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
» Trinnov amplitude and im»
» The most promising “best»
» Small double bass horn f»
» About reviewer’s qualifi»
» Clark Johnsen.
» RCA driver made in China
» A perfect "High-End»
» Martin-Logan, Myles Asto»
» "SOTA Technology&qu»
» Electro-Voice T350, T35,»
» Loudspeakers and headpho»
» Electronluv systems ques»
» Meitner Audio - Ed Meitn»
» The Studio AU projects.
» Furtwangler War Years Re»
» What a week in Boston!
» The Shielding Condoms on»
» My Multi-way Horns
» Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Sa»
» The Norman Lebrecht’s ar»
» Additive capacitance: mi»
» Some Audiogon realty
» Think ahead how to measu»
» Where the Horns Light is»
» Montreal audio show phot»
» John Curl’s new phonosta»
» Available Blenders and S»
» The Bruckner 5 by Benjam»
» Music and Arts' Spring.»
» Tube GU-29
» A ridicules speaker cable
» The Sakuma's Show
» Transfer: The reel-to-re»
» The nature of "soun»
» Rachmaninoff’s Symphony »
» Integrated sound field o»
» Walter conducting Vienna»
» Who makes good L-Pads?
Bookmarked are red
Random Site Links
ECC99 - 6C33C SET
Michelangeli Site
Hub Arts
Daniels Audio
Audio Spot Kamani
Willem Mengelberg discog»
Classical Music Network
FM Radio Query
Radiotron Designers Hand»
BostonSymphony's Channel
Sibelius Academy music l»
Value of Records Tool
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 5801 
The first take on the new room. 5795 
New Room, a first shot. 5794 
Wonderful 5794 
Adopted 5793 
The first relaxed night with the room 5791 
"Stylish" acoustic panels 5790 
The listening room is ready. 5789 
New Room, a First Shot 5787 
Continue to work with the room 5787 
Request for periodic detailed observations of set up process 5787 
Room 5786 
I think it will take another month. 5786 
The Buttressing 5786 
Instead of pink plastic pellicans... 5785 
The new place and the new noises. 5785 
Big listening room 5784 
Screw the "big" rooms 5784 
Big listening rooms 5784 
First reflection points 5783 
The Xchyler’s Calculation. 5783 
One of the walls is almost "treated". 5780 
To treat suspended floor like a light TT plinth? 5779 
Squeezing the floor 5779 
To jack or do not jack, and more thoughts. 5779 
You Will Have to Experiment... 5779 
Adjustable Hydrolic Dampening? 5778 
Passive vs. Active flooring. 5778 
The new room, the very first listening. 5778 
The 14.5 foot. 5777 
Again… 5776 
Romy's new Playground 5776 
So far it has to do nothing with floor. 5776 
A phenomenal encouragement! 5776 
For the uninitiated ... 5775 
NH guy 5775 
Room 5775 
Design decisions and topologies…. 5774 
The first base is done 5774 
Reentry time alignment. 5773 
Thoughts on alignment: Direct vs Reflected mid-bass 5772 
The peculiarity of time alignment. 5772 
Mid bass horn. 5772 
Guess is only a guess… 5772 
What I do not like in my current Sound. 5772 
Do you know who produces this wall treatment? 5771 
George Massenburg's Diffusion 5771 
Diffusors 5771 
Diffuse injection 5771 
Let analyse why it so 5771 
Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. 5771 
Wheel and Deal 5771 
Treatment on walls, would be a mistake. 5771 
The High-End Saloon Sound 5771 
I Must Be Missing Something 5771 
I put sliders under my speakers 5770 
ROOM 5769 
Might I ask you to extend your thoughts? 5769 
"Strenuous and Laborious Presentation" In romy's Playground 5769 
I would say that it is all very much arguable. 5769 
No concerns 5769 
Speakers and room 5769 
I will continue working on my Macondo. 5768 
The loud noise vs. loud Sound. 5768 
Diaphram 5768 
Phram 5768 
Specs, Ad Men and Death by Subscription 5768 
Perfect piston 5768 
Decorater 5767 
Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback Assessment 5767 
New morning 5766 
The first take on the room with RTA 5765 
How to deal with 63Hz mode? 5765 
Axiomatic 5765 
The bigger problem in the new room, as I can see it. 5764 
Wetness is about more than reflections 5764 
The size of the bass. 5764 
Bass Factory 5764 
Crude Level, or something more? 5764 
I will play with it this week…. 5764 
Rent-A 5764 
Secret of pressurizing open room 5764 
Corner horns 5764 
Cheating from below 5764 
The sequence, the sequence…. 5764 
About the "end of life" lower-bass channels… 5763 
A possibly overly simplified view 5763 
The very specific space of house, where art thou? 5763 
Iceberg 5763 
Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers 5763 
Why not horn 5763 
A correction…. 5763 
Digital playback means digital crossover "ok"? 5763 
They are just not related things at all. 5763 
Fertin 5761 
Low resonance is good... 5761 
Et tu, Brute? 5760 
The Room response at LF 5759 
Life On The Ground Floor 5759 
Bass arrays 5759 
Stere-Oh! (and The Board Decision) 5759 
Learning something new everyday in audio. 5759 
The super sucks. 5759 
Dealing with the LF rollercoaster 5759 
You may also try 5758 
Testing: 1, 2, 3... 5758 
Tuning Helmholtz Resonence 5758 
Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" 5758 
Helmhertz, Rotunda, bass, wasted weekend. 5758 
60 Hz Resonance 5758 
No notching… so far. 5758 
Rotunda Karlson Solution 5757 
The boxes for Aura 1808? 5757 
Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planet 5757 
Enclosure volume LB channel 5757 
Power to the People 5757 
A vicinity where I would just start…. 5757 
Aura 5757 
No Way Around the Power Gap 5757 
Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. 5757 
All class D is the same 5757 
Interpreting the LF results. 5756 
The Halibut 5756 
My old box with Aura, hm…. 5756 
The Big Picture 5756 
Power & ULF channels 5756 
The big picture indeed. 5756 
Which actual brings an interesting question… 5756 
Seeing vs Hearing vs Believing 5756 
The Power and the Glory 5755 
Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array 5755 
I guess I did not get this memo 5755 
French LF drivers 5755 
Oops, the site is surprise surprise mainly in Fren... 5755 
(another) French LF approach 5754 
Reinforce to cure fundamental room modes 5754 
S many options and there is so little time and des... 5754 
Using limp mass acoustic? 5754 
Limpschtick 5754 
Symmetry 5754 
Décor maybe fake for playback 5753 
Room correction 5753 
It migh be more complicated. 5753 
Bass EQ ? 5753 
Agree and not. 5753 
Two "diseases" 5753 
Parametric filters 5753 
Ceiling arrays 5753 
Experiences with DEQ'd ULF 5753 
Room treatment I would like to avoid at this point... 5753 
The Middle of the Room. 5753 
On the Shoulders of Giants* 5753 
LF EQ: an interesting observation. 5753 
Stop! 5753 
Appendectomy 5753 
Extra Back Bedroom Problem Fixed 5752 
...particularly if you have tried it? 5752 
No Isolation 5752 
It is rain in Macondo Marquez said… 5749 
Potential contenders? 5748 
The Scan Speak new woofer and the damn NASDAQ 5748 
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 5748 
Those Crazy Canucks 5744 
Mo' Better Bass 5738 
Bird in the Hand? 5738 
A wet listening spot? 5731 
Storm 5728 
Did you think Bach have done everything? 5728 
A cheap but effective ceiling 5714 
Hm, another very interesting idea. 5684 
Polar Opposite ULF 5683 
The heat dissipation in the new room 5671 
Starting to play with room acoustics 5669 
Differently but the same. 5668 
PVC 5667 
The sail test try. 5667 
Sails - Spinnaker Furling 5667 
Removable sails – a brilliant idea! 5667 
Trial 5666 
My further thoughts on room acoustics 5666 
Some explanations 5666 
No bass in my room for now - to be continue… 5665 
Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. 5664 
OK, it’s getting ugly 5663 
Acrylate 5662 
Magic blanket 5662 
Ok, let go for the plan “B” 5661 
The great Midwest to the rescue 5661 
TV between speaker have what effect? 5661 
I have a few options. 5661 
Foam color 5661 
Strange things with upperbass 5661 
Air Conditioner Ducts and Vents 5660 
Teatro reform. . . 5660 
The foaming room dilemma. 5659 
Melamine Foam 5659 
Foaming up the cat house 5659 
The ASC Sound Panels. 5659 
Hm, I would not say that I hate it. 5659 
Acoustic revisions… 5658 
An interesting solution from Portugal. 5655 
Surprises so far in the new room 5654 
The upperbass in the new room. 5654 
Slight change of hart. 5653 
Camco supply of Boston 5651 
Room acoustics 5651 
Let's re-track the situation, shall we? 5610 
I need to kill dust first. 5610 
Ahh, the echo chamber 5608 
To feed the leeches? 5608 
What's on the back wall windows now, BTW? 5607 
Yh 5607 
The deadly location for listening chair and some tubes traps 5607 
DPOLs? 5607 
I am nowhere near DPoLS 5607 
So the backwall is more like a checkerboard of no-HF-reflections--many-HF-reflections? 5604 
The Birds Nest and Circumcised Skyline ideas. 5604 
A HalfPipe solution? 5604 
I absolutely love it. 5604 
Piper work 5603 
I need to educate myself about tube traps 5603 
Absorption 5603 
The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab 5602 
Cats life ? 5602 
Call me Pussy. 5602 
More about traps 5602 
Acoustic impedance? 5602 
You maybe right 5602 
With my tubed vision this is how I feel 5602 
How to deal with glass in listening room? 5601 
Heavy Curtain 5601 
Romy reinventing the wheel? 5600 
We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green 5600 
Tunes, traps and tweaks 5600 
Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. 5597 
Fix speaker move chair? 5596 
Back and forth ceremony 5596 
Try to have all the room treatments accessible & adjustable. Ears are most important instruments 5595 
Reduced frequency response range, sort of. 5594 
Glass windows 5593 
Eventually I feel that I’ve moved 5592 
I’m drinking from the grail of glory. 5591 
The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? 5589 
How to use basement jacks? 5589 
Structural vs. Acoustic Considerations 5589 
The Acoustic Treatment day! 5589 
So curves do help! (just not quite the way I thought) 5588 
There is a difference between curved walls and curves acoustic solutions. 5588 
Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective. 5587 
Sore eyes... 5586 
Do not touch the carbuncle. 5586 
The harvesting week! 5584 
I need an inspiration… 5583 
The anti-helmholtz resonator considerations. 5582 
Like this? 5582 
Dramatically randomize MF 5582 
Chasing the non-specific reflections. 5581 
The room eats dynamic 5581 
Diffusers 5581 
Silk 'n Splendor might do it 5580 
Structural/Acoustic Things I Forgot to Mention... 5565 
Macondo calibration check sheet. 5564 
Acoustic room treatment is done. 5564 
A typical midday in my new listening room 5564 
About Width-Importance balance. 5562 
Letting the music scale up 5561 
Constant-width vs. active-width 5561 
To finish my house décor… 5557 
Tasteful interior decor strategy 5556 
Phase nuances – the last liability 5555 
Irony of "FR" Drivers 5555 
Calling the gods of music 5555 
Absolutely 5555 
Phase manipulation 5555 
No relation. 5555 
Spinning Into Another Thread... 5555 
DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound 5555 
Dynamical mismatch 5554 
What makes us believe that snake was poison? 5554 
Stradiwinerius? 5551 
Dealing with the glass. 5550 
Boston 5550 
Very interesting! Can I hear more about it? 5550 
Added mass 5550 
Surely that is a Guarwineus not a Strad! I think I see Vivaldi's signature. 5550 
It is about moderation…. 5550 
To hell with the wine... 5550 
Also for other surafaces 5549 
LEAD 5549 
LEAD & GLASS 5549 
Extremely expensive? Think of the result! 5549 
Read carefully 5549 
Bruckner and Counterpoint 5549 
Crooks and morons 5549 
Magiscopios 5548 
“It is raining in Macondo” - Colonel Aureliano Buendía. 5528 
"A railing like piano keys" - Pietro Crespi 5528 
How do not play very slow Scriabin and Lists in here? 5527 
The LP setup in the new home. 5476 
4 years later: snow, rain, Bach, not in Boston anymore… 5471 
Bach concertos in piano vs. harpsichord 5471 
Pianochord will do! 5471 
Spanyi heaven 5471 
I see no conflict at all. 5471 
Scarlatti on Harpsichord vs Bach 5471 
Rosalyn Tureck's essay pretty much answered all questions. 5471 
A year after closing 5463 
"Touching the Void" (in the attic) 5463 
Traveling antimatter 5456 
If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. 5450 
The fiberglass aggravations. 5449 
Significant fire: listening room and fireplace. 5423 
Cast Iron fireplace 5422 
I would like to have a real fireplace. 5422 
The hardcore way 5422 
Suspended floor effective remedy. 5386 
This is How It's Done 5385 
Listening room during summer. 5373 
What about those... 5372 
Madrid "silent" air ducts 5372 
Reducing A/C Noise 5372 
HVAC the Cat 5372 
Big Ass fan 5371 
Variac dimmers 5371 
Ceiling fan speed controls 5371 
Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. 5371 
About my old system vs. the new system, as now. 5303 
Some winter observations. 5194 
That Asian man…. 5163 
The Franz Schubert morning 5137 
Spring.... 5086 
Different acoustics in my listening room. 5036 
Hypothetic abstract perfect listening room? 5007 
The ultimate piece of equipment 5007 
Just good photography? 5007 
Try to "live" in that "perfect" room.... 5007 
The ultimate music room and the sound of silence. 5007 
It is all about the civilian-friendliness.... 5006 
Ambient noise and how I would minimise it 5006 
Sports car 5006 
An environmental aspect of noise. 5006 
The only the sweetspot seat? 5006 
Train Positioning 5006 
Kind of what I want 5006 
The lap listening… 5006 
Family Room 5006 
About dead-end listening rooms. 5003 
A super audio room. 4999 
Time Warp! 4999 
A piano in a listening room 4978 
Pianissimo 4978 
The plan in blue. 4978 
Re: A piano in a listening room 4978 
My doubts 4978 
It is exactly what I worry. 4977 
Agile Room Acoustic Treatment? 4977 
Musicians at home 4977 
Piano Measurements 4976 
It has absolutely nothing to do with proper audio objectives 4971 
The next step. 4957 
Midbass horns missing?? 4956 
A new appearance of Macondo? 4946 
Audio + Plants + WATER! 4946 
Baby Grand 4945 
Wood floor 4945 
Hardwood floors in listening room 4945 
My Listening Room: the new Amy’s Corner 4945 
Amy’s baby. 4943 
Improvement 4943 
Agree with Scott 4943 
Hardwood floors consequences. 4931 
Integrated casters 4931 
Very nice, thanks. 4931 
Customization 4931 
Sliders 4931 
OK, the hardwood floors go. 4924 
Congratulations 4924 
Holes in the floor... 4924 
Tubes and kids 4924 
Sweet spot enlargement 4924 
No compromises with Sweet Spot 4922 
A rare opportunity and Amy’s cute windows 4921 
Wood Floors and Water 4921 
It is a lot of fun in the end. 4916 
Romy the Cat and WAF? 4915 
WAF is for Losers 4915 
WAF: it depends. 4915 
Integration 4914 
Here and there. 4914 
Life after WWIII 4914 
So, Not Parquet, after all 4914 
Cables management. 4912 
Featurizing 4912 
Kids and tubes cont. 4909 
Kid magnet 4909 
Kids and audio 4908 
Radars 4908 
Wow, what the days! 4904 
The comming weekend 4900 
It all was worth it! 4897 
Sound back and sentences by structure 4892 
Here is how it is look. 4892 
Resolving the carpet issue 4892 
Bonfire 4892 
Come on, guys, everything is not as straight as it appears. 4892 
Proof of concept? 4892 
Geometry 4892 
A view from listening position. 4892 
Aspects of a Dilemma 4892 
Some feedback 4892 
Evening 4892 
I wonder why. 4891 
Rugs and things 4891 
In defense… 4891 
I can’t get it. 4888 
Haze. 4887 
Front wall 4887 
It is very possible. 4887 
It is nice to be back. 4884 
My comfy corner. 4881 
It looks like I will have my listening room for a while. 4521 
WMD in house. 4343 
Hindenburg acoustic treatment. 4246 
The third listening spot. 4225 
For sure a very different experience. 4187 
A nice asymmetrical listening Room 4182 
It's Jfretch's system. 4182 
Looking from Massachusetts :-) 4181 
Domestic games 4135 
A minor collapse of major prenup. 3996 
Functionality , Aesthetics, and Archiving Art 3996 
Dynamic screening 3996 
Actually this is very good idea! 3996 
Volcanic fabric 3996 
I should have done this. 3994 
Subduing the barbarity of function 3990 
Some further thinking about integrated listening room. 3959 
No worries 3959 
Awesome memories 3959 
Optimization of space 3959 
Child-ish considerations 3956 
Finding peace.... 3950 
"Fencing"? 3949 
I need to build something custom 3949 
That is the idea that I am think for now. 3949 
Stressed Skin 3949 
NYC elevators 3949 
Kids toys and quantities. 3949 
Everything is completely reversible 3948 
Racks and things 3948 
Now it looks even more promising! 3948 
Quantity of rods 3948 
Avoiding diagonals 3946 
Audio Housecleaning 2.0 3945 
That's not fair! 3945 
Speakers do not like boxes… 3945 
Discrimination? 3940 
Vertical configuration 3933 
Impresive ! 3862 
Did you read the site? 3862 
Contact 3862 
Company's name is Rixrax 3862 
Stand 3861 
Requirements for a NEW listening room? 3817 
End of life headphone system 3817 
Something like this? 3817 
The "Second Living Room" 3817 
Mixing urban & suburban 3817 
Late night listening 3817 
Moving life... 3815 
Well, let see how it goes.... 3815 
A true listening room. 3791 
It started… 3776 
Levels of Interest 3776 
Eliminate "low-probability / catastrophic" events 3776 
Some common sense and vigilance will do it. 3776 
I can't not to post it.... 3776 
Do not leave him unattended. 3776 
Won't be the last time he makes that trip! 3776 
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:  59,113,553  
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»
More Music News »»
Composer's Anniversaries
Fux, Johann Joseph ( 1660»
Wagner, Richard (22 May 18»
Moberg, Ida Georgina (13 F»
Godowsky, Leopold (13 Febr»
Pizzetti, Ildebrando (20 S»
Friedman, Ignaz (13 Februa»
Demessieux, Jeanne (13 Feb»
Childs, Barney (13 Februar»
Matthews, Colin (13 Februa»
My Audio Leftovers
Musatex’s Bidat Model "»
Vitavox AK-15/40 15" ba»
ESS AMT-1A Heil Air Mot»
Korvet “Egg” Tonearm
Lamm Industries M1.1 Mo»
Micro-Seiki Arm Board
Sansui TU-X1 Tuner
Vitavox S2 Compression »
Koetsu Onyx Platinum Ca»
Electro-Voice T350 twee»
Purist Audio Design Pro»
More Leftovers »»