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I would like to share my observations about public perception of Melquiades - The Realty Reconstructions Amplifier.
Melquiades, or as I affectedly-abridgedly call it “the Melq” was released to pubic exactly a year ago:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/...
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Romy, Now you mention the issues here, I am thinking about what the differences in quality might be due to. I notice that you haven't explicitly said which is better, super or regular... so think of this just as brainstorming as to why things are... ...
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One of the greatest and the most important things for me in power amplifiers is their ability to differentiate tones. When you listen live music you practically never hear two identical tones. Even two identical pitches presented after the diff...
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[quote user="Paul S"] The "calm HF" effect is something I have long sought but seldom experienced from repro, and I have blamed the amps as much as the ribbons. Mere HF extension is not enough. Hard to say whether the amp or the rib...
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“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables
PREFACE
I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...
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It is really amassing, how Melquiades takes recordings apart, literally and rebuild then in own manner! I never see anything like this, and I believe that I have seen something in audio.
Melquiades does something entirely unprecedented: it retrofit...
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Loudspeakers. For whomever who follows my dairies on this site and whoever has any real understanding what makes a horn-loaded loudspeaker to sound good it is know that Macondo Acoustic System is not juts the result of my DIY efforts or the John Hasq...
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Another “interesting” thing... Any amplifier that I know is absolutely disabled to let me as a listener to extract from music something without unavoidable loosing a perspective to the whole musical peace. The Melquiades swallows this task with ...
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[quote user="darkmoebius"] Believe it or not, this very short, direct, explanation helps put everything else I have read about the Melq evolution in perspective. [/quote]
Hm, darkmoebius,I really do not know why it clears skies for your in anyways. ...
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[quote user="darkmoebius"] That's because "off the shelf" amps can be easily resold for little or no loss of money if they are not to the buyer's liking. The Melquiades, on the other hand, leaves the builder with $3,000 worth of parts not easily reso...
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There is a difference between “no holds barred" implementation of a specific design end no “no holds barred design”. The later is bogusness. Still, I would insist that even the first one is very frequently is bogusness. “Expensive” implantation very ...
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And email from a site’s visitor:….
“And for my full-range Melquiades, should I still try and build the original version or wait to see result of what you are working on now?”
This is a complicated question about 2-stage Melquiades vs. single-stage...
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Hi Romy,I dunno if you mean the C-core materials itself or the completed transformers... if the former (perhaps a poor term in this context), thenhttp://www.elnamagnetics.comhave what you are looking for.Seach for AMCC - these are the Metglas C-...
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Hi Romy, do you have any time to work on this thread? I have found someone to help me build, and am anxious to get going.Thanks,R Weissman...
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I do not know why people go into low-sensitive loudspeaker and they go crazy in order push the last drop out of the class A2 operation. From a different perspective the Macondo’s woofer towers with 97.5dB sensitivity are low low-sensitive loudspeaker...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] [/quote]I really do not know what is going on and how to explain the phenomena; I just dump it to you “as is”. Because of multiple reasons I decided to drain the Milq’s power supply when the amp shits down. I have a...
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http://www.rotel.com/UK/products/ProductDetails.htm?Id=14&Tab=2&Pic=1Auto Turn On Level (with all inputs)
3 mV input signal
Standby: 2.6 Watts
I don't know, but doesn't it seem kind of nice? Just glue a couple of 6C33C to...
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It hard at this point to sat anything defiantly about the Super Melquiades sound. Positively to derive the speakers directly from amp with no speaker-level crossover does provide multiple and multiple benefits. So, Even if to subtract all other “diff...
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It is kind of pleasant and insulting at the same time. Insulting because I thought I know the Super Melquiades better then anyone else or at least was able to say about the Super Milq Sound whatever might be said. :-)
However, today my ego was sever...
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This weekend I found some transformers in my storage and I put together the Baby Melquiades headphone amplifier. It turns out to be very cure little amp. It is 9'x9' but has all Milq’s incidents including the choke intuit supply for plates and t...
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[quote user="Chirag"]The 6E5P is an interesting device (I did some research after you dropped the "tetrode" hint and bought a few :-)), but the bias scheme with the OA2's is still incomprehensible to me. [/quote]Ok, I will try to explain.
The...
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So, I have decided I want to hear the Melquiades in my system. But, I do not have the ability to build one myself. I am looking to hire a skilled builder that would be interested in building the Melquiades for me.Contact me at: ...
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hi-i have downloaded the circuit diagram for your amp but wondered if you have any photos of the "guts" so i can see how you laid yours out ?just a couple of questions1- R3 + R24-27 are shown not in bold print-why ?2-it says "look below for OPT"-?3-a...
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Sine my call for somebody builds for me a full range Melq was not answered:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2492#2492
I decided to put it together myself. Now I understand that letting the first amp to go was a mistake....
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Spent quite a few hours last day to connect the transformers, rectifiers, chokes, filters, decided do not got for the bleeders but for more henries in the chokes. It works fine so far. Ironically and very much contrary to my expectations I do enjoy t...
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Ok, the one channel of the Milq is up and running. The first assembly went fine, no bugs or problems – it worked fine juts after the build. All voltages, delays and heating are normal; this I would need to inspect everything again after it will work ...
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Romy,
I too was thinking the subject had evolved to the point where the thread needed splitting off.
I agree with you regarding the need to start off by constructing of a pair of “normal” Melquiades as a reference.
I don’t mind the fact that...
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Eventually I fed the new Melqs with another pair of power transformers for output stage. I ended to run the 6C33C very-very moderately at 180V and 200mA or at 36W. I think it is little bit low and I could add 3-6W but I prefer to keep it for a time b...
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Interesting….. It is interesting to think about the relational of Melquiades slow take-up. I think that major contributing factor is that guy who calls himself Romy the Cat. Really, I think it’s it. The people who are capable to build amplifiers more...
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One of the greatest and the most important things for me in power amplifiers is their ability to differentiate tones. When you listen live music you practically never hear two identical tones. Even two identical pitches presented after the diff...
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