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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Maybe it's a nostalgia game by Gregm on 2009-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I know at least 3-4 other people who very much like me bough in the Koetsu hype and bought the top of the line Koetsu needles. All of them hate it. The point that I try to make is that if the vintage Koetsu were so good th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Oh ,Thanks for that thread! Dima are you watching it ? by Wojtek on 2008-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C in Off Air Audio  24 Replies 
I'm strugling with dreaded Mcintosh Mr67 tuner . I borrowed one from a friend and it was very nice ;clear , crisp , dynamic so I went out and bought one for myself . It sounds like a mud and matches 100% of your description of average tube tuner...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Kitchen radio as a source of immense pleasure. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Forward in the past with old radios. in Off Air Audio  18 Replies 
I can’t stress how much pleasure I get from my kitchen radio. It is not about brand of specific sound that the radio produces but rather the esthetics or it and the location. It happened that in my house a kitchen is a center of activities and traffi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: His Master's Voice by Paul S on 2012-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The industry’s high quality recordings. in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
I best love the guy with a 200k system and maybe 100 recordings that are just as you describe!Apparently, there will always be a market for the 150k TT and the 30k up-sampling DAC to play the Audiophile recordings.Last week, a friend who's in The Bus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: The LPADs.... by Romy the Cat on 2015-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
What do you mean the example of inductive Lpad? All speaker level Lpads are inductive. The speaker level Lpads work with low voltage and high current and therefore they use wire wound restive elements. Any wire wound components are inductive by natur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Bass horn by audiofilofine on 2010-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best 20 hz bass horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  20 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]audiofilofine, you need to form a question in a format that would indicate you do the your do some homework. To bulb or even to design 20Hz horn is complex task and it usually made to the specifics of the given circumstance...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dedicated horn loaded mid -- big dissapointment. by noviygera on 2009-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dedicated horn loaded mid -- big dissapointment. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
I purchased a pair of front loaded horns with JBL e120 12" drivers. They are crossed over at 200 and 800Hz  24/octave2 pictures here:http://picasaweb.google.com/noviygera/Midbass#dimensions are of the cabs are 28" wide-20" high and 24" deep.When I ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Time to dig out those old… by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new CES 2010 loudspeaker? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
[quote user="Saturntube"] Time to dig out those old A7s and start playing with electronic Xovers...[/quote] Well, it depends. Depends what the objectives are. If the objectives are to fight the stupid pricing of contemporary high-end products ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #276: Phase Linearity by Edgar= on 2022-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
Not Amplitude. It's the rock solid phase linearity. It feels like a brick wall all the way up and down. I haven't looked at any graphs and haven't measured anything but that is my guess. There is no question of the great tone of vintage Tannoy but al...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Some useful curves by hagtech on 2007-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 7788 tube mic pre design in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
Ok, so it took me awhile.  I finally got around to doing a design around this tube, believe it or not, as a driver for a 2A3.  It just seemed right.  Bought some 60's vintage(?) Amperex "PQ" on eBay.  Well, here's what it looks li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: Tribute MC iron by N-set on 2011-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Hi all,I'm slowly progressing with my assault on the pussyfied 834.I'm looking around for an interesting step up.I've happily eliminated SU-1 (I'd rather daydream about a night withMonica Belluci instead of those ugly steel boxes), said fuck off to S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: RE: room treatment and loading by movingcoilguy on 2008-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wharfedale Super 12/RS/DD 12" full range driver in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
I Romy I have readone of your posts that you sent or posted and I am beginning to get a bit of a grip of what you are saying but will continue to read the other thread also. I guess at this point I should really use the tool I have and see what if an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Bravo, Schaub & Lorenz. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Forward in the past with old radios. in Off Air Audio  18 Replies 
I got this week the last new tube for my Schaub & Lorenz. Since I got wonderful result with change of the output tubes I decided to swallow the bullet and buy all new tubes for this radio. My presumption is that as bad my original output tubes we...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: If I may be a litt;e suggestive..... by Brian Clark on 2008-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
I have some ZVN0545A mosfets here for exactly that purpose of replacing cathode followers. You may like to try this starting at 2mA (250V supply, 125k biasing resistor). Did you or Dima try Soviet SSG silver-mica for the first coupler? I am using 0.1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Still trying to work it out. by Tubebuilder on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mid Bass horns help with plans please. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
I am still here still trying to work it out. Read your mid bass horns article again. Learned a bit more. You right about open baffle I once foolishly sold everything I owned to buy a pair of km30. They never sounded good until one day...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: The new twist of G.I.P company. Reasons? by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Of course I did go to the GIP site and I did not see in there a lot of what I would like to see. They are presented in there as a vintage audio resellers, stressing the originality and authenticity of their items. The brochure that you posted has...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: The Last driver is never a first one. by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]Also you say: "In reality the driver is the key"So let me ask for advice on suitable driver(s). This be my next step. Need I select a size? Or driver with certain spec? For example lets say driver "x" is good for this rang...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Horns and SS A/B amps – no, no, no… by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo copying: Horns troubleshooting in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I put together a hot tube amp channel, and gone is the sound of shattered glass.All three of my receivers were distorting equally horribly.Beware of never-been-serviced vintage solid state, I guess!Anyone know if it is common for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: No substantial changes in mainstream audio by el`Ol on 2008-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy in Audio News  17 Replies 
Hello Romy!My predictions are:The mainstream manufacturers will continue as they have been doing for decades: Use steep x-overs that allow them to use more and more exotic cone materials without changing anything effectively. Strange-looking con...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Ok, the trip is booked. by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
Ok, we have booked the tip. We are leaving US in 27 August for London and return on September 11 from Edinburgh. Probably we stay in London up to 6 September, the day of the final Bruckner 8 concert with Vienna Philharmonic, exploring the city and th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1295: Chinese High End? by drdna on 2014-02-10 
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"]My experience that any wide-public  commercial devise that meant to be use foe audio placation in the best targeted to work with SONY 5ch receivers that people get in Best Buy. The application that we use in so called high-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Jean Hiraga’s cooking of Altec 604 by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jean Hiraga’s cooking of Altec 604 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
I have to admit that I hate the Altec 604 in the same way I hate a few similar drivers other companies made in the same topology. Jean Hiraga made a loudspeaker around Altec 604, I have no idea how it sounds. People who read my site know that I d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Headphone amp? Purpose? by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
It is unquestionably an ambiguous project. The topmost question that I would ask myself after this project would be the following: can Milq-biased 6E5P to be as good (sound-wise) DC driver as some vintage direct heated tubes. I did ask thin question ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #894: One down one to go noise wise by beachbum on 2011-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Thanks Romy i found the colbert and solved the 60 cycle noise. now go and figure we have a most powerful AM/FM station here wwland the sightliest of its signal is bleeding in to my system. I like to use unshielded rcas i am single ended also, its got...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: Just one of the sheep by Paul S on 2008-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I have to say, I never gave it much thought, since, as you say, The Book says 5751s are an OK sub for 12AX7.  I did realize that the gain was lower, but I obviously had a brain cramp in not interpolating the lower gain to "redistributed" global ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Sure It is not easy by Amir on 2023-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Amir, I think there are still "acceptable" "commercial" components (including speakers) still "out there", depending on how they are used; it's just a matter of finding and getting ahold of them. In any case, building up an integ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The Tweeters and Electricity by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Metal domes in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Among the contemporary ion tweeters I heard only with Acapellas, multiple times, never was happy with the results as the tweeters sounded as different drivers to the enter speaker. Also in a past I bought on eBay a number of vintage ion tweeters – th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: People say by Paul S on 2008-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
There are those who claim to drive some of the big vintage speakers with SETs at AA.  Like those ancient top models from University, Wharfdale, Tannoy, etc., etc.  Not that this is the same as an objective approach.I've heard it tried ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Those least three possibilities… by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]In my mind, there are at least three possibilities, and they must be interpreted by experiment with caution: 1. irregular fluctuations in signal (I will call this "noise") result in irregularities in output signal we listen to a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Luck of the draw by Joe Roberts on 2009-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Wait...are you saying that FOUR people who have been to Camerata wrote you offline (within two days!) and they neglected to enter into this relevant discussion?Strange! H'mmm? If I were the guy mentioned above, I would have been in here screa...
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