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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5860 
The first take on the new room. 5854 
New Room, a first shot. 5853 
Wonderful 5853 
Adopted 5852 
The first relaxed night with the room 5850 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5849 
The listening room is ready. 5848 
New Room, a First Shot 5846 
Continue to work with the room 5846 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5846 
Room 5845 
I think it will take another month. 5845 
The Buttressing 5845 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5844 
The new place and the new noises. 5844 
Big listening room 5843 
Screw the "big" rooms 5843 
Big listening rooms 5843 
First reflection points 5842 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5842 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5839 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5838 
Squeezing the floor 5838 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5838 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5838 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5837 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5837 
The new room, the very first listening. 5837 
The 14.5 foot. 5836 
Again… 5835 
Romy's new Playground 5835 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5835 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5835 
For the uninitiated ... 5834 
NH guy 5834 
Room 5834 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5833 
The first base is done 5833 
Reentry time alignment. 5832 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5831 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5831 
Mid bass horn. 5831 
Guess is only a guess… 5831 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5831 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5830 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5830 
Diffusors 5830 
Diffuse injection 5830 
Let analyse why it so 5830 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5830 
Wheel and Deal 5830 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5830 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5830 
I Must Be Missing Something 5830 
I put sliders under my speakers 5829 
ROOM 5828 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5828 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5828 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5828 
No concerns 5828 
Speakers and room 5828 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5827 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5827 
Diaphram 5827 
Phram 5827 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5827 
Perfect piston 5827 
Decorater 5826 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5826 
New morning 5825 
The first take on the room with RTA 5824 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5824 
Axiomatic 5824 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5823 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5823 
The size of the bass. 5823 
Bass Factory 5823 
Crude Level, or something more? 5823 
I will play with it this week…. 5823 
Rent-A 5823 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5823 
Corner horns 5823 
Cheating from below 5823 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5823 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5822 
A possibly overly simplified view 5822 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5822 
Iceberg 5822 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5822 
Why not horn 5822 
A correction…. 5822 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5822 
They are just not related things at all. 5822 
Fertin 5820 
Low resonance is good... 5820 
Et tu, Brute? 5819 
The Room response at LF 5818 
Life On The Ground Floor 5818 
Bass arrays 5818 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5818 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5818 
The super sucks. 5818 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5818 
You may also try 5817 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5817 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5817 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5817 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5817 
60 Hz Resonance 5817 
No notching… so far. 5817 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5816 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5816 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5816 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5816 
Power to the People 5816 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5816 
Aura 5816 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5816 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5816 
All class D is the same 5816 
Interpreting the LF results. 5815 
The Halibut 5815 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5815 
The Big Picture 5815 
Power & ULF channels 5815 
The big picture indeed. 5815 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5815 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5815 
The Power and the Glory 5814 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5814 
I guess I did not get this memo 5814 
French LF drivers 5814 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5814 
(another) French LF approach 5813 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5813 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5813 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5813 
Limpschtick 5813 
Symmetry 5813 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5812 
Room correction 5812 
It migh be more complicated. 5812 
Bass EQ ? 5812 
Agree and not. 5812 
Two "diseases" 5812 
Parametric filters 5812 
Ceiling arrays 5812 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5812 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5812 
The Middle of the Room. 5812 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5812 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5812 
Stop! 5812 
Appendectomy 5812 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5811 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5811 
No Isolation 5811 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5808 
Potential contenders? 5807 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5807 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5807 
Those Crazy Canucks 5803 
Mo' Better Bass 5797 
Bird in the Hand? 5797 
A wet listening spot? 5790 
Storm 5787 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5787 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5773 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5743 
Polar Opposite ULF 5742 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5730 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5728 
Differently but the same. 5727 
PVC 5726 
The sail test try. 5726 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5726 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5726 
Trial 5725 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5725 
Some explanations 5725 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5724 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5723 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5722 
Acrylate 5721 
Magic blanket 5721 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5720 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5720 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5720 
I have a few options. 5720 
Foam color 5720 
Strange things with upperbass 5720 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5719 
Teatro reform. . . 5719 
The foaming room dilemma. 5718 
Melamine Foam 5718 
Foaming up the cat house 5718 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5718 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5718 
Acoustic revisions… 5717 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5714 
Surprises so far in the new room 5713 
The upperbass in the new room. 5713 
Slight change of hart. 5712 
Camco supply of Boston 5710 
Room acoustics 5710 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5669 
I need to kill dust first. 5669 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5667 
To feed the leeches? 5667 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5666 
Yh 5666 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5666 
DPOLs? 5666 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5666 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5663 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5663 
A HalfPipe solution? 5663 
I absolutely love it. 5663 
Piper work 5662 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5662 
Absorption 5662 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5661 
Cats life ? 5661 
Call me Pussy. 5661 
More about traps 5661 
Acoustic impedance? 5661 
You maybe right 5661 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5661 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5660 
Heavy Curtain 5660 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5659 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5659 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5659 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5656 
Fix speaker move chair? 5655 
Back and forth ceremony 5655 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5654 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5653 
Glass windows 5652 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5651 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5650 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5648 
How to use basement jacks? 5648 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5648 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5648 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5647 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5647 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5646 
Sore eyes... 5645 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5645 
The harvesting week! 5643 
I need an inspiration… 5642 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5641 
Like this? 5641 
Dramatically randomize MF 5641 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5640 
The room eats dynamic 5640 
Diffusers 5640 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5639 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5624 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5623 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5623 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5623 
About Width-Importance balance. 5621 
Letting the music scale up 5620 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5620 
To finish my house décor… 5616 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5615 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5614 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5614 
Calling the gods of music 5614 
Absolutely 5614 
Phase manipulation 5614 
No relation. 5614 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5614 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5614 
Dynamical mismatch 5613 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5613 
Stradiwinerius? 5610 
Dealing with the glass. 5609 
Boston 5609 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5609 
Added mass 5609 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5609 
It is about moderation…. 5609 
To hell with the wine... 5609 
Also for other surafaces 5608 
LEAD 5608 
LEAD & GLASS 5608 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5608 
Read carefully 5608 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5608 
Crooks and morons 5608 
Magiscopios 5607 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5587 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5587 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5586 
The LP setup in the new home. 5535 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5530 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5530 
Pianochord will do! 5530 
Spanyi heaven 5530 
I see no conflict at all. 5530 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5530 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5530 
A year after closing 5522 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5522 
Traveling antimatter 5515 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5509 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5508 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5482 
Cast Iron fireplace 5481 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5481 
The hardcore way 5481 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5445 
This is How It's Done 5444 
Listening room during summer. 5432 
What about those... 5431 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5431 
Reducing A/C Noise 5431 
HVAC the Cat 5431 
Big Ass fan 5430 
Variac dimmers 5430 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5430 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5430 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5362 
Some winter observations. 5253 
That Asian man…. 5222 
The Franz Schubert morning 5196 
Spring.... 5145 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5095 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5066 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5066 
Just good photography? 5066 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5066 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5066 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5065 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5065 
Sports car 5065 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5065 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5065 
Train Positioning 5065 
Kind of what I want 5065 
The lap listening… 5065 
Family Room 5065 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5062 
A super audio room. 5058 
Time Warp! 5058 
A piano in a listening room 5037 
Pianissimo 5037 
The plan in blue. 5037 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5037 
My doubts 5037 
It is exactly what I worry. 5036 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5036 
Musicians at home 5036 
Piano Measurements 5035 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5030 
The next step. 5016 
Midbass horns missing?? 5015 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5005 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5005 
Baby Grand 5004 
Wood floor 5004 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5004 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5004 
Amy’s baby. 5002 
Improvement 5002 
Agree with Scott 5002 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4990 
Integrated casters 4990 
Very nice, thanks. 4990 
Customization 4990 
Sliders 4990 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4983 
Congratulations 4983 
Holes in the floor... 4983 
Tubes and kids 4983 
Sweet spot enlargement 4983 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4981 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4980 
Wood Floors and Water 4980 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4975 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4974 
WAF is for Losers 4974 
WAF: it depends. 4974 
Integration 4973 
Here and there. 4973 
Life after WWIII 4973 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4973 
Cables management. 4971 
Featurizing 4971 
Kids and tubes cont. 4968 
Kid magnet 4968 
Kids and audio 4967 
Radars 4967 
Wow, what the days! 4963 
The comming weekend 4959 
It all was worth it! 4956 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4951 
Here is how it is look. 4951 
Resolving the carpet issue 4951 
Bonfire 4951 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4951 
Proof of concept? 4951 
Geometry 4951 
A view from listening position. 4951 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4951 
Some feedback 4951 
Evening 4951 
I wonder why. 4950 
Rugs and things 4950 
In defense… 4950 
I can’t get it. 4947 
Haze. 4946 
Front wall 4946 
It is very possible. 4946 
It is nice to be back. 4943 
My comfy corner. 4940 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4580 
WMD in house. 4402 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4305 
The third listening spot. 4284 
For sure a very different experience. 4246 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4241 
It's Jfretch's system. 4241 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4240 
Domestic games 4194 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4055 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4055 
Dynamic screening 4055 
Actually this is very good idea! 4055 
Volcanic fabric 4055 
I should have done this. 4053 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4049 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4018 
No worries 4018 
Awesome memories 4018 
Optimization of space 4018 
Child-ish considerations 4015 
Finding peace.... 4009 
"Fencing"? 4008 
I need to build something custom 4008 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4008 
Stressed Skin 4008 
NYC elevators 4008 
Kids toys and quantities. 4008 
Everything is completely reversible 4007 
Racks and things 4007 
Now it looks even more promising! 4007 
Quantity of rods 4007 
Avoiding diagonals 4005 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4004 
That's not fair! 4004 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4004 
Discrimination? 3999 
Vertical configuration 3992 
Impresive ! 3921 
Did you read the site? 3921 
Contact 3921 
Company's name is Rixrax 3921 
Stand 3920 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3876 
End of life headphone system 3876 
Something like this? 3876 
The "Second Living Room" 3876 
Mixing urban & suburban 3876 
Late night listening 3876 
Moving life... 3874 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3874 
A true listening room. 3850 
It started… 3835 
Levels of Interest 3835 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3835 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3835 
I can't not to post it.... 3835 
Do not leave him unattended. 3835 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3835 
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