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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 6021 
The first take on the new room. 6015 
New Room, a first shot. 6014 
Wonderful 6014 
Adopted 6013 
The first relaxed night with the room 6011 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6010 
The listening room is ready. 6009 
New Room, a First Shot 6007 
Continue to work with the room 6007 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6007 
Room 6006 
I think it will take another month. 6006 
The Buttressing 6006 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6005 
The new place and the new noises. 6005 
Big listening room 6004 
Screw the "big" rooms 6004 
Big listening rooms 6004 
First reflection points 6003 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6003 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6000 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5999 
Squeezing the floor 5999 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5999 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5999 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5998 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5998 
The new room, the very first listening. 5998 
The 14.5 foot. 5997 
Again… 5996 
Romy's new Playground 5996 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5996 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5996 
For the uninitiated ... 5995 
NH guy 5995 
Room 5995 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5994 
The first base is done 5994 
Reentry time alignment. 5993 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5992 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5992 
Mid bass horn. 5992 
Guess is only a guess… 5992 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5992 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5991 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5991 
Diffusors 5991 
Diffuse injection 5991 
Let analyse why it so 5991 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5991 
Wheel and Deal 5991 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5991 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5991 
I Must Be Missing Something 5991 
I put sliders under my speakers 5990 
ROOM 5989 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5989 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5989 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5989 
No concerns 5989 
Speakers and room 5989 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5988 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5988 
Diaphram 5988 
Phram 5988 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5988 
Perfect piston 5988 
Decorater 5987 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5987 
New morning 5986 
The first take on the room with RTA 5985 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5985 
Axiomatic 5985 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5984 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5984 
The size of the bass. 5984 
Bass Factory 5984 
Crude Level, or something more? 5984 
I will play with it this week…. 5984 
Rent-A 5984 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5984 
Corner horns 5984 
Cheating from below 5984 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5984 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5983 
A possibly overly simplified view 5983 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5983 
Iceberg 5983 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5983 
Why not horn 5983 
A correction…. 5983 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5983 
They are just not related things at all. 5983 
Fertin 5981 
Low resonance is good... 5981 
Et tu, Brute? 5980 
The Room response at LF 5979 
Life On The Ground Floor 5979 
Bass arrays 5979 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5979 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5979 
The super sucks. 5979 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5979 
You may also try 5978 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5978 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5978 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5978 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5978 
60 Hz Resonance 5978 
No notching… so far. 5978 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5977 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5977 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5977 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5977 
Power to the People 5977 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5977 
Aura 5977 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5977 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5977 
All class D is the same 5977 
Interpreting the LF results. 5976 
The Halibut 5976 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5976 
The Big Picture 5976 
Power & ULF channels 5976 
The big picture indeed. 5976 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5976 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5976 
The Power and the Glory 5975 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5975 
I guess I did not get this memo 5975 
French LF drivers 5975 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5975 
(another) French LF approach 5974 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5974 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5974 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5974 
Limpschtick 5974 
Symmetry 5974 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5973 
Room correction 5973 
It migh be more complicated. 5973 
Bass EQ ? 5973 
Agree and not. 5973 
Two "diseases" 5973 
Parametric filters 5973 
Ceiling arrays 5973 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5973 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5973 
The Middle of the Room. 5973 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5973 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5973 
Stop! 5973 
Appendectomy 5973 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5972 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5972 
No Isolation 5972 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5969 
Potential contenders? 5968 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5968 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5968 
Those Crazy Canucks 5964 
Mo' Better Bass 5958 
Bird in the Hand? 5958 
A wet listening spot? 5951 
Storm 5948 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5948 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5934 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5904 
Polar Opposite ULF 5903 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5891 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5889 
Differently but the same. 5888 
PVC 5887 
The sail test try. 5887 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5887 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5887 
Trial 5886 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5886 
Some explanations 5886 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5885 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5884 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5883 
Acrylate 5882 
Magic blanket 5882 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5881 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5881 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5881 
I have a few options. 5881 
Foam color 5881 
Strange things with upperbass 5881 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5880 
Teatro reform. . . 5880 
The foaming room dilemma. 5879 
Melamine Foam 5879 
Foaming up the cat house 5879 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5879 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5879 
Acoustic revisions… 5878 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5875 
Surprises so far in the new room 5874 
The upperbass in the new room. 5874 
Slight change of hart. 5873 
Camco supply of Boston 5871 
Room acoustics 5871 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5830 
I need to kill dust first. 5830 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5828 
To feed the leeches? 5828 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5827 
Yh 5827 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5827 
DPOLs? 5827 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5827 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5824 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5824 
A HalfPipe solution? 5824 
I absolutely love it. 5824 
Piper work 5823 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5823 
Absorption 5823 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5822 
Cats life ? 5822 
Call me Pussy. 5822 
More about traps 5822 
Acoustic impedance? 5822 
You maybe right 5822 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5822 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5821 
Heavy Curtain 5821 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5820 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5820 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5820 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5817 
Fix speaker move chair? 5816 
Back and forth ceremony 5816 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5815 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5814 
Glass windows 5813 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5812 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5811 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5809 
How to use basement jacks? 5809 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5809 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5809 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5808 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5808 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5807 
Sore eyes... 5806 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5806 
The harvesting week! 5804 
I need an inspiration… 5803 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5802 
Like this? 5802 
Dramatically randomize MF 5802 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5801 
The room eats dynamic 5801 
Diffusers 5801 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5800 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5785 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5784 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5784 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5784 
About Width-Importance balance. 5782 
Letting the music scale up 5781 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5781 
To finish my house décor… 5777 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5776 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5775 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5775 
Calling the gods of music 5775 
Absolutely 5775 
Phase manipulation 5775 
No relation. 5775 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5775 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5775 
Dynamical mismatch 5774 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5774 
Stradiwinerius? 5771 
Dealing with the glass. 5770 
Boston 5770 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5770 
Added mass 5770 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5770 
It is about moderation…. 5770 
To hell with the wine... 5770 
Also for other surafaces 5769 
LEAD 5769 
LEAD & GLASS 5769 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5769 
Read carefully 5769 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5769 
Crooks and morons 5769 
Magiscopios 5768 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5748 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5748 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5747 
The LP setup in the new home. 5696 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5691 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5691 
Pianochord will do! 5691 
Spanyi heaven 5691 
I see no conflict at all. 5691 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5691 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5691 
A year after closing 5683 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5683 
Traveling antimatter 5676 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5670 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5669 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5643 
Cast Iron fireplace 5642 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5642 
The hardcore way 5642 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5606 
This is How It's Done 5605 
Listening room during summer. 5593 
What about those... 5592 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5592 
Reducing A/C Noise 5592 
HVAC the Cat 5592 
Big Ass fan 5591 
Variac dimmers 5591 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5591 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5591 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5523 
Some winter observations. 5414 
That Asian man…. 5383 
The Franz Schubert morning 5357 
Spring.... 5306 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5256 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5227 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5227 
Just good photography? 5227 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5227 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5227 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5226 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5226 
Sports car 5226 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5226 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5226 
Train Positioning 5226 
Kind of what I want 5226 
The lap listening… 5226 
Family Room 5226 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5223 
A super audio room. 5219 
Time Warp! 5219 
A piano in a listening room 5198 
Pianissimo 5198 
The plan in blue. 5198 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5198 
My doubts 5198 
It is exactly what I worry. 5197 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5197 
Musicians at home 5197 
Piano Measurements 5196 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5191 
The next step. 5177 
Midbass horns missing?? 5176 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5166 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5166 
Baby Grand 5165 
Wood floor 5165 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5165 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5165 
Amy’s baby. 5163 
Improvement 5163 
Agree with Scott 5163 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5151 
Integrated casters 5151 
Very nice, thanks. 5151 
Customization 5151 
Sliders 5151 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5144 
Congratulations 5144 
Holes in the floor... 5144 
Tubes and kids 5144 
Sweet spot enlargement 5144 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5142 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5141 
Wood Floors and Water 5141 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5136 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5135 
WAF is for Losers 5135 
WAF: it depends. 5135 
Integration 5134 
Here and there. 5134 
Life after WWIII 5134 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5134 
Cables management. 5132 
Featurizing 5132 
Kids and tubes cont. 5129 
Kid magnet 5129 
Kids and audio 5128 
Radars 5128 
Wow, what the days! 5124 
The comming weekend 5120 
It all was worth it! 5117 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5112 
Here is how it is look. 5112 
Resolving the carpet issue 5112 
Bonfire 5112 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5112 
Proof of concept? 5112 
Geometry 5112 
A view from listening position. 5112 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5112 
Some feedback 5112 
Evening 5112 
I wonder why. 5111 
Rugs and things 5111 
In defense… 5111 
I can’t get it. 5108 
Haze. 5107 
Front wall 5107 
It is very possible. 5107 
It is nice to be back. 5104 
My comfy corner. 5101 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4741 
WMD in house. 4563 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4466 
The third listening spot. 4445 
For sure a very different experience. 4407 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4402 
It's Jfretch's system. 4402 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4401 
Domestic games 4355 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4216 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4216 
Dynamic screening 4216 
Actually this is very good idea! 4216 
Volcanic fabric 4216 
I should have done this. 4214 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4210 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4179 
No worries 4179 
Awesome memories 4179 
Optimization of space 4179 
Child-ish considerations 4176 
Finding peace.... 4170 
"Fencing"? 4169 
I need to build something custom 4169 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4169 
Stressed Skin 4169 
NYC elevators 4169 
Kids toys and quantities. 4169 
Everything is completely reversible 4168 
Racks and things 4168 
Now it looks even more promising! 4168 
Quantity of rods 4168 
Avoiding diagonals 4166 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4165 
That's not fair! 4165 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4165 
Discrimination? 4160 
Vertical configuration 4153 
Impresive ! 4082 
Did you read the site? 4082 
Contact 4082 
Company's name is Rixrax 4082 
Stand 4081 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4037 
End of life headphone system 4037 
Something like this? 4037 
The "Second Living Room" 4037 
Mixing urban & suburban 4037 
Late night listening 4037 
Moving life... 4035 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4035 
A true listening room. 4011 
It started… 3996 
Levels of Interest 3996 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3996 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3996 
I can't not to post it.... 3996 
Do not leave him unattended. 3996 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3996 
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