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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Confused by Amir on 2018-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] So, you get a pair of loudspeakers and a room with comfortable foe you reflection pattern. You set up left loudspeaker (left for you) where I need to be. I always suggest starting from left loudspeaker as it cares the f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: I say . by unicon on 2010-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new 'chic' foolishness about mono systems in Audio For Dummies ™  48 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]Romy,,Romy,, romy,,,,,Some times you can be so thick headed...in the logic of mono and its correct use,,nothing faulty...All music performed is live,,,and at times localzation is not percieved,,,How is mono haveing practical advant...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #509: PP2000 evaluation by Bill on 2010-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Have purchased two of the units for evaluation, using them for right and left channel and sources. Have also been using Romy's unit for the surrounds. Each running at about 35-45%. Sound is phenomenal; best I've ever heard from my system. One problem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: More on the 2A3 comparisons by drdna on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I was thinking about this: how come that driving 6C33C (in fact driving anything one can imagine) the 6E5P was very fine but driving 2A3 it was dull like hell. I opened the amp and tested all – everything was perfect but th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Options: Driver location & orientation of flare by jessie.dazzle on 2010-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Thinking about your options, I would locate the driver at the top inside corner of the horns (horns viewed while looking into mouth), and develop the horn flare from there. See explanations below:Driver located high and inside: "Hypotenus wall" of ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Re: Any IC-base RIAA corrector.... by Thorsten on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Tm I ma glad that your “Manhattan project” is over as I was a little scared….[/quote] As you well know, it ain't over till the Fat Lady sings.The "Manhatten Project" will be back.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This phono...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Slick inelegance by N-set on 2013-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Very slick and very inelegant. [/quote]Hahaha, thank you Romy :)[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Juts to ice the cake I would provision 4 hooks atop of the insert that would allow you to hang the insert to the air-suspended pla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #357: Smile when you say that! by drdna on 2009-07-06 
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"]I do not remember that “recommended” APS. I do insist that it is the only devise If  does what I want a power devise to do with sound. Is it as recommendation or motivation to buy for others? [/quote]Actually, Romy specific...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: "the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first and now...&q... by oxric on 2011-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Dose the midbass horns semi-mono location has an impact to the “width” of playback. Yes it dose and I did clerlay expressed it in posts what I played with idea of width modulation channels. [/quote]Romy, I think that I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #132: They are for mA by anthony on 2018-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]You decided to go with mA or are they mV against 1R resistors? I prefer the second approach personally and I feel that I can moderate the quality of resistor and I can’t moderate the quality of the milliampere meter coil....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1613: Everything and Nothing by drdna on 2018-07-26 
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"]Man, you need to get life, man...This site is not Audigon and no one use here facades of lies and fears.[/quote]Aha! There's the Romy we know and love![quote user="Romy the Cat"]and my wife claims that I know everything.[/q...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: S2 problems, wish list? how to move forward by morespeakers2 on 2013-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Oh well I tried.  I though I was clearly asking some easy questions about two similar drivers and the small details of what makes them sound different. I obviously did not do a good job at this.I thought Romy being very familiar with the S2 and also...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Driver tubes, grid leak biasing, and fidelity by AnonymousUser on 2006-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Driver tubes, grid leak biasing, and fidelity in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
peter wrote: By "dynamic viscosity" do you mean the reluctance of an amplifier to be dynamic, i.e., the degree to which an amplifier sounds like it is bogged down, usually as a result of a poor rise time on transients, i.e., poor HF response, or a tu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #122: Being clean, making clean, or keeping clean ? by el`Ol on 2008-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have to admit that I am not a huge fun of TAD drivers. They have a good bacterially clean sound but truly nothing really special. Rgs, Romy the Cat[/quote]If everything in a recording / playback chain was clean in the sen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #705: So what counts as "identical" then? by manisandher on 2011-01-07 
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"]The change of the voltage from battery and from AC always was there, I have seen it on all PurePower Units but I did not even report it as I find it absolutely irrelevant.[/quote]Romy, you've said in the past:[quote user="R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The rest of it by anthony on 2016-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Well, acg, I am not wild about your idea of the curved frame, primary on the reason of esthetics but it is your speaker not mine and you shall do whatever pleases you. A few mandatory things that I would like to men...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #121: Miscelanea 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 
[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 #11: Re: Bingo!!!! by Thorsten on 2005-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"] After some experiments and still being dissatisfied with the HF I ended up consulting with Dima.  He spread me a theory according to which the HF was killed by my coupling Silver Mica cap. All my arguments that sil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: No, i don't know how to design that by Vasyachkin on 2010-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Do you personally recognize the sonic impact of bad electricity in your own playback?[/quote]no, not in the sense that i assume you mean it.  instead i have my own beef with bad electricity, which i suspect is different fro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: The minimum order is 25 pairs, that is 50 units. by oxric on 2011-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I wonder: does it mean that you will take the rest 28 drivers? Hm, are you trying to research the subject of the drivers’ critical mass or become a speaker maker? Be careful with their claims that they will be “manufactured...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Driver tubes by Chirag on 2005-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? in Melquiades Amplifier  27 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Hey, Chirag, long time no see. [/quote]Hi Kitty,I always try to see whats going on on this site, but by the end of the day I'm usually too bloody tired to think clearly enough to write something of interest.  This week...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: Let look at audio shows slightly more serious. by clarkjohnsen on 2006-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF06 Show Report in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
Romy writes:[quote]In Vegas I have seen 25% of the systems run with inverted channels.[/quote] More like 50%, Romy.[quote]I do not value accidents very high.[/quote]We have a word in English: Serendipity. And it is good.clark...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Archive recordings by RonyWeissman on 2012-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to make money in Audio in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
Orchestre de Radio France archival recordings of live concerts all day on the radio. Phenomenal performances with lush, full textured strings, crisp horns, deep bass volume. Isaac stern playing the brahms violin concerto and I am in heaven.Romy can't...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: uhmmm ... by Markus on 2007-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Hi Romy,I usually manage to read you quite well, but this [quote user="Romy the Cat"] direct or indirect phase constructors.[/quote]has me baffled. What do you mean, please?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Learning about horns. by drdna on 2007-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: German Odeon horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Sure, there is a LOT of wrong with those horn but still people are trying something, poorly but still trying…[/quote]You say there is a lot wrong here, but the fundamental setup is actually rather similar to the Macondos it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: New Russian Tube! by drdna on 2009-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More power from Melquiades? More powerful tube? in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]There was a cool Russian-made tube GU-48...  I do not think that it would be worse; in fact I think it might be even better… [/quote]Wait, Romy, you think a RUSSIAN product might be better?  That is a surprise!:)Seriously t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Dynamic dynamics by Bill on 2021-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
While I have heard the terms static dynamics, micro and macro dynamics, I have never heard of dynamic dynamics. Are you referring to the term “changing dynamics”, which means a volume change, either gradual or instantaneous. What was missing yesterda...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Hrx Discs by coops on 2008-05-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Credibility of digital information in Didital Things  5 Replies 
Oliver/Romy  have either of you heard the HRx discs produced by 'reference recordings' yet? ( or the berkeley audio design  Alpha dac ), I don't sell them Romy ! ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #919: PP2000 not a panacea by manisandher on 2011-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Hi Emanuele,FWIW, I've been disappointed with my PP2000 (the 230V model). I love the sound then it's running from battery, but think it totally destroys the sound when running under 'regenerator' mode. And as Romy has pointed out, this is totally una...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #594: 'Dirt' injection by manisandher on 2010-12-01 
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"]Another cool discovery is that the new PP2000 looks like inject back to AC line less dirt then they did before, but it might be coming from the fact that I run each unit at own dedicate line and each units is loaded 3 time ...
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