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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: The Super Milq and the bottleneck by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you read the very important post: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=5255 then might understand that it lead to a painful research on the subject. I have ton of data now and many experiments done. If ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Super Milq 6 channels diaries #11 by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I did not expected that the main impediments in the super Milq project will be the organization (sound) of the filters, particularly the high-pass filters. [/quote] After some experiments it looks like the input stage of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Super Milq 6-channels diaries: the honeymoon nigh by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
After many hours and much efforts I have connected the new 6-channels Super Milq to my 6-channels Macondo, with omission of tweeters for now.  I made some measurements and initial adjustments and then was trying to listen it briefly. I did not l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: A litile war with Super Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
Chris, at this point it is hard to say anything defiantly. Subjectively it sounds like the Super Milq has slightly less HF extension and transient then the regular Milq, although the output transformer of the HF channel of Super Milq runs higher and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The one-stage Melq: the VERY unexpected result. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
I put the Super Milq and the new one-stage Milq today and was playing them together in order to see which would be more interesting. It is imposable to “compare” as is the upper bass and  lover mid channels as the Super Milq has all kind of line...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Well, the Melquiades going to graveyard... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"].....it is scare how good it is and how good the new Melqs handled it with … almost smile.[/quote]Since almost 3 years ago I was introduced to Milq it went a long way. There was two full-rage Milq ever built by me – one was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: The Super Milq’s electrons pool. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-16 
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Yesterday I woke up and suddenly I feet liking to convert my second Super Milq in 6-chennals Super Milq. I kind of did not want to touch it for almost 2 month and yesterday it “got” me. So, I started: took all the unnecessary 3-chennals Super Milq gu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The DSET disadvantages and DSET perspectives. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-24 
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="drdna"] The altered topology of DSET has the potential to have disadvantages.  There is increased overall system complexity and this often seems to be a negative.  Beyond this, it is difficult to expound, for me, on the specifi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Observation from 2006: Super Milq advancements by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
First major audio observation that I made is that my Super Melquiades should be revised. After a year and a half of using the amp I came across to some conclusions that outlined the prospective changes in my DSET. 1) The phase inverters after...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Fun with transformers? by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fun with transformers? in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
It is interesting… I have a very precisely calibrated ¼db resolution AV meter and I decided juts for fan to see what the channels of Super Milq will do in the real life. I kept my Mocondo, along with the woofer towers connected to the Super Milq’s 3 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The RAAL and an amplifier. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]  The "calm HF" effect is something I have long sought but seldom experienced from repro, and I have blamed the amps as much as the ribbons.  Mere HF extension is not enough.  Hard to say whether the amp or the rib...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: There is a difference between multiamping and DSET… 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="el`Ol"]Why not more semi-active speakers with high-sensitivity mid/treble and transistor-powered bass? [/quote]… and it is very important do not overlook this difference. Multiamping is fine but is it severely suffer in case of different...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 6C33C loading in Super Melquiades by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-14 
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It was said in http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3418 [quote user="Romy the Cat"]The HF channel of the Super Melquiades should be revised. Something is wrong in there and it does not sound as I would like to. It mostly relates to imp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Disadvantages of DSET by drdna on 2007-09-26 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The result [in the 6-channel Milq] is definably better but the reason-consequences patterns are not so easily interpretable, and are absolutely not interpretable when the filters are applied.[/quote] And the explorations th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Some thought about 5-Channel Version of Melquiades by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
This thread is split from the following thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=2665 Jessie, I hope you do not mind that I pulled it to the forum explicitly dedicated to the Melquiades Support. 5-channels Melquiades is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Super Milq 6 channels diaries #11 by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I did not expected that the main impediments in the super Milq project will be the organization (sound) of the filters, particularly the high-pass filters. [/quote] After some experiments it looks like the input stage of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: An amplifier for Tweeters: first ideas... by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
Thanks, Chris. Dima I discussed today many imaginable scenarios. Initially we thought drive a single 6C19P from MF channel of super Milq. But it has some negative consequences… Eventually we decided (it is not final decision but the final with 90% ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Singe-stage Milq: update by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
I know that there are some people who would like to hear form me about my findings regarding the Singe-Stage Milq. I do not talk about it for a while but not because I do nothing in that direction. The decision was made to convert my 3 stages Super M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: It is not so straight forward with tubes damping. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Herbie's Hal-O Tube Dampers in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
JJ, yes, I got Hal-O dampers a few years ago and I do use them but it would require more say then just “I use” them. I have them for a long time. I initially bought then to use with 7788 tubes that I am employing as an input tubes in my phonocorr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The dry period…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Entereing the "Design Mode" in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
This time the "design mode", while I am working with my new 6 channels Super Milq, is kind of different. I do think about the new amp alot and about the new opportunities that it will give to me, I am slowly work on it but I for whatever reasons do n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: The new Super Milq and the old Super Milq. 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 
On Friday a guy that I invited long time ago shut me email informing that he should be in Boston this weekend. I have just one freshly cooked 6-ways Super Milq and just right functional Macondo channel. I did not wan to brash him off and I connec...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Listening the New Super Milq: the first impressions. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-21 
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Last nigh I spend a couple hours to listening this thing. Since the amp is done in design phase and the final parts are still in order I can not finish it and close up – it kind of frustrating… Still, it gives opportunities to listen it knowing that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: A therapeutic impact of those audio projects. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-06 
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Jessie was very right talking about therapeutic influence of audio projects. I do not know why buy I feel very much attached and really feel personally the various micro events that I are going on with my current 6-channel Supper Milq project. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: RE: do not fix until it broken by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]  1.  This particular EdgarHorn is being sold to make way for a Cain & Cain speaker which is based initially on a single-driver type backloaded horn.  To me this suggested that the seller was seeking the benefit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: 6-channels Milq: the design phase is over. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
OK, it took for a while but at this point I have nailed down all design aspects of the new 6-channels Super Milq, and particularly its input stage. I have listen and evaluated all solutions that will be implemented in there; selected, appraised and o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Super Milq 6 channels diaries #1… by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Spent quite a few hours trying to rebuild the Super Milq new power supplies. Faced bunch of the problems and recognized that the entire ceremony of converting off my Super Milq intro 6 or 7 channels amp we'll be much-much more painful then I initiall...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Melquiades and the hungry African children by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
Among many bad habits of mine I have developed one more – I do not shut down my power amps. The 12 channels of the Super Milq are running sometimes weeks non-stopping, thankfully weather still allow to do it. I presume it is environmentally unconscio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: What the “genius” did: the Injection Channel by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Well, I was thinking about that “Resonating Oops” for a while. I made quite a number of experiments. I some cases I was able to get interesting results but the “Resonating Oops” is very illusive. I do know that many readers of my site have wrong perc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Super Milq 6-channels diaries: the final pictures. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Ok, the 6-channels super Melquiades is done, closed up and I made a few pictures of the beast. I have to admit that I do like how it amps turn out to be packaging-wise: the layout turned out to be very good for 3 channels as well and for 6-chennals. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Bubbly MF by jessie.dazzle on 2007-09-07 
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Bravo for the progress,Romy quotes in blue :"...My concern is that with introduction of that super-lucrative and “palatable cleanness” the new MF channels lost some bubbleness on sound..."Upon reading this, I of course immediately want...
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