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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Amp 're-warming' issues... by Axel on 2009-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the pre-warming of playback in Melquiades Amplifier  13 Replies 
Romy,do not spit in my eyes as I do have solid state PassLabs 350.5 but even with this 50W Class A amp (push pull) it is exactly the same problem if it is switched off completely even for a short while. I can take ~ 2 - 3 days to be back to norma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1141: Something Odd... by Paul S on 2013-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Yes, Romy, it is certainly an info-mercial first, with all the usual flash/buzz "facts" in play.  Also, although all "studios" I know of are "balanced", many of the "hot-rod" studio guys also use all sorts of "power conditioneers".  For one thing, it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: DSEP is the plan by rowuk on 2014-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single Ended Pentode to go? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Yes Paul,DSEP is planned. Actually I have already experimented with it only with the 12" Fane neodymium midwoofer that covers 80-1K and using 1 cap for the low pass filter. I really like what it does. I am comparing how it works with ceramic and neod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #227: Promising.... by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Spent today a whole day moving the boxes, do some measurements, fighting with REW interface, thinking, some listening… Found some bugs in the system that I think screwed my initial feeling. The bugs were mostly by Thomas the Son touched what he sh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Ansvers. by Romy the Cat on 2024-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My new “New” listening room, 2024 in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]If you said anything about your 15" VitaVox in the video, I must  have missed it. What frequency range are you running them, and what is low-pass filter? Given your prejudices, I suppose the cabinets are sealed, so they can't...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Tubes vs. Speakers vs. FR by Paul S on 2016-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
I am still waiting for a (single stage) tube that can make full range Music via speakers. I mean, this is the real issue, isn't it? Sure a good tube will pass a "full range signal" through the right transformer; but where is the tube that will do t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #152: Its about noise by anthony on 2019-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] Congratulations on the build! anthony wrote:  Yours uses all toroids, or mostly so, which are more efficient than the EI that I use. Why have you chosen EI vs toroids? The latter emit less. Cheers, Jarek ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The vintage wait by jessie.dazzle on 2011-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Romy wrote: "...Well, I do not want to pass judgment about Mike as well as as I was able to observe his operation he has been doing the same “expecting an announcement” mode since 2002..."Yes this has become something of a "vintage wait"! In my limit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #114: The feline hypocrisy of the MiniMe caliber? by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Actually it turned out that LE5-2/2105 are much more complicated driver and to sound right it need way more complex crossover then juts a band-pass the I initially unused. I spend some time with it today but did not find a configuration the I feel co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: DEQ 2496 sound by drdna on 2009-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Funny I thought that that for MiniMe it would not be so critical but as soon I plugged the DEQ-2496 in MiniMe pass I have heard that depersonalized DEQ sound.[/quote]It is funny how some people seem to not hear this at all ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Each Driver According to Its Ability by Paul S on 2009-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Mani, I have long run an 8" Lowther DX4 down to 150 hz, over 2nd order high-pass.  My impression after plenty of listening is that I wish I could cross it at ~ 400 Hz.  The "problem"is not simply how "low" the 8" driver will go but it is also a quest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Jumping ship by manisandher on 2009-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
It seems like I should just abandon the idea of using the Druids... and trying to get some sort of coherent integration with my WB-Chimeras (acting as the lower- and upper-bass units)... and running the whole hodgepodge with totally different amplifi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Low Power Class A Solidstate Design by Amir on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I think low power ss design is the only way we can make ss to sound good. in my idea all high power ss design i heard had no emotion in their sound in comparison by good SET designs like AN UK Ankoru.the first SS design that make me happy in comparis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Band-Specific Info by Paul S on 2010-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Learning to interpret RTA in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Zanon, I do not mean DEQ, but that is one way to do it.  D[SET] is another way; and it can be done in real time, by a couple of means.If you actually settle on the mid-field monitor approach, you will want that sort of speakers installed before you g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Film by zako on 2009-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: X-mas list in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
Roman,,,, you dont know where any thing will end up... i was involved in a small film,,,Concerning the First Mercury space craft,, With ALLEN SHEPARD,, They (NASA) wanted a anamation film to be broadcast over TV while Shepard made his suborbital flig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A Cable for Bass? I wish I would know a right cable by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wiring for box speakers? in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
 Miab, since what I became an expert in cables? I am as much as anyone else – a subject of accidental discovering... I do not use in Injection Channel any fancy cables. There is not a lot of need for it.  The Injection Channel is mixed with M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 by manisandher on 2009-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
Hi,I've just taken receipt of a Model 2 to use as a DAC in my study (using the ADC occasionally for recording live from a mic). I would like to feed the balanced XLR outputs of the Model 2 into the single-ended RCA inputs of my Berning Siegfried amp,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #138: To fight with hum in phonostages is fan. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Yes, the layout kind of not optimum. You might try to lay the transformers sidewise and to make the RCA atop, above the transformers. Still, I hope you understand that your hum has very little to do with layout. Properly grounded unit shell has no no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #207: IC shields by N-set on 2012-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Paul, so far the interconnect shields were connected to the phono pre grounding bolt only--I do not want to pass any equalizing currents between the TT and the phono via the shields (the TT chassis, armtube, etc was connected to the same place via a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Frequency response by anthony on 2023-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
Yes, a cheap inductive l-pad between OPT and S2 in midrange channel.  Interestingly, the frequency response of the first order Lazy Ribbon is remarkably similar to a response you posted somewhere on this site of the Water Drop with third order filter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: The Meow #205252 by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio critique – open your mind! in Playback Listening  44 Replies 
Again, about the stupidity of non-critical perception. I have seen in audio all over – people visit each other, listen each other playbacks, in response to the hospitality of the owners they pass numerous compliments about the sound of given i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Same as free-air resonance? by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best 20 hz bass horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  20 Replies 
[quote user="Horn Savant"] I think it's about the same as free-air resonance - backwave to entire basement. Precedent: pre-war theatre horns(open rear like Shearer/ERPI)(unlike post-war reflex tuned designs like Altec A4)(I don't like reflex boxes - ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Water drop by anthony on 2022-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
Romy,Interesting video.  The first thing that came to my mind when you were talking about HF colours and the "clean" RAAL Waterdrop tweeter, is perhaps adding colour to the RAAL.  Instead of blanding out the midrange S2 and injecting HF colour with t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: I think you are misting the other side of the picture. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
[quote user="DERRICK"]  Although I think that Romy has voiced some fair criticisms (bearing in mind that he has not heard these speakers, I am sure that he would moderate his opinions if he were to hear them.  [/quote] Derrick, you might be wr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Hot rod x-over by skushino on 2005-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Making it sing... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Somehow I massacered the formatting of the last reply.  The past days I was listening to the speakers in every imaginable configuration.  Sometimes I based my changes on "accepted theory" of crossovers and math, other times I just made...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #143: Sexier Injection Channel box? by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
As I am slowly put Macondo back to the business a question come to my heard: how can I make the Injection Channel sexier visibly? As now Macondo is re-assembled and reinstalled but with no Injection Channel sitting atop. I extend no room for argument...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Manger and solid state by el`Ol on 2010-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"]At Munich, we cranked the Aporias up with a 20w 845 SE and they did not catch on fire but our goal for the speaker is "big horn sound in normal sized rooms"--and 8W will do that.[/quote]The Manger catches on fire with some m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: A word of warning by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
II would like to pass a word of warning about the C-15W driver. I do not know this driver but it looks like it has dual voice coil. This might be a hell or blessing. On a paper the idea sound very interesting but unfortunately when I seen it it never...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I'd like to participate by Antonio J. on 2006-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “FM live” file exchange service. in Off Air Audio  19 Replies 
in this experience. I agree that FM broadcasts from live performances or live taped performances have the features that make music like nothing else in audio. It's the source I enjoy most and that is more educative for me. I would be happy participat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: 416 resonance by Horn Savant on 2010-08-28 
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"]. What was your resonant frequency after loading? The 416 are 25Hz drivers, after loading and with two drivers it might be deep in teens. From the picture it looks like you keep the back chamber of extra large space, or eve...
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