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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Planning my DSET
Post Subject: Distressingly familiarPosted by anthony on: 1/4/2019
 Romy the Cat wrote:
 anthony wrote:
I woke up this morning ….
It was funny that you named it “In my dreams”. Whan I was “designing” and building the Milq I had a lot of dreams about the problem I had. I am not am amplifier designer or some kind of DIY evangelist. In fact I had no truly DIY audio experience before it. I did my phonostage and the power amps because I did not had around me somebody who would do it for me at the level I want to do it. So, when I start to do the damn soldering I was learned a lot and for some period of time it become a very much become full time labor, not time wise but mind-wise. There was a period when Milq took so much time in my life that stopped do anything, literally anything but making Milq to sound right. In the epicenter of that period there was six months when I stopped working, stopped dating, stopped socializing with other people. I woke up 7 AM and went to beg at midnight, all time working on the amplifier and having 100% of time dedicated to thinking about the amplifier. My mind was so saturated at the time by the applier need that I have dream about Milq circuitry, Milq’s problem, Milq’s need… It was a lot of Kafka like dreams…. very certifiable. I am not sorry about that time and I even then had very defined feeling that after I do it I am not planning to do it anymore. So, nowadays if I need to dive into Milq to make some changes then I feel that I am rereading the dairies of my life… very interesting…
  


To mirror your obsession, but not as the instigator of the project, rather as the duplicator, it has been my plan for some time to take off all of January to get my Melquiades/Macondo installed in my room.  Being self-employed with too many clients to keep satisfied that is not really going to happen but I do plan to be able to operate with the emphasis towards leisure rather than work for the next couple of months as a compromise, perhaps something like week-on week-off, but something at least very flexiblle.  My wife is with me completely in the desire to have this project finished, but I suspect for slightly different reasons than I. 


A sign of my obsession is that I have been too transfixed to respond to some of your earlier posts and comment....


 Romy the Cat wrote:
 
Your chasses design look spectacular by the way. In many year what your will dive back to that amps you will not believe you did it. 
 


Thanks Romy.  In the back of my mind I always thought that was the kind of self-reaffirming effect that I would like to have...to be able to look back and go "wow, I did THAT".  Even to have my son or daughter keep the system when I am gone and for them to have the same "wow, dad did THAT, and I remember him doing it when I was just a kid"
  


 Romy the Cat wrote:
 
Generally speaking I would be interested to know how you like to change the crossovers. I feel that sine you have the same configuration as I do I know that result you should be getting and there is a HUGE amount of time invested into this thing to do experimentation, listening, testing, measuring etc and there is not a lot known to me room for improvements. Trust me it has  nothing to do with ego  and I will LOVE to learn if you fine any better way to organize what has been organized, unless you use other compression driver…


Other than the obvious exact crossover points needing to be tweaked for my room, I remember reading somewhere on your site some time ago about perhaps a second order on the Upperbass might be more appropriate for rock music and perhaps a 4th order low pass on the ribbon may improve the results.  Of course I am leaving myself open to these things, and I still listen to most kinds of music.  It was Willie Nelson and some European jazz yesterday but in the press to get stuff finished for Christmas I think I listened exclusively to Bruckner symphonies for almost 6 days straight (I discovered Celibidache and was transfixed by the slow phrasing in particular of the 8th).

Your effort and experimentation and work to fine-tune your system are exactly what attracted me to this project in the first place, and please believe me when I say that the closer I come to a realisation of my efforts the more I understand and appreciate just how colossal yours has been.        
   

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