Site by Roman Bessnow
GoodSoundClub's Home
Manifesto Copyright
Statistics Site Links
Site Map Surveys
Send Email to Romy the Cat
Site News: 29 Jan 2026
Posting new threads at the site has been fixed.
Romy The Cat's Playback
Audio Knowledge Tree ™
Romy's "Audio Rules"
Audiophile Satire
Melquiades SET Amplifier
Macondo Acoustic System
End of Life Phonostage
Audio Demoronizator AD-1
My Exotic Audio Leftovers
My Playback System
Random Site's Threads
» Horn speaker with dipole»
» Musicians' ear
» Reflex enclosures used a»
» Midbass Horns and Real E»
» About the life-expectanc»
» I think it is the end.
» I do not know what else »
» How idiots destroy sound.
» How to insert pictures i»
» Initial thoughts about n»
» Stay home with Bruckner
» James Levine takes a gre»
» Putin or Medvedev?
» Observations and Thought»
» Copland/BSO/Copland
» The corrupted listening »
» A very good horns system.
» A new strange but predic»
» Rohde & Schwarz EU-6»
» The strings period: the »
» Computer Audio
» How would you handle it?
» A good young conductor: »
» Pono & Meridian - an»
» Bid Midbass Asian Horns
» Truth stretched out via »
» BPO's virtual concert ha»
» I am thinking about anim»
» OK, digitechs, why won't»
» 47 Lab new turntable and»
» Omni-directional 'horny'»
» The LCR RIAA correctors
» The ultimate worst best »
» The Art of Pablo Casals,»
» How to manage audio powe»
» Tube GU-29
» Bye-Bye, Fane
» The Evolution of Honk.
Bookmarked are red
Random Site Links
Broadcast History
Former Sirkorski Site
Arbiter Records
Decca Classical discogra»
Rachmanionoff's links
Parnassus Records
Hermann Scherchen discog»
Takashi Asahina Group
WGBH alumni
Vincent Brient's Sit
High-End Audio
Appian Publications & Re»
More Links »»
Romy the Cat's personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction techniques
Thread WITH the new posts.

Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps 6331 
One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone 6330 
DHT Milq? 6330 
The DHT journey. 6330 
DHT tone 6330 
Well, why not? 6329 
Holding the Fort 6329 
My DHT experiment: Preface 6329 
Input tube and DC heaters 6328 
Reimyo Pat 777 6328 
My DHT experiment: Observations 6324 
DHT or 300B? 6324 
300B 6324 
Talking, perception and the grounds for objectively 6324 
The Wine Via the Wine Glass 6323 
Hence the confusion 6323 
My DHT experiment: some conclusions. 6323 
Reality Reconstruction is not a functionality. 6323 
My experience with DHTs 6323 
Pigmented coloration? 6323 
Dht-dht 6323 
Dynamic viscosity? 6323 
The Pallette preamp... 6323 
If one DHT is good, two must be better? 6323 
"soul" of tubes 6323 
There is a difference... 6323 
Vibration injection? 6323 
Homework # 4334 6323 
The 01A-71A-10Y-45 chain 6323 
Old valves have more soul! 6322 
Was it soul or soil? 6322 
It was just a heading 6322 
Adjustable color: TIMBRE LOCK? 6322 
Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? 6322 
..are lacking in power, dynamics and bandwidth. 6322 
Timbre-Lock. Not quite ready for prime time. 6322 
Injection of analog dither? 6322 
Subliminal signal 6322 
The idea of analog randomanization. 6322 
Okay, what Avicena Power Generator 6322 
I hope you will be hearing about it. 6321 
Avicenna = Arabian 6321 
Persian, not Arab 6321 
The “second solution” - a major disappointment 6321 
More words to describe "sux" please 6321 
Revolution 6321 
The non-melodramatic DHT? 6321 
One-stage DHTs 6320 
One other thing 6320 
One stage 6320 
Brewing, thinking and heating 6320 
Physical characteristics of electronic devices 6320 
I see the things differently. 6320 
Don't waste time being "creative" 6320 
The audiophile attitude 6320 
The where and why of design choices 6320 
Blah blah blah 6320 
Laconic Clarity vs. Comfort vs. Nostalgia 6320 
Do I need to be hissing? 6320 
...associated with lack of neutrality and colorati... 6320 
John Broskie's Partial feedback amplifier 6320 
Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 6319 
What is randomness? 6319 
Those least three possibilities… 6319 
Randomness and Music's Prerogative 6319 
It works, … sort of. The revolution is canceled. 6319 
Thorsten Loesch’s article about DHT SETs 6317 
A Beautiful Mind 6316 
Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. 6314 
Second phase: revising requirement for my DHT objectives. 6299 
Tubes for your DHT amp 6299 
Abandoning Milq? 6299 
Will see how it goes.... 6299 
Single-stage Milq vs. Sun Audio VT-2A3 6297 
Topology and 2A3? 6297 
6SN7-2A3 amps? 6297 
Type Casting 6297 
Sun Audio SV-2A3 6297 
6sn7-2a3 6297 
Topology vs parts 6297 
For a DHT amp, you are listening to the power supply 6297 
The vintage tubes syndrome. 6297 
Parts Frenzy 6297 
Too many new sounds 6297 
Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes 6296 
New tubes 6295 
Milq bias vs. batery bias 6295 
The batteries are a tricky thing. 6295 
Swimming the ocean at night? 6295 
New 2A3 6295 
To kill of do not kill the capacitor. 6294 
The JJ Electronic amp. 6293 
JJ 2A3 and amp 6293 
Czech tubes 6291 
Single plated vs Double plated? 6291 
Mono plate 2A3 tubes 6291 
I suggested once VT52 tube 6290 
The 800R vs. 1800R vs. 5500R 6290 
YO-186 as the output tube. 6287 
Here she is. 6286 
Some talks about the new production tubes 6282 
New 2A3 tubes 6282 
Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT 6282 
The Sun Audio with 6E5P 6281 
Multistage DHT circuits 6280 
Wrong tube or wrong topology – here is the question. 6279 
Emission Labs 2A3 6279 
Some comment and questions about then 2A3 talks. 6279 
Which Chinese 2A3? 6279 
OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. 6279 
The YO186 Strip Show 6279 
More on the 2A3 comparisons 6278 
It will be interesting…. 6278 
OPT impedence 6278 
More about the Plate Loading 6278 
Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove interesting. 6273 
2A3 data 6273 
The New 2A3 tubes 6273 
How many stages I need for 110dB sensitivity, smal... 6273 
How many stages and why... and who makes that 45 o... 6272 
Everything about everything. 6272 
Some very good points... and... possibly more logi... 6272 
Options, options, options.... 6272 
I think we agree overall 6272 
An IDHT with more gain? 6271 
You don't ask for much now, eh? 6271 
2A3 tube impressions 6266 
Interesting analogy 6266 
NOS 2A3 tubes versus new tubes 6266 
Hmmm, let me try this one again... 6266 
Sylvania 2A3 identification 6266 
A picture is worth a thousand micromhos? 6266 
I have more interest in the period tubes 6266 
Why NOS tubes? 6265 
The Holly Ignorance 6265 
Tube tasting 6265 
The cathodes’ flatulence? 6265 
Make mine thoriated please 6265 
Any Germans out there? 6265 
6E5P VS 6E6P 6265 
Vibrations? What do you with them? 6265 
Vibration in tubes and sounds 6265 
UX4 vs UX4ruskie 6264 
Ringing the tubes? I do not know how about that. 6264 
Tube sound and vibration 6264 
The thoughts collection about YO186? 6258 
The lights look green for the YO tube 6257 
"Melquiades" with YO-186. Something like... 6257 
My version of RE-604 and PX4 6256 
The YO186 tube sockets. 6256 
B4/B5 British made 6255 
The YO186’s sockets and prices 6255 
DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification 6254 
My attitude toward tube rectification. 6254 
Tu-be or not Tu-be, seems Tu-be the question. 6253 
It looks like DHT DSET is shaping up. 6252 
The Sylvania 2A3 NOS report 6249 
The Citizen Kane syndrome. 6249 
Sylvania 2A3 in a World without Color 6248 
Are NOS and new manufacture comparing oranges to o... 6248 
That all is incorrect in a way…. 6248 
NOS vs new 2A3 tubes 6248 
The identical operation environment? 6248 
Preferred 2A3 operating point 6248 
The sound of the 2A3 however? 6248 
Circuit modification for 2A3 optimization 6247 
How to get max power from 2A3 6247 
2A3 voltages, loads and realized output power 6247 
Optimal operation of 2A3: an experiment 6247 
Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound 6247 
Gain is not power. 6247 
2A3 amplifier modification & Optimization 6247 
Specialized DSET approach 6247 
6C33/2A3 DSET? 6247 
SET usable power and making the most of it 6247 
The 2A3 loading 6247 
DSET solution for EdgarHorn? 6247 
Optimizing the 2A3 6247 
How much to DSET a DSET 6247 
DSET for Titan 6247 
The Best of All Worlds 6247 
Multiamp setup 6246 
Optimizing the (NOS) 2A3... "KM-style"? 6246 
There are many opportunities, it all depends what ... 6246 
Modifying amplifer to optimize NOS 2A3 performance 6246 
Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done 6240 
2A3 and 400V supply 6240 
Pudding and the chicken wires 6239 
Another shot at numbers 6239 
How to cook the "uninformed" anode. 6239 
Okay, so this might work.... 6239 
The DHT Milq DSET, the prebuilt draft. 6239 
Looks good, but.... 6238 
2A3 with slightly lover filament voltage? 6238 
Less is more... usually. 6238 
Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter st... 6237 
Stepping Out 6237 
Said to be good, but 6237 
Gain to lose 6237 
Why nothing is simple with this damn amp! 6237 
Another idea for losing gain 6237 
What's best 6237 
Options, options... 6237 
Actually, it is not so bad. 6237 
Other compromises... 6236 
Cathode vs. fixed with DHT 6235 
Is it glowing yet? 6215 
It is comming.... 6215 
The new MF channel. 6209 
I started to work on the Milq’s DHT Island. 6208 
Innerstage loading vs. OPT loading. 6200 
The intestage loading talk. 6197 
My playback feels like it is broken. 6192 
1 in 50? 6192 
Yes, it was after PP2000 6192 
Die Walküre soldering. 6191 
The post Die Walküre soldering 6190 
Another amp arond YO186 6189 
Gain? 6189 
The Unexpected problem with DHT Milq. 6189 
Simple is good 6188 
Ok, I am moving forward. 6188 
The Milq DSET is up. 6187 
My DH DSET – 2 days later. 6185 
Here is more data to reconcile. 6185 
Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. 6184 
Ok, what do I want? 6184 
Let Go of Some Conceptual "Restrictions"? 6184 
The Milq DH DSET, the further thoughts in progress. 6184 
Crunching Numbers; Shaping Sound 6184 
How about the tweeter? 6183 
Tweeter Efficiency? 6183 
Safe and Sound 6183 
More mystery with tweeter but still on the subject. 6183 
Some clarifications. 6183 
How about that?!!! 6183 
Further considerations: DC-coupling. 6181 
Head Room 6181 
To kill the mandatory 13dB 6180 
DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... 6180 
I do not think that it might be damaging… 6180 
Again with the PS 6180 
AKA J.C. Morrison’s amp but… 6178 
Parallel Universe 6178 
Melquiades HD MF DSET, Draft13. 6176 
Why I let other people build them... 6176 
Ok, it's going to right direction. 6176 
Ok, it looks already very close…. 6175 
The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. 6172 
MF: the pre-final version. 6172 
Loftin-White? 6172 
Did anyone hear the PX4 amplifiers? 6172 
What Could use Improving at This Point? 6172 
The Milq’s MF front-end is done 6168 
Why I Let Other People Build Them, II 6168 
Define really quiet 6167 
Another variable of sound 6167 
Backlash? 6167 
Alternative filament supplies 6167 
I kind of faced a problem with AC 6167 
Going down the DC path 6166 
It is not about the “whole sound” but about “molec... 6166 
Molecular sound 6166 
AC-DC heater supply 6166 
The Tentlabs are $10 worth PS. 6166 
The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. 6166 
The devil is less scared than it depicted. 6166 
Hiss or Hum 6166 
AC transformers 6166 
I have seen the Promised Land 6165 
OK, the choke noise is not a problem anymore 6165 
Ok, it is working fine but… 6164 
Divide and Conquer 6164 
The design phase is over. 6163 
The unexpected insanity! 6162 
Loading 6162 
Looking for inspiring ideas for 'universal' loadin... 6162 
A filaments Sherlock Holmes wanted. 6162 
Going the Distance 6162 
Read the f*** manual! 6162 
Agreed. 6162 
I agree 6162 
The filament transformer 6162 
Center-tap and options 6162 
Something like this…. 6162 
Avoiding "Dial-an-Amp" 6162 
The foreplay is going on. 6162 
Split balance 6161 
Further thoughts about my DH filaments 6161 
The Shuguang 2A3 tubes. 6161 
SHuguang 6161 
Going through…. 6160 
The 2.5V noise vs. 4V noise. 6159 
More about Shuguang 2A3C 6159 
Hum vs voltage 6159 
Meow about the tubes… 6159 
To Be a Content Cat 6159 
Completed! 6156 
Tradition 6156 
Absolutely beautiful! 6156 
The 'film' caps in PS 6155 
Science or religion 6155 
Mass Extinction 6155 
Electrolytics, technology and time 6155 
No more questions about PS capacitors. 6155 
Capacitor choices 6155 
Good time. Welcome back. Thanks God. 6154 
The minor day of Quartets. 6154 
Them's the Breaks 6154 
Eventually! 6153 
So Soon? 6153 
DHT MF channel and 6-ch amp: first conclusions 6153 
All Abuzz about Nothing 6152 
The wire for DC-coupling 6152 
The Dirt on DIY Backlash 6152 
DSET vs. the “better tubes”. 6152 
How to test the DH tubes properly? 6151 
Pairing up tubes for SE use 6150 
The DHT live reserve 6149 
Some interestng models 6149 
Eaten alive. 6149 
The tubey déjà vu? 6148 
The new concept of my output transformer. 6144 
The 4V takes a lead. 6140 
Listening the DH and the striped down version of M... 6137 
I kind of slowly learn what I need. 6137 
More HF from a transformer and DHT? 6135 
Since You Don't Need the Gain 6134 
Exiting the design mode? 6134 
Bye-bye the input divider on MF! 6134 
A few steps back and a gaint leap ahead. 6130 
Single-stage vs. DHT amp. 6129 
Setting up the new Playback 6128 
And the winner is… so far 6125 
If you like type 45... 6125 
Type 45... they're not all the same 6125 
Favorite Flavor? 6125 
The 45 times Meow... 6125 
The problem that I see is… 6125 
Running the 45 6125 
The 10Y...and bye bye Newton 6124 
The commentaries about everything. 6124 
Driver tube and biasing 6124 
DHT drivers 6124 
The ideas are worth trying? 6124 
A question about the polishing the things…. 6120 
The Particular Tube, I'm afraid... 6120 
Driving the 45... cathode first 6119 
ST or Globe; old or new... 6119 
Whatever sticks to the wall as an operation point ... 6119 
The attenuating crap in secondary. 6119 
Operating points and cathode current 6119 
The Burgeoning Opportunities! 6119 
Actually it is not so simple. 6119 
Resistors at the front 6118 
A minor alternation of a position 6118 
The era of enlightenment. 6115 
The devil is in the details.... 6115 
Constructing Sound 6115 
A new view on the DHT evaluation. 6114 
The “strange” YO186 6105 
The dead guy’s lessons. 6060 
2S4S and 2A3 6051 
Ho to use the YO186 6044 
YO 186 fundamental flavor 6044 
The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel 6044 
The live without the YO186, again.... 6042 
Not anymore! 6031 
The very good YoYonisation! 6030 
….above and below two very clean channel. 6029 
The DHT and esoteric imaging deformation. 6016 
DHT, YO186, or??? 6016 
I had no idea how ‘different’ it is. 5963 
The Kazitsky Manufacturing and YO104, some history. 5962 
"Absolution and Eternal Refuge." 5959 
Sofia Electric Type 45 Mesh 5949 
The true association of YO186's Sounds. 5711 
All the Best from Burgundy 5711 
Cheesy tubes 5710 
Me and my DHT references… 5601 
Y0-186 in winter. 5504 
Y0-186 sounds like… 5503 
Rethinking the YO186 tube. 5472 
In My Dreams 5472 
Grunt from type 45? A ridicules comment. 5472 
Blame? 5471 
When good is not good enough. 5471 
45s, Drivers, and 45s 5471 
Hm, that was so simple after all! 5470 
How the YO186 was used. 5054 
What is old is new? 5053 
YO186 vs. type 45. 5052 
The YO186 is gone.... :-( 4601 
That sucks. 4601 
YO186 4599 
Hm, what the hell is going on? 4599 
I do not think that anybody but me would like YO186 4599 
A hallucination? 4596 
All context of this site except the Forum's posts Copyright © Roman Bessnow 2004-2026
All messages within the Site’s Forum Copyright © by authors of the posts
Last 24-hours posts:  0  
Total human visitors:  61,268,757  
Search the Site
   
      Search Site Forum
     Search Site via Google
 
Login into Site
Login:
Pass:
    Create a New Account
    Forgot your Account
Classical events in Boston
APR 1 Institute for Concer»
APR 2 Andris Nelsons, cond»
APR 3 Andris Nelsons, cond»
APR 4 Andris Nelsons, cond»
APR 5 Paul Galbraith, guit»
APR 5 ribute to Coretta Sc»
APR 5 Bach Cantata Series »
APR 6 First Monday at Jord»
NPR Classical Programs
lang lang: tiny desk (home)»
marin alsop on her swing or»
mahan esfahani: tiny desk c»
cellist lynn harrell has di»
npr music's top 14 albums o»
anthony davis wins pulitzer»
augustin hadelich: tiny des»
c.p.e. bach: mercurial dive»
Classical Music News
classical music news - leo»
classical music news - aug»
is bach better on harp?»
julian bream, maestro of g»
a woman takes the podium a»
he wasn’t toscanini, but h»
9 things to do this weeken»
classical music news. diab»
another trump blunder»
from concerts to cartoons:»
classical music livestream»
how to diversify orchestra»
ethel smyth, a composer lo»
classical music attracts o»
‘the lost pianos of siberi»
5 minutes that will make y»
it’s (almost) business as »
the lost pianos of siberia»
leon fleisher, 92, dies; s»
leon fleisher, 92, dies; s»
classical music news. augu»
opera goes on in salzburg,»
rhiannon giddens to lead s»
More Music News »»
Composer's Anniversaries
Scheidt, Samuel (3 Novembe»
Granados y Campina, Enriqu»
Séverac, Déodat »
Pierné, Paul (30 June»
Halffter, Cristóbal (»
My Audio Leftovers
Ortofon Mono CG 25 Di c»
Koetsu Onyx Platinum Ca»
Lamm Industries M1.1 Mo»
ESS AMT-1A Heil Air Mot»
Sansui TU-X1 Tuner
Conscience of audio rev»
Rohde & Schwarz MSDC Mu»
LF Transformer for 6C33C
Vitavox AK151 15" bass »
Electro-Voice T350 twee»
REL Precedent 646C tuner
More Leftovers »»