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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #665: Great news and great update. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1917 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I got a contact from PurePower this morning and they requested some times to look into what is going on. It was not exactly pleasant that they took my behavior as my personal attack against them – it was absolutely not my i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #188: The great Midwest to the rescue by jessie.dazzle on 2010-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
You might try the Foam Factory; they are easy to deal with, inexpensive, have online ordering, quick turn around and can ship anywhere.They are NOT a typical audiophile-oriented acoustic room treatment supplier. Nevertheless, they are equipped to cut...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A great OPT resource page by rowuk on 2021-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great OPT resource page in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
This site seems to me to be the most lucid and FREE explanation of understanding winding OPTs. This particular link is to the PP OPT section:http://www.turneraudio.com.au/output-trans-pp-calc-1.htmlAnd here for SEhttp://www.turneraudio.com.au/se-outp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1856: Great, But What About... by Paul S on 2022-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1917 Replies 
What about the extra 30 dB you said your tweeters get at 22k Hz? And how far did you get and where did you wind up with the dedicated ground?Best regards,Paul S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Avicenna's failure is the great Avicenna success! by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Avicenna's failure is the great Avicenna success! in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
The readers of my site who are frustrated about audible quality of electricity are familiar with a very clever electricity processor called “Avicenna” that I mentioned in the “It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity” thread. Who missed it and have interest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: Great! by G on 2018-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Thanks Romy. Ok. I have installed a 30k resistor on the input and it reduced the drifting when the preamp is not connected. If my preamp is connected then I do not get any drifting at all and input voltage stays at 0v when I switch the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: "Appeal to the Great Spirit" by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "Appeal to the Great Spirit" in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
I wonder if any music sounds like this to you: This work is “Appeal to the Great Spirit” by Cyrus Edwin Dallin 1909, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston... ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: With great pleasure by Romy the Cat on 2004-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A stunning Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto. in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
Antonio, Sure, why not. Send me an email with your address and I will send you a copy. Rgs, Romy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Great Cello Concertos by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
Unquestionably to me, piano concertos are the very much The Concertos for an instrument and orchestras. My second favorite is Cello Concertos. The violin concertos are popular and they great but I frequently find that they might be annoying, particul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A great production of the Magic Flute. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great production of the Magic Flute. in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Mozart's Magic Flute. What else should be said? Many “simple people” consider it as one of the greatest opera… Well, I always find it… almost annoying. A few days I watched a strange production of Magic Flute that I liked a lot and even more that on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut by JANDL100 on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Does anyone else here share my passion for Anton Nanut?  Long-term conductor of the Ljubliana SO.   Now deceased.His Beethoven is superb.  Nanut's is my fave version of the 7th.  I've only ever found 1 to 8, never seen a 9th ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Nanut and my other personal GREAT Bruckner 8 recordings by JANDL100 on 2008-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Schuricht?   Pah, no, not for me.    Mediocre, bland, boring - gong nowhere from nowhere.   Just my opinion  ;-)   Yes, the VPO is an infinitely better 'Bruckner orchestra' than Nanut's Ljubliana grou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A Great Persona... by twogoodears on 2008-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Film about Jacqueline du Pre. in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
Thanks for sharing, Roman... I remember I fell in love for Jaqueline Du Prè since I purchased, eons ago, a double record-set on EMI... she was so easy and elegant, so innocent and... the playing: WOW!I guess tomorrow will be Du Prè's Day on my turnta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: What a great cello concerts in Boston! by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Great Cello Concertos in Musical Discussions  21 Replies 
The last night Alban Gerhardt played Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with BSO under Marek Janowski. http://www.bso.org/images/program_notes/20081113.pdf I did not go to the concert but was listening the concert lives over WCRB. Alban Gerhardt has reported...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Great, a recommendation Thread by Stitch on 2012-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Are Any Powerful Amps Worth Using? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
:-)Lamm 1.2R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Great little box by scooter on 2009-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Remote System Management in Off Air Audio  13 Replies 
Thanks for the update; that is a great little box for $50. There are lots of neat little projects at home it could help out with... Thanks, S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Another great thread here by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to train respect audio listening? in Playback Listening  18 Replies 
Hey Romy, does Amy read this? That would be a nice way of communicating the problem.Hmmm.... RoAmy?Roamy?Ramy?Anyway... I have a friend who's arranged a signal for his wife to leave him the f. alone -- a hat or cap on while in the house. She had some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: ... great audio... by Romy the Cat on 2019-11-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo + Milq… very nice. in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
Might be ended I did not listen it for a while but it is very nice, better then I remember and in a way it is better than it should be… Just out of blue sit today and was listening a few RR albums. Say whatever you want about Minnesota orchestra b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: Stravinsky as a great piano composer? by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
I am not so wild about Stravinsky  as piano composer. His is OK, but no Liszt and no Rachmaninoff. His sonatas and etudes are not so exiting in my view, Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments is boring and his piano version of Petrushka is “not ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Great experience by noviygera on 2020-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stay home with Bruckner in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
Romy, thank you for this link, I am enjoying these concerts. Do you know if these recordings are available to purchase?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #174: Great, thanks! by Romy the Cat on 2016-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
Thanks, Murat. I do not need neither the listed drivers nor 146 that you feel is work out better for you.  As initially told you your endeavor is just a waste of the drivers and it was very clear from very beginning that your infatuation with GOTO...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Great horns for the bass? by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best 20 hz bass horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  20 Replies 
audiofilofine, you need to form a question in a format that would indicate you do the your do some homework. To bulb or even to design 20Hz horn is complex task and it usually made to the specifics of the given circumstances. As rule to use properly ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #308: I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: It may ,it may not (be a great solution) by Wojtek on 2008-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
I use regular Lowther DX4 (ENABLED) . I don't think the 250-400 is stellar and  I'm still waiting for the extension to try small throat for lower midrange (2,75") (B&C 8P21E driver) for 200-1000Hz . Here is Martin's opinion on the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Thanks for all the great suggestions by Kcct82 on 2008-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
So, you use DCX 2496 for deals but not for crossovering and your crossovers are still on analog domain, right? Romy, I do everything in the digital domain so I use DCX 2496 as my crossover as well (but analog SS pro amps). I know you're no big fan of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: 'A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth' - Thomas Man... by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Joe, I think I would battle it. I would not be so certain. Mostly the SUV sized bass horns are notoriously bad sounding despite of the assurances of the system owners overwhelmed with so common in audio endowment effect. Not to mention that the Stag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Great Vintage Loudspeakers drivers by Nagrapex on 2009-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
These are clearly JBL pots and back covers (which have been milled flat). The refinishing job is quite nice, but the origins are clear. Also, the phenolic diaphragm is clearly for the 2482/2485 (and looks like a JBL part), which has a slightly wider ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Great, another recommendation Thread by Paul S on 2012-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 47 Lab Digital in Didital Things  9 Replies 
Stitch, wohnen Sie nicht in Deutschland?  Have you ruled out Accustic Arts?  They are rare here but should be easy to find in Germany.  Anyway, I can't speak for the DACs, but the transport is a well-thought-out and made, un-fussy unit with a very ni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Potentially Great (So Sad...) by Paul S on 2012-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
Sad to think of people mooning over TT porn, and reading all the "specs", imagining what this will [undoubtedly] do to finally send their systems into orbit.  Sure, a good TT has good parts; but how the parts are used is at least as important as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #172: Time-domains experiments are great! by Romy the Cat on 2017-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  203 Replies 
Josh, I am sorry, I missed from you original post the fact that you delay the back tweeters. It just looked and it is there, I just did not registered on me… Yes, the play with delayed channels is very cook thing. I did play with 10-30ms delay ...
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