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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Rank by el`Ol on 2007-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Here is the link:http://www.rank-concept.deI have no experience with the Lamm ML-series, I just listened to an M-series hybrid amp combined with the Watt/Puppy 8. This performance was a single fake (though a pleasant one). I can´t say where was the f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Rank, M1.1, Wilson and firewood by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Here is the link:http://www.rank-concept.deI have no experience with the Lamm ML-series, I just listened to an M-series hybrid amp combined with the Watt/Puppy 8. This performance was a single fake (though a pleasant one). I can´t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: I am for a complete elimination. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
Interesting post, Dominick. However, my views are way more radical. I am not for discouraging – I am for a complete elimination. What I feel should be elimination is a superstructure that sets artificial and completely bogus hierarchy in audio. We ra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Demand for low-powered Lamm by el`Ol on 2007-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Some facts:The Japanese horn scene uses colored amps like 300B and prefers to buy Japanese amps.American horns are mostly slightly modified pro gear, quite a bit away from the price range Lamm has in mind, so the market there is not larger than that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Rank by el`Ol on 2007-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Here is the link:http://www.rank-concept.deI have no experience with the Lamm ML-series, I just listened to an M-series hybrid amp combined with the Watt/Puppy 8. This performance was a single fake (though a pleasant one). I can´t say where was the f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Rank, M1.1, Wilson and firewood by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Here is the link:http://www.rank-concept.deI have no experience with the Lamm ML-series, I just listened to an M-series hybrid amp combined with the Watt/Puppy 8. This performance was a single fake (though a pleasant one). I can´t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Oh, don’t even mention the “demands” of audio peasants by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"] Some facts:The Japanese horn scene uses colored amps like 300B and prefers to buy Japanese amps.American horns are mostly slightly modified pro gear, quite a bit away from the price range Lamm has in mind, so the market there is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Digital should run off of batteries by steverino on 2013-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC in Didital Things  26 Replies 
I think digital source components are the most sensitive to powerline garbage. They should all be designed to run off batteries. In terms of sensitivity I would rank components like this: 1. Digital Source  2. Solid State Preamp  3. Solid State Amp  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A majestic Schubert N°9 by jessie.dazzle on 2011-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Looking for different Sound of Schubert 9 in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...did you see a lot of Britain's orchestra to be able for tonal extravaganza?..."I have Schubert's 9th by the following:London Symphony Orchestra/Joseph KripsBerlin Philharmonic/Gunter WandBerlin Philharmonic/Karl BöhmUnknown Orchestra/U...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: OK, digitechs, why won't iPOD "dock" DAC work? by Paul S on 2008-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: OK, digitechs, why won't iPOD "dock" DAC work? in Didital Things  3 Replies 
Since it's always hard to guage situational significance by the presence or absence of fanfare, and since I know squat about digital, I was wondering if anyone better educated than I (ie, anyone) happened to see the iPOD "dock" review in the Oct...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: My lp playing epiphany by steverino on 2009-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My today’s views on LP culture and my audio habits. in Analog Playback  24 Replies 
Responding to the statements in the Cat's second paragraph concerning lp downsizing:FWIW I had a similar dissatisfaction several years ago although I had nowhere near the number of lps that Cat has. My library was about 2000 lps. I had already gotten...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Ultra-incomprehension. by de charlus on 2013-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
Thank you, Rennie, but that's entirely beyond me. As for Romy's input, I do take your point; it's hard to imagine a single DAC possessing virtues entirely harmonious with all three sources - maybe I should just go for the best universal player attain...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #152: Around and around depends on lack of comparisons by steverino on 2014-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
A lot of assertions are made about this being better or that being the same. In the absence of assessment (and I don't even mean DBT tests, just pooling of expert judgments) this game never stops. There is not a standardized system that can be used t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: The age old problem of choosing the wrong evaluation system by Joe Roberts 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]I would like to see more elegant solution, like an introduction of some kind of directional pressure beams that would act upon the Manger cone and to jolt or comforting it what it is necessary. [/QUOTE]THAT would be cool. If anybody knows how ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: 6C33C amp/preamp follow up by KOTriode on 2012-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
The reason that I built the 6C33C preamp was to explore the 6C33C true musical potential like I did with the 845. Not only did I compare the sound of these tubes in power amp, but also in preamp. The reason is that with power amp you might hit some l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: When Ribbons are not just ribbons. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Do you remember in the brilliant cartoon “Ice Age” there was that lovely character who was going of his way in his infinite chase for the nut? I feel audio people have the sale obsession with ribbons, or more precisely with importer use it ribbons. R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A good young conductor: Miguel Harth-Bedoya by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A good young conductor: Miguel Harth-Bedoya in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
Yesterday WGBH broadcasted live from Tanglewood the program RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnoleBRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 with Pinchas ZukermanRIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade …where BSO was led by Peruvian Miguel Harth-Bedoya: http://www.miguelharth-bedoya...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: A word to Silbatone. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
A site visitor sent me another video of Silbatone from the last show: Another video of the room playing barbaric music. The only missing part from this video was Joe the Archeologist , naked but wearing a ballet skirt and j...

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: About cost of electromagnetic drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About cost of electromagnetic drivers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
The subject of electromagnetic, or as they called field-coil drivers, popped up at my site numerous times. (Look as it list of related threats). The advances or shortcomings of electromagnetic drivers are arguable, I have my vision, but it is not the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The sentiments behind “End of Life" Phonostage by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Here are some commentaries regarding my “End of Life" Phonostage. The name of this phonostage derives from many factors. I am forty, winch it more or less a half live and in the first half I was playing a lot with different audio toys. The last 10 y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What you folks got for Beethoven Piano Sonata sets? by clarkjohnsen on 2005-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What you folks got for Beethoven Piano Sonata sets? in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
[This is a repost from Audio Asylum -- Music Lane]  Not to mince words, I have five. And this from a guy who usually disdains such collections. But there are exceptions. -- Schnabel. (Of course) But he can be overly fierce. -- Claude Fran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The typical BS from Lamm by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.1 "No longer available"? in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
I think I need to make some commentary in here as BS will be swallowed as usually and somebody shall take stand on it. Before is a small prelude. Sometimes back in his comments about RMAF 2010 Show Report the Federated Mike wrote in his blog: ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: "It was the genius to awaken genius in others." by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80 in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
It was an excellent article in today New York Times: Remembering Rostropovich, the Master Teacher By MICHAEL WHITEMANCHESTER, England IT is a truth upheld by many in the music world if not universally acknowledged that pianists are neurotic, violin...
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