5532 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5531 
Like this? 5531 
Dramatically randomize MF 5531 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5530 
The room eats dynamic 5530 
Diffusers 5530 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5529 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5514 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5513 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5513 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5513 
About Width-Importance balance. 5511 
Letting the music scale up 5510 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5510 
To finish my house décor… 5506 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5505 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5504 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5504 
Calling the gods of music 5504 
Absolutely 5504 
Phase manipulation 5504 
No relation. 5504 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5504 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5504 
Dynamical mismatch 5503 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5503 
Stradiwinerius? 5500 
Dealing with the glass. 5499 
Boston 5499 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5499 
Added mass 5499 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5499 
It is about moderation…. 5499 
To hell with the wine... 5499 
Also for other surafaces 5498 
LEAD 5498 
LEAD & GLASS 5498 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5498 
Read carefully 5498 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5498 
Crooks and morons 5498 
Magiscopios 5497 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5477 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5477 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5476 
The LP setup in the new home. 5425 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5420 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5420 
Pianochord will do! 5420 
Spanyi heaven 5420 
I see no conflict at all. 5420 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5420 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5420 
A year after closing 5412 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5412 
Traveling antimatter 5405 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5399 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5398 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5372 
Cast Iron fireplace 5371 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5371 
The hardcore way 5371 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5335 
This is How It's Done 5334 
Listening room during summer. 5322 
What about those... 5321 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5321 
Reducing A/C Noise 5321 
HVAC the Cat 5321 
Big Ass fan 5320 
Variac dimmers 5320 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5320 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5320 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5252 
Some winter observations. 5143 
That Asian man…. 5112 
The Franz Schubert morning 5086 
Spring.... 5035 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4985 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4956 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4956 
Just good photography? 4956 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4956 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4956 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4955 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4955 
Sports car 4955 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4955 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4955 
Train Positioning 4955 
Kind of what I want 4955 
The lap listening… 4955 
Family Room 4955 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4952 
A super audio room. 4948 
Time Warp! 4948 
A piano in a listening room 4927 
Pianissimo 4927 
The plan in blue. 4927 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4927 
My doubts 4927 
It is exactly what I worry. 4926 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4926 
Musicians at home 4926 
Piano Measurements 4925 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4920 
The next step. 4906 
Midbass horns missing?? 4905 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4895 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4895 
Baby Grand 4894 
Wood floor 4894 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4894 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4894 
Amy’s baby. 4892 
Improvement 4892 
Agree with Scott 4892 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4880 
Integrated casters 4880 
Very nice, thanks. 4880 
Customization 4880 
Sliders 4880 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4873 
Congratulations 4873 
Holes in the floor... 4873 
Tubes and kids 4873 
Sweet spot enlargement 4873 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4871 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4870 
Wood Floors and Water 4870 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4865 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4864 
WAF is for Losers 4864 
WAF: it depends. 4864 
Integration 4863 
Here and there. 4863 
Life after WWIII 4863 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4863 
Cables management. 4861 
Featurizing 4861 
Kids and tubes cont. 4858 
Kid magnet 4858 
Kids and audio 4857 
Radars 4857 
Wow, what the days! 4853 
The comming weekend 4849 
It all was worth it! 4846 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4841 
Here is how it is look. 4841 
Resolving the carpet issue 4841 
Bonfire 4841 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4841 
Proof of concept? 4841 
Geometry 4841 
A view from listening position. 4841 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4841 
Some feedback 4841 
Evening 4841 
I wonder why. 4840 
Rugs and things 4840 
In defense… 4840 
I can’t get it. 4837 
Haze. 4836 
Front wall 4836 
It is very possible. 4836 
It is nice to be back. 4833 
My comfy corner. 4830 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4470 
WMD in house. 4292 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4195 
The third listening spot. 4174 
For sure a very different experience. 4136 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4131 
It's Jfretch's system. 4131 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4130 
Domestic games 4084 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3945 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3945 
Dynamic screening 3945 
Actually this is very good idea! 3945 
Volcanic fabric 3945 
I should have done this. 3943 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3939 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3908 
No worries 3908 
Awesome memories 3908 
Optimization of space 3908 
Child-ish considerations 3905 
Finding peace.... 3899 
"Fencing"? 3898 
I need to build something custom 3898 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3898 
Stressed Skin 3898 
NYC elevators 3898 
Kids toys and quantities. 3898 
Everything is completely reversible 3897 
Racks and things 3897 
Now it looks even more promising! 3897 
Quantity of rods 3897 
Avoiding diagonals 3895 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3894 
That's not fair! 3894 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3894 
Discrimination? 3889 
Vertical configuration 3882 
Impresive ! 3811 
Did you read the site? 3811 
Contact 3811 
Company's name is Rixrax 3811 
Stand 3810 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3766 
End of life headphone system 3766 
Something like this? 3766 
The "Second Living Room" 3766 
Mixing urban & suburban 3766 
Late night listening 3766 
Moving life... 3764 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3764 
A true listening room. 3740 
It started… 3725 
Levels of Interest 3725 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3725 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3725 
I can't not to post it.... 3725 
Do not leave him unattended. 3725 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3725 
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