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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: High-End, High Art and alas we must part... by starboy on 2005-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
I guess the infamous JerryS didn't like the 90x that much...http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgcart&1122213293Any takers boys...?Regardsp.s. Hope the rave review he gave up helps to get his asking price.   ;-)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: High End will die anyway, it will be replaced with high price tags for... by Stitch on 2011-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
I heard from a Professional Journalist who was all days at Munich High End Show that they didn't have many visitors. The official numbers are critical, he said, they must have counted every Leg and Arm as Visitors.And it was the same boring demos as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The High End! What High End? by Romy the Cat on 2017-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End speakers Evolution - full range, back horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
David, the Merriam-Webster dictionary describes “high end “as superiority quality or sophistication. The loudspeakers you posted are inferior in quality of delivery and in sophistication of implementation. In fact they are just a reflection of inc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: How high is too high? by floobydust on 2009-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DHT driver & input in Melquiades Amplifier  25 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] gordan wrote: plus they IMHO sound better - less prejudiced towards a romantic SET sound we all know (and some try to avoid). Yes, Gordan, it is exactly what I heard about the 10s from the sources that I found rationa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: High end not high tech yet by steverino on 2014-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]David, I think you a bit overly glorify the notion of "precision instruments" that we all are a bit taken in high-end audio. If you go to a good hobby shop and by a microscope for 200 dollars, or lawn mower for $300, or a k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: High-End or High Art? by starboy on 2005-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
Okay, my point was not really the cost and not really even the magnets. (though I was surprised they were that cheap) Just the justification, but hey when has the 'high-end' needed any justification.When I was a dreamy youth there was exotica out the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: High-End Audio vs. High-End understanding. by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-24 
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I know that in audio we use fucked-up terminology that over the course of years audio propaganda pimps of all calibers impended into minds of feeble audio people. High-End Audio in today world means nothing that what I feel, is it possible to cle...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Does high-sensitivity speaker need a high-sensitivity tweeter? by Romy the Cat on 2014-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Does high-sensitivity speaker need a high-sensitivity tweete... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
In one if the Brits forums rowuk wrote about Linaeum diapole tweeters:“Give them their own amplifier, then the efficiency does not matter. Great amps are not that expensive and with the standard distribution of acoustical energy, the tweeter does ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Sorry for the off topic by Antonio J. on 2006-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  31 Replies 
I think we are speaking about different things, you speak about real High End which should be best possible sound quality to serve a musical purpose, and I'm speaking about a High End industry which doesn't give a damn about musical performance, beca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: More of the keys for High-End by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Audio and musical content. in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
[quote user="deemon"]But here we have an interesting question . Imagine two persons - the first man likes classic music and don't likes rock , and the second - likes both . And they tries to make their systems using this concept - "good performa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About destiny of “High-End Sound”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About destiny of “High-End Sound”. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Looking at the sound that audio high-enders cultivate as High-End Sound I have little enthusiasm in what I see/hear. The High-End Sound, as it exists in 99% of listening rooms is not really High-End Sound but rather the High-End Labeled Sound where t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Here is where the key of High End by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Audio and musical content. in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]"What the purpose to use audio that does not filter out bad performances or to read a reviewer who does not know how to use this ability of playback systems? " I don't quite understand the first part of your note.[/quote] There ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: High Resolution and 16 bit by tuga on 2009-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD off tune? The Big CD Conspiracy theory? in Didital Things  9 Replies 
[quote user="Axel"]is what I assume that your CD's source is all about. So it could be in deed a problem having used the 'original' master tape (analogue) which might have had a slight problem, stretched, or issues with the equipment speed (slight sp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: High Speed Transports Are No Good by Serge on 2011-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Oppo DVD player as a transport. in Didital Things  10 Replies 
Well, I always noticed that 'universal' transports which spin the CD at 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x (faster each year) sound much muddier and grainier then the dedicated CD ones. Unfortunately nowadays there are hardly one or two commercially available OEM CD-t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What is High-End Audio, not for beginners (part2) by Romy the Cat on 2024-12-01 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: What is the goal of high-end Audio? by PeterA on 2024-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Future of high-end audio in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A few days ago, enjoy the music side published an article about future of audio, run the author was trying to predict what will be this guy and other in future. I read just two paragraphs at do not read anymore as I am ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: High-End Audio: buy vs. build by Romy the Cat on 2025-01-25 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: High-End Audio amplifier as an expressive tool. by Romy the Cat on 2025-02-01 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Levels of High End Audio by Janos @ Real World Audio by Romy the Cat on 2025-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Levels of High End Audio by Janos @ Real World Audio in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
Here is absolutely the best YouTube video on the subject of high-and audio I have seen so far. In fact, it's might be fun to interview Janos. Truly a first person I would like to make a public interview. I would have a lot of interesting, simulating ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #339: High Passing the Tannoy? Anyone? by Paul S on 2025-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  349 Replies 
Has anyone here has tried simply high passing the 10" Tannoy Red? Say, 200 Hz? This was my long-time strategy for vintage wide-range (aka, "Full Range") drivers, to get more power and better articulation from them by not choking them with LF. Never t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: My take on the high mass. by Romy the Cat on 2004-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
**** I don't know if you have seen this effort by a gentleman in Greece. Yes, I am familiar with that writing. I have a problem with that guy, not with him personal but with the way in witch he thinks and consequentially with his objectives and his ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: High transconductance saga... by Romy the Cat on 2004-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
Brain, C’mon, I was kidding about the “Electron Intensification Interface”! There is nothing in this phonocorrector then a correct selection of tubes, thier proper (well almost proper) use and selection of the specific topological decisions that sold...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: My take on the high mass. by guy sergeant on 2004-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
I was involved many years ago (1985), in the design and manufacture of a 'low mass' turntable called the Voyd. This suspended design used 3 papst external rotor synchronous motors to drive a very light acrylic (and later polycarbonate) platter. The i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Munich High End - show impressions... by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
... by Jeffrey W. Jacksonhttp://hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2011/06/munich-high-end-show-impressions.htmlThe Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: High what? by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"] High End will die anyway, it will be replaced with high price tags … [/quote] Actually it is very valid point. High-End Audio as a notion implies advance sound reproduction by all means, with disregard to cost-benefit ana...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: More about high-pass, if it is necessary by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"] blah, blah, blah, all that stuff... yes, yes, I was thinking along those lines last night after I posted it, and wondering if effects of hi pass, (not just steep acoustic roll off of driver), in the amp, relieving unwan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: High impedance tubes by electronluv on 2009-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
are you asking if i like higher impedance tubes with my drivers  i  have always love the sound of imac tubes round plate triodes !!! i change amps alot right now i im running 75tl amp for highs and a 300B for bass drivers . i hope this answers your q...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: High ceilings by cv on 2009-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Hi Romy,How about building a mezanine floor (or two), with a nice wrought iron spiral staircase - surely koshka would enjoy that?Best,cv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: Using of the “High ceilings” by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Yes, I was thinking of take advantage of high ceilings, feeling the space above with midbass horns. A few days back I found a very interesting building. It is big factory from the beginning of the century converted into many lofts. The building has h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: About the serious Chinese High-End by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RCA driver made in China in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Thanks, Keith. I isolated this topic in a separate thread, reading to the end you might understand why. Those commentaries that something is “100% original” I usually take with a lot of suspicion and it usually is an indication that the peo...
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