Site by Roman Bessnow
GoodSoundClub's Home
Manifesto Copyright
Statistics Site Links
Site Map Surveys
Send Email to Romy the Cat
Site News: 17 May 2026

My way.

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
» Digital Volume Control s»
» Help with RF loop
» High-End Audio amplifier»
» How to give bats a heada»
» The “Melquiades” Sound -»
» Beautiful Mahler Lieder
» MBS Platinum ADC
» A stunning contra-Bruckn»
» Melquiades: too early fo»
» Disregard the industry p»
» Rakeshorns
» The Melquiades bass chan»
» “Harmonic Speed”- friend»
» The open project: a late»
» About DSET-driven multi-»
» The mystery of reversed »
» Audio and Music: four le»
» Perception of bass?
» About Wilson Audio Louds»
» A full-range quality-tri»
» Bach by Ormandy’s Philad»
» Martin-Logan, Myles Asto»
» Playback evaluations mad»
» What drives good sound?
» DA architecture: True M»
» A primer on high-end mar»
» About Darwinism of Music»
» Balance
» Audiotism: cable elevato»
» Has anyone built the DIY»
» A Frankenstein Macondo -»
» Furtwangler War Years Re»
» The Mozart’s Dorabella a»
» Reinforced live sound in»
» Tuners and digital noise»
» Help with Math needed.
» Introduction to “Melquia»
» Tube outputted CDP's and»
Bookmarked are red
Random Site Links
BostonSymphony's Channel
Louis Speichler's Records
Robert Greene’s "Reg on »
Tonal tests
Duntech Audio loudspeake»
Takashi Asahina Group
Professional Audio Calcu»
Vintage EV speakers
Club Abbadiani Itineranti
Random Classics
Soviet Composers
Hi-Fi Speakers Design
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 5901 
The first take on the new room. 5895 
New Room, a first shot. 5894 
Wonderful 5894 
Adopted 5893 
The first relaxed night with the room 5891 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5890 
The listening room is ready. 5889 
New Room, a First Shot 5887 
Continue to work with the room 5887 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5887 
Room 5886 
I think it will take another month. 5886 
The Buttressing 5886 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5885 
The new place and the new noises. 5885 
Big listening room 5884 
Screw the "big" rooms 5884 
Big listening rooms 5884 
First reflection points 5883 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5883 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5880 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5879 
Squeezing the floor 5879 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5879 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5879 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5878 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5878 
The new room, the very first listening. 5878 
The 14.5 foot. 5877 
Again… 5876 
Romy's new Playground 5876 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5876 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5876 
For the uninitiated ... 5875 
NH guy 5875 
Room 5875 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5874 
The first base is done 5874 
Reentry time alignment. 5873 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5872 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5872 
Mid bass horn. 5872 
Guess is only a guess… 5872 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5872 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5871 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5871 
Diffusors 5871 
Diffuse injection 5871 
Let analyse why it so 5871 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5871 
Wheel and Deal 5871 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5871 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5871 
I Must Be Missing Something 5871 
I put sliders under my speakers 5870 
ROOM 5869 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5869 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5869 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5869 
No concerns 5869 
Speakers and room 5869 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5868 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5868 
Diaphram 5868 
Phram 5868 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5868 
Perfect piston 5868 
Decorater 5867 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5867 
New morning 5866 
The first take on the room with RTA 5865 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5865 
Axiomatic 5865 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5864 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5864 
The size of the bass. 5864 
Bass Factory 5864 
Crude Level, or something more? 5864 
I will play with it this week…. 5864 
Rent-A 5864 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5864 
Corner horns 5864 
Cheating from below 5864 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5864 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5863 
A possibly overly simplified view 5863 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5863 
Iceberg 5863 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5863 
Why not horn 5863 
A correction…. 5863 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5863 
They are just not related things at all. 5863 
Fertin 5861 
Low resonance is good... 5861 
Et tu, Brute? 5860 
The Room response at LF 5859 
Life On The Ground Floor 5859 
Bass arrays 5859 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5859 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5859 
The super sucks. 5859 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5859 
You may also try 5858 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5858 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5858 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5858 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5858 
60 Hz Resonance 5858 
No notching… so far. 5858 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5857 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5857 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5857 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5857 
Power to the People 5857 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5857 
Aura 5857 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5857 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5857 
All class D is the same 5857 
Interpreting the LF results. 5856 
The Halibut 5856 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5856 
The Big Picture 5856 
Power & ULF channels 5856 
The big picture indeed. 5856 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5856 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5856 
The Power and the Glory 5855 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5855 
I guess I did not get this memo 5855 
French LF drivers 5855 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5855 
(another) French LF approach 5854 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5854 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5854 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5854 
Limpschtick 5854 
Symmetry 5854 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5853 
Room correction 5853 
It migh be more complicated. 5853 
Bass EQ ? 5853 
Agree and not. 5853 
Two "diseases" 5853 
Parametric filters 5853 
Ceiling arrays 5853 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5853 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5853 
The Middle of the Room. 5853 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5853 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5853 
Stop! 5853 
Appendectomy 5853 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5852 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5852 
No Isolation 5852 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5849 
Potential contenders? 5848 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5848 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5848 
Those Crazy Canucks 5844 
Mo' Better Bass 5838 
Bird in the Hand? 5838 
A wet listening spot? 5831 
Storm 5828 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5828 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5814 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5784 
Polar Opposite ULF 5783 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5771 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5769 
Differently but the same. 5768 
PVC 5767 
The sail test try. 5767 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5767 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5767 
Trial 5766 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5766 
Some explanations 5766 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5765 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5764 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5763 
Acrylate 5762 
Magic blanket 5762 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5761 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5761 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5761 
I have a few options. 5761 
Foam color 5761 
Strange things with upperbass 5761 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5760 
Teatro reform. . . 5760 
The foaming room dilemma. 5759 
Melamine Foam 5759 
Foaming up the cat house 5759 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5759 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5759 
Acoustic revisions… 5758 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5755 
Surprises so far in the new room 5754 
The upperbass in the new room. 5754 
Slight change of hart. 5753 
Camco supply of Boston 5751 
Room acoustics 5751 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5710 
I need to kill dust first. 5710 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5708 
To feed the leeches? 5708 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5707 
Yh 5707 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5707 
DPOLs? 5707 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5707 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5704 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5704 
A HalfPipe solution? 5704 
I absolutely love it. 5704 
Piper work 5703 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5703 
Absorption 5703 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5702 
Cats life ? 5702 
Call me Pussy. 5702 
More about traps 5702 
Acoustic impedance? 5702 
You maybe right 5702 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5702 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5701 
Heavy Curtain 5701 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5700 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5700 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5700 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5697 
Fix speaker move chair? 5696 
Back and forth ceremony 5696 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5695 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5694 
Glass windows 5693 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5692 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5691 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5689 
How to use basement jacks? 5689 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5689 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5689 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5688 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5688 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5687 
Sore eyes... 5686 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5686 
The harvesting week! 5684 
I need an inspiration… 5683 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5682 
Like this? 5682 
Dramatically randomize MF 5682 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5681 
The room eats dynamic 5681 
Diffusers 5681 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5680 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5665 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5664 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5664 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5664 
About Width-Importance balance. 5662 
Letting the music scale up 5661 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5661 
To finish my house décor… 5657 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5656 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5655 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5655 
Calling the gods of music 5655 
Absolutely 5655 
Phase manipulation 5655 
No relation. 5655 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5655 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5655 
Dynamical mismatch 5654 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5654 
Stradiwinerius? 5651 
Dealing with the glass. 5650 
Boston 5650 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5650 
Added mass 5650 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5650 
It is about moderation…. 5650 
To hell with the wine... 5650 
Also for other surafaces 5649 
LEAD 5649 
LEAD & GLASS 5649 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5649 
Read carefully 5649 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5649 
Crooks and morons 5649 
Magiscopios 5648 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5628 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5628 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5627 
The LP setup in the new home. 5576 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5571 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5571 
Pianochord will do! 5571 
Spanyi heaven 5571 
I see no conflict at all. 5571 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5571 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5571 
A year after closing 5563 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5563 
Traveling antimatter 5556 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5550 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5549 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5523 
Cast Iron fireplace 5522 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5522 
The hardcore way 5522 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5486 
This is How It's Done 5485 
Listening room during summer. 5473 
What about those... 5472 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5472 
Reducing A/C Noise 5472 
HVAC the Cat 5472 
Big Ass fan 5471 
Variac dimmers 5471 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5471 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5471 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5403 
Some winter observations. 5294 
That Asian man…. 5263 
The Franz Schubert morning 5237 
Spring.... 5186 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5136 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5107 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5107 
Just good photography? 5107 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5107 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5107 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5106 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5106 
Sports car 5106 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5106 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5106 
Train Positioning 5106 
Kind of what I want 5106 
The lap listening… 5106 
Family Room 5106 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5103 
A super audio room. 5099 
Time Warp! 5099 
A piano in a listening room 5078 
Pianissimo 5078 
The plan in blue. 5078 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5078 
My doubts 5078 
It is exactly what I worry. 5077 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5077 
Musicians at home 5077 
Piano Measurements 5076 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5071 
The next step. 5057 
Midbass horns missing?? 5056 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5046 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5046 
Baby Grand 5045 
Wood floor 5045 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5045 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5045 
Amy’s baby. 5043 
Improvement 5043 
Agree with Scott 5043 
Hardwood floors consequences. 5031 
Integrated casters 5031 
Very nice, thanks. 5031 
Customization 5031 
Sliders 5031 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 5024 
Congratulations 5024 
Holes in the floor... 5024 
Tubes and kids 5024 
Sweet spot enlargement 5024 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 5022 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 5021 
Wood Floors and Water 5021 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 5016 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 5015 
WAF is for Losers 5015 
WAF: it depends. 5015 
Integration 5014 
Here and there. 5014 
Life after WWIII 5014 
So, Not Parquet, after all 5014 
Cables management. 5012 
Featurizing 5012 
Kids and tubes cont. 5009 
Kid magnet 5009 
Kids and audio 5008 
Radars 5008 
Wow, what the days! 5004 
The comming weekend 5000 
It all was worth it! 4997 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4992 
Here is how it is look. 4992 
Resolving the carpet issue 4992 
Bonfire 4992 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4992 
Proof of concept? 4992 
Geometry 4992 
A view from listening position. 4992 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4992 
Some feedback 4992 
Evening 4992 
I wonder why. 4991 
Rugs and things 4991 
In defense… 4991 
I can’t get it. 4988 
Haze. 4987 
Front wall 4987 
It is very possible. 4987 
It is nice to be back. 4984 
My comfy corner. 4981 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4621 
WMD in house. 4443 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4346 
The third listening spot. 4325 
For sure a very different experience. 4287 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4282 
It's Jfretch's system. 4282 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4281 
Domestic games 4235 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4096 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4096 
Dynamic screening 4096 
Actually this is very good idea! 4096 
Volcanic fabric 4096 
I should have done this. 4094 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4090 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4059 
No worries 4059 
Awesome memories 4059 
Optimization of space 4059 
Child-ish considerations 4056 
Finding peace.... 4050 
"Fencing"? 4049 
I need to build something custom 4049 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4049 
Stressed Skin 4049 
NYC elevators 4049 
Kids toys and quantities. 4049 
Everything is completely reversible 4048 
Racks and things 4048 
Now it looks even more promising! 4048 
Quantity of rods 4048 
Avoiding diagonals 4046 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4045 
That's not fair! 4045 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4045 
Discrimination? 4040 
Vertical configuration 4033 
Impresive ! 3962 
Did you read the site? 3962 
Contact 3962 
Company's name is Rixrax 3962 
Stand 3961 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3917 
End of life headphone system 3917 
Something like this? 3917 
The "Second Living Room" 3917 
Mixing urban & suburban 3917 
Late night listening 3917 
Moving life... 3915 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3915 
A true listening room. 3891 
It started… 3876 
Levels of Interest 3876 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3876 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3876 
I can't not to post it.... 3876 
Do not leave him unattended. 3876 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3876 
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:  1  
Total human visitors:  64,250,069  
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
AUG 1 BU Tanglewood Instit»
AUG 1 Danish String Quarte»
AUG 1 Light & Shade in Var»
AUG 1 Mozart: The Marriage»
AUG 1 Esa-Pekka Salonen, c»
AUG 2 BU Tanglewood Instit»
AUG 2 Andris Nelsons, cond»
AUG 2 Callisto Quartet in »
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
Fesca, Friedrich Ernst (15»
Ellington, Edward K. "»
Druckman, Jacob (26 June 1»
Linde, Hans-Martin (24 May»
Boehmer, Konrad (24 May 19»
Fried, Philip (24 May 195»
My Audio Leftovers
LF Transformer for 6C33C
Lamm L2 Reference pream»
Koetsu Onyx Platinum Ca»
Lamm Industries M1.1 Mo»
Lamm ML-2 Single-Ended »
Purist Audio Design Pro»
Vitavox 330Hz Horn for »
Vitavox AK151 15" bass »
Musatex’s Bidat Model "»
Vitavox S2/S3 diaphragms
Micro-Seiki MAX-282 To»
More Leftovers »»