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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5823 
The first take on the new room. 5817 
New Room, a first shot. 5816 
Wonderful 5816 
Adopted 5815 
The first relaxed night with the room 5813 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5812 
The listening room is ready. 5811 
New Room, a First Shot 5809 
Continue to work with the room 5809 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5809 
Room 5808 
I think it will take another month. 5808 
The Buttressing 5808 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5807 
The new place and the new noises. 5807 
Big listening room 5806 
Screw the "big" rooms 5806 
Big listening rooms 5806 
First reflection points 5805 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5805 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5802 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5801 
Squeezing the floor 5801 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5801 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5801 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5800 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5800 
The new room, the very first listening. 5800 
The 14.5 foot. 5799 
Again… 5798 
Romy's new Playground 5798 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5798 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5798 
For the uninitiated ... 5797 
NH guy 5797 
Room 5797 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5796 
The first base is done 5796 
Reentry time alignment. 5795 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5794 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5794 
Mid bass horn. 5794 
Guess is only a guess… 5794 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5794 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5793 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5793 
Diffusors 5793 
Diffuse injection 5793 
Let analyse why it so 5793 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5793 
Wheel and Deal 5793 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5793 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5793 
I Must Be Missing Something 5793 
I put sliders under my speakers 5792 
ROOM 5791 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5791 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5791 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5791 
No concerns 5791 
Speakers and room 5791 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5790 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5790 
Diaphram 5790 
Phram 5790 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5790 
Perfect piston 5790 
Decorater 5789 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5789 
New morning 5788 
The first take on the room with RTA 5787 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5787 
Axiomatic 5787 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5786 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5786 
The size of the bass. 5786 
Bass Factory 5786 
Crude Level, or something more? 5786 
I will play with it this week…. 5786 
Rent-A 5786 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5786 
Corner horns 5786 
Cheating from below 5786 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5786 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5785 
A possibly overly simplified view 5785 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5785 
Iceberg 5785 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5785 
Why not horn 5785 
A correction…. 5785 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5785 
They are just not related things at all. 5785 
Fertin 5783 
Low resonance is good... 5783 
Et tu, Brute? 5782 
The Room response at LF 5781 
Life On The Ground Floor 5781 
Bass arrays 5781 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5781 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5781 
The super sucks. 5781 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5781 
You may also try 5780 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5780 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5780 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5780 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5780 
60 Hz Resonance 5780 
No notching… so far. 5780 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5779 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5779 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5779 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5779 
Power to the People 5779 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5779 
Aura 5779 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5779 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5779 
All class D is the same 5779 
Interpreting the LF results. 5778 
The Halibut 5778 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5778 
The Big Picture 5778 
Power & ULF channels 5778 
The big picture indeed. 5778 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5778 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5778 
The Power and the Glory 5777 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5777 
I guess I did not get this memo 5777 
French LF drivers 5777 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5777 
(another) French LF approach 5776 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5776 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5776 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5776 
Limpschtick 5776 
Symmetry 5776 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5775 
Room correction 5775 
It migh be more complicated. 5775 
Bass EQ ? 5775 
Agree and not. 5775 
Two "diseases" 5775 
Parametric filters 5775 
Ceiling arrays 5775 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5775 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5775 
The Middle of the Room. 5775 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5775 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5775 
Stop! 5775 
Appendectomy 5775 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5774 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5774 
No Isolation 5774 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5771 
Potential contenders? 5770 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5770 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5770 
Those Crazy Canucks 5766 
Mo' Better Bass 5760 
Bird in the Hand? 5760 
A wet listening spot? 5753 
Storm 5750 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5750 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5736 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5706 
Polar Opposite ULF 5705 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5693 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5691 
Differently but the same. 5690 
PVC 5689 
The sail test try. 5689 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5689 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5689 
Trial 5688 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5688 
Some explanations 5688 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5687 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5686 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5685 
Acrylate 5684 
Magic blanket 5684 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5683 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5683 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5683 
I have a few options. 5683 
Foam color 5683 
Strange things with upperbass 5683 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5682 
Teatro reform. . . 5682 
The foaming room dilemma. 5681 
Melamine Foam 5681 
Foaming up the cat house 5681 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5681 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5681 
Acoustic revisions… 5680 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5677 
Surprises so far in the new room 5676 
The upperbass in the new room. 5676 
Slight change of hart. 5675 
Camco supply of Boston 5673 
Room acoustics 5673 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5632 
I need to kill dust first. 5632 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5630 
To feed the leeches? 5630 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5629 
Yh 5629 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5629 
DPOLs? 5629 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5629 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5626 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5626 
A HalfPipe solution? 5626 
I absolutely love it. 5626 
Piper work 5625 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5625 
Absorption 5625 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5624 
Cats life ? 5624 
Call me Pussy. 5624 
More about traps 5624 
Acoustic impedance? 5624 
You maybe right 5624 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5624 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5623 
Heavy Curtain 5623 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5622 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5622 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5622 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5619 
Fix speaker move chair? 5618 
Back and forth ceremony 5618 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5617 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5616 
Glass windows 5615 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5614 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5613 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5611 
How to use basement jacks? 5611 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5611 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5611 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5610 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5610 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5609 
Sore eyes... 5608 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5608 
The harvesting week! 5606 
I need an inspiration… 5605 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5604 
Like this? 5604 
Dramatically randomize MF 5604 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5603 
The room eats dynamic 5603 
Diffusers 5603 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5602 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5587 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5586 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5586 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5586 
About Width-Importance balance. 5584 
Letting the music scale up 5583 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5583 
To finish my house décor… 5579 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5578 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5577 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5577 
Calling the gods of music 5577 
Absolutely 5577 
Phase manipulation 5577 
No relation. 5577 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5577 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5577 
Dynamical mismatch 5576 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5576 
Stradiwinerius? 5573 
Dealing with the glass. 5572 
Boston 5572 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5572 
Added mass 5572 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5572 
It is about moderation…. 5572 
To hell with the wine... 5572 
Also for other surafaces 5571 
LEAD 5571 
LEAD & GLASS 5571 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5571 
Read carefully 5571 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5571 
Crooks and morons 5571 
Magiscopios 5570 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5550 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5550 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5549 
The LP setup in the new home. 5498 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5493 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5493 
Pianochord will do! 5493 
Spanyi heaven 5493 
I see no conflict at all. 5493 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5493 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5493 
A year after closing 5485 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5485 
Traveling antimatter 5478 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5472 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5471 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5445 
Cast Iron fireplace 5444 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5444 
The hardcore way 5444 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5408 
This is How It's Done 5407 
Listening room during summer. 5395 
What about those... 5394 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5394 
Reducing A/C Noise 5394 
HVAC the Cat 5394 
Big Ass fan 5393 
Variac dimmers 5393 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5393 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5393 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5325 
Some winter observations. 5216 
That Asian man…. 5185 
The Franz Schubert morning 5159 
Spring.... 5108 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5058 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5029 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5029 
Just good photography? 5029 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5029 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5029 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5028 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5028 
Sports car 5028 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5028 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5028 
Train Positioning 5028 
Kind of what I want 5028 
The lap listening… 5028 
Family Room 5028 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5025 
A super audio room. 5021 
Time Warp! 5021 
A piano in a listening room 5000 
Pianissimo 5000 
The plan in blue. 5000 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5000 
My doubts 5000 
It is exactly what I worry. 4999 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4999 
Musicians at home 4999 
Piano Measurements 4998 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4993 
The next step. 4979 
Midbass horns missing?? 4978 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4968 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4968 
Baby Grand 4967 
Wood floor 4967 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4967 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4967 
Amy’s baby. 4965 
Improvement 4965 
Agree with Scott 4965 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4953 
Integrated casters 4953 
Very nice, thanks. 4953 
Customization 4953 
Sliders 4953 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4946 
Congratulations 4946 
Holes in the floor... 4946 
Tubes and kids 4946 
Sweet spot enlargement 4946 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4944 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4943 
Wood Floors and Water 4943 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4938 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4937 
WAF is for Losers 4937 
WAF: it depends. 4937 
Integration 4936 
Here and there. 4936 
Life after WWIII 4936 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4936 
Cables management. 4934 
Featurizing 4934 
Kids and tubes cont. 4931 
Kid magnet 4931 
Kids and audio 4930 
Radars 4930 
Wow, what the days! 4926 
The comming weekend 4922 
It all was worth it! 4919 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4914 
Here is how it is look. 4914 
Resolving the carpet issue 4914 
Bonfire 4914 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4914 
Proof of concept? 4914 
Geometry 4914 
A view from listening position. 4914 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4914 
Some feedback 4914 
Evening 4914 
I wonder why. 4913 
Rugs and things 4913 
In defense… 4913 
I can’t get it. 4910 
Haze. 4909 
Front wall 4909 
It is very possible. 4909 
It is nice to be back. 4906 
My comfy corner. 4903 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4543 
WMD in house. 4365 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4268 
The third listening spot. 4247 
For sure a very different experience. 4209 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4204 
It's Jfretch's system. 4204 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4203 
Domestic games 4157 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4018 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4018 
Dynamic screening 4018 
Actually this is very good idea! 4018 
Volcanic fabric 4018 
I should have done this. 4016 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4012 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3981 
No worries 3981 
Awesome memories 3981 
Optimization of space 3981 
Child-ish considerations 3978 
Finding peace.... 3972 
"Fencing"? 3971 
I need to build something custom 3971 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3971 
Stressed Skin 3971 
NYC elevators 3971 
Kids toys and quantities. 3971 
Everything is completely reversible 3970 
Racks and things 3970 
Now it looks even more promising! 3970 
Quantity of rods 3970 
Avoiding diagonals 3968 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3967 
That's not fair! 3967 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3967 
Discrimination? 3962 
Vertical configuration 3955 
Impresive ! 3884 
Did you read the site? 3884 
Contact 3884 
Company's name is Rixrax 3884 
Stand 3883 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3839 
End of life headphone system 3839 
Something like this? 3839 
The "Second Living Room" 3839 
Mixing urban & suburban 3839 
Late night listening 3839 
Moving life... 3837 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3837 
A true listening room. 3813 
It started… 3798 
Levels of Interest 3798 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3798 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3798 
I can't not to post it.... 3798 
Do not leave him unattended. 3798 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3798 
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