Site by Roman Bessnow
GoodSoundClub's Home
Manifesto Copyright
Statistics Site Links
Site Map Surveys
Send Email to Romy the Cat
Site News: 29 Jan 2026
Posting new threads at the site has been fixed.
Romy The Cat's Playback
Audio Knowledge Tree ™
Romy's "Audio Rules"
Audiophile Satire
Melquiades SET Amplifier
Macondo Acoustic System
End of Life Phonostage
Audio Demoronizator AD-1
My Exotic Audio Leftovers
My Playback System
Random Site's Threads
» Say “no” to the light to»
» Staxquiades project
» CATS Purring tempo, slid»
» Horn high-sensitively ar»
» The wonderful Alisa Weil»
» The Active High Frequenc»
» Berlin, Bruckner 8 in Ma»
» Experimental horn
» Shock-absorbing tube soc»
» Memories of audio elemen»
» Bose SoundDock Devil Mac»
» George Orwell and loudsp»
» Computer Audio - like ev»
» Prices in High-End Audio.
» How to make musicians to»
» The most interesting hor»
» The ultimate cancer of a»
» New speaker system
» Reinforced live sound in»
» DIY multicellular horn
» Seven phases in the life»
» High-End Audio as going »
» Learning to interpret RTA
» Van den Hul famous FAQ c»
» Do not buy CDs mastered »
» Afraid loudspeakers that»
» Omni-directional 'horny'»
» Another light for the LS»
» Reflections pattern in C»
» Ultimate Turntable
» Mid-bass Hornresp (V51.3»
» Amplifiers heat… a real-»
» Mozart Concertos; Clarin»
» Contact-free volume cont»
» Van den Hul 's Grail
» Bass drivers inquiry
» Mercury Living Presence »
» New Barenboim’s Bruckner»
Bookmarked are red
Random Site Links
THL Audio
Plasma Tweeters Site
Clemens Krauss Archive
The Handelmania Podcast
Classic Records UK
Pristine Audio Direct
Music & Arts
Input Choke Calculator
Tin Lee Electronics
Conductor’s Corner
Max Robinson’s “Fun With»
VIP Records
More Links »»
Romy the Cat's personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction techniques
Thread WITH the new posts.

Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Romy The Cat's new Listening Room 5816 
The first take on the new room. 5810 
New Room, a first shot. 5809 
Wonderful 5809 
Adopted 5808 
The first relaxed night with the room 5806 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5805 
The listening room is ready. 5804 
New Room, a First Shot 5802 
Continue to work with the room 5802 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5802 
Room 5801 
I think it will take another month. 5801 
The Buttressing 5801 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5800 
The new place and the new noises. 5800 
Big listening room 5799 
Screw the "big" rooms 5799 
Big listening rooms 5799 
First reflection points 5798 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5798 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5795 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5794 
Squeezing the floor 5794 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5794 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5794 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5793 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5793 
The new room, the very first listening. 5793 
The 14.5 foot. 5792 
Again… 5791 
Romy's new Playground 5791 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5791 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5791 
For the uninitiated ... 5790 
NH guy 5790 
Room 5790 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5789 
The first base is done 5789 
Reentry time alignment. 5788 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5787 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5787 
Mid bass horn. 5787 
Guess is only a guess… 5787 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5787 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5786 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5786 
Diffusors 5786 
Diffuse injection 5786 
Let analyse why it so 5786 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5786 
Wheel and Deal 5786 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5786 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5786 
I Must Be Missing Something 5786 
I put sliders under my speakers 5785 
ROOM 5784 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5784 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5784 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5784 
No concerns 5784 
Speakers and room 5784 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5783 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5783 
Diaphram 5783 
Phram 5783 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5783 
Perfect piston 5783 
Decorater 5782 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5782 
New morning 5781 
The first take on the room with RTA 5780 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5780 
Axiomatic 5780 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5779 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5779 
The size of the bass. 5779 
Bass Factory 5779 
Crude Level, or something more? 5779 
I will play with it this week…. 5779 
Rent-A 5779 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5779 
Corner horns 5779 
Cheating from below 5779 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5779 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5778 
A possibly overly simplified view 5778 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5778 
Iceberg 5778 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5778 
Why not horn 5778 
A correction…. 5778 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5778 
They are just not related things at all. 5778 
Fertin 5776 
Low resonance is good... 5776 
Et tu, Brute? 5775 
The Room response at LF 5774 
Life On The Ground Floor 5774 
Bass arrays 5774 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5774 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5774 
The super sucks. 5774 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5774 
You may also try 5773 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5773 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5773 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5773 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5773 
60 Hz Resonance 5773 
No notching… so far. 5773 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5772 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5772 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5772 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5772 
Power to the People 5772 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5772 
Aura 5772 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5772 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5772 
All class D is the same 5772 
Interpreting the LF results. 5771 
The Halibut 5771 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5771 
The Big Picture 5771 
Power & ULF channels 5771 
The big picture indeed. 5771 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5771 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5771 
The Power and the Glory 5770 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5770 
I guess I did not get this memo 5770 
French LF drivers 5770 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5770 
(another) French LF approach 5769 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5769 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5769 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5769 
Limpschtick 5769 
Symmetry 5769 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5768 
Room correction 5768 
It migh be more complicated. 5768 
Bass EQ ? 5768 
Agree and not. 5768 
Two "diseases" 5768 
Parametric filters 5768 
Ceiling arrays 5768 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5768 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5768 
The Middle of the Room. 5768 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5768 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5768 
Stop! 5768 
Appendectomy 5768 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5767 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5767 
No Isolation 5767 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5764 
Potential contenders? 5763 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5763 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5763 
Those Crazy Canucks 5759 
Mo' Better Bass 5753 
Bird in the Hand? 5753 
A wet listening spot? 5746 
Storm 5743 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5743 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5729 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5699 
Polar Opposite ULF 5698 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5686 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5684 
Differently but the same. 5683 
PVC 5682 
The sail test try. 5682 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5682 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5682 
Trial 5681 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5681 
Some explanations 5681 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5680 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5679 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5678 
Acrylate 5677 
Magic blanket 5677 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5676 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5676 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5676 
I have a few options. 5676 
Foam color 5676 
Strange things with upperbass 5676 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5675 
Teatro reform. . . 5675 
The foaming room dilemma. 5674 
Melamine Foam 5674 
Foaming up the cat house 5674 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5674 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5674 
Acoustic revisions… 5673 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5670 
Surprises so far in the new room 5669 
The upperbass in the new room. 5669 
Slight change of hart. 5668 
Camco supply of Boston 5666 
Room acoustics 5666 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5625 
I need to kill dust first. 5625 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5623 
To feed the leeches? 5623 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5622 
Yh 5622 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5622 
DPOLs? 5622 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5622 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5619 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5619 
A HalfPipe solution? 5619 
I absolutely love it. 5619 
Piper work 5618 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5618 
Absorption 5618 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5617 
Cats life ? 5617 
Call me Pussy. 5617 
More about traps 5617 
Acoustic impedance? 5617 
You maybe right 5617 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5617 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5616 
Heavy Curtain 5616 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5615 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5615 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5615 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5612 
Fix speaker move chair? 5611 
Back and forth ceremony 5611 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5610 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5609 
Glass windows 5608 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5607 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5606 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5604 
How to use basement jacks? 5604 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5604 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5604 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5603 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5603 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5602 
Sore eyes... 5601 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5601 
The harvesting week! 5599 
I need an inspiration… 5598 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5597 
Like this? 5597 
Dramatically randomize MF 5597 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5596 
The room eats dynamic 5596 
Diffusers 5596 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5595 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5580 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5579 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5579 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5579 
About Width-Importance balance. 5577 
Letting the music scale up 5576 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5576 
To finish my house décor… 5572 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5571 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5570 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5570 
Calling the gods of music 5570 
Absolutely 5570 
Phase manipulation 5570 
No relation. 5570 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5570 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5570 
Dynamical mismatch 5569 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5569 
Stradiwinerius? 5566 
Dealing with the glass. 5565 
Boston 5565 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5565 
Added mass 5565 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5565 
It is about moderation…. 5565 
To hell with the wine... 5565 
Also for other surafaces 5564 
LEAD 5564 
LEAD & GLASS 5564 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5564 
Read carefully 5564 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5564 
Crooks and morons 5564 
Magiscopios 5563 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5543 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5543 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5542 
The LP setup in the new home. 5491 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5486 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5486 
Pianochord will do! 5486 
Spanyi heaven 5486 
I see no conflict at all. 5486 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5486 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5486 
A year after closing 5478 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5478 
Traveling antimatter 5471 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5465 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5464 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5438 
Cast Iron fireplace 5437 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5437 
The hardcore way 5437 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5401 
This is How It's Done 5400 
Listening room during summer. 5388 
What about those... 5387 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5387 
Reducing A/C Noise 5387 
HVAC the Cat 5387 
Big Ass fan 5386 
Variac dimmers 5386 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5386 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5386 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5318 
Some winter observations. 5209 
That Asian man…. 5178 
The Franz Schubert morning 5152 
Spring.... 5101 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5051 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5022 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5022 
Just good photography? 5022 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5022 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5022 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5021 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5021 
Sports car 5021 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5021 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5021 
Train Positioning 5021 
Kind of what I want 5021 
The lap listening… 5021 
Family Room 5021 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5018 
A super audio room. 5014 
Time Warp! 5014 
A piano in a listening room 4993 
Pianissimo 4993 
The plan in blue. 4993 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4993 
My doubts 4993 
It is exactly what I worry. 4992 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4992 
Musicians at home 4992 
Piano Measurements 4991 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4986 
The next step. 4972 
Midbass horns missing?? 4971 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4961 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4961 
Baby Grand 4960 
Wood floor 4960 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4960 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4960 
Amy’s baby. 4958 
Improvement 4958 
Agree with Scott 4958 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4946 
Integrated casters 4946 
Very nice, thanks. 4946 
Customization 4946 
Sliders 4946 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4939 
Congratulations 4939 
Holes in the floor... 4939 
Tubes and kids 4939 
Sweet spot enlargement 4939 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4937 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4936 
Wood Floors and Water 4936 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4931 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4930 
WAF is for Losers 4930 
WAF: it depends. 4930 
Integration 4929 
Here and there. 4929 
Life after WWIII 4929 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4929 
Cables management. 4927 
Featurizing 4927 
Kids and tubes cont. 4924 
Kid magnet 4924 
Kids and audio 4923 
Radars 4923 
Wow, what the days! 4919 
The comming weekend 4915 
It all was worth it! 4912 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4907 
Here is how it is look. 4907 
Resolving the carpet issue 4907 
Bonfire 4907 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4907 
Proof of concept? 4907 
Geometry 4907 
A view from listening position. 4907 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4907 
Some feedback 4907 
Evening 4907 
I wonder why. 4906 
Rugs and things 4906 
In defense… 4906 
I can’t get it. 4903 
Haze. 4902 
Front wall 4902 
It is very possible. 4902 
It is nice to be back. 4899 
My comfy corner. 4896 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4536 
WMD in house. 4358 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4261 
The third listening spot. 4240 
For sure a very different experience. 4202 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4197 
It's Jfretch's system. 4197 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4196 
Domestic games 4150 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4011 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4011 
Dynamic screening 4011 
Actually this is very good idea! 4011 
Volcanic fabric 4011 
I should have done this. 4009 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4005 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3974 
No worries 3974 
Awesome memories 3974 
Optimization of space 3974 
Child-ish considerations 3971 
Finding peace.... 3965 
"Fencing"? 3964 
I need to build something custom 3964 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3964 
Stressed Skin 3964 
NYC elevators 3964 
Kids toys and quantities. 3964 
Everything is completely reversible 3963 
Racks and things 3963 
Now it looks even more promising! 3963 
Quantity of rods 3963 
Avoiding diagonals 3961 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3960 
That's not fair! 3960 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3960 
Discrimination? 3955 
Vertical configuration 3948 
Impresive ! 3877 
Did you read the site? 3877 
Contact 3877 
Company's name is Rixrax 3877 
Stand 3876 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3832 
End of life headphone system 3832 
Something like this? 3832 
The "Second Living Room" 3832 
Mixing urban & suburban 3832 
Late night listening 3832 
Moving life... 3830 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3830 
A true listening room. 3806 
It started… 3791 
Levels of Interest 3791 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3791 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3791 
I can't not to post it.... 3791 
Do not leave him unattended. 3791 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3791 
All context of this site except the Forum's posts Copyright © Roman Bessnow 2004-2026
All messages within the Site’s Forum Copyright © by authors of the posts
Last 24-hours posts:  3  
Total human visitors:  59,899,538  
Search the Site
   
      Search Site Forum
     Search Site via Google
 
Login into Site
Login:
Pass:
    Create a New Account
    Forgot your Account
Classical events in Boston
APR 11 Benjamin Zander, con»
APR 12 Chamber Music in Nee»
APR 12 Magdalene Ho, pianis»
APR 12 Takács Quartet in Gr»
APR 12 Takács Quartet in Gr»
APR 12 Jordi Savall & Hespè»
APR 17 American Views in Bo»
APR 17 In Search of New Wor»
NPR Classical Programs
lang lang: tiny desk (home)»
marin alsop on her swing or»
mahan esfahani: tiny desk c»
cellist lynn harrell has di»
npr music's top 14 albums o»
anthony davis wins pulitzer»
augustin hadelich: tiny des»
c.p.e. bach: mercurial dive»
Classical Music News
classical music news - leo»
classical music news - aug»
is bach better on harp?»
julian bream, maestro of g»
a woman takes the podium a»
he wasn’t toscanini, but h»
9 things to do this weeken»
classical music news. diab»
another trump blunder»
from concerts to cartoons:»
classical music livestream»
how to diversify orchestra»
ethel smyth, a composer lo»
classical music attracts o»
‘the lost pianos of siberi»
5 minutes that will make y»
it’s (almost) business as »
the lost pianos of siberia»
leon fleisher, 92, dies; s»
leon fleisher, 92, dies; s»
classical music news. augu»
opera goes on in salzburg,»
More Music News »»
Composer's Anniversaries
Rust, Friedrich (7 July 17»
Carpenter, John Alden (28 »
Bortkiewicz, Sergei Eduard»
Capyrin, Dmitri (28 Februa»
Kuljuntausta, Petri (28 Fe»
Griffin, Charles (28 Febru»
My Audio Leftovers
Lamm L2 Reference pream»
Altec 808A compression »
Hillock TV-2 tube tester
Lamm Industries M1.1 Mo»
Mid-range tantrix round»
Vitavox AK151 15" bass »
Tribute Output Amorphou»
Lamm ML-2 Single-Ended »
Vitavox S2/S3 diaphragms
CEC TL-0 MK2 transport
Stage Acompany SA8535 d»
More Leftovers »»