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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5848 
The first take on the new room. 5842 
New Room, a first shot. 5841 
Wonderful 5841 
Adopted 5840 
The first relaxed night with the room 5838 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5837 
The listening room is ready. 5836 
New Room, a First Shot 5834 
Continue to work with the room 5834 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5834 
Room 5833 
I think it will take another month. 5833 
The Buttressing 5833 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5832 
The new place and the new noises. 5832 
Big listening room 5831 
Screw the "big" rooms 5831 
Big listening rooms 5831 
First reflection points 5830 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5830 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5827 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5826 
Squeezing the floor 5826 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5826 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5826 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5825 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5825 
The new room, the very first listening. 5825 
The 14.5 foot. 5824 
Again… 5823 
Romy's new Playground 5823 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5823 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5823 
For the uninitiated ... 5822 
NH guy 5822 
Room 5822 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5821 
The first base is done 5821 
Reentry time alignment. 5820 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5819 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5819 
Mid bass horn. 5819 
Guess is only a guess… 5819 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5819 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5818 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5818 
Diffusors 5818 
Diffuse injection 5818 
Let analyse why it so 5818 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5818 
Wheel and Deal 5818 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5818 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5818 
I Must Be Missing Something 5818 
I put sliders under my speakers 5817 
ROOM 5816 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5816 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5816 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5816 
No concerns 5816 
Speakers and room 5816 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5815 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5815 
Diaphram 5815 
Phram 5815 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5815 
Perfect piston 5815 
Decorater 5814 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5814 
New morning 5813 
The first take on the room with RTA 5812 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5812 
Axiomatic 5812 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5811 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5811 
The size of the bass. 5811 
Bass Factory 5811 
Crude Level, or something more? 5811 
I will play with it this week…. 5811 
Rent-A 5811 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5811 
Corner horns 5811 
Cheating from below 5811 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5811 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5810 
A possibly overly simplified view 5810 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5810 
Iceberg 5810 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5810 
Why not horn 5810 
A correction…. 5810 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5810 
They are just not related things at all. 5810 
Fertin 5808 
Low resonance is good... 5808 
Et tu, Brute? 5807 
The Room response at LF 5806 
Life On The Ground Floor 5806 
Bass arrays 5806 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5806 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5806 
The super sucks. 5806 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5806 
You may also try 5805 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5805 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5805 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5805 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5805 
60 Hz Resonance 5805 
No notching… so far. 5805 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5804 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5804 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5804 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5804 
Power to the People 5804 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5804 
Aura 5804 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5804 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5804 
All class D is the same 5804 
Interpreting the LF results. 5803 
The Halibut 5803 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5803 
The Big Picture 5803 
Power & ULF channels 5803 
The big picture indeed. 5803 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5803 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5803 
The Power and the Glory 5802 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5802 
I guess I did not get this memo 5802 
French LF drivers 5802 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5802 
(another) French LF approach 5801 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5801 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5801 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5801 
Limpschtick 5801 
Symmetry 5801 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5800 
Room correction 5800 
It migh be more complicated. 5800 
Bass EQ ? 5800 
Agree and not. 5800 
Two "diseases" 5800 
Parametric filters 5800 
Ceiling arrays 5800 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5800 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5800 
The Middle of the Room. 5800 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5800 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5800 
Stop! 5800 
Appendectomy 5800 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5799 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5799 
No Isolation 5799 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5796 
Potential contenders? 5795 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5795 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5795 
Those Crazy Canucks 5791 
Mo' Better Bass 5785 
Bird in the Hand? 5785 
A wet listening spot? 5778 
Storm 5775 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5775 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5761 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5731 
Polar Opposite ULF 5730 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5718 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5716 
Differently but the same. 5715 
PVC 5714 
The sail test try. 5714 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5714 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5714 
Trial 5713 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5713 
Some explanations 5713 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5712 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5711 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5710 
Acrylate 5709 
Magic blanket 5709 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5708 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5708 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5708 
I have a few options. 5708 
Foam color 5708 
Strange things with upperbass 5708 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5707 
Teatro reform. . . 5707 
The foaming room dilemma. 5706 
Melamine Foam 5706 
Foaming up the cat house 5706 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5706 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5706 
Acoustic revisions… 5705 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5702 
Surprises so far in the new room 5701 
The upperbass in the new room. 5701 
Slight change of hart. 5700 
Camco supply of Boston 5698 
Room acoustics 5698 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5657 
I need to kill dust first. 5657 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5655 
To feed the leeches? 5655 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5654 
Yh 5654 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5654 
DPOLs? 5654 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5654 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5651 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5651 
A HalfPipe solution? 5651 
I absolutely love it. 5651 
Piper work 5650 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5650 
Absorption 5650 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5649 
Cats life ? 5649 
Call me Pussy. 5649 
More about traps 5649 
Acoustic impedance? 5649 
You maybe right 5649 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5649 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5648 
Heavy Curtain 5648 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5647 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5647 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5647 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5644 
Fix speaker move chair? 5643 
Back and forth ceremony 5643 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5642 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5641 
Glass windows 5640 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5639 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5638 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5636 
How to use basement jacks? 5636 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5636 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5636 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5635 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5635 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5634 
Sore eyes... 5633 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5633 
The harvesting week! 5631 
I need an inspiration… 5630 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5629 
Like this? 5629 
Dramatically randomize MF 5629 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5628 
The room eats dynamic 5628 
Diffusers 5628 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5627 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5612 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5611 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5611 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5611 
About Width-Importance balance. 5609 
Letting the music scale up 5608 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5608 
To finish my house décor… 5604 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5603 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5602 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5602 
Calling the gods of music 5602 
Absolutely 5602 
Phase manipulation 5602 
No relation. 5602 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5602 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5602 
Dynamical mismatch 5601 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5601 
Stradiwinerius? 5598 
Dealing with the glass. 5597 
Boston 5597 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5597 
Added mass 5597 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5597 
It is about moderation…. 5597 
To hell with the wine... 5597 
Also for other surafaces 5596 
LEAD 5596 
LEAD & GLASS 5596 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5596 
Read carefully 5596 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5596 
Crooks and morons 5596 
Magiscopios 5595 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5575 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5575 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5574 
The LP setup in the new home. 5523 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5518 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5518 
Pianochord will do! 5518 
Spanyi heaven 5518 
I see no conflict at all. 5518 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5518 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5518 
A year after closing 5510 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5510 
Traveling antimatter 5503 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5497 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5496 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5470 
Cast Iron fireplace 5469 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5469 
The hardcore way 5469 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5433 
This is How It's Done 5432 
Listening room during summer. 5420 
What about those... 5419 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5419 
Reducing A/C Noise 5419 
HVAC the Cat 5419 
Big Ass fan 5418 
Variac dimmers 5418 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5418 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5418 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5350 
Some winter observations. 5241 
That Asian man…. 5210 
The Franz Schubert morning 5184 
Spring.... 5133 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5083 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5054 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5054 
Just good photography? 5054 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5054 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5054 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5053 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5053 
Sports car 5053 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5053 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5053 
Train Positioning 5053 
Kind of what I want 5053 
The lap listening… 5053 
Family Room 5053 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5050 
A super audio room. 5046 
Time Warp! 5046 
A piano in a listening room 5025 
Pianissimo 5025 
The plan in blue. 5025 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5025 
My doubts 5025 
It is exactly what I worry. 5024 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5024 
Musicians at home 5024 
Piano Measurements 5023 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5018 
The next step. 5004 
Midbass horns missing?? 5003 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4993 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4993 
Baby Grand 4992 
Wood floor 4992 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4992 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4992 
Amy’s baby. 4990 
Improvement 4990 
Agree with Scott 4990 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4978 
Integrated casters 4978 
Very nice, thanks. 4978 
Customization 4978 
Sliders 4978 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4971 
Congratulations 4971 
Holes in the floor... 4971 
Tubes and kids 4971 
Sweet spot enlargement 4971 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4969 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4968 
Wood Floors and Water 4968 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4963 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4962 
WAF is for Losers 4962 
WAF: it depends. 4962 
Integration 4961 
Here and there. 4961 
Life after WWIII 4961 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4961 
Cables management. 4959 
Featurizing 4959 
Kids and tubes cont. 4956 
Kid magnet 4956 
Kids and audio 4955 
Radars 4955 
Wow, what the days! 4951 
The comming weekend 4947 
It all was worth it! 4944 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4939 
Here is how it is look. 4939 
Resolving the carpet issue 4939 
Bonfire 4939 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4939 
Proof of concept? 4939 
Geometry 4939 
A view from listening position. 4939 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4939 
Some feedback 4939 
Evening 4939 
I wonder why. 4938 
Rugs and things 4938 
In defense… 4938 
I can’t get it. 4935 
Haze. 4934 
Front wall 4934 
It is very possible. 4934 
It is nice to be back. 4931 
My comfy corner. 4928 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4568 
WMD in house. 4390 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4293 
The third listening spot. 4272 
For sure a very different experience. 4234 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4229 
It's Jfretch's system. 4229 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4228 
Domestic games 4182 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4043 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4043 
Dynamic screening 4043 
Actually this is very good idea! 4043 
Volcanic fabric 4043 
I should have done this. 4041 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4037 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4006 
No worries 4006 
Awesome memories 4006 
Optimization of space 4006 
Child-ish considerations 4003 
Finding peace.... 3997 
"Fencing"? 3996 
I need to build something custom 3996 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3996 
Stressed Skin 3996 
NYC elevators 3996 
Kids toys and quantities. 3996 
Everything is completely reversible 3995 
Racks and things 3995 
Now it looks even more promising! 3995 
Quantity of rods 3995 
Avoiding diagonals 3993 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3992 
That's not fair! 3992 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3992 
Discrimination? 3987 
Vertical configuration 3980 
Impresive ! 3909 
Did you read the site? 3909 
Contact 3909 
Company's name is Rixrax 3909 
Stand 3908 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3864 
End of life headphone system 3864 
Something like this? 3864 
The "Second Living Room" 3864 
Mixing urban & suburban 3864 
Late night listening 3864 
Moving life... 3862 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3862 
A true listening room. 3838 
It started… 3823 
Levels of Interest 3823 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3823 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3823 
I can't not to post it.... 3823 
Do not leave him unattended. 3823 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3823 
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