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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5929 
The first take on the new room. 5923 
New Room, a first shot. 5922 
Wonderful 5922 
Adopted 5921 
The first relaxed night with the room 5919 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5918 
The listening room is ready. 5917 
New Room, a First Shot 5915 
Continue to work with the room 5915 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5915 
Room 5914 
I think it will take another month. 5914 
The Buttressing 5914 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5913 
The new place and the new noises. 5913 
Big listening room 5912 
Screw the "big" rooms 5912 
Big listening rooms 5912 
First reflection points 5911 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5911 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5908 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5907 
Squeezing the floor 5907 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5907 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5907 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5906 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5906 
The new room, the very first listening. 5906 
The 14.5 foot. 5905 
Again… 5904 
Romy's new Playground 5904 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5904 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5904 
For the uninitiated ... 5903 
NH guy 5903 
Room 5903 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5902 
The first base is done 5902 
Reentry time alignment. 5901 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5900 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5900 
Mid bass horn. 5900 
Guess is only a guess… 5900 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5900 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5899 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5899 
Diffusors 5899 
Diffuse injection 5899 
Let analyse why it so 5899 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5899 
Wheel and Deal 5899 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5899 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5899 
I Must Be Missing Something 5899 
I put sliders under my speakers 5898 
ROOM 5897 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5897 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5897 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5897 
No concerns 5897 
Speakers and room 5897 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5896 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5896 
Diaphram 5896 
Phram 5896 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5896 
Perfect piston 5896 
Decorater 5895 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5895 
New morning 5894 
The first take on the room with RTA 5893 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5893 
Axiomatic 5893 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5892 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5892 
The size of the bass. 5892 
Bass Factory 5892 
Crude Level, or something more? 5892 
I will play with it this week…. 5892 
Rent-A 5892 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5892 
Corner horns 5892 
Cheating from below 5892 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5892 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5891 
A possibly overly simplified view 5891 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5891 
Iceberg 5891 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5891 
Why not horn 5891 
A correction…. 5891 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5891 
They are just not related things at all. 5891 
Fertin 5889 
Low resonance is good... 5889 
Et tu, Brute? 5888 
The Room response at LF 5887 
Life On The Ground Floor 5887 
Bass arrays 5887 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5887 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5887 
The super sucks. 5887 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5887 
You may also try 5886 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5886 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5886 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5886 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5886 
60 Hz Resonance 5886 
No notching… so far. 5886 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5885 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5885 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5885 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5885 
Power to the People 5885 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5885 
Aura 5885 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5885 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5885 
All class D is the same 5885 
Interpreting the LF results. 5884 
The Halibut 5884 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5884 
The Big Picture 5884 
Power & ULF channels 5884 
The big picture indeed. 5884 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5884 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5884 
The Power and the Glory 5883 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5883 
I guess I did not get this memo 5883 
French LF drivers 5883 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5883 
(another) French LF approach 5882 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5882 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5882 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5882 
Limpschtick 5882 
Symmetry 5882 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5881 
Room correction 5881 
It migh be more complicated. 5881 
Bass EQ ? 5881 
Agree and not. 5881 
Two "diseases" 5881 
Parametric filters 5881 
Ceiling arrays 5881 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5881 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5881 
The Middle of the Room. 5881 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5881 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5881 
Stop! 5881 
Appendectomy 5881 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5880 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5880 
No Isolation 5880 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5877 
Potential contenders? 5876 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5876 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5876 
Those Crazy Canucks 5872 
Mo' Better Bass 5866 
Bird in the Hand? 5866 
A wet listening spot? 5859 
Storm 5856 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5856 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5842 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5812 
Polar Opposite ULF 5811 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5799 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5797 
Differently but the same. 5796 
PVC 5795 
The sail test try. 5795 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5795 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5795 
Trial 5794 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5794 
Some explanations 5794 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5793 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5792 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5791 
Acrylate 5790 
Magic blanket 5790 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5789 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5789 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5789 
I have a few options. 5789 
Foam color 5789 
Strange things with upperbass 5789 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5788 
Teatro reform. . . 5788 
The foaming room dilemma. 5787 
Melamine Foam 5787 
Foaming up the cat house 5787 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5787 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5787 
Acoustic revisions… 5786 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5783 
Surprises so far in the new room 5782 
The upperbass in the new room. 5782 
Slight change of hart. 5781 
Camco supply of Boston 5779 
Room acoustics 5779 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5738 
I need to kill dust first. 5738 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5736 
To feed the leeches? 5736 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5735 
Yh 5735 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5735 
DPOLs? 5735 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5735 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5732 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5732 
A HalfPipe solution? 5732 
I absolutely love it. 5732 
Piper work 5731 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5731 
Absorption 5731 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5730 
Cats life ? 5730 
Call me Pussy. 5730 
More about traps 5730 
Acoustic impedance? 5730 
You maybe right 5730 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5730 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5729 
Heavy Curtain 5729 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5728 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5728 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5728 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5725 
Fix speaker move chair? 5724 
Back and forth ceremony 5724 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5723 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5722 
Glass windows 5721 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5720 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5719 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5717 
How to use basement jacks? 5717 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5717 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5717 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5716 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5716 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5715 
Sore eyes... 5714 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5714 
The harvesting week! 5712 
I need an inspiration… 5711 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5710 
Like this? 5710 
Dramatically randomize MF 5710 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5709 
The room eats dynamic 5709 
Diffusers 5709 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5708 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5693 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5692 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5692 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5692 
About Width-Importance balance. 5690 
Letting the music scale up 5689 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5689 
To finish my house décor… 5685 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5684 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5683 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5683 
Calling the gods of music 5683 
Absolutely 5683 
Phase manipulation 5683 
No relation. 5683 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5683 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5683 
Dynamical mismatch 5682 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5682 
Stradiwinerius? 5679 
Dealing with the glass. 5678 
Boston 5678 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5678 
Added mass 5678 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5678 
It is about moderation…. 5678 
To hell with the wine... 5678 
Also for other surafaces 5677 
LEAD 5677 
LEAD & GLASS 5677 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5677 
Read carefully 5677 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5677 
Crooks and morons 5677 
Magiscopios 5676 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5656 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5656 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5655 
The LP setup in the new home. 5604 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5599 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5599 
Pianochord will do! 5599 
Spanyi heaven 5599 
I see no conflict at all. 5599 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5599 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5599 
A year after closing 5591 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5591 
Traveling antimatter 5584 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5578 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5577 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5551 
Cast Iron fireplace 5550 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5550 
The hardcore way 5550 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5514 
This is How It's Done 5513 
Listening room during summer. 5501 
What about those... 5500 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5500 
Reducing A/C Noise 5500 
HVAC the Cat 5500 
Big Ass fan 5499 
Variac dimmers 5499 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5499 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5499 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5431 
Some winter observations. 5322 
That Asian man…. 5291 
The Franz Schubert morning 5265 
Spring.... 5214 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5164 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5135 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5135 
Just good photography? 5135 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5135 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5135 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5134 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5134 
Sports car 5134 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5134 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5134 
Train Positioning 5134 
Kind of what I want 5134 
The lap listening… 5134 
Family Room 5134 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5131 
A super audio room. 5127 
Time Warp! 5127 
A piano in a listening room 5106 
Pianissimo 5106 
The plan in blue. 5106 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5106 
My doubts 5106 
It is exactly what I worry. 5105 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5105 
Musicians at home 5105 
Piano Measurements 5104 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5099 
The next step. 5085 
Midbass horns missing?? 5084 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5074 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5074 
Baby Grand 5073 
Wood floor 5073 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5073 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5073 
Amy’s baby. 5071 
Improvement 5071 
Agree with Scott 5071 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5059 
Integrated casters 5059 
Very nice, thanks. 5059 
Customization 5059 
Sliders 5059 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5052 
Congratulations 5052 
Holes in the floor... 5052 
Tubes and kids 5052 
Sweet spot enlargement 5052 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5050 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5049 
Wood Floors and Water 5049 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5044 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5043 
WAF is for Losers 5043 
WAF: it depends. 5043 
Integration 5042 
Here and there. 5042 
Life after WWIII 5042 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5042 
Cables management. 5040 
Featurizing 5040 
Kids and tubes cont. 5037 
Kid magnet 5037 
Kids and audio 5036 
Radars 5036 
Wow, what the days! 5032 
The comming weekend 5028 
It all was worth it! 5025 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5020 
Here is how it is look. 5020 
Resolving the carpet issue 5020 
Bonfire 5020 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5020 
Proof of concept? 5020 
Geometry 5020 
A view from listening position. 5020 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5020 
Some feedback 5020 
Evening 5020 
I wonder why. 5019 
Rugs and things 5019 
In defense… 5019 
I can’t get it. 5016 
Haze. 5015 
Front wall 5015 
It is very possible. 5015 
It is nice to be back. 5012 
My comfy corner. 5009 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4649 
WMD in house. 4471 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4374 
The third listening spot. 4353 
For sure a very different experience. 4315 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4310 
It's Jfretch's system. 4310 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4309 
Domestic games 4263 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4124 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4124 
Dynamic screening 4124 
Actually this is very good idea! 4124 
Volcanic fabric 4124 
I should have done this. 4122 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4118 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4087 
No worries 4087 
Awesome memories 4087 
Optimization of space 4087 
Child-ish considerations 4084 
Finding peace.... 4078 
"Fencing"? 4077 
I need to build something custom 4077 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4077 
Stressed Skin 4077 
NYC elevators 4077 
Kids toys and quantities. 4077 
Everything is completely reversible 4076 
Racks and things 4076 
Now it looks even more promising! 4076 
Quantity of rods 4076 
Avoiding diagonals 4074 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4073 
That's not fair! 4073 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4073 
Discrimination? 4068 
Vertical configuration 4061 
Impresive ! 3990 
Did you read the site? 3990 
Contact 3990 
Company's name is Rixrax 3990 
Stand 3989 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3945 
End of life headphone system 3945 
Something like this? 3945 
The "Second Living Room" 3945 
Mixing urban & suburban 3945 
Late night listening 3945 
Moving life... 3943 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3943 
A true listening room. 3919 
It started… 3904 
Levels of Interest 3904 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3904 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3904 
I can't not to post it.... 3904 
Do not leave him unattended. 3904 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3904 
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