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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Are You On the Road to Audio Hell? by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Are You On the Road to Audio Hell? in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
Here is an article by Leonard Norwitz that I think some of you might find motivating. I do not know Mr. Norwitz but it sounds like dinked too mach Qvortrup’s coca-cola. Anyhow, although I do not agree with some (sometimes many) of the Mr. Norwitz’s c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Mantis vs Jubilee by drdna on 2008-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
[quote user="starboy"]In the thread I wrote there is another Mantis owner Bauzace50 (a noted gentleman to myself in terms of transducers) who had a Jubilee as his reference and that with no second thought hit the Bay.[/quote]Did y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The Holy Grail by gormee on 2009-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Music in the Sound: a moving target in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
In reply Paul, My original post specifically mentioned that my comments perhaps did not apply to you. I am well aware from reading many of your posts that you have reached a level of maturuty and experience to be able to identify nuances(vecto...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: There is nothing subjective in music reproduction. by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: There is nothing subjective in music reproduction. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"]1) It does so in your system context.2) It does so to your personal prejudices how music reproduction should sound.[/quote]T, I do not want to derail the thread into a different direction but still I would allow myself to make ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Difficult to understand by Michaelz on 2007-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Romy:It is difficult for me to understand the bubleness you described here.  I always use as reference the real sound of real instrument.  I have not heard the drivers you talked about in other threads where you presented the idea of a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Mediocre to badly-sounding digital media by eduardo on 2009-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog vs. Digital... without BS. in Didital Things  23 Replies 
In fact, digital recording allows the industry to  process easily every musical material (a very powerful exchange-tool). Unfortunately, digital recordings  are also highly corruptible  in the musical-expresive potential  as you point...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Some spaghetti of thoughts: distortions, 834 by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"] After many years, Romy has come to enjoy this style of amplification.  If I read his words correctly, the sound of these machines brings him more emotion and connection with the music and musicians.  An admiral goal.&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Myth of CD clocking = True/False by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
I wonder how myth in all those digital gismos and how little what we considering in digital is obvious and self-explanatory in reality has not relation to Sound. Also, how much those people with who just learned how to solder and let their blind (and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A chacun son gout by steverino on 2022-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Prokofiev in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
People are not required to like or dislike anything. I guess the question you raise would require some additional info to answer. Some people have Austro German music as their reference and therefore don't really like styles which are at variance, fo...

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 #2: The pointless wondering by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.5 in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Ok, I got it yesterday and I really do not like it. I do not know where to start - it is so much off what where Rachmaninoff left it – it just a very different amplitude of talent. With Rachmaninoff each note has beauty, balance, reference to the who...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Some midweek morning stimulation… by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"] … if we reduce our concept of "music" the more fundamental concept of "sound" as point of reference than we can easier visualize of what audio system should do. …. … this is not possible would be to take the "sound" as a poin...

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 #1: Basic guide to advanced audio by Jorge on 2011-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
Romy,  I have been trying to explain to myself what happened and how I got to it and trying to recreate this wonderful boiling point. I tried to make a write up of all the steps needed in order to make it happen,  but it is ever so elusive. I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Where your interests and experiences lay. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"] The problem is two or three identifiable frequency-dependent sources has no reference in live music either …[/quote]  It is true, so the amount of the channels is not mandatory or necessary qualifier for sound reprodu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reference Recordings “digital master” and Berkeley's new DAC by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reference Recordings “digital master” and Berkeley's new DAC in Didital Things  13 Replies 
I have some “issues” with the 176.4kHz idea, particularly knowing the most of the RR recordings were not recorded in 176.4kHz. I am glad that they did not go for X48K format but stuck with X44 (I more like the Linn’s 88.2KHz “Studio Masters” idea). S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: It is just a theory. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tonearm Alignment Method in Analog Playback  4 Replies 
Well, I guess the Tchaikovsky Pathetique symphony with its slow gloomy decay will be out of picture to play on TT with Stevenson's alignment…. Well, as I said I would argue any alignment theory that relates alignment with music type. So naturally I d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Further guidelines for Audio Neutrality... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] Yes, we are saying the same thing.  The problem as I have found it is that transparency is easily recognized and so there is a tendency for audiophiles to focus on this when they try to improve their systems, and this can ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: Followers vs. Drifters vs. "Experts" by Paul S on 2019-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Nothing wrong with following along or "copying" "good ideas", as long as the seeker already has an internal "reference" that serves as a sort of navigation system or gyroscope that allows for inevitable "gaps" and differences of one stripe or another...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Definitions and Meaning by drdna on 2007-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]...Live Music and Reproduced Music are absolutely the same music... [but] ...Live Sound and Reproduced Sound are absolutely different animals... “Neutrality” might be applied to a whole event or to the collection of the pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tube pre-amp with ss amp for tube sound by muddasir on 2010-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Does tube preamplifier VTL would add tube sound to system in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Thanks paul for well thought reply. Two things need clarifiication, i am not new to the subject and am a constant and avid reader.Secondly my preference for music is hobby for electronics and pleasure of listening through application of mind and know...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Wow! It Actually Works! by Paul S on 2010-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
Too soon to begin in-depth descriptions, but after a good deal more work (and expense...) than I'd bargained for, it did not blow up, and there was not the all-too-usual painful silence in lieu of the first expected sounds.  I admit I was as surprise...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: What I am getting at is that substance and content are more important ... by Doron on 2009-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Matching audio to music: false in Audio For Dummies ™  12 Replies 
Nothing wrong with feeling the venue (although I think that feeling the venue can only be had by going to "the venue" - the venue can never and should not be attempted to be recreated as an audio goal in my mind - unless you want to be frustrated wit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Reviving an old thread by Antonio J. on 2009-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A stunning Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto. in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
I want to share with you that the CD that Romy found with the Michelangeli's performance of the Emperor with the Paris Orchestra and Celibidache is available at Music and Arts (scroll down to find the 2 Michelangeli CDs they have) with reference:CD-4...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Me too... by Romy the Cat on 2022-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Prokofiev in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]People are not required to like or dislike anything. I guess the question you raise would require some additional info to answer. Some people have Austro German music as their reference and therefore don't really like styles w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Very Ilustrative by Antonio J. on 2005-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Loudspeaker: Sound reproduction has not changed. in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
Thanks Steve for your insightful answer. I feel mixed feelings with classical music. I have some composers that can grab my attention whatever version of their music I listen to, but are very few, probably just Bach, Beethoven and Mendelsso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Finding the message by Paul S on 2008-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Sure, I believe there is a speed/congestion relationship, but I do not think it is singular, and furthermore I think there is more to the speed issue "itself" than meets the eye, if you get what I mean.At this point all I can say is that the belt/hea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Phono Interconnects. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chasing utopian better phono interconnect. in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Since the 2007-2008 alchemic music season and consequentially live FM season was over (the event I marked with my “End of the live Phonostage”) I have been spinning a lot of vinyl lately. So, I spent some time with different phono cables with my diff...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Mysterious patterns and later thoughts by Paul S on 2007-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
Wojtek, I do use 8 Ohm drivers, and I am mildly curious about the "pattern" thing.  As I said in posted responses to Bud, I +/- accept the science but suspect the implementation in this case; however,  I would be happy to give a listen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: gergiev by amperidian on 2007-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Best recording I heard in 2004. in Musical Discussions  20 Replies 
Very interesting point about Gergiev.  I do not dispute it.  I just know that at present time some of the work released by him is very pleasing to me. That does not limit me to only listening to what Gergiev is doing.  For example...
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