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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #861: The main question left to be answered about use of multiple PP2000. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I separated my two of my PP2000 in my rack with 3 feet space and run everything from one PP2000 and both Milq power amps from another PP2000. I also routed the incoming power cords that that are far from each other and far from outcoming power co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: I will continue working on my Macondo. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]ROMY  Your analogy of fitting the foot to the shoe is on the right track... Some times you need is a better pair of sox,,,You dont need to change the decorum of the Symphony hall..When you have a shitty orchestra,,,  Sometimes ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #296: Debugging the ham. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-20 
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[quote user="drdna"] It is not exactly correct. There is 60 Hz hum eliminated by lifting the ground to the amplifiers. The neutral is connected to the ground prong and chassis in the amps, so I assume it is setting up a loop. However, there is a seco...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #313: Maybe it cannot do magic by Antonio J. on 2009-02-22 
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[quote user="drdna"]  Antonio J. wrote:Considering that PP2000 isn't plugged into a dedicated line and that line can be shared by other electric devices plugged into the grid, I wonder if the hum noise is getting into the PP2000 not from the gr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #203: More on softness by drdna on 2008-12-24 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]In the end I feel that the PP2000’s softness/politeness is not a liability but opportunity. I certainly not willing to go back to the softness/politeness lacking type of sound and I would like to make my playback to be able...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Egg-Nishna vs 50Hz by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-15 
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I’ve been thinking about all this electricity stuff… I’ve stopped using all power conditioning devices since Bush got re-elected, and I consequently left the country to start a new life in the land of 220v/50Hz (this BTW, is not an exaggeration). ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: Feedback to the 6C33C review. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
[quote user="KOTriode"] On dynamic, the 6C33C tube showed its ability to go deep in the bass on Ray Brown trio recording of Soular Energy which is excellent for a 15W SE , the 845 amp can do better, but not by much, but probably because of its 25W ou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The way from ignorance to moronity by Antonio J. on 2005-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Expensive Audiophilism as a diagnosis. in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Actually I do not think that it “all about money” but rather about “those” people who exercise nothing else then thier own Moronity. Ignorance is a state when a person recognizes that something is wrong but do not know "w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The start of the Hi-End Industry by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: TAS article: start of the Hi-End Industry in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
I did not read it, I rarely read those types of articles but what you describe is very common and very indicative for those people. They fly like butterflies from a manufacture to a manufacture, from dealer to dealer and from marketing campaign to ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Deep-fried dbs by jessie.dazzle on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
Romy, Your approach makes sense; I will look into fitting a "12.5 db voltage divider". As I did not have any noise issues when using the same equipment with a variety of direct radiating speakers, I can only speculate as to what other informat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: An amplifier is not a subject but a service.. by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fun with transformers? in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
Ari, I do not think that we recognize the process of “audio designing” as the identical actively. It looks as you peruse to design an amplifier (for instance) as a conceptually well operating system where a set of deferential abstractly-measurable v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: It might become not what I initially thought by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I would not restrict myself to the idea that things need to be a certain way or a certain configuration of the drivers or ports based on theory alone. I think it is important to ask what is interesting about the sound that the new...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Diminishing returns? by Jorge on 2011-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
The other day I was listening to a friend´s system with nice Avalon speakers, only one 10" seemed to be enough, of course it seemed we were playing house when listening to music, everything was small and very nice and pretty...Now when matc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The ideal dual-concentric horn instalation. by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The IDEAL horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="MochaMike"]A stereo three way horn system with a dual concentric 15" woofers backloaded to 50 cycles and front loaded  with a  short round tractrix horn  200-800 cycles handed off to the  concentric  2"  com...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: ..it was Cogent and the Shindo... by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] Or build your own outer magnetic circuit as you are saying, retaining the S2 diaphragm, phase plug, pole pieces and throat.... [/quote] If you read the thread form beginning then you will see that it was my original ultimate intent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Actually the “Wrong Vowels” is another subject. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"] One thing nobody has mentioned is using the room’s corners. Is this a no no? I’ve been trying use McBean to model a horn exiting into the corner – with a middle ‘mouth’ about 1m squared - and using a conical approximation as the r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #327: About my old system vs. the new system, as now. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"] I listened to Romys old system,  I am sure the new one sound better….[/quote] With everyone who comes to my place we discuss that subject: how audio installation in my new listening room sound different from the playback I had in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #606: The sad continuation of the story. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-03 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Today turned the playback and I was surprise with gray and unexpressive bass. “What the hell?”-  I asked myself. There was absolutely nothing done to playback but I look like I lost bass. My initials sentiment was that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #698: Some observations. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-06 
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[quote user="Lx_"] The second sentence is my own conclusion. It was not my intention to imply that it is yours, sorry for the misunderstanding this may have caused. We both agree that PP can be sensitive to incoming AC. The context and circumstan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #709: The Compiled Sound™ of new Pure Power PP2011. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-14 
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I can’t stress now much I am fallen in love with my new PP2000. I was playing it today all day and can’t not see any single thing that I would bitch. I perhaps is missing too much the sound of proper electricity but my feeling is that the new uni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Relativity, redux by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
I am in academics. In this world it is no challenge to find people who want to tell me that they are right and everybody else is wrong.The problem with any scholar stuck in his/her theoretical bubble is that there is no room for that person to change...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Again, again and again …. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio-tekne's "Tone Quality Improvement technique" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Stefano, I do not have any strong objection regarding to what ALE do. Bent bass horn are more evil then straight horn but considering the small throat of the ALE drivers  and their desire to make it to work low the length of the horn become to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: …a number of logical flaws… by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] I believe that although you may be wrong to make a difference between ULF and the rest of the frequency range….[/quote]I know when I wrote it I would raise some eyebrows of the few readers of my site who actually are thinking...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #434: A grander scheme in mind… by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="rickmcinnis"]I learned of the union from the posts sent to my email box.  Sorry to have to admit I have been lackadaisical about checking in.  You had not been posting much the months previous and now I understand why.Wrote a note to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: A compression driver as a musical instrument. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-10 
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="Johan Dreyer"] I had a SG370 mid apart only yesterday.I should have taken a photograph. I have also seen the inside of the tweeter. They are very similar, so I have no reason to suppose the low mid SG 505 will be much different. I'll try...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Why GOTO? by be on 2008-02-14 
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"another big selling point to me was the 505 being a low resonance compression driver.. there just aren't many drivers with a resonance in the 80 to 100 Hz range like this driver... I have just begun my playing, but am already quite taken by it.....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Playback and operation on character's boundaries by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playback and operation on character's boundaries in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
All Acoustic System or let say playbacks has signature or some kind of own character of sound. That is normal we all accept it and live with it. It is important to differentiate a character of playback from major mistakes of playback, but it is a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC by Paul S on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC in Didital Things  26 Replies 
Well, I finally found and implemented a digital front end that I can live with.  I have been so cynical about digital up to now that I have kept and used an old, cheap Sony player (albeit one actually made in Japan...) because up to now it seeme...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Bidat stories... by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="mark"] i currently am in the process of obtaining a bidat,so this new thread is very timely for me.i currently use a highly modified audio aero capitole mkII se and modified 47 labs progression dac.i plan to work with john wright to take...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: I am with Mr. Robbins on it. by Romy the Cat on 2020-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dpols? in Playback Listening  11 Replies 
[quote user="JJ Triode"]I listened to this talk up to the beginning of the question-and-answer session. I am surprised that this method would really capture the essence of Romy's almighty DPOLS condition. It seems to me that Robbins is very much cent...
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