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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6051 
The first take on the new room. 6045 
New Room, a first shot. 6044 
Wonderful 6044 
Adopted 6043 
The first relaxed night with the room 6041 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6040 
The listening room is ready. 6039 
New Room, a First Shot 6037 
Continue to work with the room 6037 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6037 
Room 6036 
I think it will take another month. 6036 
The Buttressing 6036 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6035 
The new place and the new noises. 6035 
Big listening room 6034 
Screw the "big" rooms 6034 
Big listening rooms 6034 
First reflection points 6033 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6033 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6030 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6029 
Squeezing the floor 6029 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6029 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6029 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6028 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6028 
The new room, the very first listening. 6028 
The 14.5 foot. 6027 
Again… 6026 
Romy's new Playground 6026 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6026 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6026 
For the uninitiated ... 6025 
NH guy 6025 
Room 6025 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6024 
The first base is done 6024 
Reentry time alignment. 6023 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6022 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6022 
Mid bass horn. 6022 
Guess is only a guess… 6022 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6022 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6021 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6021 
Diffusors 6021 
Diffuse injection 6021 
Let analyse why it so 6021 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6021 
Wheel and Deal 6021 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6021 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6021 
I Must Be Missing Something 6021 
I put sliders under my speakers 6020 
ROOM 6019 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6019 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6019 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6019 
No concerns 6019 
Speakers and room 6019 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6018 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6018 
Diaphram 6018 
Phram 6018 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6018 
Perfect piston 6018 
Decorater 6017 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6017 
New morning 6016 
The first take on the room with RTA 6015 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6015 
Axiomatic 6015 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6014 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6014 
The size of the bass. 6014 
Bass Factory 6014 
Crude Level, or something more? 6014 
I will play with it this week…. 6014 
Rent-A 6014 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6014 
Corner horns 6014 
Cheating from below 6014 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6014 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6013 
A possibly overly simplified view 6013 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6013 
Iceberg 6013 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6013 
Why not horn 6013 
A correction…. 6013 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6013 
They are just not related things at all. 6013 
Fertin 6011 
Low resonance is good... 6011 
Et tu, Brute? 6010 
The Room response at LF 6009 
Life On The Ground Floor 6009 
Bass arrays 6009 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6009 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6009 
The super sucks. 6009 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6009 
You may also try 6008 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6008 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6008 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6008 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6008 
60 Hz Resonance 6008 
No notching… so far. 6008 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6007 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6007 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6007 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6007 
Power to the People 6007 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6007 
Aura 6007 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6007 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6007 
All class D is the same 6007 
Interpreting the LF results. 6006 
The Halibut 6006 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6006 
The Big Picture 6006 
Power & ULF channels 6006 
The big picture indeed. 6006 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6006 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6006 
The Power and the Glory 6005 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6005 
I guess I did not get this memo 6005 
French LF drivers 6005 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6005 
(another) French LF approach 6004 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6004 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6004 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6004 
Limpschtick 6004 
Symmetry 6004 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6003 
Room correction 6003 
It migh be more complicated. 6003 
Bass EQ ? 6003 
Agree and not. 6003 
Two "diseases" 6003 
Parametric filters 6003 
Ceiling arrays 6003 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6003 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6003 
The Middle of the Room. 6003 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6003 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6003 
Stop! 6003 
Appendectomy 6003 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6002 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6002 
No Isolation 6002 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5999 
Potential contenders? 5998 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5998 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5998 
Those Crazy Canucks 5994 
Mo' Better Bass 5988 
Bird in the Hand? 5988 
A wet listening spot? 5981 
Storm 5978 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5978 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5964 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5934 
Polar Opposite ULF 5933 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5921 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5919 
Differently but the same. 5918 
PVC 5917 
The sail test try. 5917 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5917 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5917 
Trial 5916 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5916 
Some explanations 5916 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5915 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5914 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5913 
Acrylate 5912 
Magic blanket 5912 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5911 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5911 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5911 
I have a few options. 5911 
Foam color 5911 
Strange things with upperbass 5911 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5910 
Teatro reform. . . 5910 
The foaming room dilemma. 5909 
Melamine Foam 5909 
Foaming up the cat house 5909 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5909 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5909 
Acoustic revisions… 5908 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5905 
Surprises so far in the new room 5904 
The upperbass in the new room. 5904 
Slight change of hart. 5903 
Camco supply of Boston 5901 
Room acoustics 5901 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5860 
I need to kill dust first. 5860 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5858 
To feed the leeches? 5858 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5857 
Yh 5857 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5857 
DPOLs? 5857 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5857 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5854 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5854 
A HalfPipe solution? 5854 
I absolutely love it. 5854 
Piper work 5853 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5853 
Absorption 5853 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5852 
Cats life ? 5852 
Call me Pussy. 5852 
More about traps 5852 
Acoustic impedance? 5852 
You maybe right 5852 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5852 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5851 
Heavy Curtain 5851 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5850 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5850 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5850 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5847 
Fix speaker move chair? 5846 
Back and forth ceremony 5846 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5845 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5844 
Glass windows 5843 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5842 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5841 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5839 
How to use basement jacks? 5839 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5839 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5839 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5838 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5838 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5837 
Sore eyes... 5836 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5836 
The harvesting week! 5834 
I need an inspiration… 5833 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5832 
Like this? 5832 
Dramatically randomize MF 5832 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5831 
The room eats dynamic 5831 
Diffusers 5831 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5830 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5815 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5814 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5814 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5814 
About Width-Importance balance. 5812 
Letting the music scale up 5811 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5811 
To finish my house décor… 5807 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5806 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5805 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5805 
Calling the gods of music 5805 
Absolutely 5805 
Phase manipulation 5805 
No relation. 5805 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5805 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5805 
Dynamical mismatch 5804 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5804 
Stradiwinerius? 5801 
Dealing with the glass. 5800 
Boston 5800 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5800 
Added mass 5800 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5800 
It is about moderation…. 5800 
To hell with the wine... 5800 
Also for other surafaces 5799 
LEAD 5799 
LEAD & GLASS 5799 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5799 
Read carefully 5799 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5799 
Crooks and morons 5799 
Magiscopios 5798 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5778 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5778 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5777 
The LP setup in the new home. 5726 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5721 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5721 
Pianochord will do! 5721 
Spanyi heaven 5721 
I see no conflict at all. 5721 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5721 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5721 
A year after closing 5713 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5713 
Traveling antimatter 5706 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5700 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5699 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5673 
Cast Iron fireplace 5672 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5672 
The hardcore way 5672 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5636 
This is How It's Done 5635 
Listening room during summer. 5623 
What about those... 5622 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5622 
Reducing A/C Noise 5622 
HVAC the Cat 5622 
Big Ass fan 5621 
Variac dimmers 5621 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5621 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5621 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5553 
Some winter observations. 5444 
That Asian man…. 5413 
The Franz Schubert morning 5387 
Spring.... 5336 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5286 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5257 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5257 
Just good photography? 5257 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5257 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5257 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5256 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5256 
Sports car 5256 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5256 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5256 
Train Positioning 5256 
Kind of what I want 5256 
The lap listening… 5256 
Family Room 5256 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5253 
A super audio room. 5249 
Time Warp! 5249 
A piano in a listening room 5228 
Pianissimo 5228 
The plan in blue. 5228 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5228 
My doubts 5228 
It is exactly what I worry. 5227 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5227 
Musicians at home 5227 
Piano Measurements 5226 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5221 
The next step. 5207 
Midbass horns missing?? 5206 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5196 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5196 
Baby Grand 5195 
Wood floor 5195 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5195 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5195 
Amy’s baby. 5193 
Improvement 5193 
Agree with Scott 5193 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5181 
Integrated casters 5181 
Very nice, thanks. 5181 
Customization 5181 
Sliders 5181 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5174 
Congratulations 5174 
Holes in the floor... 5174 
Tubes and kids 5174 
Sweet spot enlargement 5174 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5172 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5171 
Wood Floors and Water 5171 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5166 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5165 
WAF is for Losers 5165 
WAF: it depends. 5165 
Integration 5164 
Here and there. 5164 
Life after WWIII 5164 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5164 
Cables management. 5162 
Featurizing 5162 
Kids and tubes cont. 5159 
Kid magnet 5159 
Kids and audio 5158 
Radars 5158 
Wow, what the days! 5154 
The comming weekend 5150 
It all was worth it! 5147 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5142 
Here is how it is look. 5142 
Resolving the carpet issue 5142 
Bonfire 5142 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5142 
Proof of concept? 5142 
Geometry 5142 
A view from listening position. 5142 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5142 
Some feedback 5142 
Evening 5142 
I wonder why. 5141 
Rugs and things 5141 
In defense… 5141 
I can’t get it. 5138 
Haze. 5137 
Front wall 5137 
It is very possible. 5137 
It is nice to be back. 5134 
My comfy corner. 5131 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4771 
WMD in house. 4593 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4496 
The third listening spot. 4475 
For sure a very different experience. 4437 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4432 
It's Jfretch's system. 4432 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4431 
Domestic games 4385 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4246 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4246 
Dynamic screening 4246 
Actually this is very good idea! 4246 
Volcanic fabric 4246 
I should have done this. 4244 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4240 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4209 
No worries 4209 
Awesome memories 4209 
Optimization of space 4209 
Child-ish considerations 4206 
Finding peace.... 4200 
"Fencing"? 4199 
I need to build something custom 4199 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4199 
Stressed Skin 4199 
NYC elevators 4199 
Kids toys and quantities. 4199 
Everything is completely reversible 4198 
Racks and things 4198 
Now it looks even more promising! 4198 
Quantity of rods 4198 
Avoiding diagonals 4196 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4195 
That's not fair! 4195 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4195 
Discrimination? 4190 
Vertical configuration 4183 
Impresive ! 4112 
Did you read the site? 4112 
Contact 4112 
Company's name is Rixrax 4112 
Stand 4111 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4067 
End of life headphone system 4067 
Something like this? 4067 
The "Second Living Room" 4067 
Mixing urban & suburban 4067 
Late night listening 4067 
Moving life... 4065 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4065 
A true listening room. 4041 
It started… 4026 
Levels of Interest 4026 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4026 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4026 
I can't not to post it.... 4026 
Do not leave him unattended. 4026 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4026 
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