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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Sound was changing ... by unicon on 2009-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tightening to loosening Screws ? no fake... in Playback Listening  13 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Unicon,  I do think that you deal not with phase but with damping and resonances…. The Cat[/quote]Romyto be saying it carefully the main sound change i encountered is the RESONANCE which surely deals with TIME . and talking...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Room acoustics by Amir on 2010-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lecture on history of architectural acoustics in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, Nicanor, I very much disagree that room acoustic being basically invisible to us. People who deal with sound more or less intelligent always not only pay attention to room acoustic but recognize sound ONLY in context ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Looking deeper by haralanov on 2011-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: What does exist? About the blindness of Audio by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The nature of "soundstage" in audio. in Playback Listening  22 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] To assess how far audio imaging from sound of a ”live” musical presentation we need to subtract visual experiences from perception, including the long-lasting visual experiences.[/quote] OK, Soundstage is a BS category and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: a complex physics problem by drdna on 2006-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If I would like have two platters of identical diameter of different masses (lets call it full-mass on right and half-mass on left) to be driven by a single motor, what do you feel would be the most suitable configurat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: More comments needed by unicon on 2010-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Primitive steps for standard sound in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1)    Identifying for myself what my expectations and criteria for beter sound reproduction. – 50% of efforts. 2)    Experiencing better sound reproduction and assessing of what works and what does not - 10% of efforts. 3) ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: A correction, a confusion, a mistake, an accident? Will see… by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ….when it drives what it is willing to drive then the APS PurePower delivers the Sound that makes me willing to write a request to Pope asking him to canonize that damn regenerator. [/quote] [quote user="Romy the Cat"] To...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Non-planned economy is a BS demagogy invention by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 1)      It is not strictly audio project but it kind of related: I need to move my audio site out of my static IP DSL line to a data center. I have high-speed ADSL but the site has a lot of traffic and my crappy DSL li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Driver tubes by Chirag on 2005-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? in Melquiades Amplifier  27 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Hey, Chirag, long time no see. [/quote]Hi Kitty,I always try to see whats going on on this site, but by the end of the day I'm usually too bloody tired to think clearly enough to write something of interest.  This week...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: The last nigh stupid DIY apathy… by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Still, doing whatever crazy and Macondo-dedicated things I will be doing with one stage I will have my full-range Milq as a tested reference trying to get result no worse then the one that I got from a “default” Melquiades ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Many thanks by anthony on 2015-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Output transformer. Here is what the thing become complicated. Of you drive ultra-low impedance with step down transformer then your secondary turns will decrease. They primary will have whatever they have for all case b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: Facts by dkarmeli on 2014-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] dkarmeli wrote:It depends on the product and the company, not all are thieves! As of now they are selling 50 - 60 units/year and cheaper AF2 will also be available shortly.You seem to be obsessed with the $100k price, as I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #166: ??????? by dkarmeli on 2014-05-09 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] dkarmeli wrote: What I called mental masturbation was the pretense to design of the ultimate turntable, not the musical experience or sound! Well, neither you, nor me, nor anybody else at this site, nor anybody else who de...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Yes, it is about my sources by anthony on 2019-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  I do not know why Placette does not work in your situation. You do not have enough volume? If it is the case then you might have too low gains in your front end. All my front ends have very high gain: Bidat, Lavry, my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: Cost benefit analysis of midbass horns v/s compromised ULF by oxric on 2011-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do feel that a playback sound has to be built first...The way how I trained myself is to disconnect channels. While I was making Macondo, installing it, moving it and experimenting with it I was frequently disconnecting c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: jitter-shmiter... by Thorsten on 2006-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I heard 4 (!!!!) complete contradictory descriptions how high level of jitter manifest itself subjectively – interesting that they all derived from the engineers whose credibility is very high (not juts the audio-tweaker...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An unexplored way to deal with the sound/music perception by haralanov on 2011-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An unexplored way to deal with the sound/music perception in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Some of you who follow my site know about the coming Macondo 7th Channel. The inventor of the concept is Russian audioalogist. Considering a great novelty and a lot of controversy in the subject I would be interested to sit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #396: Hm, what the hell is going on? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuff and concluded with ve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An interesting comment, worth replying: Feeding Cats and objectivism. by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting comment, worth replying: Feeding Cats and obj... in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
[quote user="pure sound"].... the most interesting aspect to me is reading about how he makes the appraisals he does ie assessing equipment by the impact that well understood, "content loaded" classical music can/should have on the listener. Whil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Well, Merry Christmas by Stitch on 2010-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The industry-embraced audio and classical music. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]In fact in today world there is a very interesting phenomena - very low-end audio,  literally mass-produced table radio that on can buy for $50 sound hugely more musical for classical repertoire then the mega-dollars playba...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Vitus in Stereophile by Amir on 2010-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Swell New RIAA-Only Phonostage, Only $60k!!! in Analog Playback  7 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Paul S wrote: I wonder, who would spend a significant amount on any phonostage that did not offer a coherent, easily-repeatable variety of playback curves? I do not get Stereophile and I do not know anything about Vitus MO...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Let's roll the dice... by Stitch on 2011-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ... Although he likes the sound of it but he reported that the TT I very much tend to change Sound with any slight modification of millions different parameters...The Cat[/quote]about its sonic quality...That is a well ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Polar plots programme by N-set on 2012-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Actualy I did not take the pinkfishmedia analysis too serious. I have absolutely no idea how to interpret the results of the analysis. [/quote]No one really knows at this stage (the tool is very new), apart from the obviou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Denon pcm what was different about it? by steverino on 2016-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I pulled today from my shelf my collection of earliest Denon PCM recordings on LP the Denon record in end of the 78s. I generally do not like this entire series but the first releases where OK, not as good as then might be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Definitions and Meaning by drdna on 2007-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]...Live Music and Reproduced Music are absolutely the same music... [but] ...Live Sound and Reproduced Sound are absolutely different animals... “Neutrality” might be applied to a whole event or to the collection of the pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: The clock upgrades: my proposals by Thorsten on 2006-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]it is highly possible that you are correct but it was exactly the point of my in initial post - the people worship the clock upgrades but 99% of then just throw in the new clocks, or do exactly what I did. [/quote]And I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: More on the plots and the whole philosophy by N-set on 2012-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Turntable speed analysis. in Analog Playback  17 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have no idea why you are surprised that I submitted my test. Anyhow, I do not know what to look at and how to interpret what I see when I analyze the result of this test. The feedback that Paul R forwarded to me did inter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Alas we will never know by Nicanor on 2010-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lecture on history of architectural acoustics in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, Nicanor, I very much disagree that room acoustic being basically invisible to us. People who deal with sound more or less intelligent always not only pay attention to room acoustic but recognize sound ONLY in context ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: BNC termination by manisandher on 2009-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yes, Lynx has 75R clocks in and out.[/quote]Yes, understood. But does it self-terminate? If not, you will need to use a T-connector and a 75 Ohm BNC terminator at the wordclock input.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... all that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: 6c33 swing voltage by Celsius on 2013-11-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Why do you think I bout a 1000 of them and closed to the rest of my life my interest in driver tubes?Still, the 6E5P should not be measured as a driver but heard as a driver – the beauty in this tube is in its sound.I do no...
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