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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 6011 
The first take on the new room. 6005 
New Room, a first shot. 6004 
Wonderful 6004 
Adopted 6003 
The first relaxed night with the room 6001 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6000 
The listening room is ready. 5999 
New Room, a First Shot 5997 
Continue to work with the room 5997 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5997 
Room 5996 
I think it will take another month. 5996 
The Buttressing 5996 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5995 
The new place and the new noises. 5995 
Big listening room 5994 
Screw the "big" rooms 5994 
Big listening rooms 5994 
First reflection points 5993 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5993 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5990 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5989 
Squeezing the floor 5989 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5989 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5989 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5988 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5988 
The new room, the very first listening. 5988 
The 14.5 foot. 5987 
Again… 5986 
Romy's new Playground 5986 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5986 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5986 
For the uninitiated ... 5985 
NH guy 5985 
Room 5985 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5984 
The first base is done 5984 
Reentry time alignment. 5983 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5982 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5982 
Mid bass horn. 5982 
Guess is only a guess… 5982 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5982 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5981 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5981 
Diffusors 5981 
Diffuse injection 5981 
Let analyse why it so 5981 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5981 
Wheel and Deal 5981 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5981 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5981 
I Must Be Missing Something 5981 
I put sliders under my speakers 5980 
ROOM 5979 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5979 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5979 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5979 
No concerns 5979 
Speakers and room 5979 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5978 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5978 
Diaphram 5978 
Phram 5978 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5978 
Perfect piston 5978 
Decorater 5977 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5977 
New morning 5976 
The first take on the room with RTA 5975 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5975 
Axiomatic 5975 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5974 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5974 
The size of the bass. 5974 
Bass Factory 5974 
Crude Level, or something more? 5974 
I will play with it this week…. 5974 
Rent-A 5974 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5974 
Corner horns 5974 
Cheating from below 5974 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5974 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5973 
A possibly overly simplified view 5973 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5973 
Iceberg 5973 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5973 
Why not horn 5973 
A correction…. 5973 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5973 
They are just not related things at all. 5973 
Fertin 5971 
Low resonance is good... 5971 
Et tu, Brute? 5970 
The Room response at LF 5969 
Life On The Ground Floor 5969 
Bass arrays 5969 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5969 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5969 
The super sucks. 5969 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5969 
You may also try 5968 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5968 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5968 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5968 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5968 
60 Hz Resonance 5968 
No notching… so far. 5968 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5967 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5967 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5967 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5967 
Power to the People 5967 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5967 
Aura 5967 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5967 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5967 
All class D is the same 5967 
Interpreting the LF results. 5966 
The Halibut 5966 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5966 
The Big Picture 5966 
Power & ULF channels 5966 
The big picture indeed. 5966 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5966 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5966 
The Power and the Glory 5965 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5965 
I guess I did not get this memo 5965 
French LF drivers 5965 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5965 
(another) French LF approach 5964 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5964 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5964 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5964 
Limpschtick 5964 
Symmetry 5964 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5963 
Room correction 5963 
It migh be more complicated. 5963 
Bass EQ ? 5963 
Agree and not. 5963 
Two "diseases" 5963 
Parametric filters 5963 
Ceiling arrays 5963 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5963 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5963 
The Middle of the Room. 5963 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5963 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5963 
Stop! 5963 
Appendectomy 5963 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5962 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5962 
No Isolation 5962 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5959 
Potential contenders? 5958 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5958 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5958 
Those Crazy Canucks 5954 
Mo' Better Bass 5948 
Bird in the Hand? 5948 
A wet listening spot? 5941 
Storm 5938 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5938 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5924 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5894 
Polar Opposite ULF 5893 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5881 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5879 
Differently but the same. 5878 
PVC 5877 
The sail test try. 5877 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5877 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5877 
Trial 5876 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5876 
Some explanations 5876 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5875 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5874 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5873 
Acrylate 5872 
Magic blanket 5872 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5871 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5871 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5871 
I have a few options. 5871 
Foam color 5871 
Strange things with upperbass 5871 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5870 
Teatro reform. . . 5870 
The foaming room dilemma. 5869 
Melamine Foam 5869 
Foaming up the cat house 5869 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5869 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5869 
Acoustic revisions… 5868 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5865 
Surprises so far in the new room 5864 
The upperbass in the new room. 5864 
Slight change of hart. 5863 
Camco supply of Boston 5861 
Room acoustics 5861 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5820 
I need to kill dust first. 5820 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5818 
To feed the leeches? 5818 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5817 
Yh 5817 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5817 
DPOLs? 5817 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5817 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5814 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5814 
A HalfPipe solution? 5814 
I absolutely love it. 5814 
Piper work 5813 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5813 
Absorption 5813 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5812 
Cats life ? 5812 
Call me Pussy. 5812 
More about traps 5812 
Acoustic impedance? 5812 
You maybe right 5812 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5812 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5811 
Heavy Curtain 5811 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5810 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5810 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5810 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5807 
Fix speaker move chair? 5806 
Back and forth ceremony 5806 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5805 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5804 
Glass windows 5803 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5802 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5801 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5799 
How to use basement jacks? 5799 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5799 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5799 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5798 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5798 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5797 
Sore eyes... 5796 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5796 
The harvesting week! 5794 
I need an inspiration… 5793 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5792 
Like this? 5792 
Dramatically randomize MF 5792 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5791 
The room eats dynamic 5791 
Diffusers 5791 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5790 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5775 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5774 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5774 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5774 
About Width-Importance balance. 5772 
Letting the music scale up 5771 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5771 
To finish my house décor… 5767 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5766 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5765 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5765 
Calling the gods of music 5765 
Absolutely 5765 
Phase manipulation 5765 
No relation. 5765 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5765 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5765 
Dynamical mismatch 5764 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5764 
Stradiwinerius? 5761 
Dealing with the glass. 5760 
Boston 5760 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5760 
Added mass 5760 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5760 
It is about moderation…. 5760 
To hell with the wine... 5760 
Also for other surafaces 5759 
LEAD 5759 
LEAD & GLASS 5759 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5759 
Read carefully 5759 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5759 
Crooks and morons 5759 
Magiscopios 5758 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5738 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5738 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5737 
The LP setup in the new home. 5686 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5681 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5681 
Pianochord will do! 5681 
Spanyi heaven 5681 
I see no conflict at all. 5681 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5681 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5681 
A year after closing 5673 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5673 
Traveling antimatter 5666 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5660 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5659 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5633 
Cast Iron fireplace 5632 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5632 
The hardcore way 5632 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5596 
This is How It's Done 5595 
Listening room during summer. 5583 
What about those... 5582 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5582 
Reducing A/C Noise 5582 
HVAC the Cat 5582 
Big Ass fan 5581 
Variac dimmers 5581 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5581 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5581 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5513 
Some winter observations. 5404 
That Asian man…. 5373 
The Franz Schubert morning 5347 
Spring.... 5296 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5246 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5217 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5217 
Just good photography? 5217 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5217 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5217 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5216 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5216 
Sports car 5216 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5216 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5216 
Train Positioning 5216 
Kind of what I want 5216 
The lap listening… 5216 
Family Room 5216 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5213 
A super audio room. 5209 
Time Warp! 5209 
A piano in a listening room 5188 
Pianissimo 5188 
The plan in blue. 5188 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5188 
My doubts 5188 
It is exactly what I worry. 5187 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5187 
Musicians at home 5187 
Piano Measurements 5186 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5181 
The next step. 5167 
Midbass horns missing?? 5166 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5156 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5156 
Baby Grand 5155 
Wood floor 5155 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5155 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5155 
Amy’s baby. 5153 
Improvement 5153 
Agree with Scott 5153 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5141 
Integrated casters 5141 
Very nice, thanks. 5141 
Customization 5141 
Sliders 5141 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5134 
Congratulations 5134 
Holes in the floor... 5134 
Tubes and kids 5134 
Sweet spot enlargement 5134 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5132 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5131 
Wood Floors and Water 5131 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5126 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5125 
WAF is for Losers 5125 
WAF: it depends. 5125 
Integration 5124 
Here and there. 5124 
Life after WWIII 5124 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5124 
Cables management. 5122 
Featurizing 5122 
Kids and tubes cont. 5119 
Kid magnet 5119 
Kids and audio 5118 
Radars 5118 
Wow, what the days! 5114 
The comming weekend 5110 
It all was worth it! 5107 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5102 
Here is how it is look. 5102 
Resolving the carpet issue 5102 
Bonfire 5102 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5102 
Proof of concept? 5102 
Geometry 5102 
A view from listening position. 5102 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5102 
Some feedback 5102 
Evening 5102 
I wonder why. 5101 
Rugs and things 5101 
In defense… 5101 
I can’t get it. 5098 
Haze. 5097 
Front wall 5097 
It is very possible. 5097 
It is nice to be back. 5094 
My comfy corner. 5091 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4731 
WMD in house. 4553 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4456 
The third listening spot. 4435 
For sure a very different experience. 4397 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4392 
It's Jfretch's system. 4392 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4391 
Domestic games 4345 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4206 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4206 
Dynamic screening 4206 
Actually this is very good idea! 4206 
Volcanic fabric 4206 
I should have done this. 4204 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4200 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4169 
No worries 4169 
Awesome memories 4169 
Optimization of space 4169 
Child-ish considerations 4166 
Finding peace.... 4160 
"Fencing"? 4159 
I need to build something custom 4159 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4159 
Stressed Skin 4159 
NYC elevators 4159 
Kids toys and quantities. 4159 
Everything is completely reversible 4158 
Racks and things 4158 
Now it looks even more promising! 4158 
Quantity of rods 4158 
Avoiding diagonals 4156 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4155 
That's not fair! 4155 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4155 
Discrimination? 4150 
Vertical configuration 4143 
Impresive ! 4072 
Did you read the site? 4072 
Contact 4072 
Company's name is Rixrax 4072 
Stand 4071 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4027 
End of life headphone system 4027 
Something like this? 4027 
The "Second Living Room" 4027 
Mixing urban & suburban 4027 
Late night listening 4027 
Moving life... 4025 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4025 
A true listening room. 4001 
It started… 3986 
Levels of Interest 3986 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3986 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3986 
I can't not to post it.... 3986 
Do not leave him unattended. 3986 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3986 
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