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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A quest for a better monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
While Dima is cooking the Super Zarathustra I figure out that I would need some test speaker to be able to observe the preliminary results. I would not be able to drive the multi-channel Macondo with a single full range amplifier, so I need something...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: What makes a good monitor? by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
I would like to think a little about the monitors. A monitor is kind of bogus name but useful. I usually call a loudspeaker that is not floor standing as a monitor. Sometime they called bookshelf but I hardly image any loudspeaker on a bookshelf… In...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: A quest for a better monitor and sensitivity. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-16 
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[quote user="behhl"]As well, it is 15 ohm, and one of the few monitors I can drive with my SET reasonable. All other monitors I know demand so much more amp and I still cannot understand why.[/quote] behhl, This is a part of bigger subject.  T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Monitor speaker project: my hope. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
I would like to share some ides what I would like to do in my monitor project.  This are just intention and I did not try to put it all together. Probably I will do it with the next few weeks. I’m planning to use the Celestion SL-600 enclosure ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Monitor project for summer listening by cv 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 
R,Please excuse me if this is straying from the subject... feel free to move.Anyway, I was in NYC until Wednesday evening, and I assume I know what is motivating you to abandon Macondo/Melquiades in the hot summer months... what I don't understand is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: Monitor project for summer listening by Wojtek 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 
Roman wants to "test" other amps on the monitors .It is quite impossible on tri-amped Macondo-maybe he will become a rewiever -heheheh. I can assume that Macondo is so absorbing that it is impossible to just play a background music or work and not to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-20 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Dick Sequerra’s double paper monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Dick Sequerra it looks like made his new monitor available: Met 7.7 Mk. 6 http://www.sequerra.com/ It uses looks like a custom paper woofer and a custom paper tweeter, both geometrically naturally aligned, behind first order crossovers, unfortunate...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: “Kill-A-Watt” Electric Monitor by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Ok, it does not have a direct relation to the quality of electricity but I think you might like this little toy, as it is very useful during our electricity straggling. It is very small device that plugs pass-through to your load and this device: 1)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: No monitor... by samuel33 on 2007-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good commercial speakers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]These are not speakers but ear scratchers ,they may however fit Samuel's expectations. Actually from description of required performance almost every Hi-End speaker should fit the bill so I don't understand where is the problem ?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Oistrakh(s) on Monitor MC 2009 (1957) by Paul S on 2007-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Oistrakh(s) on Monitor MC 2009 (1957) in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
David O. and his son, Igor, open with JS Bach's Concierto in D minor for 2 violins and orchestra, with violinist Rudolf Barshai doing a bang-up job conducting  "the orchestra".  Of course the Oistrakhs are wonderful, but the "orchestra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Meyer X-10 monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Meyer X-10 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
I never heard it or about it but here is data: http://www.meyersound.com/pdf/products/studio_series/x-10_ds.pdf http://www.meyersound.com/news/press/sos_x10_800.htm It looks like it has CB horn and aluminum cone in pl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: (monitor vs hifi speakers) VS room response by unicon on 2009-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: (monitor vs hifi speakers) VS room response in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
hey . i have been wandering around for an article about acoustic measurements untill i found something challenging monitors vs hifi. i dont care alot about monitor vs hifi comparsion.  but ...here is the link :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_moni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #92: Tyler Acoustics, monitor with separate LF by zanon on 2010-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/tyleracoustics_minimonitor_system.htm Never heard it, but it has a separate LF section....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The unsuccessful "quest for a better monitor" by tuga on 2014-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First order filtration and design methods. in Audio For Dummies ™  3 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It was a conversation a few days back at one of UK forum:  http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=113989#113989 The unfortunates from the forum did not get the message. They with their Chines...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: It is not about rightsizing from extreme systems but .... by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rightsizing from extreme systems.... in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
....obtaining the same extreme results by the different means, although I do not know yet if it is possible….T, I do not think that it is possible to get from 9.5" woofer and passive radiator a good sound in context of small monitor. A passive radiat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: F120A -- end of the game? by wchang on 2009-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I got my pair of F120A by-the-book bookshelves a few weeks ago and yes, in the beginning they were very much "compressed" sounding.  Things improved a bit over time, but the low treble (which gives instruments their "color") is still recessed.  So I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Interesting about WAMM. by Romy the Cat on 2014-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  53 Replies 
http://www.stereophile.com/content/wilson-audio-modular-monitor-wamm-loudpeaker-system ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: There are absolutely no accidents with it. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES's 2011 horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
[quote user="jeff1225"]I never understood the affinity that the Germans have for heavy metal. Whenever you going into any of their rooms at CES (especially MBL), Slayer is playing at 130 DB. Maybe it's the modern interpretation of Wagner.[/quote] Jef...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: An idea of a new product. by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is it the time to change those tubes? in Melquiades Amplifier  11 Replies 
The more I think about the more I feel that my old idea to install a timer inside the amp that would measure the time the amps is running was not so bad. I never in fact implemented it but it would be convenient to have it. What I am thinking is that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: No monitor... by samuel33 on 2007-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good commercial speakers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]These are not speakers but ear scratchers ,they may however fit Samuel's expectations. Actually from description of required performance almost every Hi-End speaker should fit the bill so I don't understand where is the problem ?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Vintage JBL products lingo. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-14 
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CATEGORIES:               2100 - Mid and mid-bass cone transducers               2200 - Low frequency transduc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Making an inclosure....my experience by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rightsizing from extreme systems.... in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
T, also if you knockewd up a small monitor then let me give you a lead that you might or not might find worth attention. I did a few monitors in my past and I have learned that whatever boards or woofs I used it always had sound and partially if you ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: What makes a good monitor? by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
I would like to think a little about the monitors. A monitor is kind of bogus name but useful. I usually call a loudspeaker that is not floor standing as a monitor. Sometime they called bookshelf but I hardly image any loudspeaker on a bookshelf… In...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Dick Sequerra’s double paper monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Dick Sequerra it looks like made his new monitor available: Met 7.7 Mk. 6 http://www.sequerra.com/ It uses looks like a custom paper woofer and a custom paper tweeter, both geometrically naturally aligned, behind first order crossovers, unfortunate...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #156: My new MiniMe, I think it's it. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Ok, I think it is it. I close the experimental phase of the MiniMe projects as I have selected and feel comfortable with MiniMe results. The MiniMe Bass section is the very original MiniMe enclosure with the very same drivers as I plane from star...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The same requirements. by Romy the Cat on 2014-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First order filtration and design methods. in Audio For Dummies ™  3 Replies 
[quote user="tuga"] Romy,On the subject of speaker design, I don't think you'll disagree if I say that your "quest for a better monitor" was unsuccessful.You mentionaed at the time that the speakers should respect the following:1) Perform correct in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: This is all very emblematic for audio herd. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
Stitch, you see, the presence of that unintelligent audio glitter  that run across web sites and drool saliva about that or this product is very unfortunate thing that actually makes very hard for  sensible audio people to get any more or less releva...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: While We Were Sleeping (Wilson was hard at work) by Paul S on 2017-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wilson Audio and the Moore's law in Audio News  23 Replies 
Looks like Wilson hit the ground running about 20 Dec. 2016, with a flurry of quickie "reviews".  Here's a link to the Absolute Sound roll-out/"review":http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/first-listen-to-the-new-wilson-audio-modular-monitor-wamm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Out of my reach. But what about only the small minute tempo variations... by Jarnu on 2020-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the thoughtfulness of large timing offset. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
This topic it is of upmost importance to me in this stage of personal development, if I understood you. After my obsession with timbre, when I finally got a bit of satisfaction with violins, after horns, I failed with tempo. Or with inner t...
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