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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Re: Thorsten's preamp idea by Thorsten on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]May I ask you, this realization of yours… dose it has any “sound”. [/quote]The one we have build which is a little different (6S45 not C3g, also tried WE 417A, 437A, TX-101 Copper not silver, AN UK Line Output Transfo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: It is not “compression” it is system builder's stupidity. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Haniwa Cybernetic Audio System in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, no doubt the following derives wholly from my ignorance on the subject, but I have not been able to get away from a sense of "variable compression" with any compression horns I have tried.  By "variable compression" I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Why a 200Hz driver? The useful honk. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more non-spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
I would like to expose what my intentions are what I was tiling above about Goto 555 or a similar 200Hz driver.  My S2 does not stress the bottom of my 183Hz horn. My multi-cell is expositional and those types of horns do pick honk very aggressively ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #752: Fernadez & Fica some more info . by joaco on 2011-01-30 
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"]Joaco, thanks for sharing. You said that you use 2A3/45 amplifier, do you use choke or capacitance right after your rectifiers? It would be interesting if you plug a scope into your loaded regenerator and post a picture (ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Non-linear electric chair by N-set on 2011-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
I've been pushing this intellectual excersise (masturbation?) of solving Romy's constraints on a powerfull bass SE amp.Thanks to Stephie Bee the humanity have now a decent model of GU81M, so before electro-cuttingonself, one can see if the electrocut...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Brewing, thinking and heating by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="nl"] Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio did a series of one-stage DHTs with a step-up transformer input about ten years ago. I think they were called the Mercury series. By all accounts, they sounded good, but of course had limited gain, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Active filtering by devo_yan on 2018-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 250 watts Parallel S.E. advises in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
Thank you for your answer.If I understand well, In purpose to do something realistic and good sounding. I should use at least 2 amplifiers (one for high frequencies and the GM-100 amp for low frequencies) with a tubes active filter at the inputs of e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: In the mid of my listening room setup… by Romy the Cat on 2016-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who inherit Mocondo or another Mini-Me. in Site Support Forum  42 Replies 
I figured out that that after I choke Thomas will be too bored to live at family forest lake and to listen my records in solitude – he would need a company. So, today, The August 23, Thomas’ brother and sister: Charlie Severs Bessnow and Abbigail ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: C2 total capacity by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Milq: Starting the project in Melquiades Amplifier  23 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."] but the builder thinks that performance wise it's better to use several smaller caps paralleled [/quote] If he thinks this way then let him to do whatever he wishes. Still, I assure you that Sound of the Milq dose not deriv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: 6C33C amp. by KOTriode on 2011-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Without regulation, this amp would not work correctly due to its design: DC coupled and fixed bias. The high transconductance will make the bias current varied as much as 50-100ma due power line fluctuation without the regulators. It mi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. in Melquiades Amplifier  5 Replies 
The “Enjoy His Music” published the old celebrated by many DIYers Herb Reichert’s article about his 300B amp ideas. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0709/flesh_blood.htm I read it before but reading it now, after a few years again...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1719: I think I'm onto something, a ghost from the past? by N-set on 2020-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Romy, do you power your End of Life phono from the PP?? I have the same phono, with choke input PS for both the heating and the HV. 1) If I plug the phono just to the wall, the noise just normal wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #701: The vampire effect by Lx_ on 2011-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
This evening I took myself to performing additional tests with the entire system completely disconnected from utility ground. Following Romy's considerations about different grounds, and Richard's absolute belief in the capacity of a properly working...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #241: I do not think that it might be damaging… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
CV, Good scenario as well but my leading idea is slightly different.  I would like to keep any reactance from the path, would it be inductive of capacitive, to assure ultra fast response time. Basically I would like to maintain the MF amp as it used ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Lamm LM3: a correction is warranted. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Because GM70 can work in A2 class the ML3 has a very powerful high current-capable second stage (I do not know it they are 4 parallel 6H30 of some kind of composite follower) to be able to handle the GM70’s grid current.[/q...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1706: All understandable, but by N-set on 2020-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
...the problem starts outside North America - eventual shipping a faulty unit there and back, paying each time the cargo (20-40kg), customs, taxes, can be quite costly. Romy, reading the beginning of the thread there seemed to b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: "Baby Melquiades" - a faulty debut. by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? in Melquiades Amplifier  27 Replies 
This weekend I found some transformers in my storage and I put together the Baby Melquiades headphone amplifier. It turns out to be very cure little amp. It is 9'x9' but has all Milq’s incidents including the choke intuit supply for plates and t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Melequiades PSU by Wojtek on 2006-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melequiades PSU in Melquiades Amplifier  8 Replies 
Hi Roman I'm slowly gathering parts to build your amp. In my old email to you I've mentioned that I have a pair of monster transformers 310-0-310 2A .I'd like to use them as a main transformer for bi-tri amp configuration ,with input choke load and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Melequiades PSU by Wojtek on 2006-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melequiades PSU in Melquiades Amplifier  8 Replies 
Thank You I'll experiment with the PSU a little. The transformes have only 1 Ohm DCR and total supply impedance for a channel would be ~ 45 Ohm (with two chokes in series) Imput choke looks like can take 1 A current!All Iron is mil quality and p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #111: The Intensification of Reality: good/bad vs.right/wrong. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Good concern, I had and have it as well. I do not have an answer at this point. It should be stressed that my description of artifact was just my specific description of THE artifact, the MF texture  music had also a “face lift” -  I just d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: "End of Life Phonostage" in Thai by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Here is a Thai guy looks like built my “End of Life Phonostage” http://www.kaponk.com/node/715 I do not see nether input choke or air capacitors in correction chain. The most important I have no idea what step-up transformer he us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Thank you JJ. by Domidaw on 2022-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: R22 in Melquiades Amplifier  34 Replies 
I connected the loudspeaker to check if the music was flowing from it. The amplifier works !!! I hear the music!!! I'm exhausted. Now it's evening at my place, I can hear the rain outside. I think I'm going to do what I want...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: Schematics II by N-set on 2011-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Here is the signal box:The design is double mono past the VR's. Including the bias. The coupling caps are Arcotronics KP172 from RS-Online, quite prised by Thorsten Loesch. THey are sitting on sorbothane pads. The air caps are: 1) 365pF some +/- s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Super Melquiades Amplifier. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
The Super Melquiades Amplifier is essentially the 3 parallel running Melquiades amplifiers optimized for driving my Macondo Acoustic System, with line-level or inner-stage filters. This SET uses a full 6C33C at LF output and ½ of 6C33C for HF and MF ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: The expressed perfect operation point is a fiction in a way. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]Risking that the topic has already been discussed and that I postin a wrong category (Romy feel free to (re)move this post:Is there any sense in trying 6C33 at higher volatges and lower currents?More precisely, I've been wondering...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #160: It screwed me again. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-10 
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"] Well, I figured out – if digital is dead then I need to put the heavy artillery in the fight I begin to spin records. With my TT setup I have an interesting tool - I run my input-choke powered “End of the Life” Phonostage ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: I need a new 7788-7721 (perhabs) phonostage… by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
I decided to make this post in this thread (you are at a second page of the thread) about the “second-type” phonostage. My needs for a Santa’s bring me a nice “second-type” phonostage really got stronger. If you remember my 7788-7721 tow stages,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The chose of the firewall material. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building “Zarathustra II” amplifier in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"]Yes, steel chassis can be both good and bad.  It likes to conduct magnetic fields, so you have to treat things appropriately.  A little spacing under a choke can go a long way.  Otherise you have a 120Hz motor.&nb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to run MM-type cartridge into MC phonostage? by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to run MM-type cartridge into MC phonostage? in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
I run both of my Reference and Daily tonearms into my “End of Life Phonostage”. As I told I do not know any way to commutate signals at phono level signal and I just re-plug the phono cables at the phonostage’s input. I have no problem with that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Milq’s power supplies and rectification. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Milq’s power supplies and rectification. in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Since adding the one-staging 3 channels have triggered the replacement of all magnetiks in the Super Milq’s power supplies: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3694 http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4708  I was...
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