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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 6034 
The first take on the new room. 6028 
New Room, a first shot. 6027 
Wonderful 6027 
Adopted 6026 
The first relaxed night with the room 6024 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 6023 
The listening room is ready. 6022 
New Room, a First Shot 6020 
Continue to work with the room 6020 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 6020 
Room 6019 
I think it will take another month. 6019 
The Buttressing 6019 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 6018 
The new place and the new noises. 6018 
Big listening room 6017 
Screw the "big" rooms 6017 
Big listening rooms 6017 
First reflection points 6016 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 6016 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 6013 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 6012 
Squeezing the floor 6012 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 6012 
You Will Have to Experiment... 6012 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 6011 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 6011 
The new room, the very first listening. 6011 
The 14.5 foot. 6010 
Again… 6009 
Romy's new Playground 6009 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 6009 
A phenomenal encouragement! 6009 
For the uninitiated ... 6008 
NH guy 6008 
Room 6008 
Design decisions and topologies…. 6007 
The first base is done 6007 
Reentry time alignment. 6006 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 6005 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 6005 
Mid bass horn. 6005 
Guess is only a guess… 6005 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 6005 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 6004 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 6004 
Diffusors 6004 
Diffuse injection 6004 
Let analyse why it so 6004 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 6004 
Wheel and Deal 6004 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 6004 
The High-End Saloon Sound 6004 
I Must Be Missing Something 6004 
I put sliders under my speakers 6003 
ROOM 6002 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 6002 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 6002 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 6002 
No concerns 6002 
Speakers and room 6002 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 6001 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 6001 
Diaphram 6001 
Phram 6001 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 6001 
Perfect piston 6001 
Decorater 6000 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 6000 
New morning 5999 
The first take on the room with RTA 5998 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5998 
Axiomatic 5998 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5997 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5997 
The size of the bass. 5997 
Bass Factory 5997 
Crude Level, or something more? 5997 
I will play with it this week…. 5997 
Rent-A 5997 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5997 
Corner horns 5997 
Cheating from below 5997 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5997 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5996 
A possibly overly simplified view 5996 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5996 
Iceberg 5996 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5996 
Why not horn 5996 
A correction…. 5996 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5996 
They are just not related things at all. 5996 
Fertin 5994 
Low resonance is good... 5994 
Et tu, Brute? 5993 
The Room response at LF 5992 
Life On The Ground Floor 5992 
Bass arrays 5992 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5992 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5992 
The super sucks. 5992 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5992 
You may also try 5991 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5991 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5991 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5991 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5991 
60 Hz Resonance 5991 
No notching… so far. 5991 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5990 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5990 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5990 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5990 
Power to the People 5990 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5990 
Aura 5990 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5990 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5990 
All class D is the same 5990 
Interpreting the LF results. 5989 
The Halibut 5989 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5989 
The Big Picture 5989 
Power & ULF channels 5989 
The big picture indeed. 5989 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5989 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5989 
The Power and the Glory 5988 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5988 
I guess I did not get this memo 5988 
French LF drivers 5988 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5988 
(another) French LF approach 5987 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5987 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5987 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5987 
Limpschtick 5987 
Symmetry 5987 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5986 
Room correction 5986 
It migh be more complicated. 5986 
Bass EQ ? 5986 
Agree and not. 5986 
Two "diseases" 5986 
Parametric filters 5986 
Ceiling arrays 5986 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5986 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5986 
The Middle of the Room. 5986 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5986 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5986 
Stop! 5986 
Appendectomy 5986 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5985 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5985 
No Isolation 5985 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5982 
Potential contenders? 5981 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5981 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5981 
Those Crazy Canucks 5977 
Mo' Better Bass 5971 
Bird in the Hand? 5971 
A wet listening spot? 5964 
Storm 5961 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5961 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5947 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5917 
Polar Opposite ULF 5916 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5904 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5902 
Differently but the same. 5901 
PVC 5900 
The sail test try. 5900 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5900 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5900 
Trial 5899 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5899 
Some explanations 5899 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5898 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5897 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5896 
Acrylate 5895 
Magic blanket 5895 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5894 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5894 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5894 
I have a few options. 5894 
Foam color 5894 
Strange things with upperbass 5894 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5893 
Teatro reform. . . 5893 
The foaming room dilemma. 5892 
Melamine Foam 5892 
Foaming up the cat house 5892 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5892 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5892 
Acoustic revisions… 5891 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5888 
Surprises so far in the new room 5887 
The upperbass in the new room. 5887 
Slight change of hart. 5886 
Camco supply of Boston 5884 
Room acoustics 5884 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5843 
I need to kill dust first. 5843 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5841 
To feed the leeches? 5841 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5840 
Yh 5840 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5840 
DPOLs? 5840 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5840 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5837 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5837 
A HalfPipe solution? 5837 
I absolutely love it. 5837 
Piper work 5836 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5836 
Absorption 5836 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5835 
Cats life ? 5835 
Call me Pussy. 5835 
More about traps 5835 
Acoustic impedance? 5835 
You maybe right 5835 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5835 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5834 
Heavy Curtain 5834 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5833 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5833 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5833 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5830 
Fix speaker move chair? 5829 
Back and forth ceremony 5829 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5828 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5827 
Glass windows 5826 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5825 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5824 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5822 
How to use basement jacks? 5822 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5822 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5822 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5821 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5821 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5820 
Sore eyes... 5819 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5819 
The harvesting week! 5817 
I need an inspiration… 5816 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5815 
Like this? 5815 
Dramatically randomize MF 5815 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5814 
The room eats dynamic 5814 
Diffusers 5814 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5813 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5798 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5797 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5797 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5797 
About Width-Importance balance. 5795 
Letting the music scale up 5794 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5794 
To finish my house décor… 5790 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5789 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5788 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5788 
Calling the gods of music 5788 
Absolutely 5788 
Phase manipulation 5788 
No relation. 5788 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5788 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5788 
Dynamical mismatch 5787 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5787 
Stradiwinerius? 5784 
Dealing with the glass. 5783 
Boston 5783 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5783 
Added mass 5783 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5783 
It is about moderation…. 5783 
To hell with the wine... 5783 
Also for other surafaces 5782 
LEAD 5782 
LEAD & GLASS 5782 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5782 
Read carefully 5782 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5782 
Crooks and morons 5782 
Magiscopios 5781 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5761 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5761 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5760 
The LP setup in the new home. 5709 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5704 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5704 
Pianochord will do! 5704 
Spanyi heaven 5704 
I see no conflict at all. 5704 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5704 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5704 
A year after closing 5696 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5696 
Traveling antimatter 5689 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5683 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5682 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5656 
Cast Iron fireplace 5655 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5655 
The hardcore way 5655 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5619 
This is How It's Done 5618 
Listening room during summer. 5606 
What about those... 5605 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5605 
Reducing A/C Noise 5605 
HVAC the Cat 5605 
Big Ass fan 5604 
Variac dimmers 5604 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5604 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5604 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5536 
Some winter observations. 5427 
That Asian man…. 5396 
The Franz Schubert morning 5370 
Spring.... 5319 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5269 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5240 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5240 
Just good photography? 5240 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5240 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5240 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5239 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5239 
Sports car 5239 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5239 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5239 
Train Positioning 5239 
Kind of what I want 5239 
The lap listening… 5239 
Family Room 5239 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5236 
A super audio room. 5232 
Time Warp! 5232 
A piano in a listening room 5211 
Pianissimo 5211 
The plan in blue. 5211 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5211 
My doubts 5211 
It is exactly what I worry. 5210 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5210 
Musicians at home 5210 
Piano Measurements 5209 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5204 
The next step. 5190 
Midbass horns missing?? 5189 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5179 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5179 
Baby Grand 5178 
Wood floor 5178 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5178 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5178 
Amy’s baby. 5176 
Improvement 5176 
Agree with Scott 5176 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5164 
Integrated casters 5164 
Very nice, thanks. 5164 
Customization 5164 
Sliders 5164 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5157 
Congratulations 5157 
Holes in the floor... 5157 
Tubes and kids 5157 
Sweet spot enlargement 5157 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5155 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5154 
Wood Floors and Water 5154 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5149 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5148 
WAF is for Losers 5148 
WAF: it depends. 5148 
Integration 5147 
Here and there. 5147 
Life after WWIII 5147 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5147 
Cables management. 5145 
Featurizing 5145 
Kids and tubes cont. 5142 
Kid magnet 5142 
Kids and audio 5141 
Radars 5141 
Wow, what the days! 5137 
The comming weekend 5133 
It all was worth it! 5130 
Sound back and sentences by structure 5125 
Here is how it is look. 5125 
Resolving the carpet issue 5125 
Bonfire 5125 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 5125 
Proof of concept? 5125 
Geometry 5125 
A view from listening position. 5125 
Aspects of a Dilemma 5125 
Some feedback 5125 
Evening 5125 
I wonder why. 5124 
Rugs and things 5124 
In defense… 5124 
I can’t get it. 5121 
Haze. 5120 
Front wall 5120 
It is very possible. 5120 
It is nice to be back. 5117 
My comfy corner. 5114 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4754 
WMD in house. 4576 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4479 
The third listening spot. 4458 
For sure a very different experience. 4420 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4415 
It's Jfretch's system. 4415 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4414 
Domestic games 4368 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4229 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4229 
Dynamic screening 4229 
Actually this is very good idea! 4229 
Volcanic fabric 4229 
I should have done this. 4227 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4223 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4192 
No worries 4192 
Awesome memories 4192 
Optimization of space 4192 
Child-ish considerations 4189 
Finding peace.... 4183 
"Fencing"? 4182 
I need to build something custom 4182 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4182 
Stressed Skin 4182 
NYC elevators 4182 
Kids toys and quantities. 4182 
Everything is completely reversible 4181 
Racks and things 4181 
Now it looks even more promising! 4181 
Quantity of rods 4181 
Avoiding diagonals 4179 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4178 
That's not fair! 4178 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4178 
Discrimination? 4173 
Vertical configuration 4166 
Impresive ! 4095 
Did you read the site? 4095 
Contact 4095 
Company's name is Rixrax 4095 
Stand 4094 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 4050 
End of life headphone system 4050 
Something like this? 4050 
The "Second Living Room" 4050 
Mixing urban & suburban 4050 
Late night listening 4050 
Moving life... 4048 
Well, let see how it goes.... 4048 
A true listening room. 4024 
It started… 4009 
Levels of Interest 4009 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 4009 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 4009 
I can't not to post it.... 4009 
Do not leave him unattended. 4009 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 4009 
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