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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Britten, Hayden, Kurt Masur'ovich by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What a week in Boston! in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] First, the Fifth: The first movement is indeed a stunner, nothing comes close. For the rest, I can line up competition. But no matter! The "live" aspect trumps all. [/quote] Hm, I would not name the only first movement. I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #117: How my phonostage shall sound. by Romy the Cat 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"]Also do not forget that the phonostage that you built has very lash and very polite sound. [/quote]I would like to stress the politeness and lushness of 834PT-AIR phonocorrector. This characteristic of this phonostage s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: Perfect or good by Amir on 2016-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
it seems even Thorsten do not believe computer source could be perfect and he just guide us to reach max from computer." The computer is a great music server but also a source of jitter ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: ....interesting....not a ribbon mic though.... by Andy Simpson on 2007-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Simpson Microphones thread. in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Andy Simpson wrote: I thought that eventually you would take my hint.... liquid damping in microphones is something I have given some thought to - especially given that air comes under 'fluid dynamics' - but I will ge...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Horn color control by Jorge on 2011-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
I think the usage of Romys Injection Channel has misguided you to think it was implemented because of a certian lack of tone or some sterile sound,  nothing of the sort,  I cannot blame you for not having listened to Romys system,  but theo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Fixated on spatial separation? by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The open project: a lateral cross-injection. in Playback Listening  25 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]Is it not strange that we are so fixated on spatial separation in sound? Instruments in an orchestra are spatially separated because you can't have one musician sitting in another's lap, not because the music demands it. Music is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio Digital Equ... by Thorsten on 2005-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio D... in Didital Things  9 Replies 
.... in home systems for Room correction and general system EQFolks,This is from my own Yahoo group, but may be of interest here....Since writing this I have in fact changed my speakers to dipoles and do not currently use a PADEQ (it will return thou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Pulp fiction by Gargoyle on 2015-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Practicality of paper mache horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]My results so far agree with Romy's theory, that the paper horns begin to eat energy when I used them "too low". In this case I used 4-600 Hz with 6 dB roll-off.[/quote]Thanks, this gives me somewhere to start. I am considering ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: OK let's have a dedicated S3 thread by gordan on 2012-11-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: S3 on tractrix 260 graph. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
OK Romy, I agree this should stay here, especially that I will probably have more observations to come as from the late January. I didn't explain the context of S3 use in my future system. I'm awaiting for a delivery of Beyma TPL-150 which will be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Non-linear electric chair by N-set on 2011-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
I've been pushing this intellectual excersise (masturbation?) of solving Romy's constraints on a powerfull bass SE amp.Thanks to Stephie Bee the humanity have now a decent model of GU81M, so before electro-cuttingonself, one can see if the electrocut...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Tome and bass note and tone in general. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Yes, if you are at 40Hz first order then you are with regular dedicated LF channel and tone is certainly a subject. The entire definition of ULF channel inkstand or LF channel is that ULF channel has no tonal information. It is very same like use twe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! by Paul S on 2023-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); a report started "too soon" because they've taken sooo long to build, and they fired right up (first try), and they already do Music!  For some time (at least a decade) I thought about building a ver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Bruckner 8, The Power and the Glory by Paul S on 2024-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Today I listened again to a couple of Bruckner 8 performances on CDs, namely von Karajan/VPO, 1988, also Schuricht/Stuttgart, 1954.  The Music is amazing on both CDs, but the 1988 performance (which may well have been digitally recorded to begin ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Vacuum caps and more by kodomo on 2016-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
Yes, the crossover looks fancy :) More than that it does the job. The vacuum caps are only for the tweeter and the upper-mid beryllium. Still they are bridged with micas as they wont do much alone. Adding vacuum caps smoothens the transitions and sou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The hidden agenda by Joe Roberts on 2009-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Any Google hits this site gets from my post is a gift from me to The Home of the Cat. Can't imagine anybody searching "Silbatone & Penderecki"..a rather odd combination of terms stemming out of a unique event. Or how about "Silbatone &...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #398: Wow, what the days! by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
There were had few days. First it was complete distraction of my listening room, than the contractors put the new hardwood floor together and then the complete rebuilding of the listening room, back to the sate it was before. Well sort of… The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: A good question. by Romy the Cat on 2014-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SET amplifiers in Audio Discussions  30 Replies 
Well, Gera, a good question in context of your playback. How a person who has multichannel 106db playback with SS amplification and active crossover to explore SET domain? It is not so simple and if you do then probably it would require bringing ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Upper Bass Horn Setup by Jorge on 2011-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
The best midrange comes from compression drivers, it has that minuteness, transparency and dynamics that no other topology can offer; the main problem with them is that they only cover a very specific mid frequency ran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I have a different take by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today's best turntables vs. greatest vintage turntables. in Analog Playback  8 Replies 
I do not think that “knowledge is gone” even though Stitch points are all accurate in my view. I I do not think that “knowledge” as a formed awareness ever was there. When LPs were pressed in 50 and 60 people have no idea of what level of quality the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Caps du Jour by Paul S on 2010-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
Remember the death and "re-birth" (via good electricity) of the big Cardas caps?  Well, it finally got to where things were not made good enough anymore by good electricity, so I went on the hunt again.  This time I settled on Sonicaps from Sonic Cra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: The windows have been restored. Now it is time to open them... by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
Opening nights, opening minds Innovative new conductors in LA, NY challenge the BSO to do more By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff  |  October 18, 2009 Opening night concerts at the most esteemed orchestras are usually a bit of a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Another contestant to win a Handicap Olympics? by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Joe, A few comments I need to make. First, about the WE.  I think it is a bit cheap, to bring to the table with me the arguments of the level that the “editor of the biggest and most influential magazine in the world, Stereo Sound, who can get...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 review from 1992 by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 in Analog Playback  33 Replies 
After years of using the Expressive Technologies SU-1 and SU-2 step up transformers I come across to a fact this morning that the Expressive was reviewed by Robert Harley in June, 1992. I read the Expressive’s preamp review but I never seen this one....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: How audiofreaks twist everything upside down. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Morricab, Of curse you are very much correct but I always thought that what you said is understandable by default. When I am talking about the ability of playbacks to care the “absolute tone” I indisputably meat sound reproduction of the “best” in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Its all relative by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
At CES there were Viagra-junkie sized power cords everywhere for $5000. Around our room were $10k and $20k speakers that sounded like a wet jukebox. It was the land of delusion.Value per topology is one way to measure but let's instead start with a p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Listening to specific case is precisely my point, typology be damned by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Cat:First off, the Silbatone Aporia is $30k/pr not 100k. You could do 6 speaker surround with Aporia for well under $100k. Hope you feel better now."So what," I say. $30k is already too much for my pocket. I am on a fellowship this year and cheapskat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Power-to-weight by jessie.dazzle on 2010-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Why horns”, years later. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...a chassis designer told me. It is now possible to buy normal efficiency drivers with low mechanical loss..."Sure it might exist, but I question the application.First, a bit of the obvious:Consider only the driver; not the amps and rela...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: An installation. by Romy the Cat on 2012-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you were to start from scratch, what horn system would yo... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Haralanov, I partially know what you are talking about and I got my sense of it when I added the Fundamentals and Insertion channels. They both are position above MF and act as nice compliment to Macondo upperbass horn. I still do not know if the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: 1st priority: Upperbass and MF by Murataltuev on 2015-10-27 
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"]I do not understand what does it mean. Are you saying that you lost bottom response with closed exit hole on the driver back? If with the closed drift from back you have a (loaded!) response  no lower than 200Hz then it i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: T.H.E. Show, Newport, 2015 by Paul S on 2015-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: T.H.E. Show, Newport, 2015 in Audio News  14 Replies 
I went to THE Show again this year, along with a couple of audio friends. This year I was better prepared, with preconceived notions about what I wanted to see/hear, and where to find that gear. I did not try to “cover” the show, at all. I just wa...
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