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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: My vision of transparency... by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"]Even a pair of RCA Jacks and a wire inbetween is not transparent.[/quote] T, thanks for the pitching of the 6AS7 SRPP. I would disagree with the quoted statement. I think you guys are not correctly understanding my definition o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: transparency by guy sergeant on 2007-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The objectives of Einstein self-entertaining Preamp. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Surely all audio components would ideally be transparent not specifically the pre-amplifier. I have yet to hear any audio components that really are. (and I wouldn't be able to hear them if they were!)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Transparency vs. neutrality... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] It sounds as if you are are relating neutrality to music in a roughly analogous way that people use the term transparency in relation to sound.  In my mind a system can be transparent without being neutral, however, as trans...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Resolution, transparency, definition, clarity... whatever? by twogoodears on 2009-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A single worst thing in today’s acoustic systems. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Great referring to musical instruments pitch, Roman... the Real Thing.  I find the Wikipedia suggestion about "resolution", music-wise to be quite inspiring -i.e. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_(music)Sentences like this: "A dissonance h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Transparency by anthony on 2020-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]I also have another SS pre just arrived with has been measurebated into existence with measured spec's difficult to confirm with the best measuring equipment getting about.[/quote]I've been listening to the new buffer with imd/t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Further guidelines for Audio Neutrality... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-05 
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[quote user="drdna"] Yes, we are saying the same thing.  The problem as I have found it is that transparency is easily recognized and so there is a tendency for audiophiles to focus on this when they try to improve their systems, and this can ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Transparency vs. neutrality... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] It sounds as if you are are relating neutrality to music in a roughly analogous way that people use the term transparency in relation to sound.  In my mind a system can be transparent without being neutral, however, as trans...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: It is accomplishable, they juts do not know what it is. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The objectives of Einstein self-entertaining Preamp. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Guy, I am not sure that “all audio components would ideally be transparent” as most of the audio components perform own actions: gain change or different type of conversions. Preamp, in contrary, mostly performs no actions or if it is in unity gain i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Definitions and Meaning by drdna on 2007-04-02 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]...Live Music and Reproduced Music are absolutely the same music... [but] ...Live Sound and Reproduced Sound are absolutely different animals... “Neutrality” might be applied to a whole event or to the collection of the pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Order of the filters in Macondo-like configuration. by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
[quote user="amdismal"]The crossovers were fourth order, which is what I use on my horns.  Second order, I have found, can give a better blending, but reduced the delicacy and transparency in my system.  But it's very complicated, and further exacerb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: My vision of transparency... by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"]Even a pair of RCA Jacks and a wire inbetween is not transparent.[/quote] T, thanks for the pitching of the 6AS7 SRPP. I would disagree with the quoted statement. I think you guys are not correctly understanding my definition o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: “We do not wash windows anymore…” by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
The guys like J.G. Holt brought to the wide public the things, from which “all the crap begun”. Holt was the first who came up in mass-publication with a concept of looking at the music through the dirty window where his new term “transparency” is cl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Speakers for $10-30K by morricab on 2007-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good commercial speakers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Hi Samuel, I see that quite a few replies without much in the way of suggestions.  Romy will not give you what you want, ie. a shopping list of speakers to audition, but I will give you one or two recommendations that I think sound quite good in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Absolutely Transparent Stage and Audio Events by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer #2...? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Interesting that a notion of an Absolutely Transparent Stage is kind of bizarre. Let presume that we do have an Absolutely Transparent, musically and sonically, stage. The stage might be transparent only with own enclosed scope. If a stage modifies t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Re: Further problems with interstage transformers. by Thorsten on 2005-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="dazzdax"]Thx for this well written and highly educational piece Thorsten! It appears that Romy is not very fond of the Audio Consulting transformers, could you give your opinion regarding those? What is your opinion regarding the use ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: “Easy come, easy go” sound... by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fun with transformers? in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
[quote user="AnonymousUser"]Fourth - What DCMB has achieved ?  a) simplicity  b) speed   c) no frequency discrimination  d) wider frequency range  e) suppression of the PSU noises ( I owe this claim to a Canadian fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Borbely Audio op-amps by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
I did not use or know anyone who uses anything by Borbely but Placette basically is the same idea – a discrete op-amp. It has also a proprietary switchable voltage divider and assembling is “made for transparency”. If not Placette then I still would ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Tools to make a neutral system by drdna on 2007-04-05 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Neutrality is fidelity to musically recognized by awareness.  Neutrality it is not what is auditable but rather what is delivered. Neutrality does not operate by the language of the communication channel; in fact it is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Lamm L1 vs. L2 comparative chart. by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm L1 vs. L2 preamp in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Ethan, Since I published the article “Preamplifiers: keys to mystery” I received many emails from my site visitors asking about Lamm prams and questioning my remarks in comparing what I said to “data form other sources”. Some people disagreed or sur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: a topology to make more neutral music transmission by drdna on 2007-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Try slowly removing from your perception of concept of Audio Neutrality, substituting it with Event Recreation Neutrality. You might discover eventually that a Recreative Really has a very strong cross-expressive bound an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: My history by Amir on 2019-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
ArmAlex   the fun thing is that you read Romy posts here without understanding his ideas and copy paste Romy instructions in your Audio system and the result is lower than those audiogon guys (an example of your audio logic -> you buy gryphon spea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Placette vs. the World. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Ronny, I moved your post to the Placette thread. I hope you do not mind.What I fine interesting in this subject is not that fact of Placette wonderful transparency - it a fact but that you (and I in past) were trying to challenge Placette with a tub...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: The APS PurePower regenerator – a dead end for now. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-02 
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"]Finally, the PurePower regenerator does not address problems of playback with electricity .. [/quote]The last few days I had a chance to look deeper into the nature of PurePower’s Sound, particularly in an ability to modera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Resolution, transparency, definition, clarity... whatever? by twogoodears on 2009-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A single worst thing in today’s acoustic systems. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Great referring to musical instruments pitch, Roman... the Real Thing.  I find the Wikipedia suggestion about "resolution", music-wise to be quite inspiring -i.e. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_(music)Sentences like this: "A dissonance h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: About the presold, packaged and shipped out simplicity by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 'Beethoven Test' of playback. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Axel, I am expressing whatever I wish to express and in whatever format I find it useful. If you wish simplicity then feel free to define the things for yourself in whatever simplistic fashion it might benefit you.  The simple stupid approach hardly ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: PS: No response required by Axel on 2009-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 'Beethoven Test' of playback. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Romy, I have that Macondo post printed out and used for a basis of very in depth discussion with my audio companion in confirmation of understanding it. So it's not in any way a matter of disregard as you assume. It just makes your point in great...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: It might be a very useful tool. No one does it. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Chris, The point of digital delay is well taken. Digital has no problems to delay and if someone had only digital as source then it is very simple to use tow parallel DACs and to stick temporary storage memory in one or them. In case of multiple so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: ... certain level of musical Superiority by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 'Beethoven Test' of playback. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Think about “Greatness” as a quantifiable quality and think about a playback’s greatness-transparency. Think also about an ability of a playback to embrace a certain magnitude of Greatness and to deliver a certain level of Superiority…. The Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Oh yes I'm sure... by Axel on 2009-07-29 
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Re: "That all was expressed many times before..."In this case 1 & 1/2 sentence make the penny drop, where >2 paragraph of Macondo detail didn't...I'm also pleased to know there'd be yet other vehicles then Macondo, to achieve a respectable...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: False tranparency by el`Ol on 2010-01-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
To my ears the Duevel Sirius has some kind of false transparency I also know from The Focal titanium tweeters, so maybe there are metal artefacts, but I didn't find if painful or annoying. Nevertheless, I find this is an unnecessary gimmick, so m...
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