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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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #53: Thinking about my lower bass by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-02 
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"] The major minor thing remains to find different lower bass. I said “minor” thing as my lower bass is not bad, in fact I do insist that it is very proper lower bass as I did set it up lately properly…..Despite that I in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Diasgreement doesn't change the facts by haralanov on 2014-01-25 
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="Romy the Cat"]The whole point in a compression driver is that anything in back chamber is irrelevant. [/quote]Hahhaha, good joke! :-)[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Haralanov, all that you need to do is to make your own experiments, the pract...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Light on High Res-HF by unicon on 2009-11-18 
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="Romy the Cat"] Still, the original question remind open – why in live sound 7kHz is enough but during a reproduction 40kHz is not enough.Romy The Cat [/quote]Thanks alot romy. thats the phrase i really needed to hearI have the same pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Screws are BACK again by unicon on 2010-06-22 
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, when you lose the 6 screws on same driver equally and sound changes then what exactly you feel is changing in sound. I do not mind you reporting that sound change but I still not at ease that you associate the chang...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: The Analog Manifest by Stitch on 2013-11-09 
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"]Epigraph"…just buy a used Micro Seiki and don’t worry about turntables anymore; built like a tank and sounds better than TTs costing over 30K USD.” Mr. Ikeda, of Ikeda / Fidelity Research The Main bitching It amasses me how...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: That's what I wanted to know. Some clarification by Antonio J. on 2005-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Milq: Starting the project in Melquiades Amplifier  23 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I bought the Lundahl chokes for L1 and was not able to us them and they were insultingly sharp. For the L1 you would need more henries and more DCR, the higher DCR will sound better and the “bad” and “cheap” Hammond chokes ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1049: Ground loops? by manisandher on 2012-07-13 
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"]You claim that it was “everything plugged” syndrome but I was writing about it years back and I thought that it was what you were doing. Even if you did not then in my view the superbly positive contribution of PP was still...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: He might be surprised to hear such a difference . . . by cdwitmer on 2008-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yesterday, I spoke to a very knowledgeable guy who is working with theories and practice of magnetic cores for 40 years and asked him about any possible benefits of making whole magnetic pathways from Permendur. He was laug...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: Interesting "no interest" mode. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This weekend it was 100s birthday of Günter Wand. I was not planning any “events” but the event did found me. Yesterday a local friend of my visited me. Me were listening some music and he brought some Japanese-made and not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: New 2A3 by drdna on 2008-12-28 
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"]I do not know what you mean by “specific set-up” and what San Audio did is very orthodox use of 2A3 and I did not change it. The only change that I made (and I do not know at this point if it was a good change) was the chan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #177: DSET solution for EdgarHorn? by drdna on 2009-02-14 
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"]You use Edgar’s refrigerator subs that use own LF SS amps (that use EQ of I am not mistaken), so you do not use the full advantage of SET LF sound.[/quote]You are correct, though I believe the subwoofer covers only below 40...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #321: Eaten alive. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-23 
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"]BTW, I have a local Bostonian guy have replied brought today a very interesting DHT amp. He has a number of DHTs and this one he reports is the special one, quite expensive as well. Although the electricity was not good tod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Off-the-wall playback or the 'hamster solution'. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Off-the-wall playback or the 'hamster solution'. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Last two weeks I play a strange game with myself while I am waking in my room. I walk soft like a Cat and really pay attention where I lend my leads, I afraid to step on anything. Nope, I did not pawn my Cat and got a hamster. What I afraid to step o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Sarcasm isn't my cup of tea by twogoodears on 2009-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why GOTO do not care about time-alignment. in Audio News  6 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Stefano, it is funny that you have mentioned the “an old, little cinema in a small town”. I do not know if you did it unintentionally or you meant as some kind of sarcastic self-deprecated joke. What I mean is that the init...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #200: Acoustic revisions… by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]In fact those ASC panels do not look too obtrusive. How does they impact sound? I do not know yet – will be listening tomorrow....[/quote] Ok, I did listen my room laid with perimeter of the ASC panels at the ceiling. I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #206: Room acoustics by noviygera on 2010-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I found a company here in Boston that sell a lot of industrial things including a lot of acoustic materialhttp://www.kamcoboston.com/Products/default.asphttp://www.kamcoboston.com/Products/categoryView.asp?CategoryID=20F...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #242: I’m drinking from the grail of glory. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]A few days back I unpacked my last moving box, which was good. Today for a first day in the new room when I have my playback system back, namely I time-aligned Macondo. Sine I find the right listing position there was no re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #898: A mixed blessing by montepilot on 2011-11-05 
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"] The sound during bad electricity days is all about noise, all imaginable noise; it is like fog, dull everything into some kind of universal grayness. The colors are dirty, the upper mid and HF are literary dirty, the HF ar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: About the sound... by HookEm on 2013-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.0 & Lamhorn/AER in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  HookEm wrote:… I'm not satisfied with the sound. ……and what are the specific area of dissatisfaction? Can you write a list of what you feel is not right?http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=432Rgs, T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: How high is too high? by floobydust on 2009-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DHT driver & input in Melquiades Amplifier  25 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] gordan wrote: plus they IMHO sound better - less prejudiced towards a romantic SET sound we all know (and some try to avoid). Yes, Gordan, it is exactly what I heard about the 10s from the sources that I found rationa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #247: Ok, it's going to right direction. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]OK, I think I get it, except you will have a sand bridge along with your crap-load of Farads guarding ground, and your PS out feeds all six "channels", including the DC MF without dividers? [/quote] I will use the same trick ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Malpractice - did you complain to the station involved? by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How idiots destroy sound. in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, what, the WGBH did broadcasted the M6 live-to-tape with…horrible sound. Did they destroy the whole sound purely intentionally?  The finals final blow however was not screwed up – the graph even does not look as the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #186: It is the worse that I heard, ever! by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] After some consideration I picked today Yamaha B-2 amp. It is V-FET from 1978, it might be interesting. Post Vince’s site or his shop info I might need to have B-2 serviced or modified. I think the 140W of B-2 might be goo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Sound is not longer a pretend commodity of industry attention by Stitch on 2009-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Srajan Ebaen and Juicy-Cooking Audio. in Audio News  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I think Srajan was the first who recognized and adopted it, good for him. It is bad for Sound but Sound is not longer a pretend commodity of industry attention. The Cat[/quote] Yes, the 6moon is completely worthless. So...
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