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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5775 
The first take on the new room. 5769 
New Room, a first shot. 5768 
Wonderful 5768 
Adopted 5767 
The first relaxed night with the room 5765 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5764 
The listening room is ready. 5763 
New Room, a First Shot 5761 
Continue to work with the room 5761 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5761 
Room 5760 
I think it will take another month. 5760 
The Buttressing 5760 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5759 
The new place and the new noises. 5759 
Big listening room 5758 
Screw the "big" rooms 5758 
Big listening rooms 5758 
First reflection points 5757 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5757 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5754 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5753 
Squeezing the floor 5753 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5753 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5753 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5752 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5752 
The new room, the very first listening. 5752 
The 14.5 foot. 5751 
Again… 5750 
Romy's new Playground 5750 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5750 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5750 
For the uninitiated ... 5749 
NH guy 5749 
Room 5749 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5748 
The first base is done 5748 
Reentry time alignment. 5747 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5746 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5746 
Mid bass horn. 5746 
Guess is only a guess… 5746 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5746 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5745 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5745 
Diffusors 5745 
Diffuse injection 5745 
Let analyse why it so 5745 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5745 
Wheel and Deal 5745 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5745 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5745 
I Must Be Missing Something 5745 
I put sliders under my speakers 5744 
ROOM 5743 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5743 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5743 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5743 
No concerns 5743 
Speakers and room 5743 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5742 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5742 
Diaphram 5742 
Phram 5742 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5742 
Perfect piston 5742 
Decorater 5741 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5741 
New morning 5740 
The first take on the room with RTA 5739 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5739 
Axiomatic 5739 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5738 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5738 
The size of the bass. 5738 
Bass Factory 5738 
Crude Level, or something more? 5738 
I will play with it this week…. 5738 
Rent-A 5738 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5738 
Corner horns 5738 
Cheating from below 5738 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5738 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5737 
A possibly overly simplified view 5737 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5737 
Iceberg 5737 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5737 
Why not horn 5737 
A correction…. 5737 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5737 
They are just not related things at all. 5737 
Fertin 5735 
Low resonance is good... 5735 
Et tu, Brute? 5734 
The Room response at LF 5733 
Life On The Ground Floor 5733 
Bass arrays 5733 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5733 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5733 
The super sucks. 5733 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5733 
You may also try 5732 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5732 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5732 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5732 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5732 
60 Hz Resonance 5732 
No notching… so far. 5732 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5731 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5731 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5731 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5731 
Power to the People 5731 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5731 
Aura 5731 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5731 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5731 
All class D is the same 5731 
Interpreting the LF results. 5730 
The Halibut 5730 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5730 
The Big Picture 5730 
Power & ULF channels 5730 
The big picture indeed. 5730 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5730 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5730 
The Power and the Glory 5729 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5729 
I guess I did not get this memo 5729 
French LF drivers 5729 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5729 
(another) French LF approach 5728 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5728 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5728 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5728 
Limpschtick 5728 
Symmetry 5728 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5727 
Room correction 5727 
It migh be more complicated. 5727 
Bass EQ ? 5727 
Agree and not. 5727 
Two "diseases" 5727 
Parametric filters 5727 
Ceiling arrays 5727 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5727 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5727 
The Middle of the Room. 5727 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5727 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5727 
Stop! 5727 
Appendectomy 5727 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5726 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5726 
No Isolation 5726 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5723 
Potential contenders? 5722 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5722 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5722 
Those Crazy Canucks 5718 
Mo' Better Bass 5712 
Bird in the Hand? 5712 
A wet listening spot? 5705 
Storm 5702 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5702 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5688 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5658 
Polar Opposite ULF 5657 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5645 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5643 
Differently but the same. 5642 
PVC 5641 
The sail test try. 5641 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5641 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5641 
Trial 5640 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5640 
Some explanations 5640 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5639 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5638 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5637 
Acrylate 5636 
Magic blanket 5636 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5635 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5635 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5635 
I have a few options. 5635 
Foam color 5635 
Strange things with upperbass 5635 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5634 
Teatro reform. . . 5634 
The foaming room dilemma. 5633 
Melamine Foam 5633 
Foaming up the cat house 5633 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5633 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5633 
Acoustic revisions… 5632 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5629 
Surprises so far in the new room 5628 
The upperbass in the new room. 5628 
Slight change of hart. 5627 
Camco supply of Boston 5625 
Room acoustics 5625 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5584 
I need to kill dust first. 5584 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5582 
To feed the leeches? 5582 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5581 
Yh 5581 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5581 
DPOLs? 5581 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5581 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5578 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5578 
A HalfPipe solution? 5578 
I absolutely love it. 5578 
Piper work 5577 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5577 
Absorption 5577 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5576 
Cats life ? 5576 
Call me Pussy. 5576 
More about traps 5576 
Acoustic impedance? 5576 
You maybe right 5576 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5576 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5575 
Heavy Curtain 5575 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5574 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5574 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5574 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5571 
Fix speaker move chair? 5570 
Back and forth ceremony 5570 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5569 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5568 
Glass windows 5567 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5566 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5565 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5563 
How to use basement jacks? 5563 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5563 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5563 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5562 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5562 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5561 
Sore eyes... 5560 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5560 
The harvesting week! 5558 
I need an inspiration… 5557 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5556 
Like this? 5556 
Dramatically randomize MF 5556 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5555 
The room eats dynamic 5555 
Diffusers 5555 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5554 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5539 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5538 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5538 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5538 
About Width-Importance balance. 5536 
Letting the music scale up 5535 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5535 
To finish my house décor… 5531 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5530 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5529 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5529 
Calling the gods of music 5529 
Absolutely 5529 
Phase manipulation 5529 
No relation. 5529 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5529 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5529 
Dynamical mismatch 5528 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5528 
Stradiwinerius? 5525 
Dealing with the glass. 5524 
Boston 5524 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5524 
Added mass 5524 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5524 
It is about moderation…. 5524 
To hell with the wine... 5524 
Also for other surafaces 5523 
LEAD 5523 
LEAD & GLASS 5523 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5523 
Read carefully 5523 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5523 
Crooks and morons 5523 
Magiscopios 5522 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5502 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5502 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5501 
The LP setup in the new home. 5450 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5445 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5445 
Pianochord will do! 5445 
Spanyi heaven 5445 
I see no conflict at all. 5445 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5445 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5445 
A year after closing 5437 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5437 
Traveling antimatter 5430 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5424 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5423 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5397 
Cast Iron fireplace 5396 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5396 
The hardcore way 5396 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5360 
This is How It's Done 5359 
Listening room during summer. 5347 
What about those... 5346 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5346 
Reducing A/C Noise 5346 
HVAC the Cat 5346 
Big Ass fan 5345 
Variac dimmers 5345 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5345 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5345 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5277 
Some winter observations. 5168 
That Asian man…. 5137 
The Franz Schubert morning 5111 
Spring.... 5060 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5010 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 4981 
The ultimate piece of equipment 4981 
Just good photography? 4981 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 4981 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 4981 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 4980 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 4980 
Sports car 4980 
An environmental aspect of noise. 4980 
The only the sweetspot seat? 4980 
Train Positioning 4980 
Kind of what I want 4980 
The lap listening… 4980 
Family Room 4980 
About dead-end listening rooms. 4977 
A super audio room. 4973 
Time Warp! 4973 
A piano in a listening room 4952 
Pianissimo 4952 
The plan in blue. 4952 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4952 
My doubts 4952 
It is exactly what I worry. 4951 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4951 
Musicians at home 4951 
Piano Measurements 4950 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4945 
The next step. 4931 
Midbass horns missing?? 4930 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4920 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4920 
Baby Grand 4919 
Wood floor 4919 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4919 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4919 
Amy’s baby. 4917 
Improvement 4917 
Agree with Scott 4917 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4905 
Integrated casters 4905 
Very nice, thanks. 4905 
Customization 4905 
Sliders 4905 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4898 
Congratulations 4898 
Holes in the floor... 4898 
Tubes and kids 4898 
Sweet spot enlargement 4898 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4896 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4895 
Wood Floors and Water 4895 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4890 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4889 
WAF is for Losers 4889 
WAF: it depends. 4889 
Integration 4888 
Here and there. 4888 
Life after WWIII 4888 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4888 
Cables management. 4886 
Featurizing 4886 
Kids and tubes cont. 4883 
Kid magnet 4883 
Kids and audio 4882 
Radars 4882 
Wow, what the days! 4878 
The comming weekend 4874 
It all was worth it! 4871 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4866 
Here is how it is look. 4866 
Resolving the carpet issue 4866 
Bonfire 4866 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4866 
Proof of concept? 4866 
Geometry 4866 
A view from listening position. 4866 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4866 
Some feedback 4866 
Evening 4866 
I wonder why. 4865 
Rugs and things 4865 
In defense… 4865 
I can’t get it. 4862 
Haze. 4861 
Front wall 4861 
It is very possible. 4861 
It is nice to be back. 4858 
My comfy corner. 4855 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4495 
WMD in house. 4317 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4220 
The third listening spot. 4199 
For sure a very different experience. 4161 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4156 
It's Jfretch's system. 4156 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4155 
Domestic games 4109 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3970 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3970 
Dynamic screening 3970 
Actually this is very good idea! 3970 
Volcanic fabric 3970 
I should have done this. 3968 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3964 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3933 
No worries 3933 
Awesome memories 3933 
Optimization of space 3933 
Child-ish considerations 3930 
Finding peace.... 3924 
"Fencing"? 3923 
I need to build something custom 3923 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3923 
Stressed Skin 3923 
NYC elevators 3923 
Kids toys and quantities. 3923 
Everything is completely reversible 3922 
Racks and things 3922 
Now it looks even more promising! 3922 
Quantity of rods 3922 
Avoiding diagonals 3920 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3919 
That's not fair! 3919 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3919 
Discrimination? 3914 
Vertical configuration 3907 
Impresive ! 3836 
Did you read the site? 3836 
Contact 3836 
Company's name is Rixrax 3836 
Stand 3835 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3791 
End of life headphone system 3791 
Something like this? 3791 
The "Second Living Room" 3791 
Mixing urban & suburban 3791 
Late night listening 3791 
Moving life... 3789 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3789 
A true listening room. 3765 
It started… 3750 
Levels of Interest 3750 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3750 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3750 
I can't not to post it.... 3750 
Do not leave him unattended. 3750 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3750 
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