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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: K2HD -yet, another CD format with ‘master tape’ paranoia. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K2HD -yet, another CD format with ‘master tape’ paranoia. in Didital Things  0 Replies 
This time JVC cape up witch K2 HD format.  You might read about it at: http://www.dagogo.com/Music/FIM-K2HD-Sampler.html …though the article says absolute nothing what “K2 HD” is all about. From what I understand is it some kind of mastering t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Listening Pipe Organ Music by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Listening Pipe Organ Music in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
I knew that Bruckner will fuck up my mind, but I am grateful for that… Lately I tuned my attention to organ music, in fact I’m listening a lot of organ music.  It might appear that my playback got to the point where it might do a full justice ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Some sanity in the end, or at the beginning... by Romy the Cat on 2021-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Well, that's a Trip! Of course, Love Is The Answer. But this is not something you hear at audio wbsites, is it? Like Einstein working for Civil Rights![/quote]Well, I clearly understand that I am waxing poetry over the subject t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: People you are so full of it. by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "Not So Sweet Spot" /Absolute Sound, Jonathan Vali... in Audio News  4 Replies 
After posting last night the post above I got a few emails from the people asking me why I am so angry and why I feel that industry people are valuable only in dead form. Those unfortunate audio people with their questions are so dull. I have exp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: The throat considerations. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
I was thinking about the throat of my hypothetic midbass horn. This is complex, controversial and it has pretty much no answer, at least in the formeat I ask it. I will share my thoughts with you. Let pretend that I went for exponential midbass profi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About Timbre and Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Timbre and Audio. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
In thins thee I will be talking a bit about the things that unfortunately seldom spoken in audio - about Timbres. It will be an installment of a few posts most likely and I will  be uploading them as I have time and mood. In my teens I was a c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Actually I do think that my retort is necessary by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-13 
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"] Your post has had the desired effect and I am doing some more research into Fane Studio 8M, 16 Ohm drivers in a 4 inch throated horn tuned to 115Hz with the intention of crossing it from 70Hz to 500Hz . This may be similar to w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Michael Fremer Responds to Romy the pussy by Mr. "Framer" on 2006-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
I really enjoyed reading an ignorant rant by someone who has probably neither heard the Continuum turntable, nor who is willing to say anything substantive about its design, yet he's more than happy to mock me and the people who designed and built th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ in Audio News  10 Replies 
Many audio publications grand some kind of idiotic rewards: “Product of Year”, “Editor Choose Award”, the “Best Sound at Show, “The Golden Ears” and so on. Trying to stay in the moronic awards-granting crowd I decided to form my own award: I would ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #256: A stronger preamp and sick Paravicini? by Romy the Cat on 2017-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="ArmAlex"]Dear Romy,Try EAR 312. it may help.[/quote]There is a very little info about the EAR 312 and I do not know if it is “stronger”. Wherever I looked I was not able to find the output impedance numbers.  It looks like the preamp us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The best bass solution. by Romy the Cat 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 
[quote user="Jorge"] I have never found the law of diminishing returns to apply to audio!  Going crazy always sounds better… [/quote] Jorge, we need to have a perspective about those things.  With exception of oxric’s episode, who still is not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Milq-Macondo Next: the contemplations and hesitations… by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 1)      I would like to try amorphous core foe my LF transformer. I know, I know, the amorphous core is not LF core but I know what I hear and if I found somebody who would be able to make for me d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Replica my tail! by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The African compression electromagnet drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  42 Replies 
[quote user="vinylithicum"] Here are some of my observations regarding the Wolf von Langa RCA 1428 replica. I long time wondered where mr. von Langa gets his phase correction elements and the diaphragm for his RCA 1428 replica. It's obvious that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Shielding Condoms on those tubes.... by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shielding Condoms on those tubes.... in Melquiades Amplifier  0 Replies 
I got home today, power up the payback and played some bootlegs of Australian festivals that Kostas Metaxas sent me another day. I paid attention that the sound was strange it was too hard atop.  That was something new. I put in my player the CDs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Michael Fremer Continuums… by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
Mr. Framer, the reviewer extraordinaire of Stereofiles magazines went to Australia for his vacations. “My God, those poor Australians live in a complete ignorance - Mr. Framer said, - and I’m confident that they desperately need a help form such an e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: “You did a heck of a job, Brownie” by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
I regularly visit 6moons News Section that lately became quite good sources for audio news. It is same that Srajan not willing to share the news in RSS or compatible format, anyhow… The today new is Elina Lamm announces that "we are extremely please...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #621: Comments on PurePower PP2000 December events. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I would like to shade light about what is doing on with PurePower PP2000. I know that the readers of my site have own brain, at least some of them, and they do not need me or anybody else to “shade light” on anything. Still, since I was the initi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How much does it cost to stabilize a turntable speed? by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How much does it cost to stabilize a turntable speed? in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
Anyone who has more than a superficial experience with better turntables knows that speed stability is not the subject that civilized people shall even mention.  Any turntables shall stabilize speed of disc rotation at the point that it is not au...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: "These are clearly JBL putzs..." by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Yes, Jonathan, I have seen this resemblance with JBL in the shape of the back plate but it does not mean anything. The curved back magnetic path make a lot of sense, so he might adopt it from JBL. There is nothing wrong with it. I do not k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Woofers cone repair – a truly high-end method needed. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Woofers cone repair – a truly high-end method needed. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Preparing for my Midbass Channel projects http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=13597 …I did inventory if the drivers that I might use for it. I never did it before as the all were in different storages, now they a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My Audio "Reviewing" agenda. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio "Reviewing" agenda. in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
I constantly receive emails from people asking me my opinions about audio equipment. I was trying to address it in here: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=681 …but still. Those people do not really understand hot tedious to think ab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: MTT’s Mahler at 180 ghram or 180 degree? by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MTT’s Mahler at 180 ghram or 180 degree? in Analog Playback  1 Replies 
I do not read printed audio publications. The last one I held in hands it was a year ago or more. Today I stop by in my local Burlington Barnes and Noble and since I was there already I took 3 Stereophile and 2 issues of TAS from newsstand, bough...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: The Zurrealism of the Zu Druids’ bass the SMDS by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Mani, I would leave the subject of DSET/horn setup for another thread and would drop a few words about Zu Druids. They are not the speakers that I would ordinary comment but since I have a local guy with Zu Druids and I had a chance to hear th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #905: PurePower 3000 vs. PurePower 2000 by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
It is mean rainy day today in Boston and I’ve been playing with my new PurePower 3000 regenerator. It has been a bit bumpy as there was a frustrating issue, that looks like a shipping damage, the PurePower guys promise to fix it.My initial sentim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Video and audio reference points correlation. by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Impossibility of commercial seriousness? in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="Steradian"] One area where standards have failed is in HDTV.  I have no sympathy for the morons who decided to have 2 standards, 720p and 1080i.  It is clear they prostrated themselves to corporate bribery to allow such to be called ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Read my lips by cdwitmer on 2008-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]What I find peculiar is Chris Witmer’s desire to defend the new prices.[/quote]I don't like having words put into my mouth. I'm not trying to "defend" anything. I explained why the price is what it is. Whether that's a ba...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital in Didital Things  13 Replies 
I was pointed out to an endeavor of Type Project where the guy who trade Bottlehead kits is trying to promote contemporary 15ips master dubs and staff eBay machine with Bottlehead-level of electronics. http://www.tapeproject.com It is no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Aesthetix Rhea Signature and realm of idiocy by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aesthetix Rhea Signature and realm of idiocy in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
As I said a few days back it was a big event in my life: I bought October TAS magazine in book store http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=11954 Doing it a few times in year is so wonderful journey into the realm of id...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Fuck the horns! by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Multi-way Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="skushino"] I think you are saying the effects of my room may be dominating any problems with the Edgarhorn bass, or at least I can't know since I don't have any objective data.  Is this correct? Maybe you're right.  But here is wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Truth and fiction. 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 
It is very self-evident for kind public this clown is working. From all BS that was expressed about me I would point just two facts: 1) I never kicked Joe Roberts from my site and according to site's memebers log he keeps visiting daily.2) I d...
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