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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: More about the Japa-Brazilian horn. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
Merlin, I wonder why you need more information if according to you: “the solution that has not been heard and is not intended for your ears”. You migration from sightless denial to desire of self-education  is very… I would say fast but  st...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Re: Digital - the first dive by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Thanks, jtavan. It was educational. I made some first steps already. I made a slow 233MHz (and presumable it would have lower noise with lower speed) machine with no fans, and a large passive radiator on SPU. Formatted it and loaded Win2K Pro St4. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Is better than Kinetic Systems’ Vibraplane? by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is better than Kinetic Systems’ Vibraplane? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
Thos who use air-suspended platform of large mass (like Vibraplane) under turntable know that they work very nice. Now there is a new idea – to use the no air, ”active” suspension: http://www.techmfg.com/products/tabletop/tabletop_pzt.ht...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Some more comments. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New speaker system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] 7. 4.8" x 4.8"[/quote] Hm, and you used 12” driver with 4.8" x 4.8" thought?  With you look for 6”-8” driver and Fs drivers. I know it would be very hard to find them with near 100dB sensitivity… [quote user="guy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Onkyo Scepter 500 and others by derik736 on 2018-02-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rare Onkyo HM-300 MK2 Horn...need info in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
So, two almost two years later and this contraption is still in my room and "ain´t goin nowhere" :-)Guys, I became obsessed with horn speakers and specially with Onkyo product so I would like to share with you my latest experiences.The speakers I tal...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Submerging deeper into Applied Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Submerging deeper into Applied Audio. in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
I do feel that during the last 3-4 years there was a major shift in my perception of audio.  If before the people who do not share my interests in audio just entertained me with own stupidity then a few years back I begin to feel that they starte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: How to take the TW’s idea of active platter further. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]What attracts me to the TW TT is the idea that it is possible to discard anything that we might consider important but to make the platter as a sandwich what the bottom of the platter care bearing but the top of the platter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Mani and his Pacific empathy journey. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
Mani, I was pointed to your thread at about Pacific: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/Pacific-Microsonics-Model-Two I do not want to join the thread and extend credit to the computer audiophile site. The idiot that runs t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: It would be depending… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
[quote user="jp"]In my experimentations, the da924 doesnt contribute much noise in my setup.  Rather in my setup its the lavry ad122 thats the trouble maker. When all digital is turned off I have a very quiet background.  Here are my observations...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #588: The electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-14 
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"]Ok, I got my two more PP2000, not I have 3 all together and I need to find how to use them. My little celebratory mood with PP2000 is much shorn live and my old PP2000 flying back today to Canada for fixing the problem with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Yes, I know those drivers by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-25 
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"]I found these a few days ago...https://www.solen.ca/pdf/atd/14w2608agti.pdfAny experience or speculation about these drivers?[/quote]They are ADT version of Görlich. I spoke in some extend about Görlich at my site, do the s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Measuring distance in decibels. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Well, what can I say, there is no surprise but the more and more I went into anal-retentiveness of time-aliment the more interesting result I got. Unfortunately with my the frame of my Macondo I was not able to go at the 1/12dB precision, I was able ...

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 #16: The Pacific two is not a virgin anymore. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded.  If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Non-defeatable HDCD encoding @24/88.2??? by manisandher on 2009-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
Here's a reply by Paul Stubblebine to something I posted on computeraudiophile.com:"When encoding to 44.1/16, there are a couple of options for fitting the 24 bit source into the 16 bit delivery format. The user may use one or the other or neithe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #896: Yes, it is a good way of thinking but… by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="spytsi"] On November 3, the very day that you witnessed this unusually good (electricwise?) quality of sound and recorded that voltage in the wire run in your home, the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded some major double solar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #271: Learn to forget by steverino on 2017-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last Friday I have some time free from work and kids and I sat in my listening chair, put some music in spend nice few hour to listen music. The playback sounded very nice. Not nice in audiophile sense but rather very no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #180: Doug Blackburn about Torus RM15 Power devise. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
It would not surprise for anyone that I do monitor what I going on with power treatment devises out there. Today I was reading Doug Blackburn’s review in Soundstage about Torus Power Conditioner. http://www.soundstage.com/equipment/toruspower_rm15.h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: The Hamster speaker becomes the MiniMe? by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Since my Fostex saga went deep South I was scratching my head wondering what  else I would like to do considering the I would like to do as less as possible. Well, talking about to do as less as possible – I like the sound of my shitty Hamster S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Some kind of Grundig… by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some kind of Grundig… in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
It happen that I thought that my old Sony XBR Trinitron TV when sound and I was forced to by a new one. The old TV turner out to be fine and I was stupid to be left with the new one. It is a contemporary LED TV, they say the it is the best. I say...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The amplitude of consciousness by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80 in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
I need to make a warning that this is the very first post in my entire live when I post being drunk, absolutely drunk. I am so drunk that I fondly see this fucking monitor.  I do not drink. I mean I do not drink all together- I do not like alcoh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: CES 2006: Audio by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CES 2006 in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Part 4: AudioThere were very- very few interesting products that attacked my attention. Steven Klein, the Vibraplane guy form NH, who keep buying the audio toys in Japan and selling them to the Americans for quadruple price this time brought an inte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Let practice more applied audio. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Simpson Microphones thread. in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Andy Simpson"]Usually, this is a _time-domain_ artefact of microphone diaphragm resonance, made worse by excessive proximity. [/quote] Very interesting! [quote user="Andy Simpson"]Then, finally and most horribly, we have the brain, wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The difference between 'the same' and 'equally real' by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Simpson Microphones thread. in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="tuga"]  Andy Simpson wrote: Hi Tuga,<BR><BR>I have no argument here.<BR><BR>My main test procedure is to set up the monitors either side of the source and match playback SPL for direct bl...

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 #3: The unsuccessful "quest for a better monitor" by tuga on 2014-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First order filtration and design methods. in Audio For Dummies ™  3 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It was a conversation a few days back at one of UK forum:  http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=113989#113989 The unfortunates from the forum did not get the message. They with their Chines...

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 #3: #1) The first things first. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Ok, the very first thing in your way to the proper Imbedded Macro-Positioning is to undusted what you what to accomplish. Most of you redder can not understand it before 2 reasons: 1) You were thought and learned wrong thing for too long2) ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Actually I do think that my retort is necessary by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cerebral and psychological evolution of amp matching for the... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
[quote user="Tax"] Your post has had the desired effect and I am doing some more research into Fane Studio 8M, 16 Ohm drivers in a 4 inch throated horn tuned to 115Hz with the intention of crossing it from 70Hz to 500Hz . This may be similar to w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #224: My DH DSET – 2 days later. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I made experiments running HF filaments from dedicated Hammond 6.3V transformer vs. lifting ground on my 6.3V IDH filaments. I did not listen Sound but rather measure the noise – the result was identical. In the best cases I was able to get 0.63m...
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