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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Melquiades as the "Man in Balck" space-ship by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
Sure, Chris, if I would be able to make the air-trans of acceptable size then I would defiantly go for it. If I pretend that the Super Milq pushed some boundaries (and I do feel it) then to use an air-core transformer for HF channel is exactly what i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Melquiadising other amp? by Welborne on 2017-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiadising other amp? in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Hello Roman,Hola from Hong Kong! How are you? Haven't been here for long time. I have a question at the back of my mine for long time, and it may have been covered elsewhete in your blog before. I am asking it here but do point me to the thread if it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Hanging around of the DpoLS. by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
Somewhere within this thread (or perhaps somewhere else) I have mentioned that my own playback systems last times was dead-installed into the DpoLS approximately 5 years ago. I kind of did not make a whole a lot of attempts with DpoLS since I was doi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: The influence of the upper bass coil. by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="skushino"]Romy, please elaborate on your experience using a 2nd order crossover.  What do you mean "rules of the game change completely?"  Why did you try the 2nd order?  Are you concerned with damage to the driv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Super Milq Change: the amplifier for Tweeters by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
OK, I have conceptualized what I need for the tweeter amp. It will be MilqEZ – the same Milq one with 6C19P at output. I will use the Super Melquiades power supplies but the HF channels will host own last caps of the filters and own bias of the both ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Placette is back to business. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
OK, got the Placette from the second round of "modification", it took 15 second to confirm that the HF problems that I sniffed out was not there anymore – so the absolute transparency is back to the business and this time the word “absolute” could be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: A fuse. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Hm, that is a good question. I honestly do not remember. The 6ch Super Melquiades has 7A fuse but I have no memory about the fuse I used in single channels amp. During the assembly I used the lamp fuse – that is given but in the final version I just ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About Boiling Micro Response. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Boiling Micro Response. in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
Last night a friend of my visited me and we spend an evening listing Wagner. He played Wagner himself a lot and he begin to make comments about sound of different sections and instilments in my room. I stopped him as Macondo in the new is no wher...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The year 2008 and fulfillment of audio objectives. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] In the 2008 I have a few immediate goals: 1)    Finalize the 6-chennals version of Super Melquiades and integrate it with Macondo 2)    Finalize the “End of Life" Phonostage: 3)  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: My very different objectives by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Driver tubes, grid leak biasing, and fidelity in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
[quote user="AnonymousUser"]I appreciate your patience with my electrical questions.As a good friend mentioned to me when discussing the unsolved mysteries of tubes amplifiers "I look out at the stars, the God Of Triodes winks at me, I know ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: How to test 6C33C? by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to test 6C33C? in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
Well, it is getting interesting. I was able to make my Hillock TV-2 tester to test the 6C33C. I spend a few hours to filtering the plate voltage and replacing a couple resistors to 50W instead of the 5W. The plate coils in TV-2 is 100mA but it looks ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The very cool "different " time! by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Believe me or not but since last spring when I undertook the single-amp conversion and went for the six-channel Super Melquiades my playback never sounded as I would like it to. It was better or worst but it was never how I meant. The last week the t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Melquiades' Meters... by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Hello, loudcloud, The Milq’s meters are by Hoyt (link). You might look at http://www.hoytmeter.com and from theer your might customize it in any direction wish. They are not dirt-cheap but I fine them reasonable for what they do. Here is the pict...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #412: Here is where Melquiades pays off. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Since I got my stable and good quality electricity back I recalibrated my bass horn. Again, I set it up with very precisely and absolutely without any measurements, juts by ear, to sound exactly how I want it to sound. This is in a way my crown jewel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Sine my call for somebody builds for me a full range Melq was not answered: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2492#2492 I decided to put it together myself. Now I understand that letting the first amp to go  was a mistake....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Super Melquiades, Macondo and Class A2 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades, Macondo and Class A2 in Melquiades Amplifier  0 Replies 
I do not know why people go into low-sensitive loudspeaker and they go crazy in order push the last drop out of the class A2 operation. From a different perspective the Macondo’s woofer towers with 97.5dB sensitivity are low low-sensitive loudspeaker...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Super Milq 6-channels diaries: the final pictures. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Ok, the 6-channels super Melquiades is done, closed up and I made a few pictures of the beast. I have to admit that I do like how it amps turn out to be packaging-wise: the layout turned out to be very good for 3 channels as well and for 6-chennals. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to get a LOT of SET power. 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 was listening toady Rossini’s  “Sonata per Archi” and suddenly a strange feeling stroke me: I become suddenly queries about “more power”. It was not that something directly encouraged me in the Sound that I am getting in here. I never heard th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: DRU Tube for Melq’s HF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DRU Tube for Melq’s HF channel. in Melquiades Amplifier  0 Replies 
Those damn Russkies always threw surprises. Using in Melq the Russian-made tubes, probably very few the most remarkable tubes they ever made, the life defiantly threw some hi-fi astonishments. The people who follow my saga with Melq know that I do n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Not a problem at all. by Romy the Cat on 2023-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] Am I the only one who wonders about parking the amps on the woofers? [/quote] From the point of view of a methodological purity indeed the location of a vacuum tube amplifier atop of midbass section does not make any sense. B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The horno-live is defiantly is a bitch… by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]So how do you suppose the proper DPoLS can be located? With a system like Steve Schell and I are working with, everything weighs hundreds of pounds and to properly evaluate changes would take days, maybe even weeks f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: there is no VR1 and 6E5P by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Milq: Starting the project in Melquiades Amplifier  23 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."] The builder regards VR1 more like an "offset to 0" adjuster than a bias control for the 6E5P since its working range is quite narrow. He asked me to know from you if along the 6E5P's lifespan it needs further adjustment...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The one-stage Melq: the VERY unexpected result. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
I put the Super Milq and the new one-stage Milq today and was playing them together in order to see which would be more interesting. It is imposable to “compare” as is the upper bass and  lover mid channels as the Super Milq has all kind of line...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The tubes sockets for Milq by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades For Dummies™ - step by step. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
I do not remember which one I used. I remember that I was deciding if to mount them on chassis vs. to have a small board with tube sockets under the chassis and bring the tubes through the chassis. The board mounting is better as it decuples the tube...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Stunning Resurrection in Boston! by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stunning Resurrection in Boston! in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Holly cow, who could even expect that it will be so! BSO opened today the summer season with Mahler second. Levine is at his, look to be permanent recovery, and Michael Tilson Thomas stood at the podium. Tanglewood Festival Chorus, soprano Layla Clai...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: 5mA?? by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Zarathustra” amplifier: loosing of virginity. in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Chris, when I got those large 7Hz-1kHz transformers I soldered one of them in my regular Melquiades and listed what it did. Besides all necessary bass benefits I decided to see how plate current would behave if I have no limitations for core satura...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Crossover Design by drdna on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
Hi Roman et al!Allow me to introduce myself.  I have followed with amusement Romy the Cat for many years.  He is ascerbic and ultracritical, but he does know audio.  We share many tastes, like the Koetsu Onyx Platinum foir instance, on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: Vitavox S2+S2 scenario. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
This is the project that I been thinking to undertake for years. I have motioned about in multiple times that Vitavox’s S2 lower region is very lucrative but unfortunately not exactly useable if the driver run all the way up, unless you are wiling to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Stacking the horns: bad idea by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"] Why can't you just stack them inserting new horn in between midbas and midhorn and keeping your original arrangement? Since your midbass sits on the floor, the tweeter still should be on resonable hight.I would transform your fu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Thoughts form future: about Melquiades and Lamm ML2.0. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SET and speakers: disregard Volume in Audio For Dummies ™  4 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] I bought the ML2s to use as a development/reference tool while constructing this horn system. The idea being that I would first use them to dial in the horns, and later as a reference, to which I would compare and evolve ...
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