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May 16, 2010: My ultimate wet audio dream was to have Bruckner Room. But so far it turning out that I got another big B room. Since 3 days back I stopped the intellectual masturbation with my room my playback up for the whole week and listening what I am listening I recognize that have un-proportionally high amount of Bach in my listening. It is not that I have anything against it but I wonder if my new listening environment has anything to do with it….

Romy the Cat wrote:

Mar 07, 2011: I spent today pretty much a whole day working with my playback searching for a way to implement my ULF injection. Later on I will describe in details what and how I did what I did but now I do not want to talk. All the I would say that I did it and the result is beyond spectacular it made this installation is perform at the level life altering experience. I do not exaggerate. What Macondo does now is beyond audio and music it work now at some kind of subconscious physiological level   and it is physical.  I can write a whole book describing the audio experiences I have today for the last 2 hours, it is truly life and believes altering. I find a way to inject into my room+ 30dB (!!!) from where I was before at 25Hz, and inject it in away the it affect absolutely nothing in my bass.  The stunning thing about the room and the way how I did it is the room perfectly dissipates it sounding and measuring perfectly flat. The sonic impact is beyond any references that I can give you – it is truly paralyzing. It feel like you are driving a car at high speed,  the car lost control on ice and you are  flying knowing that there is nothing the you can do anymore, waiting to happen whatever will happen. It has that will squashing effect that I was pitching and dreaming for so many years – it is truly very different experience. Sound wise it did not change but it added some kind physical connectivity of each particular of body to sonic events and each vibrato become my own physical sensation. It is enslaving and it is subordinating but it my version of audio, it is what I do.  I never worshiped audio with it. Now I have it and I have a full contol over it.

If you paid attention there is almost a year difference between the quoted posts above. Yes, since the introduction of my ULF channel, not only introduction but setting it up to work properly, many my observations about my room got altered. The result is superbly positive but it is not the point. The point is the introduction of ULF channel made very many pure room ingredients to behave in very different way, sort of the “The Other Side of the Rainbow” effect. The ULF is a game changer but not in direct way. The room pumping with ULF and the sonic (not listening) consequences of it made me to think that it might be possible to deal with room’s sound by gradual taking away lower frequency layers and to recognize how higher and frequencies behave. I think I would need to develop such a methodology and to teach myself what specifically to listen while it is being done.

Meanwhile, the tricks that my room throws with new ULF spiced presentation is superbly impressive. I know that I have a great room, that was the objective of my search but I did not predict that mine purely conceptual things that lived only as a segments of my conceptual imagination would suddenly click-in with such ease after certain things are taken care of. Anyhow, the “dealing” with my room is over, I do not think that Room is a factor anymore in my case as the presentation that I am getting looks like do not get room into account anymore.  For sure room still in play but the presentation is very much decoupled from room. It is not that “soundstage is wider than the walls”. The whole soundstage has absolutely no presence in my room now. The room has a feeling that you are in forest with sound coming from “some kind” of direction, but the direction has own references 360 degree around me. It is not just 3D of holographic feeling but rather some kind illusion of space where gravity removed. I push button play and there is a silence and  then with the very first sound, not even musical but just noise, the noise before orchestra starts, the roof, the floor and walls are flying away from the room.

If you lucky to see a good production of Tchaikovsky Nutcracker then do you remember that moment when mice fill he room, Clara begins shrink and the Christmas Tree right besides her being to grows. The Tree acts as at enter point to the realm of magic and wishes, the Clara’s jump into the Alice's Rabbit Hole. I have seen one production where this moment was done insanely fantastic. Along with Grow of the Christmas tree they created an illusion of bending the walls of the stage in proportion with the tree grow. That was stunning beyond believe as whatever eyes were seeing it was natural deformation of perspective, they were in real time changing  the trapezoidness of the side walls of the stage, impacting the visual projection of the tree to the state  - spectacular! 

Funny, but as first noise come from loudspeaker my room does in the way the same flip – juts drops own boundary and  tune itself for anything but not for itself. It is kind of ironic as I spend so much efforts to make my back-above located midbass horn to sound as it comes from front, I did accomplish it and it worked very-very well. Now I feel it might be a mistake. I feel that it might be a mistake as the location of the sound sources now are pretty much irrelevant (with one exemption that I’s mention later) and I do not min now some channel to be elsewhere.

This all will be filtered up and settled down as the time goes by but for now my room sound great and in a way acts for me as a lab for antimatter sound studying…

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