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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 #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 #30: It is a worrying state of affairs by Andy Simpson on 2008-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A very good article on the subject that basically proves my attitude on the subject: it is not about technology but the idiocy of people who use the technology. http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/HFN/ClippingOnCD/clipping.htmlT...

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 #141: Too obvious perhaps ... by Markus on 2011-11-16 
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"] Now at higher it goes and as louder it gets it has more and more almost some kind of mechanical resonances overlying over sound. Dead tubes would not be doing it. [/quote]... but did you clean your needles? And does this h...

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 #24: The digital audio future... by nycparamedic on 2008-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Even though I do understand that advantages to run dedicated operation system but it do not automatically implies that the result will be better.[/quote]No, not automatically. But I believe using a minimalist open source op...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: What makes eye on the tube getter? by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DHT driver & input in Melquiades Amplifier  25 Replies 
One of my YO186 have developed a dark eye on it’s getter. Even the tube still measures fine and sound fine but I wonder what make some of those tubes to get dart spat of the getter gloss. I have seen it before and do not have any association between ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: What is randomness? by drdna on 2008-12-04 
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"] [quote user="Paul S"] This may also be a factor in the "randomness" capability, which is really only freedom of movement, and not "randomness", per se.[/quote] OK, is it “randomness” of “freedom of movement”, the questi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #190: The howly sound of Yamaha B-2 by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Well, I think my Yamaha B-2 is not working well. It slightly cures my ego with MiniMe. I took today the B-2 and drive them with good conventional loudspeakers and it had the same sound –very very howly (and ugly!!!) sound under 200Hz… I wonder, do I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #210: 1050 sound additions by DSH on 2008-12-27 
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"] Denis, In the PP 1050 I had better result what I use extra ferrites in deferential modes, or putting ferrites in each individual wire. I never had problem with PP 1050’s dynamics until I begin to add capacitance to the P...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: No, that is exactly what I am saying! by drdna on 2008-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Signal variation, noise, and effects on circuit topology in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"][quote user="drdna"]I would like to start a compendium of anecdotal observations of the idiosyncratic nature of COMPONENT PLACEMENTS in the circuit. [/quote]Surely all passive components in the circuit have influence, but I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Sauna is done with no sound. by Romy the Cat on 2012-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sauna and Audio in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Took today my first new sauna. Yes, I agree that music is not working with sauna. I however am not sure if no sound at all can’t be used in sauna. I think some kind of new-edgy elevator music with a lot of LF might work quite well. Not that I am look...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #94: They are just not related things at all. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="zanon"]Do you mean that if you begin with digital source, it does not matter whether you use a digital crossover or not since the "damage" has already been done?[/quote]Absolutely not, it is not what I meant. I meant that the only advant...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #560: Disappointment so far with motor-generator idea by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-28 
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"] OK, I agree – it might be not necessary as PP2000 does produce fine electricity in a convenient package. Furthermore it violates the rule that I try to follow in audio generally: define snick objective and ONLY then re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #723: Electricity and weather. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-19 
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"]Whoever follows this thread of mine note my exuberant reaction to the new fixed PP2000. What however I discover today is that for the last few days, right after the snow storm, the quality of electricity in my lines is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #284: Added mass by unicon on 2010-12-04 
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"] zako wrote:Ive placed the sonic revive resonaters in every concert hall in europe and the US, for better acoustic sound,,except Boston,, i want Boston to suffer.  Maron, if you worked with them so much then would you estim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: It is exactly where the HornResp sucks. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I hate HornResp. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
[quote user="morricab"] Now my biggest problem with tone from horns comes from the "cupped hands" horn effect, which is really nothing more than the resonances fromt he horn itself. [/quote]The "cupped hands" is not the characteristics of horn a topo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: TAD ET-703 by Wojtek on 2008-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
You could source used TAD tweeters for ~$1K pair .They sound exceptionally smooth and extended .More so than infamous T-350 and with better "tone" which may be relevant since your 288 are tonaly "dead" according to the Cat. Who knows, he may be right...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: Vertical hearing perception by drdna on 2009-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]it happens ONLY in the inhalations with improperly integrated drivers. The entire subject of the “improper integration” shall get rid of this possibility. I know that you use EdgarHorn and what I heard it at its best I did ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Perhaps I wasn't laying it on thick enough... by KLegind on 2011-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Daniel Hertz M1 ultra mega mega party speaker in Audio News  3 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I did not know that Lynn Olson and Earl Geddes involved in Levinson’s operation.  With all disagreement with those individuals I thought that they are smarter than to deal with Mark Levinson. I hope they did not give him an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: “Freaking sounds great” - good luck with that. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Although, I do admire the café as concept, audio-wide what is presented on the pictures is a damn nightmare, typically in-line with my expectation from that “type” of people. I am sure that you “freaking sounds great” is just your puffed up perceptio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The dried out Purist by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Purist Audio Design vs. Purist Audio Design in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Actually I need to correct myself. The purist with leaked out fluid do not change sound with the fully filed cables. The completely dried out cans with no residue of the fluid at all do have sonic results. The dried out Purist has a typical unpleasan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The matching is important by Stitch on 2009-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not care about all of Nilsson Pass amps; I feel that all the same and all are very sub-qualified.  A few years back Mr. Pass went for his low-powered SS single-ended amps and they might be more interesting. The Cat[/qu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: I need to brash on Günter Wand by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
Playing the Günter Wands’ recordings of the last Bruckner Symphony with NDR (North German Radio Orchestra) from 1978-88 during Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Another “amateur” conductor with phenomenal sound! I need a bigger place as I would like...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Richter and Karajan by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Good Tchaikovsky PC 1? in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Richter and Karajan playing the Tchaikovsky PC1 are well celebrated performance.  Some years back I had a fool fixation to get one moment from that play to sound in a certain way – I have perhaps 15 different pressings of the thing. Unfortunately I a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A ridicules speaker cable by Romy the Cat on 2004-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A ridicules speaker cable in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Recently I was playing with my horns, running with across my room, trying to hit with them my Cat…. When I settled down at the place when I need them to be I one more time faced a problem of cables. Whoever use multi-channel systems and do milliampin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: BTW, I heard on BBC last night … by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: American National Recording Registry in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
That some kind of Association of Sound Historian in US has discovered the earlier know recording of human voice. It was made by scratching paper smoked with oil lamp. The recording is made in 1860 – many years before Edison – very interesting… Here w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: The 5E5P as triode only. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
Jim, yes, I use the 6E5P as triode, I never tried tetrodes, never has needs to do it. I have somebody tried them as tetrodes and commented negatively about their sound. I do not know if it is true – it what “they say”. Ironically I do not like how th...
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