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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5891 
The first take on the new room. 5885 
New Room, a first shot. 5884 
Wonderful 5884 
Adopted 5883 
The first relaxed night with the room 5881 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5880 
The listening room is ready. 5879 
New Room, a First Shot 5877 
Continue to work with the room 5877 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5877 
Room 5876 
I think it will take another month. 5876 
The Buttressing 5876 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5875 
The new place and the new noises. 5875 
Big listening room 5874 
Screw the "big" rooms 5874 
Big listening rooms 5874 
First reflection points 5873 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5873 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5870 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5869 
Squeezing the floor 5869 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5869 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5869 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5868 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5868 
The new room, the very first listening. 5868 
The 14.5 foot. 5867 
Again… 5866 
Romy's new Playground 5866 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5866 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5866 
For the uninitiated ... 5865 
NH guy 5865 
Room 5865 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5864 
The first base is done 5864 
Reentry time alignment. 5863 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5862 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5862 
Mid bass horn. 5862 
Guess is only a guess… 5862 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5862 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5861 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5861 
Diffusors 5861 
Diffuse injection 5861 
Let analyse why it so 5861 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5861 
Wheel and Deal 5861 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5861 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5861 
I Must Be Missing Something 5861 
I put sliders under my speakers 5860 
ROOM 5859 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5859 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5859 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5859 
No concerns 5859 
Speakers and room 5859 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5858 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5858 
Diaphram 5858 
Phram 5858 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5858 
Perfect piston 5858 
Decorater 5857 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5857 
New morning 5856 
The first take on the room with RTA 5855 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5855 
Axiomatic 5855 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5854 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5854 
The size of the bass. 5854 
Bass Factory 5854 
Crude Level, or something more? 5854 
I will play with it this week…. 5854 
Rent-A 5854 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5854 
Corner horns 5854 
Cheating from below 5854 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5854 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5853 
A possibly overly simplified view 5853 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5853 
Iceberg 5853 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5853 
Why not horn 5853 
A correction…. 5853 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5853 
They are just not related things at all. 5853 
Fertin 5851 
Low resonance is good... 5851 
Et tu, Brute? 5850 
The Room response at LF 5849 
Life On The Ground Floor 5849 
Bass arrays 5849 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5849 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5849 
The super sucks. 5849 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5849 
You may also try 5848 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5848 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5848 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5848 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5848 
60 Hz Resonance 5848 
No notching… so far. 5848 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5847 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5847 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5847 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5847 
Power to the People 5847 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5847 
Aura 5847 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5847 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5847 
All class D is the same 5847 
Interpreting the LF results. 5846 
The Halibut 5846 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5846 
The Big Picture 5846 
Power & ULF channels 5846 
The big picture indeed. 5846 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5846 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5846 
The Power and the Glory 5845 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5845 
I guess I did not get this memo 5845 
French LF drivers 5845 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5845 
(another) French LF approach 5844 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5844 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5844 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5844 
Limpschtick 5844 
Symmetry 5844 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5843 
Room correction 5843 
It migh be more complicated. 5843 
Bass EQ ? 5843 
Agree and not. 5843 
Two "diseases" 5843 
Parametric filters 5843 
Ceiling arrays 5843 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5843 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5843 
The Middle of the Room. 5843 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5843 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5843 
Stop! 5843 
Appendectomy 5843 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5842 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5842 
No Isolation 5842 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5839 
Potential contenders? 5838 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5838 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5838 
Those Crazy Canucks 5834 
Mo' Better Bass 5828 
Bird in the Hand? 5828 
A wet listening spot? 5821 
Storm 5818 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5818 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5804 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5774 
Polar Opposite ULF 5773 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5761 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5759 
Differently but the same. 5758 
PVC 5757 
The sail test try. 5757 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5757 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5757 
Trial 5756 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5756 
Some explanations 5756 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5755 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5754 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5753 
Acrylate 5752 
Magic blanket 5752 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5751 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5751 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5751 
I have a few options. 5751 
Foam color 5751 
Strange things with upperbass 5751 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5750 
Teatro reform. . . 5750 
The foaming room dilemma. 5749 
Melamine Foam 5749 
Foaming up the cat house 5749 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5749 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5749 
Acoustic revisions… 5748 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5745 
Surprises so far in the new room 5744 
The upperbass in the new room. 5744 
Slight change of hart. 5743 
Camco supply of Boston 5741 
Room acoustics 5741 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5700 
I need to kill dust first. 5700 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5698 
To feed the leeches? 5698 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5697 
Yh 5697 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5697 
DPOLs? 5697 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5697 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5694 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5694 
A HalfPipe solution? 5694 
I absolutely love it. 5694 
Piper work 5693 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5693 
Absorption 5693 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5692 
Cats life ? 5692 
Call me Pussy. 5692 
More about traps 5692 
Acoustic impedance? 5692 
You maybe right 5692 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5692 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5691 
Heavy Curtain 5691 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5690 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5690 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5690 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5687 
Fix speaker move chair? 5686 
Back and forth ceremony 5686 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5685 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5684 
Glass windows 5683 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5682 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5681 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5679 
How to use basement jacks? 5679 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5679 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5679 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5678 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5678 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5677 
Sore eyes... 5676 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5676 
The harvesting week! 5674 
I need an inspiration… 5673 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5672 
Like this? 5672 
Dramatically randomize MF 5672 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5671 
The room eats dynamic 5671 
Diffusers 5671 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5670 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5655 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5654 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5654 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5654 
About Width-Importance balance. 5652 
Letting the music scale up 5651 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5651 
To finish my house décor… 5647 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5646 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5645 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5645 
Calling the gods of music 5645 
Absolutely 5645 
Phase manipulation 5645 
No relation. 5645 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5645 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5645 
Dynamical mismatch 5644 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5644 
Stradiwinerius? 5641 
Dealing with the glass. 5640 
Boston 5640 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5640 
Added mass 5640 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5640 
It is about moderation…. 5640 
To hell with the wine... 5640 
Also for other surafaces 5639 
LEAD 5639 
LEAD & GLASS 5639 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5639 
Read carefully 5639 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5639 
Crooks and morons 5639 
Magiscopios 5638 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5618 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5618 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5617 
The LP setup in the new home. 5566 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5561 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5561 
Pianochord will do! 5561 
Spanyi heaven 5561 
I see no conflict at all. 5561 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5561 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5561 
A year after closing 5553 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5553 
Traveling antimatter 5546 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5540 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5539 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5513 
Cast Iron fireplace 5512 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5512 
The hardcore way 5512 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5476 
This is How It's Done 5475 
Listening room during summer. 5463 
What about those... 5462 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5462 
Reducing A/C Noise 5462 
HVAC the Cat 5462 
Big Ass fan 5461 
Variac dimmers 5461 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5461 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5461 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5393 
Some winter observations. 5284 
That Asian man…. 5253 
The Franz Schubert morning 5227 
Spring.... 5176 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5126 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5097 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5097 
Just good photography? 5097 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5097 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5097 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5096 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5096 
Sports car 5096 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5096 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5096 
Train Positioning 5096 
Kind of what I want 5096 
The lap listening… 5096 
Family Room 5096 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5093 
A super audio room. 5089 
Time Warp! 5089 
A piano in a listening room 5068 
Pianissimo 5068 
The plan in blue. 5068 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5068 
My doubts 5068 
It is exactly what I worry. 5067 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5067 
Musicians at home 5067 
Piano Measurements 5066 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5061 
The next step. 5047 
Midbass horns missing?? 5046 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5036 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5036 
Baby Grand 5035 
Wood floor 5035 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5035 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5035 
Amy’s baby. 5033 
Improvement 5033 
Agree with Scott 5033 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5021 
Integrated casters 5021 
Very nice, thanks. 5021 
Customization 5021 
Sliders 5021 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5014 
Congratulations 5014 
Holes in the floor... 5014 
Tubes and kids 5014 
Sweet spot enlargement 5014 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5012 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5011 
Wood Floors and Water 5011 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5006 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5005 
WAF is for Losers 5005 
WAF: it depends. 5005 
Integration 5004 
Here and there. 5004 
Life after WWIII 5004 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5004 
Cables management. 5002 
Featurizing 5002 
Kids and tubes cont. 4999 
Kid magnet 4999 
Kids and audio 4998 
Radars 4998 
Wow, what the days! 4994 
The comming weekend 4990 
It all was worth it! 4987 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4982 
Here is how it is look. 4982 
Resolving the carpet issue 4982 
Bonfire 4982 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4982 
Proof of concept? 4982 
Geometry 4982 
A view from listening position. 4982 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4982 
Some feedback 4982 
Evening 4982 
I wonder why. 4981 
Rugs and things 4981 
In defense… 4981 
I can’t get it. 4978 
Haze. 4977 
Front wall 4977 
It is very possible. 4977 
It is nice to be back. 4974 
My comfy corner. 4971 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4611 
WMD in house. 4433 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4336 
The third listening spot. 4315 
For sure a very different experience. 4277 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4272 
It's Jfretch's system. 4272 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4271 
Domestic games 4225 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4086 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4086 
Dynamic screening 4086 
Actually this is very good idea! 4086 
Volcanic fabric 4086 
I should have done this. 4084 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4080 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4049 
No worries 4049 
Awesome memories 4049 
Optimization of space 4049 
Child-ish considerations 4046 
Finding peace.... 4040 
"Fencing"? 4039 
I need to build something custom 4039 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4039 
Stressed Skin 4039 
NYC elevators 4039 
Kids toys and quantities. 4039 
Everything is completely reversible 4038 
Racks and things 4038 
Now it looks even more promising! 4038 
Quantity of rods 4038 
Avoiding diagonals 4036 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4035 
That's not fair! 4035 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4035 
Discrimination? 4030 
Vertical configuration 4023 
Impresive ! 3952 
Did you read the site? 3952 
Contact 3952 
Company's name is Rixrax 3952 
Stand 3951 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3907 
End of life headphone system 3907 
Something like this? 3907 
The "Second Living Room" 3907 
Mixing urban & suburban 3907 
Late night listening 3907 
Moving life... 3905 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3905 
A true listening room. 3881 
It started… 3866 
Levels of Interest 3866 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3866 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3866 
I can't not to post it.... 3866 
Do not leave him unattended. 3866 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3866 
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