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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Nordost and the schmalts by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: FM and … cables… in Off Air Audio  4 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]but it sounds like you just described the Nordost Valhalla cables, just after they break in, just before the HF shimmer short circuits. Or, maybe Nordost has fixed the part where they age badly with the Mk II, SE, the same way PA...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Nordost and the schmalts by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-15 
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[quote user="Paul S"]but it sounds like you just described the Nordost Valhalla cables, just after they break in, just before the HF shimmer short circuits. Or, maybe Nordost has fixed the part where they age badly with the Mk II, SE, the same way PA...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I Hate to Say It, by Paul S on 2009-04-15 
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but it sounds like you just described the Nordost Valhalla cables, just after they break in, just before the HF shimmer short circuits.  Or, maybe Nordost has fixed the part where they age badly with the Mk II, SE, the same way PAD fixed the old flui...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Jonathan Valin shell be an Alcatraz reviewer. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Valin shell be an Alcatraz reviewer. in Audio News  4 Replies 
People who read my site are accustomed that in my section “Audio News” are published the semi-sarcastic articles about different aspects of audio industry. This article however is far from satire and now I would like just to publish one none-invented...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The cablechewer cat by DSH on 2008-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cats and hifi in Audio Discussions  14 Replies 
My cat that likes to chew loudspeaker cables. Especially is fond of NordOst flat cables. He is therefore is being kept out of my listening room but should somebody forget to close the door tightly, comes in immediately for cables or to jump on the tu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Crossing the Same River Twice by Paul S on 2016-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? in Didital Things  53 Replies 
Amir:I have not thought much about S/PDIF cable for a while, and I have not thought "seriously" about other digital cable formats at all, since I have no interest in a "digital server", except  -  maybe -  something portable (and cheap). If Acoustic ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I would not argue the fakeness of the science. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep-cryogenically treated cables? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
The benefits of treating wire are not truly debatable – put in this way I would not debate it. My interests is not to debate the benefits but rather to be able to confirm that atoms were aliened by cryo treatment. You are right – none of the wire man...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: I had tears in my eyes.... by Stitch on 2015-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] http://www.theaudiobeat.com/equipment/living_voice_vox_olympian_vox_elysian.htm [/quote].... after reading his product placement.[quote]These speakers rewrite the rules just as surely as they rearrange expectations. Th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1461: Suggestions by JOHNR on 2015-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I can only offer a simple solution to this problem.Decide on which row you wish to place digital services.  I would also include anything that has a switched mode power supply because of the Y capacitor thing.  Assume Row 1 will be used for digital s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: I know what you mean... by Lbjefferies7 on 2008-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I too have no respect for DIY'ers of any type, and audio is certainly the worst place for such people.  I don't identify with or socialize among such people, or even audiophiles in general.  The only thing that motivates most of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: L-9=>Closed box by Joe Roberts on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
The Western Electric L-9 in Munich was/is an infinite baffle design. The 754B woofers are in a sealed enclosure with a front horn. There is no possibility of cancellation between front wave and back wave of speaker, so I wouldn't call it an "open baf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1300: QK1 or better integrate LCR directly into your grid to audio link by Goetz on 2014-05-07 
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What I assumed initially is written on the Nordost page. "The QKOIL QK1 is a load resonating coil (LRC) which generates a passive electronic field that has a beneficial sonic effect on the AC current." ... as we should do in loudspeaker crossover...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? in Didital Things  53 Replies 
I reticently picked a new DAC and ADC processors. Not that I needed but they were the brand that I for years was trying to test but never had a chance, now I do. The processors use AES/EBU connectors. So, not I need to find reasonably sounding AES/EB...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The “nice enough guy” syndrome. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Valin shell be an Alcatraz reviewer. in Audio News  4 Replies 
I have quite a confidence that if you meet and talk with Joseph Goebbels or Lavrenti Beria or with Idi Amin then they all will come along like “nice guys”. When I met and spoke with Valin he seemed “normal” as well. Hey even I appear as “a nice guy” ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Lamm ML3 price: how it works. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
It might be not directly related to the subject of this thread but I do feel that it has quite a good relatively. Are you laughing that your Lamm made his new amplifier with a price tag of $126K? Well, think again.  Do you remember as  the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: "Not So Sweet Spot" /Absolute Sound, Jonathan Valin Comments... by RobertG63 on 2013-01-26 
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    It was brought to my attention by a fellow member at our audio society meeting today that there have been some postings here regarding my letter to the editor in this month's Absolute Sound. I wont restate the total contents of my letter as they ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Prices in High End Audio - whatever market bears? by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-03 
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Today’s prices in Hi-Fi do not base upon any other principle then “whatever market bears”. The luck of objective evaluation methods and the completely un-liberated market of Hi-Fi consumers make the “market bearing” principles being completely not ap...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: The Federated Mike about LAMM ML3 by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-18 
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In his RMAF the Federated Mike post some comments about his use of ML3: http://www.audiofederation.com/hifiing/2008/RMAF2008/report/1500/floor_9/#audio_federation Even though his comments from my point of view have “issuers” but Mike’s comments sti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Well, it is what it is... by Romy the Cat on 2018-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ in Audio News  10 Replies 
I have absolutely no idea what you people are pissed about the new MIT’s ACC 268 cables. You need to separate in your heads two separate things. The MIT new cable as a product and the MIT new cable as a concept.   The new MIT cable as a product ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: THE Show, 2016 by Paul S on 2016-06-12 
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Gluttons for punishment, Mark and I went to the Newport Beach audio thing-ee again this year. Generally, I was most struck by how much lower audio expectations seemed to be, even lower than last year. It seemed like it’s sunk to the poin...
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