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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5865 
The first take on the new room. 5859 
New Room, a first shot. 5858 
Wonderful 5858 
Adopted 5857 
The first relaxed night with the room 5855 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5854 
The listening room is ready. 5853 
New Room, a First Shot 5851 
Continue to work with the room 5851 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5851 
Room 5850 
I think it will take another month. 5850 
The Buttressing 5850 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5849 
The new place and the new noises. 5849 
Big listening room 5848 
Screw the "big" rooms 5848 
Big listening rooms 5848 
First reflection points 5847 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5847 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5844 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5843 
Squeezing the floor 5843 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5843 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5843 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5842 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5842 
The new room, the very first listening. 5842 
The 14.5 foot. 5841 
Again… 5840 
Romy's new Playground 5840 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5840 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5840 
For the uninitiated ... 5839 
NH guy 5839 
Room 5839 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5838 
The first base is done 5838 
Reentry time alignment. 5837 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5836 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5836 
Mid bass horn. 5836 
Guess is only a guess… 5836 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5836 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5835 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5835 
Diffusors 5835 
Diffuse injection 5835 
Let analyse why it so 5835 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5835 
Wheel and Deal 5835 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5835 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5835 
I Must Be Missing Something 5835 
I put sliders under my speakers 5834 
ROOM 5833 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5833 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5833 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5833 
No concerns 5833 
Speakers and room 5833 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5832 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5832 
Diaphram 5832 
Phram 5832 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5832 
Perfect piston 5832 
Decorater 5831 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5831 
New morning 5830 
The first take on the room with RTA 5829 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5829 
Axiomatic 5829 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5828 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5828 
The size of the bass. 5828 
Bass Factory 5828 
Crude Level, or something more? 5828 
I will play with it this week…. 5828 
Rent-A 5828 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5828 
Corner horns 5828 
Cheating from below 5828 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5828 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5827 
A possibly overly simplified view 5827 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5827 
Iceberg 5827 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5827 
Why not horn 5827 
A correction…. 5827 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5827 
They are just not related things at all. 5827 
Fertin 5825 
Low resonance is good... 5825 
Et tu, Brute? 5824 
The Room response at LF 5823 
Life On The Ground Floor 5823 
Bass arrays 5823 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5823 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5823 
The super sucks. 5823 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5823 
You may also try 5822 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5822 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5822 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5822 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5822 
60 Hz Resonance 5822 
No notching… so far. 5822 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5821 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5821 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5821 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5821 
Power to the People 5821 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5821 
Aura 5821 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5821 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5821 
All class D is the same 5821 
Interpreting the LF results. 5820 
The Halibut 5820 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5820 
The Big Picture 5820 
Power & ULF channels 5820 
The big picture indeed. 5820 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5820 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5820 
The Power and the Glory 5819 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5819 
I guess I did not get this memo 5819 
French LF drivers 5819 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5819 
(another) French LF approach 5818 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5818 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5818 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5818 
Limpschtick 5818 
Symmetry 5818 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5817 
Room correction 5817 
It migh be more complicated. 5817 
Bass EQ ? 5817 
Agree and not. 5817 
Two "diseases" 5817 
Parametric filters 5817 
Ceiling arrays 5817 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5817 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5817 
The Middle of the Room. 5817 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5817 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5817 
Stop! 5817 
Appendectomy 5817 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5816 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5816 
No Isolation 5816 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5813 
Potential contenders? 5812 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5812 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5812 
Those Crazy Canucks 5808 
Mo' Better Bass 5802 
Bird in the Hand? 5802 
A wet listening spot? 5795 
Storm 5792 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5792 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5778 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5748 
Polar Opposite ULF 5747 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5735 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5733 
Differently but the same. 5732 
PVC 5731 
The sail test try. 5731 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5731 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5731 
Trial 5730 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5730 
Some explanations 5730 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5729 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5728 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5727 
Acrylate 5726 
Magic blanket 5726 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5725 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5725 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5725 
I have a few options. 5725 
Foam color 5725 
Strange things with upperbass 5725 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5724 
Teatro reform. . . 5724 
The foaming room dilemma. 5723 
Melamine Foam 5723 
Foaming up the cat house 5723 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5723 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5723 
Acoustic revisions… 5722 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5719 
Surprises so far in the new room 5718 
The upperbass in the new room. 5718 
Slight change of hart. 5717 
Camco supply of Boston 5715 
Room acoustics 5715 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5674 
I need to kill dust first. 5674 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5672 
To feed the leeches? 5672 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5671 
Yh 5671 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5671 
DPOLs? 5671 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5671 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5668 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5668 
A HalfPipe solution? 5668 
I absolutely love it. 5668 
Piper work 5667 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5667 
Absorption 5667 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5666 
Cats life ? 5666 
Call me Pussy. 5666 
More about traps 5666 
Acoustic impedance? 5666 
You maybe right 5666 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5666 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5665 
Heavy Curtain 5665 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5664 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5664 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5664 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5661 
Fix speaker move chair? 5660 
Back and forth ceremony 5660 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5659 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5658 
Glass windows 5657 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5656 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5655 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5653 
How to use basement jacks? 5653 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5653 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5653 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5652 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5652 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5651 
Sore eyes... 5650 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5650 
The harvesting week! 5648 
I need an inspiration… 5647 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5646 
Like this? 5646 
Dramatically randomize MF 5646 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5645 
The room eats dynamic 5645 
Diffusers 5645 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5644 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5629 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5628 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5628 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5628 
About Width-Importance balance. 5626 
Letting the music scale up 5625 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5625 
To finish my house décor… 5621 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5620 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5619 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5619 
Calling the gods of music 5619 
Absolutely 5619 
Phase manipulation 5619 
No relation. 5619 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5619 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5619 
Dynamical mismatch 5618 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5618 
Stradiwinerius? 5615 
Dealing with the glass. 5614 
Boston 5614 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5614 
Added mass 5614 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5614 
It is about moderation…. 5614 
To hell with the wine... 5614 
Also for other surafaces 5613 
LEAD 5613 
LEAD & GLASS 5613 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5613 
Read carefully 5613 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5613 
Crooks and morons 5613 
Magiscopios 5612 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5592 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5592 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5591 
The LP setup in the new home. 5540 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5535 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5535 
Pianochord will do! 5535 
Spanyi heaven 5535 
I see no conflict at all. 5535 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5535 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5535 
A year after closing 5527 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5527 
Traveling antimatter 5520 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5514 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5513 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5487 
Cast Iron fireplace 5486 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5486 
The hardcore way 5486 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5450 
This is How It's Done 5449 
Listening room during summer. 5437 
What about those... 5436 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5436 
Reducing A/C Noise 5436 
HVAC the Cat 5436 
Big Ass fan 5435 
Variac dimmers 5435 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5435 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5435 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5367 
Some winter observations. 5258 
That Asian man…. 5227 
The Franz Schubert morning 5201 
Spring.... 5150 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5100 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5071 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5071 
Just good photography? 5071 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5071 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5071 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5070 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5070 
Sports car 5070 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5070 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5070 
Train Positioning 5070 
Kind of what I want 5070 
The lap listening… 5070 
Family Room 5070 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5067 
A super audio room. 5063 
Time Warp! 5063 
A piano in a listening room 5042 
Pianissimo 5042 
The plan in blue. 5042 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5042 
My doubts 5042 
It is exactly what I worry. 5041 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5041 
Musicians at home 5041 
Piano Measurements 5040 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5035 
The next step. 5021 
Midbass horns missing?? 5020 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5010 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5010 
Baby Grand 5009 
Wood floor 5009 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5009 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5009 
Amy’s baby. 5007 
Improvement 5007 
Agree with Scott 5007 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4995 
Integrated casters 4995 
Very nice, thanks. 4995 
Customization 4995 
Sliders 4995 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4988 
Congratulations 4988 
Holes in the floor... 4988 
Tubes and kids 4988 
Sweet spot enlargement 4988 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4986 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4985 
Wood Floors and Water 4985 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4980 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4979 
WAF is for Losers 4979 
WAF: it depends. 4979 
Integration 4978 
Here and there. 4978 
Life after WWIII 4978 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4978 
Cables management. 4976 
Featurizing 4976 
Kids and tubes cont. 4973 
Kid magnet 4973 
Kids and audio 4972 
Radars 4972 
Wow, what the days! 4968 
The comming weekend 4964 
It all was worth it! 4961 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4956 
Here is how it is look. 4956 
Resolving the carpet issue 4956 
Bonfire 4956 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4956 
Proof of concept? 4956 
Geometry 4956 
A view from listening position. 4956 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4956 
Some feedback 4956 
Evening 4956 
I wonder why. 4955 
Rugs and things 4955 
In defense… 4955 
I can’t get it. 4952 
Haze. 4951 
Front wall 4951 
It is very possible. 4951 
It is nice to be back. 4948 
My comfy corner. 4945 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4585 
WMD in house. 4407 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4310 
The third listening spot. 4289 
For sure a very different experience. 4251 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4246 
It's Jfretch's system. 4246 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4245 
Domestic games 4199 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4060 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4060 
Dynamic screening 4060 
Actually this is very good idea! 4060 
Volcanic fabric 4060 
I should have done this. 4058 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4054 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4023 
No worries 4023 
Awesome memories 4023 
Optimization of space 4023 
Child-ish considerations 4020 
Finding peace.... 4014 
"Fencing"? 4013 
I need to build something custom 4013 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4013 
Stressed Skin 4013 
NYC elevators 4013 
Kids toys and quantities. 4013 
Everything is completely reversible 4012 
Racks and things 4012 
Now it looks even more promising! 4012 
Quantity of rods 4012 
Avoiding diagonals 4010 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4009 
That's not fair! 4009 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4009 
Discrimination? 4004 
Vertical configuration 3997 
Impresive ! 3926 
Did you read the site? 3926 
Contact 3926 
Company's name is Rixrax 3926 
Stand 3925 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3881 
End of life headphone system 3881 
Something like this? 3881 
The "Second Living Room" 3881 
Mixing urban & suburban 3881 
Late night listening 3881 
Moving life... 3879 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3879 
A true listening room. 3855 
It started… 3840 
Levels of Interest 3840 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3840 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3840 
I can't not to post it.... 3840 
Do not leave him unattended. 3840 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3840 
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