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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #402: Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-09 
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="haralanov"]Are there any signs for worsened transient response of your midbass channel due to the sharp electrical filtering?[/quote]Nothing that I note. The transient response of your midbass channel is a bit tricky thing as the way how...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Universe explained by jzagaja on 2010-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Polish Autotech steps up to Universe in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
To make the story short :) Autotech is a family business located in Lublin, Poland. Younger brothers graduated in mechanical engineering are cars and racing lovers - with scores in Europe as professional drivers and mechanics. One year ago Lukas wrot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Taboo by Vasyachkin on 2008-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents.... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="horny"]Mentioning line and plane sources (and dipoles) at Romy`s site is sort of forbiden.[/quote] thanks for telling me. i don't care about dipoles though. i understand that they have advantages but to me that's not good enough. t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #191: The Red lights in whorns... by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-25 
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="zako"]Red lights would make it look like the red light whore house districk in Amsterdam....[/quote] I do not know about whore house districts – it does not bother me too much.  The decision I made to built into second section (from thro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: About those playback strategies… by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Big mama 1.5" horns.... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
Wojtek, I do not think that Martin has any time alignment strategy. You see, the necessity for time alignment is a basic fundamental principle, and particularly in horns that spin phase like helicopter. However, in many instances the horns are juts ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: … and the winner is: EV T-350 by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Now my midrange channel need no upper range diffusion and now I feel that the result I’m getting from T350 is too soft and too transiently slow for S2. So, I kind of very mildly begin to look out there and to try top fugue ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Phase plug for midbass - if you need it. by ulf on 2006-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Dear Romy, well the horns are actually not designed for HF. The intended working range is up to 5-700. But since we use low Q, only second order filters we want to have a rather large overlap in the crossover region and a fairly even pattern over ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Re: A phase plug under 500Hz – my mania of disagreement by ulf on 2006-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Dear Romy,OK, some more about the midbass.Well, it was not really a surprise to us that the horn without the phase plug was dissapointing. Without the plug we had a horn that was a bit too short, had too large front cavity and less compression than w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Who? (shades of the old "musical" vs. "accurate" d... by Paul S on 2007-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SPUnisation of Macondo: how to catch own testicals. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
I must have missed out on how you regulate gain to or from each or any of several "channels"/pass bands, Romy.  I can remember years ago trying lots of EQ things to get "Flat Frequency Response" and finally giving up on all of it, including...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: The ferritenization of the venomous Lavry DAC by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
After dealing with my tuner pick digital noise from my AD and DA, and particularly from Lavry DAC, I loaded Lavry with quite substantial amount of ferrite anti-RF filters: http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=7851 It includes the a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #127: The stupid 5uF cap on AC side by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"](feel free to re/move this post to the electricity thread)As the power supply I'd regard everything from the power generator in the power plant down to the actual load.Why the power transformer should be the cutting line? I do hea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The modification of REL Precedent – go wider. by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C in Off Air Audio  24 Replies 
Figuring out how to switch REL Precedent’s IM bandwidth to more suitable for Stereo operation I was wondering about something else. The 250kHz window though which the REL Precedent looks to the FM band is might be fine for DXing or having good select...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Some comments. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How many Bits needed for FM, the Accuphase T1000 dilemma. in Off Air Audio  6 Replies 
I posted this request at the Yahoo FM group, the place reportedly owned by the Reichsführer-SS Bob Fitzgerald, I have mention that Moron-wanna-be-in-charge before. Thankfully that cretin does not show up there and the air in that bulletin blog is fre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: OK, here's the deal by Kerry Brown on 2012-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
ACTIVE CROSSOVERS  1) Loudspeaker drive units of different sensitivities may be used in one system without the need for lossy resistive networks ( and L-Pads ) or transformers ( DEQX lets me use 98 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #718: The depth and longetivity of PurePowering. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I would like to offers some thoughts about possible avenues for Pure Power 2000 improvements.  Those thoughts are no specific to the recent November-December events and have broader generic implication. I initially intended to write it to Pure Po...

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 #12: Do not argue, learn. by Romy the Cat on 2024-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What Passes for "Space" in Home Audio? in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
I sincerely feel that all those conversations about space and the rest of the Audio G-spot words are irrelevant until people who engage in conversation are exposed to a properly implemented Auro 3d or any other objects-oriented Space reconstructio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Taking the mystery out of cartridge loading by skushino on 2005-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Taking the mystery out of cartridge loading in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Here is a snippet from an email from Jonathan Carr (Lyra cartridge designer) about objectives and considerations regarding cartridge loading.  Most of this is old news, I only re-post it here as a convenient synopsis on this most misunderstood t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The miserable Germans: PHONO 2 CI by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"] Musta been a teenage thing.  I never got around to experimentation with my own chemical formulas.  [/quote] Nope, it is nothing to do with teenage thing but rather a cultural thing. In Russia any more or less civiliz...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: No problem by morricab on 2007-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
I have a problem with how you are using the english language, Romy.  You are using an absolute word (like absolute) to mean something you have invented and it is a relative thing.  This for me won't do.  I understand more or less what ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Again, use “price” as a design tool by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
It is nothing to do with Wisdom.  It is my principle of application of “cost” as a common sense design tool. I do not bitch that Duelund caps are expensive. I just try to find a rational solution for using them that would embrace their price. My ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: LCR Promotion by perrew on 2009-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Perrew,I do not know if you use sarcasm in there but Lamm LP2 is not my bellowed phonostage. In fact I am one of the very few people whop do not like it at all. How much in what I do not like in Lamm LP2’s MM section com...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Teac vrds 10se specs by Telstar on 2008-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yep, Telstar. The 1547 was use in Sony and Teac CD players and believe the first CD-SACD machines used that chip. I know very little about those chips and have none of my personal experience to deal with all of it. The reas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="alexd"] The issue of properly handling FM signal is related to the capabilities of your A/D converters. Your A/D converters have analog and digital anti-aliasing filters and delta-sigma modulated A/D chips. [/quote] Actually if I am not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Further information by peter foster on 2007-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
Dear Romy, A.  Recordings of different quality are worthwhile.  Let's take three examples: 1) A stereo recording that you feel is as good as it gets.2) A mono recording of a beautiful piece of music that is well played.3) A stereo re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: The digital anal-retentivism... by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
[quote user="peter foster"] The TU-X1 sounds to me as though there is a dolby processing happening even when the dolby feature is off. [/quote]You might check if your country decoding switch is not in a wrong setting. It located at the very top of th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The stations that broadcasting in digital. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What to do in office? in Off Air Audio  33 Replies 
The fact that they are broadcasting digital streams over web has no impact over FM reception of cause. The problem is not “digital” but with the stations the embrace HD Radio. The HD Radio is very popular here in US and many do FM/HD simulcasts. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The unspeakably beautiful! by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
What the great thing the new WGBH 99.5FM All-Classical turned into! The new station is become my truly live supply. I have managed with acrobatics of my tuners, filters and antennas to get a more or less acceptable reception. The sound quality is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A Decoder for Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
After learning about the Schwarz’s circuit Dima declared that it will be very simple to build into the unit a good quietly multiplex decoder as the plug in modules as a substitute to the original modules. This will change nothing in the Schwarz but t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The FM de-emphasis. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
I do not know which core and wire materials I shell need, I need to consult with my transformer people for that. As the starting point I plan to use that: http://www.sowter.co.uk/acatalog/EQ_INDUCTORS.html It might be good as is of I might order so...
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