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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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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6070 
The first take on the new room. 6064 
New Room, a first shot. 6063 
Wonderful 6063 
Adopted 6062 
The first relaxed night with the room 6060 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6059 
The listening room is ready. 6058 
New Room, a First Shot 6056 
Continue to work with the room 6056 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6056 
Room 6055 
I think it will take another month. 6055 
The Buttressing 6055 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6054 
The new place and the new noises. 6054 
Big listening room 6053 
Screw the "big" rooms 6053 
Big listening rooms 6053 
First reflection points 6052 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6052 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6049 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6048 
Squeezing the floor 6048 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6048 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6048 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6047 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6047 
The new room, the very first listening. 6047 
The 14.5 foot. 6046 
Again… 6045 
Romy's new Playground 6045 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6045 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6045 
For the uninitiated ... 6044 
NH guy 6044 
Room 6044 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6043 
The first base is done 6043 
Reentry time alignment. 6042 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6041 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6041 
Mid bass horn. 6041 
Guess is only a guess… 6041 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6041 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6040 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6040 
Diffusors 6040 
Diffuse injection 6040 
Let analyse why it so 6040 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6040 
Wheel and Deal 6040 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6040 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6040 
I Must Be Missing Something 6040 
I put sliders under my speakers 6039 
ROOM 6038 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6038 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6038 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6038 
No concerns 6038 
Speakers and room 6038 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6037 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6037 
Diaphram 6037 
Phram 6037 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6037 
Perfect piston 6037 
Decorater 6036 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6036 
New morning 6035 
The first take on the room with RTA 6034 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6034 
Axiomatic 6034 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6033 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6033 
The size of the bass. 6033 
Bass Factory 6033 
Crude Level, or something more? 6033 
I will play with it this week…. 6033 
Rent-A 6033 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6033 
Corner horns 6033 
Cheating from below 6033 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6033 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6032 
A possibly overly simplified view 6032 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6032 
Iceberg 6032 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6032 
Why not horn 6032 
A correction…. 6032 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6032 
They are just not related things at all. 6032 
Fertin 6030 
Low resonance is good... 6030 
Et tu, Brute? 6029 
The Room response at LF 6028 
Life On The Ground Floor 6028 
Bass arrays 6028 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6028 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6028 
The super sucks. 6028 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6028 
You may also try 6027 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6027 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6027 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6027 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6027 
60 Hz Resonance 6027 
No notching… so far. 6027 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6026 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6026 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6026 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6026 
Power to the People 6026 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6026 
Aura 6026 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6026 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6026 
All class D is the same 6026 
Interpreting the LF results. 6025 
The Halibut 6025 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6025 
The Big Picture 6025 
Power & ULF channels 6025 
The big picture indeed. 6025 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6025 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6025 
The Power and the Glory 6024 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6024 
I guess I did not get this memo 6024 
French LF drivers 6024 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6024 
(another) French LF approach 6023 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6023 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6023 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6023 
Limpschtick 6023 
Symmetry 6023 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6022 
Room correction 6022 
It migh be more complicated. 6022 
Bass EQ ? 6022 
Agree and not. 6022 
Two "diseases" 6022 
Parametric filters 6022 
Ceiling arrays 6022 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6022 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6022 
The Middle of the Room. 6022 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6022 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6022 
Stop! 6022 
Appendectomy 6022 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6021 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6021 
No Isolation 6021 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6018 
Potential contenders? 6017 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6017 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6017 
Those Crazy Canucks 6013 
Mo' Better Bass 6007 
Bird in the Hand? 6007 
A wet listening spot? 6000 
Storm 5997 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5997 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5983 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5953 
Polar Opposite ULF 5952 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5940 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5938 
Differently but the same. 5937 
PVC 5936 
The sail test try. 5936 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5936 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5936 
Trial 5935 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5935 
Some explanations 5935 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5934 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5933 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5932 
Acrylate 5931 
Magic blanket 5931 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5930 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5930 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5930 
I have a few options. 5930 
Foam color 5930 
Strange things with upperbass 5930 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5929 
Teatro reform. . . 5929 
The foaming room dilemma. 5928 
Melamine Foam 5928 
Foaming up the cat house 5928 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5928 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5928 
Acoustic revisions… 5927 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5924 
Surprises so far in the new room 5923 
The upperbass in the new room. 5923 
Slight change of hart. 5922 
Camco supply of Boston 5920 
Room acoustics 5920 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5879 
I need to kill dust first. 5879 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5877 
To feed the leeches? 5877 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5876 
Yh 5876 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5876 
DPOLs? 5876 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5876 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5873 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5873 
A HalfPipe solution? 5873 
I absolutely love it. 5873 
Piper work 5872 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5872 
Absorption 5872 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5871 
Cats life ? 5871 
Call me Pussy. 5871 
More about traps 5871 
Acoustic impedance? 5871 
You maybe right 5871 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5871 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5870 
Heavy Curtain 5870 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5869 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5869 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5869 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5866 
Fix speaker move chair? 5865 
Back and forth ceremony 5865 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5864 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5863 
Glass windows 5862 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5861 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5860 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5858 
How to use basement jacks? 5858 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5858 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5858 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5857 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5857 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5856 
Sore eyes... 5855 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5855 
The harvesting week! 5853 
I need an inspiration… 5852 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5851 
Like this? 5851 
Dramatically randomize MF 5851 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5850 
The room eats dynamic 5850 
Diffusers 5850 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5849 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5834 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5833 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5833 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5833 
About Width-Importance balance. 5831 
Letting the music scale up 5830 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5830 
To finish my house décor… 5826 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5825 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5824 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5824 
Calling the gods of music 5824 
Absolutely 5824 
Phase manipulation 5824 
No relation. 5824 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5824 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5824 
Dynamical mismatch 5823 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5823 
Stradiwinerius? 5820 
Dealing with the glass. 5819 
Boston 5819 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5819 
Added mass 5819 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5819 
It is about moderation…. 5819 
To hell with the wine... 5819 
Also for other surafaces 5818 
LEAD 5818 
LEAD & GLASS 5818 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5818 
Read carefully 5818 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5818 
Crooks and morons 5818 
Magiscopios 5817 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5797 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5797 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5796 
The LP setup in the new home. 5745 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5740 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5740 
Pianochord will do! 5740 
Spanyi heaven 5740 
I see no conflict at all. 5740 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5740 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5740 
A year after closing 5732 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5732 
Traveling antimatter 5725 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5719 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5718 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5692 
Cast Iron fireplace 5691 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5691 
The hardcore way 5691 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5655 
This is How It's Done 5654 
Listening room during summer. 5642 
What about those... 5641 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5641 
Reducing A/C Noise 5641 
HVAC the Cat 5641 
Big Ass fan 5640 
Variac dimmers 5640 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5640 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5640 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5572 
Some winter observations. 5463 
That Asian man…. 5432 
The Franz Schubert morning 5406 
Spring.... 5355 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5305 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5276 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5276 
Just good photography? 5276 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5276 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5276 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5275 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5275 
Sports car 5275 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5275 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5275 
Train Positioning 5275 
Kind of what I want 5275 
The lap listening… 5275 
Family Room 5275 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5272 
A super audio room. 5268 
Time Warp! 5268 
A piano in a listening room 5247 
Pianissimo 5247 
The plan in blue. 5247 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5247 
My doubts 5247 
It is exactly what I worry. 5246 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5246 
Musicians at home 5246 
Piano Measurements 5245 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5240 
The next step. 5226 
Midbass horns missing?? 5225 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5215 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5215 
Baby Grand 5214 
Wood floor 5214 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5214 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5214 
Amy’s baby. 5212 
Improvement 5212 
Agree with Scott 5212 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5200 
Integrated casters 5200 
Very nice, thanks. 5200 
Customization 5200 
Sliders 5200 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5193 
Congratulations 5193 
Holes in the floor... 5193 
Tubes and kids 5193 
Sweet spot enlargement 5193 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5191 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5190 
Wood Floors and Water 5190 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5185 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5184 
WAF is for Losers 5184 
WAF: it depends. 5184 
Integration 5183 
Here and there. 5183 
Life after WWIII 5183 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5183 
Cables management. 5181 
Featurizing 5181 
Kids and tubes cont. 5178 
Kid magnet 5178 
Kids and audio 5177 
Radars 5177 
Wow, what the days! 5173 
The comming weekend 5169 
It all was worth it! 5166 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5161 
Here is how it is look. 5161 
Resolving the carpet issue 5161 
Bonfire 5161 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5161 
Proof of concept? 5161 
Geometry 5161 
A view from listening position. 5161 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5161 
Some feedback 5161 
Evening 5161 
I wonder why. 5160 
Rugs and things 5160 
In defense… 5160 
I can’t get it. 5157 
Haze. 5156 
Front wall 5156 
It is very possible. 5156 
It is nice to be back. 5153 
My comfy corner. 5150 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4790 
WMD in house. 4612 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4515 
The third listening spot. 4494 
For sure a very different experience. 4456 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4451 
It's Jfretch's system. 4451 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4450 
Domestic games 4404 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4265 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4265 
Dynamic screening 4265 
Actually this is very good idea! 4265 
Volcanic fabric 4265 
I should have done this. 4263 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4259 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4228 
No worries 4228 
Awesome memories 4228 
Optimization of space 4228 
Child-ish considerations 4225 
Finding peace.... 4219 
"Fencing"? 4218 
I need to build something custom 4218 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4218 
Stressed Skin 4218 
NYC elevators 4218 
Kids toys and quantities. 4218 
Everything is completely reversible 4217 
Racks and things 4217 
Now it looks even more promising! 4217 
Quantity of rods 4217 
Avoiding diagonals 4215 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4214 
That's not fair! 4214 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4214 
Discrimination? 4209 
Vertical configuration 4202 
Impresive ! 4131 
Did you read the site? 4131 
Contact 4131 
Company's name is Rixrax 4131 
Stand 4130 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4086 
End of life headphone system 4086 
Something like this? 4086 
The "Second Living Room" 4086 
Mixing urban & suburban 4086 
Late night listening 4086 
Moving life... 4084 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4084 
A true listening room. 4060 
It started… 4045 
Levels of Interest 4045 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4045 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4045 
I can't not to post it.... 4045 
Do not leave him unattended. 4045 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4045 
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