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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #249: I do not like it this arguing ... by Romy the Cat on 2017-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
If you think that I am not an idiot then read further.  I have been looking at my Macondo calibration check sheet above and I have that stupid itch in my brain that scream to me: “ Romy, my God, the two drivers in own sealed enclosure at the left c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The period DHT tubes and Swastika by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The period DHT tubes and Swastika in Melquiades Amplifier  1 Replies 
While my Obbligato caps are traveling from Asia and instead of finish my MF amplifier and listening it I am blowing up my steam about the amp at my site there is a subject that I would like to share. Melquiades MF DSET is made to utilize not o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #709: The Compiled Sound™ of new Pure Power PP2011. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I can’t stress now much I am fallen in love with my new PP2000. I was playing it today all day and can’t not see any single thing that I would bitch. I perhaps is missing too much the sound of proper electricity but my feeling is that the new uni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Lamm ML3 price: how it works. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
It might be not directly related to the subject of this thread but I do feel that it has quite a good relatively. Are you laughing that your Lamm made his new amplifier with a price tag of $126K? Well, think again.  Do you remember as  the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Audio and politics. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
I always had a great gift of prophecy. When I saw W Bush for a first time I did not question what I have seen/herd and declared him as a retarget idiot. Good for us – the stupid Americans - that we allow this dirt to ruin our county for 2 terms. When...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #252: The harvesting week! by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
That is it. I have felt that my “moving” project is over. I still have a few things that I am planning to do but the basics are done and the huge disturbances that moving to new home are over. The room is fundamentally us done and the core sound ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Birds watching according to Bruckner.... by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A stunning contra-Bruckner 8 Symphony. in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Beinum recorded the Bruckner 8 in 1955 twice, in April and In June. My comment above goes for June recording. There is something else I would like to add in context to Beinum 55 vs. Lubeck’s Wand. The Lubeck’s Wand to me is still the ultim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Some near-electricity runt. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]perhaps you need a rig like this to run things from[/quote] Well, I do not rally think that that the volumes of the butteries that are shown on the picture are large enough to drive an entire system from butteries and parti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: How to ingrate the Beethoven chain reaction by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]A wonderful Hungarian conductor Carl Melles performed in 90s a cycle of all Beethoven symphonies leading Brunswick State Orchestra. It was not the New Jersey Brunswick band but the “Staatsorchester Braunschweig” – probably ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #492: Measuring the manufacturing confidence. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Bill"]Have a hum through my center channel speaker, the SET amp of which sits directly in front of the pp200 about a foot away.  It is not relaTED to the DC offset of the 2000 as adjusting that does nothing to the hum, and running th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #195: APS Purepower 2000: Sound #5 by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Upper range effect is amassing, though not much different then with other regenerators. With PS Audio’s Power Plant the compression at MF-HF is also reduced or eliminated and that ugly heavy dense pressure blanket got lifted. The Power Plant while do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #354: Come on, people! by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Paul, You certainly have an attitude toward the subject and I have no idea why. The subject of this thread, or put in this way - the subject of my interest, is how to deal with electricity problem and how to provide a playback with stable (sou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Curiosity about others. Getting older I guess… by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Curiosity about others. Getting older I guess… in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
I am in my 40s and I am observing (in context of the subjects that might be related to this site) that my curiosity in audio more and more become self-centered. I am not taking about self-centrism as a selfish egocentric type but rather I talk ab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Ok, let to complicate the things a little. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5-ways from Speedysteve7 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
 [quote user=" browellm from hifiwigwam"] "not your typical DIY moron". High praise indeed from Romy there… [/quote] OK, I would like to make a commentary on the subject. I know that people who love to chop wood at DIYAudio site would consider...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Those experiences. Early birthday. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Those experiences. Early birthday. in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
Nope it is not my birthday today, I share this day with Mahler but I truly celebrated my birthday yesterday. Yesterday I got home and found in my mail box a package from my Japanese friend. I brought it home, I knew what it was, I put it on my ta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
The mouth of the left channel is done.  Now it has the corners are glued in - you can see in the joins between the pans are chorded – you can see it on the first image.  It is left just to finks beefing up the frame – you can see on the second im...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #358: The Primary Resonance dilemma. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
OK, as now, I see no problem to conclude to the project successfully in 1-2 weeks. The horn give much less problem then was expected, as my progress with crossover going on the midbass horns sound more and more disciplinized. Today I will be expl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: Shelter against Shelter: I do not trust to anything by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]I'm wondering if the current 901mkII holds the candle? (...which would be against the industry practice, but...)It can be gotten for $1500 in some japanese online shops, but there does not seem to be much feedback around.[/quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: The assembly and the buzz by N-set on 2011-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do like the assembly. I o not fine it messy at all BTW. I would like to have inputs slightly closer to the grid of the first tube..[/quote]I'd prefer to have the ground terminals much closer to the ground plane and more o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The midbass merge and about the new environment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Marc HENRY"]La Grande Castine will not be as expensive as Cessaro Gamma. i am sorry but i cannot answer to all questions, for several reasons you can understand.we have tested many drivers since the early prototype of La Grande Ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Chesky Records went "raw files". by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chesky Records went "raw files". in Didital Things  0 Replies 
"Chesky Records is pleased to introduce the 192/24 series. These discs are not limited editions but one-to-one copies of our 192khz 24bit master discs. The discs contain standard 192khz 24bit .wav files that you can copy to your computer's ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: NAT Audio Magna -160 Watts of Single-Ended Class A by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NAT Audio Magna -160 Watts of Single-Ended Class A in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
I have to admit that I personally care less about powerful full-range SET amplifiers. I do not take their sound seriously, in fact I do not believe they are cable to do “right full-range sound” and what I see then I always imagine them with huge, bar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #422: More about Lamm show phenomena by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-14 
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"] Still, there is an interesting phenomenon that I never was able to understand. I observe Lamm’s show rooms from I think 1998-1999 to 2006 when I did my last audio show. Surprisingly all Lamm rooms at audio shows sound ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: A pussy becomes to be a consumer advocate? by Romy the Cat 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 
OK, thanks. I would leave for others to decide what the “higher resolution image” might mean. It might be some kind of untranslatable Japanese folklore. The more vibrant color palette is definably a valid accomplishment, no one knows through if it is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The Salzburg's “Eugene Onegin” by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky’s “Evgeny Onegin” in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
Last week I hit I my local music store a DVD of Eugene Onegin that was recorded live last year at Salzburg Festival. It was expensive, $35 but I bought it. Hell I thought that I know all committed to recording media Onegin production and I took this ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: An absolutely ridicules "fix". by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Second stereo arm problem in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
I today was abusing my damn Second arm, trying to get my bass back from it. It was not that it had no bass but it was very shallow and very different bass. It had a feeling that it was not from there, it was almost as some kind of time delay in b...

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  297 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 #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...
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