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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Those mechanical line stabilizers… by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
You need to be very carefully with them as they might be anything. I very much doubt that we need any AC line dedicated stabilizers; even though I do feel that it is good to have more or less stable line. The mechanical line stabilizers might be a bi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: DC coupling and line stabilization by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
Yes, in case of tube DC coupling line stabilization is desirable but it would serve only practical aspect of locking the operation point of output tube. The way HOW the line was stabilized very much might affect negatively the way how the whole ampli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 6E6P-DR by Johann on 2011-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6E6P-DR in triode mode in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Hi Romy,thank you for your answer. On weekend i will rebuild my amp for the 6E6P-DR. You are right, the tube datas shows that pin 8 is a screen. On D3A pin 8 is Grid 3 connected to screen.I will try it with pin 8 lifted and connected to ground. I hav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Re: Better among worst? by morricab on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
"You need to realise that the physically larger a Transformer becomes the narrower the available bandwidth for a given construction. Due to the need to handle a lot of "magnetic bias" SE Output transformers become very large, physicall...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #384: The Agony of ignoring..... by Bud on 2009-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
So, what you would have to do is buy a bunch of #9 AWG solid copper wire from China, so it is only 99% pure,acid etch the surface, paint it with tar and wind it up in a snake sex twist. Or pay them to do it for you.The idea is sound, the application ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Is it about Sakuma or about you? by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sakuma's Show in Audio Discussions  35 Replies 
I am categorical but very much not phanatical, it is interesting that you brought phanatisizm in context of Sakuma discussion. I am categorical in the facts about the sound that Sakuma demonstrated, and allegedly continue demonstrate via his “phanati...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1204: Half-ass but still a solution. by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
OK, guys, let stop to bite my Master and Margarita hook: this thread is not about all of that but about electricity problems. I brought the Master only as an illustration of some ridicules regarding the PP noise. I spent today another hour, trying to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Some feline contraKondovism by Romy the Cat on 2004-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My old Fi-Hi gear associations... in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]Some of it, (the current speakers and some of the amplifiers) are in my view, not outstanding. Other items, (the big preamp, phono stage, cartridge, MC transformer, silver cables and largest power amps are exceptionally goo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: The “Water Drop” and the “Bessel curve”… by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Well it is quite amassing discovers not the fact itself, it is well known, but the amplitude with which the fact demonstrates itself. I run the “Water Drop” at 12K second order but not against the tweeter transformer but against an 8R voltage divide...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Transformers by George on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators? in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
Romy, I have always been meaning to ask you why a step-up transformer for a cartridge can be acceptable but a transformer elsewhere is considered detrimental. Thanks, George...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The change #43489589282. Why? by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cerebral and psychological evolution of amp matching for the... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
[quote user="Tax"]The other options are to get some custom Amorphous OPT's <50R 350mA 8:1 as per previous posts, or to possibly pair Romy's LF tributes (for sale section) with a pair of Lundahl's in a two channel DSET configuration. The Avantgarde...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Importance of OPT and type of tube for SET amp bass performance by Rewind on 2013-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small SET’s bass, besides everything- is it about power? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
I am looking into building a 45 tube SET amp and I keep reading about how important a good output transformer is. I read that cheaper output transformers like Hammond can be okay for mids and highs, but it will also reduce bass performance. If on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Drz by vuki on 2009-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
Hi!Sorry for not spotting this thread before. I'm the member of this forum and I read it from time to time. I don't know what do you mean with "he is from diyaudio.com site"? I'm member of a few formums and newsgroups but I wouldn't say that I'm from...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #271: OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I made today a bunch of experiments with shielding of the MF filtering choke and I have very good progress. I was talking with different people and had a number of good advises (Come one, people the ward “advise” must have a plural form!)  The in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: My answer by devo_yan on 2018-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 250 watts Parallel S.E. advises in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
Nice thank you for the link, see the "lo SE100-1", 169.0 USD for 7Kg, it's cheap and they look good.So I was Happy with my choice of parallel 845 (I was hesitating with GM-70 but after a difficult decision I decided that the GM-70 filament consume tw...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1606: Reply to paul by Bill on 2018-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
My main 6 speakers are modified Edgar horns with 105 dB/ watt sensitivity, and the others are overhead emotive speakers with standard 90 dB/ watt sensitivity. There are two JL self powered f12 subs, and 4 self built subs with a sherbourn five channel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I demonstrated patience too long! by Romy the Cat on 2005-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquíades” début. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
Well, Chris, my transformer is amorphous type but I would have difficulties to comment about the  progress of the burning. For the first couple weeks when “Melquíades” was born I have difficulties to “get” how to load the output stage properly a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Nothing elaborate by Merlin on 2007-09-23 
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="Romy the Cat"]Merlin, Are you saying that your SET is not sensitive to load and a different plate load has no change to the harmonics of sound? Do you say that your output transformer does not straggle with inductance vs. capacitance bat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The field-coil cartridge? by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is the difference between the cartridges? in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
[quote user="coops"]Romy I have read on this forum that you are not particularly keen on the very low output AN Japan ( and Uk ) cartridges, may I ask the nature of your experience with them , have you tried the field coil versions? [/quote] Keith, I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Not so minimum stages phonostage by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
Thanks, Keith and Montepilot. I did have my 7788-7721 phonostage with LCR filter and I always liked it, pay attention - it was 68dB gains with just two stages and with NO step-up transformer.  Allnic  Phono is 3 stages with step-up transformer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: The hum is drooped significantly! by AlexBerger on 2010-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Romy,I try to remove the step-up transformers & short the input grid, the hum has gone.Than, I did next changes:1. Twisted wire from input RCA to step-up transformers. Connect transformers input & output ground directly (not thought ground ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Let it run run as it for a few month... by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About EAR 834P Modifications in Analog Playback  45 Replies 
I do not have good-sounding high output cartridges; my most high-voltage cartridge is SPU MONO that is 3mV I believe. I have 5mV Grado $300 Platinum Ref that is high-voltage cartridge but is sounds not seriously. My desire to bring my 3mV SPU via my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: It's OK for now. by KOTriode on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
I used those VPI magic brick sitting on top of the transformer, my audio analyzer tell me that these bricks helped the noise by about 1db, may be the 6 lbs or so weight does damp the xformer vibration, so I leave them on, just trying everything to ke...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: All about bass by anthony on 2015-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Hi Romy,So it is time to think about the bass output transformer in my DSET.  My bass channel will be 8 x 25W/8565-00 each side set in a sealed box and will cover the frequency range below say 100Hz.  These drivers can be wired anywhere between 1R an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: A bit more on the stabilizers by N-set on 2012-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I very much doubt that we need any AC line dedicated stabilizers; even though I do feel that it is good to have more or less stable line.[/quote]Well, this is a very general statement, perhaps too general? I'd say that *pu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: 6C33C as single triode. by KOTriode on 2011-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
The preamp has the classic tube regulated power supply using 5R4, 6AS7, 6SJ7. It is transformer coupled output and has no capacitor in the signal chain, the gain is about 8db, so it is not a buffer. For convenience, it does has a remote control. It i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: A little war with Super Melquiades. by cv on 2005-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
Allo,Well, the divider may certainly be responsible for some softening of transients - in particualr, what values are you using there?Also, the received wisdom is that silver micas are created far from equal; no experience with them myself but I beli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Sorry by devo_yan on 2018-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 250 watts Parallel S.E. advises in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
Ok, I said a mistake, I like direct radiator (sealed speakers) too, but I often noticed more dynamic with horn speakers (I like every speakers (if properly tunned) except speakers that radiate with both sight of the drivers (bass-reflex, tapped horn,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The loading quandary by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
The LL1627 is fine but it has core size limit.  Lundhal is a fast and you might have some “extra” inductance with it as it will have “enough” HF for your transformer. If you have Lundhal then stay with 220mA and the inductance whatever will be left o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Sowter mumetal and RAAL tx options by cv on 2007-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
I sent an email to Brian asking... also about how far down in frequency their largest mumetal core could go.I see why you want those tap options now - essentially you want to be able to load down the 6e5p but still use all the secondary sections. The...
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