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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5922 
The first take on the new room. 5916 
New Room, a first shot. 5915 
Wonderful 5915 
Adopted 5914 
The first relaxed night with the room 5912 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5911 
The listening room is ready. 5910 
New Room, a First Shot 5908 
Continue to work with the room 5908 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5908 
Room 5907 
I think it will take another month. 5907 
The Buttressing 5907 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5906 
The new place and the new noises. 5906 
Big listening room 5905 
Screw the "big" rooms 5905 
Big listening rooms 5905 
First reflection points 5904 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5904 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5901 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5900 
Squeezing the floor 5900 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5900 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5900 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5899 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5899 
The new room, the very first listening. 5899 
The 14.5 foot. 5898 
Again… 5897 
Romy's new Playground 5897 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5897 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5897 
For the uninitiated ... 5896 
NH guy 5896 
Room 5896 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5895 
The first base is done 5895 
Reentry time alignment. 5894 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5893 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5893 
Mid bass horn. 5893 
Guess is only a guess… 5893 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5893 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5892 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5892 
Diffusors 5892 
Diffuse injection 5892 
Let analyse why it so 5892 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5892 
Wheel and Deal 5892 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5892 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5892 
I Must Be Missing Something 5892 
I put sliders under my speakers 5891 
ROOM 5890 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5890 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5890 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5890 
No concerns 5890 
Speakers and room 5890 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5889 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5889 
Diaphram 5889 
Phram 5889 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5889 
Perfect piston 5889 
Decorater 5888 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5888 
New morning 5887 
The first take on the room with RTA 5886 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5886 
Axiomatic 5886 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5885 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5885 
The size of the bass. 5885 
Bass Factory 5885 
Crude Level, or something more? 5885 
I will play with it this week…. 5885 
Rent-A 5885 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5885 
Corner horns 5885 
Cheating from below 5885 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5885 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5884 
A possibly overly simplified view 5884 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5884 
Iceberg 5884 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5884 
Why not horn 5884 
A correction…. 5884 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5884 
They are just not related things at all. 5884 
Fertin 5882 
Low resonance is good... 5882 
Et tu, Brute? 5881 
The Room response at LF 5880 
Life On The Ground Floor 5880 
Bass arrays 5880 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5880 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5880 
The super sucks. 5880 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5880 
You may also try 5879 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5879 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5879 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5879 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5879 
60 Hz Resonance 5879 
No notching… so far. 5879 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5878 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5878 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5878 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5878 
Power to the People 5878 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5878 
Aura 5878 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5878 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5878 
All class D is the same 5878 
Interpreting the LF results. 5877 
The Halibut 5877 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5877 
The Big Picture 5877 
Power & ULF channels 5877 
The big picture indeed. 5877 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5877 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5877 
The Power and the Glory 5876 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5876 
I guess I did not get this memo 5876 
French LF drivers 5876 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5876 
(another) French LF approach 5875 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5875 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5875 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5875 
Limpschtick 5875 
Symmetry 5875 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5874 
Room correction 5874 
It migh be more complicated. 5874 
Bass EQ ? 5874 
Agree and not. 5874 
Two "diseases" 5874 
Parametric filters 5874 
Ceiling arrays 5874 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5874 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5874 
The Middle of the Room. 5874 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5874 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5874 
Stop! 5874 
Appendectomy 5874 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5873 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5873 
No Isolation 5873 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5870 
Potential contenders? 5869 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5869 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5869 
Those Crazy Canucks 5865 
Mo' Better Bass 5859 
Bird in the Hand? 5859 
A wet listening spot? 5852 
Storm 5849 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5849 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5835 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5805 
Polar Opposite ULF 5804 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5792 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5790 
Differently but the same. 5789 
PVC 5788 
The sail test try. 5788 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5788 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5788 
Trial 5787 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5787 
Some explanations 5787 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5786 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5785 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5784 
Acrylate 5783 
Magic blanket 5783 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5782 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5782 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5782 
I have a few options. 5782 
Foam color 5782 
Strange things with upperbass 5782 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5781 
Teatro reform. . . 5781 
The foaming room dilemma. 5780 
Melamine Foam 5780 
Foaming up the cat house 5780 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5780 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5780 
Acoustic revisions… 5779 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5776 
Surprises so far in the new room 5775 
The upperbass in the new room. 5775 
Slight change of hart. 5774 
Camco supply of Boston 5772 
Room acoustics 5772 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5731 
I need to kill dust first. 5731 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5729 
To feed the leeches? 5729 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5728 
Yh 5728 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5728 
DPOLs? 5728 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5728 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5725 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5725 
A HalfPipe solution? 5725 
I absolutely love it. 5725 
Piper work 5724 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5724 
Absorption 5724 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5723 
Cats life ? 5723 
Call me Pussy. 5723 
More about traps 5723 
Acoustic impedance? 5723 
You maybe right 5723 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5723 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5722 
Heavy Curtain 5722 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5721 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5721 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5721 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5718 
Fix speaker move chair? 5717 
Back and forth ceremony 5717 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5716 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5715 
Glass windows 5714 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5713 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5712 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5710 
How to use basement jacks? 5710 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5710 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5710 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5709 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5709 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5708 
Sore eyes... 5707 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5707 
The harvesting week! 5705 
I need an inspiration… 5704 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5703 
Like this? 5703 
Dramatically randomize MF 5703 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5702 
The room eats dynamic 5702 
Diffusers 5702 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5701 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5686 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5685 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5685 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5685 
About Width-Importance balance. 5683 
Letting the music scale up 5682 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5682 
To finish my house décor… 5678 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5677 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5676 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5676 
Calling the gods of music 5676 
Absolutely 5676 
Phase manipulation 5676 
No relation. 5676 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5676 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5676 
Dynamical mismatch 5675 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5675 
Stradiwinerius? 5672 
Dealing with the glass. 5671 
Boston 5671 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5671 
Added mass 5671 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5671 
It is about moderation…. 5671 
To hell with the wine... 5671 
Also for other surafaces 5670 
LEAD 5670 
LEAD & GLASS 5670 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5670 
Read carefully 5670 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5670 
Crooks and morons 5670 
Magiscopios 5669 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5649 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5649 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5648 
The LP setup in the new home. 5597 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5592 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5592 
Pianochord will do! 5592 
Spanyi heaven 5592 
I see no conflict at all. 5592 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5592 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5592 
A year after closing 5584 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5584 
Traveling antimatter 5577 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5571 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5570 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5544 
Cast Iron fireplace 5543 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5543 
The hardcore way 5543 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5507 
This is How It's Done 5506 
Listening room during summer. 5494 
What about those... 5493 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5493 
Reducing A/C Noise 5493 
HVAC the Cat 5493 
Big Ass fan 5492 
Variac dimmers 5492 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5492 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5492 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5424 
Some winter observations. 5315 
That Asian man…. 5284 
The Franz Schubert morning 5258 
Spring.... 5207 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5157 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5128 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5128 
Just good photography? 5128 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5128 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5128 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5127 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5127 
Sports car 5127 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5127 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5127 
Train Positioning 5127 
Kind of what I want 5127 
The lap listening… 5127 
Family Room 5127 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5124 
A super audio room. 5120 
Time Warp! 5120 
A piano in a listening room 5099 
Pianissimo 5099 
The plan in blue. 5099 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5099 
My doubts 5099 
It is exactly what I worry. 5098 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5098 
Musicians at home 5098 
Piano Measurements 5097 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5092 
The next step. 5078 
Midbass horns missing?? 5077 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5067 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5067 
Baby Grand 5066 
Wood floor 5066 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5066 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5066 
Amy’s baby. 5064 
Improvement 5064 
Agree with Scott 5064 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5052 
Integrated casters 5052 
Very nice, thanks. 5052 
Customization 5052 
Sliders 5052 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5045 
Congratulations 5045 
Holes in the floor... 5045 
Tubes and kids 5045 
Sweet spot enlargement 5045 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5043 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5042 
Wood Floors and Water 5042 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5037 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5036 
WAF is for Losers 5036 
WAF: it depends. 5036 
Integration 5035 
Here and there. 5035 
Life after WWIII 5035 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5035 
Cables management. 5033 
Featurizing 5033 
Kids and tubes cont. 5030 
Kid magnet 5030 
Kids and audio 5029 
Radars 5029 
Wow, what the days! 5025 
The comming weekend 5021 
It all was worth it! 5018 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5013 
Here is how it is look. 5013 
Resolving the carpet issue 5013 
Bonfire 5013 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5013 
Proof of concept? 5013 
Geometry 5013 
A view from listening position. 5013 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5013 
Some feedback 5013 
Evening 5013 
I wonder why. 5012 
Rugs and things 5012 
In defense… 5012 
I can’t get it. 5009 
Haze. 5008 
Front wall 5008 
It is very possible. 5008 
It is nice to be back. 5005 
My comfy corner. 5002 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4642 
WMD in house. 4464 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4367 
The third listening spot. 4346 
For sure a very different experience. 4308 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4303 
It's Jfretch's system. 4303 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4302 
Domestic games 4256 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4117 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4117 
Dynamic screening 4117 
Actually this is very good idea! 4117 
Volcanic fabric 4117 
I should have done this. 4115 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4111 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4080 
No worries 4080 
Awesome memories 4080 
Optimization of space 4080 
Child-ish considerations 4077 
Finding peace.... 4071 
"Fencing"? 4070 
I need to build something custom 4070 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4070 
Stressed Skin 4070 
NYC elevators 4070 
Kids toys and quantities. 4070 
Everything is completely reversible 4069 
Racks and things 4069 
Now it looks even more promising! 4069 
Quantity of rods 4069 
Avoiding diagonals 4067 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4066 
That's not fair! 4066 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4066 
Discrimination? 4061 
Vertical configuration 4054 
Impresive ! 3983 
Did you read the site? 3983 
Contact 3983 
Company's name is Rixrax 3983 
Stand 3982 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3938 
End of life headphone system 3938 
Something like this? 3938 
The "Second Living Room" 3938 
Mixing urban & suburban 3938 
Late night listening 3938 
Moving life... 3936 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3936 
A true listening room. 3912 
It started… 3897 
Levels of Interest 3897 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3897 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3897 
I can't not to post it.... 3897 
Do not leave him unattended. 3897 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3897 
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