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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Voicing 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="thorsten"]Designers like Kondo San spend many hundred hours "voicing" their Amplifiers, allowing a blending of a variety of colorations together in such a way that the overall sonic impact is quite small. For many others (amateur or prof...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Re: Better among worst? by Thorsten on 2005-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="morricab"]Hmmm....I guess I can't really see that unless you are enjoying a particular coloration you are getting from the TVC.[/quote] Nope. On this you are wrong. Based on direct bypass tests the TVC's I USE (that is the specif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: OK, let look deeper.... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
Merlin, as the person who read my site you might know that one of the few dominating idea of my site and my personal audio interest is the recognition of the following rule as an absolutely desirable aim: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: YL audio, ALE, GOTO, and Onken... good post. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="angeloitacare"] Of course, Avantgarde with their price tag never will be for mass consumption. I offered Holger then to see If I could commercialize his horns in japan, Do u know how much was the dealer price for a pair of trios at that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Why Upperbass is a key by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
When many of your will experiment with building and listening your own horns and spend countless amount of time by sketching a configuration of your new horn assembly you then might come to an observation that Macondo Upperbass topology is very s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Thanks by de charlus on 2013-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Thanks Romy,I particularly appreciate the advice on the Goto issue, although a sojourn in Japan would be delightful too, come to think of it; in my experience there's no better place for culinary and audio tourism combined. "Local" support in the cas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: SP10 and the Japanese contribution to audio by tokyo john on 2007-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
Hi Guy,Thanks very much for providing me your insights on the SP10.I have to confess when I initially read your comments I could not help but be astounded that a person involved with a Brit belt driven, light weight, suspended turntable would be usin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The field-coil cartridge? by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is the difference between the cartridges? in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
[quote user="coops"]Romy I have read on this forum that you are not particularly keen on the very low output AN Japan ( and Uk ) cartridges, may I ask the nature of your experience with them , have you tried the field coil versions? [/quote] Keith, I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio Note new turntable and inflation by tokyo john on 2010-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Note new turntable and inflation in Analog Playback  14 Replies 
Audio Note has released a turntable called the Ginga which costs 60 thousand US dollars in Japan. (if you google Audio Note Ginga images you will find it very easily).My first reaction was pure cynicism, as Audio Note does traditionally price its pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Acolytes by guy sergeant on 2004-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My old Fi-Hi gear associations... in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
| agree with your feline wariness with regard to torch bearing disciples of any given faith, be they believers in Altec, Audio Note or even Vitavox. In the case of Audio Note the fervour has often been exacerbated by the activities, pricing and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Road to happiness by Stitch on 2013-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Well, at the end of the day it is a personal choice. I listened to that WE-Demo at High End 2012 and beside all pros /cons there was a situation which was very unique: The room was always crowded, more smiling faces than in other rooms....of course y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1901: AC shared between 200 apartments by Amir on 2023-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
If I am working on AC quality because the AC quality in the big building is very very bad.My apartment is in a big complex shared between 200 apartments + 7 big elevator and ...This Building has three phase AC power , in most homes the AC is better b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Properly Setup Acoustic System DPOLS by Amir on 2023-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]Macondo is no magic bullet.  Sure, Macondo/DSET is put together in a way that it's components need for optimal operation, and when "used as directed" the performance is phenomonal, but it is still prone to room integration and p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Wrong again ;-) by Merlin on 2007-09-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A DSET is better then an expensive SET in Audio For Dummies ™  41 Replies 
I don't have an OTL - I just don't have any transformers in the audible band that saturate, distort and roll off frequency extremes. I have heard plenty of traditional SET's from Lamm to Wavac, AN, Kondo and many others. I know I could not live wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Start again: the problems with a "ordinary" SET? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A DSET is better then an expensive SET in Audio For Dummies ™  41 Replies 
Still, I would like in this thread to stay with subject of advantage/disadvantage of DSET approach vs. better/expensive SET: "A DSET is better then an expensive SET" instead of turn it into thread about David Berning. Bernings certainly might be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The value of parts lists. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades (D-Set) parts list in Melquiades Amplifier  4 Replies 
I do not exactly comfortable with oxric’s preoccupation with “parts”. Yes, there are some amps that invest a lot of attention into parts quality – the silver winding in Kondo, oil caps in BAT, of silver foil caps in AN might be the examples. Melquiad...

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 #1: My CES by Serge on 2012-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My CES in Audio News  1 Replies 
Well, I would say this CES was very low on decent sound. Sometimes I had to fight with the urge to leave a room or two immediately after hearing a few bars of music being played.Still the hope is not lost. At a fringe show at the Flamingo hotel (THE ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Couple of photos by Serge on 2012-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My CES in Audio News  1 Replies 
Haniwa / Kubotek[url=http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fermata10/view/533549/][img]http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5602/78484184.1/0_8242d_d7b2dfac_L.jpg[/img][/url] Kondo TT which looks very much like Microseiki[url=http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fermata10...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Avantgarde, BMS and Orphean. by angeloitacare-idiot on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Hi Romy a good sound in a room does not depend only on the speaker chain, but essencially also of the room acoustics. Probably many of the Trio systems didn’t sound right just because of that…. I was at Holgers Home in Lautersbach back in 94. He ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: More on those Brazillian Horns!!...and Be Yamamura. by DERRICK on 2009-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
I bought those tweeters for Be Yamamura (second hand from Paul at Wembly Loudspeakers, in London)  I also took Be to Heathrow Airport to take a plane to Brazil to install one of his truly superb VT4c stereo amps!   It was the morning of a great wind ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1674: Good System Good Ears by Amir on 2019-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]Amir,in my world there is a process for selection and it is not AB or changing power cords. That does not mean that I deny that equipment (including cables) can change sound. It means that the normal audiophool description "it was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: Well.... by Stitch on 2013-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
The reason for posting is in a way relatively simple, some of us got the impression a few years ago, that it is not sufficient to be willing to pay any price to get a real superior unit. No matter what we will pay, in a way any commercial constructio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Further thoughts II by Stitch on 2014-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
The Rockports have a very light platter and a carbon Arm....the one I listened to was the latest, it had simply no Bass reproduction, nada, nothing and the Arm resonances are also inferior to any energy transfer from any cartridge. The lead wires are...

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 #35: Two Audio Systems by Amir on 2023-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Marantz MA-9S2 Monoblock Amplifiers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]I will say plainly that I still prefer the sound from relaxed SET and old paper drivers; but this preference is obviated/swamped by "real world listening" to big, complex Music, where, IMO, SETs and old radio drivers loose their ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Vox Olympian Audition by de charlus on 2013-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Recently, I was fortunate enough to have an extended listening session with the Living Voice Vox Olympian outside of a show environment. Since said listening session took place upon a boat – moreover, a wooden-bodied boat – under what can only be sai...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Thanks, Stitch by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"] Sound was really lifelike, true in tone, for 1000 visitors in a cinema with a 2W amplifier....of course it can't be compared in rooms for one owner with pinpoint imaging, but it was a good performance. A lot of listeners scratch...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Sorry, but wrong by Bill on 2021-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
     I do not mean to be negative and criticize Romy, but he is wrong on surround sound. It is the implementation and not the concept which should cause vomiting, like with the vast majority of two track recording which are unlistenable. With the rig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: More on Tannoys by montesquieu on 2019-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
With regards to the links, as it happens, I totally agree that 15in Tannoy Reds struggle to handle complex music. The crossover is too simplistic and the cones too hard to control with a low power amp. Reds can be lovely in a simple vintage system bu...
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