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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5839 
The first take on the new room. 5833 
New Room, a first shot. 5832 
Wonderful 5832 
Adopted 5831 
The first relaxed night with the room 5829 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5828 
The listening room is ready. 5827 
New Room, a First Shot 5825 
Continue to work with the room 5825 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5825 
Room 5824 
I think it will take another month. 5824 
The Buttressing 5824 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5823 
The new place and the new noises. 5823 
Big listening room 5822 
Screw the "big" rooms 5822 
Big listening rooms 5822 
First reflection points 5821 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5821 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5818 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5817 
Squeezing the floor 5817 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5817 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5817 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5816 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5816 
The new room, the very first listening. 5816 
The 14.5 foot. 5815 
Again… 5814 
Romy's new Playground 5814 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5814 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5814 
For the uninitiated ... 5813 
NH guy 5813 
Room 5813 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5812 
The first base is done 5812 
Reentry time alignment. 5811 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5810 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5810 
Mid bass horn. 5810 
Guess is only a guess… 5810 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5810 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5809 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5809 
Diffusors 5809 
Diffuse injection 5809 
Let analyse why it so 5809 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5809 
Wheel and Deal 5809 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5809 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5809 
I Must Be Missing Something 5809 
I put sliders under my speakers 5808 
ROOM 5807 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5807 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5807 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5807 
No concerns 5807 
Speakers and room 5807 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5806 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5806 
Diaphram 5806 
Phram 5806 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5806 
Perfect piston 5806 
Decorater 5805 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5805 
New morning 5804 
The first take on the room with RTA 5803 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5803 
Axiomatic 5803 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5802 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5802 
The size of the bass. 5802 
Bass Factory 5802 
Crude Level, or something more? 5802 
I will play with it this week…. 5802 
Rent-A 5802 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5802 
Corner horns 5802 
Cheating from below 5802 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5802 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5801 
A possibly overly simplified view 5801 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5801 
Iceberg 5801 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5801 
Why not horn 5801 
A correction…. 5801 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5801 
They are just not related things at all. 5801 
Fertin 5799 
Low resonance is good... 5799 
Et tu, Brute? 5798 
The Room response at LF 5797 
Life On The Ground Floor 5797 
Bass arrays 5797 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5797 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5797 
The super sucks. 5797 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5797 
You may also try 5796 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5796 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5796 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5796 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5796 
60 Hz Resonance 5796 
No notching… so far. 5796 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5795 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5795 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5795 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5795 
Power to the People 5795 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5795 
Aura 5795 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5795 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5795 
All class D is the same 5795 
Interpreting the LF results. 5794 
The Halibut 5794 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5794 
The Big Picture 5794 
Power & ULF channels 5794 
The big picture indeed. 5794 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5794 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5794 
The Power and the Glory 5793 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5793 
I guess I did not get this memo 5793 
French LF drivers 5793 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5793 
(another) French LF approach 5792 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5792 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5792 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5792 
Limpschtick 5792 
Symmetry 5792 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5791 
Room correction 5791 
It migh be more complicated. 5791 
Bass EQ ? 5791 
Agree and not. 5791 
Two "diseases" 5791 
Parametric filters 5791 
Ceiling arrays 5791 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5791 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5791 
The Middle of the Room. 5791 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5791 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5791 
Stop! 5791 
Appendectomy 5791 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5790 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5790 
No Isolation 5790 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5787 
Potential contenders? 5786 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5786 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5786 
Those Crazy Canucks 5782 
Mo' Better Bass 5776 
Bird in the Hand? 5776 
A wet listening spot? 5769 
Storm 5766 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5766 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5752 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5722 
Polar Opposite ULF 5721 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5709 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5707 
Differently but the same. 5706 
PVC 5705 
The sail test try. 5705 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5705 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5705 
Trial 5704 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5704 
Some explanations 5704 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5703 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5702 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5701 
Acrylate 5700 
Magic blanket 5700 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5699 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5699 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5699 
I have a few options. 5699 
Foam color 5699 
Strange things with upperbass 5699 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5698 
Teatro reform. . . 5698 
The foaming room dilemma. 5697 
Melamine Foam 5697 
Foaming up the cat house 5697 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5697 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5697 
Acoustic revisions… 5696 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5693 
Surprises so far in the new room 5692 
The upperbass in the new room. 5692 
Slight change of hart. 5691 
Camco supply of Boston 5689 
Room acoustics 5689 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5648 
I need to kill dust first. 5648 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5646 
To feed the leeches? 5646 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5645 
Yh 5645 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5645 
DPOLs? 5645 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5645 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5642 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5642 
A HalfPipe solution? 5642 
I absolutely love it. 5642 
Piper work 5641 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5641 
Absorption 5641 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5640 
Cats life ? 5640 
Call me Pussy. 5640 
More about traps 5640 
Acoustic impedance? 5640 
You maybe right 5640 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5640 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5639 
Heavy Curtain 5639 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5638 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5638 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5638 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5635 
Fix speaker move chair? 5634 
Back and forth ceremony 5634 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5633 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5632 
Glass windows 5631 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5630 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5629 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5627 
How to use basement jacks? 5627 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5627 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5627 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5626 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5626 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5625 
Sore eyes... 5624 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5624 
The harvesting week! 5622 
I need an inspiration… 5621 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5620 
Like this? 5620 
Dramatically randomize MF 5620 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5619 
The room eats dynamic 5619 
Diffusers 5619 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5618 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5603 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5602 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5602 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5602 
About Width-Importance balance. 5600 
Letting the music scale up 5599 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5599 
To finish my house décor… 5595 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5594 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5593 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5593 
Calling the gods of music 5593 
Absolutely 5593 
Phase manipulation 5593 
No relation. 5593 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5593 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5593 
Dynamical mismatch 5592 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5592 
Stradiwinerius? 5589 
Dealing with the glass. 5588 
Boston 5588 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5588 
Added mass 5588 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5588 
It is about moderation…. 5588 
To hell with the wine... 5588 
Also for other surafaces 5587 
LEAD 5587 
LEAD & GLASS 5587 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5587 
Read carefully 5587 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5587 
Crooks and morons 5587 
Magiscopios 5586 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5566 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5566 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5565 
The LP setup in the new home. 5514 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5509 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5509 
Pianochord will do! 5509 
Spanyi heaven 5509 
I see no conflict at all. 5509 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5509 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5509 
A year after closing 5501 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5501 
Traveling antimatter 5494 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5488 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5487 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5461 
Cast Iron fireplace 5460 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5460 
The hardcore way 5460 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5424 
This is How It's Done 5423 
Listening room during summer. 5411 
What about those... 5410 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5410 
Reducing A/C Noise 5410 
HVAC the Cat 5410 
Big Ass fan 5409 
Variac dimmers 5409 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5409 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5409 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5341 
Some winter observations. 5232 
That Asian man…. 5201 
The Franz Schubert morning 5175 
Spring.... 5124 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5074 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5045 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5045 
Just good photography? 5045 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5045 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5045 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5044 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5044 
Sports car 5044 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5044 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5044 
Train Positioning 5044 
Kind of what I want 5044 
The lap listening… 5044 
Family Room 5044 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5041 
A super audio room. 5037 
Time Warp! 5037 
A piano in a listening room 5016 
Pianissimo 5016 
The plan in blue. 5016 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5016 
My doubts 5016 
It is exactly what I worry. 5015 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5015 
Musicians at home 5015 
Piano Measurements 5014 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5009 
The next step. 4995 
Midbass horns missing?? 4994 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4984 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4984 
Baby Grand 4983 
Wood floor 4983 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4983 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4983 
Amy’s baby. 4981 
Improvement 4981 
Agree with Scott 4981 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4969 
Integrated casters 4969 
Very nice, thanks. 4969 
Customization 4969 
Sliders 4969 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4962 
Congratulations 4962 
Holes in the floor... 4962 
Tubes and kids 4962 
Sweet spot enlargement 4962 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4960 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4959 
Wood Floors and Water 4959 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4954 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4953 
WAF is for Losers 4953 
WAF: it depends. 4953 
Integration 4952 
Here and there. 4952 
Life after WWIII 4952 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4952 
Cables management. 4950 
Featurizing 4950 
Kids and tubes cont. 4947 
Kid magnet 4947 
Kids and audio 4946 
Radars 4946 
Wow, what the days! 4942 
The comming weekend 4938 
It all was worth it! 4935 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4930 
Here is how it is look. 4930 
Resolving the carpet issue 4930 
Bonfire 4930 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4930 
Proof of concept? 4930 
Geometry 4930 
A view from listening position. 4930 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4930 
Some feedback 4930 
Evening 4930 
I wonder why. 4929 
Rugs and things 4929 
In defense… 4929 
I can’t get it. 4926 
Haze. 4925 
Front wall 4925 
It is very possible. 4925 
It is nice to be back. 4922 
My comfy corner. 4919 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4559 
WMD in house. 4381 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4284 
The third listening spot. 4263 
For sure a very different experience. 4225 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4220 
It's Jfretch's system. 4220 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4219 
Domestic games 4173 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4034 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4034 
Dynamic screening 4034 
Actually this is very good idea! 4034 
Volcanic fabric 4034 
I should have done this. 4032 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4028 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3997 
No worries 3997 
Awesome memories 3997 
Optimization of space 3997 
Child-ish considerations 3994 
Finding peace.... 3988 
"Fencing"? 3987 
I need to build something custom 3987 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3987 
Stressed Skin 3987 
NYC elevators 3987 
Kids toys and quantities. 3987 
Everything is completely reversible 3986 
Racks and things 3986 
Now it looks even more promising! 3986 
Quantity of rods 3986 
Avoiding diagonals 3984 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3983 
That's not fair! 3983 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3983 
Discrimination? 3978 
Vertical configuration 3971 
Impresive ! 3900 
Did you read the site? 3900 
Contact 3900 
Company's name is Rixrax 3900 
Stand 3899 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3855 
End of life headphone system 3855 
Something like this? 3855 
The "Second Living Room" 3855 
Mixing urban & suburban 3855 
Late night listening 3855 
Moving life... 3853 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3853 
A true listening room. 3829 
It started… 3814 
Levels of Interest 3814 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3814 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3814 
I can't not to post it.... 3814 
Do not leave him unattended. 3814 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3814 
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