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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: Super Melquiades insided - a fresh shot. by jessie.dazzle on 2006-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
Romy, Thanks for the updated image of the Super Melquiades. For the past 10 days I have had to temporarily stop production of the horns and put off researching components for the amps; all this is due to my moving to a new apartment sooner than...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: The direct-heated Melquiades ? by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
You are correct about the load matching, for the Super Mild LF channel a half-Ohm of loading change bass quite dramatically.  Still, the idea was to make this SET completely without any intentionally implemented feedback. It is juts not necessar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The lower bass problems...some unexpected thoughts. by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]I wonder if it is the reactive components (blocking caps etc) that are to blame here, seeing as much of the problem is in the lower bass.[/quote]Chris, what you said made me to think. Look, the output of Bidat and a SS buffer that b...

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 #1: Analog Transfer: the first draft. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
People asked me: Romy why don’t you try to transfer some analog to digital and see what happen. I was queries myself and I decided to try tonight. Whatever I did was in a way half-ass but I was interested in “as is” result. Although the attem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #395: Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
This week I will be trying to address why the Milq midbass is clipping. This is very interesting one.  Currently the Melquiades LF channel uses an output transformer 700R to 5R or 11.83 to 1. I thought before that I have much lower ratio, like 5:1 bu...

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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The DSET disadvantages and DSET perspectives. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A DSET is better then an expensive SET in Audio For Dummies ™  41 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] The altered topology of DSET has the potential to have disadvantages.  There is increased overall system complexity and this often seems to be a negative.  Beyond this, it is difficult to expound, for me, on the specifi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #481: The single "silver bullet" proposition, backed by some serio... by oxric on 2010-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I think it has already been stated. Batteries in audio are inherently of limited utility. It is a tendency of audiophiles to dedicate themselves to a single "silver bullet" instead of building the system based on the particular ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Listening the New Super Milq: the first impressions. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Last nigh I spend a couple hours to listening this thing. Since the amp is done in design phase and the final parts are still in order I can not finish it and close up – it kind of frustrating… Still, it gives opportunities to listen it knowing that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
As some of you know I’m playing last couple days with Red 10” Tannoys from 60s. My selection of 10” was not accidental -I would like to get as less as possible of that “Tannoy bass” but I did run very far  the “Reds” turned out to have 27Hz open...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Magnetics, dumping and etc... by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"] Iwas going to ask you about that funny looking damping material.  Then you explained it at bottom of post.  Very clever to use mouse pads!  Lately I've been using cork & buna rubber sheets from McMaster-Carr....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Supper Melquiades sandwidge... by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stands for Super Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  6 Replies 
Ah, last night, after midnight I picked in McMaster-Carr some elements for my proposed Supper Melq rack. Thy shipped it UPS ground and I had it delivered that same day! How they do it? Anyhow, I connected two shelves with 4 x 12” by 5/8” rods. I tigh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: "Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink" by oxric on 2011-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Romy:Again thanks for the response. With regard to the most important question, my choice would be to use the standard AM Amorphous C-Core transformers in the short term but the Direct Tube Drive in the long term. As I mentioned elsewhere, I was in t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: I did not tell the whole story... by anthony on 2015-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote:I am often drawn to the super-clean sound ….  I do not think that use the term of “super-clean sound” in the same way. Vienna Philharmonic does not have “super-clean sound” from the perspective of most of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: What the tube trace might show in the real world? by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-08 
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 
[quote user="hagtech"]I have not tried this tube yet.  It might push the limits of the tester.  The 6.3V heater current supply is nominally rated at 5 amps.  It might be ok to push it to 6.6 amps.  I have to think about this, make...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: DHT SET with thoughts wanted by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DHT driver & input in Melquiades Amplifier  25 Replies 
Splitting the Lamm ML3 thread:  http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3595 There are some people who worship direct-heated tubes and attribute to them some ventures (like absent of higher harmonics and a special micro-fineness). The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #102: Back to future. MF channel sound. Eventually…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
OK, now I recognize my S2 driver, thank God. I was give to my new PS for MF channel one more change today to show itself off. I relayed the Hartmann ‘s first movement of the Shostakovich First Violin Concerto. As I said above the progress was very n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Sun Audio SV-2A3 by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I kind of disagree with Adrian. The wire, the coupling caps, the cathode resistors and many other things are superbly important but it is after the strategic topology is settled. In my view caps, resistor, wire and other things are responsible for th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Uncomfortably comfortable tube testers by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-07 
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 
I do not know, you have to decide to yourself what kind tubes and the most important HOW you would like to test them. For different tubes, differently used the different things are important.  I had a few testers and all of them were OK but all ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The one-stage Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="ml8"]So sometimes i just wonder why do you need 6C33C at all, with your high-sensitive speakers.[/quote] This thread is a derivation of the “5 Channel Version of Melquiades” thread: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=406...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Electromagnets and my interest. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
MochaMike, yes you are correct it would not be the “softness” but rather”liquidity”. Still what you are taking is applicable for the paper cone 4 to 15" drivers not compression drivers. Who knows how the compression drivers will react. To the rest ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: The 6-ch Milq: Fundamentals vs. Injection Channels. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Playing recently with setting up the new 6-ch Milq I again got an interesting feeling about my Fundamentals Channel. The in Injection Channel partially overrides some benefit of the Fundamentals Channel and I have a partial feeling that it would be p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Tweeters: a new round. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
The recent events in my playback made me to think about he new prospective duty of tweeters. Since the Super Melquiades was enlisted for duty the Vitavox S2 got it’s own dedicated amplifier channel and stopped to “see” the coil of upper bass driver. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: More mysteries and THE Honk. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
I spend quite a few hours playing with the new channel trying to ingrate into Macondo but so far not successful. Since the new channel and the Macondo upperbass horn have identical sensitively and identical impedance I figured that I would drive it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Wavac Audio Lab 805MK-II by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stands for Super Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  6 Replies 
Wavac Audio Lab announced a new amplifier: MD-805MK-II. http://www.wavac-audio.jp/md805mk2_e.shtml The amp uses the same idea that I pitched with my “Stands for Super Melquiades” idea – 2 floors with small footprint. The way how ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: "Zaratustra II" to drive Macondo’s bass? by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "Zaratustra II" to drive Macondo’s bass? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
I was yesterday drawing plans for the Zaratustra II’s chassis and was wondering how I might use it. The Zaratustra II turned out to be a little Monster, efforts-wise and expanses-wise. I hope it will demonstrate some results that will rectify the eff...
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