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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room
Post Subject: "Touching the Void" (in the attic)Posted by oxric on: 3/1/2011
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 Romy the Cat wrote:


In the end my idea to have a good leaving room completely integrated with my playback installation but without having the room feels as it is some kind of dental office turned out to be implement perfectly. It is very relaxed living room and it is a good listening room, in fact if I built the house from scratch I would problem go for the same type configuration.

… The only things I asked myself at this point is why I did not do what I did now back in 1996, when I moved to Boston.

Rgs, Romy the Cat


Romy:

I have spent many weeks, well make that months, thinking about precisely the same question and I must say that I cannot but reluctantly agree with your assessment. I had my doubts that the horns in the attic would work at the very beginning when you proposed the idea, although I could see the aesthetic attraction, but I am so glad that it actually works as intended. I will not be able to do this in the near future and possibly never, but I am sure that if one day I am building my house from scratch, or looking to move again, the horn in the attic idea will be one I will implement. I said 'reluctantly', of course, because in an ideal world, I would have preferred if I had come up with the idea and executed it first and you copied me! And I think you would have done, because I cannot begin to imagine there exists a better solution for the mid-bass 40Hz horn quandary. Even the use of adjoining rooms, or the cellar, does not come close...

As for doing in 2010 what you could not or did not do in 1996, well, there was a process, the years of accumulated experience and maturity which rendered the whole process both rewarding and relatively pain-free.

What you need with your Cohibas, if it is an Esplendidos, is a lovely single malt, I would recommend Highland Park, 15 yrs or 18yrs. Nothing too fancy but really especial...And a book 'Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe' by Michael Frayn, you might then suggest he adds a new paragraph at the time of the next edition, when he touches on the question of mankind's unique ability to evolve in his or her soul, something that evolution clearly does not require, but which is so evident in the achievement which is selfishly yours, but a measure of which is open to all who are so inclined.

Regards
Rakesh


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