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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: evaluation criteria by cv on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ca(r)t before the horse: evaluation criteria in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
Allo,Well, it was just a deliberately trollsome way to get you to talk about how you evaluate sound/components - obviously you've touched upon aspects of it, but it seems like you have a unified  (and "evolved", to use the site's motto...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The sexiest things.... by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to make a music person to “get” Audio? in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
Interesting, the last night I made a first attempt to teach Amy something about audio. We live together for 6 month and I never made any attempt to bring her aboard to audio world. She love my playback idea but and I love to cruise around her brain o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Start from the goal by steverino on 2015-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tractrix Bass horn vs Spherical Wave Horn - Bass loading in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
I think the issue is not the questions per se but what Musical result are you looking for? We all have make or break criteria for listening to music through audio systems whether stated or unstated. Experience has shown that you need to define the go...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Couldve told me yesterday ;-) by martinshorn on 2018-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
Hi Romy. You hit some point. But thats half obsolete. I shouldntve tried to gather the stuff for the VO copy. That visit to Klaus opened my eyes. I already switched my priorities a view times. From tonality, then resolution, to latest color (VO) but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Virginity and sublimity by clarkjohnsen on 2013-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wine, women, song.. and audio in Playback Listening  71 Replies 
"I suggest that you lose your DRC virginity at the first opportunity; life really is much better when suffused with such sublimity."That line might be taken as patronising except, you are correct, sir! (Only, what if virginity is itself sublime?)I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A Cardboard Effect. by Romy the Cat on 2013-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Cardboard Effect. in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
I have seen this effect before not frequently in my playback however. It happens that I did not listen my main playback attentively for 2 months. Frankly I did not even turn it on for a month or so. With many other things that are going now in my lif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: The interface with a piano is not the ears, rather the hands by rowuk on 2014-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Shopping vs. Piano Shopping. in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
Romy,you are very right about the piano being what it is. Piano players ALWAYS comment the action and response of the keyboard initially. The feedback from the instrument to the player is always tactile first. I am convinced that a concert pianist on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: This is very interesting subject: the cure of audio anti-Brucknerism by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Listening rooms and composers. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
[quote user="Lbjefferies7"] In my new room, I can't find the patience to listen to Bruckner.  I can now listen to concertos and pieces with content in the tone and space, but if the music takes too long to get into it, I become impatient, then feel l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: My idea about sound by Amir on 2009-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio and Music: four levels of unity and separation or… in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
RomyI hope to transfer my idea with my bad english :)I should to say that my view is based on my personal experience and i have no stress on my views.I share my views but for knowing more not for disagree other views because i think this discussion i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What you folks got for Beethoven Piano Sonata sets? by clarkjohnsen on 2005-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What you folks got for Beethoven Piano Sonata sets? in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
[This is a repost from Audio Asylum -- Music Lane]  Not to mince words, I have five. And this from a guy who usually disdains such collections. But there are exceptions. -- Schnabel. (Of course) But he can be overly fierce. -- Claude Fran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Meaningful music? by Antonio J. on 2005-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speakers: a hi-fi disaster. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I very much insist on the fact that I do not retrieve my position on this mater. The relationship between a ‘content loaded music’ and capacity of a 'serious playback' is the only mater that counts and this is the threshold...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Father I confess by Antonio J. on 2005-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How audio started…. in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
I've received and read most of February issue of Stereophile. They review the last M1.2 Reference amplifier and the comments from the reviewer are more about how the music can flow and show as a unique event, with the kind of interaction with th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The BSO and Digital Music. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
This is from BSO web site. I do not post link as they move it around. Go to BSO web site and find Digital Music link, or tab, or whatever... Here is from BSO web site: The BSO Digital Music Service allows patrons to purchase and download from the BS...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Digital by Amir on 2009-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog vs. Digital... without BS. in Didital Things  23 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, the result of direct conversion of analog into digital is practically NEVER exposed to audio people.[/quote]I never heard direct conversion of analog to digital and i should agree that i can not be sure that digita...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: If “that” task were solved then it will be “it”. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
Yes, the enclosure something like this, thanks for tip, miab, but it opens a door for desire more. A good box with fanless operation, 1920 x 1200 pixels touch-screen, 6 hard-drives, remoter control, $650 price tag is very good beginning.  W...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Do It! by Paul S on 2021-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
HL Menken was kind of a jerk in some ways, but he also got a lot right, including: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nobody_ever_went_broke_underestimating_the_intelligence...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Cessaro by coops on 2007-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
Paul Hi, I don't consider myself a dealer, just an enthusiast, I just wanted to discover just what was possible with audio replay, Thomas Woschnicks system (whee i first heard the Alpha's ) was just more real more like real life than anything I had b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #131: Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array by msaudio on 2010-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Your Typical Acoustical Suspension-type Loudspeaker enclosure witch has less then 90 db at 1 watt does not belong with a horn system that starts at 110db at 1 watt, even when you ad more then 1 driver, it is still way to far off to even consider usin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #756: Don´t know if typical but well known . by joaco on 2011-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Romy , I don´t think this is a typical ups unit , but a little more advanced than a typical ups . I think typical UPS does not have double-conversion , at least here in Chile . Note that Pure Power claims "via double conversion technology ..." in som...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: "grasshopper" moment... by HookEm on 2013-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.0 & Lamhorn/AER in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]HE, from what you've said so far, much of what puzzles and interests you now has been thoroughly discussed here for years, and IMO you owe it to yourself to read extensively at this site.  As you begin to "get the idea" you will ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: How consistant is consumer happiness... by Gregm on 2006-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Best of the HE2006!!! in Audio Discussions  14 Replies 
[quote user="angeloitacare"]romyif a "wrong" approach does make a consumer happy, so (...) be it !![/quote]I wouldn't expect anyone to argue against consumer happiness even with a "flawed" system. However, I'd say that this consumer happine...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Design Philosophy by David Berning by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
 An Audio Amplifier Design Philosophy By David Berning ( Courtesy Meta-Gizmo.com ) I became interested in audio at a very young age because I liked music, but was too uncoordinated to be able to p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: State of things this side of the Pond by Antonio J. on 2006-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
I am not a DIYer and have no skills nor knowledge to build the Melquiades, so I contacted a technician here to have one built. He said he could make it and stated the cost at around 3000USD including his working time. He suggested some changes in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: My prediction about it in 2020. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The high-end audio, as it should be. in Off Air Audio  2 Replies 
I think this time is coming. As the idiots who run today high-end audio thankfully (!) are dying out the entire concept that a bunch of self-pompous ignorant fools own audio destitution chain will be vanished and will be replaced by more liberal and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: It perhaps uses the same synapses? by rowuk on 2020-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the thoughtfulness of large timing offset. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
The audiophools have a term PRaT: Pace, Rhythm and Timing that apply here - even if many do not understand that this is NOT something that makes you tap your toes to the banjo... Performing jazz musicians have a term "groove" that covers similar terr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: What you do right now by Jorge on 2012-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to make money in Audio in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
I just don´t see Romy running around trying to satisfy a customer and his wife with the color selection of the carpet!  I am sure you will be great at whatever you set your mind to, but try to stay on your comfort zone.Lets say you decide to make...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: “We do not wash windows anymore…” by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
The guys like J.G. Holt brought to the wide public the things, from which “all the crap begun”. Holt was the first who came up in mass-publication with a concept of looking at the music through the dirty window where his new term “transparency” is cl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Getting more from MF channel: AMI™ solution by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting more from MF channel: AMI™ solution in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Part 1 - Introduction A few weeks I was sitting at Boston-shore of Charlse River, was looking at the passing water, was smocking my long and cheap cigar and played in my mine the first movement of Beethoven Third. I was thinking about S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: It is about softness, stupid. by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
I is funny how my listening attitude is working. While my midbass horn is not built I do not listen music on my main system. I listen in via my MiniMe (Dunlavy 3) or in my headphones at work. At my home system I do not listen but rather think how it ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Time by twogoodears on 2008-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Romy:let's do not name those "four letters horizontal, the first a "G"..." brand... specializing bandwidth, high flux, moronity in selling ethics, non-advertising/word of mouth hypes, creating a status-symbol... these and others are all sub-prod...
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