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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Re: The "bad" S&B resellers... by Thorsten on 2005-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 in Analog Playback  33 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J. "]MFA e-mailed me aknowledging that I was perhaps going to try the DIY way getting a "raw" transformer from S&B and offered me assistance. The "problem" is that their unit with a gain selector and load selector is way too ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Blueberry Hill Audio Company by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to run MM-type cartridge into MC phonostage? in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Thanks, Paul. I never saw this company. I did call today to the guy who run it and had longer conversation with him then I intended. Size and shape wise it was exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately he does not do matching transformer b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #162: Distributed bolt by N-set on 2011-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I think that you did not exactly my version but made some modifications; I do not know/remember what they were.  [/quote]CCS heating of the tubes based on LT337A, 2x0.47u+470K at the output,my filtering is a bit bulkier at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: A few clarifications by Gregm on 2008-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]...it is difficult to design an objectionably performing powerful full-range SET without considering speaker, particularly the moment of LF section damping. It is not always the case the MF, HF and LF would require the same...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Axiom and EL34 by N-set on 2010-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
(Romy feel free to move this post)[quote user="Paul S"]N-set, I understand you do not mean to hijack the thread with the Axiom, so I actually tried to make generic and/or thread-related observations.  I don't know the 6E5P, but generic issues with sp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The revision is in a progress by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]Sorry, I have a better understanding of the purpose of this exercise now.Are you making 2 new platters or is one to be the existing Micro Platter? [/quote] Nope, juts adding RX-5000 platter and base to the existing RX-8000...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Red’s tweeters by Romy the Cat on 2023-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
Ok, did today the Red’s tweeters. Got rid of the original Tannoy’s cable mounting plate and ran my own cable directly from twitter.  Drove it with Milq’s full range channel. Used the speaker level 2uf cap (my favorite high voltage eQube coupling cu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Building the Melquiades: #5 by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Ok, the one channel of the Milq is up and running. The first assembly went fine, no bugs or problems – it worked fine juts after the build. All voltages, delays and heating are normal; this I would need to inspect everything again after it will work ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The generic optimization is an oxymoron? by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dual channel SET in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
I do not think so. There is no such a sing as optimal generic DSET but there is a concept of optimal DSET for a given situation. So what I think would be nice if some kind of company come up with a Reconfigurable DSET . The Reconfigurable DSET, or RD...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Dialectic biased cable. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BEST bass cable? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]The BEST?Who knows, I use for my Subwoofer the Sub-3 from Audioquest.Works ;.)http://www.audioquest.com/pdfs/subwoofer_cables/sub_3.pdf[/quote] Thanks, Stitch. I do like this idea a lot, in fact it reminds me very much ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #398: Wow, what the days! by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
There were had few days. First it was complete distraction of my listening room, than the contractors put the new hardwood floor together and then the complete rebuilding of the listening room, back to the sate it was before. Well sort of… The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: A custom live wire in low viscosity fluid? by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Purist Audio Design vs. Purist Audio Design in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Moved Reply to the linked thread:[quote user="glaesemann"]In the past you've referred to current loading in the context of cable length. I recently experienced this when I experimented with moving my amps. I needed to increase the IC length from 1 me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1491: The grounds on loading side might be the key. by Romy the Cat on 2015-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="JOHNR"]The common mode noise will lie between 5 meg and 8meg or 8 meg to 12 meg depending upon whether it is forward or backward mode working.   It does not have much to do with the 30Kilohertz. [/quote] The normal common mode no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Melquiades' message. by Romy the Cat on 2014-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications... in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
Vincin, thank you for appreciation of my work.  A few comments and thoughts about the direction you went.   I do think that to compare 300B with your version of Milq is not proper way to demonstrate or to learn anything about sound, particularly ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #159: So far so good. by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"] Plenty of thought has gone into the speaker cables largely because there are plenty of them and I would prefer for them to be hidden completely from view.  Five of the six channels exit the amplifier in the well that fits a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My Analog Playback: the fat lady has sung by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Analog Playback: the fat lady has sung in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
Sometimes ago I received an email from a NY guy that I know: “I borrowed a friend's Sansui TU-X1 and just like I heard them at your place it sounds fantastic! What is it about this tuner?  There is such an ease to the presentation and no distra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 review from 1992 by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 in Analog Playback  33 Replies 
After years of using the Expressive Technologies SU-1 and SU-2 step up transformers I come across to a fact this morning that the Expressive was reviewed by Robert Harley in June, 1992. I read the Expressive’s preamp review but I never seen this one....
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