Site by Roman Bessnow
Romy The Cat's Home
Manifesto Copyright
Statistics Site Links
Site Map Surveys
Send Email to Romy the Cat
Site News: 13 Sep 2025
That posting bug has been addressed.
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
» The tools to listening s»
» Audio and Music: four le»
» That is not 1812 and the»
» 47 Lab new turntable and»
» Do not pursue full-range»
» Education vs Magic
» America, version 2004
» Bruckner 9, Transcriptio»
» Prokofiev's cantata
» Smetana's Piano Trio
» Today’s SACD - music for»
» Zeus 6C33C Triode SE Pre»
» Weinberg String Quartet »
» Lowther Driver
» Lecture on history of ar»
» Records Box Stuffing
» Tube GU-29
» Anyone Care to Make Odds»
» 5 Channel Version of Mel»
» Digital crossovers self-»
» Bruckner, me and the Sev»
» Conductors and Audio Sou»
» Commentary on Joe's »
» The Estonian idiocy: Est»
» A great conductor - but »
» The commercial music ser»
» The 3rd music revolution»
» The best audio system: m»
» New speaker system
» Zigmahornets Speakers: c»
» hello cats...meow.
» Deep End DIY - Austral»
» Ravel's String Quartet; »
» Targeted Audio Listening»
» Understanding Line Array»
» HD Radio? Good, bad or u»
» Mozart, Piano Concerto i»
» More about Vienna Philha»
Bookmarked are red
Random Site Links
Ward Marston's "Marston"»
Subito-Cantabile
Boom's Dungeon
Wood Horn Speakers
Virtuosos Discographies
Overgrown Path
Classical Recordings New»
Irvington Music
Exotic Audio
Archives of Canada
Alexander Karpov’s “Next»
Audio Anthology
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.
Midbass Horns and Real Estate. 5894 
Room to Romy 5894 
Underground mid-bass horn and the inverted alternative 5893 
Midbass options to consider. 5893 
But what will the neighbors think? 5893 
Horns and R&E ready to go…. 5893 
Dualing bass 5893 
Midbass hors vs. flooding subwoofers - very different game. 5893 
To Do It Right? 5893 
This search might be complicated 5893 
The Mendelsohn approach. 5892 
A pool of ideas for now…. 5892 
The big D 5892 
Raising the roof 5892 
A vertical midbass horn and environment 5892 
Brownstones? 5892 
Suburban home additions for horns 5892 
Ceiling horn ups and downsides 5891 
The real-state U-turn? 5891 
Side-stepping legal issues with added on room 5891 
About the Rogero’s or Johan Dreyer’s approach. 5889 
Playing with Johan Dreyer’s idea further. 5889 
Eh, stupid! 5889 
And sometimes I feel so blew that I do not what anything. 5888 
Another renderation of Rogero’s or Johan Dreyer’s idea 5888 
About time alignment in mid bass horns 5887 
The time alignment scenarios. 5887 
Getting on with it, while keeping options open 5887 
More Ideas 5887 
Looks like a good solution 5887 
My stupid wet dreams. How little a man need…. 5887 
A proper commercial midbass horn, sort of.... 5884 
Ok, I've found a great home for my left 20Hz bass horn! 5883 
Consider 5882 
People who do general contracting….. 5882 
The throat considerations. 5882 
Make your own 5882 
I would like to use my 15-incher, the question is HOW? 5882 
Circumferential phasing plug problems 5882 
....puzzled with your response.... 5882 
The Great Unknown 5882 
Fourier transform tells the story 5881 
Midbass Adjustable Horn 5881 
My take about midbass and phase plug. 5881 
The interchangeable backs for midbass? I do not know… 5881 
The "Hanging" inverted Midbass J-horn. 5881 
The midbass Pipeline Conversion horn??? 5879 
Straight / J Horn - Why? 5879 
RE: Straight / J Horn – Why? 5879 
Time alignment is a real problem with this kind of horns 5879 
Two Mouths 5879 
More ideas and drawbacks 5879 
How does 40 hz to 200 hz sound like 5879 
40Hz - 200Hz and GLARE... 5879 
The CNCing? Interesting… 5878 
Layered construction horn 5878 
CNC Snail Horn 5878 
The construction techniques – that will be the last. 5878 
Time alignment how? 5874 
The ceilings height 5869 
High ceilings 5869 
Shortening a High Room 5869 
Using of the “High ceilings” 5868 
Some roomy links 5868 
Sand damping topologies. 5867 
Tubed sand 5867 
Sandbag damping 5867 
A considerable amount of sand pressure. 5867 
Automobile solutions 5867 
Auto Former 5866 
The corner loading. 5865 
A sort of ridicules bass idea but let see… 5863 
6m Basshorn 5863 
Another basement horn. 5863 
Early firing Midbass horn 5863 
Framed, Raised Floors 5863 
Can a bad floor be cured by gain/power? 5862 
It Is Do-able 5862 
The ALE Acoustic midbass solution vs. right 15-incher 5861 
Concrete rooms of hellsound 5861 
CH Audio Design 5860 
I do not understand what CH Audio does. 5860 
Japanese Cone Suspensions. 5859 
YL1250 - very interesting! 5859 
Bass drivers to the end.........of physycs? 5859 
The drivers for midbass and…. the mistakes. 5858 
Ah, mystery & suspense 5858 
Was it worth it? 5858 
Havering on... 5857 
Main floor pre-load 5856 
About the Macondo-like systems room dialing. 5856 
Yeah; That's the Ticket 5856 
Concrete horn example 5855 
Options, options, options… 5855 
About the Maturation Shields ™ 5855 
Giant litter box 5854 
Sand and Sinagogues 5854 
How to know that floor is the problem? 5854 
Tossing Off a Couple 5854 
The external horns construction ideas 5853 
In The Swim (and School Fees) 5853 
13-step program 5853 
Big horn materials 5852 
Ignore CH AUDIO ? 5844 
Another place to pee? 5844 
Ignore, Ignore, Ignore 5844 
The Afghan Camels 5844 
Boundaries as an extension of the horn flare. 5844 
Discretion 5844 
…. Ignore the company's claim of using the ceiling and adjacent walls as extensions of the horn flare. 5844 
Considered as a solution for fitting a large bass horn in a normal-size living space, 5844 
A small dedicated room - the build history. 5842 
Cost/Benefit 5842 
The perfect built room. 5842 
Shape vs Construction 5842 
The harcore approach 5837 
Another setup with ceiling horns 5836 
Another large horn example 5815 
A first interesting find. 5806 
Steamships vs. Icebergs 5806 
The absolute minimum dimensions and the 'new' attic ideas. 5805 
Condensation issue's in Boston 5805 
An active thermo-stabilized blanket around back chamber? 5805 
Costs, Expectations and Open Space 5805 
Demise of the r2000 home 5805 
External 15” into 4’x6’ from Audio 1954 5746 
Romy, you can stop searching 5711 
I see nothing to be overwhelmed… 5711 
On a more serious note 5711 
By "Careful Arrangement" 5711 
My troubles with direct radiators 5711 
The first interesting arrangement 5710 
Loading Zone 5710 
An interesting room-loading post 5710 
Will the Cat become an “industry professional”? 5710 
The tremendous opportunity. 5709 
Aim direct radiators at ears 5709 
Why call it "Battle Road" 5709 
The second American Revolution? 5709 
Atmospheric Pressure vs Tonal Pressure 5709 
The same problem here 5708 
The suspended floor treatment – some questions. 5708 
Bang for the Buck Approaches 5708 
It was fairly simple in my case 5708 
I used planks of wood 5708 
To seal or not to seal? 5707 
The midbass horn: the first uppercut from real-estate. 5707 
I didn't have to seal 5707 
Proper structure stiffening 5707 
What did you find? 5707 
Roger, the Sistering 5707 
I wish it were easier… 5706 
Dig in your heals & make them fit 5706 
I hope I do not need to do for the alternative option 5706 
…. certain value beyond its purchase price. 5706 
It's not so bad really. 5706 
I hope it would all work out. 5706 
Words vs. Pictures 5706 
Here is where the horns advantages bite my by my tail. 5706 
Too soon now. 5706 
Reframing Attic Ceiling 5705 
Vibration induced resonances 5705 
This is an interesting one. 5705 
What would be interesting in this room… 5705 
Decoupling the Horns and Horn Hell 5705 
Bagel Sandwich Roof horn 5705 
Tapped Out 5705 
How about silent blocks? 5705 
Well TH... 5705 
Differential Movement 5705 
Gain and bass 5704 
I do not see a lot of interesting solution out there. 5704 
My olde listening room. 5703 
Keep ye olde room! 5703 
Fair Warning 5703 
Who know how it will go. 5703 
Progress 5703 
Wise Warning 5703 
Moving, remodeling, building, etc…. 5702 
Attic horns: L/R Separation 5701 
The Monofication of the midbass 5701 
The corrected room size. 5701 
What impact do open spaces have? 5701 
The "escape" areas of our listening rooms. 5701 
Some idea of what will happen 5700 
Why did you choose such nearfield position? 5700 
The “secret” that no one would tell you… 5700 
I still will be trying to get the same nearfield setting... 5700 
My five cents 5699 
The long wall, wide angle. Just-continue configuration 5699 
Work in progress, on the right path 5699 
When I am in town next 5699 
Some lessons from Magico Ultima installation. 5698 
I have a miniature of this room 5698 
Another room case study. 5698 
Sometimes too wide speakers drain tonal density 5698 
Speakers angle vs. tonal density. 5698 
Agree on what you say wrt tonal density 5697 
To hide or not to hide. 5693 
Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry 5693 
Dealing with first reflections, in natural way. 5681 
Midbass Horns And Real Estate 5680 
Custom building work and mathematical constructions? 5678 
"Boston, you can have it." 5677 
Mid-bass horn: Room loading/augmenting 5674 
The all is not so simple. 5674 
Some clarification 5674 
Debugging the upperbass 5674 
Preparing for upper-bass sweeps 5674 
Riding the horn… 5674 
The Playback’s last weekend, the Freudian motives. 5671 
Mike Malinowski’s room journey 5666 
Ok, I think my R&E project is over. 5658 
A possible Midbass horn? 5613 
A possible Midbass horn project? 5613 
Might not look like a living room anymore... 5613 
The Real Estate tunes... 5294 
Be my guest.... 25 days left. 4449 
An interesting project 4145 
Another interesting project 4135 
More here 4134 
ALE, Beryllium. 3661 
Images. 3624 
GOTO horns. 3624 
Horn Mouth. 3619 
About 41Hz 3619 
Thanks. 3619 
It is not difficult 3618 
Just right now! 3618 
I might not be the best person to ask... 3618 
Got it. 3618 
5" and 6" 3534 
These bass compression drivers. 3534 
Now I got. 3534 
Specs. 3534 
Those bass drivers .... 3533 
I am not willing to make them myself. 3533 
"Cost" 3524 
I had got it. 3522 
Hearsay 3521 
Does anyone know about this German company that of... 3226 
Using Exotic LF CDs for Bass 3226 
80Hz compression driver. 3225 
Compression drivers are copies of western Electric... 3225 
I do not think so. 3225 
Could be interesting though... 3225 
ALE Loudspeakers. 3184 
Just a youtube video... 3054 
All context of this site except the Forum's posts Copyright © Roman Bessnow 2004-2025
All messages within the Site’s Forum Copyright © by authors of the posts
Last 24-hours posts:  3  
Total human visitors:  48,987,267  
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 Magdalene Ho, pianis»
APR 12 Takács Quartet in Gr»
APR 17 In Search of New Wor»
APR 19 In Search of New Wor»
APR 24 Re-Imaginings in Che»
APR 25 Songs for Peace in D»
APR 25 Songs for Peace in D»
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
Haydn, Michael (14 Septemb»
Cherubini, Luigi (14 Septe»
Kiel, Friedrich (8 October»
Cras, Jean (22 May 1879-14»
Liebermann, Rolf (14 Septe»
Barnabé, Arrigo (14 S»
Patterson, Shawn (14 Septe»
Ghadimi, Vincent (14 Septe»
Benjamin, Tim (14 Septembe»
My Audio Leftovers
Ortofon Mono CG 25 Di c»
Vitavox AK-15/40 15" ba»
Korvet “Egg” Tonearm
Mid-range tantrix round»
“Tree Blind Mice” colle»
Vitavox S2/S3 diaphragms
Vitavox 330Hz Horn for »
Electro-Voice T350 twee»
Micro Seiki RX-5000
Purist Audio Design Pro»
ESS AMT-1A Heil Air Mot»
More Leftovers »»