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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5716 
The first take on the new room. 5710 
New Room, a first shot. 5709 
Wonderful 5709 
Adopted 5708 
The first relaxed night with the room 5706 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5705 
The listening room is ready. 5704 
New Room, a First Shot 5702 
Continue to work with the room 5702 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5702 
Room 5701 
I think it will take another month. 5701 
The Buttressing 5701 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5700 
The new place and the new noises. 5700 
Big listening room 5699 
Screw the "big" rooms 5699 
Big listening rooms 5699 
First reflection points 5698 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5698 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5695 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5694 
Squeezing the floor 5694 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5694 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5694 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5693 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5693 
The new room, the very first listening. 5693 
The 14.5 foot. 5692 
Again… 5691 
Romy's new Playground 5691 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5691 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5691 
For the uninitiated ... 5690 
NH guy 5690 
Room 5690 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5689 
The first base is done 5689 
Reentry time alignment. 5688 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5687 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5687 
Mid bass horn. 5687 
Guess is only a guess… 5687 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5687 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5686 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5686 
Diffusors 5686 
Diffuse injection 5686 
Let analyse why it so 5686 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5686 
Wheel and Deal 5686 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5686 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5686 
I Must Be Missing Something 5686 
I put sliders under my speakers 5685 
ROOM 5684 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5684 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5684 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5684 
No concerns 5684 
Speakers and room 5684 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5683 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5683 
Diaphram 5683 
Phram 5683 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5683 
Perfect piston 5683 
Decorater 5682 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5682 
New morning 5681 
The first take on the room with RTA 5680 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5680 
Axiomatic 5680 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5679 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5679 
The size of the bass. 5679 
Bass Factory 5679 
Crude Level, or something more? 5679 
I will play with it this week…. 5679 
Rent-A 5679 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5679 
Corner horns 5679 
Cheating from below 5679 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5679 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5678 
A possibly overly simplified view 5678 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5678 
Iceberg 5678 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5678 
Why not horn 5678 
A correction…. 5678 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5678 
They are just not related things at all. 5678 
Fertin 5676 
Low resonance is good... 5676 
Et tu, Brute? 5675 
The Room response at LF 5674 
Life On The Ground Floor 5674 
Bass arrays 5674 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5674 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5674 
The super sucks. 5674 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5674 
You may also try 5673 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5673 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5673 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5673 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5673 
60 Hz Resonance 5673 
No notching… so far. 5673 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5672 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5672 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5672 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5672 
Power to the People 5672 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5672 
Aura 5672 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5672 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5672 
All class D is the same 5672 
Interpreting the LF results. 5671 
The Halibut 5671 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5671 
The Big Picture 5671 
Power & ULF channels 5671 
The big picture indeed. 5671 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5671 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5671 
The Power and the Glory 5670 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5670 
I guess I did not get this memo 5670 
French LF drivers 5670 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5670 
(another) French LF approach 5669 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5669 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5669 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5669 
Limpschtick 5669 
Symmetry 5669 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5668 
Room correction 5668 
It migh be more complicated. 5668 
Bass EQ ? 5668 
Agree and not. 5668 
Two "diseases" 5668 
Parametric filters 5668 
Ceiling arrays 5668 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5668 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5668 
The Middle of the Room. 5668 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5668 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5668 
Stop! 5668 
Appendectomy 5668 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5667 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5667 
No Isolation 5667 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5664 
Potential contenders? 5663 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5663 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5663 
Those Crazy Canucks 5659 
Mo' Better Bass 5653 
Bird in the Hand? 5653 
A wet listening spot? 5646 
Storm 5643 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5643 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5629 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5599 
Polar Opposite ULF 5598 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5586 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5584 
Differently but the same. 5583 
PVC 5582 
The sail test try. 5582 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5582 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5582 
Trial 5581 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5581 
Some explanations 5581 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5580 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5579 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5578 
Acrylate 5577 
Magic blanket 5577 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5576 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5576 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5576 
I have a few options. 5576 
Foam color 5576 
Strange things with upperbass 5576 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5575 
Teatro reform. . . 5575 
The foaming room dilemma. 5574 
Melamine Foam 5574 
Foaming up the cat house 5574 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5574 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5574 
Acoustic revisions… 5573 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5570 
Surprises so far in the new room 5569 
The upperbass in the new room. 5569 
Slight change of hart. 5568 
Camco supply of Boston 5566 
Room acoustics 5566 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5525 
I need to kill dust first. 5525 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5523 
To feed the leeches? 5523 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5522 
Yh 5522 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5522 
DPOLs? 5522 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5522 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5519 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5519 
A HalfPipe solution? 5519 
I absolutely love it. 5519 
Piper work 5518 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5518 
Absorption 5518 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5517 
Cats life ? 5517 
Call me Pussy. 5517 
More about traps 5517 
Acoustic impedance? 5517 
You maybe right 5517 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5517 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5516 
Heavy Curtain 5516 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5515 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5515 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5515 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5512 
Fix speaker move chair? 5511 
Back and forth ceremony 5511 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5510 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5509 
Glass windows 5508 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5507 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5506 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5504 
How to use basement jacks? 5504 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5504 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5504 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5503 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5503 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5502 
Sore eyes... 5501 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5501 
The harvesting week! 5499 
I need an inspiration… 5498 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5497 
Like this? 5497 
Dramatically randomize MF 5497 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5496 
The room eats dynamic 5496 
Diffusers 5496 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5495 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5480 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5479 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5479 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5479 
About Width-Importance balance. 5477 
Letting the music scale up 5476 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5476 
To finish my house décor… 5472 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5471 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5470 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5470 
Calling the gods of music 5470 
Absolutely 5470 
Phase manipulation 5470 
No relation. 5470 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5470 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5470 
Dynamical mismatch 5469 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5469 
Stradiwinerius? 5466 
Dealing with the glass. 5465 
Boston 5465 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5465 
Added mass 5465 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5465 
It is about moderation…. 5465 
To hell with the wine... 5465 
Also for other surafaces 5464 
LEAD 5464 
LEAD & GLASS 5464 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5464 
Read carefully 5464 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5464 
Crooks and morons 5464 
Magiscopios 5463 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5443 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5443 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5442 
The LP setup in the new home. 5391 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5386 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5386 
Pianochord will do! 5386 
Spanyi heaven 5386 
I see no conflict at all. 5386 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5386 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5386 
A year after closing 5378 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5378 
Traveling antimatter 5371 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5365 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5364 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5338 
Cast Iron fireplace 5337 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5337 
The hardcore way 5337 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5301 
This is How It's Done 5300 
Listening room during summer. 5288 
What about those... 5287 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5287 
Reducing A/C Noise 5287 
HVAC the Cat 5287 
Big Ass fan 5286 
Variac dimmers 5286 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5286 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5286 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5218 
Some winter observations. 5109 
That Asian man…. 5078 
The Franz Schubert morning 5052 
Spring.... 5001 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 4951 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4922 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4922 
Just good photography? 4922 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4922 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4922 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4921 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4921 
Sports car 4921 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4921 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4921 
Train Positioning 4921 
Kind of what I want 4921 
The lap listening… 4921 
Family Room 4921 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4918 
A super audio room. 4914 
Time Warp! 4914 
A piano in a listening room 4893 
Pianissimo 4893 
The plan in blue. 4893 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4893 
My doubts 4893 
It is exactly what I worry. 4892 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4892 
Musicians at home 4892 
Piano Measurements 4891 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4886 
The next step. 4872 
Midbass horns missing?? 4871 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4861 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4861 
Baby Grand 4860 
Wood floor 4860 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4860 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4860 
Amy’s baby. 4858 
Improvement 4858 
Agree with Scott 4858 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4846 
Integrated casters 4846 
Very nice, thanks. 4846 
Customization 4846 
Sliders 4846 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4839 
Congratulations 4839 
Holes in the floor... 4839 
Tubes and kids 4839 
Sweet spot enlargement 4839 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4837 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4836 
Wood Floors and Water 4836 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4831 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4830 
WAF is for Losers 4830 
WAF: it depends. 4830 
Integration 4829 
Here and there. 4829 
Life after WWIII 4829 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4829 
Cables management. 4827 
Featurizing 4827 
Kids and tubes cont. 4824 
Kid magnet 4824 
Kids and audio 4823 
Radars 4823 
Wow, what the days! 4819 
The comming weekend 4815 
It all was worth it! 4812 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4807 
Here is how it is look. 4807 
Resolving the carpet issue 4807 
Bonfire 4807 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4807 
Proof of concept? 4807 
Geometry 4807 
A view from listening position. 4807 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4807 
Some feedback 4807 
Evening 4807 
I wonder why. 4806 
Rugs and things 4806 
In defense… 4806 
I can’t get it. 4803 
Haze. 4802 
Front wall 4802 
It is very possible. 4802 
It is nice to be back. 4799 
My comfy corner. 4796 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4436 
WMD in house. 4258 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4161 
The third listening spot. 4140 
For sure a very different experience. 4102 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4097 
It's Jfretch's system. 4097 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4096 
Domestic games 4050 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3911 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3911 
Dynamic screening 3911 
Actually this is very good idea! 3911 
Volcanic fabric 3911 
I should have done this. 3909 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3905 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3874 
No worries 3874 
Awesome memories 3874 
Optimization of space 3874 
Child-ish considerations 3871 
Finding peace.... 3865 
"Fencing"? 3864 
I need to build something custom 3864 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3864 
Stressed Skin 3864 
NYC elevators 3864 
Kids toys and quantities. 3864 
Everything is completely reversible 3863 
Racks and things 3863 
Now it looks even more promising! 3863 
Quantity of rods 3863 
Avoiding diagonals 3861 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3860 
That's not fair! 3860 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3860 
Discrimination? 3855 
Vertical configuration 3848 
Impresive ! 3777 
Did you read the site? 3777 
Contact 3777 
Company's name is Rixrax 3777 
Stand 3776 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3732 
End of life headphone system 3732 
Something like this? 3732 
The "Second Living Room" 3732 
Mixing urban & suburban 3732 
Late night listening 3732 
Moving life... 3730 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3730 
A true listening room. 3706 
It started… 3691 
Levels of Interest 3691 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3691 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3691 
I can't not to post it.... 3691 
Do not leave him unattended. 3691 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3691 
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