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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A use of extraordinarily long arms. by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A use of extraordinarily long arms. in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
I see a lot of problems in his specific implementation but the idea of extra long arms always fascinated me. In the past I has Micro Seki 16’ arm – the longest arm I ever seen. But those Portuguese guys went further… This photograph was sent to me by...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Computer Audio - like everything else - Keep it ultra thin optimized t... by wlowes on 2012-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Computer Audio - like everything else - Keep it ultra thin o... in Didital Things  2 Replies 
My journey with computer audio offers me reason to be optimistic. I think it is like everything else in the audio chain. Everything counts. Keep it as simple as possible. The power for every consumer is important. Keep the number of parts and transfo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Softer, Gentler LPs by Paul S on 2009-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sensible record cleaning: vinyl piranhas and record Vaseline in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
I forgot to mention that I have for a while feared that some "commercial cleaning solutions" and "treatments" use pernicious chemicals that actually "soften" the vinyl, at least for a while.This would certainly tie in with the "transformation" I have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Turntables testing by "some people in Germany & Japan" by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
A site reader sent me email: “ …some guys in Germany & Japan have put it [Micro RX5000] up against the Continuum and other ultra expensive high end tables with older vintage arms similar to your SME 3012 and shamed the newer tables.... “I asked a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #168: You need to pause, David. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-10 
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David, that is funny that you are stressing my SX8000 or even mention it, if you ever invest the effort to read the site, or at least the thread then you would understand how out of context your manner. The AF1/Micro is kind of irrelevant, this threa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #174: Air Force 3 by guy sergeant on 2015-05-17 
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I see Tech Das launched a new baby TT at Munich. The Air Force 3 looks more like a Micro than the other two. While not built on quite the same scale it still features an air bearing and actually looks prettier, for what that's worth, than the other t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #109: Much to do about oil. by jam on 2017-11-13 
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The oil I use has a viscosity of about 30-31 and I have used it for years with no problems. I have tried about six different viscosity oils and grease and the best results were with in the range I specified for (sound as well as mechanically), please...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: About Micro, AF-1 and the rest... by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-29 
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[quote user="jam"] (maybe another RX-5000 as a flywheel might work?) If not set up correctly(which can be a pain) it can cause problems. [/quote] In my case use the RX-5000 as a flywheel did not work. I mean it “worked” well from mechanical per...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #708: The metamorphoses complete? by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]To my surprise, pleasure and horror they all turned out to be absolutely differently sounding. PP2000 #1. This one that has been using all week - the updated my old PP2000 (new version of motherboard). This one the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: HD Radio is nothing more than FM dildo. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HD Radio? Good, bad or ugly? in Off Air Audio  7 Replies 
Well, Doug My attraction to HD Radio statred from the moment when I learned that my WGBH does one less step of analog compression for DH1 compare to FM and do not use limiting-out  at HD2 for live-to-tape recordings. Very promising, isn’t it?&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Vitavox S2 revelation: follow up by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The S2 has own very idiosyncratic upper range with own helpful resonances injected into sound.  I feel that that original metal suspension diaphragm does it bolder and more aggressively then the plastic suspension dia...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Tweeter Integration by Jorge on 2011-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
Hello Haralanov,It is hard to talk about sound, and define points: this is why the post is so long.Most systems I have lisitened to that measure a flat response have exagerated high frequencies and usually the midbass is a little shy,  this might be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #262: It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molecular sound”. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Well, I have to admit that I did not listen the whole sound of AC vs. DC filaments yet.  I will bring home today my DC lab supply that I use for my electromagnet coil and will give the try. I still at this point am not concerned about the “whole ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Letting Micro Seiki RX-5000 to go. by Romy the Cat on 2012-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
I have one of my newest Micro Seiki RX-5000 sitting in basement for years and doing nothing and I decided to let it go. I was keeping it for year as some kind of back up TT, in case my 8000 got broken or as TT that I would be able to use at...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Schröder, Walker and a weekend with Bernie by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schroder Tonearms in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Frank himself will often cut in at this point to head off most of the speculative nonsense.  Not to co- opt him here, but I find it interesting that most of the Schroder arms (sorry, no umlaut...) are particularly subject to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The guessing about the Mantis… by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
[quote user="starboy"] Romy wrote... He will go away over it in a few years... That he may just like Fannie mac or whatever, until then I guess he will be hand making those carts in his workshop. [/quote] Actually it was my typical mistype. I met t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: My revision by Amir on 2016-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"]these are my findings about computer audio after some trial error:1. computer audio is very very hardware/OS/software dependent. computer structure is multi task (time sharing) and using it as a real time single task processor is n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: Get the lead out? by Wellington on 2017-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
I have not opened my bearing yet to change the oil, following the philosophy of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. It’s a different situation here than a car’s oil. The seals prevent the oil from being exposed to oxygen, moisture and other contam...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: That is very nice. by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-07 
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[quote user="Wellington"]Perhaps the best test is to play well-recorded piano which runs up and down the scales. Notes exciting resonances may sound slightly louder, with more smearing and sustain. When resonances are vanquished, the music flows ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Are You On the Road to Audio Hell? by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Are You On the Road to Audio Hell? in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
Here is an article by Leonard Norwitz that I think some of you might find motivating. I do not know Mr. Norwitz but it sounds like dinked too mach Qvortrup’s coca-cola. Anyhow, although I do not agree with some (sometimes many) of the Mr. Norwitz’s c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Further guidelines for Audio Neutrality... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] Yes, we are saying the same thing.  The problem as I have found it is that transparency is easily recognized and so there is a tendency for audiophiles to focus on this when they try to improve their systems, and this can ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: Resolution of a pixelated flare by jessie.dazzle on 2010-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...the common rule is to beef up the joints but I propose more elegant approach – to jam the horn by spreading the possible “micro mouths” vibrations. To do is very simple – slice the sections not perpendicular to the horn axis but at ang...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Micro Seiki MAX 282 Questions by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro Seiki MAX 282 Questions in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
Hi, George First off all I have to mention that I use Max 282 as my “second” arm. I mean my best stereo cartridge I use with 3012 as I feel that it has more interesting lover bass and upper bass then 282. The 282 has slightly hollow and slightly bor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Denon 103 by starboy on 2004-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
Well I'll 'fess up to the possible reason that this thread has had so many hits, I linked it to a thread on another site that has a few 103 owners (and remember for every owner there are many reading/waiting to become disciples due to the "...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Air fencing by steverino on 2014-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The dynamic range of our playback in Playback Listening  20 Replies 
I never equated transient information with microdynamics nor did I say it was articulation. Microdynamics is not simply piano and macrodynamics is not forte. Transient (onset) noises are what give different instruments their timbral character. Of cou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Skating around the issue by Wellington on 2015-10-08 
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Sorry, but I have to tell you that you do have it backwards on the skating forces. Just Google for a force diagram. Another way to know is to look at how the anti-skating force is applied in arms using the weight, pulley and monofilament line approac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #175: Who knows... by Romy the Cat on 2015-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
It looks like the Air Force prodigally follow the rule of the game: to introduce some kind of flashy avantgarde model, make a lot of noise over it and then while the noise up to introduce a less expensive model that collects the publicity of the f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: And I'm not trying to sell it! by Wellington on 2017-07-23 
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It is entirely possible to buy a good flat CU-180. I have two from eBay there were correctly advertised as being flat. I have also seen them on eBay as being "slightly bent". Those you avoid.But I agree that a replica is a real possibility. I never s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #163: Your highly questionable literature. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-09 
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[quote user="dkarmeli"]If the rest of the setup is up scratch then all you get is the recording and you'll forget about they system. Your body and mind will relax and allow you to have the same emotional connection with the music as you'd have in a l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The Sonic Monosodium Glutamate by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playing music for visitors. in Playback Listening  11 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] I am certain that the depth of such an experience .. is very dependant on the system+room; whether something in the system can bring about a more crystalline state of mind… I will be very curious to see how this 7th chann...
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