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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 #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 #113: To Asio or not by jp on 2009-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] JP, that are funny settings. You source the clock from AES line but do lock it. I do not know at what rate you record but you’re A/D looks like output 88K, you card read 44K and it is not locked – a complete mess. Call ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Not to everyone's liking... by manisandher on 2009-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Do not get me wrong, I do like the BSO files sound but I also admit that it is not as good as it might be. The Cat[/quote]The 88.2/24 files are HDCD... according to my DAC!Mani...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: If they go for 20bit/48Khz feed then it would be even greater. by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Flac 16bit/48Khz streaming internet radio broadcast in Didital Things  2 Replies 
Miab, This sound like a good news but what kind streaming is it? Do I need to use any special stream consumer to get it? I was looking in your link and I was not able to find any 16bit/48Khz feed. The tendency is great however if it was true. If they...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Loosening hairs .... by Stitch on 2013-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Stitch, narrative is very interesting.  I never had new Meitner’s DACs. I hear it countless time and each time it was very bad sound but it was always was in context of other brainless people sound and I do not know if ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Don't examine Pristine too closely by steverino on 2014-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The Brits Pristine “eventually” heard my call. A few years back I begged them to sell the raw 24-bit masters bit not the 16/44 releases, as the down conversion below 20 bit kills too much of sound. It looks like nowadays th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #333: The horns are officially opened. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
The paint has dried and the plugs from throats are removed. The horns are officially opened. BTW, they sound like shit. The Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Let keep the eyes on the ball… by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Abington Something = Abbingdon Music Research in Didital Things  14 Replies 
Keith, search the - site there are plenty information about interface I use between DACs and my digital sources. Still, what I do with my digital and how frustrated you with digital are is absolutely irrelevant in context of the given thread. This th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Whatever you say about God is untrue! by N-set on 2011-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My site and Your expectation from my playback. in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]whatever I express at my site I truly mean it.[/quote]You sound a bit like anti-Meister Eckhart :-DIf I ever had any objective in my playback it would be along Eckhart's lines...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Re: Crossovers, phraseology and the holes by Gregm on 2006-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression in Playback Listening  23 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Even if it is possible with a given (multichannel, faulty design) loudspeaker then the DPLOS become very fragile and appears/appears too sudden, without a gradual improvement while approaching the DPLOS. The keys are phase...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Emotional and Factual Memory by drdna on 2007-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Musicians' ear in Playback Listening  10 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Mr. Boyk is rather audio–anomaly among typical musicians.[/quote] Well, I have to agree with this.  I guess you do not publish an article of some point of view that is very obvious to everyone.[quote user="Romy the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: It is not about the Definition but about Purpose. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The nature of "soundstage" in audio. in Playback Listening  22 Replies 
Imaging is a property of listening perception. The soundstage is a property of sound reproduction.  Let me be a cryptic here and would give not the answer but a lead to the answer. Do you familiar with Home Theaters? It is absolutely imposable t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #139: What the hell is going on!!! by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-15 
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 play a lot of LP recently and last night I noted that sound was quite bad. It was like a bad electricity day only atop of it sound has some kind of odd digitalization atop of everything. Of course I was blaming the PurePo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A homework for Mahler lovers…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
Yesterday I was listening an broadcast from Netherlands over FM with Mariss Jansons leading Concertgebouw and Netherlands Radio Choir with Mahler’s Resurrection. The play was horrible, starting from playing of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and ending...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Gieseking before and after. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More Gieseking! in Musical Discussions  19 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"]Oh, and the sound is surprisingly good! 1953 and 56 mono.[/quote] Jerry, unfortunately you heard “wrong” Gieseking. The real Gieseking is the Gieseking before the WW2, in 20s and 30s. After the war the Gieseking’s play changed ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Preamps that don't sound by el`Ol on 2011-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new generation of full-function preamps. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Let see what he have out there. I think the companies like Spectral, Boulder and Burmester are very much in position to make challenging contemporary preamps. In fact Burmester has been doing something like this for year bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The headphones are fine. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Loudspeakers and headphones in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I like them and use the quite extensively. As the comparing result between the headphones and the loudspeakers…. they are different. The best speakers sound-wide would do a similar result to what the headphones can do but the loudspeakers but will ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #243: The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment? by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-26 
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"]Tomorrow a cleaning lady will de-dust and clean the house and the acoustic treatment will go to the walls. [/quote]I figure out that it is time and put some acoustic treatment on the walls and at some spot of ceiling. The 2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Some different ways. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Primitive steps for standard sound in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
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)    Build/buy own playback a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: What VTA has to do with phonostage? by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Paul, I am not sure what VTA and anything else has to do with phonostage. The VTA is not a characteristic of Sound but a property of a given cartridge. Sine I it set and the VTF is not changed I do not change VTA. I do not use VTA to change sound, I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Virus inside by Stitch on 2010-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schroder Tonearms in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I think it is wider then just Schroeder arms. Did you see ANY discussions about the Sonic Quality of hyped products? [/quote]No. the typical audiophile has the following tatoo onto his forehead "I-buy-I-Am"[quote user="R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The sound changed? by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The irony of playback photographs and videos. in Playback Listening  11 Replies 
[quote user="Crow"]The sound changed.[/quote]I do not think that sound changed. Those speakers have most likely MF compression driver with horn. When the camera shot from the back of the speaker the sound does not change. I mean is changes slightly n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Might be ugly by unicon on 2012-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to make money in Audio in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]BTW, I do sincerely hope that the readers of my site, if they detect that I am turning toward to the ugly direction of whoring for anything, will point it out.   The Cat[/quote]Sure if folks in industry and money making hif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Avantgarde method of cap biasing. by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Avantgarde method of cap biasing. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
The DC biasing of filtering caps was something that I was advocating for years but recently I was pointed out that German Avantgarde took it a bit further. I did not use this method but it goes sound interesting. Read the Avantgarde’s document, the p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #106: That's the core point by Antonio J. on 2007-12-07 
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"]... So, my point is that I do not care if one or other company trade their regenerators and that I might get the same or near the same cheaper somewhere else. There is many Class AB power regenerators that are being use in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Knots. by Ed on 2005-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Listening to Music with a sober mind. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
Thank you Cat.(Some light reading to chew on).Meanwhile,the happy punters travel down the road to find 'my sound is better thanyour sound'.From 'The Audio book of the Dead' Dr.Hippocrates...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The tune of the orchestra was changing.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How Mussorgsky should sound! in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
I recorded the whole thing, including the Procofiev’s concerto and the Bartók ballet. The sound of the orchestra was interestingly changing as I fell that they change the “tuning” after the intermission. The Bartók: “The Miraculous Mandarin” was very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: ....mushrooms.... by Andy Simpson on 2007-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Simpson Microphones thread. in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Bud wrote:These are sensationaly deep recordings, just as you said they would be. DYNAMICS from a distance, and no artificially sick or flat notes, or hidden masses of groaning monsters.Romy you need to help this man,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re-entry megaphones? by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Anyone know this horn flare in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Andrewmartyn,   What do you find interesting in those speakers? They looks like  some kind of re-entry horns and they usually sound very bad. The Cat...
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