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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 6072 
The first take on the new room. 6066 
New Room, a first shot. 6065 
Wonderful 6065 
Adopted 6064 
The first relaxed night with the room 6062 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6061 
The listening room is ready. 6060 
New Room, a First Shot 6058 
Continue to work with the room 6058 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6058 
Room 6057 
I think it will take another month. 6057 
The Buttressing 6057 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6056 
The new place and the new noises. 6056 
Big listening room 6055 
Screw the "big" rooms 6055 
Big listening rooms 6055 
First reflection points 6054 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6054 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6051 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6050 
Squeezing the floor 6050 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6050 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6050 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6049 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6049 
The new room, the very first listening. 6049 
The 14.5 foot. 6048 
Again… 6047 
Romy's new Playground 6047 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6047 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6047 
For the uninitiated ... 6046 
NH guy 6046 
Room 6046 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6045 
The first base is done 6045 
Reentry time alignment. 6044 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6043 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6043 
Mid bass horn. 6043 
Guess is only a guess… 6043 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6043 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6042 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6042 
Diffusors 6042 
Diffuse injection 6042 
Let analyse why it so 6042 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6042 
Wheel and Deal 6042 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6042 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6042 
I Must Be Missing Something 6042 
I put sliders under my speakers 6041 
ROOM 6040 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6040 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6040 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6040 
No concerns 6040 
Speakers and room 6040 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6039 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6039 
Diaphram 6039 
Phram 6039 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6039 
Perfect piston 6039 
Decorater 6038 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6038 
New morning 6037 
The first take on the room with RTA 6036 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6036 
Axiomatic 6036 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6035 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6035 
The size of the bass. 6035 
Bass Factory 6035 
Crude Level, or something more? 6035 
I will play with it this week…. 6035 
Rent-A 6035 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6035 
Corner horns 6035 
Cheating from below 6035 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6035 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6034 
A possibly overly simplified view 6034 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6034 
Iceberg 6034 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6034 
Why not horn 6034 
A correction…. 6034 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6034 
They are just not related things at all. 6034 
Fertin 6032 
Low resonance is good... 6032 
Et tu, Brute? 6031 
The Room response at LF 6030 
Life On The Ground Floor 6030 
Bass arrays 6030 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6030 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6030 
The super sucks. 6030 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6030 
You may also try 6029 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6029 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6029 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6029 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6029 
60 Hz Resonance 6029 
No notching… so far. 6029 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6028 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6028 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6028 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6028 
Power to the People 6028 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6028 
Aura 6028 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6028 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6028 
All class D is the same 6028 
Interpreting the LF results. 6027 
The Halibut 6027 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6027 
The Big Picture 6027 
Power & ULF channels 6027 
The big picture indeed. 6027 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6027 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6027 
The Power and the Glory 6026 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6026 
I guess I did not get this memo 6026 
French LF drivers 6026 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6026 
(another) French LF approach 6025 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6025 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6025 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6025 
Limpschtick 6025 
Symmetry 6025 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6024 
Room correction 6024 
It migh be more complicated. 6024 
Bass EQ ? 6024 
Agree and not. 6024 
Two "diseases" 6024 
Parametric filters 6024 
Ceiling arrays 6024 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6024 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6024 
The Middle of the Room. 6024 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6024 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6024 
Stop! 6024 
Appendectomy 6024 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6023 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6023 
No Isolation 6023 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6020 
Potential contenders? 6019 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6019 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6019 
Those Crazy Canucks 6015 
Mo' Better Bass 6009 
Bird in the Hand? 6009 
A wet listening spot? 6002 
Storm 5999 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5999 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5985 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5955 
Polar Opposite ULF 5954 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5942 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5940 
Differently but the same. 5939 
PVC 5938 
The sail test try. 5938 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5938 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5938 
Trial 5937 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5937 
Some explanations 5937 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5936 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5935 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5934 
Acrylate 5933 
Magic blanket 5933 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5932 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5932 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5932 
I have a few options. 5932 
Foam color 5932 
Strange things with upperbass 5932 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5931 
Teatro reform. . . 5931 
The foaming room dilemma. 5930 
Melamine Foam 5930 
Foaming up the cat house 5930 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5930 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5930 
Acoustic revisions… 5929 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5926 
Surprises so far in the new room 5925 
The upperbass in the new room. 5925 
Slight change of hart. 5924 
Camco supply of Boston 5922 
Room acoustics 5922 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5881 
I need to kill dust first. 5881 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5879 
To feed the leeches? 5879 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5878 
Yh 5878 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5878 
DPOLs? 5878 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5878 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5875 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5875 
A HalfPipe solution? 5875 
I absolutely love it. 5875 
Piper work 5874 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5874 
Absorption 5874 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5873 
Cats life ? 5873 
Call me Pussy. 5873 
More about traps 5873 
Acoustic impedance? 5873 
You maybe right 5873 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5873 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5872 
Heavy Curtain 5872 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5871 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5871 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5871 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5868 
Fix speaker move chair? 5867 
Back and forth ceremony 5867 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5866 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5865 
Glass windows 5864 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5863 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5862 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5860 
How to use basement jacks? 5860 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5860 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5860 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5859 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5859 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5858 
Sore eyes... 5857 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5857 
The harvesting week! 5855 
I need an inspiration… 5854 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5853 
Like this? 5853 
Dramatically randomize MF 5853 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5852 
The room eats dynamic 5852 
Diffusers 5852 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5851 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5836 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5835 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5835 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5835 
About Width-Importance balance. 5833 
Letting the music scale up 5832 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5832 
To finish my house décor… 5828 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5827 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5826 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5826 
Calling the gods of music 5826 
Absolutely 5826 
Phase manipulation 5826 
No relation. 5826 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5826 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5826 
Dynamical mismatch 5825 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5825 
Stradiwinerius? 5822 
Dealing with the glass. 5821 
Boston 5821 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5821 
Added mass 5821 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5821 
It is about moderation…. 5821 
To hell with the wine... 5821 
Also for other surafaces 5820 
LEAD 5820 
LEAD & GLASS 5820 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5820 
Read carefully 5820 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5820 
Crooks and morons 5820 
Magiscopios 5819 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5799 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5799 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5798 
The LP setup in the new home. 5747 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5742 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5742 
Pianochord will do! 5742 
Spanyi heaven 5742 
I see no conflict at all. 5742 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5742 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5742 
A year after closing 5734 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5734 
Traveling antimatter 5727 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5721 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5720 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5694 
Cast Iron fireplace 5693 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5693 
The hardcore way 5693 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5657 
This is How It's Done 5656 
Listening room during summer. 5644 
What about those... 5643 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5643 
Reducing A/C Noise 5643 
HVAC the Cat 5643 
Big Ass fan 5642 
Variac dimmers 5642 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5642 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5642 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5574 
Some winter observations. 5465 
That Asian man…. 5434 
The Franz Schubert morning 5408 
Spring.... 5357 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5307 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5278 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5278 
Just good photography? 5278 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5278 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5278 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5277 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5277 
Sports car 5277 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5277 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5277 
Train Positioning 5277 
Kind of what I want 5277 
The lap listening… 5277 
Family Room 5277 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5274 
A super audio room. 5270 
Time Warp! 5270 
A piano in a listening room 5249 
Pianissimo 5249 
The plan in blue. 5249 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5249 
My doubts 5249 
It is exactly what I worry. 5248 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5248 
Musicians at home 5248 
Piano Measurements 5247 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5242 
The next step. 5228 
Midbass horns missing?? 5227 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5217 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5217 
Baby Grand 5216 
Wood floor 5216 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5216 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5216 
Amy’s baby. 5214 
Improvement 5214 
Agree with Scott 5214 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5202 
Integrated casters 5202 
Very nice, thanks. 5202 
Customization 5202 
Sliders 5202 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5195 
Congratulations 5195 
Holes in the floor... 5195 
Tubes and kids 5195 
Sweet spot enlargement 5195 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5193 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5192 
Wood Floors and Water 5192 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5187 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5186 
WAF is for Losers 5186 
WAF: it depends. 5186 
Integration 5185 
Here and there. 5185 
Life after WWIII 5185 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5185 
Cables management. 5183 
Featurizing 5183 
Kids and tubes cont. 5180 
Kid magnet 5180 
Kids and audio 5179 
Radars 5179 
Wow, what the days! 5175 
The comming weekend 5171 
It all was worth it! 5168 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5163 
Here is how it is look. 5163 
Resolving the carpet issue 5163 
Bonfire 5163 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5163 
Proof of concept? 5163 
Geometry 5163 
A view from listening position. 5163 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5163 
Some feedback 5163 
Evening 5163 
I wonder why. 5162 
Rugs and things 5162 
In defense… 5162 
I can’t get it. 5159 
Haze. 5158 
Front wall 5158 
It is very possible. 5158 
It is nice to be back. 5155 
My comfy corner. 5152 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4792 
WMD in house. 4614 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4517 
The third listening spot. 4496 
For sure a very different experience. 4458 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4453 
It's Jfretch's system. 4453 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4452 
Domestic games 4406 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4267 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4267 
Dynamic screening 4267 
Actually this is very good idea! 4267 
Volcanic fabric 4267 
I should have done this. 4265 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4261 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4230 
No worries 4230 
Awesome memories 4230 
Optimization of space 4230 
Child-ish considerations 4227 
Finding peace.... 4221 
"Fencing"? 4220 
I need to build something custom 4220 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4220 
Stressed Skin 4220 
NYC elevators 4220 
Kids toys and quantities. 4220 
Everything is completely reversible 4219 
Racks and things 4219 
Now it looks even more promising! 4219 
Quantity of rods 4219 
Avoiding diagonals 4217 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4216 
That's not fair! 4216 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4216 
Discrimination? 4211 
Vertical configuration 4204 
Impresive ! 4133 
Did you read the site? 4133 
Contact 4133 
Company's name is Rixrax 4133 
Stand 4132 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4088 
End of life headphone system 4088 
Something like this? 4088 
The "Second Living Room" 4088 
Mixing urban & suburban 4088 
Late night listening 4088 
Moving life... 4086 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4086 
A true listening room. 4062 
It started… 4047 
Levels of Interest 4047 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4047 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4047 
I can't not to post it.... 4047 
Do not leave him unattended. 4047 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4047 
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