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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #835: “…the cause must now be explored.” by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]Romy, this is very interesting indeed. I'm assuming that the sonic difference between these two files is in line with the sonic difference you hear between bad and good 'electricity' days when you're just listening to music,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: The active flux recuperation by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"] If a magnetic field is static, who cares how it is created? Isn't the main potential advantage of electromagnets one that no one has explored at all - the possibility of modulating the field strength in direct response to the au...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Why I do not like La-horns. The tomatoes… by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not like La-horns. The tomatoes… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
The Jean-Michel Le Cléac'h’s horns or as I call them La-Horns get a lot of popularity among people who are trying to build horns loaded systems. But as anything else in audio the Morons hear any noise and they has no idea how to associate the noi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Making Bass That Actually Works (Servo?) by Paul S on 2010-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some Observations about Science and Bass in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
Nice rant about "scientists"; but I suppose you are preaching to the choir here.I jumped in not to pile on the stupid "scientists" but to address the rendering of bass, and ULF in particular, in the context of home hi-fi.A while back I got a splash o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The DD, Idler or Belt from 50.000 feet. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
Stitch, the only thing that you are missing is paying attention to the OMA advertisements and truing to recognize behind it any rational beside a pimp yearling own merchandise (in fact it is not his merchandises). I told many times before tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #145: Agree and not. by Romy the Cat 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"] el 0l if you could understand the basics about how audio waves especially bass range acts in closed space you wouldnt even bring the name Bass EQ it just cures the sound pressure in a single spot(listener) and possibly ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: This information need update, and is prejudicial in my opinion. by mjloudspeaker on 2009-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Class “D” – the industry does it again. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] Romy the Cat wrote:A could years ago here and there begun to pop up small SS class “D” amplifiers made with high-end pretence. They all sounded like shit but by the efforts of a number of typically deaf and stupid or just...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The tools to listening sounds vs. music by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tools to listening sounds vs. music in Audio For Dummies ™  0 Replies 
A couple days back reading the Audio Tekne’s Philosophy Section: http://www.audiotekne.com/en/policy_5.html … in the part of “Amending your stereo system to improve it” I read the following: “Please use the carbon de-coupler wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: MAC & DAC - Lavry by scooter on 2009-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LavryBlack DA11 Stereo DA Converter in Didital Things  10 Replies 
Hi Mats: Thanks for the update. I find the Lavry DA-11 to be an interesting unit, not because of all the "features" but because of Mr Lavry's long history producing serous DACs and the consumer-friendly pricing. I do wish that Mr Lavry did...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The midbass merge and about the new environment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Marc HENRY"]La Grande Castine will not be as expensive as Cessaro Gamma. i am sorry but i cannot answer to all questions, for several reasons you can understand.we have tested many drivers since the early prototype of La Grande Ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The Lapmpizator and the rest of them. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CEC TL0-X: by no means an in-depth review in Didital Things  17 Replies 
I do not know the Lapmpizator but from what I have seen at his site I would not invest a lot into his assessment of sound.  Those people, like most of those audio-DIY people, do not any sonic objectives and their actions are just a series of endl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Dueland capacitors by drdna on 2009-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]then everyone here will just read, "gullible". However I admit to being totally hypnotized by the Duelund spiel, which I find oddly compelling despite no real, "serious" information apart from the sort mystical, quasi-reverential...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #269: The APS Purepower 2000: Introduction by beachbum on 2009-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Hello Romy a long time visitor now a member. I have always been interested in what improvements can be made to my incoming power. I use a BPT 2, PS noise harvesters and quite lines through out the house. My system has always had  very good sound...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: BSO’s digital on trail. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It is a recursive subject at my site that the sad state of music/audio industry is not due to some cosmic or social reasons but due to the very specific and very idiotic actions of very specific individuals who run the i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I have good feeling about this project. by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dannoy 2021 Loudspeakers in Audio For Dummies ™  24 Replies 
My idea of Dunnoy loudspeaker took an interesting turn. I would like to capitalize upon what I discovered above an to vandalize my woofer towers, factoring Tanoy Red in it. So, it will ended up with Reds working in a half of wolfed towers w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: I understand but... by N-set on 2021-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
I still highly recommend making the intellectual effort (was quite substantial for me) and reading that Jung chapter. You might recognize in his analysis of alchemists quite  a few psychological things you have been talking about in audio for yea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #75: These are the days of our lives by anthony on 2021-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Dynamics and they mostly come from electric relationship between amplification and drivers. [/quote]I would certainly add to that the relationship between the driver and the enclosure.  I know I am on the other side of the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Not completely ready to give up on the idea by Iraschwips on 2018-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Trash your “full-rage”, single-driver acoustic systems. in Audio For Dummies ™  10 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Also, I need to mention that a very small monitor made with a full range driver that I heard once was the most interesting sound the I even hear in audio. It was not the most interesting sound overall but there was one s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: I would need to watch again. by xandcg on 2019-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Panel with Peter Qvortrup at CAS 2019 in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
I don't remember from my head and would need to watch the video again, and I don't have time right now to watch it again, but IIRC that was about 35min. At the same time, while I do agree with your initial argument,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Arrival ... by montesquieu on 2019-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
Very interesting Amir. I am also waiting on a Model 5, to arrive in the UK. It was ordered some months ago but I ordered a balanced version (this one will be all-balanced - two balanced inputs and balanced output) and that's tak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A horn arc by Romy the Cat on 2014-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Direct radiation in the Macondo midrange horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
Yes, Anthony, any horn by nature has what I call horn arc. At the bottom of the range the channel boost output, then the gain slowly decay and become almost like a direct radiator and then the output begin to roll off at HF by horn until the driver r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #281: The Thorsten’s mark. by Romy the Cat on 2015-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Yes, Thorsten was the man that made the initial modification in the EAR 834 and I need to note that it was not redesign of any kind but juts basic modifications and admitting the unnecessary things. Even though Thorsten is the industry p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: T.H.E. Show, Newport, 2015 by Paul S on 2015-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: T.H.E. Show, Newport, 2015 in Audio News  14 Replies 
I went to THE Show again this year, along with a couple of audio friends. This year I was better prepared, with preconceived notions about what I wanted to see/hear, and where to find that gear. I did not try to “cover” the show, at all. I just wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Serious Stuff by Paul S on 2015-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fidelity Research FR-7 in Analog Playback  42 Replies 
N-set. I am sorry to hear that you have in any way been itouched by the greedy, filthy, heartless assholes who keep coming up with justifications for wars. May thay live forever where everyone is exactly like they are. As for the SUT, this seems l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1473: Daisy chaining of ground wires by JOHNR on 2015-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
You should take care that you do not daisy chain the ground leads. Refer to following text.From my perspective, you should treat the L and N leads as one type of circuit and the PE as a separate circuit.  Electrical codes, rules etc do not insist tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: CEC has closed it's doors by tuga on 2017-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EAR Yoshino DAC 4 by Tim Paravicini in Didital Things  24 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"] xandcg wrote:For the record, and wide talking, the LampizatOr sound is on the same boat of Audio Note (UK).Ear dac4 is not so transparent and it's volume control should be removed in my idea.I guess Audionote is good but it's soun...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1289: Comparing apples to oranges by thegooddoctor on 2014-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]  thegooddoctor wrote:This looks to be extremely well made with the recharging, battery, and regeneration portions separated into three discrete chassis with industrial-type umbilicals/connectors between each. I have seen such ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Scalford: another view from a perpetrator by amdismal on 2013-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
And as one of the other perpetrators...The nature of this kind of thing is compromise.  The owner of the bass horn system wanted to run them together, for the enlarged horn mouth, and so we did - there was never going to be enough time to play about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Integrated sound field optimization. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Integrated sound field optimization. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
A few days ago I visited a local friend of mine. He has a decent audio setup in his living room with mid-size monitors. Leaving aside what sound he is getting just would note that I know what to expect in his room. This time it was a bit more the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: There is no such a thing as Walker sound. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"]I heard this TT, it was magnificent, almost no coloration to speak of, dead dead quiet. Of course it wasn't plugged in and there was no tonearm or cartridge yet but man I loved the sound! Really whatnthe hell is everyon...
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