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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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Milq’s power supplies and rectification. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Milq’s power supplies and rectification. in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Since adding the one-staging 3 channels have triggered the replacement of all magnetiks in the Super Milq’s power supplies: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3694 http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4708  I was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Alignment using impulse response, acoustics and congrats by kodomo on 2016-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Great project! I have a similar project going on. Your frame ideas are looking beautiful, however I decided to take a more utilitarian road. I can adjust all my channels in horizontal or vertical axis. I am finishing my crossovers as of these days, a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Melquiades - the Reality trip! by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
Another “interesting” thing... Any amplifier that I know is absolutely disabled to let me as a listener to extract from music something without unavoidable loosing a perspective to the whole musical peace. The Melquiades swallows this task with ...

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 #4: The typical Edgarhorns users: now I feel masochistly pleased. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Edgarhorn RTA response. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
The AA Moron in response to my criticism give a birth something interpretable.  Here are the sweeps from Upperbass Horns and MF horn. I have no knowledge if the Moron removed the filters or the EQ circuits that might be used, wich sweeps he used...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Input choke for Low Currents? by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Input choke for Low Currents? in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Today I was reading Jim Hagerman's interview about his Trumpet phonostage and learn that he uses LCLCRCRC filters for B+ in his design. I certainly do not question Jim’s decision; in fact I never heard this phonostage, but I would like to comment, co...

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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #44: . by haralanov on 2012-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Cat, if you at least for a moment override your ego, you will eventually start to see some things that are beyond the curtains (of your own ego). I don’t care if you treat your horns as mechanical filters or not, because it is completely irrelevan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #414: Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-20 
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"]The subject of midbass nasal sound is very interesting. In addition to all OTHER aspects that might lead to midbass honk I would like to note that there is one that is in my view greatly overlooked – the precision of re...

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  55 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 #142: So far so good... by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]Thanks for your thoughts Romy.  Last night I roughly wired in some random crossovers….[/quote]I wrote a loooong replay to you after that post but my 2.5 yo son turned off my computer while I was posting it. Hate to rewrit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Back is part of the front (the back part) 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 
Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations.The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be about right. Without any diffusor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #164: Upper-bass sweeps by jessie.dazzle on 2010-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Since having replaced the 16 Ohm drivers in my upper-bass horns with 8 Ohm versions of the same driver, I gained enough upper-bass output that it is now possible to run all horns from the 8 Ohm taps (I was previously running upper-bass from the 16 Oh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The crisis of perception. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I pretty much know what I need to do – I need to go for shaper filter built in my power amp. The second order I have no is too impactful to midbass, so I need to do for 2th order or perhaps for 4th and try to integrate it.  Whatever it will be I thin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Some kind of sound? by Romy the Cat 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 
[quote user="jzagaja"]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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #438: Midbass horns, latest story. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
A few months back a audio guy visited me and after a listening session I asked him if he can report any problems with sound. He reported that he hears a slightly more prolonging decay at upper bass then what he suspect to be. I knew about this effect...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: It is not so simple. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamamura's 6 ways in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"]Yes, maybe the 120 db/octave is THE trick for complex multi-ways systems of highest resolution, yet this barbaric:-) slope can ONLY be achieved by digital domain crossovering... unfortunately, as a satisfied user of TacT RCS...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Forget about the Hindenburg horns by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
[quote user="Dominic"]I'd put your sub horns above your head. There are some big issues with that but you save a lot on concrete engineering, and assuming space remains in future you could apply what you learned from the overhead wood horns to a more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: One man's junk is another man's... Uh... Injection Channel? by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Romy wrote : "If someone discover a 4-5” driver that can have the same Syrupy Sound as the Red 10” then please let me know" I will be trying some older alnico drivers in the Mid-Bass horns (the first pair should arrive in about 2 weeks time). I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: It is not about size. by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A right midbass solution for Altec 515G. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
[quote user="Macman"]Just realised that I had dual highpass filters on the TH, which more or less cut off frequencies below 50Hz entirely. A lot better now, still much to be made of course.[/quote] This is very normal. People get the “building...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Thomas Mayer’s Triamp by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Thomas Mayer’s Triamp in Melquiades Amplifier  2 Replies 
I do not know it is just Triamp or 3-chenal DSET by the direction is good. The amp was mentioned by Twogoodears on his blog. http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2010/03/triamp-tm-by-thomas-mayer.html I do not know what he mention abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Capacitors are like cholesterol - migh be good and bad. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]The question in my mind Romy is: why?  I will be interested to hear your comment on what your goal was to learn about your system in introducing these and what the results are.  After the extent to which you have describ...
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