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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: It was all in there, somewhere by anthony on 2019-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]   Oh, good, why did not you tall it before. How the hell can you listen if it you DAC outputs 1V?! No wonder you have no volume. Also if you have no voluble you do not “get” one of the most advanced feature of multi-amp ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Macondo and not only Macondo positioning by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I'm curious about how you set up your horns in the room.From photos it looks as if they are fairly close together, compared to the wide setting you suggested I try, while our room dimensions are fairly similar?When I started push...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Munich 2017, Avantgarde and unfortunate marketing. by Romy the Cat on 2017-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich 2017, Avantgarde and unfortunate marketing. in Audio News  0 Replies 
It looks like it was a new trade show a few weeks back in Munich. I missed the excitement in Munich but the more I read about the trade shows the more I am glad that I do not attend them from 2005. From what I hear about the Munich 20017 was the e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Preparing a new price range by Stitch on 2013-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
I listened to exactly that combination for a longer time (Wilson Alexandria + ML3...) and the "review" (let's replace it with product placement) is the same joke than Harley with ML2.2 linked with the Magico Speakers (simply THE mismatch).... ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #94: Amir, can we stand back a bit.... by Romy the Cat on 2019-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"] i think the audio industry destroyed audio.[/quote] Amir, yes it is very much true but not in the context you think it is true. The main force of audio industry distraction of audio was not introduction of bad equipment or fau...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio industry metaphor by Romy the Cat on 2014-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio industry metaphor in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
Recently I was traveling and spoke with an audio guy. He advised that I need to stop by to listen his playback. I ask why he thinks his playback is worthy to listen. He gave me a long list of expensive and industry-reputed component that forme...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Good luck. by Romy the Cat on 2021-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Anthony, Yes, this is the exact configuration that I have. As you drive your LF channels down, probably it will be 30-35Hz with >2 order filter you will like the sound from them even more. I hope you have a good ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: Not such a dissimilar story by anthony on 2017-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Romy, thanks for taking the time to write a little about your history with Melquiades and diy.  In some ways our stories are quite similar.  My background is agriculture.  My family breed cattle and grow crops and I am a large part in that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The wet dream of audio and ESD by Romy the Cat on 2018-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
I would like to share more of my troughs about the ESD acoustic. That are not truly the troughs about the company but rather the troughs that come to mind inspired by the company come to existence.   I do feel that it is an ultimate we dream of et...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Transparent horns by Romy the Cat on 2019-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Transparent horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
A few years ago a Russian guy, Murat form Moscow, popped at this forum with his ideas to build multichannel horn installation, that in his words would be the “best in the world”.   http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Listening perception at level #1- the Static Level by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to evaluate playback... or the Six-Leveled-Listening Ben... in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
The first level of listening perception is Static Level. At this level a listener perceives musical information as a collection of the individual sounds and a listening awareness tries to evaluate the “convince-ability” of those sounds. At this level...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #111: The art of ULF volume adjustment. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations.  It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to ac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #372: The most important thing: dark side of the bass by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, I did not mention the most important thing about my new midbass horn. This most important and the most astonishing   new characteristic of Sound I did not pursue and I got it purely accidently. I did not talk ab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: A new WCRB, and a shrinking classical dial by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
A new WCRB, and a shrinking classical dialBy Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe Staff December 18, 2009 In a city passionate about classical music, a lot of listeners get their fill by catching the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other progr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: What a bliss TUX1 in Covid times! by N-set on 2020-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
I want to kiss this damn thing! I agree with Romy that hearing a good FM redefines what a (true) high-end is. For the past 5 days I've been listening for live FM streams of baroque concerts from Gdansk   http://www.actushumanus.com/ Covid dest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #108: I really hate those experiences … by Romy the Cat on 2021-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]Jarek,I am a professional musician, and am very much in "tune" with creative processes. [/quote] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq1JShEmLsk [quote user="rowuk"...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Aesthetix Rhea Signature and realm of idiocy by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aesthetix Rhea Signature and realm of idiocy in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
As I said a few days back it was a big event in my life: I bought October TAS magazine in book store http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=11954 Doing it a few times in year is so wonderful journey into the realm of id...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: This is about music reproduction, right? by oxric on 2010-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schroder Tonearms in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
Romy,   As with all such matters, ‘Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (Hamlet) I should leave aside matters tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Proscenium III is "state of the art" .... by Stitch on 2013-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
.... the usual marketing blubber. The more expensive a High end Product is, the more superlatives you need to make it superior to anything else. You want the big bucks? You need a big mouth first.but we all know how this business runs. What amazes me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: ...comparing of different RIAA methods. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="perrew"]Romy,one thing that interest me is you use an active RIAA and the Allnic is passive circuit if I understood things?[/quote] Perrew, Among the none-commercial, home-made correctors here is my evolution of phonostages. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio Digital Equ... by Thorsten on 2005-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio D... in Didital Things  9 Replies 
.... in home systems for Room correction and general system EQFolks,This is from my own Yahoo group, but may be of interest here....Since writing this I have in fact changed my speakers to dipoles and do not currently use a PADEQ (it will return thou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: To break through my arrogance by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Murataltuev"]Is any technical background behind the statement that 4" driver can't operate in 300-1000Hz because resonance is too low ? [/quote] Well, you need to define what does it mean “can't operate”? Anything can operate anywhere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #134: Mid-bass horn integration by Murataltuev on 2015-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
 Romy the Cat wrote: Well, you need to define what does it mean “can't oper...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Kato-san's Goto system by Romy the Cat on 2017-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Kato-san's Goto system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
It is not secret that Stefano Bertoncello loves to appreciate Goto and is very prolific Goto devotee. Some people love to be groupies of some cars manufactures, or football teams or political parties.  I never associated with any “group identity” a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Audio of 21 century: still not there. by Romy the Cat on 2019-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Audio of 21 century: still not there. in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
It is the end of the year and while people think about summation of the year’s events, I would like to elevate myself to a higher altitude trying to observe the most significant things in audio with wider lenses.  I am 52 and I begin to play with “...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: How to use Vitavox’s S2 by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Here is the list of the thing to do with Vitavox S2 in order to use it in 4-ways installations. The S2 must not be used in 2, 3 ways systems. It possible to do with S2 whatever you wish but pretty much any other way to utilize them produces some very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: You may well be right... by anthony on 2019-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
...especially about the difficulty of making a transparent preamp.  It seems to be a general concensus.   But I need gain for most of my sources apart from perhaps the FM ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: More ansvers..... by Romy the Cat on 2015-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"] 25 turn pot in the filament supply.  For the life of me I can't source a 25 turn pot.  The 10 turn Bourns 3590 is the closest I can find.  Do I need to keep looking for a more sensitive pot or do you think 10 turn is managea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: Very good. by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]I woke up this morning ….[/quote] It was funny that you named it “In my dreams”. Whan I was “designing” and building the Milq I had a lot of dreams about the problem I had. I am not am amplifier designer or some kind of DIY ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Roundup: RAAL, “Water Drop”, Ribbons, Vitavox, generalizations. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
I would like to pass some summarizing observations and some generalizations regarding the entire “Water Drop” project. THE IDEA The idea of trying to find a tweeter to compliment Macondo was a good idea. Many of you know that I was proudly declari...
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