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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5949 
The first take on the new room. 5943 
New Room, a first shot. 5942 
Wonderful 5942 
Adopted 5941 
The first relaxed night with the room 5939 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5938 
The listening room is ready. 5937 
New Room, a First Shot 5935 
Continue to work with the room 5935 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5935 
Room 5934 
I think it will take another month. 5934 
The Buttressing 5934 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5933 
The new place and the new noises. 5933 
Big listening room 5932 
Screw the "big" rooms 5932 
Big listening rooms 5932 
First reflection points 5931 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5931 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5928 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5927 
Squeezing the floor 5927 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5927 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5927 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5926 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5926 
The new room, the very first listening. 5926 
The 14.5 foot. 5925 
Again… 5924 
Romy's new Playground 5924 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5924 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5924 
For the uninitiated ... 5923 
NH guy 5923 
Room 5923 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5922 
The first base is done 5922 
Reentry time alignment. 5921 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5920 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5920 
Mid bass horn. 5920 
Guess is only a guess… 5920 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5920 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5919 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5919 
Diffusors 5919 
Diffuse injection 5919 
Let analyse why it so 5919 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5919 
Wheel and Deal 5919 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5919 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5919 
I Must Be Missing Something 5919 
I put sliders under my speakers 5918 
ROOM 5917 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5917 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5917 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5917 
No concerns 5917 
Speakers and room 5917 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5916 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5916 
Diaphram 5916 
Phram 5916 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5916 
Perfect piston 5916 
Decorater 5915 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5915 
New morning 5914 
The first take on the room with RTA 5913 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5913 
Axiomatic 5913 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5912 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5912 
The size of the bass. 5912 
Bass Factory 5912 
Crude Level, or something more? 5912 
I will play with it this week…. 5912 
Rent-A 5912 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5912 
Corner horns 5912 
Cheating from below 5912 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5912 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5911 
A possibly overly simplified view 5911 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5911 
Iceberg 5911 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5911 
Why not horn 5911 
A correction…. 5911 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5911 
They are just not related things at all. 5911 
Fertin 5909 
Low resonance is good... 5909 
Et tu, Brute? 5908 
The Room response at LF 5907 
Life On The Ground Floor 5907 
Bass arrays 5907 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5907 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5907 
The super sucks. 5907 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5907 
You may also try 5906 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5906 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5906 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5906 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5906 
60 Hz Resonance 5906 
No notching… so far. 5906 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5905 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5905 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5905 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5905 
Power to the People 5905 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5905 
Aura 5905 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5905 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5905 
All class D is the same 5905 
Interpreting the LF results. 5904 
The Halibut 5904 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5904 
The Big Picture 5904 
Power & ULF channels 5904 
The big picture indeed. 5904 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5904 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5904 
The Power and the Glory 5903 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5903 
I guess I did not get this memo 5903 
French LF drivers 5903 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5903 
(another) French LF approach 5902 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5902 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5902 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5902 
Limpschtick 5902 
Symmetry 5902 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5901 
Room correction 5901 
It migh be more complicated. 5901 
Bass EQ ? 5901 
Agree and not. 5901 
Two "diseases" 5901 
Parametric filters 5901 
Ceiling arrays 5901 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5901 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5901 
The Middle of the Room. 5901 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5901 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5901 
Stop! 5901 
Appendectomy 5901 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5900 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5900 
No Isolation 5900 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5897 
Potential contenders? 5896 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5896 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5896 
Those Crazy Canucks 5892 
Mo' Better Bass 5886 
Bird in the Hand? 5886 
A wet listening spot? 5879 
Storm 5876 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5876 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5862 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5832 
Polar Opposite ULF 5831 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5819 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5817 
Differently but the same. 5816 
PVC 5815 
The sail test try. 5815 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5815 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5815 
Trial 5814 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5814 
Some explanations 5814 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5813 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5812 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5811 
Acrylate 5810 
Magic blanket 5810 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5809 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5809 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5809 
I have a few options. 5809 
Foam color 5809 
Strange things with upperbass 5809 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5808 
Teatro reform. . . 5808 
The foaming room dilemma. 5807 
Melamine Foam 5807 
Foaming up the cat house 5807 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5807 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5807 
Acoustic revisions… 5806 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5803 
Surprises so far in the new room 5802 
The upperbass in the new room. 5802 
Slight change of hart. 5801 
Camco supply of Boston 5799 
Room acoustics 5799 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5758 
I need to kill dust first. 5758 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5756 
To feed the leeches? 5756 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5755 
Yh 5755 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5755 
DPOLs? 5755 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5755 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5752 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5752 
A HalfPipe solution? 5752 
I absolutely love it. 5752 
Piper work 5751 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5751 
Absorption 5751 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5750 
Cats life ? 5750 
Call me Pussy. 5750 
More about traps 5750 
Acoustic impedance? 5750 
You maybe right 5750 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5750 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5749 
Heavy Curtain 5749 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5748 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5748 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5748 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5745 
Fix speaker move chair? 5744 
Back and forth ceremony 5744 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5743 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5742 
Glass windows 5741 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5740 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5739 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5737 
How to use basement jacks? 5737 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5737 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5737 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5736 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5736 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5735 
Sore eyes... 5734 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5734 
The harvesting week! 5732 
I need an inspiration… 5731 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5730 
Like this? 5730 
Dramatically randomize MF 5730 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5729 
The room eats dynamic 5729 
Diffusers 5729 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5728 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5713 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5712 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5712 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5712 
About Width-Importance balance. 5710 
Letting the music scale up 5709 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5709 
To finish my house décor… 5705 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5704 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5703 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5703 
Calling the gods of music 5703 
Absolutely 5703 
Phase manipulation 5703 
No relation. 5703 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5703 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5703 
Dynamical mismatch 5702 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5702 
Stradiwinerius? 5699 
Dealing with the glass. 5698 
Boston 5698 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5698 
Added mass 5698 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5698 
It is about moderation…. 5698 
To hell with the wine... 5698 
Also for other surafaces 5697 
LEAD 5697 
LEAD & GLASS 5697 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5697 
Read carefully 5697 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5697 
Crooks and morons 5697 
Magiscopios 5696 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5676 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5676 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5675 
The LP setup in the new home. 5624 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5619 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5619 
Pianochord will do! 5619 
Spanyi heaven 5619 
I see no conflict at all. 5619 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5619 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5619 
A year after closing 5611 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5611 
Traveling antimatter 5604 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5598 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5597 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5571 
Cast Iron fireplace 5570 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5570 
The hardcore way 5570 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5534 
This is How It's Done 5533 
Listening room during summer. 5521 
What about those... 5520 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5520 
Reducing A/C Noise 5520 
HVAC the Cat 5520 
Big Ass fan 5519 
Variac dimmers 5519 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5519 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5519 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5451 
Some winter observations. 5342 
That Asian man…. 5311 
The Franz Schubert morning 5285 
Spring.... 5234 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5184 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5155 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5155 
Just good photography? 5155 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5155 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5155 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5154 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5154 
Sports car 5154 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5154 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5154 
Train Positioning 5154 
Kind of what I want 5154 
The lap listening… 5154 
Family Room 5154 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5151 
A super audio room. 5147 
Time Warp! 5147 
A piano in a listening room 5126 
Pianissimo 5126 
The plan in blue. 5126 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5126 
My doubts 5126 
It is exactly what I worry. 5125 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5125 
Musicians at home 5125 
Piano Measurements 5124 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5119 
The next step. 5105 
Midbass horns missing?? 5104 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5094 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5094 
Baby Grand 5093 
Wood floor 5093 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5093 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5093 
Amy’s baby. 5091 
Improvement 5091 
Agree with Scott 5091 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5079 
Integrated casters 5079 
Very nice, thanks. 5079 
Customization 5079 
Sliders 5079 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5072 
Congratulations 5072 
Holes in the floor... 5072 
Tubes and kids 5072 
Sweet spot enlargement 5072 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5070 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5069 
Wood Floors and Water 5069 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5064 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5063 
WAF is for Losers 5063 
WAF: it depends. 5063 
Integration 5062 
Here and there. 5062 
Life after WWIII 5062 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5062 
Cables management. 5060 
Featurizing 5060 
Kids and tubes cont. 5057 
Kid magnet 5057 
Kids and audio 5056 
Radars 5056 
Wow, what the days! 5052 
The comming weekend 5048 
It all was worth it! 5045 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5040 
Here is how it is look. 5040 
Resolving the carpet issue 5040 
Bonfire 5040 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5040 
Proof of concept? 5040 
Geometry 5040 
A view from listening position. 5040 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5040 
Some feedback 5040 
Evening 5040 
I wonder why. 5039 
Rugs and things 5039 
In defense… 5039 
I can’t get it. 5036 
Haze. 5035 
Front wall 5035 
It is very possible. 5035 
It is nice to be back. 5032 
My comfy corner. 5029 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4669 
WMD in house. 4491 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4394 
The third listening spot. 4373 
For sure a very different experience. 4335 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4330 
It's Jfretch's system. 4330 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4329 
Domestic games 4283 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4144 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4144 
Dynamic screening 4144 
Actually this is very good idea! 4144 
Volcanic fabric 4144 
I should have done this. 4142 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4138 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4107 
No worries 4107 
Awesome memories 4107 
Optimization of space 4107 
Child-ish considerations 4104 
Finding peace.... 4098 
"Fencing"? 4097 
I need to build something custom 4097 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4097 
Stressed Skin 4097 
NYC elevators 4097 
Kids toys and quantities. 4097 
Everything is completely reversible 4096 
Racks and things 4096 
Now it looks even more promising! 4096 
Quantity of rods 4096 
Avoiding diagonals 4094 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4093 
That's not fair! 4093 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4093 
Discrimination? 4088 
Vertical configuration 4081 
Impresive ! 4010 
Did you read the site? 4010 
Contact 4010 
Company's name is Rixrax 4010 
Stand 4009 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3965 
End of life headphone system 3965 
Something like this? 3965 
The "Second Living Room" 3965 
Mixing urban & suburban 3965 
Late night listening 3965 
Moving life... 3963 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3963 
A true listening room. 3939 
It started… 3924 
Levels of Interest 3924 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3924 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3924 
I can't not to post it.... 3924 
Do not leave him unattended. 3924 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3924 
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