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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A custom high-Mu DHT – it is an interesting idea ... for somebody. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"] P.Q is not a designer nor he is an "electrician" but Andy Grove who designs circuits and transformers for AN is. I'm sure he'd know very well what you're talking about. Whatever your opinion of AN sound is they have lots of expe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Analog Foolishness became normal by Stitch on 2012-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
The Thread was written from Romy 2006, I don't know when I read it the first time but it was an eye opener for me. In a way, one of the very best Analysis ever written.  6 years later (2012) every single sentence is still valid about morons, idiots,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The opening of Buckner 7th. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"]Tintner's is quite possibly my favourite opening of the 7th - hushed, mysterious, tremulous and Oh, so atmospheric.  Wonderful sound quality too![/quote] Well, eventually I got a civilized person reading this site. The o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Getting Started with Myaskovsky by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
A few weeks ago Amphissa sent me a collection of recordings of Myaskovsky. I knew Myaskovsky, head his Sixth Symphon, “something else” and his cello concerto but to have a pile of selected CDs by a great aficionado of the Myaskovsky's music really he...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Marantz & Bidat by de charlus on 2013-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
The "Super Mod" The Bidat was originally designed with 3 separate crystal-based voltage controlled oscillators. This was unique because we had the crystals specially made to be 'pull-able' ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? by oxric on 2010-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Romy:I hope you go ahead with your project of installing the horns in your attic as you are probably the only person who might pull it off, but if my opinion was solicited, I think you would be very ill-advised to do so. Firstly, the costs involved a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Kitty is chasing the firebird. by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
Below is the very same fragment from the very same LP (also not original but re-issue).  The file is 88/24, FLAC compression.  http://www.mediafire.com/?bpgxdbru87fkx8x The sequence of signal is following: Ortofone Jubelee in SME 3012R ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Its all relative by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
At CES there were Viagra-junkie sized power cords everywhere for $5000. Around our room were $10k and $20k speakers that sounded like a wet jukebox. It was the land of delusion.Value per topology is one way to measure but let's instead start with a p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #361: The “strange” YO186 by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdf[/quote] I have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if it might v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The People in thier original need by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is time for you to demonstrate your horny solidarity in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Stefano, and thanks for the opportunity to contribute money to something worthy. It might sound like sarcasm but it is not. It today world is very difficult to find “people in original need” to donate our services or money. Do not forget that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #110: What I am trying to accomplish. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
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 accomplish. I want to reinstat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: “End of Life" Phonostage: what is next? by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
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 to the corrector done it i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: The signal passing via the 834PTF-Air… by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Will I be listening to all my sources via the inverse RIAA? Well, the question was sarcastic but it has some rational grains.  If the signal passing via the 834PTF-Air does receive some positive attributes despite of the presumed nastiness of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: The halves of the twin-triodes 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="Paul S"]Romy, doesn't Tim de P also use this cool Miller capacitance idea in his never-mentioned "high end" tubed corrector?  Also,  do I remember reading that he runs both channels through the two halves of the same twin-triod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Celestion SL-600: some summation for now. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
After spending two weeks with high-passed Celestion SL-600 reinforced with external LF section I would like to make some observations. I had a single SL-600 monitor (I always tend to use one for assessment purpose) on it’s original stands in the very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: O, Fortuna – you turned back to us! by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
This week Boston was blessed by Carmina Burana, the Orff’s and the original one http://www.bso.org/images/program_notes/songs_from_burana.pdf http://www.bso.org/images/program_notes/carmina_burana.pdf I was listening the Friday’s live broadcast ov...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: The sequence, the sequence…. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="zanon"]My room is big … So how to measure it's size? Just write in floorplan of the entire house.[/quote] I do not think that we need to measure room size but we need to understand the acoustic consequences of the room size and to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: Details : Mid & upper bass horns by jessie.dazzle on 2008-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Romy's quotes in blue:Daniel J. Plach's quote in green:"...The back chamber mechanism is good. Are you planning to do the same in the midbass horn?..."Yes, it will be similar, but more robust; I have an idea for a locking-type seal, which I would pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #123: If I will be trying.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] I do my best to remain ignorant of the price for which I sell off the hours of my life. (Btw, I'm not a software engineer; I design cars). Yes I could pay someone to do the work, but I'd rather put the cash toward the pur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #373: I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote: Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdfI have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: To regulate or not regulate 6C33C by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
[quote user="Cosmos"] Anyway, as the description on our site on second paragraph says, the third 6C33 located at the back, is used as the pass element of the regulator (controlled by solid state circuitry) providing 220V with 100uV of random noise &a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Yep, Bach would do it…. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yep, Bach would do it…. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
"To help him concentrate, Heisman often listened to a constant loop of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier,’’ which he felt synthesized the mind’s competing strains of emotion and reason…" What he left behind: A 1,905-page suicide note By...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Egg-Nishna vs 50Hz by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I’ve been thinking about all this electricity stuff… I’ve stopped using all power conditioning devices since Bush got re-elected, and I consequently left the country to start a new life in the land of 220v/50Hz (this BTW, is not an exaggeration). ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Deep-fried dbs by jessie.dazzle on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
Romy, Your approach makes sense; I will look into fitting a "12.5 db voltage divider". As I did not have any noise issues when using the same equipment with a variety of direct radiating speakers, I can only speculate as to what other informat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Where are our good Tuners? by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
I have to admit that some of my opponents might consider my organizational views on high-end audio too socialistic and will recognize in my view some residues of me growing up in socialistic society. Leaving aside the prejudicial and completely fooli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #159: The electricity problems… The Armageddon? by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
  This weekend I made an interesting experiment.  I had a visitor yesterday. The gay is not what I call overly critical and overly demanding listener but he is not a typical Audio Moron and has from my point of view a proper and sane react...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The corrupted listening culture. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The corrupted listening culture. in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
I constantly complain that the majority of audio people have corrupted listening culture. The last time I was bitching about it in the article “Remote control - the ultimate enemy.” However, the remote control is juts one of the tools of corruption. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The American Nutcracker – the “The Hard Hut” by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Classic Artc Showcase Streaming in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I am watching how in the “Battle of the Nutcrackers” the Mark Morris production of “The Hard Hut”. When I turbed it on I was so paralyzed of what I was seeing that it did not even came to me the I need to record it as the...
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