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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: I hate this company. by Romy the Cat on 2014-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Estonian idiocy: Estelon in Audio News  15 Replies 
I can't express how much I hate this speaker, not necessary the speaker but rather the company or the people who are behind the company. I do not pretend that I am a Sherlock Homes or  Dr. House and that I can read behind the immoderate diagnoses but...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1104: Me, being an abominable asshole. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Yep, that looks like very bad. I am sorry folks you get hurt.  I still get my two PP2000 of vintage wherever I got them, they are spectacular and I love them greatly.  Since I got them to work properly (after the shielding accident) I have no single ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: A new feel of Opera Room. by Romy the Cat on 2012-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
Amy turned out to be a fireplace kitten and she spends a lot of time in our opera room, cooking her feet on fire and filing the room with marvelous purring. We were planning to do major Opera Room remodeling this winter but the resent Hurricane Sandy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: The 7th sense by jessie.dazzle on 2008-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Just thinking and writing out loud, and I'm probably way off track :Sort of analogous to the effect of introducing, at strategic intervals, varying doses of nitrous-oxide to the cycle of an internal combustion motor, in which case the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #148: The next day by Romy the Cat on 2017-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
The last night I “locked” Thomas to watch Masha and Bear in my office and spent some time with playback trying to answers a few questions in my head.     First, I needed to discover what was the source of the ridicules double-sound that I exp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #266: This is as idiotic as it I could be. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-14 
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="Romy the Cat"] [/quote] Practically all surfaces of horns are sanded and relatively good looking, I was priming today the rest of the horns. I was priming it as was thinking how much I got worse. Formerly I was listening some music at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The updated DAW? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best practices for DAW Data Storage. in Didital Things  9 Replies 
Well, I did some research and consulted with my network people and it looks like it might be unfortunately-expensive project. Still it will not be what I want. They recommended me to go for what they call NAS (network attach storage). It tuned out t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Higher power cpu by Amir on 2017-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I hate computer playback. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] Amir wrote:Please share more information about your PC.Amir, I have two PCs for purely audio purposes - one for my main listening room and one for my home office. The former was built commercially by Phasure (http://www.pha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Orchestra of 32 Loudspeakers - how do you feel about it? by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orchestra of 32 Loudspeakers - how do you feel about it? in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
State-of-the-art Orchestra: 32 Loudspeakers by David Dominique “Ahem. Is this on? [two taps on the microphone]” Thus began Mark Applebaum’s Pre-Composition, the concert openeron Friday, December 10th for H...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: Thank you Romy very well put. by morespeakers2 on 2013-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
 I would like to thank you for taking the time to give me a very satisfying answer and explain in detail your views on the whole subject and give a little more insight in to how you do things. Yes I suppose I really knew all along it was coming and w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #126: GOTO for upper bass ? by Murataltuev on 2015-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Oh, God, what the measurement microphone does at the mouth of the horn? Is it where you measure your responses?  I hope not. Also, even over the bad sound of YouTube video it is very clear at the example you provided us t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: CD Is Dead. CD Is Dead? by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CD Is Dead. CD Is Dead? in Didital Things  4 Replies 
EMI Music CEO says the CD is 'dead' -  Oct 27, 2006 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- EMI Music Chairman and Chief Executive Alain Levy Friday told an audience at the London Business School that the CD is dead, saying music companies will no longer be a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Micro SX8000I: noisy pump? by wonderworld on 2014-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro SX8000I: noisy pump? in Analog Playback  8 Replies 
Hi Micro Seiki guys!  From a few months I have RX5000 and of course this is great TT and even more if the platter is damped and upgraded with a proper mat. Now I have offer from a seller of SX8000I. First I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 by Romy the Cat on 2013-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
Oh that forgotten pleasure… I am not spoiled with audio experiments nowadays. Partially because I do not have a lot of drive and have reached a definitive return in my possible audio experiments. Another partial preseason is that I kind of able to pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Mravinsky 1983 by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ah Mravinsky ! in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
I have to note that I do not like the play at THIS performance but still it does a good video documentary (with incredibly stupid camera work though). ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #162: Some time on it by anthony on 2019-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Finally, it has happened.  Sound.  Two weeks ago I had a couple of mates help me carry up and install the first DSET on its pedestal on the horn stack.  It was quite a bit of effort and three were definitely required for the heavy but delicate operat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Very interesting by Romy the Cat on 2021-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Very interesting in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Tonight, it might be a very interesting event in Boston. It will be broadcasted life over local FM and internet. It will be some kind of concerto for electric bass and orchestra. I do not know the music they will be playing but I am curios. I do n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: The Paul McGowan's dream. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The PS Audio newsletter this month had the following: "We already have a CD player and transport in the works and lots of ideas floating around about audio systems, video setups and new AC power products….. Daydream a bit for me if you would and th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Claude Perrier and his tube seremony by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Claude Perrier and his tube seremony in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
I do not know how interesting it is from technological or sonic perspective but the enthusiasm and perseverance of this guy defiantly deserves applauds. Claude Perrier in his 70 makes home direct heated triodes, how many people like him are out ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Some afterthoughts about the ESD Acoustic horn speakers. by Romy the Cat on 2018-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Well, I do not like the ESD debut. It was not well though and not well executed. The sound that they demonstrated is kind of less relevant. Sound look like was nothing interesting to say the last, sorry it is too obvious at the video clip above in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Will do a vidio soon. by Romy the Cat on 2023-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
At the bottom of your RAAL you have Vitavox S2 driver with no lowpass filter, right? Do you have an alternator between Milq and S2? If you do, then the alternator has some inductance and acts and a very mild filter. Anyhow. I disagree with RAAL an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Aries Cerat Symphonia, version 2020 by Romy the Cat on 2020-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aries Cerat Contendo - the newest "fat" kid in the... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
Nine years ago, when I posted the initial post in this thread the Aries Cerat was a different company with different products.  As I understand in 2014 they changed a lot and today they have a speaker that I would like to talk a little: Aries Cera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: High End Munich 2023 by Romy the Cat on 2023-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
It looks like Germans have a new audio show, I did not even know that they are still going on. That very first lady guy found was surprisingly pleasant, even though I did not finish to watch it. The guy let manufacturers talk and explain what they...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: What a wonderful post!!! by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lavardin discovery in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
I have a lot of to say in response and I would like to make a video about the subject (less typing) but I am traveling now. It is not that I have anything to say about that Lavardin amp and it is not the subject of this thread I feel. The subject ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Taking about Tchaikovsky Swan Lake… by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stage Music: get clew. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Here I would like to pitch an interesting thing. It was revealed to me yesterday that VAI released the 1976 Bolshoi production of Swan Lake with Plisetskaya and Bogatirev. Well it was not Bolshoi season production but the Bolshoi troops do what they ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mravinsky and Bruckner’s Seventh. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Yevgeny Mravinsky Film in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
Yoshi, it is well known that Japanese collecting-recording culture is well more developed and very frequently the quality of this CD pressing is way more interesting then we have in States. I quite regularly buy at HMV Japan CDs. Some of them never ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The Linux and a slightly misleading point of by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Nycparamedic, Thanks for your comment. It was interning as I am very far away from the Linux gaily and have absolutely no idea what kind gravitation forces are in play there. Even though I do understand that advantages to run dedicated operation sys...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #214: Gyroscopes by noviygera on 2020-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Not that physics is my strong suit, but casually watching a physics youtube video this thought crossed my mind. I wonder if gyroscopes can be used in a turntable to improve it's performance without reverting to ultra high mass system...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Pure Audio Blu-ray. by Romy the Cat on 2014-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pure Audio Blu-ray. in Didital Things  2 Replies 
Hm.... I generally late to technology innovations in audio and I am OK with it. As many of you know many of "innovations" in audio are very much shooting to a wrong target and in most of the instances with a wrong dun and wrong ammunition.  The new o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Solved problems by steverino on 2014-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]Sometimes we have luck when we listen to a System and we can have the illusion of - more or less - pure music realism, but the majority of Systems are sophisticated hi-fi.Well, but let's be honest, can it be so difficult to creat...
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