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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Klangfilm: actual knowledge is better then fetish imagination by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Klangfilm: actual knowledge is better then fetish imaginatio... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
The Japanese Christopher Witmer posted at the Sewers some finny pictures of another Klangfilm “invention”.  It is hardly could be imagined more bogus design for a two way horn systems – no wonder that people hate horns… I wonder if one of the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Scalford: another view from a perpetrator by amdismal on 2013-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
And as one of the other perpetrators...The nature of this kind of thing is compromise.  The owner of the bass horn system wanted to run them together, for the enlarged horn mouth, and so we did - there was never going to be enough time to play about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #139: What the hell is going on!!! by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I play a lot of LP recently and last night I noted that sound was quite bad. It was like a bad electricity day only atop of it sound has some kind of odd digitalization atop of everything. Of course I was blaming the PurePo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: I had it wrong all along... by anthony on 2020-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Work has been so crazy busy all last year and through these strange times right now that I have not been having any time to think about the audio project let alone indulge in advancing it.  One DSET/Macondo has been playing mono and I have really bee...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Amps, electronics and voicings by martinshorn on 2018-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
So what was next...They build the DAC, patented the clock... ok.They build their own preamp. Fully descrete class-a balanced, john curl wouldnt do it differently. Nice. Low and adjustable gain - very nice. Constant impedance step attenuator - my favo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Second Sound from Daily Arm? Why? by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro Seiki MAX 282 Questions in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
After more than 10 years of using the Micro Seiki MAX-282 tonearm I realized that if it is my second stereo arm then why I presume it shall have Second Sound? I have properly performing mono and stereo arms and I have a dally arm. The Daily arm is a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: This should help by Brian Clark on 2005-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tell me about more about Ortofone SPU Sound. in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
If it is the CG it should say Dia 25 somewhere - unless it is for 78s when it would say Dia 65. "Dia" for Diamond, the number for the diameter in microns. I guess if it doesn't say this it will be the SPU Mono. Actually, if you remove it from th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Is it “musical” or the 90x is just... by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
...simpler...Yes, I heard 90x multiple times in the diverse systems but it was never possible to make any judgment about 90x as the systems always were inadequate. I got feelings what 90x’s sound is all about. Mostly got the feelings from the feedbac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: Schematics II by N-set on 2011-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Here is the signal box:The design is double mono past the VR's. Including the bias. The coupling caps are Arcotronics KP172 from RS-Online, quite prised by Thorsten Loesch. THey are sitting on sorbothane pads. The air caps are: 1) 365pF some +/- s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Re: The honk - Go figure! by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] But the real reason for my post is to ask:I was thinking about the results you reported and am really scratching my head as to why the FC S2 should sound honky, given that its acoustic geometry is completely unchanged. Any idea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Yes, it is pretty chaotic but still…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time Alignment : Live Performances vs Audio in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"]Yes, I agree they are different issues. However, quite a big however too...It all depends on where we believe 'reproduction' starts. We are very rarely simply reproducing the feed form one single microphone. Choices are made very e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: What is audio ambition? by atilsley169 on 2012-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL Project Array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
When you say it was not very high end...but that you found the sound very good....doesn't that mean you should redefine the term high end? Also. Why can't the purchase of a $20k speaker in itself not be regarded as audio ambition? Regards. T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Building Melquiades Ending... by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Best amplifier is the one that you just built…Yes, it is a common unfortunate law of Audio but the people who know me personally know that try do not behave according to this behavioral pattern. So, this weekend I decided to do try the new Melquiades...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: FM reception & high-rise living by jessie.dazzle on 2008-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
Antonio J. wrote : "...I'm using an indoor antenna which in fact is a small car antenna, placed besides a window. The good part is that I can move the antenna and get the orientation that yields stronger signal. I'm living in an 11th floor in a buil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Re: Interesting: 25Dia VS SPU by Brian Clark on 2005-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tell me about more about Ortofone SPU Sound. in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] When you used your 25Dia then can you recall a similar experience at the beginning of the cartridge live (sharpness and bass)? [/quote] I have yet to own a CG25 Romy, my very first Ortofon - SPU Mono - is on its way fro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The “new” ways for initial records cleaning. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “new” ways for initial records cleaning. in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
I have 4 arms on my TT: reference stereo, romantic stereo, mono and the “shitty” arm. The “shitty” arm is Grado Reference platinum needle with SME M2-12 arm. It is not shitty arm but it has shitty purpose in my setup. When I buy records I pay the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: VTA done right by Stitch on 2013-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: USB microscope for setting VTA in Analog Playback  18 Replies 
I think it is quite helpful to have some information about VTA in general.In the 50's there was no cutting standard, that means, every Label did cut their records the way they wanted ( the angle for Mercury, RCA LS, Decca etc. are all different). At ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Point/no point by Joe Roberts on 2009-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
First off, I will point out that neither Silbatone nor I claim or agree that the Aporia horn is a point source, because clearly it is not. The sound comes from two "areas" but even that is not a particularly useful notion.Although some do make that c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: sub horn configurations by minim on 2007-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
In one idealistic configuration I envisaged for myself, for a situation where cost and practicality no object, the basic room shape was pentagonal, with the facets ot the pentagon curved inwards to eliminate parallel reflecting surfaces and simultane...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #162: Some time on it by anthony on 2019-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Finally, it has happened.  Sound.  Two weeks ago I had a couple of mates help me carry up and install the first DSET on its pedestal on the horn stack.  It was quite a bit of effort and three were definitely required for the heavy but delicate operat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: To know how I can “cheat”. by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]To my understanding, taken individually, your attic horns would be more obviously working in a half-space environment. For any output that is common to both the L and R channels (some in the case of stereo recordings a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: World's Finest Sounding Audio Room by Jordi on 2007-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: World's Finest Sounding Audio Room in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
I have heard hundreds and hundreds of audio systems and mine is by far the best.  Honestly nothing even comes close.  There is a scientific reason for this. MY system starts with a PERFECTLY tuned room...something overlooked by ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: And a secret tip... by op.9 on 2008-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bliss in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
I've no idea if the LP will be better. In my experience Mike Dutton really makes excellent transfers. I'd be fascinated though if you could do better... BTW. do you listen to mono recordings with one single speaker? I've listen to this recording b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: From the last act of the “Die Csardasfurstin” by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Emmerich Kalman (1882-1953) in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Here is an opportunity to here in slightly better. It is 24/88K, 47M mono - file with Kalman from 1954. Do not download it is you can not play high resolution files. http://www.mediafire.com/?gjmzagtmmml The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Bias help by cb on 2007-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Hi Romy I have a mono completed full range Melquiades and another only with the bias circuit hooked-up. The bias voltage I get on the 6e5p is around minus 4.4v on both the circuits. This is with the inputs shorted. With the inputs connected to adj...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: Vincent Hybrid? by jamesrm618 on 2006-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
The Vincent SP-T100 looks close "The SP-T100 is a hybrid mono block with tubes in the input stage where voltage is amplified. The power output Amplifier circuitry works without feedback." Nominal output power Class-A 8 Ohm: 10 Watt Nominal ou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: As I predicted, the SACD keep vandalizing everything. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today’s SACD - music for oscilloscopes. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
As I predicted, the fucking SACD keep vandalizing everything. The SF keep calming about the big efforts that took them cook their Mahler 8 but in the end the morons record everything in SACD. If would be the same if they records it in Mono! ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The "Chernobyl Arm" – a collective reply. by Romy the Cat on 2005-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Here is my new tonearm. in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
I keep receiving emails asking me and complimenting me about this “Chernobyl Arm”. I have difficulties to estimate the worth of the entire project and the most important to pass the value of this worth to others.  The project was very valuable f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Columbia recordings, FM and something else.. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Brahms Double Concerto in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Yes, I very frequently observe this effect. I hear sometimes on air something that make me to call to the station and ask with version it was played and then to my sadness I realized that they play the LP or CD that I have and that does not produce t...

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...
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