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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The Jubilee reviews? by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Art Dudley did a pretty fair review of the Jubilee for Stereophile a couple of years back. Of course, he is selling it, so one must +/- read between the lines. Still, he at least touches on/talks about the important stuff in term...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The DD, Idler or Belt from 50.000 feet. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
Stitch, the only thing that you are missing is paying attention to the OMA advertisements and truing to recognize behind it any rational beside a pimp yearling own merchandise (in fact it is not his merchandises). I told many times before tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: This is one of the works that should be appreciated “live” only. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My new favorite "New World" (Karel Ancerl/Czech Ph... in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
Hm, this is funny you are ask because I spinning now Toscanini 1953 play in Carnegie Hall with NBC. The “New World”… The “New World” is well celebrated work and everyone played it. Here are a few memorable that came to my mind: (with no order)Stokows...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Symphonic cooking? by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Targeted Audio Listening is like a high-end cooking, or the ... in Playback Listening  13 Replies 
I was cocking pelmeni this weekend.  Pelmeni is Russian meal, slightly reminding Chinese steam dumplings but boiled with different dough, and much smaller. So it was perhabs 20-30 of those miniature Pelmeni dumplings…. While I was making them (of cau...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Budificatiuon by Russians by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] [/quote] Here is the very same idea that I had with  introduction of bitten edge of my MF horn only made but some Russian guy. I do not know him and I do not know what drove him but the intention is very clear. He uses 4...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #126: Damping materials revisited by jessie.dazzle on 2010-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
jd wrote:"...There is a Spanish company that offers a solution in the form of a semi-cured, gooey, squishy, rubbery sheet with an adhesive backing on one side... It is about 1/4" thick, and is sold in rolls... It is very heavy; a pair of 2m x 1m roll...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: I do not like all of it…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An unexplored way to deal with the sound/music perception in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]This is unfortunately +/- what I'd expect from torsion field followers.Akimov and Shipov are two Russian "academics" behind the very concept.[/quote] I do not know who Akimov and Shipov are and I do not know what the “concept” is....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Preorder your Hindenburgs by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dynamic viscose stabilization of turntable’s platter. in Analog Playback  15 Replies 
[quote user="Lbjefferies7"] I do have an interest turntables now as I am looking to upgrade my sources (digital too). It is doubtful that I will go in such an insane direction...It would probably be much more valuable to dredge up an old RX-5000 or 8...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Of mosfets, caps and distortion. by Brian Clark on 2008-06-04 
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"]Brian, and how do you find your MOSFET behaves compare the 12AX7-based cathode follower?[/quote]Romy, I have yet to try. Only got them on recommendation very recently. They're cheap enough to try in a B9A plug-in without al...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Russian duo-pianists Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin play Liebeslieder ... by Reggie on 2009-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My today’s views on LP culture and my audio habits. in Analog Playback  24 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]I will still buy clean Seraphims with good program material if I do not have the original.  If I do have the original, I pass on the Seraphim, even as a "back-up", UNLESS it is a record I have loved so much that I am killing it.M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Selfdenial as Audio Tower of Babble? by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts) in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] So, here we are, adrift on the great big sea of audio tomfoolery, without a metaphorical paddle. If we can on the one hand hear any and every change in our systems, then this implies that everything is worth considering. If we a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The best audio system: my secrets are partially out. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best audio system: my secrets are partially out. in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
If you thoughtfully read my site then here and there (particularly in the articles about Lamm ML2) you read my “absurd” comments that the best performing system is the system that do best Sound while the power amplifiers not even plugged in the p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tchaikovsky’s “Evgeny Onegin” by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky’s “Evgeny Onegin” in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
“Evgeny Onegin” is kind of idiosyncratically-charismatic Russian opera. As beautiful it is the “Onegin” has no typical thrill that the ordinary opera lovers accustomed to get rush upon. It has nether gipsy colors on the stage, nor masquerade grand da...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: The Lamm ML2 regulation from different angles by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="morricab"] The one thing that the Lamm ML2 does differently than nearly all tube amps is regulation of the output stage.  They do this with the 2nd 6C33C that is on the chassis.  Even the KR amps don't do this and I think it is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #229: The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 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 
Ok, I made some further experiments driving this time my S2 driver from Milq DH DSET. The hell of the sensitively - it was too much.  So, I went for 4:1 inner-stage ratio. The result was very successful and the amp looks like was able to get more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Today: Rachmaninoff in America by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today: Rachmaninoff in America in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Today, December 18 many years ago, a Russian refugee running form the Red Plague and after spending some time in Northern Europe was forced to make living by playing piano. By the today’s concert that took place in Providence RI, Sergey Rachmanin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A quest for a better SET. by Romy the Cat on 2005-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better SET. in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
I admit that regarding many subjects in audio I love to sound, to act or just to be a compulsive. However, I feel that my compulsiveness does make sense to me and ironically it does make sense, quite frequency, for some others (unless they are Morons...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Western Electric reproduces 0Hz + some literature… by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Western Electric reproduces 0Hz + some literature… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Being a Russian by birth and inheriting all typical for Russian masochism I sometime visit the High Efficiency Speakers Asylum, laughing me sick tail off. Between the fresks in there patting each other and the mercantile cretins who pose themselv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: 150V Gas Tubes survival guide. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gas voltage reference 0A2 tubes. in Melquiades Amplifier  42 Replies 
I remember when I built Melquiades I detected that quietly of wire that feeds the grid of output stage with bias, quality of soldering or any other minute detail on this  wire was very auditable. I also detected that the proximity of this wire t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: The vintage tubes syndrome. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I always was kind of afraid of it. Any single zillion years tube I see is “NOS in box”, “measured as new” or “never work”. So, I wonder where those uses up old tubes are gone? Do people trash them or juts sell them “as new”. As many old tubes I ever ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Returning back to basics. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Jim, returning back to the subject of tube testing…. I do not know if you have seen my most recent obsession; the idea of driving my Macondo with 1.8W of a single 6E5P: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=4241 So, what I learned...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My DHT experiment: Observations by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-29 
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"] There were some educational for myself observations made, in some way saying something about this specific DHT, in some way saying something about Melquiades’ single stage version and the Melquiades’ full-range two-stages ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: and I only wanted to gripe by hagtech on 2007-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
[quote user="cat"]Will your tracer be able to pump 250-300mA at 230V? Will it be able to supple up to 100-110V of bias?[/quote]Not quite.  I designed it for preamp tubes.  But then I realized I could push it to cover a lot of the more popul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The same Korean company? by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gas voltage reference 0A2 tubes. in Melquiades Amplifier  42 Replies 
[quote user="morricab"]I have a phono stage from the Korean company Silvaweld that uses the 5651 tube in the power supply as a voltage reference.  It also is using a Russian 6C19Pi tube along with EF86 pentode as the high voltage regulator. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET by anthony on 2019-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Hi Romy,Just thinking out loud here, but I have been listening to my mono DSET/Macondo for quite a while now and recently changed back to my old acoustic system so that I could poke around in the DSET innards for a little while.  The old system (in s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Ok, please get it right. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents.... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Vasyachkin"]… understanding for me is as important, and probably more important than results.[/quote] In such case it is no surprise that you quote the ridicules Stephen Hawking. It is also no surprise that you practice rants about impo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ferrofluiding of compression drivers? by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ferrofluiding of compression drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
Yesterday I spoke with a guy at a Russian audio forum who reported that he played with addressing many problems of compression driver by pumping ferrofluid in the gap. I am not a big fun of ferrofluiding generally and in case of compression drivers i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #270: More on that by N-set on 2013-04-02 
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"]But why would you consider brass connectors because of 95% of boutique RCA if the idea is to wind up with the best signal path?[/quote]Of course not because of that! The ideal would be the connector I've shown but made with pure ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: Another 2 cents by haralanov on 2010-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, you feel that high voltage filedcoil do excite the electromagnets driver somehow?[/quote]I will not call this exitation, let say it dynamic stability.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]What voltage you feel is appropriate?[/quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: A correlation between Gm and sound quality? by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 7788 tube mic pre design in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
Lucian, here is where the beauty of 7788 comes - max Gm with absolutely lowest noise ( the area where Russian tubes reportedly can hardly compete). What is particularly cool about 7788 that that are dead quiet one after another. I have near ten dif...
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