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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #163: Getting loaded by jessie.dazzle on 2010-01-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...You are complaining that you have not enough gain in upperbass..." It is also possible that I'm reacting to a lack of true dedicated mid-bass. As previously mentioned, while the pair of 40Hz horns are under constructon, I co...

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 #4: The damn Russkis saved on everything!!! by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Got today a party of the 6C18C from 1960s, an interesting tube. The plate looks like 1/4 times larger and has no bridge between the halves. The 6C18C has even less plate impedance than 6C33C and it appears that it futures i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Lamm ML3 price: how it works. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
It might be not directly related to the subject of this thread but I do feel that it has quite a good relatively. Are you laughing that your Lamm made his new amplifier with a price tag of $126K? Well, think again.  Do you remember as  the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Silence of the Lamms! by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Silence of the Lamms! in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Here is a good day in my Audio biography: the last particle of electronics made by Lamm Industries has successfully removed from my listening room. I was using in one or another way Lamms from I think 1998 and I use to have many M1.1s, L1, LP2, L2 an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Romy...thoughts on Lamm ML1? by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy...thoughts on Lamm ML1? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Ken, Lamm ML1 is always was a mystery for me. ML1 is very far from ML2 performance-wise. From what I understand the ML1 is basically is M1.1 modification with tubes output. I have seen a few times when ML1 performed better then M1.1 and at the same ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #169: An amp drive the MiniMe… by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
The MiniMe, as much as the rest of my playback have lost the “novelty”. I do not do or planning to do anything with audio. I have found the way to calm down my Focal tweeters and it… will die this way. For what MiniMe meant to be it does very goo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
There are many threads on my site where I covered the subjects of Tweeter for my Macondo and particularly the moment of integration the tweeters with Vitavox S2 compression driver. Since a few months ago I altered my idea to use the EV T-350 tweeter ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Ari Polisois’ Direct-Coupled Simplex by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fun with transformers? in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
[quote user="Resorob"]I realise that this is a very old post, but you might want to take a look over here=>> http://www.valvediy.com/simplexpg1.htmlThe article can be downloaded as PDF, the writer Ari Polisois developped a new kind of transform...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: To drive S2 (a comperession driver) with a litle Solid State. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Here's a crazy thought... have you every tried driving the S2 directly from the Placette?! I know the 6E5p does some unique things but I wonder if it might be educational.The placette has a 7 ohm Zout right? Don't forget that that do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: ML3 and Wilson by Stitch on 2012-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.2 and Mark the BS teller. in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... mostly idiots and Lamm cronies...The caT[/quote]I am guilty. I own ML2.1 :-)   But modified. And I use it with a 99dB Speaker....I listened to these ML3 amps for a longer time, owner System, no demo. The problem in gene...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Our foreign correspondent in Brooklyn Rich Fershtinkiner recently interviewed Vladimir Lamm, the owner and chief-assembler of the Lamm Industries Incorporated. Below is the Rich’s transcript: - Good morning sir, you owe me $2345.00 – said Vladi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I would not use PP for compression drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Amplification for Compressions drivers? Sound? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  19 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"] Hello Romy, have you searched for explainations for these observations? Are there others who made the same observations and tried to explain them? Does the damping factor play a role?From my limited experience I can say that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Expectations: Lamm ML3 will be demonstrated at CES-2008 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
I got surprising amount of emails form visitors of my site asking is I will be going to CES-2008. Nope, I am not. My days and interests with CES are over, I closed down that show and I hope the rest of the industry would follow me on it. In fact I ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Tenor amplifier and the writing waves. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Tenor amplifier and the writing waves. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
I was pointed out today to 6Moons review of Canadian Tenor amp: http://6moons.com/audioreviews/tenor/m350.html written by Mike Malinowski -I do not know who the guy is. I have to admit that I treat anything that come from 6Moons with certain grain ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Lamm ML3+LL1- another stupid $200 worth review. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
A few years back an editor of a “famous” audio publication asked me if I write for him. I explained to him that I have no interest to build my own audio clientele, that have no cronies manufacturers whose products I would like to promote, that I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Monitors: eventually! by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Well, it took almost two month and much more money then I thought but I was eventually able to get very decent sound out of monitors.  The SL600 sitting on my “fundamental channel’s” tripods did not do well as I told before and I was forced to s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Naming own sense of really. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]If you are a manufacturer with a range of products you have to export and sell to distributors all over the world (many of whom don't speak english), it is far easier to give your products numbers rather than names. It is a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: It is not the Cult Nerd Fantasies, perhaps for 70s… by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamaha B-2 V-FET amplifier. in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] my own recent experiments have shown that dialing in voltage and current is just as Big a Deal with SS as it is with tubes.  Those who merely accept the "factory settings" are (potentially) missing out. [/quote] It it no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: No problems with necessary power by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Upper Bass : Frequency range between 100 and 500Hz – Driver loaded into a 120Hz straight horn, driven by DSET dedicated channel. Mid Bass : Frequency range between 40 and 100Hz – Driver loaded into a 45Hz straight hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: Sitting on a fence with ULF by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I am not sure that I am at final stage of my ULF wondering. I do like the integration-free problem of my ULF via tube crossover. I am a bit concert that I am injecting now + 9dB at sub 20Hz and do not feel that I have too much bass. I am a bit mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Horns and SS A/B amps – no, no, no… by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo copying: Horns troubleshooting in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I put together a hot tube amp channel, and gone is the sound of shattered glass.All three of my receivers were distorting equally horribly.Beware of never-been-serviced vintage solid state, I guess!Anyone know if it is common for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A long tail of “formatting misery”…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Do not touch that used tonearm! in Audio For Dummies ™  7 Replies 
[quote user="darkmoebius"]I asked Jim Hagerman how long it takes to break in interconnects, power cords, speaker, cables, and preamps? He replied  - "Usually about 40-50 hours on a FryK.  The amps are fastest and get most of the way overnig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #148: Hm, either I am an idiot or anybody else are. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I got today the Fostex F120A with all latest and greatest modifications on it. I put is in a temp .7 cu feet box with pretty much open back to see what the Fostex will be all about. I drive it from a bad consumer SS, composite-chip Hitachi amp from 8...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Further comments about the Lamm ML3 (part II) by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3 What is important is to undusted that my view  less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire class of amplifiers. When I to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Lamm ML3 review. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-04 
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="Romy the Cat"]Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3 What is important is to undusted that my view  less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire cla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: "Libertarianism" in amplification. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] Frankly, I am annoyed that I have been unable to grasp your notions of the "X Factor" … [/quote] Borrow L2 for a weekend and you will be able to see it. I it hard to explain. [quote user="Paul S"] So then I imagine Milquiades ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The different views about Celestion SL600. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]What you say may be true. I'm not sure there was an amplifier available in the mid to late 1980's that would have been suitable for these. They did get good reviews but I suspect that some of this was due to awe inspired by...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #185: Sucks and socks… by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-17 
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="Romy the Cat"] Hey, look what I found: 3’5” passive radiator with 30Hz own primary resonance! That is what doctor ordered! http://www.tymphany.com/830878 Not to mention that this beauty costs $12! The Cat[/quote] ...
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