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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: More thoughts by N-set on 2012-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Turntable speed analysis. in Analog Playback  17 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] N-set wrote: There is a certain analogy between THD number and Wow&Flutter number: bare THD tells you very little, if anything at all, about the amp, one has to dig into that number deeper and see a detailed spectrum b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Straight Edge; Compass; Relaxing at Home by Paul S on 2009-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vinyl Ceremonies: Repeatable VTA in Analog Playback  18 Replies 
I finally made a fairly accurate circular "dial" that I divided into 32 sections to use as scale to use with the arm adjustment knob I described earlier.  I had been using a piece of tape I had marked and divided freehand, by eye.  I had already ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #141: My Dannoy update by Bill on 2021-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Prior to three days ago, i was almost ready to give up on the Dannoy's as I couldn't get close to the sound heard at Romy's with his setup of the same speakers. Then i was able to add my newly obtained Yamaha B2 amps, and was once m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Near end-of-the-project gift. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
This weekend the new 6-chenal Milq is not finished yet design-vise but functionally is already “there”. The amp was good enough to play with other 3-chenal Milq. Firstly for the last month I was able to listen full stereo from Macondo…. I spend some ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: American National Recording Registry by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: American National Recording Registry in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Recordings are listed by year of release: "The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888) Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The Tanglewood saga. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
I have to admit that I do not like the trip to Tanglewood – sitting for hours at the damn turnpike exit is not my definition of fun. The few times I was in Tanglewood I never was able to get the sits where I appreciate sound a strange place for to li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Wow, what a change! by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
The BSO’s session was opened today, welcome back James Levine. The concert was ridicules in a way. It stated early. The fist past was  Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila Overture. The Overture was a nightmare. The dull and boring orchestra was juts re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Richard Wagner. Something has changed by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Richard Wagner. Something has changed in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
I always had a strange thing with Wagner – I appreciate and deeply respect his music but I never liked it. It is not that do “not like it” but rather I just do not feel that Wagner’s things are the part of my sonic realization of world. As I wrote be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Proposed translation by jessie.dazzle on 2008-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
I.M. Distortion wrote : "...From were you set put a ladder tye a string to it were your head was 15 feet long, go to your horns that is 1000 hz and above put the string threw it go threw the back of it take your driver off measure to the back plate ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Thinking about my lower bass by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The major minor thing remains to find different lower bass. I said “minor” thing as my lower bass is not bad, in fact I do insist that it is very proper lower bass as I did set it up lately properly…..Despite that I in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The pianist Yuja Wang … and all of them… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The pianist Yuja Wang … and all of them… in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I was laying in bed, fighting with aftermath of a nasty flue, reading. The always “on” Rohde & Schwarz tuner was getting WHRB. The Macondo was up at 3 clicks very softly filing the room with WHRB’s “Cello Challenge” and “20th Century Brass Concer...

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 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single Ended Triode distortions.... in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
[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 #1: A new generation of full-function preamps. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new generation of full-function preamps. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
In the past there was such a concept of full-function preamplifiers that included MM and MC inputs. With time such devises die out and nowadays it is VERY difficult to find a full-function preamplifier generally and a good sounding full-function ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Several issues (long and probably boring to many of you, my advanced e... by Antonio J. on 2006-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
1.- Finding specific solutions to specific problems[quote user="drdna"] .... I have high-sensitivity horn loudspeakers and use some 2A3 SET amplifiers, which make very good sounds but I am looking to get closer to the Sound, which to me is feeli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The ‘magic tape measure’ option by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Focal-Jmlab – the Utopia of the Utopias in Audio News  11 Replies 
Robert, actually in case of Grand Utopia you was remarkably close mentining the ‘magic tape measure’ option. You see, they demoed Utopia in looks like a large room and they band the Utopia’s axis’s only for demonstration purposes. In this configurati...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Some digital thoughts and speculations… can wait to try it. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
Yes, Peter, I know that in the Steinberg WaveLab use only Bob Katz’ metering system, still I thought that if they are cooperate then Katz’ Ambience Recovery might be available as a standalone plug-in. It is kind of suspiring that Mr. Katz was able t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Natalia Gutman (!) in Boston again. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Natalia Gutman (!) in Boston again. in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Two hours after the end of the glorious Götterdämmerung from MET, I was sitting at the D row, center sit of Jordan Hall right in front of conducting podium of Boston Philiharmonic and Natalia Gutman. What can I say? I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Delayed by Delay by Greg B on 2005-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
Yeah, the delay is the rub. I know that it's sacrilege, but at this moment going digital with an additional A/D/D/A stage is probably the best way to do it. I know a couple electronic geeks that could design a high resolution analog delay, but the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #831: Electricity Analyses: Sonic Data by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Those who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I mi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: 176/24 track by DOT*SYSTEM on 2010-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
Romy I downloaded your file and burned a DVD-A which includes 176/24 Reference Recordings HrX demo files they once made available.   I listened to these on my OPPO SE which has an info display that verifies the recording sample rate, and also...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Where the FM quality comes from? by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where the FM quality comes from? in Off Air Audio  22 Replies 
I have noted before that the quietly of sound that I’m getting from FM broadcast, or even from the regular FM transmissions of the regular CDs, is insultingly beautiful and not really compatible with Sound that I get out of my CD and LPs. http://ww...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: FM and … cables… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: FM and … cables… in Off Air Audio  4 Replies 
If you read my site or talk to me then you know that I am very much not a proponent to dummy idea of balancing specific problems of playback system by using specific complimentary cables. I always tend to use individually neutral components with ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Micro Seiki double deck: some early results. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
To Antonio, it is not necessary to “to find some mat with those characteristics of yours”. The characteristics of mat would be applicable only I context of the TT you use (platter, suspension and so on). With my Micro 8000 that has very dead soundi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Let keep eyes on the ball. Define what the ball is. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Scooter, The High Quality Music Servers in addition combined with CD player functionally is not as simple and straight forward task as you think. The subject of high-end computer audio is very popular nowadays but I think it understood very wrongly....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The “best” digital sampling rate. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The optimum Sampling Rate for bass. in Didital Things  3 Replies 
I got one of those Reference Recordings 176KHz files to try.  Everyone so go rave about them… I did not truly pursuit them before as whatever they have interesting musically was released before – how much you can listen the same 5 disks even i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Some thoughts about the 'Constellation Noise'. by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orion Phono Preamplifier in Analog Playback  15 Replies 
Sine I read about the new Orion phonostage I was thinking about the whole story behind it. The whole Constellation Audio as the company that started  2-3 years back strike me as  some kind of combined efforts of a group of dealer and distributors...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: ADC Bingo!!! by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
I have found the problem and was able to resolve the noise quandary. The Lavry ADC has balance analog input and the Sansui has single-ended output. I use my PAD’s Dominus cable with an RCA to XLR adapter. The adaptor was made by BAT and I used it f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The new FM Classical scene in Boston by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
Well, that sucks here in Boston. WHRB is still in business but if you do not call them and explain to them that they are playing records backward they would not acknowledge it. The WCRB is gone, that is good but the WHRB move to the WCRB frequenc...

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: More about the cross-source validations. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Verify that you sources do not underperform. in Audio For Dummies ™  2 Replies 
Well, the added benefits of cross-source validation is that some of the sources are stable but others are less stable and might vary in its basic quality with time. For instance digital is very stable and since you once set it up properly then it rem...
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