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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Yes, I remember there was something like this. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A DSET is better then an expensive SET in Audio For Dummies ™  41 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]A few months ago, iirc, you linked to a Canadian? amplifier which seemed to be made as or perhaps could be applicable for DSET use but I can't find the link.  Can you remember where its is (or what it was called)?[/quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #131: Naim Wiremold AC strip by glaesemann on 2008-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I think it is Wiremold part number L10320. At least it used to be. It has no filters, no switch contacts, indicator lights or passive protection devices and uses hospital grade outlets....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Port-O-Guess by Lbjefferies7 on 2008-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
The least offensive result I have gotten from a ported speaker was closest to the yellow option.  I built a pair of small monitors with ports on the top purely because it was the only way they would fit. I cannot reasonably e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: BMS, DB-design and the reference points of “absolute tone”. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hmmm... the sad truth about BMS.. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Well, since this thread is about the BMS drivers then what can I say? When I tried the BMS driver I felt that their “absolute tone” ability was at the level of demands of school auditoriums.  Read more about “absolute tone” at: http://www.goods...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: High-Pass Filter Help by skushino on 2013-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
Romy, would you explain / help me better understand how you implemented the HP filter in Melquiades?The schematic shows a series cap after the first tube stage (C3 and C4 in the schematic).  I think these are the first-order HP filters, correct?Quest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: Modeling by N-set on 2011-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
Paul, I would not touch this beast without modeling it firstat least to see if the electron flow is +/- what I'd expect. The eventual sonics are of course hard to predict form the model FFT's. The only hints are some posts at DIY audio and few words ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #383: The Thrill of Discovery; the Bliss of Ignorance by Paul S on 2009-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
What a great rap!  At first it triggered my gag reflex, but it did not take long for my eyes to roll back in my head while I began to run the numbers: how many cords, which models, etc.OK, it filters out certain orders of noise.  So how does it do wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The equalization boxes? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Equalizer? Hm… in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
I do not think that I might use an equalizer in normal sense; I do not need the full flow EQ option. What I might find useful on some case is to have 4-5 fixed curves and it would be pretty much it. Hypothetically with Macondo and DSET I might write ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: Stability by Paul S on 2011-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
N-set, have another look at the Chimera "bias", and the sophistocated way the diodes effectively buffer the gain stages, also the way the caps are staged over the tiered ground planes.  Also check where the Ls are with respect to the signal.  Perhaps...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Any thoughts yet about the APS versus analog? by Paul S on 2007-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I did read your earlier post regarding the P300's use and unsuitability for analog in your system.I am starting to listen only in the early morning, and I can hear The Change as the day gets going and I presume people start switching on their ai...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #147: Parametric filters by el`Ol on 2010-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="unicon"]if you could understand the basics about how audio waves especially bass range acts in closed space you wouldnt even bring the name Bass EQit just cures the sound pressure in a single spot(listener) and possibly can not do anythi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Wire is the simplest yet most complex by drdna on 2008-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Thanks Bud!We often underestimate the fundamentally very physical way that sound is produced in our stereo circuits in complex electromechanical ways.  I agree with Peter Belt that circuits are affected in ways that can be more adequately explai...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: HF Line-level filtering mystery? by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
I really do not what is gong on there and why. Thorsten's comment that line-level crossovers do not act like speakers’ level crossover confirms what I feel and what some other people suggested me. Yes, the reactance of the crossover component, the in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Ok, the game is on!!! by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Here is the last “real” version of the super Milq input with all filters. The rectors are not common denominated yet, them will be later but it will be already it. I can wait to hear the thing. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #214: Injection Pilot? by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
The idea just came to my mind and it is in a way brilliant. It is not implementable in my playback because my Injection Channel is driver by 1/6 of 6ch Milq and because my Injection Channel is high-passed.  However the idea is still conceptually very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Universal tape duplication EQ devise? by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Transfer: The reel-to-reel operas wanted. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
I have already got a tape recorder and now here is what I am thinking. Since there are quite a few tapes with Dolby A, Dolby B, Dolby c, Dolby S, Dolby SR, DBX and since some of the tapes were not properly EQ I would need an abili...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: JBL 2482 by ltsv38 on 2014-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="KLegind"]Hi, I have some experience with the 2482. Sure it can reach 300 Hz but only with EQ. [/quote]HelloMy experience is that JBL-2482 can be used without EQ.Example on my system where 2482 is used on a home made "Tractrix like" horn ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Passive RIAA filters are good for full blown preamps… by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
Paul, I do not think that “before or after RIAA losses” requirement has any merit as no matter what kind type RIAA filter is being used it always will lose around 20dB. I do not think also that there is a “safest path” or “reasonably affordable”....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #122: I am surprised. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-01 
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"] Do you also suggest getting rid of the chokes at the power entry?[/quote] I am surprised that you ask those questions. Who cares what I, you or somebody else think or suggest.  You have the input filters in please, when the unit ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #125: EMI/RFI madness by N-set 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 
(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 hear your voice clearly...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1782: Having good sound 24/7 by Amir on 2021-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]The subject of line filters and uninterruptable power supplies is one that has been pretty free of amateur DIY myths. No one seems to know what makes one sound good or bad and when. The subjects getting attention are IsolationReco...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1795: Different systems by Amir on 2021-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
N-Set  In Tehran properly setup audio systems are rare and most of the time we have not enough transparency to see what PP do with sound.some audiophiles in tehran believe the PP is not good (they prefer AC Line Filters to PP) because they had not go...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Finally, Features that Really Matter by Paul S on 2009-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: AMR PH-77: just another phonostage or more? in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
Well, I guess that about covers it, all right!But how do they get the 12AT7 input noise down 147 dB?!?They do mention something about using "quantum particle research", which might mean Bybee filters, or op amps, or both.So is this thing 2-stage ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: DSP/multi channel DAC/Preamp by gordan on 2018-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Paul McGowan. tubes in preamp in Audio News  12 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"]In loudspeaker and amplifier design we could use more channels to have better result (like 12 channel DSet concept) but i never seen any DAC/Pre to have more channels.It seems i am speaking about moronic idea but it is interesting ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: RE: parallel notching... by JLH on 2004-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover or non-crossover help need. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Romy,      What you say about both series and parallel filters is true. The parallel circuit does eat transient response, but if you keep the minumin impedance higher, it does not stress the amplifier so much. For your 16 ohm woof...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: The tunning frequency by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-19 
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="twogoodears"]Also: a tuning fork, the basic, humble tool which makes a full orchestra to play "in tune" is - as applied math and acoustic, a sort-of interpretation of Nature and its Laws - giving 440 cycles (hertz) flat to the trained mu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Care and Feeding of Lowther: How Much Power is Too Much? by Paul S on 2012-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
It just ocurred to me to stir things up by posting here about the fact that my own DEBZs (somehow) absorbed 600W peaks during a recent Mahler 3 frenzy. I remember reading somewhere that some owners of the biggest Horning speakers would run them at 12...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: It is coming, it is coming, it is coming … back. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
My playback is disarray and distraction for weeks. My preamp is being rebuilt by Guy Hammel and without it my playback feels like a playground of WWIII. Nothing could be connected; nothing can drive anything – sucks in other words. But is it coming,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: A small box for PM4A by Paul S on 2006-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
I confess that at one point I tried PM6As in 2.5 cu. ft. vented boxes.  Lousy, tipped-up balance and soggy, one-note "bass", contrary to the designer's claims.  The only thing good about it was that the box did not add c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1781: DIY mucking up a well engineered product? by rowuk on 2021-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The subject of line filters and uninterruptable power supplies is one that has been pretty free of amateur DIY myths. No one seems to know what makes one sound good or bad and when. The subjects getting attention are IsolationReconstruction of sine w...
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