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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Good and neutral by Celsius on 2014-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Celsius, I do not know what CCS you impended, did you drive 6e5p’s plate with constant current source?*1 I also do not know/like 6e5p with battery bias. The only application that I find 6e5p suitable was the Milq-style bi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The great Prince Gremin aria. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky’s “Evgeny Onegin” in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
I was listening the Opera it last night and then returned back to the Prince Gremin aria – there was a true fascination HOW the Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto he did the celebrated Gremin’s story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF9MZ3nacrk Princ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: The Rohde & Schwarz’s recording by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
Tonight I recorded the Live Tanglewood broadcast with all Russian program: http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/perf_detail.jsp?pid=prod2110030 …  I decided to let the ghost out of bottle and to let the EU-6201 receiver with modified Rohde & S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The 6E5P tube data. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Taras Oleynk aka “ML8” sent me a couple months ago his measurements of different driver line-level tubes including the Melquiades’s diver tubes – the 5E5P. I am posting his data here with his permission, including Taras’ statement that is JUST PRELIM...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: The driving principles… by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Reggie, let to be clear that I use definition of kitsch in reference to audio installation. The Camerata as a cultural event is out of my criticism; in fact I applauded to what they did. The Camerata video did not bring me to the idea of perceivi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Son of a butch triode. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
I have received a few emails today informing me that this idea of a super high power low frequency SET would not be possible and it would be “pushing the things WAY too far”. Well, perhaps…. I am not planning to build it but I would like to encourag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Monitors: eventually! by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Well, it took almost two month and much more money then I thought but I was eventually able to get very decent sound out of monitors.  The SL600 sitting on my “fundamental channel’s” tripods did not do well as I told before and I was forced to s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: The “magic” testing for 6C33C was found? by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-26 
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 
OK, let me to recall. We learned that the “hysteresis” (for a lack of better world) manifest itself on used tube only. Also, what I see in the images the one of the half of the used tube has more “hysteresis” then other. I think it leads to the follo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: ... drifts over the Cookoo's Nest. by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The funny Internet audio freaks in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
After I post my above message “The Altec Idiot” deleted one of my post (perhabs more, I did not check) within the thread claming that “it had no intrinsic value whatsoever”. Ironically, I personally believe that that the deleted/vandalized post ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: Virtual visit to Romy's setting up (part 2) by scooter on 2016-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
This week Romy was kind enough to invite me over for a few days for some Apprentice work and philosophizing. As I alluded above, my Apprenticeship contribution consisted principally of moving some audio gear, searching for some esoteric stuff hidden ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: To regulate or not regulate 6C33C by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
[quote user="Cosmos"] Anyway, as the description on our site on second paragraph says, the third 6C33 located at the back, is used as the pass element of the regulator (controlled by solid state circuitry) providing 220V with 100uV of random noise &a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
I have no idea why this guy is and what he says, I even have no idea of what language it is but here it is: the 6E5P-6C33C amp in PP configuration. http://drzlab.com/projekti/TPPP_6c33c.html Interesting that he uses Russian milita...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #293: The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
That is kind of mysteries to me and very none expected. From the people who use DHT I heard many stories that 2.5V filaments driven by AC are less noisy then 5V or 7.5V. That is kind of self-explanatory as with higher AC voltage the more noise. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: The Best Tuner project? Oh, not again! by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C in Off Air Audio  24 Replies 
[quote user="doug s."] if you have good reception in your area, the sherwood will be fine.  but the sound is where these things excel, really.  as they are so dirt-cheap, and even pretty-cheap when completely refurb'd, you owe it to yourself to a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Passive RIAA filters are good for full blown preamps… by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
Paul, I do not think that “before or after RIAA losses” requirement has any merit as no matter what kind type RIAA filter is being used it always will lose around 20dB. I do not think also that there is a “safest path” or “reasonably affordable”....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The American Nutcracker – the “The Hard Hut” by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Classic Artc Showcase Streaming in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I am watching how in the “Battle of the Nutcrackers” the Mark Morris production of “The Hard Hut”. When I turbed it on I was so paralyzed of what I was seeing that it did not even came to me the I need to record it as the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: About Oleg Rulit by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="audiofilofine"] are only old obsolete  driver cocktail with homemade ingredients.no measure, no method, no philosophy...nothing , only diy fantasy[/quote] Yes, I do taste some slurp of “diy cult fantasy” in Rulit’s action, the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Color hearing and foreign languages... by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts) in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
The substitution of tonal semantics to visual semantics is well researched phenomena.  I think Russian composers and musicologist in end of the 19 century of the 20 century went further then anyone else into the subject. From an emotional perce...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: To look in other direction. by Romy the Cat on 2020-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Perception of bass? in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Rowuk, first of all, I very much recommend you do not undertake the Paul’s advice and do not go for any implementation of bass with bigger drivers or more driver of different topology of bass section like OB and so on. For sure better bass would ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: RX corrector? by Romy the Cat on 2005-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another interesting corrector: Likhnitsky's RX corrector. in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Well, Brian, I do not think we here are in a competition whose way is more innovative, also the RX corrector do not use any air caps, and I do not know why you refer to them. Unquestionably the idea to milk a transformer and to use its inductance to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Torsion technologies in medicine by Kunashirsky 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 
With regards to the recognition of torsion technologies in medicine and safety. Call as an example of Russian medical company - IMEDIS. I had to deal with her ??devices. There is a correlation with my hypothesis of music perception not only heari...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The strings period: the six last buys by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The strings period: the six last buys in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
Since the electricity going better as temperature outside goes down I might begin to play and appreciate again some sting music. Lately, I bought 6 CDs and all of them turned out to be very interesting. 1)     Herbert: Cello Conc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Impossibility of commercial seriousness? by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Impossibility of commercial seriousness? in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
I recently dealt with two manufactures that produce music . I noted that both of them stated with good result but nowadays, years in operation, they produce despicable crap. This correlates with a famous amplifier manufacturer, very much not stup...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Weber’s "Andante e Rondo Ungarese"? by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Weber’s "Andante e Rondo Ungarese"? in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
For almost a year I am in frustrated mental search for a properly performed “Andante e Rondo Ungarese”.  This is a Carl Maria Von Weber’s Op.35, two parts little composition that in my view absolutely brilliant.  It is collaboration with bassoon ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Reactions to the 9th by steverino on 2012-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Thinking about Bruckner harmonies. in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
We are talking about subjective reactions so there is no way to dispute either of our responses. However, I do see a disconnect between your statements that I quoted and your subsequent post. In the first post you were talking about the Queen of Spad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report by drdna on 2009-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Okay so I got the NOS Sylvania "Spring Top" dual filament 2A3 tubes and have been listening to them for a while, now I am ready to make a report on the tube. The tube is well built and structurally sound. Tapping gives a very small "tabla" sound ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The global live television broadcasts. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The global live television broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  0 Replies 
Almost 40 years ago, today, on June 25, 1967 400 million people on all continents had a chance to watch a first-ever global live television broadcast with Beatles premiered their “All You Need is Love”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z05zPJKa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Driver 2 by audiofilofine on 2011-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  audiofilofine wrote:are only old obsolete  driver cocktail with homemade ingredients.no measure, no method, no philosophy...nothing , only diy fantasyYes, I do taste some slurp of “diy cult fantasy” in Rulit’s action, t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Russian idioms and Goto patients by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
The funny and poor Tuyen. It looks like another audio guy, as Russians says, “went over the hands”. The “went over the hands” is a very interesting Russian idiom that use very frequently apply to audio people. Years back it was once very deservin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: The drivers for midbass and…. the mistakes. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Eduardo, Thanks for your thoughts and illustrations. I also do not feel that loosely-suspended very small metal cone might be a right solution for midbass. To develop LF you need pressure, pressure is surface by exertion – there is nothing els...
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