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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #996: More about PP radiation. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"] Romy said "When I had my magnetic and EMI probes running with open PP2000 cover then the probes showed me that I was in the middle of Chernobyl Black Forest. I think the PP3000  even more poisoning..." Now I begin to u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1513: Now that I think about it, maybe there are easy possibilities! by rowuk on 2016-01-26 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]rowuk , you are not wrong feeling that what we do with PS and Mains regenerator is kind of ridicules. Indeed we convert AC to DC, then to AC against and then to DC again. If you use SS then it very much makes sense to ru...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1542: Power cords my ass. by Romy the Cat on 2017-02-20 
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Power cords is the most ridicules subject that I have seen in audio and they define all rules, would it be stupid rules or sensible rules. There is absolutely no difference in power cords construction, built quality, price, material use, insolatio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Reliability and stability of 6C33C? by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Well, I would say that “something is wrong” as what you report it is not how it shall be. I had my doubts about the rational to use 6C33C in direct heating coupling but the “danger” in direct coupling uselessly coming from the plate of the driver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Conflicts resolution. :-) by Romy the Cat on 2018-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Paul McGowan. tubes in preamp in Audio News  12 Replies 
Well, the conflict you pointed might sound reasonable but not completely. The First quote is taken from a thread “Disregard Digital with Vacuum Tube output”. In there I advocated do not look into D/A converters with tube output stages. In was in 2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: RE: What's the deal with Tantalum Caps? by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do some very interesting experiments with Rohde & Schwarz tuner. Dima and I have discovered a way to use the Schwarz without the wide bandwidth amplifier, driving the Multiplex Decoder from the Schwarz’s preamps. Bas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lamm’s new phonostage. by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm’s new phonostage. in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
Lamm introduces a new product, the LP1 Signature phonostage. Vladimir was planning to do it for a long time as his parley into “reference” series and after his from my point of view failure with LL2 phonostage. The new LP1 Signature phonostage...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #95: There is “something”… by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="RF at Ona"] Romy,I might have overlooked something on your site but I understand that your ULF amp is driven directly by the preamp line stage. If that is the case, you may want to consider an old technique for integrating subwoofers...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Heating is an issue... by anthony on 2015-08-04 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Generally I like it but I have some concerns, whatever rubber feet and decompiles you will be using you will not defeat the vibration if you have a few transformers and a few 500A input chose sitting at the bottom. You w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Bass Horn vs. Sealed Enclosures. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Actually it is very interesting question and I almost feel you pain for decision you will be making. I do not think that anyone would be able to express any arbitral opinion about the subject, as least an opinion that worth to follow. You see, buildi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1511: A unified theory of power for Audio? by Romy the Cat on 2016-01-26 
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rowuk , you are not wrong feeling that what we do with PS and Mains regenerator is kind of ridicules. Indeed we convert AC to DC, then to AC against and then to DC again. If you use SS then it very much makes sense to run DC directly to B+. I know...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #322: The Purepower’s things by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-26 
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  Well, dealing with Purepower I think it worth to understand the APS specific. They did not impress me as an engendering shop but rather they are the long-ceremony type of operation. It is not that you comment on some kind of problem on the fi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The new releases from "Music and Arts" by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
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Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Music & Arts' Stokowski Sale by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-05 
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STOKOWSKI - Members' Special Sale(through September 30, 2006) CD-1190(1) STOKOWSKI and KUBELIK conduct: experimental stereo recordings from 1952. JACOB AVSHALOMOV (b. 1919): The Taking of T’ung Kuan (7:53); TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E Min...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Stage Music: get clew. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-28 
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A week or so ago I spoke with a friend of my - he is a perfectly rational and sane person. I send his some music and was asking what was he as thinking about it. He admitted that among the music I sent him he admitted that did not get opera. I was pu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Looking in a darkroom for a black cat which isn't there? by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
[quote user="KOTriode"]Romy,I have good confidence that it was the tubes and not the circuit. I have checked the cathode driver that bias the 6C33C and there was not any problem. Sure if the cathode bias failed, the 6C33C current will shoot way u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: ASP, Lamm, mains and the unknown casualty. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-30 
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[quote user="George"] Even though a PS Audio and others create a perfect AC sine wave this does not seem to be the answer, even for low draw front end components. It seems that some type of problem is still coming through. [/quote] George, you not n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #226: Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I was searching for an answer why squire wave is so screwed and I was advised by the site’s visitors that it is due to HF restriction of my channel. My HF response does look too low to me – the 23kHz; with all my ultra low capacitance magnetic I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: About the bug-screens by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]Romy, I just got a Vitavox S2 into my shop today. I notice that it has a very heavy stainless screen on the front, do you leave the screen on when using the drivers? It looks like it restricts about 50% or more of the thr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The existence of Santa Claus according to GOTO by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="Jeffrey Jackson"] Ming would like to provide this custom basshorn service to his customers in the US market.. Goto Japan has nothing to do with this... [/quote] Very cool, the more “hornier” the better as far as I concern. [quote user...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Fleshing out the design a little more... by anthony on 2015-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote: Then the AC-DC conversion on the first floor, filter caps and output transformers on the third level with the amplifiers sitting proud on top.  I don't want to see any caps or transformers...just valves.P...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: The Super Melquiades is a Perfect Load. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-15 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I kind of like that APS stay behind of their regenerator and that they are trying investigate what went wrong. Who knows, perhaps when the APS unit arrive back to me (after some changes in the unit state) it will be effecti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: Constant voltage transformers and supplementary stabilizers by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-06 
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[quote user="Antonio J."] The electrical supply in my building (I live in an 11th story of a 13th stories building) is very bad, as is in the whole area, which in spite of being residential, has 2 big hospitals around that probably have huge consumpt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1705: The PP in 2020 by Romy the Cat on 2020-10-18 
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Kishore, I do not really know what is going on with them. Last time I dealt with them it 2 year back. The display on one of my units went down and I reputed to them. They told me that is was faulty and sent me a replacement. I was not able to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #718: The depth and longetivity of PurePowering. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-17 
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I would like to offers some thoughts about possible avenues for Pure Power 2000 improvements.  Those thoughts are no specific to the recent November-December events and have broader generic implication. I initially intended to write it to Pure Po...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Few remarks on FC PS, back-modulation and FC + perm. combo (unintentio... by N-set on 2006-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Zdravstvui Roman, hi Chris, I know almost nothing about the relation between sonical effect and physics, so I will only try to speak about the latter. Take it as you wish, I can  as well delete the post if it just increases the entropy. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Ok, I will bite. by Romy the Cat on 2019-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="jackydai"]My basic point is: the flare rate has to be coherent right from the entrance of phase plugs. In this sense, not even Bruce and Sam did it right, I’m afraid to say. In many cases the driver and the horn are designed by diffe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Shedding some light by manisandher on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
I've just received a really interesting email from Mark Donahu,  Chief Mastering Engineer at Soundmirror. I really appreciate his taking time to reply to my query - they're obviously a decent bunch of guys there...PS. Sorry if this post is full of sm...
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