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Romy the Cat has found another room. I’ve started a new fiction project under my name, Roman Bessnow. The new work is at MutationsBook.com

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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6059 
The first take on the new room. 6053 
New Room, a first shot. 6052 
Wonderful 6052 
Adopted 6051 
The first relaxed night with the room 6049 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6048 
The listening room is ready. 6047 
New Room, a First Shot 6045 
Continue to work with the room 6045 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6045 
Room 6044 
I think it will take another month. 6044 
The Buttressing 6044 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6043 
The new place and the new noises. 6043 
Big listening room 6042 
Screw the "big" rooms 6042 
Big listening rooms 6042 
First reflection points 6041 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6041 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6038 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6037 
Squeezing the floor 6037 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6037 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6037 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6036 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6036 
The new room, the very first listening. 6036 
The 14.5 foot. 6035 
Again… 6034 
Romy's new Playground 6034 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6034 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6034 
For the uninitiated ... 6033 
NH guy 6033 
Room 6033 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6032 
The first base is done 6032 
Reentry time alignment. 6031 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6030 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6030 
Mid bass horn. 6030 
Guess is only a guess… 6030 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6030 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6029 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6029 
Diffusors 6029 
Diffuse injection 6029 
Let analyse why it so 6029 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6029 
Wheel and Deal 6029 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6029 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6029 
I Must Be Missing Something 6029 
I put sliders under my speakers 6028 
ROOM 6027 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6027 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6027 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6027 
No concerns 6027 
Speakers and room 6027 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6026 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6026 
Diaphram 6026 
Phram 6026 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6026 
Perfect piston 6026 
Decorater 6025 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6025 
New morning 6024 
The first take on the room with RTA 6023 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6023 
Axiomatic 6023 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6022 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6022 
The size of the bass. 6022 
Bass Factory 6022 
Crude Level, or something more? 6022 
I will play with it this week…. 6022 
Rent-A 6022 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6022 
Corner horns 6022 
Cheating from below 6022 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6022 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6021 
A possibly overly simplified view 6021 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6021 
Iceberg 6021 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6021 
Why not horn 6021 
A correction…. 6021 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6021 
They are just not related things at all. 6021 
Fertin 6019 
Low resonance is good... 6019 
Et tu, Brute? 6018 
The Room response at LF 6017 
Life On The Ground Floor 6017 
Bass arrays 6017 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6017 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6017 
The super sucks. 6017 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6017 
You may also try 6016 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6016 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6016 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6016 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6016 
60 Hz Resonance 6016 
No notching… so far. 6016 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6015 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6015 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6015 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6015 
Power to the People 6015 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6015 
Aura 6015 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6015 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6015 
All class D is the same 6015 
Interpreting the LF results. 6014 
The Halibut 6014 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6014 
The Big Picture 6014 
Power & ULF channels 6014 
The big picture indeed. 6014 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6014 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6014 
The Power and the Glory 6013 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6013 
I guess I did not get this memo 6013 
French LF drivers 6013 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6013 
(another) French LF approach 6012 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6012 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6012 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6012 
Limpschtick 6012 
Symmetry 6012 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6011 
Room correction 6011 
It migh be more complicated. 6011 
Bass EQ ? 6011 
Agree and not. 6011 
Two "diseases" 6011 
Parametric filters 6011 
Ceiling arrays 6011 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6011 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6011 
The Middle of the Room. 6011 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6011 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6011 
Stop! 6011 
Appendectomy 6011 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6010 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6010 
No Isolation 6010 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6007 
Potential contenders? 6006 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6006 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6006 
Those Crazy Canucks 6002 
Mo' Better Bass 5996 
Bird in the Hand? 5996 
A wet listening spot? 5989 
Storm 5986 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5986 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5972 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5942 
Polar Opposite ULF 5941 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5929 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5927 
Differently but the same. 5926 
PVC 5925 
The sail test try. 5925 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5925 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5925 
Trial 5924 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5924 
Some explanations 5924 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5923 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5922 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5921 
Acrylate 5920 
Magic blanket 5920 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5919 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5919 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5919 
I have a few options. 5919 
Foam color 5919 
Strange things with upperbass 5919 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5918 
Teatro reform. . . 5918 
The foaming room dilemma. 5917 
Melamine Foam 5917 
Foaming up the cat house 5917 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5917 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5917 
Acoustic revisions… 5916 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5913 
Surprises so far in the new room 5912 
The upperbass in the new room. 5912 
Slight change of hart. 5911 
Camco supply of Boston 5909 
Room acoustics 5909 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5868 
I need to kill dust first. 5868 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5866 
To feed the leeches? 5866 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5865 
Yh 5865 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5865 
DPOLs? 5865 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5865 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5862 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5862 
A HalfPipe solution? 5862 
I absolutely love it. 5862 
Piper work 5861 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5861 
Absorption 5861 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5860 
Cats life ? 5860 
Call me Pussy. 5860 
More about traps 5860 
Acoustic impedance? 5860 
You maybe right 5860 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5860 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5859 
Heavy Curtain 5859 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5858 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5858 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5858 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5855 
Fix speaker move chair? 5854 
Back and forth ceremony 5854 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5853 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5852 
Glass windows 5851 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5850 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5849 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5847 
How to use basement jacks? 5847 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5847 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5847 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5846 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5846 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5845 
Sore eyes... 5844 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5844 
The harvesting week! 5842 
I need an inspiration… 5841 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5840 
Like this? 5840 
Dramatically randomize MF 5840 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5839 
The room eats dynamic 5839 
Diffusers 5839 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5838 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5823 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5822 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5822 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5822 
About Width-Importance balance. 5820 
Letting the music scale up 5819 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5819 
To finish my house décor… 5815 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5814 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5813 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5813 
Calling the gods of music 5813 
Absolutely 5813 
Phase manipulation 5813 
No relation. 5813 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5813 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5813 
Dynamical mismatch 5812 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5812 
Stradiwinerius? 5809 
Dealing with the glass. 5808 
Boston 5808 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5808 
Added mass 5808 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5808 
It is about moderation…. 5808 
To hell with the wine... 5808 
Also for other surafaces 5807 
LEAD 5807 
LEAD & GLASS 5807 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5807 
Read carefully 5807 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5807 
Crooks and morons 5807 
Magiscopios 5806 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5786 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5786 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5785 
The LP setup in the new home. 5734 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5729 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5729 
Pianochord will do! 5729 
Spanyi heaven 5729 
I see no conflict at all. 5729 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5729 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5729 
A year after closing 5721 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5721 
Traveling antimatter 5714 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5708 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5707 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5681 
Cast Iron fireplace 5680 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5680 
The hardcore way 5680 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5644 
This is How It's Done 5643 
Listening room during summer. 5631 
What about those... 5630 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5630 
Reducing A/C Noise 5630 
HVAC the Cat 5630 
Big Ass fan 5629 
Variac dimmers 5629 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5629 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5629 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5561 
Some winter observations. 5452 
That Asian man…. 5421 
The Franz Schubert morning 5395 
Spring.... 5344 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5294 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5265 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5265 
Just good photography? 5265 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5265 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5265 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5264 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5264 
Sports car 5264 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5264 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5264 
Train Positioning 5264 
Kind of what I want 5264 
The lap listening… 5264 
Family Room 5264 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5261 
A super audio room. 5257 
Time Warp! 5257 
A piano in a listening room 5236 
Pianissimo 5236 
The plan in blue. 5236 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5236 
My doubts 5236 
It is exactly what I worry. 5235 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5235 
Musicians at home 5235 
Piano Measurements 5234 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5229 
The next step. 5215 
Midbass horns missing?? 5214 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5204 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5204 
Baby Grand 5203 
Wood floor 5203 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5203 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5203 
Amy’s baby. 5201 
Improvement 5201 
Agree with Scott 5201 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5189 
Integrated casters 5189 
Very nice, thanks. 5189 
Customization 5189 
Sliders 5189 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5182 
Congratulations 5182 
Holes in the floor... 5182 
Tubes and kids 5182 
Sweet spot enlargement 5182 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5180 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5179 
Wood Floors and Water 5179 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5174 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5173 
WAF is for Losers 5173 
WAF: it depends. 5173 
Integration 5172 
Here and there. 5172 
Life after WWIII 5172 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5172 
Cables management. 5170 
Featurizing 5170 
Kids and tubes cont. 5167 
Kid magnet 5167 
Kids and audio 5166 
Radars 5166 
Wow, what the days! 5162 
The comming weekend 5158 
It all was worth it! 5155 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5150 
Here is how it is look. 5150 
Resolving the carpet issue 5150 
Bonfire 5150 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5150 
Proof of concept? 5150 
Geometry 5150 
A view from listening position. 5150 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5150 
Some feedback 5150 
Evening 5150 
I wonder why. 5149 
Rugs and things 5149 
In defense… 5149 
I can’t get it. 5146 
Haze. 5145 
Front wall 5145 
It is very possible. 5145 
It is nice to be back. 5142 
My comfy corner. 5139 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4779 
WMD in house. 4601 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4504 
The third listening spot. 4483 
For sure a very different experience. 4445 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4440 
It's Jfretch's system. 4440 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4439 
Domestic games 4393 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4254 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4254 
Dynamic screening 4254 
Actually this is very good idea! 4254 
Volcanic fabric 4254 
I should have done this. 4252 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4248 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4217 
No worries 4217 
Awesome memories 4217 
Optimization of space 4217 
Child-ish considerations 4214 
Finding peace.... 4208 
"Fencing"? 4207 
I need to build something custom 4207 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4207 
Stressed Skin 4207 
NYC elevators 4207 
Kids toys and quantities. 4207 
Everything is completely reversible 4206 
Racks and things 4206 
Now it looks even more promising! 4206 
Quantity of rods 4206 
Avoiding diagonals 4204 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4203 
That's not fair! 4203 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4203 
Discrimination? 4198 
Vertical configuration 4191 
Impresive ! 4120 
Did you read the site? 4120 
Contact 4120 
Company's name is Rixrax 4120 
Stand 4119 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4075 
End of life headphone system 4075 
Something like this? 4075 
The "Second Living Room" 4075 
Mixing urban & suburban 4075 
Late night listening 4075 
Moving life... 4073 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4073 
A true listening room. 4049 
It started… 4034 
Levels of Interest 4034 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4034 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4034 
I can't not to post it.... 4034 
Do not leave him unattended. 4034 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4034 
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