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
» How does it sound?
» Bruckner 9, Transcriptio»
» The Nationals Anthems
» Looking for something di»
» It takes balls to shop (»
» The road to less dummine»
» Magico: Robert Harley’s »
» The centuries old strugg»
» I am thinking about anim»
» Samuel Feinberg's Well-T»
» Ways to use audio method»
» How the things are getti»
» "Zaratustra II"»
» Better chassis design fo»
» The optimum Sampling Rat»
» Idea of a 3way horn syst»
» Amazing Altec 288 ++
» Dreams about Audio
» Playback journeys and Mu»
» Harry Pearson new round »
» The 68 dipoles imitation»
» Richard Wetz and Martin »
» Martin-Logan, Myles Asto»
» A quests for an ultimate»
» Rullit Aero-8 driving – »
» The ultimate buffer #2..»
» Western Electric reprodu»
» Observations and Thought»
» Nothing to read.
» Crossover or non-crossov»
» How to get a LOT of SET »
» A new strange but predic»
» TAS article: start of th»
» Archimago's Musings talk»
» Film in Boston: "An»
» Small SET’s bass, beside»
» The Bruckner 5 by Benjam»
» To drive the 6C33C...
Bookmarked are red
Random Site Links
AudioTools
Direct Heated Rob
Clemens Krauss Archive
Great Plains Audio
Lockwood Audio
GS Tube
Michelangeli Site
RAAL ribbons
Hickok Maintenance
Sibelius Academy music l»
George Szell discography
FM Radio Query
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 5856 
The first take on the new room. 5850 
New Room, a first shot. 5849 
Wonderful 5849 
Adopted 5848 
The first relaxed night with the room 5846 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5845 
The listening room is ready. 5844 
New Room, a First Shot 5842 
Continue to work with the room 5842 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5842 
Room 5841 
I think it will take another month. 5841 
The Buttressing 5841 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5840 
The new place and the new noises. 5840 
Big listening room 5839 
Screw the "big" rooms 5839 
Big listening rooms 5839 
First reflection points 5838 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5838 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5835 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5834 
Squeezing the floor 5834 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5834 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5834 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5833 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5833 
The new room, the very first listening. 5833 
The 14.5 foot. 5832 
Again… 5831 
Romy's new Playground 5831 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5831 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5831 
For the uninitiated ... 5830 
NH guy 5830 
Room 5830 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5829 
The first base is done 5829 
Reentry time alignment. 5828 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5827 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5827 
Mid bass horn. 5827 
Guess is only a guess… 5827 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5827 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5826 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5826 
Diffusors 5826 
Diffuse injection 5826 
Let analyse why it so 5826 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5826 
Wheel and Deal 5826 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5826 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5826 
I Must Be Missing Something 5826 
I put sliders under my speakers 5825 
ROOM 5824 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5824 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5824 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5824 
No concerns 5824 
Speakers and room 5824 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5823 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5823 
Diaphram 5823 
Phram 5823 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5823 
Perfect piston 5823 
Decorater 5822 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5822 
New morning 5821 
The first take on the room with RTA 5820 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5820 
Axiomatic 5820 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5819 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5819 
The size of the bass. 5819 
Bass Factory 5819 
Crude Level, or something more? 5819 
I will play with it this week…. 5819 
Rent-A 5819 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5819 
Corner horns 5819 
Cheating from below 5819 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5819 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5818 
A possibly overly simplified view 5818 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5818 
Iceberg 5818 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5818 
Why not horn 5818 
A correction…. 5818 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5818 
They are just not related things at all. 5818 
Fertin 5816 
Low resonance is good... 5816 
Et tu, Brute? 5815 
The Room response at LF 5814 
Life On The Ground Floor 5814 
Bass arrays 5814 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5814 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5814 
The super sucks. 5814 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5814 
You may also try 5813 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5813 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5813 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5813 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5813 
60 Hz Resonance 5813 
No notching… so far. 5813 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5812 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5812 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5812 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5812 
Power to the People 5812 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5812 
Aura 5812 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5812 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5812 
All class D is the same 5812 
Interpreting the LF results. 5811 
The Halibut 5811 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5811 
The Big Picture 5811 
Power & ULF channels 5811 
The big picture indeed. 5811 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5811 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5811 
The Power and the Glory 5810 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5810 
I guess I did not get this memo 5810 
French LF drivers 5810 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5810 
(another) French LF approach 5809 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5809 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5809 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5809 
Limpschtick 5809 
Symmetry 5809 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5808 
Room correction 5808 
It migh be more complicated. 5808 
Bass EQ ? 5808 
Agree and not. 5808 
Two "diseases" 5808 
Parametric filters 5808 
Ceiling arrays 5808 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5808 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5808 
The Middle of the Room. 5808 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5808 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5808 
Stop! 5808 
Appendectomy 5808 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5807 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5807 
No Isolation 5807 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5804 
Potential contenders? 5803 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5803 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5803 
Those Crazy Canucks 5799 
Mo' Better Bass 5793 
Bird in the Hand? 5793 
A wet listening spot? 5786 
Storm 5783 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5783 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5769 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5739 
Polar Opposite ULF 5738 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5726 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5724 
Differently but the same. 5723 
PVC 5722 
The sail test try. 5722 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5722 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5722 
Trial 5721 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5721 
Some explanations 5721 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5720 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5719 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5718 
Acrylate 5717 
Magic blanket 5717 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5716 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5716 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5716 
I have a few options. 5716 
Foam color 5716 
Strange things with upperbass 5716 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5715 
Teatro reform. . . 5715 
The foaming room dilemma. 5714 
Melamine Foam 5714 
Foaming up the cat house 5714 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5714 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5714 
Acoustic revisions… 5713 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5710 
Surprises so far in the new room 5709 
The upperbass in the new room. 5709 
Slight change of hart. 5708 
Camco supply of Boston 5706 
Room acoustics 5706 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5665 
I need to kill dust first. 5665 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5663 
To feed the leeches? 5663 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5662 
Yh 5662 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5662 
DPOLs? 5662 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5662 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5659 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5659 
A HalfPipe solution? 5659 
I absolutely love it. 5659 
Piper work 5658 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5658 
Absorption 5658 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5657 
Cats life ? 5657 
Call me Pussy. 5657 
More about traps 5657 
Acoustic impedance? 5657 
You maybe right 5657 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5657 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5656 
Heavy Curtain 5656 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5655 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5655 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5655 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5652 
Fix speaker move chair? 5651 
Back and forth ceremony 5651 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5650 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5649 
Glass windows 5648 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5647 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5646 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5644 
How to use basement jacks? 5644 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5644 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5644 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5643 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5643 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5642 
Sore eyes... 5641 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5641 
The harvesting week! 5639 
I need an inspiration… 5638 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5637 
Like this? 5637 
Dramatically randomize MF 5637 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5636 
The room eats dynamic 5636 
Diffusers 5636 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5635 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5620 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5619 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5619 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5619 
About Width-Importance balance. 5617 
Letting the music scale up 5616 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5616 
To finish my house décor… 5612 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5611 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5610 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5610 
Calling the gods of music 5610 
Absolutely 5610 
Phase manipulation 5610 
No relation. 5610 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5610 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5610 
Dynamical mismatch 5609 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5609 
Stradiwinerius? 5606 
Dealing with the glass. 5605 
Boston 5605 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5605 
Added mass 5605 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5605 
It is about moderation…. 5605 
To hell with the wine... 5605 
Also for other surafaces 5604 
LEAD 5604 
LEAD & GLASS 5604 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5604 
Read carefully 5604 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5604 
Crooks and morons 5604 
Magiscopios 5603 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5583 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5583 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5582 
The LP setup in the new home. 5531 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5526 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5526 
Pianochord will do! 5526 
Spanyi heaven 5526 
I see no conflict at all. 5526 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5526 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5526 
A year after closing 5518 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5518 
Traveling antimatter 5511 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5505 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5504 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5478 
Cast Iron fireplace 5477 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5477 
The hardcore way 5477 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5441 
This is How It's Done 5440 
Listening room during summer. 5428 
What about those... 5427 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5427 
Reducing A/C Noise 5427 
HVAC the Cat 5427 
Big Ass fan 5426 
Variac dimmers 5426 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5426 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5426 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5358 
Some winter observations. 5249 
That Asian man…. 5218 
The Franz Schubert morning 5192 
Spring.... 5141 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5091 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5062 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5062 
Just good photography? 5062 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5062 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5062 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5061 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5061 
Sports car 5061 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5061 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5061 
Train Positioning 5061 
Kind of what I want 5061 
The lap listening… 5061 
Family Room 5061 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5058 
A super audio room. 5054 
Time Warp! 5054 
A piano in a listening room 5033 
Pianissimo 5033 
The plan in blue. 5033 
Re: A piano in a listening room 5033 
My doubts 5033 
It is exactly what I worry. 5032 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 5032 
Musicians at home 5032 
Piano Measurements 5031 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 5026 
The next step. 5012 
Midbass horns missing?? 5011 
A new appearance of Macondo? 5001 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 5001 
Baby Grand 5000 
Wood floor 5000 
Hardwood floors in listening room 5000 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 5000 
Amy’s baby. 4998 
Improvement 4998 
Agree with Scott 4998 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4986 
Integrated casters 4986 
Very nice, thanks. 4986 
Customization 4986 
Sliders 4986 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4979 
Congratulations 4979 
Holes in the floor... 4979 
Tubes and kids 4979 
Sweet spot enlargement 4979 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4977 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4976 
Wood Floors and Water 4976 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4971 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4970 
WAF is for Losers 4970 
WAF: it depends. 4970 
Integration 4969 
Here and there. 4969 
Life after WWIII 4969 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4969 
Cables management. 4967 
Featurizing 4967 
Kids and tubes cont. 4964 
Kid magnet 4964 
Kids and audio 4963 
Radars 4963 
Wow, what the days! 4959 
The comming weekend 4955 
It all was worth it! 4952 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4947 
Here is how it is look. 4947 
Resolving the carpet issue 4947 
Bonfire 4947 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4947 
Proof of concept? 4947 
Geometry 4947 
A view from listening position. 4947 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4947 
Some feedback 4947 
Evening 4947 
I wonder why. 4946 
Rugs and things 4946 
In defense… 4946 
I can’t get it. 4943 
Haze. 4942 
Front wall 4942 
It is very possible. 4942 
It is nice to be back. 4939 
My comfy corner. 4936 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4576 
WMD in house. 4398 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4301 
The third listening spot. 4280 
For sure a very different experience. 4242 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4237 
It's Jfretch's system. 4237 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4236 
Domestic games 4190 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 4051 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 4051 
Dynamic screening 4051 
Actually this is very good idea! 4051 
Volcanic fabric 4051 
I should have done this. 4049 
Subduing the barbarity of function 4045 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 4014 
No worries 4014 
Awesome memories 4014 
Optimization of space 4014 
Child-ish considerations 4011 
Finding peace.... 4005 
"Fencing"? 4004 
I need to build something custom 4004 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 4004 
Stressed Skin 4004 
NYC elevators 4004 
Kids toys and quantities. 4004 
Everything is completely reversible 4003 
Racks and things 4003 
Now it looks even more promising! 4003 
Quantity of rods 4003 
Avoiding diagonals 4001 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 4000 
That's not fair! 4000 
Speakers do not like boxes… 4000 
Discrimination? 3995 
Vertical configuration 3988 
Impresive ! 3917 
Did you read the site? 3917 
Contact 3917 
Company's name is Rixrax 3917 
Stand 3916 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3872 
End of life headphone system 3872 
Something like this? 3872 
The "Second Living Room" 3872 
Mixing urban & suburban 3872 
Late night listening 3872 
Moving life... 3870 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3870 
A true listening room. 3846 
It started… 3831 
Levels of Interest 3831 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3831 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3831 
I can't not to post it.... 3831 
Do not leave him unattended. 3831 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3831 
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:  0  
Total human visitors:  62,492,188  
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 10 Bel Canto Benefit in»
APR 10 Fortunio’s Song: Jac»
APR 10 HANDEL’S WATER MUSIC»
APR 10 Lydian String Quarte»
APR 10 HIDDEN GEMS: in West»
APR 10 Shanghai Quartet in »
APR 11 Guitar America 250 i»
APR 11 Jihye Chang, pianist»
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»
More Music News »»
Composer's Anniversaries
Monn, Mathias Georg (9 Apr»
Man, Mathias Georg (9 Apri»
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid (21 No»
Price, Florence Beatrice (»
Dorati, Antal (9 April 190»
Yashiro, Akio (10 Septembe»
Marbe, Myriam (9 April 193»
Sallinen, Aulis (9 April 1»
My Audio Leftovers
Rohde & Schwarz MSDC Mu»
Tribute Output Amorphou»
Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201»
Pacific Microsonics Mod»
Conscience of audio rev»
Micro-Seiki Arm Board
“Tree Blind Mice” colle»
Stage Acompany SA8535 d»
Kenwood L-02T FM Tuner
Fane Studio 8 dual conc»
Micro-Seiki air-suspend»
More Leftovers »»