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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 6061 
The first take on the new room. 6055 
New Room, a first shot. 6054 
Wonderful 6054 
Adopted 6053 
The first relaxed night with the room 6051 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6050 
The listening room is ready. 6049 
New Room, a First Shot 6047 
Continue to work with the room 6047 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6047 
Room 6046 
I think it will take another month. 6046 
The Buttressing 6046 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6045 
The new place and the new noises. 6045 
Big listening room 6044 
Screw the "big" rooms 6044 
Big listening rooms 6044 
First reflection points 6043 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6043 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6040 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6039 
Squeezing the floor 6039 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6039 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6039 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6038 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6038 
The new room, the very first listening. 6038 
The 14.5 foot. 6037 
Again… 6036 
Romy's new Playground 6036 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6036 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6036 
For the uninitiated ... 6035 
NH guy 6035 
Room 6035 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6034 
The first base is done 6034 
Reentry time alignment. 6033 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6032 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6032 
Mid bass horn. 6032 
Guess is only a guess… 6032 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6032 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6031 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6031 
Diffusors 6031 
Diffuse injection 6031 
Let analyse why it so 6031 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6031 
Wheel and Deal 6031 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6031 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6031 
I Must Be Missing Something 6031 
I put sliders under my speakers 6030 
ROOM 6029 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6029 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6029 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6029 
No concerns 6029 
Speakers and room 6029 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6028 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6028 
Diaphram 6028 
Phram 6028 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6028 
Perfect piston 6028 
Decorater 6027 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6027 
New morning 6026 
The first take on the room with RTA 6025 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 6025 
Axiomatic 6025 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 6024 
Wetness is about more than reflections 6024 
The size of the bass. 6024 
Bass Factory 6024 
Crude Level, or something more? 6024 
I will play with it this week…. 6024 
Rent-A 6024 
Secret of pressurizing open room 6024 
Corner horns 6024 
Cheating from below 6024 
The sequence, the sequence…. 6024 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 6023 
A possibly overly simplified view 6023 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 6023 
Iceberg 6023 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 6023 
Why not horn 6023 
A correction…. 6023 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 6023 
They are just not related things at all. 6023 
Fertin 6021 
Low resonance is good... 6021 
Et tu, Brute? 6020 
The Room response at LF 6019 
Life On The Ground Floor 6019 
Bass arrays 6019 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 6019 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 6019 
The super sucks. 6019 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 6019 
You may also try 6018 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 6018 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 6018 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 6018 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 6018 
60 Hz Resonance 6018 
No notching… so far. 6018 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 6017 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 6017 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 6017 
Enclosure volume LB channel 6017 
Power to the People 6017 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 6017 
Aura 6017 
No Way Around the Power Gap 6017 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 6017 
All class D is the same 6017 
Interpreting the LF results. 6016 
The Halibut 6016 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 6016 
The Big Picture 6016 
Power & ULF channels 6016 
The big picture indeed. 6016 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 6016 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 6016 
The Power and the Glory 6015 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 6015 
I guess I did not get this memo 6015 
French LF drivers 6015 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 6015 
(another) French LF approach 6014 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 6014 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 6014 
Using limp mass acoustic? 6014 
Limpschtick 6014 
Symmetry 6014 
Décor maybe fake for playback 6013 
Room correction 6013 
It migh be more complicated. 6013 
Bass EQ ? 6013 
Agree and not. 6013 
Two "diseases" 6013 
Parametric filters 6013 
Ceiling arrays 6013 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 6013 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 6013 
The Middle of the Room. 6013 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 6013 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 6013 
Stop! 6013 
Appendectomy 6013 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 6012 
...particularly if you have tried it? 6012 
No Isolation 6012 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 6009 
Potential contenders? 6008 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 6008 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 6008 
Those Crazy Canucks 6004 
Mo' Better Bass 5998 
Bird in the Hand? 5998 
A wet listening spot? 5991 
Storm 5988 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5988 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5974 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5944 
Polar Opposite ULF 5943 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5931 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5929 
Differently but the same. 5928 
PVC 5927 
The sail test try. 5927 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5927 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5927 
Trial 5926 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5926 
Some explanations 5926 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5925 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5924 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5923 
Acrylate 5922 
Magic blanket 5922 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5921 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5921 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5921 
I have a few options. 5921 
Foam color 5921 
Strange things with upperbass 5921 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5920 
Teatro reform. . . 5920 
The foaming room dilemma. 5919 
Melamine Foam 5919 
Foaming up the cat house 5919 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5919 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5919 
Acoustic revisions… 5918 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5915 
Surprises so far in the new room 5914 
The upperbass in the new room. 5914 
Slight change of hart. 5913 
Camco supply of Boston 5911 
Room acoustics 5911 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5870 
I need to kill dust first. 5870 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5868 
To feed the leeches? 5868 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5867 
Yh 5867 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5867 
DPOLs? 5867 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5867 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5864 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5864 
A HalfPipe solution? 5864 
I absolutely love it. 5864 
Piper work 5863 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5863 
Absorption 5863 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5862 
Cats life ? 5862 
Call me Pussy. 5862 
More about traps 5862 
Acoustic impedance? 5862 
You maybe right 5862 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5862 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5861 
Heavy Curtain 5861 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5860 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5860 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5860 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5857 
Fix speaker move chair? 5856 
Back and forth ceremony 5856 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5855 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5854 
Glass windows 5853 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5852 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5851 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5849 
How to use basement jacks? 5849 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5849 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5849 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5848 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5848 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5847 
Sore eyes... 5846 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5846 
The harvesting week! 5844 
I need an inspiration… 5843 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5842 
Like this? 5842 
Dramatically randomize MF 5842 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5841 
The room eats dynamic 5841 
Diffusers 5841 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5840 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5825 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5824 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5824 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5824 
About Width-Importance balance. 5822 
Letting the music scale up 5821 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5821 
To finish my house décor… 5817 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5816 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5815 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5815 
Calling the gods of music 5815 
Absolutely 5815 
Phase manipulation 5815 
No relation. 5815 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5815 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5815 
Dynamical mismatch 5814 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5814 
Stradiwinerius? 5811 
Dealing with the glass. 5810 
Boston 5810 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5810 
Added mass 5810 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5810 
It is about moderation…. 5810 
To hell with the wine... 5810 
Also for other surafaces 5809 
LEAD 5809 
LEAD & GLASS 5809 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5809 
Read carefully 5809 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5809 
Crooks and morons 5809 
Magiscopios 5808 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5788 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5788 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5787 
The LP setup in the new home. 5736 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5731 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5731 
Pianochord will do! 5731 
Spanyi heaven 5731 
I see no conflict at all. 5731 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5731 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5731 
A year after closing 5723 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5723 
Traveling antimatter 5716 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5710 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5709 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5683 
Cast Iron fireplace 5682 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5682 
The hardcore way 5682 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5646 
This is How It's Done 5645 
Listening room during summer. 5633 
What about those... 5632 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5632 
Reducing A/C Noise 5632 
HVAC the Cat 5632 
Big Ass fan 5631 
Variac dimmers 5631 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5631 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5631 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5563 
Some winter observations. 5454 
That Asian man…. 5423 
The Franz Schubert morning 5397 
Spring.... 5346 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5296 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5267 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5267 
Just good photography? 5267 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5267 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5267 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5266 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5266 
Sports car 5266 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5266 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5266 
Train Positioning 5266 
Kind of what I want 5266 
The lap listening… 5266 
Family Room 5266 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5263 
A super audio room. 5259 
Time Warp! 5259 
A piano in a listening room 5238 
Pianissimo 5238 
The plan in blue. 5238 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5238 
My doubts 5238 
It is exactly what I worry. 5237 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5237 
Musicians at home 5237 
Piano Measurements 5236 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5231 
The next step. 5217 
Midbass horns missing?? 5216 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5206 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5206 
Baby Grand 5205 
Wood floor 5205 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5205 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5205 
Amy’s baby. 5203 
Improvement 5203 
Agree with Scott 5203 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5191 
Integrated casters 5191 
Very nice, thanks. 5191 
Customization 5191 
Sliders 5191 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5184 
Congratulations 5184 
Holes in the floor... 5184 
Tubes and kids 5184 
Sweet spot enlargement 5184 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5182 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5181 
Wood Floors and Water 5181 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5176 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5175 
WAF is for Losers 5175 
WAF: it depends. 5175 
Integration 5174 
Here and there. 5174 
Life after WWIII 5174 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5174 
Cables management. 5172 
Featurizing 5172 
Kids and tubes cont. 5169 
Kid magnet 5169 
Kids and audio 5168 
Radars 5168 
Wow, what the days! 5164 
The comming weekend 5160 
It all was worth it! 5157 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5152 
Here is how it is look. 5152 
Resolving the carpet issue 5152 
Bonfire 5152 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5152 
Proof of concept? 5152 
Geometry 5152 
A view from listening position. 5152 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5152 
Some feedback 5152 
Evening 5152 
I wonder why. 5151 
Rugs and things 5151 
In defense… 5151 
I can’t get it. 5148 
Haze. 5147 
Front wall 5147 
It is very possible. 5147 
It is nice to be back. 5144 
My comfy corner. 5141 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4781 
WMD in house. 4603 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4506 
The third listening spot. 4485 
For sure a very different experience. 4447 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4442 
It's Jfretch's system. 4442 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4441 
Domestic games 4395 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4256 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4256 
Dynamic screening 4256 
Actually this is very good idea! 4256 
Volcanic fabric 4256 
I should have done this. 4254 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4250 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4219 
No worries 4219 
Awesome memories 4219 
Optimization of space 4219 
Child-ish considerations 4216 
Finding peace.... 4210 
"Fencing"? 4209 
I need to build something custom 4209 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4209 
Stressed Skin 4209 
NYC elevators 4209 
Kids toys and quantities. 4209 
Everything is completely reversible 4208 
Racks and things 4208 
Now it looks even more promising! 4208 
Quantity of rods 4208 
Avoiding diagonals 4206 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4205 
That's not fair! 4205 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4205 
Discrimination? 4200 
Vertical configuration 4193 
Impresive ! 4122 
Did you read the site? 4122 
Contact 4122 
Company's name is Rixrax 4122 
Stand 4121 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4077 
End of life headphone system 4077 
Something like this? 4077 
The "Second Living Room" 4077 
Mixing urban & suburban 4077 
Late night listening 4077 
Moving life... 4075 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4075 
A true listening room. 4051 
It started… 4036 
Levels of Interest 4036 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4036 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4036 
I can't not to post it.... 4036 
Do not leave him unattended. 4036 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4036 
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