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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The M-Audio Transit – you get what you paid. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To play my 88/24 files off laptops. in Didital Things  3 Replies 
Got the card and installed it. It dose works nice, the sound however is not good. It mish be used to run an instrumental microphone (it is how I will be using it) into it and it defiantly works better then the stock laptop card (noise etc) but from s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Hand Clapping by Frank Berryman by Romy the Cat on 2012-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Hand Clapping by Frank Berryman in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
Frank Berryman posted an article on his sit: http://www.ultrahighendreview.com/the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping/… although Mr. Berryman is trying to address some typical idiocies that Jonathan Valin expressed but I think Frank is also pedagogically mis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The AR live vs. reproduced sound demos by tuga on 2014-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playback and chamber music. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] steverino wrote:If you went to a concert with chamber music and closed your eyes how would it be different? Steverino, I think that the main difference between listening quartet recording and blind listening of live quarte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: The Roland V-Piano Grand by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Shopping vs. Piano Shopping. in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
Hm, this is $25K. I wonder what produces sound in there - a loudspeaker?  If so, than would LOVE to connect it to Macondo and see what happen. I need to admit that in all of those videos the D-pianos do sound like shit but the concept is very interes...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: TL0 3.0 Like Less Sharp DACs by Amir on 2019-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold in Didital Things  14 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]buy naltrexone online cheap buy naltrexone from trusted pharmacywhere can i buy duloxetine buy duloxetine 60 mg goI know quite a few installations when CEC-TL0 entered a well performing setup and literally destroyed it. T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #666: Light at the end of the PurePower tunnel? by Young Skywalker on 2010-12-18 
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"] Romy the Cat wrote:I got a contact from PurePower this morning and they requested some times to look into what is going on. It was not exactly pleasant that they took my behavior as my personal attack against them – it was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #791: I'll have to ponder this by Lx_ on 2011-03-09 
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"]Possibly that you are right but it might be something else. My last year unit did inject back to power line a LOT of dirt. I just measured my new fixed unit and I was VERY surprised the it out back to the wall significantly...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: What I do not like in my current Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Without mentioning the reasons here are a few pointers: 1)      There is no proper  tone 2)      Horizontal imaging is less refined then I would like it to be. 3)      Sound is not wet enough. 4)      At high volumes room can’t dissipate HF 5)      S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Future by Stitch on 2010-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reading an official audio publication - TAS in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] If one wish to use sexuality of woman to promote audio product then change the company name to Vagina Sound. [/quote]Don't worry. In a few years the Cable manufacturers will offer Telephone hotlines - similar to Telephone ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Thoughts about the 2490 testing by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2490 mid-range driver in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I plug it for a first time today. It looks like it is sensitive like hell and I did not hear any titanium problems on it even without low pass filter. I do not have infrastructure now to look into it further. [/quote]   I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Are original Aura Sound 1808 sound ULF solution for sealed enclosure? by oxric on 2011-02-09 
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"] Aura made their 1808 driver in 80s and most of the 90s and it was wonderful. It had huge high-temperature neodymium magnet, unique magnet geometry with underhung 4" edgewound aluminum voice coil.  It was the only 18-inch...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #342: How to localize the problem by haralanov on 2010-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is was not bad sound but the sound that clearly indicated that something is very wrong: supper compressed, complete absent of LF, huge HF extension. The whole horn sounds like a bad MD driver.[/quote]Open the back panels...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #359: Midbass nasal sound by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] To my huge surprise and pleasure my midbass horn has absolutely no honk. I heard bass honk in ANY, even the best midbass horns that I heard (BTW, some honk does not bothers me and I even consider it desirable). [/quote]  T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Yes, who knows... by haralanov on 2011-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]We have no idea what this guy is looking in Sound[/quote]Yes, you are right. That's the biggest problem.I suspect he misused his gotos (at least to some degree), because there is nothing in the sound of these 2A9 drivers th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Not actually randomization. . . by scooter on 2010-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An educational Eugenie’s installation. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 2)      Complete randominisation of time aliment. Eugenie is not juts misaligned driver but has 200 sources of mis-aliment in very unsystematic pattern.  What Eugenie done was created a sort of Phases Brownian Motion wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The deaf skeptics, take note. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Driver Alignment, and Where to Draw the Line in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
I have been pitching about the superior importance of time alignment for years. It is not that I violently insist that people have their channels time-alignment. We kind of free people and everyone do whatever they want. Still, I exercise for years m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: In the dragon's lair by decoud on 2008-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Solid state revisited in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I have to admit thigh that I have had in my room the First Watt amp….[/quote]Do you mean the F3? How did it sound with the Macondo?Incidentally, I gather a higher power version of the F3 is in the works, and the existing d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: Myth? perhaps... by drdna on 2005-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth: High-efficiency Low-power in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Topologically and according to all theories the SET is capable to produce dynamic range that is unspeakable for PP, unless some tricks used in PP amps and those tricks have own negative effect to sound. [/quote]I really do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: All sources by anthony on 2020-08-16 
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"]Again, it was very interesting, but… Let agree that methodologically you did not try Placette as it performance was masked out by you need to use your Neurochrome buffer to get gain. Your chain will sound as the worst eleme...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Any follow up, Charles? by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Charles, did you finish your second amp? How the who project worked out for you? Care to share any thoughts about the Milq sound? The caT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: New tubes 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 was listing it and I did not really like what I heard. It was all together juts some kind of “Ordinary Sound”. I recognize that I say “I do not like sound” but I can’t say anything more spastic. All of the sound that I ge...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The secrets of Lamm X-factor by Stitch on 2014-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm introduced LL1 Signature Preamp… in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Briefly: a spatial expander is a mechanism of artificially creates spacious more sound. A spatial expander does not generate more realistic sound, but more pleasant sound. The spatial effects are accomplished by mixing into...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The way to apply torque... by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Superior electric binding posts in Melquiades Amplifier  26 Replies 
I do not like on Connex that I cannot use tools to tight the post hard.   With my kind of cables and the spades that they use the force of my fingers is not enough to tight the binding posts. BTW, there are some people who feel that the force of bind...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Three Little Pigs story and Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lecture on history of architectural acoustics in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
Good lecture, thanks for posting it. It reminds me that I think 12 years ago there was a “big” debate about the distinction between US and British Sound, from a perspective of speakers design. We all know about the “classic” BBC curves and the rest o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Inconsistency? by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rejection of non-natural sounds. in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
There is no incoherency of any kind; instead the said was absolutely the same thing. Making “bad sounds to sound worst” is the very identical to “using all means to make a listener turn away”. It is a bit irony that you find some kind of “inconsisten...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What would be left in audio if…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What would be left in audio if…. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I wonder what will be left in audio for many audio people if 3 conditions exist in audio: 1)      The subject of “one piece of equipment vs. another piece of equipment” is prohibitive. 2)      You are blind from birth, never were able to see or read....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: More dipole antipropaganda. by Romy the Cat on 2004-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What lives in Symmetric Sound? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
Yes, I was implying the dipole-centric results (open buffers, ports, passive radiators and so on). They all has tendency to “demean” the significance of Sound by introducing the false sense of comfort that reduces the original anxiety and complicity ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Supervia sings Carmen by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Conchita Supervia in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
The cut is the beautiful Conchita Supervia is inging Carmen with Gustav Cloez in 1930http://www.mediafire.com/?iijmy0inmmoSorry for the clipping sound – it’s recorded at +3dB at the peaks. The damn SPU with its 3mV output and the 64dB in my phono...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Clemens Krauss’s Brahms Third. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
It was on March 1930. Clemens Krauss lead Vienna Philharmonic. After Walter, Bernstein (with Vienna only),Toscanini, Barbirolli, Cantelli, Levine, Furtwangler and Got only knows who esle I finally “got” the Brahms Third! What a Sound Krauss thrown!Th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Methodologically reasonable driver's assessment continued by serenechaos on 2008-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Still, I do not feel that amplification and architectural decisions shell be implied in drivers evaluations, at least during the initial introduction. Of course the driver shell be powered with a proper amp for a ...
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