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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5712 
The first take on the new room. 5706 
New Room, a first shot. 5705 
Wonderful 5705 
Adopted 5704 
The first relaxed night with the room 5702 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5701 
The listening room is ready. 5700 
New Room, a First Shot 5698 
Continue to work with the room 5698 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5698 
Room 5697 
I think it will take another month. 5697 
The Buttressing 5697 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5696 
The new place and the new noises. 5696 
Big listening room 5695 
Screw the "big" rooms 5695 
Big listening rooms 5695 
First reflection points 5694 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5694 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5691 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5690 
Squeezing the floor 5690 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5690 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5690 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5689 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5689 
The new room, the very first listening. 5689 
The 14.5 foot. 5688 
Again… 5687 
Romy's new Playground 5687 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5687 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5687 
For the uninitiated ... 5686 
NH guy 5686 
Room 5686 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5685 
The first base is done 5685 
Reentry time alignment. 5684 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5683 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5683 
Mid bass horn. 5683 
Guess is only a guess… 5683 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5683 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5682 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5682 
Diffusors 5682 
Diffuse injection 5682 
Let analyse why it so 5682 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5682 
Wheel and Deal 5682 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5682 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5682 
I Must Be Missing Something 5682 
I put sliders under my speakers 5681 
ROOM 5680 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5680 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5680 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5680 
No concerns 5680 
Speakers and room 5680 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5679 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5679 
Diaphram 5679 
Phram 5679 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5679 
Perfect piston 5679 
Decorater 5678 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5678 
New morning 5677 
The first take on the room with RTA 5676 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5676 
Axiomatic 5676 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5675 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5675 
The size of the bass. 5675 
Bass Factory 5675 
Crude Level, or something more? 5675 
I will play with it this week…. 5675 
Rent-A 5675 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5675 
Corner horns 5675 
Cheating from below 5675 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5675 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5674 
A possibly overly simplified view 5674 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5674 
Iceberg 5674 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5674 
Why not horn 5674 
A correction…. 5674 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5674 
They are just not related things at all. 5674 
Fertin 5672 
Low resonance is good... 5672 
Et tu, Brute? 5671 
The Room response at LF 5670 
Life On The Ground Floor 5670 
Bass arrays 5670 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5670 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5670 
The super sucks. 5670 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5670 
You may also try 5669 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5669 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5669 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5669 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5669 
60 Hz Resonance 5669 
No notching… so far. 5669 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5668 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5668 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5668 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5668 
Power to the People 5668 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5668 
Aura 5668 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5668 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5668 
All class D is the same 5668 
Interpreting the LF results. 5667 
The Halibut 5667 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5667 
The Big Picture 5667 
Power & ULF channels 5667 
The big picture indeed. 5667 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5667 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5667 
The Power and the Glory 5666 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5666 
I guess I did not get this memo 5666 
French LF drivers 5666 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5666 
(another) French LF approach 5665 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5665 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5665 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5665 
Limpschtick 5665 
Symmetry 5665 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5664 
Room correction 5664 
It migh be more complicated. 5664 
Bass EQ ? 5664 
Agree and not. 5664 
Two "diseases" 5664 
Parametric filters 5664 
Ceiling arrays 5664 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5664 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5664 
The Middle of the Room. 5664 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5664 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5664 
Stop! 5664 
Appendectomy 5664 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5663 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5663 
No Isolation 5663 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5660 
Potential contenders? 5659 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5659 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5659 
Those Crazy Canucks 5655 
Mo' Better Bass 5649 
Bird in the Hand? 5649 
A wet listening spot? 5642 
Storm 5639 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5639 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5625 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5595 
Polar Opposite ULF 5594 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5582 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5580 
Differently but the same. 5579 
PVC 5578 
The sail test try. 5578 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5578 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5578 
Trial 5577 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5577 
Some explanations 5577 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5576 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5575 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5574 
Acrylate 5573 
Magic blanket 5573 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5572 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5572 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5572 
I have a few options. 5572 
Foam color 5572 
Strange things with upperbass 5572 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5571 
Teatro reform. . . 5571 
The foaming room dilemma. 5570 
Melamine Foam 5570 
Foaming up the cat house 5570 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5570 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5570 
Acoustic revisions… 5569 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5566 
Surprises so far in the new room 5565 
The upperbass in the new room. 5565 
Slight change of hart. 5564 
Camco supply of Boston 5562 
Room acoustics 5562 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5521 
I need to kill dust first. 5521 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5519 
To feed the leeches? 5519 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5518 
Yh 5518 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5518 
DPOLs? 5518 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5518 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5515 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5515 
A HalfPipe solution? 5515 
I absolutely love it. 5515 
Piper work 5514 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5514 
Absorption 5514 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5513 
Cats life ? 5513 
Call me Pussy. 5513 
More about traps 5513 
Acoustic impedance? 5513 
You maybe right 5513 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5513 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5512 
Heavy Curtain 5512 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5511 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5511 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5511 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5508 
Fix speaker move chair? 5507 
Back and forth ceremony 5507 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5506 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5505 
Glass windows 5504 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5503 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5502 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5500 
How to use basement jacks? 5500 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5500 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5500 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5499 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5499 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5498 
Sore eyes... 5497 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5497 
The harvesting week! 5495 
I need an inspiration… 5494 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5493 
Like this? 5493 
Dramatically randomize MF 5493 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5492 
The room eats dynamic 5492 
Diffusers 5492 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5491 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5476 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5475 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5475 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5475 
About Width-Importance balance. 5473 
Letting the music scale up 5472 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5472 
To finish my house décor… 5468 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5467 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5466 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5466 
Calling the gods of music 5466 
Absolutely 5466 
Phase manipulation 5466 
No relation. 5466 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5466 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5466 
Dynamical mismatch 5465 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5465 
Stradiwinerius? 5462 
Dealing with the glass. 5461 
Boston 5461 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5461 
Added mass 5461 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5461 
It is about moderation…. 5461 
To hell with the wine... 5461 
Also for other surafaces 5460 
LEAD 5460 
LEAD & GLASS 5460 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5460 
Read carefully 5460 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5460 
Crooks and morons 5460 
Magiscopios 5459 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5439 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5439 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5438 
The LP setup in the new home. 5387 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5382 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5382 
Pianochord will do! 5382 
Spanyi heaven 5382 
I see no conflict at all. 5382 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5382 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5382 
A year after closing 5374 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5374 
Traveling antimatter 5367 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5361 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5360 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5334 
Cast Iron fireplace 5333 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5333 
The hardcore way 5333 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5297 
This is How It's Done 5296 
Listening room during summer. 5284 
What about those... 5283 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5283 
Reducing A/C Noise 5283 
HVAC the Cat 5283 
Big Ass fan 5282 
Variac dimmers 5282 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5282 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5282 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5214 
Some winter observations. 5105 
That Asian man…. 5074 
The Franz Schubert morning 5048 
Spring.... 4997 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4947 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4918 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4918 
Just good photography? 4918 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4918 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4918 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4917 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4917 
Sports car 4917 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4917 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4917 
Train Positioning 4917 
Kind of what I want 4917 
The lap listening… 4917 
Family Room 4917 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4914 
A super audio room. 4910 
Time Warp! 4910 
A piano in a listening room 4889 
Pianissimo 4889 
The plan in blue. 4889 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4889 
My doubts 4889 
It is exactly what I worry. 4888 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4888 
Musicians at home 4888 
Piano Measurements 4887 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4882 
The next step. 4868 
Midbass horns missing?? 4867 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4857 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4857 
Baby Grand 4856 
Wood floor 4856 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4856 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4856 
Amy’s baby. 4854 
Improvement 4854 
Agree with Scott 4854 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4842 
Integrated casters 4842 
Very nice, thanks. 4842 
Customization 4842 
Sliders 4842 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4835 
Congratulations 4835 
Holes in the floor... 4835 
Tubes and kids 4835 
Sweet spot enlargement 4835 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4833 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4832 
Wood Floors and Water 4832 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4827 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4826 
WAF is for Losers 4826 
WAF: it depends. 4826 
Integration 4825 
Here and there. 4825 
Life after WWIII 4825 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4825 
Cables management. 4823 
Featurizing 4823 
Kids and tubes cont. 4820 
Kid magnet 4820 
Kids and audio 4819 
Radars 4819 
Wow, what the days! 4815 
The comming weekend 4811 
It all was worth it! 4808 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4803 
Here is how it is look. 4803 
Resolving the carpet issue 4803 
Bonfire 4803 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4803 
Proof of concept? 4803 
Geometry 4803 
A view from listening position. 4803 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4803 
Some feedback 4803 
Evening 4803 
I wonder why. 4802 
Rugs and things 4802 
In defense… 4802 
I can’t get it. 4799 
Haze. 4798 
Front wall 4798 
It is very possible. 4798 
It is nice to be back. 4795 
My comfy corner. 4792 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4432 
WMD in house. 4254 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4157 
The third listening spot. 4136 
For sure a very different experience. 4098 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4093 
It's Jfretch's system. 4093 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4092 
Domestic games 4046 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3907 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3907 
Dynamic screening 3907 
Actually this is very good idea! 3907 
Volcanic fabric 3907 
I should have done this. 3905 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3901 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3870 
No worries 3870 
Awesome memories 3870 
Optimization of space 3870 
Child-ish considerations 3867 
Finding peace.... 3861 
"Fencing"? 3860 
I need to build something custom 3860 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3860 
Stressed Skin 3860 
NYC elevators 3860 
Kids toys and quantities. 3860 
Everything is completely reversible 3859 
Racks and things 3859 
Now it looks even more promising! 3859 
Quantity of rods 3859 
Avoiding diagonals 3857 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3856 
That's not fair! 3856 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3856 
Discrimination? 3851 
Vertical configuration 3844 
Impresive ! 3773 
Did you read the site? 3773 
Contact 3773 
Company's name is Rixrax 3773 
Stand 3772 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3728 
End of life headphone system 3728 
Something like this? 3728 
The "Second Living Room" 3728 
Mixing urban & suburban 3728 
Late night listening 3728 
Moving life... 3726 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3726 
A true listening room. 3702 
It started… 3687 
Levels of Interest 3687 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3687 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3687 
I can't not to post it.... 3687 
Do not leave him unattended. 3687 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3687 
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