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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5890 
The first take on the new room. 5884 
New Room, a first shot. 5883 
Wonderful 5883 
Adopted 5882 
The first relaxed night with the room 5880 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5879 
The listening room is ready. 5878 
New Room, a First Shot 5876 
Continue to work with the room 5876 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5876 
Room 5875 
I think it will take another month. 5875 
The Buttressing 5875 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5874 
The new place and the new noises. 5874 
Big listening room 5873 
Screw the "big" rooms 5873 
Big listening rooms 5873 
First reflection points 5872 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5872 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5869 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5868 
Squeezing the floor 5868 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5868 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5868 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5867 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5867 
The new room, the very first listening. 5867 
The 14.5 foot. 5866 
Again… 5865 
Romy's new Playground 5865 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5865 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5865 
For the uninitiated ... 5864 
NH guy 5864 
Room 5864 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5863 
The first base is done 5863 
Reentry time alignment. 5862 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5861 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5861 
Mid bass horn. 5861 
Guess is only a guess… 5861 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5861 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5860 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5860 
Diffusors 5860 
Diffuse injection 5860 
Let analyse why it so 5860 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5860 
Wheel and Deal 5860 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5860 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5860 
I Must Be Missing Something 5860 
I put sliders under my speakers 5859 
ROOM 5858 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5858 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5858 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5858 
No concerns 5858 
Speakers and room 5858 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5857 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5857 
Diaphram 5857 
Phram 5857 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5857 
Perfect piston 5857 
Decorater 5856 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5856 
New morning 5855 
The first take on the room with RTA 5854 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5854 
Axiomatic 5854 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5853 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5853 
The size of the bass. 5853 
Bass Factory 5853 
Crude Level, or something more? 5853 
I will play with it this week…. 5853 
Rent-A 5853 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5853 
Corner horns 5853 
Cheating from below 5853 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5853 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5852 
A possibly overly simplified view 5852 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5852 
Iceberg 5852 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5852 
Why not horn 5852 
A correction…. 5852 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5852 
They are just not related things at all. 5852 
Fertin 5850 
Low resonance is good... 5850 
Et tu, Brute? 5849 
The Room response at LF 5848 
Life On The Ground Floor 5848 
Bass arrays 5848 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5848 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5848 
The super sucks. 5848 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5848 
You may also try 5847 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5847 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5847 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5847 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5847 
60 Hz Resonance 5847 
No notching… so far. 5847 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5846 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5846 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5846 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5846 
Power to the People 5846 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5846 
Aura 5846 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5846 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5846 
All class D is the same 5846 
Interpreting the LF results. 5845 
The Halibut 5845 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5845 
The Big Picture 5845 
Power & ULF channels 5845 
The big picture indeed. 5845 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5845 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5845 
The Power and the Glory 5844 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5844 
I guess I did not get this memo 5844 
French LF drivers 5844 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5844 
(another) French LF approach 5843 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5843 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5843 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5843 
Limpschtick 5843 
Symmetry 5843 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5842 
Room correction 5842 
It migh be more complicated. 5842 
Bass EQ ? 5842 
Agree and not. 5842 
Two "diseases" 5842 
Parametric filters 5842 
Ceiling arrays 5842 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5842 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5842 
The Middle of the Room. 5842 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5842 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5842 
Stop! 5842 
Appendectomy 5842 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5841 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5841 
No Isolation 5841 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5838 
Potential contenders? 5837 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5837 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5837 
Those Crazy Canucks 5833 
Mo' Better Bass 5827 
Bird in the Hand? 5827 
A wet listening spot? 5820 
Storm 5817 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5817 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5803 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5773 
Polar Opposite ULF 5772 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5760 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5758 
Differently but the same. 5757 
PVC 5756 
The sail test try. 5756 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5756 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5756 
Trial 5755 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5755 
Some explanations 5755 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5754 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5753 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5752 
Acrylate 5751 
Magic blanket 5751 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5750 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5750 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5750 
I have a few options. 5750 
Foam color 5750 
Strange things with upperbass 5750 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5749 
Teatro reform. . . 5749 
The foaming room dilemma. 5748 
Melamine Foam 5748 
Foaming up the cat house 5748 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5748 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5748 
Acoustic revisions… 5747 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5744 
Surprises so far in the new room 5743 
The upperbass in the new room. 5743 
Slight change of hart. 5742 
Camco supply of Boston 5740 
Room acoustics 5740 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5699 
I need to kill dust first. 5699 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5697 
To feed the leeches? 5697 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5696 
Yh 5696 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5696 
DPOLs? 5696 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5696 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5693 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5693 
A HalfPipe solution? 5693 
I absolutely love it. 5693 
Piper work 5692 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5692 
Absorption 5692 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5691 
Cats life ? 5691 
Call me Pussy. 5691 
More about traps 5691 
Acoustic impedance? 5691 
You maybe right 5691 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5691 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5690 
Heavy Curtain 5690 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5689 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5689 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5689 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5686 
Fix speaker move chair? 5685 
Back and forth ceremony 5685 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5684 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5683 
Glass windows 5682 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5681 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5680 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5678 
How to use basement jacks? 5678 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5678 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5678 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5677 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5677 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5676 
Sore eyes... 5675 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5675 
The harvesting week! 5673 
I need an inspiration… 5672 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5671 
Like this? 5671 
Dramatically randomize MF 5671 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5670 
The room eats dynamic 5670 
Diffusers 5670 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5669 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5654 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5653 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5653 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5653 
About Width-Importance balance. 5651 
Letting the music scale up 5650 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5650 
To finish my house décor… 5646 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5645 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5644 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5644 
Calling the gods of music 5644 
Absolutely 5644 
Phase manipulation 5644 
No relation. 5644 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5644 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5644 
Dynamical mismatch 5643 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5643 
Stradiwinerius? 5640 
Dealing with the glass. 5639 
Boston 5639 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5639 
Added mass 5639 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5639 
It is about moderation…. 5639 
To hell with the wine... 5639 
Also for other surafaces 5638 
LEAD 5638 
LEAD & GLASS 5638 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5638 
Read carefully 5638 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5638 
Crooks and morons 5638 
Magiscopios 5637 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5617 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5617 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5616 
The LP setup in the new home. 5565 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5560 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5560 
Pianochord will do! 5560 
Spanyi heaven 5560 
I see no conflict at all. 5560 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5560 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5560 
A year after closing 5552 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5552 
Traveling antimatter 5545 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5539 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5538 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5512 
Cast Iron fireplace 5511 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5511 
The hardcore way 5511 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5475 
This is How It's Done 5474 
Listening room during summer. 5462 
What about those... 5461 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5461 
Reducing A/C Noise 5461 
HVAC the Cat 5461 
Big Ass fan 5460 
Variac dimmers 5460 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5460 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5460 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5392 
Some winter observations. 5283 
That Asian man…. 5252 
The Franz Schubert morning 5226 
Spring.... 5175 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5125 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5096 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5096 
Just good photography? 5096 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5096 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5096 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5095 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5095 
Sports car 5095 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5095 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5095 
Train Positioning 5095 
Kind of what I want 5095 
The lap listening… 5095 
Family Room 5095 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5092 
A super audio room. 5088 
Time Warp! 5088 
A piano in a listening room 5067 
Pianissimo 5067 
The plan in blue. 5067 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5067 
My doubts 5067 
It is exactly what I worry. 5066 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5066 
Musicians at home 5066 
Piano Measurements 5065 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5060 
The next step. 5046 
Midbass horns missing?? 5045 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5035 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5035 
Baby Grand 5034 
Wood floor 5034 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5034 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5034 
Amy’s baby. 5032 
Improvement 5032 
Agree with Scott 5032 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5020 
Integrated casters 5020 
Very nice, thanks. 5020 
Customization 5020 
Sliders 5020 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5013 
Congratulations 5013 
Holes in the floor... 5013 
Tubes and kids 5013 
Sweet spot enlargement 5013 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5011 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5010 
Wood Floors and Water 5010 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5005 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5004 
WAF is for Losers 5004 
WAF: it depends. 5004 
Integration 5003 
Here and there. 5003 
Life after WWIII 5003 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5003 
Cables management. 5001 
Featurizing 5001 
Kids and tubes cont. 4998 
Kid magnet 4998 
Kids and audio 4997 
Radars 4997 
Wow, what the days! 4993 
The comming weekend 4989 
It all was worth it! 4986 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4981 
Here is how it is look. 4981 
Resolving the carpet issue 4981 
Bonfire 4981 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4981 
Proof of concept? 4981 
Geometry 4981 
A view from listening position. 4981 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4981 
Some feedback 4981 
Evening 4981 
I wonder why. 4980 
Rugs and things 4980 
In defense… 4980 
I can’t get it. 4977 
Haze. 4976 
Front wall 4976 
It is very possible. 4976 
It is nice to be back. 4973 
My comfy corner. 4970 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4610 
WMD in house. 4432 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4335 
The third listening spot. 4314 
For sure a very different experience. 4276 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4271 
It's Jfretch's system. 4271 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4270 
Domestic games 4224 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4085 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4085 
Dynamic screening 4085 
Actually this is very good idea! 4085 
Volcanic fabric 4085 
I should have done this. 4083 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4079 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4048 
No worries 4048 
Awesome memories 4048 
Optimization of space 4048 
Child-ish considerations 4045 
Finding peace.... 4039 
"Fencing"? 4038 
I need to build something custom 4038 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4038 
Stressed Skin 4038 
NYC elevators 4038 
Kids toys and quantities. 4038 
Everything is completely reversible 4037 
Racks and things 4037 
Now it looks even more promising! 4037 
Quantity of rods 4037 
Avoiding diagonals 4035 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4034 
That's not fair! 4034 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4034 
Discrimination? 4029 
Vertical configuration 4022 
Impresive ! 3951 
Did you read the site? 3951 
Contact 3951 
Company's name is Rixrax 3951 
Stand 3950 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3906 
End of life headphone system 3906 
Something like this? 3906 
The "Second Living Room" 3906 
Mixing urban & suburban 3906 
Late night listening 3906 
Moving life... 3904 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3904 
A true listening room. 3880 
It started… 3865 
Levels of Interest 3865 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3865 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3865 
I can't not to post it.... 3865 
Do not leave him unattended. 3865 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3865 
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