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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The First Watt shall be better then Second Watt by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I do not care about all of Nilsson Pass amps; I feel that all the same and all are very sub-qualified.  A few years back Mr. Pass went for his low-powered SS single-ended amps and they might be more interesting.  I do not have them and I never seen a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Single ended First Watt F5 by cv on 2009-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Amplification for Compressions drivers? Sound? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  19 Replies 
Hi Romy,On my to-do list is a single ended version of the F5... essentially just the upper or lower half of the schematic, with a load resistor to opposite power rail (or perhaps a low DCR SE transformer) replacing the complementary portion.Alas it's...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Unfortunately not by the Nelson Pass blessing…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Solid state revisited in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
Well, this is huge mystery in the reproduction of the few first milliwatt and I very much applaud to what Nelson Pass is trying to do. Being muse a proponent of high sensitively and low power I very much experienced with the fact the high power amps ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: A few things is needed to be to reviewed. by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Amplification for Compressions drivers? Sound? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  19 Replies 
[quote user="Saturntube"] The difference soundwise in this half range 180hz and up horn module between the Leak TL12.1 amps and the First watt F5 clone was big,  mainly the tonal balance is very different with the midrange sounding thin.  Highs w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgar by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgar in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996 Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Low Power Class A Solidstate Design by Amir on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I think low power ss design is the only way we can make ss to sound good. in my idea all high power ss design i heard had no emotion in their sound in comparison by good SET designs like AN UK Ankoru.the first SS design that make me happy in comparis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A very pleasant surprise by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
I think this post need to have an epigrapher: “We knew what we wanted to hear, and so we developped, and developped, and developped... In hundreds of small and bigger steps. Over thirty years. Till we were "there" where we always wanted ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: SET and SS by Jorge on 2014-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SET amplifiers in Audio Discussions  30 Replies 
Hello Gera,First thing I  would do is get rid of the active Xover, in my experience they mud everything up. preamps are very important and this is like a double preamp with a lot of gain stages.  For bass you can maybe use it.  I use a separate Xover...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Ribbons by starboy on 2007-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Full (fuller) Range Ribbons in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Some background first... My first initial foray into buying some decent speakers took me onto the path of Quad 57's, they had their limitation that are well documented i.e. sweet spot, not the most extended treble and not a speaker for a party.....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #131: Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array by msaudio on 2010-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Your Typical Acoustical Suspension-type Loudspeaker enclosure witch has less then 90 db at 1 watt does not belong with a horn system that starts at 110db at 1 watt, even when you ad more then 1 driver, it is still way to far off to even consider usin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Further comments about the Lamm ML3 (part II) by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  106 Replies 
Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3 What is important is to undusted that my view  less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire class of amplifiers. When I to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Lamm ML3 review. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  106 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3 What is important is to undusted that my view  less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire cla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The prison of language and the lie in the symbol by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
I would agree that the Lowther is not hard to beat but the question is where and in whose mind does this competition exist? Is the Lowther, Manger, or other full range single driver in competition with different multi-driver approaches, other single ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Coincident by Nick on 2008-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ridicules naming of audio products. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
I own a pair of the Total VictoryIII that pair nicely with my room due to the inside firing woofer (tames my room nodes).  The marketing of the products uses tremendous hyperbole (words like 'breakthrough' appear often with regard to speakers, c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: In the dragon's lair by decoud on 2008-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Solid state revisited in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I have to admit thigh that I have had in my room the First Watt amp….[/quote]Do you mean the F3? How did it sound with the Macondo?Incidentally, I gather a higher power version of the F3 is in the works, and the existing d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Building the amp by ArmAlex on 2011-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquíades” début. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
Dear Romy, after a lot of delays I finally found someone technical to build Melquiades. I'm afraid that I may disturb you a lot with questions.Anyhow the first question is:for some of resistors no value for wattage is mentioned like R4,R5,R6...R9,R10...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Building the Zarathustra II by nautilus981 on 2010-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building “Zarathustra II” amplifier in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Hello, would it be possible for us to see the diagrams and schematics behind the Zarathustra II in the same spirit as the Melquiades was conceived, noting that the best of ideas are formed with the purest of sentiments?[quote]It is Dima’s and my stro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Speaker mismatch I am sure by Serge on 2012-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
Romy consider that the engineers who did your Altecs in their worst nightmare could not imagine their lovely cinema speakers would be used with solid state amplifier which badly distorts on LOW power levels. It has 100 crappy watts and the first watt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Coincidentally by coops on 2009-12-10 
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Mainly because of my young daughter I have been listening to mostly solid state amps, I have enjoyed 'Digital DoMain's' B1-a VFET, and am now listening to a German 'Audioprojeckte' CA10, 10 watt class A design, ( I will post a link later as their sit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Limited experience with ss amps by Saturntube on 2009-12-10 
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I have just taken out of my system a First Watt F5 clone Tim Rawson amp, It was substituted by a Telefunken PP amp with 6AQ5 tubes. Let me to explain. My system consists of 6 way horn loaded speakers.  I have a round Tactrix...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Corrections & thoughts on drivers perception by jessie.dazzle on 2007-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
I was thinking about what I previously wrote while driving today... thinking about the way people "see" the function of a driver... and about resonant properties of various materials used for speaker cones... I think it is more interesting than compa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Cessaro speakers and some other tidbits by morricab on 2007-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  31 Replies 
Hi Romy, I recently heard the smallest Cessaro and while I felt that the bass was not adequate for long term satisfaction it was also not a total disaster.  From the midbass on up; however, the speaker is simply superb and one of the very best h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Good sounding SS amplifier for horns? by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cool running AB amplifier.. with good sound. in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
Chris, I have no experience with good sounding SS amplifier that might drive high sensitive horns. I also have no expertise to build such an amp. From what I trued before I have learned that in order to sound more or less acceptable the SS should run...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: 50 watt class A, PP... by Axel on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
well fine, my X350.5 does 50 watt class A, and of course in push-pull. I use it with 120 watt max rated 3 way speakers of about 87 dB efficiency. You can see on the 350.5's  centre instrument dial if you go out of class A. If I go out, I usually fear...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Many Mani's options: My first horns by manisandher on 2010-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that I get through headphones. Why did I embark on this quest? Well although I’m quite happy with my headphones, I miss being...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Garg wants more horns. by Gargoyle on 2015-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Garg wants more horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
This will be yet another log on building a maconalds inspired speaker conglomerates.So far what I gather is I need to first sort out a upperbass/mid frequency combination before I dive into the rest of the details.I too, will try to provide pretty sk...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The First Watt shall be better then Second Watt by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I do not care about all of Nilsson Pass amps; I feel that all the same and all are very sub-qualified.  A few years back Mr. Pass went for his low-powered SS single-ended amps and they might be more interesting.  I do not have them and I never seen a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: First bass OPT prototype... by anthony on 2016-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Output transformer. Here is what the thing become complicated. Of you drive ultra-low impedance with step down transformer then your secondary turns will decrease. They primary will have whatever they have for all cas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The rub with battery amps by Paul S on 2008-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Solid state revisited in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
Mats, believe me, I'd love to get off the frickin' grid altogether.  But if I'm looking at >20 car batteries just for the K&K phono stage, then how many angels will fit on the head of a pin?  Ironically, the K&K also uses JFETs.....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Your builder shall know. by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-05 
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[quote user="ArmAlex"]Dear Romy, after a lot of delays I finally found someone technical to build Melquiades. I'm afraid that I may disturb you a lot with questions.Anyhow the first question is:for some of resistors no value for wattage is mentioned ...
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