Like those rugs and the room and everything else, the cat probably IS an integral part of the system.

You suppose it’s got a rhodium-plated butthole?

I walked the AXPONA layouts with a friend last year in Chicago and heard some really magical stuff–fully understanding that it had been hastily thrown into place in tiny hotel rooms–but the single room that took my breath away was the one showcasing Dr. Alan Hill’s plasma tweeters.

Audiophile Junkie has a sub-5-minute post on YouTube with Hill walking them through the setup; I was too engrossed to do anything other than stare and listen. All of the sound from 1k up was coming from a pair of twinkling stars in cages… and it was perfect. Someone had put Ibrahim Ferrer’s Guateque Campasino in the playlist, and I was mesmerized. I don’t even remember what was handling the rest of the frequency range, the treble was that good.