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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Estonian idiocy: Estelon by Romy the Cat on 2014-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Estonian idiocy: Estelon in Audio News  15 Replies 
I was informed that there is a new Estelon Extreme loudspeaker out there that costs ¼ million dollars. Not with interest I read about it http://www.estelon.com…and concluded that this is as idiotic as it get. Nope, I did not listen it and I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Estelon flagship by ArmAlex on 2014-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Estonian idiocy: Estelon in Audio News  15 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I was informed that there is a new Estelon Extreme loudspeaker out there that costs ¼ million dollars. Not with interest I read about it http://www.estelon.com…and concluded that this is as idiotic as it get. Nope, I did...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: It does not need to have knowledge to know… by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
None of the commercial speakers might relay on the Imbedded principles because the obvious reasons. They always look for as neutral as possible location because they mostly designed for anechoic operation. However, if the Imbedded techniques are used...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Some prose about a $200K horns installation. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
Well, here and there at my site I’m calling for rationalism in audio and suddenly I go enthusiastic regardless a perspectives of $200K Cessaro’s Gammas availability. Sounds hypocritical, doesn’t it? Well, not really. I’m under no presumption that go...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #212: Product placement vs. just stupidity. by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I think it is both Product placement and stupidity.  Robert Harley has a room with tall ceilings and a lot of open space on the sides that suck out LF very strongly. http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/follow-up-the-magico-q7-louds...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: 'Thy fate is the common fate of all' - Longfellow by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]All the criticism notwithstanding, Lamm is clearly one of the most interesting amp builders out there, and IMO he is someone worth watching… [/quote] Unquestionably, and it is what I do - watching. However, here is where I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: It was reported that it was GIP Labs. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES's 2011 horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
It was reported, and I do not know how accurate it is, that Silbatone did not use WE driver but used a Japanese replica by GIP. http://www.gip-laboratory.com/ http://www.amtrans.co.jp/audio/gip/lineup.shtml ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: The disjointed Avantgarde’s bass and the cost. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
[quote user="coops"]I would never presume to make such a claim, regarding active bass,I have heard quite a few systems now where the ( active )bass is very disjointed, Avantgardes for example, and the music just does not flow, but I will discuss your...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: The Lamm ML3 photos & first impressions by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Here are a few comments by Mike of Audio Federation about his exposure to new Lamm ML3 amp: http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/498 In fact it was more interning then the entire review in Soundstage, at least more informative. A few comments t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: There are a lot of foolish monitors out there… by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
I started to pay attention more deeply at what people do with monitors. The more I look at the available 2-ways monitors the more revolting picture I see. Today I heard one super expansive monitor that all those cretin-reviewers are drooling about la...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Marten Coltrane Supreme: a step forward and two steps back. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
A few years ago a friend of my asked me what I feel might be a perspective product to go in high-end that would do well business wise and at same time topology would be optimized to serve better sound. I gave him an idea of a monitor, coupled with a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #95: The cass D amps and the Plummer Joe's rubbery butter. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Lbjefferies7"] If you are really interested in moronizing your room, GTT Audio & Video are selling some Kharma Class-D's on audiogon.http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ddampstran&1237509628&demo&3&4&Looks like...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The “nice enough guy” syndrome. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Valin shell be an Alcatraz reviewer. in Audio News  4 Replies 
I have quite a confidence that if you meet and talk with Joseph Goebbels or Lavrenti Beria or with Idi Amin then they all will come along like “nice guys”. When I met and spoke with Valin he seemed “normal” as well. Hey even I appear as “a nice guy” ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? in Didital Things  53 Replies 
I reticently picked a new DAC and ADC processors. Not that I needed but they were the brand that I for years was trying to test but never had a chance, now I do. The processors use AES/EBU connectors. So, not I need to find reasonably sounding AES/EB...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: The Placette and headphone. My half-impedance rule. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Yes, the Active Placette would drive headphone, still I do not like the sound. I get way more proper sound when Placette driver my “big” system then what is drivers headphone. I use headphone quite aggressively but mostly for “technical listening” (l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #239: Reduced frequency response range, sort of. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I think my new room and new midbass horn will give me an opportunity to play at the NEW LEVEL with a notion that I have been chasing for years. I am taking about perceptual shrinking of frequency response. I need to admit that most of the ugliest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Not really sure what you mean? by mjloudspeaker on 2009-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Class “D” – the industry does it again. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]A could years ago here and there begun to pop up small SS class “D” amplifiers made with high-end pretence. They all sounded like shit but by the efforts of a number of typically deaf and stupid or just simply whorish audio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Listening the New Super Milq: the first impressions. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Last nigh I spend a couple hours to listening this thing. Since the amp is done in design phase and the final parts are still in order I can not finish it and close up – it kind of frustrating… Still, it gives opportunities to listen it knowing that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #92: Some thought about Lamm ML3 desing. by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Lamm did choose to use some of the driving ideas from his proven SET amp…[/quote]Yes and no. ML3 design wise, as I understand is, in fact is not as interesting amp and it might be otherwise. Vladimir went for the target marke...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: “Zarathustra” amplifier: loosing of virginity. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Zarathustra” amplifier: loosing of virginity. in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
The thread is derivation form the previous thread about the Dima's amplifier.I was trying to gradually approach better and better loudspeakers with the Zarathustra amplifier but today I decided to hit with the Zarathustra the pinnacle of low sen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Class “D” – the industry does it again. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Class “D” – the industry does it again. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
A could years ago here and there begun to pop up small SS class “D” amplifiers made with high-end pretence. They all sounded like shit but by the efforts of a number of typically deaf and stupid or just simply whorish audio propagandists-cheerleaders...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: Ok, I play... by Romy the Cat on 2021-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Wojtek, to some degree what your share is correct sentiments but your position has two faulty presumptions presumptions. First presumption suggests  that most of  people out there strictly idiots and they have no own brain but just listen towards...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy in Audio News  17 Replies 
I predict a highly probability that a new wave is coming in high-end audio loudspeakers. The today’s high-end audio the loudspeakers field is in a complex stagnation, the stagnation that will lead to the need to invent a new ways to sell loudspeakers...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Listening Level and Audio IQ by Amir on 2019-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
rowuk my english may not translate what i think but i try to write , i hope it be useful. In Tehran we have classic concert in two halls , Vahdat Hall and Roodaki Hall .   the classic music is not very active in tehran. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: ............... by samuel33 on 2007-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good commercial speakers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] samuel33 wrote: …. I can't stop laughing when I read your comments about the audiophile mafia, you are so right. Samuel, it is important, reading my self-obsessive rage about the industry, do not take the things out...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A tribune to Transient Evenness or … by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tribune to Transient Evenness or … in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
…or the “The new Channel”: some observations after the game. This thread is organic derivation of the multi-paged thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2433#2433 First of all: despite that I got some preliminary positive result...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: The Federated Mike and the demo in McCain/Palin country by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-06 
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 response to http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/501 [quote user="The Federated Mike"] First, the Ongaku, the Audio Note …. U.K.(!) … Ongaku, that we have here is not micro-details challenged [to say the least]. The Kondo Ongaku may indeed be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: This information need update, and is prejudicial in my opinion. by mjloudspeaker on 2009-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Class “D” – the industry does it again. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] Romy the Cat wrote:A could years ago here and there begun to pop up small SS class “D” amplifiers made with high-end pretence. They all sounded like shit but by the efforts of a number of typically deaf and stupid or just...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: I do not think in terms of “should” but rather as “could”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Well, Jessie, I think you're  exercising a wishful thinking but you have, I think, a wrong subject for your thinking. Neither Lamm nor any other high-end manufacture care about result as a concept but rather a result as product. A product b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo vs. the “industry sponsored speakers” by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo vs. the “industry sponsored speakers” in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
 Last few years my interest in audio “out there” got subsided and nowadays I seldom exposed to new amps, speakers and other product that the industry offers. It only partially might be explained by the fact that I got worn out on the primitive s...
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