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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Interesting… by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
Interning, I never heard about them. Might I ask you what triodes were used in this thing, how many stages and what “most advanced RIAA available” the unit use? I understand that it is passive EQ but what is so unique about it? Also, if it might act ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #183: Exorcisms by N-set on 2012-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Paul, after a month of vacations I've tried you advice:[quote user="Paul S"]If you can do it, try isolating both cases/chasses from your "ground plane(s)". Use one inclusive "ground plane" for both the PS and the gain/RIAA sections, and ground this "...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: I might unwillingly bring to my home… by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
It is exactly what the “End of Life” means – you know all necessary answers and have no needs to prove anything to anyone. I heard from you before that you do not like 834PT’s sound, I presume that it was ether bad 834PT, or extraordinary-horrible st...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #168: EMF and "Split" "Grounds" by Paul S on 2011-11-23 
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If you can do it, try isolating both cases/chasses from your "ground plane(s)". Use one inclusive "ground plane" for both the PS and the gain/RIAA sections, and ground this "ground plane" to the house "neutral" wire. Do NOT connect any shielding to t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: bad Idea of a 3way horn system by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idea of a 3way horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Angelo,Although the idea might be looks like an “elegant” at a hi-fi shows but unfortunately it has a lot of pitfalls, the terminal pitfalls for my point of view. This is only my opinion but still:1) LF channel- the bassmaxx. I never had or hear...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Transformers & Transformers.... by Thorsten on 2005-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]T, thanks for educational reply. I understand what you are saying and where you are coming from but unit I try better transformer, presumably your S&B TX-102 I would not be able to correlate your observations with my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My Analog Playback: the fat lady has sung by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Analog Playback: the fat lady has sung in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
Sometimes ago I received an email from a NY guy that I know: “I borrowed a friend's Sansui TU-X1 and just like I heard them at your place it sounds fantastic! What is it about this tuner?  There is such an ease to the presentation and no distra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Only with a preamp by anthony on 2019-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] Anthony Do I remember that a big part of Romy's choice for a pre-amp was based on the specific needs of his DSET Milq, with it's inter-stage X/Os?  And do I remember the Placette Active Pre-amp has consistent, fu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The self-tunable auto-RIAA? by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: AMR PH-77: just another phonostage or more? in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
Thinking further about what AMR PH-77 is trying to do some ideas come to me… At my photography life time when we use to shot on color reversal films we included a gray scale.  I personally never was huge fun of this practice as the E6 process ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: This is a full functional pramp. by Romy the Cat on 2014-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Expressive Technologies Model 1 preamp in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Nope, if they said that it has 64dB then it has 64dB and I have no reasons to doubt. In reality the gain stages sum 84dB and 20Db is eaten by RIAA. I do not know how they got from 3 stages of 6SN7 84dB but if they claim that the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Very nice, Thorsten!!! by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"]I have kept the 600R arrangement, but I cleaned up the circuit a lot. The new stuff was posted over at the AudioAsylum, not a place you are terribly fond of. If you still have the Phonostage you build it might be worth rolling ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Gain vs. Output Impedance vs. Z by Paul S on 2019-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Anthony Do I remember that a big part of Romy's choice for a pre-amp was based on the specific needs of his DSET Milq, with it's inter-stage X/Os?  And do I remember the Placette Active Pre-amp has consistent, fully buffered 10R out?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: More about the air caps. by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-08 
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[quote user="Thorsten"]If you do, do seek out old Air dielectric AM tuning Capacitors. You only need 110pF & 330pF, both can be found suitably. Once you tuned the RIAA to perfection simply superglue the shaft in.... I used to use that trick in pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #235: Calibration problem by N-set on 2012-11-24 
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Experimenting with Decca carts, I've temporaly disconected the SUT's and decided to check the RIAA calibrationand I think I have some (circuit?) problem.[quote user="Romy the Cat"] In the end of everything I was able to get very nice response. The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Taking neutral when/where one can get it by Paul S on 2007-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
The TAP TVC does happen support a fully balanced topology, for whatever that's worth.  I have not discovered anything difinitive about this for myself, however.  I can say that I do not consider the unit's situational neutrality as anything...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Thorstenisation of magnetism... by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
T, thanks for educational reply. I understand what you are saying and where you are coming from but unit I try better transformer, presumably your S&B TX-102 I would not be able to correlate your observations with my, perhaps too semi-prejudicial...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: The Alnic’s Preamp Mystery #2 by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It is not a the thread about Allnic but LCR RIAA correctors, still there was something expressed in here about the Allnic LCR phonocorrector… and  I feel bad about it. It is not that I don’t think that Allnic LCR phono...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The "Least" Approach by Paul S on 2013-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What Is The Minimum for an "Acceptable" Phono Stag... in Analog Playback  12 Replies 
Rowuk, we do not disagree about the "battery/dynamics" equation.  As you know, the "accepted notion" from the pundits is that "battery phono stages lack dynamics", and the one expensive unit I've heard did seem lethargic, albeit in a "salon".  Howeve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Re: Help to identify 0A2 tube. by deemon on 2005-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gas voltage reference 0A2 tubes. in Melquiades Amplifier  42 Replies 
Hi Jack ,Thank you for your very educational info ! It looks like you are right , and your tubes are rebranded SG13P ....  Maybe a big stock of those tubes were exported , and you know them better than we do :-)And another question . You wrote :...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Inductive RIAA link by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
BTW, the hoodlums who are interested about Inductive RIAA might fins this link useful: http://digilander.libero.it/paeng/inductive_riaa.htm The Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Denon 103M by Romy the Cat on 2004-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
Hm, I just paid attention that over 1000 people  have reviewed this thread… I’m keep receiving emails form people who feel “insulted” that I did not keep the popular DL103 and DL103R at the level of respect as it treated by those Audiogon intel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #169: Grounding, tarnnies and diodes by N-set on 2011-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]If you can do it, try isolating both cases/chasses from your "ground plane(s)". Use one inclusive "ground plane" for both the PS and the gain/RIAA sections, and ground this "ground plane" to the house "neutral" wire. Do NOT conne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: EQ Adjustment by Thorsten on 2010-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
Hi, [quote user="Romy the Cat"] An interesting devise, They allow to adjust the midle point of the RIAA curve. I never have seen it and I wonder why would it be necessary or desierable?[/quote]Well, a range of mono EQ curves (and o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #120: A few comments. by Romy the Cat 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 
1)      Be very careful with use Halco resistors. They were very good 15 years back but they turned south very aggressively. I bought a party of Halco in 2005 and I forced myself to trashed them as they were very noisy. You do not use then in critica...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: Air caps?Buffer? by N-set on 2011-11-29 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Did you try just for test to increase the caps value that short the plate to ground? Will it amount and the character of the noise change? [/quote]Just like one would expect: 0.1uF shorting cap gives approx 4x more ham than...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: Hum again. by AlexBerger on 2010-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Romy,I have rebuilt my phonostage (the pictures after update are added to Picasa):1. Fixed filament.  Now a ripple about 1mV (unmeasured by my Fluke).    The filter is: C-L-C-L-C 30000uf-3mH-30000uf-3mH-30000uf.   I put two 3mH chokes & Nichico...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: High Resolution and 16 bit by tuga on 2009-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD off tune? The Big CD Conspiracy theory? in Didital Things  9 Replies 
[quote user="Axel"]is what I assume that your CD's source is all about. So it could be in deed a problem having used the 'original' master tape (analogue) which might have had a slight problem, stretched, or issues with the equipment speed (slight sp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Further thoughts about ULF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Me being exuberant about the new ULF capacity does not necessarily mean that ULF contribution is right and proper, let me to explain. There is a musical event that has it sonic representation. This sonic representation better or worst was captured by...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #121: Miscelanea by N-set on 2011-09-01 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1)      Be very careful with use Halco resistors. They were very good 15 years back but they turned south very aggressively. I bought a party of Halco in 2005 and I forced myself to trashed them as they were very noisy. You...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: LCR Promotion by perrew on 2009-11-03 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Perrew,I do not know if you use sarcasm in there but Lamm LP2 is not my bellowed phonostage. In fact I am one of the very few people whop do not like it at all. How much in what I do not like in Lamm LP2’s MM section com...
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