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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1694: Pure Power Solution is over 90% effective by Amir on 2019-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]Alex, I have a APC RT UPS which is a regenerator and UPS in one. I use it for on site recording as you never know what you get from the wall socket. Dimmed lights, PA and all sorts of other devices like air conditioning and refrig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Active filtering by devo_yan on 2018-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 250 watts Parallel S.E. advises in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
Thank you for your answer.If I understand well, In purpose to do something realistic and good sounding. I should use at least 2 amplifiers (one for high frequencies and the GM-100 amp for low frequencies) with a tubes active filter at the inputs of e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Single Ended Triode distortions.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-01 
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]The load lines are horrible. I can't imagine it gives a very accurate representation of what is fed into it. Maybe that's not what you are after.[/quote]It is not that I completely agree (or completely understand) the Eduar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: EdgarHorns and ... you by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I appreciate the suggestions on the ceiling of the room; in my room the ceiling is about twelve feet tall and it opens on the side to another room with a taller skylight, so I do not know if this is a problem or not.  It may ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: What sets the Aura’s motors apart. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
A few points I would like to make. I do not know if the Northcreek dropped resonance by adding mass or by softening suspension. I hope they leave the cone along and softer the suspension of the driver instead off adding mass. Sure it would reduce pow...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: CES 2006: Audio by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CES 2006 in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Part 4: AudioThere were very- very few interesting products that attacked my attention. Steven Klein, the Vibraplane guy form NH, who keep buying the audio toys in Japan and selling them to the Americans for quadruple price this time brought an inte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: NOhorn channel for “the melody range”. by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NOhorn channel for “the melody range”. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
In reference to: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=1414 I had recently a guy in my listening room and he asked me if it would be possible to get the 300Hz range in the way how it sounds in my room but without using those larger uppe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #134: About me, MiniMe, love and anything else. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Well, the points you bring up are valid but as anything else it all highlight problems with people not with equipment. I am not sure that I am glad with my decisiveness and sanity in MiniMe projects. I was trying to rationalize the MiniMe idea in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1142: A new PurePower 3000+ by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The PurePower folks visited recently a couple of my local audio guys and brought with them the new units. With all my admiration of their products, I was kind of if not skeptical but caution.  I told to Bill that if he tried the new PurePower 300...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #125: Mid-bass aligned or not ? by Murataltuev on 2015-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 4" throat into 1x1m mouth…hmmm, you hardly will be able to get from it 50Hz. Even if you go for ¼ size  and 2 drivers then I think it is a bit too small. Also, looking at the picture it looks like your horn open up too s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Pretty darn close by Scott L on 2015-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
[quote user="Gargoyle"] Romy the Cat wrote: Scott L wrote:  the last time I checked, you were using 6each @ 10 inch low frequency drivers per side. That's "getting there" but still not enough to produce an acoustical watt. (which horns CAN do).   ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Sorry for your allergy by atilsley169 on 2012-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Andrew's new 4-way horn using Stereolabs stone horns and DIY... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  43 Replies 
Ok, Andrew, this is allergy something. I would highly advise you in future before you post any discrete updates, questions, and ideas about what you to inform about the holistic objective of your project, sort of a view from 50.000 feet...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Problems with horns: tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
All that I will be saying are the subject of my own experience with horns and my personal observations. You shouldn’t agree and most likely you will not. That is fine with me. I have lot of reasons behind what I will be saying and opened for some cla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Feastrex Flow-up. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Truth stretched out via Feastrex prism. in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
I was pointed out to me that my Feastrex thread is mapped to the search engines and some folks searching for limited information about Feastrex find given thread as some kind of reference. It is important to point of that I had juts one and juts mome...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: Audio vs Video playback. by Romy the Cat on 2016-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
My new listening room is progressing and it is turning quite nice. I put the screen, install the projector, find the furniture configuration, find and install the proper acoustic treatment and did many others small but important things. The main q...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: ... indeed... by twogoodears on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  twogoodears wrote:I'm following with interest the thread and must say that I'm baffled: Goto's "instructions" are - SIMPLY said - a mix between non-existent and wrong... I love what Goto's did in my system... BUT I thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: Yep, the real-estate sucks for audio freaks. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] So it sounds like you're considering a move... [/quote] Yep, I am contemplating this now… [quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Criteria :1) Main room minimum 80m2 with correct length-to-width ratio 2) No mid-room obstru...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #188: I still will be trying to get the same nearfield setting... by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="Saturntube"]Similar experience but I get to keep my "old" room. I have just changed my 5 way horn loaded down to 140 hz speakers to a friends room twice as big as mine, with an open back area into the house as your new room has and o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Another attic project? by Romy the Cat on 2016-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I was wondering: if I lose my midbass and will use for now my bass town to do midbass then how can I introduce lower octave channel of I want to make a room civilized? For instance if I go do 2-4 Aura drivers on transition slope then I will end up...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Tweeter Integration by Jorge on 2011-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
Hello Haralanov,It is hard to talk about sound, and define points: this is why the post is so long.Most systems I have lisitened to that measure a flat response have exagerated high frequencies and usually the midbass is a little shy,  this might be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Not exactly what you are looking for... by anthony on 2015-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Audio and Cooking desires. in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Still, very seldom I come across to the situations that delivered to me absolute amazement and I ask myself: how the hell THAT was done?     ... snip   Play to me your playback and make me wonder. Let me leave your ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dukane 5A540 Compression Drivers by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dukane 5A540 Compression Drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
A six year ago or so when I played with different compression drivers I bought a pair of Dukane 5A540 and at that time I was not able to find any information about them. Nowadays I was pointed out that an eBay sealer “ bayleafs” actions a pair of Duk...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: I think it will be better with time. by Romy the Cat on 2016-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
When we were looking and negotiating this house it was the last seen from Tarkovsky’s Solaris always in my mind, the one where Chris understands eventually that his father, and his home, and the pond are just “gest” that were inspired by Ocean ene...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A LF solution of seismic proportions then! by oxric on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Rakesh, during the last year, there were some very important moments in my own realizations about the methods of low frequency reproduction. I totally abandoned my Scanspeak bass modules and now they are resting in my gar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: It is not only about volume displacement. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Romy, I do agree with all your comments. It is true that the magnitude of the rubber taste very much depends on the crossover frequency. I used them below 64Hz, but with first order filter, implemented before the amp that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #302: Pianochord will do! by oxric on 2011-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
 Hi Romy and JJTriode: I wish I could take credit for all of the very pertinent commentary by Rosalyn Tureck, extracted below but I will not. I do agree with the sentiment though and the reasoning behind her expressed...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #492: Measuring the manufacturing confidence. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Bill"]Have a hum through my center channel speaker, the SET amp of which sits directly in front of the pp200 about a foot away.  It is not relaTED to the DC offset of the 2000 as adjusting that does nothing to the hum, and running th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The first relaxed night with the room by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I recognized that I have tired for the last week like hell. Do not ask me what I got tired from – I will not be able to say. That whole moving, packing, unpacking this was too exhausting… The good thing is that I go an interesting room as a resul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Re: Le Cleach by CO on 2005-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lower cost horn loaded alternative setup? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
Hello Rich, I've done a quick modeling for a LeCleach horn Fc=100, and that thing is 2 meters wide and 1 meter deep !!! Its double the width of other contours. The conical flare is very nice but colored by the reflections from the mouth. W...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Getting more power from SET vs. properly distorting SS. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting more power from SET vs. properly distorting SS. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
I did not make my mind about it but I have some “concerns”. Using SS amps and hearing different SS amps I do not like their bass and the notion of a powerful enough DSET to be able to drive ULF in A1 was born. Sounds logical. However, recently I ...
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