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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: End of life speaker by de charlus on 2013-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Thank you for giving this matter your attention. Jorge, I was intending that the AK151 be employed within a horn. Further, once I had settled upon the driver compliment, it was my intention to retain the services of Jeffrey Jackson, since I am not su...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: It is very simple and it is very complicated. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that I get through headphones. [/quote]I very much applaud to the desire to have speakers that do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The benefit of using 834PT in dual mono. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About EAR 834P Modifications in Analog Playback  45 Replies 
[quote user="difool"]What is the benefit of using 834PT in dual mono over a stereo 834PT? [/quote] That is a good question and I asked myself it numerous times. My current standing is the benefits are purely intellectual as I am not able to observe ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Rack attack by N-set on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
Paul, I thought about the wall mount, but eventually decided to go with a more universal, pref. end of life solution, I could place anywhere. I've never had a dedidcated rack, a time to have one.The result is a slate-on-steel-frame 500kg mastodont, I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: It all depends ... by Stitch on 2015-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate worst best things in audio. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
... on the (or your) kind of view. Some time ago I had a nice conversation with the marketing manager of a very exclusive and high priced Japanese Brand in a Exhibition Show. Of course, all talk about Sound, a bit more from this here, a bit less from...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1734: Well... by N-set on 2020-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
...in my case the problem seems to be a GND loop *inside* my End of Life phono. Thanks to the continous help of PP Richard, I started to suspect the terrible noise I'm getting actually may be the charging voltage of the PP el caps (indeed it is 100Hz...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #577: Herding Cats vs. herding sheep. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]Look what you have done to jack up pricess of vitavox (nobody was buying before your wistle) , Micro Seiki (gathering dust after Art Dudley wrote they bored the hell out of him) meittner dacs (suddenly the most musical in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #195: Less is more... usually. by floobydust on 2009-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
A slightly lower filament voltage is okay for a coated filament (not for a Thoriated-Tungsten filament however). There was some testing done some time ago on this and findings indicated an increase in tube life and lowered distortion. I just don't re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: The air capacitors 'allegations'. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]What specific objectives did the air caps address in the circuit? You refer to the tempted virtue sound but I am unsure as to the goals that you were trying to achieve with this circuit alteration?[/quote]Adrian,  I what wro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The Shelter 901 gone flat. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
Last week I sent my DAW’s DAC cable for refueling. The FM programs are slow – the concert season starts in a couple of weeks and everyone are resting now. So, I am spinning some records that made me to pay attention to the status of my analog. What I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1490: PP3000 and 30KHz by JOHNR on 2015-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Romy,The common mode noise will lie between 5 meg and 8meg or 8 meg to 12 meg depending upon whether it is forward or backward mode working.  It does not have much to do with the 30Kilohertz.It is possibly true that one unit may have filters to keep ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: The Yevgeny Mravinsky Film by yoshi on 2006-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Yevgeny Mravinsky Film in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
I picked up the DVD along with his Tokyo Live CDs when I was in Japan last month.  I was most impressed by the scene of him listening to a playback at a recording studio.  The agonized expression on his face is almost disturbing. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: "Natural Sound" by Paul S on 2023-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
Bill, of course I supposed the DSP-free sound would sound better than processed to me, based on my experience. I just wanted to know how you felt about it, when it was put like that. I went to big SS amps despite I prefer the sound of small SET amps,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A better SET - yes, Yes! YES!!! by Romy the Cat on 2005-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better SET. in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Yahoo! I was able eventfully to educate myself how to get out of the “Melquíades” the sound that I needed (using some blood injections from Dima)! Now the project with  the “Melquíades” amps is slowly converting from a labor to a pleasure! “In ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #130: DSET labels by anthony on 2018-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
I am making steady progress putting together my DSET amplifiers.  Life and work gets in the way but I am chipping away at it, taking my time, not rushing, enjoying it.  Wow, it is a lot of work and an enormous task for my first complete amplifier bui...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Can you define “clarity”? by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A single worst thing in today’s acoustic systems. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
[quote user="montepilot"]The single most appalling quality for me is lack of clarity in high-end speakers.  It is the first thing I notice when listening to speakers. I have heard many expensive high-end speakers that lack this quality.  The music se...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #190: Never again. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Yes, the fragility of the marking is a very good sign on some German tubes. Still, I do not see why the people who would like to fake them nowadays could not reproduce the washable marking. They have learned how to make the diamonds under the bottom ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Born to be alive by steverino on 2014-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]EUREKA - The Magico is a creative tool for new experimental music - not a reproducer of old! Even Miles Davis is on record as calling Beethovens music "Dead Shit"............[/quote]Presumably the music that Magico (or other vendo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: How long the 6C33C lives. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to test 6C33C? in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
Somewhere in 1997-88 I bought a hundred 6C33C. I believe during those years the where more expensive then now and I paid around $7-8 per tube. Over the years burning the 6C33C in pair of VK-60 (8 tubes), two pair of Lamm ML2 (ML2), ML2 with Melquiade...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Very interesting Romy by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How audio started…. in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
Actually I think I was clueless until a second part of 90s, perhaps the late 90s. You know it is kind of strange: I did audio kind of all my life but I never knew, cared and was a part of the high-end hobby. All those valleys and summits of audiophil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I would concur... by jessie.dazzle on 2007-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SET and speakers: disregard Volume in Audio For Dummies ™  4 Replies 
Hello all,Some time ago, I bought a pair of very early production ML2s for an ongoing horn project (see "Note at end").Rather than just let the ML2s sit and wait for the horns to get done, I of course tried them out with my "normal" 89db/watt@1m spea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: A possibly overly simplified view by jessie.dazzle on 2010-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
What would be most interesting would be to capitalize on the possiblity you have to make use of the basement volume as an enclosure for the lower-bass channels. This wold however, almost certainly introduce floor vibrations requring that you find...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The Baffling Case of Anton Bruckner by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
...by H. Robbins Landon  From "High Fidelity" (mid 1960s) A couple of years ago, Vienna's famous concert organization, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, sent out to its subscribers a questionnaire asking them what kind of music they wanted to hear, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Recently, I made a movement toward to a project that I have been contemplating for 5 years – I would like convert my Expressive Technologys SU2 and 2x834PT tandem into a final packaging solution. For the last 5 years I have learned following: 1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: The 834PTF’s cathode follower: tube vs. SS by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]OK, here are some follow up thoughts after the completion of the project. I am sure I will burn it for a month or so. I think everything will be fine, I do not expect any issuers technical or sonic. The way how the entrance...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Knowledge Tree by de charlus on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Dear N-set,I do not set out to copy Romy's speaker installation for a number of reasons, foremost among which is that I have not heard it. I'm sure that it sounds excellent in his room and with his ancillaries, but since mine are/will be different, I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Happy X-mass to you too. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's site in Site Support Forum  7 Replies 
[quote user="frody8lp"]I'm crushed! Just for the record your sight is regarded as ridiculous. [/quote] I sincerely hope you.  If people like you do not find me site “ridiculous” then I waste my life in audio. You come to the site searching your ways ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Tell me about more about Ortofon SPU Sound. by starboy on 2004-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tell me about more about Ortofone SPU Sound. in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
Well, maybe a little cussing first to set the tone. The older SPU's are now well sought after, many will end up in collections at now over inflated prices probably in the Far-East where they are worshipped. I've heard a few older SPU's and even those...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A very pleasant surprise by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
I think this post need to have an epigrapher: “We knew what we wanted to hear, and so we developped, and developped, and developped... In hundreds of small and bigger steps. Over thirty years. Till we were "there" where we always wanted ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Amir, this is open internet space by rowuk on 2019-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
Amir, what you have written is not  a philosophy, it is not a path that guides decisions, not a document what gives others insight into what music does to you and why. I have been following your posting, and to be honest, it sounds more like an audio...
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