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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Khachaturian, second echelon and the Stravinsky’s syndrome by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
[quote user="Lbjefferies7"] I listened to his Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra today.  I have only one performance of this piece, with Rostropovich/Svetlanov/Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and was wondering if anyone knew any other valua...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: …you’ll be laying to your children about you heard Natalia Gutman live... by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Amphissa wrote:Mats, I agree with you. The recording of the cello concerto by Natalia Gutman with Svetlanov conducting is the best overall performance of this beautiful concerto. It is unfortunate that she never toured i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Scary Bruckner? by Romy the Cat on 2012-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Thinking about Bruckner harmonies. in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"] Romy says "Listen, or even better THINK about Sound of first movement of the Bruckner 9th Symphony as an answer.Thinking about this did not give me the answer to the question I'm afraid. However, I therefore do agree that " I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Do not believe news. by Romy the Cat on 2022-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Music and WW3 in Musical Discussions  24 Replies 
I do not feel that it is Putin war at all and I feel very unfortunately that it is how is being sold in West. It is just a plan vanilla us war against Russia via Ukrainian proxy. Unfortunately Ukraine does not exist since 2014 as a country but ex...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Thorsten's preamp idea by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"]MY PERSONAL current realisation (where I to build one) would look like this:1) S&B TX-102 as volume control, with suitable switch2) 2V Lithium Battery negative pole to the grid of the Valve, bypassed with good non-magnetic ...

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 #6: A set with paralleled GM-70 by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Are Any Powerful Amps Worth Using? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
An interesting amp, thanks, decoud. http://www.sacthailand.com/AmpGlowMasterGM70.htmlI never have seen or hear it but it might be interesting. Chinese makes nowadays a lot of pretentious high-end products and they are mostly horrible crap. Here is Th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Arvo Pärt and Estonians... by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Liszt Piano Sonata & Chaconne by Busoni+Bach in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
Interesting that Estonians, the very much as Latvians and Latvanians, although they are located geographically right among the Slaves have absolutely none-Slav music.  I mean listening thier music, even juts a few accords, instantly sends a mess...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Shostakovich’s 100th birthday... by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shostakovich’s 100th birthday... in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
Nowadays, during the week of Shostakovich’s anniversary of 100th birthday, it has been a lot of Shostakovich’s music played here in there. With all my “issues” with Mahlerism-Shostakovich I still listen their music, what whatever reasons…. Today ther...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Problems with Eskimos poetry? by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “theories” about the audio industry…. in Audio Discussions  27 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"] Well, Roman and others I think you are going a little to far with this. Don't tell me that you took everything in my PRIVATE email to you serious because I'm going to think that you're living in the conspiracy world. Actually I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 1960s, 1950s, 1940s.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Saint-Saens and... in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]I was privileged to hear Munch do it there in '66 and I remember even still the viscerality and excitement of it, although the band was not as competent in those days.[/quote]I know the Munch’s recording very well. It is no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Re: Better among worst? by Thorsten on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="morricab"]You may be right.  It would perhaps be worthwhile to look into "better" transformers but I am not sure that an advantage can be found over just going RCA to XLR adaptor into the balanced inputs and thereby bypassing the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A preliminary valve list by anthony on 2019-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
So, I have been looking into suitable valves to base a preamplifer around that are suitable for driving the DSET's.  The pre must have a broad bandwidth, low output impedance, some current drive, and not be prone too easily to microphony.  Oh, and pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #75: A Russian Horns Maker. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who builds horns? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  84 Replies 
There is a Russian guy Dmitry Gubchenco who claims the he makes custom installations using horn-loading topology: http://www.audio-tube.ru/ I am not thrilled with what I see but it was not made for me. Anyhow, it looks like the gu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The sulphur hexafluoride idea and the Jeffrey’s Pillows by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] Did I ever mention my sulphur hexafluoride idea to you? You fill a horn with this gas, sealing the front with some loose fitting heavy grade mylar or whatever. The horn can then be 44% of the size you'd otherwise need. [/quote] Hm, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Tube vibration sound by drdna on 2009-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the life-expectancy of the new production tubes. in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The contemporary productions DHT tubes (Russian of Chinese) are superbly firm and have no internal noise when they shacked or hit. The mintage 60 years old tubes what you make the “close to ears” test responses like as some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Yes, you got it. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to make money in Audio in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
[quote user="scooter"]Is that something that you actually want to do with your time?[/quote] This question of your is exactly right and it is what I have been asking myself while I am thinking about it. If the idea works fine on technical and sonic a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Re: Expressive Technologies by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 in Analog Playback  33 Replies 
Paul, As far as I know the Expressive Technologies have only tow models: the regular transformers and toroidal transformers. The toroidal version (SU-2) is not available publicly which left that whatever the Expressive magnetic available out there i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: From the history of 6C33C by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The short "6C33C Survival Guide". in Melquiades Amplifier  20 Replies 
If you read my post at: http://www.romythecat.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=4235Then you are generally informed about the history of the 6C33C but here is another wonderful and uncommon illustration. It is reportedly a guidance system part of Russian crui...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: DSET phoned home? by Steradian on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DSET phoned home? in Audio News  0 Replies 
Close encounters of the purred kind: Aliens spoke to us in a 'cat-like language' claim Russian flight controllers  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Samuel Feinberg's Well-Tempered Clavier. by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Samuel Feinberg's Well-Tempered Clavier. in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
I warmed up this morning my tubes and dived into my shelf with solo piano music fishing for some Bach, to celebrate.  I wanted it to be long and beautiful and what might be longer and more beautiful then Well-Tempered Clavier? I deseed to go f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: The predictably-abrasive and clichéd-articulated Gergiev by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Best recording I heard in 2004. in Musical Discussions  20 Replies 
[quote user="amperidian"] …in typical Gergiev fashion ... grave, dynamic impact with iron-like control, yet musical and subtle with finesse when called for.  I think it is very hard to balance those elements and right now nobody does it better t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Oh! I never even thought that it might be so hilarious. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Classic Artc Showcase Streaming in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] But whose “Nutcracker” is the best? Ovation TV, one of the few television channels devoted exclusively to culture and the arts, is determined to find out.[/quote] I am watching how in the “Battle of the Nutcrackers” the Ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: No one knows anything…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
Haralanov, I do not think that the “information” that you found is indicative of anything. If they changed coils and diaphragms on their LOMO drivers (and I presume that if they change the diaphragms then they did not keep the LOMO original suspensio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo listening experience by montepilot on 2009-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo listening experience in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
Recently I had my second extended visit to hear Macondo system.  I decided to post my listening impressions because this is one of the two best in home installations I have ever heard.  The pictures you have seen of the Macondo system look quite ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Cone on, get some perspective! 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"]In science, people organize the perception of reality using various theoretical concepts.One of such concepts is e.g. the electromagnetic field, which very successfullyexplains some class of perceived phenomena. The main people be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: IC-based "second" phonostages? Perhaps, who knows…. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
Yes, I know, Antonio, thanks. There are a lot of IC-based phonostages out there. I have no technical reasons to say that they should be bad but unfortunately they sound kind of “identically bad”. You see no one make them to sound in a “tailored”, def...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Russian cello festival by Romy the Cat on 2014-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Russian cello festival in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
Russian festival of 3 century of cello. Very nice Bach the second son, Lalo, Vivaldi and Shnitke under  Dmitry Jurowski. Skip first 7 minutes....   http://meloman.ru/concert/tri-veka-violonchelikoncert-zakrytie-vi-mezhdunarodnogobrviolonc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Looking that my attic place is very much triangle I am contemplating an experiment with triangular horn. The idea that lead me there was Balalaika. Balalaika is Russian 3-strings musical instruments that has unique sound. One of the attribute of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The kinky Russky phonostages by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting Russian pnonocorrector. in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
Nope, it does not miss anything. They offset the 75msec in input using the inductance of cartage’s coil (I quess they do not use MC). Below is the original thread. You need to  buy a chocolate cake and to do a foot massage to your Russian mistres...
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