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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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Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 6007 
The first take on the new room. 6001 
New Room, a first shot. 6000 
Wonderful 6000 
Adopted 5999 
The first relaxed night with the room 5997 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5996 
The listening room is ready. 5995 
New Room, a First Shot 5993 
Continue to work with the room 5993 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5993 
Room 5992 
I think it will take another month. 5992 
The Buttressing 5992 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5991 
The new place and the new noises. 5991 
Big listening room 5990 
Screw the "big" rooms 5990 
Big listening rooms 5990 
First reflection points 5989 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5989 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5986 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5985 
Squeezing the floor 5985 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5985 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5985 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5984 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5984 
The new room, the very first listening. 5984 
The 14.5 foot. 5983 
Again… 5982 
Romy's new Playground 5982 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5982 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5982 
For the uninitiated ... 5981 
NH guy 5981 
Room 5981 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5980 
The first base is done 5980 
Reentry time alignment. 5979 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5978 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5978 
Mid bass horn. 5978 
Guess is only a guess… 5978 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5978 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5977 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5977 
Diffusors 5977 
Diffuse injection 5977 
Let analyse why it so 5977 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5977 
Wheel and Deal 5977 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5977 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5977 
I Must Be Missing Something 5977 
I put sliders under my speakers 5976 
ROOM 5975 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5975 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5975 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5975 
No concerns 5975 
Speakers and room 5975 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5974 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5974 
Diaphram 5974 
Phram 5974 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5974 
Perfect piston 5974 
Decorater 5973 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5973 
New morning 5972 
The first take on the room with RTA 5971 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5971 
Axiomatic 5971 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5970 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5970 
The size of the bass. 5970 
Bass Factory 5970 
Crude Level, or something more? 5970 
I will play with it this week…. 5970 
Rent-A 5970 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5970 
Corner horns 5970 
Cheating from below 5970 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5970 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5969 
A possibly overly simplified view 5969 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5969 
Iceberg 5969 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5969 
Why not horn 5969 
A correction…. 5969 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5969 
They are just not related things at all. 5969 
Fertin 5967 
Low resonance is good... 5967 
Et tu, Brute? 5966 
The Room response at LF 5965 
Life On The Ground Floor 5965 
Bass arrays 5965 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5965 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5965 
The super sucks. 5965 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5965 
You may also try 5964 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5964 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5964 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5964 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5964 
60 Hz Resonance 5964 
No notching… so far. 5964 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5963 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5963 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5963 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5963 
Power to the People 5963 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5963 
Aura 5963 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5963 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5963 
All class D is the same 5963 
Interpreting the LF results. 5962 
The Halibut 5962 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5962 
The Big Picture 5962 
Power & ULF channels 5962 
The big picture indeed. 5962 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5962 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5962 
The Power and the Glory 5961 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5961 
I guess I did not get this memo 5961 
French LF drivers 5961 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5961 
(another) French LF approach 5960 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5960 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5960 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5960 
Limpschtick 5960 
Symmetry 5960 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5959 
Room correction 5959 
It migh be more complicated. 5959 
Bass EQ ? 5959 
Agree and not. 5959 
Two "diseases" 5959 
Parametric filters 5959 
Ceiling arrays 5959 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5959 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5959 
The Middle of the Room. 5959 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5959 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5959 
Stop! 5959 
Appendectomy 5959 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5958 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5958 
No Isolation 5958 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5955 
Potential contenders? 5954 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5954 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5954 
Those Crazy Canucks 5950 
Mo' Better Bass 5944 
Bird in the Hand? 5944 
A wet listening spot? 5937 
Storm 5934 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5934 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5920 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5890 
Polar Opposite ULF 5889 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5877 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5875 
Differently but the same. 5874 
PVC 5873 
The sail test try. 5873 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5873 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5873 
Trial 5872 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5872 
Some explanations 5872 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5871 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5870 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5869 
Acrylate 5868 
Magic blanket 5868 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5867 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5867 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5867 
I have a few options. 5867 
Foam color 5867 
Strange things with upperbass 5867 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5866 
Teatro reform. . . 5866 
The foaming room dilemma. 5865 
Melamine Foam 5865 
Foaming up the cat house 5865 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5865 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5865 
Acoustic revisions… 5864 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5861 
Surprises so far in the new room 5860 
The upperbass in the new room. 5860 
Slight change of hart. 5859 
Camco supply of Boston 5857 
Room acoustics 5857 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5816 
I need to kill dust first. 5816 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5814 
To feed the leeches? 5814 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5813 
Yh 5813 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5813 
DPOLs? 5813 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5813 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5810 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5810 
A HalfPipe solution? 5810 
I absolutely love it. 5810 
Piper work 5809 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5809 
Absorption 5809 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5808 
Cats life ? 5808 
Call me Pussy. 5808 
More about traps 5808 
Acoustic impedance? 5808 
You maybe right 5808 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5808 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5807 
Heavy Curtain 5807 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5806 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5806 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5806 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5803 
Fix speaker move chair? 5802 
Back and forth ceremony 5802 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5801 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5800 
Glass windows 5799 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5798 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5797 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5795 
How to use basement jacks? 5795 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5795 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5795 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5794 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5794 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5793 
Sore eyes... 5792 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5792 
The harvesting week! 5790 
I need an inspiration… 5789 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5788 
Like this? 5788 
Dramatically randomize MF 5788 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5787 
The room eats dynamic 5787 
Diffusers 5787 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5786 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5771 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5770 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5770 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5770 
About Width-Importance balance. 5768 
Letting the music scale up 5767 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5767 
To finish my house décor… 5763 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5762 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5761 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5761 
Calling the gods of music 5761 
Absolutely 5761 
Phase manipulation 5761 
No relation. 5761 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5761 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5761 
Dynamical mismatch 5760 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5760 
Stradiwinerius? 5757 
Dealing with the glass. 5756 
Boston 5756 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5756 
Added mass 5756 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5756 
It is about moderation…. 5756 
To hell with the wine... 5756 
Also for other surafaces 5755 
LEAD 5755 
LEAD & GLASS 5755 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5755 
Read carefully 5755 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5755 
Crooks and morons 5755 
Magiscopios 5754 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5734 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5734 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5733 
The LP setup in the new home. 5682 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5677 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5677 
Pianochord will do! 5677 
Spanyi heaven 5677 
I see no conflict at all. 5677 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5677 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5677 
A year after closing 5669 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5669 
Traveling antimatter 5662 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5656 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5655 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5629 
Cast Iron fireplace 5628 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5628 
The hardcore way 5628 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5592 
This is How It's Done 5591 
Listening room during summer. 5579 
What about those... 5578 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5578 
Reducing A/C Noise 5578 
HVAC the Cat 5578 
Big Ass fan 5577 
Variac dimmers 5577 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5577 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5577 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5509 
Some winter observations. 5400 
That Asian man…. 5369 
The Franz Schubert morning 5343 
Spring.... 5292 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5242 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5213 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5213 
Just good photography? 5213 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5213 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5213 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5212 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5212 
Sports car 5212 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5212 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5212 
Train Positioning 5212 
Kind of what I want 5212 
The lap listening… 5212 
Family Room 5212 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5209 
A super audio room. 5205 
Time Warp! 5205 
A piano in a listening room 5184 
Pianissimo 5184 
The plan in blue. 5184 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5184 
My doubts 5184 
It is exactly what I worry. 5183 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5183 
Musicians at home 5183 
Piano Measurements 5182 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5177 
The next step. 5163 
Midbass horns missing?? 5162 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5152 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5152 
Baby Grand 5151 
Wood floor 5151 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5151 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5151 
Amy’s baby. 5149 
Improvement 5149 
Agree with Scott 5149 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5137 
Integrated casters 5137 
Very nice, thanks. 5137 
Customization 5137 
Sliders 5137 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5130 
Congratulations 5130 
Holes in the floor... 5130 
Tubes and kids 5130 
Sweet spot enlargement 5130 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5128 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5127 
Wood Floors and Water 5127 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5122 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5121 
WAF is for Losers 5121 
WAF: it depends. 5121 
Integration 5120 
Here and there. 5120 
Life after WWIII 5120 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5120 
Cables management. 5118 
Featurizing 5118 
Kids and tubes cont. 5115 
Kid magnet 5115 
Kids and audio 5114 
Radars 5114 
Wow, what the days! 5110 
The comming weekend 5106 
It all was worth it! 5103 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5098 
Here is how it is look. 5098 
Resolving the carpet issue 5098 
Bonfire 5098 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5098 
Proof of concept? 5098 
Geometry 5098 
A view from listening position. 5098 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5098 
Some feedback 5098 
Evening 5098 
I wonder why. 5097 
Rugs and things 5097 
In defense… 5097 
I can’t get it. 5094 
Haze. 5093 
Front wall 5093 
It is very possible. 5093 
It is nice to be back. 5090 
My comfy corner. 5087 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4727 
WMD in house. 4549 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4452 
The third listening spot. 4431 
For sure a very different experience. 4393 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4388 
It's Jfretch's system. 4388 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4387 
Domestic games 4341 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4202 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4202 
Dynamic screening 4202 
Actually this is very good idea! 4202 
Volcanic fabric 4202 
I should have done this. 4200 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4196 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4165 
No worries 4165 
Awesome memories 4165 
Optimization of space 4165 
Child-ish considerations 4162 
Finding peace.... 4156 
"Fencing"? 4155 
I need to build something custom 4155 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4155 
Stressed Skin 4155 
NYC elevators 4155 
Kids toys and quantities. 4155 
Everything is completely reversible 4154 
Racks and things 4154 
Now it looks even more promising! 4154 
Quantity of rods 4154 
Avoiding diagonals 4152 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4151 
That's not fair! 4151 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4151 
Discrimination? 4146 
Vertical configuration 4139 
Impresive ! 4068 
Did you read the site? 4068 
Contact 4068 
Company's name is Rixrax 4068 
Stand 4067 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4023 
End of life headphone system 4023 
Something like this? 4023 
The "Second Living Room" 4023 
Mixing urban & suburban 4023 
Late night listening 4023 
Moving life... 4021 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4021 
A true listening room. 3997 
It started… 3982 
Levels of Interest 3982 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3982 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3982 
I can't not to post it.... 3982 
Do not leave him unattended. 3982 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3982 
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