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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: “How audio might sound” by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “How audio might sound” in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
Audio people know how “live” music sounds and what impact it has to listener. Well not all of them know, and a large number of them never visited concert halls and are familiar with music only by the chest pressure that they experienced at pop-clubs ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: DPOLS and the science of us. by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression in Playback Listening  23 Replies 
[quote user="hifitodd"] Frankly, from my perspective your stance on DPoLS mirrors that of the typical audio-moron voodooism.  Here is some essentially non-obtainable state that when realized will make the listener "hypotized" by thew newfound mu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Crossovers, phraseology and the holes by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression in Playback Listening  23 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]Coming back to the "multi-driver" spkrs -- especially unfamiliar ones. It has taken me a long time to "optimise" the positioning of a pair of 4-way spkrs (9 drive-units, of which two in the back, in phase) …. One difficulty in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #446: Planning and wishing.. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Well, there are a few places that can re-charge the drivers, GPA can do it for sure but it is not practical in my view as to remove the drivers from attic horns and to ship them is more pain then to pay to GPA $20 to re-charge them. The re-chargi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Fallen in love? by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dunlavy SC++ loudspeakers as a vaccination from high-end aud... in Audio For Dummies ™  3 Replies 
I spent most of the nigh today working in my listening room while listening my Dunlavy++. Since it was deep night, I was listening quietly and mostly Jimmy Scott, that I love a lot. What the liberating experiences was with the Dunlavy++!!! One of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The life is really too short to deal with idiots. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shock-absorbing tube sockets. in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
I always do call and speak with people. This is Internet and they write whatever they want! I always would like to confirmer that behind the web proclamations there is something else then proclamations. BTW, this Denis sounded perfectly complement an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The tools to listening sounds vs. music by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tools to listening sounds vs. music in Audio For Dummies ™  0 Replies 
A couple days back reading the Audio Tekne’s Philosophy Section: http://www.audiotekne.com/en/policy_5.html … in the part of “Amending your stereo system to improve it” I read the following: “Please use the carbon de-coupler wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Why the Framer is “too sexy”…. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]I would agree. I'd feel that the objective of "audio journalism" (for wont of a better description) is entertainment -- not an "evaluation" that can be used for reference purposes.So, the components discussed/presented are simply ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Mike Lavigne: I was really laughing! by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
I receive an email form a visitor of my site  with a “news” and was really laughing! Yes! I hate to know everything but proposed by me “The Rules of the Audio Morality Propagation” do work like a Swish watch! It was enough of one audio cretin (...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Romy stalked me on the family vacation! by JLH on 2006-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy stalked me on the family vacation! in Audio News  0 Replies 
Most of you know that I built Romy's horns for him. The one thing that you may not know is Romy recently requested additional horns from me. He wanted some 250Hz tractrix horns made for an upper-midrange Vitavox S2 compression driver. Being very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Making it more racial: why I ever need capacitors? by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gas voltage reference 0A2 tubes. in Melquiades Amplifier  42 Replies 
Thanks, jk I have given a lot of thoughts to this topic lately and have a number of conversations with various people about the subject. A friend of mine from Europe, who is currently at fitness protection program, suggested that: “.. in my "real" ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: RE: do not fix until it broken by dazzdax on 2005-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
Hi Adrian, why do you choose for Edgarhorns? Edgarhorns are among the ugliest things I've seen in my life (pardon me, being a typical audio moron I don't have any technical background so I can only say things regarding to cosmetics, heheh). Could ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: Ho HO Ho by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="MusicLover"] SO you are saynig you have meaured the horn system in question and it is truly flat? I would be interested to hear your measurement procedure. [/quote] MusicLover, trust me, John know everything that need to be know about t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Selling Audio... by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Selling Audio... in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
It is strange topic that I always had difficulties.  I have a storage filed with all possible audio goodies, starting from some exotic goodies that people would chaise on junk-years for years and ending with Jimmy Hoffa’s skeleton. It is not that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Why so much surprises about the Monitors? by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
That is funny but I received a few emails from audio people suggesting that I am a nut because at I suddenly expressed queasily in a monitor loudspeaker. Ironically only one of them uses some-type horn loading loudspeakers and the rest use large floo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The geography at 75Ohm by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] Yes, understood. But does it self-terminate? If not, you will need to use a T-connector and a 75 Ohm BNC terminator at the wordclock input. [/quote] Mani, I do not think that it is necessary to self-terminate it....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: The new life on the old Sansui TU-X1 by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
I overly impressed with the new way or routing the antenna input with my TU-X1. This tuner with this new input get amassing sensitively (much higher than original) with a nose of a good CD player – very impressive! Way more interesting as it was righ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Today’s SACD - music for oscilloscopes. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today’s SACD - music for oscilloscopes. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
Yestoday I visited the NY show and I did something that did not do for 3 years: I bought a few CDs at thier audiophile’s fleamarket. I did not really need them but lately I heard a lot of positive comments about the superior quality of new SACD-relea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The missed war of active vs. passive isolation by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is better than Kinetic Systems’ Vibraplane? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"] When you look at the data sheets, you see, that they have different Hz range with different weight. A reason why I added some more mass to my Micro which is sitting on a VP. [/quote] Actually it is not my observation. In ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: As good as any other obsession… by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital in Didital Things  13 Replies 
Well, I did not mean to express any specific attitude to Bottlehead people - the only experience I had to them was a few years ago visiting their meeting right here in Boston (I did not know what Bottlehead wa all about at that time). The meeting was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: The Allnic’s Mystery and class “F” operation by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
It is not a the thread about Allnic but LCR RIAA correctors, still there was something expressed in here about the Allnic LCR phonocorrector… and  I feel bad about it. It is not that I don’t think that Allnic LCR phonocorrector deserve positive m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Bravo, Stereophile: Advent loudspeakers by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bravo, Stereophile: Advent loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
No mater how ridicules the title of this article sounds on my site but I was quite glad to see the in the May’s issues of Stereophile the Robert J. Reina review of Advent loudspeakers. I do not think that Advent’s review is a sign of some kind of sin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lamm hybrids: M1.2 vs. Lamm M1.1 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm hybrids: M1.2 vs. Lamm M1.1 in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Positive Feedback published David Robinson’s review of Lamm M1.2 amplifier. http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue34/lamm_1.2.htm Frankly speaking I do have interest to see what people might say about Lamm M1.2. Not that I care about a review’s ob...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Some truth about Lamm ML2 SET by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] Speakers:  I built a version of Dick Olsher's 3-way Diamond Edition BassZilla (hard to find at www.blackdahlia.com), and I tricked it out considerably from his mule.  Bass is BR, 15" Audax P380MR, which is a nice semi-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The most appalling audio types: Vintage Sufferers by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most appalling audio types. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
The people who suffer from the vintagtism in audio are special breed of Audio Morons™. Those people discovered a single focus of interests in some kind of vintage item and this focus became a point an unconditional dedication and fanatical devotion. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #156: My new MiniMe, I think it's it. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Ok, I think it is it. I close the experimental phase of the MiniMe projects as I have selected and feel comfortable with MiniMe results. The MiniMe Bass section is the very original MiniMe enclosure with the very same drivers as I plane from star...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #159: The electricity problems… The Armageddon? 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 
  This weekend I made an interesting experiment.  I had a visitor yesterday. The gay is not what I call overly critical and overly demanding listener but he is not a typical Audio Moron and has from my point of view a proper and sane react...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #189: Purepower 2000: Operation: DC component follow up. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-22 
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"] There was a moment once want I drove one of my Milq from Purepower 2000 and with all perfect operation parameters on Milq and on Purepower the Milq’s transformer were hissing like crazy. [/quote] [quote user="Romy the Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #429: One of the reasons why I do not write reviews… by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] I can tell you already it will work. I have experimented extensively with adding lengths of metal to cables. It works well, but you can do a lot more by fine-tuning the amount of metal and in fact adjusting it slightly from l...
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