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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Omnidirectivety is not a drop-in solution. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL in Horn-Loaded Speakers  31 Replies 
Ok, as I said I am skeptical about the idea of omnidirectivety. I do see a number of objective rising problems and the most important I do not see why omnidirectivety is necessary at the first palace. People who do omnidirectivety claim that omnidire...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: More on the "inductive" LPad by anthony on 2015-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote:Sorry Romy, I was not clear enough, but the resistor that I am questioning is in the Fundamentals Channel (not the MF Channel as I believe you referred to in your previous post) between the OPT and the S2....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Please excuse the mess by anthony on 2017-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Romy, thanks for the explanation.  I was not sure if you still kept an eye on that thread Romy.  As far as I know you need to be logged in to view the images in the diy threads so I will post a couple here to show where...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Zigmahornets Speakers: come up with a title on this topology. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Zigmahornets Speakers: come up with a title on this topology... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
You do not need to listen comedians you juts need to look at some of the products pictures and you will be laughing. The 6Moons’ Jeff Day screwed a driver into a sewer pipe and then desired to write a “review” about it (I did not read it). I wonder o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #123: A mistake then. by xandcg on 2017-02-18 
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"] xandcg wrote:²as Romy already said on this forum, he is a developer and certainly he know how to proper build a DAW.Hm, I do not think I ever said it ether. As a software engineer I have for sure expertise but: I am abso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: EC8020/437A/3A-167M -price-tag vs. performance vs availability by twogoodears on 2009-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I never had a lot of trouble with high transconductance tubes. I use the EC8020 a lot. Stefano, you might look into this EC8020. I never seen it but just looked into the datasheet and it looks very interesting tube and i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: It needs to be views in perspective. by Romy the Cat on 2019-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Josh: My visit to Romy the Cat's Macondo in Audio For Dummies ™  28 Replies 
[quote user="martinshorn"] at DIYAUDIO.COMWell. I disagree that digital has to be intrusive.  I disagree that SSamps are too.  I don’t want to see a ribbon tweeter or standard Subwoofer in my horn.  I cant stand SET sound. It bore...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The second "best" commercial horn speaker? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Marc HENRY"]hi all,thanks for your interest !yes the frame is curved, HF and MF are //yes there is a phase plug in the bass horn. This cover 80-300Hz.there is a separate infra-bass section, covering 20-80Hz.images of the bass phase p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Circuit instability by N-set on 2012-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
Actually I do not have the instability issue sorted out completely...I'm talking about circuit instability now, not the tube instability. Let us imagine all tubes are rock stable.As I see it there are at least two major sources of instability, in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #398: A hallucination? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-23 
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"]  Romy the Cat wrote:That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Not quite sure what you are saying Romy by anthony on 2015-03-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Koshka is meowing in Melquiades Amplifier  13 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Tax wrote:When I get my playback right then I will embark on the third phase of my journey....listening and learning about more meaningful music. Actually, I disagree with this approach. It is like you are searching a n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Just a boy and his soldering iron... by jessie.dazzle on 2006-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
Regarding the "complexity" of these amps : Not being a DIY electronics guy, the Melquiades schematic makes me want to reach for a cigarette... However, naive fool that I am, having no formal training in electronics, I look at it and think to mysel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Dynamic consistency by noviygera on 2011-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] noviygera wrote:p.s from my experience of having a 500 sq. ft. listening room with 7 ft. ceiling and having two 18" woofers in a infinite baffle configuration, it is not enough to pressurize the room. I am talking about lo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: Daddy Cat and Baby Cat by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[QUOTE] Joe Roberts wrote: Did you actually read 1980s TAS or just thought sniff it? I think I know the answer. Nope, I did not. I arrived in US in 1992, spoke no English and was able to read cognitively after 1994-95. [/Quote]Well check it ou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: A slight variation by JLH on 2009-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
Romy,      I like your idea. However, I would caution you on having the outlet of the one side firing backwards. One of the things that is not talked about with tapped horns is they are more directional than a normal subwoofer....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Clarification by anthony on 2020-08-11 
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"]Anthony, I do not know what you new buffer is. A few notes. The difference between sub 10R and 300R of output impedance is significant for the load you have (Milq) between your new buffer and your 10Y preamp. The type of th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Throat’s side thickness... by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Transition : Driver to throat, when throat is smaller than d... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Jessie, at the home page, in the left, within the GoodSoundClub Section there is the “Announcements” item of menu, which will bring you to the thread with the instruction how to upload the images to the site. Regarding the issues that you are trying...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Romy cares, and makes a difference by tuga on 2012-04-04 
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"]The reality is that most of audio people have extremely poor listening intelligence when they deal with audio. Listening intelligence, something that I been stressing for years, is not considered...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Centering the S2 (images) by jessie.dazzle on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Romy quotes in blue (pulled from the "Adding one more channel to the Macondos" thread) "1) Make sure that your cone is properly center in a gap. It is very important as misaligned cone will do compression at bottom end" I feel confident that I am ab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: More.... by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-27 
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"]  haralanov wrote:Just a short example: the horns with round mouth have the worst possible performance in terms of sound complexity and they are champions in achieving the so called “open, but closed within itself” type of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Hunting for clues by tuga on 2011-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Quote taken from here:  http://www.classicaudio.ru/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=98788#p98788  Jeen wrote:???- ????????? ???????? GOTO, ??????????? ?? 45-???????? ????? (????? 3.6 ?) ???????? - 50 - 200...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #274: Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End by RF at Ona on 2010-09-16 
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"]  RF at Ona wrote:Personally, I think it debatable whether the mouth edge should be free or attached as there are desirable aspects to both approaches. If attached, it need not be attached with great pressure.  Robert, ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Seoul man´s cave by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Somebody sent me a link with the Seoul gentlemen who have those piles of WE gear. http://blog.silvercore.de/blog/2013/02/01/man%c2%b4s-cave/#more-739 It is interesting warehouse-like looking space that more reminds me Home Depot t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #226: More about traps by unicon on 2010-10-13 
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"]  unicon wrote:…sealed tube traps can be implemented the way to not absorb LF easy and just in case the pressure gets over high and they can yet to be remain fully customized to absorb and diffuse what you want the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The wonder of Ayre Acoustics by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The wonder of Ayre Acoustics in Audio News  0 Replies 
Even though in the forum most of the thread stated as mockery of different companies, people and ideas but I would like to dilute this forum with a serious thread. The subject will be the Ayre Company. I have to say that I never own any Ayre equipme...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #152: Its about noise by anthony on 2019-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] Congratulations on the build! anthony wrote:  Yours uses all toroids, or mostly so, which are more efficient than the EI that I use. Why have you chosen EI vs toroids? The latter emit less. Cheers, Jarek ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A Documentary History Of EMI Classics by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EMI rollercoaster across 20 century. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EMI CLASSICS Narrated by THOMAS HAMPSON  1    MENDELSSOHN: Spring Song/Adolf Umbach (clarinet)  2'17"  2  TCHAIKOVSKY: Forgive me (The Queen of Spades)/Nikolai Figner (tenor)  2'54" &n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Lavry is just a DAC, it is not all Multibits by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Keith, it is not the thread about Lavry Gold DAC I would rather to hear from people who have experience with other Multibits, perhaps with many Multibits, and who would be able to generalize their observation about Multibits vs. anything else. I kn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: My Synopsis made in Poland by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? in Didital Things  53 Replies 
I looked today at Site Statistic Page and paid attention that the site has 628 unique visitors from Poland that all came to this thread. It looks like someone “Peter Daniel” turned the Polls attention to Synopsis cable. http://www.audiostereo.pl/for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Azura 204Hz and 340Hz Le Cleac'h horn photos by NBC on 2006-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Big mama 1.5" horns.... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
Here are some photos of Martin Sedon's 204Hz and 340Hz Le Cleac'h horns, which likely have more reasonable shipping charges and fit through doorways, etc. better than the 160Hz version. They have a T-factor (expansion rate) of T = 0.8, which was reco...
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