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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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Melquiades SET Amplifier
Macondo Acoustic System
End of Life Phonostage
Audio Demoronizator AD-1
My Exotic Audio Leftovers
My Playback System
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» Lamm Industries: a speci»
» Puccini: Tosca
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» How playing an instrumen»
» Building “Zarathustra II»
» A playback and wrong not»
» Brahms [piano] Concerto »
» Tritium Turntables
» Okada’s installation.
» The IDEAL horn system
» Nice collection of Artic»
» Avantgarde method of cap»
» New Horn Speaker Manufac»
» A new CES 2010 loudspeak»
» Sony Blu-spec CD audio f»
» RIP Oscar Peterson
» The New sound of London »
» Interesting use of Lunda»
» Juana Zayas plays Chopin
» Canadian Speaker Proposal
» Sonic consequences of re»
» Orphean horns of bd desi»
» William Ralston Listenin»
» “Why horns”, years later.
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Hermann Scherchen discog»
Virtuosos Discographies
Phono EQ
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Eugene Ormandy Pages
Art Songs and Librettos
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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6067 
The first take on the new room. 6061 
New Room, a first shot. 6060 
Wonderful 6060 
Adopted 6059 
The first relaxed night with the room 6057 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6056 
The listening room is ready. 6055 
New Room, a First Shot 6053 
Continue to work with the room 6053 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6053 
Room 6052 
I think it will take another month. 6052 
The Buttressing 6052 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6051 
The new place and the new noises. 6051 
Big listening room 6050 
Screw the "big" rooms 6050 
Big listening rooms 6050 
First reflection points 6049 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6049 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6046 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6045 
Squeezing the floor 6045 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6045 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6045 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6044 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6044 
The new room, the very first listening. 6044 
The 14.5 foot. 6043 
Again… 6042 
Romy's new Playground 6042 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6042 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6042 
For the uninitiated ... 6041 
NH guy 6041 
Room 6041 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6040 
The first base is done 6040 
Reentry time alignment. 6039 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6038 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6038 
Mid bass horn. 6038 
Guess is only a guess… 6038 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6038 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6037 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6037 
Diffusors 6037 
Diffuse injection 6037 
Let analyse why it so 6037 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6037 
Wheel and Deal 6037 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6037 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6037 
I Must Be Missing Something 6037 
I put sliders under my speakers 6036 
ROOM 6035 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6035 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6035 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6035 
No concerns 6035 
Speakers and room 6035 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6034 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6034 
Diaphram 6034 
Phram 6034 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6034 
Perfect piston 6034 
Decorater 6033 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6033 
New morning 6032 
The first take on the room with RTA 6031 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6031 
Axiomatic 6031 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6030 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6030 
The size of the bass. 6030 
Bass Factory 6030 
Crude Level, or something more? 6030 
I will play with it this week…. 6030 
Rent-A 6030 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6030 
Corner horns 6030 
Cheating from below 6030 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6030 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6029 
A possibly overly simplified view 6029 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6029 
Iceberg 6029 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6029 
Why not horn 6029 
A correction…. 6029 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6029 
They are just not related things at all. 6029 
Fertin 6027 
Low resonance is good... 6027 
Et tu, Brute? 6026 
The Room response at LF 6025 
Life On The Ground Floor 6025 
Bass arrays 6025 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6025 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6025 
The super sucks. 6025 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6025 
You may also try 6024 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6024 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6024 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6024 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6024 
60 Hz Resonance 6024 
No notching… so far. 6024 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6023 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6023 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6023 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6023 
Power to the People 6023 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6023 
Aura 6023 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6023 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6023 
All class D is the same 6023 
Interpreting the LF results. 6022 
The Halibut 6022 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6022 
The Big Picture 6022 
Power & ULF channels 6022 
The big picture indeed. 6022 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6022 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6022 
The Power and the Glory 6021 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6021 
I guess I did not get this memo 6021 
French LF drivers 6021 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6021 
(another) French LF approach 6020 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6020 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6020 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6020 
Limpschtick 6020 
Symmetry 6020 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6019 
Room correction 6019 
It migh be more complicated. 6019 
Bass EQ ? 6019 
Agree and not. 6019 
Two "diseases" 6019 
Parametric filters 6019 
Ceiling arrays 6019 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6019 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6019 
The Middle of the Room. 6019 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6019 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6019 
Stop! 6019 
Appendectomy 6019 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6018 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6018 
No Isolation 6018 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6015 
Potential contenders? 6014 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6014 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6014 
Those Crazy Canucks 6010 
Mo' Better Bass 6004 
Bird in the Hand? 6004 
A wet listening spot? 5997 
Storm 5994 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5994 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5980 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5950 
Polar Opposite ULF 5949 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5937 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5935 
Differently but the same. 5934 
PVC 5933 
The sail test try. 5933 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5933 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5933 
Trial 5932 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5932 
Some explanations 5932 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5931 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5930 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5929 
Acrylate 5928 
Magic blanket 5928 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5927 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5927 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5927 
I have a few options. 5927 
Foam color 5927 
Strange things with upperbass 5927 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5926 
Teatro reform. . . 5926 
The foaming room dilemma. 5925 
Melamine Foam 5925 
Foaming up the cat house 5925 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5925 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5925 
Acoustic revisions… 5924 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5921 
Surprises so far in the new room 5920 
The upperbass in the new room. 5920 
Slight change of hart. 5919 
Camco supply of Boston 5917 
Room acoustics 5917 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5876 
I need to kill dust first. 5876 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5874 
To feed the leeches? 5874 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5873 
Yh 5873 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5873 
DPOLs? 5873 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5873 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5870 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5870 
A HalfPipe solution? 5870 
I absolutely love it. 5870 
Piper work 5869 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5869 
Absorption 5869 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5868 
Cats life ? 5868 
Call me Pussy. 5868 
More about traps 5868 
Acoustic impedance? 5868 
You maybe right 5868 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5868 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5867 
Heavy Curtain 5867 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5866 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5866 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5866 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5863 
Fix speaker move chair? 5862 
Back and forth ceremony 5862 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5861 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5860 
Glass windows 5859 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5858 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5857 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5855 
How to use basement jacks? 5855 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5855 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5855 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5854 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5854 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5853 
Sore eyes... 5852 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5852 
The harvesting week! 5850 
I need an inspiration… 5849 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5848 
Like this? 5848 
Dramatically randomize MF 5848 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5847 
The room eats dynamic 5847 
Diffusers 5847 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5846 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5831 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5830 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5830 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5830 
About Width-Importance balance. 5828 
Letting the music scale up 5827 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5827 
To finish my house décor… 5823 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5822 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5821 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5821 
Calling the gods of music 5821 
Absolutely 5821 
Phase manipulation 5821 
No relation. 5821 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5821 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5821 
Dynamical mismatch 5820 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5820 
Stradiwinerius? 5817 
Dealing with the glass. 5816 
Boston 5816 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5816 
Added mass 5816 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5816 
It is about moderation…. 5816 
To hell with the wine... 5816 
Also for other surafaces 5815 
LEAD 5815 
LEAD & GLASS 5815 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5815 
Read carefully 5815 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5815 
Crooks and morons 5815 
Magiscopios 5814 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5794 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5794 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5793 
The LP setup in the new home. 5742 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5737 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5737 
Pianochord will do! 5737 
Spanyi heaven 5737 
I see no conflict at all. 5737 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5737 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5737 
A year after closing 5729 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5729 
Traveling antimatter 5722 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5716 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5715 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5689 
Cast Iron fireplace 5688 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5688 
The hardcore way 5688 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5652 
This is How It's Done 5651 
Listening room during summer. 5639 
What about those... 5638 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5638 
Reducing A/C Noise 5638 
HVAC the Cat 5638 
Big Ass fan 5637 
Variac dimmers 5637 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5637 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5637 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5569 
Some winter observations. 5460 
That Asian man…. 5429 
The Franz Schubert morning 5403 
Spring.... 5352 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5302 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5273 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5273 
Just good photography? 5273 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5273 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5273 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5272 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5272 
Sports car 5272 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5272 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5272 
Train Positioning 5272 
Kind of what I want 5272 
The lap listening… 5272 
Family Room 5272 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5269 
A super audio room. 5265 
Time Warp! 5265 
A piano in a listening room 5244 
Pianissimo 5244 
The plan in blue. 5244 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5244 
My doubts 5244 
It is exactly what I worry. 5243 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5243 
Musicians at home 5243 
Piano Measurements 5242 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5237 
The next step. 5223 
Midbass horns missing?? 5222 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5212 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5212 
Baby Grand 5211 
Wood floor 5211 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5211 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5211 
Amy’s baby. 5209 
Improvement 5209 
Agree with Scott 5209 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5197 
Integrated casters 5197 
Very nice, thanks. 5197 
Customization 5197 
Sliders 5197 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5190 
Congratulations 5190 
Holes in the floor... 5190 
Tubes and kids 5190 
Sweet spot enlargement 5190 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5188 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5187 
Wood Floors and Water 5187 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5182 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5181 
WAF is for Losers 5181 
WAF: it depends. 5181 
Integration 5180 
Here and there. 5180 
Life after WWIII 5180 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5180 
Cables management. 5178 
Featurizing 5178 
Kids and tubes cont. 5175 
Kid magnet 5175 
Kids and audio 5174 
Radars 5174 
Wow, what the days! 5170 
The comming weekend 5166 
It all was worth it! 5163 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5158 
Here is how it is look. 5158 
Resolving the carpet issue 5158 
Bonfire 5158 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5158 
Proof of concept? 5158 
Geometry 5158 
A view from listening position. 5158 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5158 
Some feedback 5158 
Evening 5158 
I wonder why. 5157 
Rugs and things 5157 
In defense… 5157 
I can’t get it. 5154 
Haze. 5153 
Front wall 5153 
It is very possible. 5153 
It is nice to be back. 5150 
My comfy corner. 5147 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4787 
WMD in house. 4609 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4512 
The third listening spot. 4491 
For sure a very different experience. 4453 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4448 
It's Jfretch's system. 4448 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4447 
Domestic games 4401 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4262 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4262 
Dynamic screening 4262 
Actually this is very good idea! 4262 
Volcanic fabric 4262 
I should have done this. 4260 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4256 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4225 
No worries 4225 
Awesome memories 4225 
Optimization of space 4225 
Child-ish considerations 4222 
Finding peace.... 4216 
"Fencing"? 4215 
I need to build something custom 4215 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4215 
Stressed Skin 4215 
NYC elevators 4215 
Kids toys and quantities. 4215 
Everything is completely reversible 4214 
Racks and things 4214 
Now it looks even more promising! 4214 
Quantity of rods 4214 
Avoiding diagonals 4212 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4211 
That's not fair! 4211 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4211 
Discrimination? 4206 
Vertical configuration 4199 
Impresive ! 4128 
Did you read the site? 4128 
Contact 4128 
Company's name is Rixrax 4128 
Stand 4127 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4083 
End of life headphone system 4083 
Something like this? 4083 
The "Second Living Room" 4083 
Mixing urban & suburban 4083 
Late night listening 4083 
Moving life... 4081 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4081 
A true listening room. 4057 
It started… 4042 
Levels of Interest 4042 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4042 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4042 
I can't not to post it.... 4042 
Do not leave him unattended. 4042 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4042 
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