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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5837 
The first take on the new room. 5831 
New Room, a first shot. 5830 
Wonderful 5830 
Adopted 5829 
The first relaxed night with the room 5827 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5826 
The listening room is ready. 5825 
New Room, a First Shot 5823 
Continue to work with the room 5823 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5823 
Room 5822 
I think it will take another month. 5822 
The Buttressing 5822 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5821 
The new place and the new noises. 5821 
Big listening room 5820 
Screw the "big" rooms 5820 
Big listening rooms 5820 
First reflection points 5819 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5819 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5816 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5815 
Squeezing the floor 5815 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5815 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5815 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5814 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5814 
The new room, the very first listening. 5814 
The 14.5 foot. 5813 
Again… 5812 
Romy's new Playground 5812 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5812 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5812 
For the uninitiated ... 5811 
NH guy 5811 
Room 5811 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5810 
The first base is done 5810 
Reentry time alignment. 5809 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5808 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5808 
Mid bass horn. 5808 
Guess is only a guess… 5808 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5808 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5807 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5807 
Diffusors 5807 
Diffuse injection 5807 
Let analyse why it so 5807 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5807 
Wheel and Deal 5807 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5807 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5807 
I Must Be Missing Something 5807 
I put sliders under my speakers 5806 
ROOM 5805 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5805 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5805 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5805 
No concerns 5805 
Speakers and room 5805 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5804 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5804 
Diaphram 5804 
Phram 5804 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5804 
Perfect piston 5804 
Decorater 5803 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5803 
New morning 5802 
The first take on the room with RTA 5801 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5801 
Axiomatic 5801 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5800 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5800 
The size of the bass. 5800 
Bass Factory 5800 
Crude Level, or something more? 5800 
I will play with it this week…. 5800 
Rent-A 5800 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5800 
Corner horns 5800 
Cheating from below 5800 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5800 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5799 
A possibly overly simplified view 5799 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5799 
Iceberg 5799 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5799 
Why not horn 5799 
A correction…. 5799 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5799 
They are just not related things at all. 5799 
Fertin 5797 
Low resonance is good... 5797 
Et tu, Brute? 5796 
The Room response at LF 5795 
Life On The Ground Floor 5795 
Bass arrays 5795 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5795 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5795 
The super sucks. 5795 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5795 
You may also try 5794 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5794 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5794 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5794 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5794 
60 Hz Resonance 5794 
No notching… so far. 5794 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5793 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5793 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5793 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5793 
Power to the People 5793 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5793 
Aura 5793 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5793 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5793 
All class D is the same 5793 
Interpreting the LF results. 5792 
The Halibut 5792 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5792 
The Big Picture 5792 
Power & ULF channels 5792 
The big picture indeed. 5792 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5792 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5792 
The Power and the Glory 5791 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5791 
I guess I did not get this memo 5791 
French LF drivers 5791 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5791 
(another) French LF approach 5790 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5790 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5790 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5790 
Limpschtick 5790 
Symmetry 5790 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5789 
Room correction 5789 
It migh be more complicated. 5789 
Bass EQ ? 5789 
Agree and not. 5789 
Two "diseases" 5789 
Parametric filters 5789 
Ceiling arrays 5789 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5789 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5789 
The Middle of the Room. 5789 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5789 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5789 
Stop! 5789 
Appendectomy 5789 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5788 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5788 
No Isolation 5788 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5785 
Potential contenders? 5784 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5784 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5784 
Those Crazy Canucks 5780 
Mo' Better Bass 5774 
Bird in the Hand? 5774 
A wet listening spot? 5767 
Storm 5764 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5764 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5750 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5720 
Polar Opposite ULF 5719 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5707 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5705 
Differently but the same. 5704 
PVC 5703 
The sail test try. 5703 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5703 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5703 
Trial 5702 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5702 
Some explanations 5702 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5701 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5700 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5699 
Acrylate 5698 
Magic blanket 5698 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5697 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5697 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5697 
I have a few options. 5697 
Foam color 5697 
Strange things with upperbass 5697 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5696 
Teatro reform. . . 5696 
The foaming room dilemma. 5695 
Melamine Foam 5695 
Foaming up the cat house 5695 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5695 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5695 
Acoustic revisions… 5694 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5691 
Surprises so far in the new room 5690 
The upperbass in the new room. 5690 
Slight change of hart. 5689 
Camco supply of Boston 5687 
Room acoustics 5687 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5646 
I need to kill dust first. 5646 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5644 
To feed the leeches? 5644 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5643 
Yh 5643 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5643 
DPOLs? 5643 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5643 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5640 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5640 
A HalfPipe solution? 5640 
I absolutely love it. 5640 
Piper work 5639 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5639 
Absorption 5639 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5638 
Cats life ? 5638 
Call me Pussy. 5638 
More about traps 5638 
Acoustic impedance? 5638 
You maybe right 5638 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5638 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5637 
Heavy Curtain 5637 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5636 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5636 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5636 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5633 
Fix speaker move chair? 5632 
Back and forth ceremony 5632 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5631 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5630 
Glass windows 5629 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5628 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5627 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5625 
How to use basement jacks? 5625 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5625 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5625 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5624 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5624 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5623 
Sore eyes... 5622 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5622 
The harvesting week! 5620 
I need an inspiration… 5619 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5618 
Like this? 5618 
Dramatically randomize MF 5618 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5617 
The room eats dynamic 5617 
Diffusers 5617 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5616 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5601 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5600 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5600 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5600 
About Width-Importance balance. 5598 
Letting the music scale up 5597 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5597 
To finish my house décor… 5593 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5592 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5591 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5591 
Calling the gods of music 5591 
Absolutely 5591 
Phase manipulation 5591 
No relation. 5591 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5591 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5591 
Dynamical mismatch 5590 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5590 
Stradiwinerius? 5587 
Dealing with the glass. 5586 
Boston 5586 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5586 
Added mass 5586 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5586 
It is about moderation…. 5586 
To hell with the wine... 5586 
Also for other surafaces 5585 
LEAD 5585 
LEAD & GLASS 5585 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5585 
Read carefully 5585 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5585 
Crooks and morons 5585 
Magiscopios 5584 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5564 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5564 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5563 
The LP setup in the new home. 5512 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5507 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5507 
Pianochord will do! 5507 
Spanyi heaven 5507 
I see no conflict at all. 5507 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5507 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5507 
A year after closing 5499 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5499 
Traveling antimatter 5492 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5486 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5485 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5459 
Cast Iron fireplace 5458 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5458 
The hardcore way 5458 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5422 
This is How It's Done 5421 
Listening room during summer. 5409 
What about those... 5408 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5408 
Reducing A/C Noise 5408 
HVAC the Cat 5408 
Big Ass fan 5407 
Variac dimmers 5407 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5407 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5407 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5339 
Some winter observations. 5230 
That Asian man…. 5199 
The Franz Schubert morning 5173 
Spring.... 5122 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5072 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5043 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5043 
Just good photography? 5043 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5043 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5043 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5042 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5042 
Sports car 5042 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5042 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5042 
Train Positioning 5042 
Kind of what I want 5042 
The lap listening… 5042 
Family Room 5042 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5039 
A super audio room. 5035 
Time Warp! 5035 
A piano in a listening room 5014 
Pianissimo 5014 
The plan in blue. 5014 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5014 
My doubts 5014 
It is exactly what I worry. 5013 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5013 
Musicians at home 5013 
Piano Measurements 5012 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5007 
The next step. 4993 
Midbass horns missing?? 4992 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4982 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4982 
Baby Grand 4981 
Wood floor 4981 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4981 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4981 
Amy’s baby. 4979 
Improvement 4979 
Agree with Scott 4979 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4967 
Integrated casters 4967 
Very nice, thanks. 4967 
Customization 4967 
Sliders 4967 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4960 
Congratulations 4960 
Holes in the floor... 4960 
Tubes and kids 4960 
Sweet spot enlargement 4960 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4958 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4957 
Wood Floors and Water 4957 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4952 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4951 
WAF is for Losers 4951 
WAF: it depends. 4951 
Integration 4950 
Here and there. 4950 
Life after WWIII 4950 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4950 
Cables management. 4948 
Featurizing 4948 
Kids and tubes cont. 4945 
Kid magnet 4945 
Kids and audio 4944 
Radars 4944 
Wow, what the days! 4940 
The comming weekend 4936 
It all was worth it! 4933 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4928 
Here is how it is look. 4928 
Resolving the carpet issue 4928 
Bonfire 4928 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4928 
Proof of concept? 4928 
Geometry 4928 
A view from listening position. 4928 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4928 
Some feedback 4928 
Evening 4928 
I wonder why. 4927 
Rugs and things 4927 
In defense… 4927 
I can’t get it. 4924 
Haze. 4923 
Front wall 4923 
It is very possible. 4923 
It is nice to be back. 4920 
My comfy corner. 4917 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4557 
WMD in house. 4379 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4282 
The third listening spot. 4261 
For sure a very different experience. 4223 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4218 
It's Jfretch's system. 4218 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4217 
Domestic games 4171 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4032 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4032 
Dynamic screening 4032 
Actually this is very good idea! 4032 
Volcanic fabric 4032 
I should have done this. 4030 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4026 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3995 
No worries 3995 
Awesome memories 3995 
Optimization of space 3995 
Child-ish considerations 3992 
Finding peace.... 3986 
"Fencing"? 3985 
I need to build something custom 3985 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3985 
Stressed Skin 3985 
NYC elevators 3985 
Kids toys and quantities. 3985 
Everything is completely reversible 3984 
Racks and things 3984 
Now it looks even more promising! 3984 
Quantity of rods 3984 
Avoiding diagonals 3982 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3981 
That's not fair! 3981 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3981 
Discrimination? 3976 
Vertical configuration 3969 
Impresive ! 3898 
Did you read the site? 3898 
Contact 3898 
Company's name is Rixrax 3898 
Stand 3897 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3853 
End of life headphone system 3853 
Something like this? 3853 
The "Second Living Room" 3853 
Mixing urban & suburban 3853 
Late night listening 3853 
Moving life... 3851 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3851 
A true listening room. 3827 
It started… 3812 
Levels of Interest 3812 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3812 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3812 
I can't not to post it.... 3812 
Do not leave him unattended. 3812 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3812 
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