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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Electrostats by Amir on 2023-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] Amir wrote:Funny video from Acoustical systems and Wilson Benesch Turntable systems, lots of marketing hype in their presentation and finally the sound is dead crap.Wilson Benesch Marketing hype: "the future is carbon" finally yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #216: Voltage Divider in ML2 Input Stage by skushino on 2013-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I finally added a -15 dB voltage divider to my ML2s last week to fix the noise problem from my L1 preamp - Why did I wait so long?!!The result is absolute dead silence.  Nothing.  Nada.  It is almost impossible to tell if the system is powered on, ev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
This, from my prospective a superbly truthful article, was written by a Russian guy A. Polakov. I do not know who he is but the accuracy of Mr. Polakov’s experience regarding the subject and very similar Mr. Polakov’s and my observations of the issue...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Magico horn bass modules by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
I was pitching before that to make a loudspeaker with integrated LF module you have no ethical right to charge more then let say $20K retail.  If you charge more then you have no mechanism to deliver anything for the money people pay. However, if you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: GO BIG !! by Scott L on 2016-12-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Infinite Baffle Implementation and "Compression Sub-bas... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Thanks, Scott L.  I get the math, and no doubt hearing is believing. Still, I do know for certain that "a driver" can be influenced by a defined amount of trapped air in an enclosure, at least as far as the sound that comes from ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A fundamentally faulty JohnBlue Tweeter? by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A fundamentally faulty JohnBlue Tweeter? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
I have no idea what this Tweeter is. The reference to the aerospace aluminum alloy and Lamborghinis very much suggesting that the tweeters are crap and the guy who make them an idiot. But will not be too fast with conclusion and I am accustom to see ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: Goto's Advance Stage by twogoodears on 2011-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Thanks, Roman... I strangely (?!?) feel me like a schoolboy at his first primary schoolday... virtually ALL my (limited) audio knowledge, vanished... and I'm dealing with brand-new problems, like a crossover with fixed slopes and cut-off frequencies ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: DIY Firefly by green heron on 2011-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DIY Firefly Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
As the builder behind these horns, I can answer some of your questions.  It's true, I was primarily focused on the woodworking/building side, and now I'm experimenting with amplification and crossovers. I can't speak authoritatively on those subjects...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: A new paradigm for ULF? 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"] The most important in audio is a state of realization and obtaining this state is a matter of time I am afraid. Let pretend that tomorrow I will build/buy some kind of speaker that would do the perfect ULF channel ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Tubes in the 834p circuit by drdna on 2008-12-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About EAR 834P Modifications in Analog Playback  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I usually hesitant to give any recommendations for “improvement” if a request does not contain any defined and specific complain about the current results.[/quote]Naturally, this makes sense. My question was actually specif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: LEDs, LEDs, LEDs my love by N-set on 2011-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I good spot-light for a turntable? in Analog Playback  15 Replies 
LED facade:Mind blowing!One thing is LED in the circuit as an indicator lamp or, say, SS bias and another is a LED bulb.The bad element in the bulb is the RF generator. The LEDs in the bulbs are not fed with DC or line freq. but withRF square wave. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Audio Desk System Vinyl Cleaner: Analogue rip-off of 2011? by oxric on 2011-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sensible record cleaning: vinyl piranhas and record Vaseline in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
[quote user="mem916"]I think there must be something to the theory that there is debris down in the grooves that the VPI and other similar machines cannot get out, based on the difference I hear after cleaning with the new machine.  I admit that I ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #94: The sounds of silence; continued by jessie.dazzle on 2010-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Paul S wrote (originally posted in the thread discussing noise cancellation for Romy's HP servers)http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=12957#12957"...Jessie, are you saying that the RAID system is "quiet" with respect to regular o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Vox Olympian secrets unveiled by martinshorn on 2017-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vox Olympian secrets unveiled in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Hi folks. Who ever listened to Living Voice Vox Olympian Speakers might've liked them as much as I do. They got a great realism in their projection. Some things are obvious, some even claimed. Its claimed to use excellent drivers, high quality ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Replace all audio coupling... by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
Doug, it is a lot of tuner went over your hand. I wonder what drove you to do so.  Was any specific quality of sound that you were looking and the tuner that you own did not serve you? [quote user="doug s."]romy, there is a tuna freak in los a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: DACs and computers by Telstar on 2008-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Dima for instance (and he has quite high expertise in the subject) claims that there no true 24bit converters available anyhow. BTW, with all advances of HDCD, that I fully appreciate, it makes send only on 16 bit. At 20...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Some thoughts about the audiofilofine tweeter. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The African compression electromagnet drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  42 Replies 
[quote user="audiofilofine"] All parts of the tweeter shave been designed and built.All are built in magnetic steel in preferenceto pure iron because pure iron is heated during processing and after processing was not possible to check that the charac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Tweeter reply by audiofilofine on 2011-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The African compression electromagnet drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  42 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have a few comments and questions. First about the posting. I guess you are from Italy and your use some kind of text editors that user a lot styles that are not renders properly a browser with western meetings. I just wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The double-layering horn speakers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The absolutely “best” material for horns construction. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  41 Replies 
I have no comments about it besides assuring that the company that state all of it does crap in term of Sound. Still, I find that the way in which they think about construction of the walls of their back-loaded horn worth very much attention. Tak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Size might be an issue by martinshorn on 2017-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Kato-san's Goto system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
hi Romy! Good thought with the current on the damping... I had another thought. High excusion might create lots of distortion in a compression chamber. No surprise. But in my oppinion the sizes are often not in proportion. Lets calculate......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Taking Advantage of Others' Discoveries by Paul S on 2023-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Marantz MA-9S2 Monoblock Amplifiers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Robin, I'm not at all certain that my new speakers are "source tolerant", because I have "taken steps" all along to "ensure" part-to-part compatibility. I have tried to "sync" my phono and CD/DAC as much as possible, and the main thing I wanted from ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #328: Some winter observations. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
This year is the first winter that I live with this new listening room. Last winter the playback was up and I still was playing with minor arrangements of my ULF channels, cable and a few other things. For many months I do pretty much nothing with my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Tone and tonal integration by haralanov on 2010-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
It’s a bit offtopic, but:[quote user="Paul S"] I haven't seen anything like this in over a decade, and I don't have the patience to wait until I find and acquire something like this, IF it exists. [/quote]The problem is that it does not exist… Simply...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Liquid helium brain inertia in Class A? by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
I keep thinking about the temperature. Whatever the best I heard in Class A was running very very very hot. However, what is the association between sound, heat dissipation design and temperature.  It is obviously that any amplifier designers wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Questions by Merlin on 2007-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
Firstly are your observations regarding the ZH270 relating to comparisons with other push pull designs or SET's? Secondly could you explain which characteristics of the recording are destroyed, and what mechanism David Berning uses to acheive this...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Hiroyasu Kondo: “My thoughts on Hi-Fi”. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hiroyasu Kondo: “My thoughts on Hi-Fi”. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
This material is courtesy to Mr. Shibazaki, the owner of Sibatech Shop in Tokyo, that sell internationally Japanise Hi-Fi equipment. http://www.sibatech.co.jp/ I hope that Sibatech people are more decent then our american distrib...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Re: ribbons, ribbons, ribbons. Ribbons? by Paul S on 2006-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
I believe that the Arum Cantus is typical of most ribbons in mirroring one of the principal failings of MC cartridges, a rising top end (over 20k), although I have not actually heard this - at all - with my own small Arum Cantus, and I just go n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Vintage ML2 and tweeters, any tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]   With the Wright amps the G2Si did not seem to live up to their efficiency specs using my little cap and coil crossover.  I can't offer good descriptions of their sound with the ML2s until I get my TT going, but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: Worthless Part II by Stitch on 2013-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
In the last 10 years I had some chances to visit owners with very expensive Systems (>500.000,-- $) and all they had the same in common: Absolutely no idea about real High End or Music reproduction and I mean non, nada, nothing, they went to a d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Horns and digital crossovers. by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horns and digital crossovers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
This subject of digital crossovers became quite popular during last few years and many audio-people give up and go for a simplicity and painlessness of digital crossovering. There is an army of people out there who would swear by a complete transpare...
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