GoodSoundClub's Home
Manifesto Copyright
Statistics Site Links
Site Map Surveys
Send Email to Romy the Cat
The site is back....!!!
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
» The real goals of sound »
» Forward in the past with»
» Ultimate HF output trans»
» Bach by Ormandy’s Philad»
» New here
» Rcf n850
» Canadian Speaker Proposal
» Small SET’s bass, beside»
» Staxquiades project
» Updated view: The Optima»
» How to run MM-type cartr»
» About the Critical Audio»
» Universal VTA adjustment.
» X-mas list
» Vitavox and Goodmans Bas»
» Better organization/desi»
» Archimago's Musings talk»
» Barn Conversion - James'»
» Okada’s installation.
» If you've never heard th»
» Story of my discovery - »
» Horn loaded ribbons and »
» Valve Technology Timeline
» Today’s SACD - music for»
» The evenings with Greate»
» The 500-megawatt FM stat»
» Show Report PiS Fest
» Lower cost horn loaded a»
» Red Violin Concerto
» Kevin Puts, American Com»
» Playback and chamber mus»
» A new amplifier from Aud»
» Orphean horns of bd desi»
» Yarlung Records at 24 bi»
» A phenomenal find: Garvi»
» The inflatable speakers »
» Memories of audio elemen»
» Our Fuzzy Pussies, Audio»
Bookmarked are red
Technical books online
Professional Audio Calcu»
Hermann Scherchen discog»
Input Choke & Resonant C»
The National Valve Museum
Lied and Art Songs
RAAL ribbons
Michelangeli Site
Orchestra on Demand
Jim Moskowitz's Unknown »
Aria Database
Heart's Ease
More Links »»
Romy the Cat's personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction techniques

Posts Authors:  Listed only members with posts
 Posts Period :    to      Format: Year/Month/Date
Search Phrase:   
Search in Forum: 
Print Results per page:  Separate words by empty space
 

     Pages: 211, Posts: 6325    Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ...


          Tip: narrow down your search criteria or select a larger number of printed results per page.


Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Audio vs. sound vs. scale by noviygera on 2013-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
I've been thinking about this matter for a while but could not find a better excuse to formulate my theory then in this topic. My simple theory is that if we reduce our concept of "music" the more fundamental concept of "sound" as point of reference ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Audio Sommelier by Paul S on 2013-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How would you handle it? in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Just to show we were paying attention and NOT digressing OT:Perhaps, then, Romy should take on the role of Amy's audio sommelier?  Sure, Amy knows music; but Romy knows music via hi-fi. He can cater to her tastes in a way that surprises and delights ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dreams about Audio by Romy the Cat on 2014-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dreams about Audio in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
I need to admit that I see a lot of dreams. Some of them interpretable, some of them are memorable and sane and some of them of course make me sorry that I use to rear too much Franz Kafka in my childhood. It is fun to make attempt to interpret the d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: More on Audio or Sound vs Music by Paul S on 2014-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
Clark, there is much about sound that delights me, including the sounds involved in Music, and I also enjoy at times the hi-fi, especially as I fancy it to be a "vehicle" for Music. Of course the audio does not necessarily render Music, and I can onl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: I think dynamics “as is” is a wrong quantification for audio. by Romy the Cat on 2014-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The dynamic range of our playback in Playback Listening  20 Replies 
That all interesting though but the problem is that they have no way to be absolute valid. Yes, we as a humans, have a lot of masking effect build in us that prevents up to get complexity and color of sound with dynamic range rises. Yes we do in many...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: FM Acoustics: The most important component of a quality Audio system by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: FM Acoustics: The most important component of a quality Audi... in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
FM Acoustics’s  Manuel Humber speaks about his Harmonic Linearizer device.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaG5d98zVC0   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_h1NdHzeuM   Well, Mr. Humber and the Company feel that this is the most important compon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Levels of perception are not tied to audio or hardware by rowuk on 2018-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
Amir, I question your statement. There are so many senses (visual, aural, touch, smell). These senses can be fooled very easily.We do not need audio playback for anything except our own personal pleasure. I insist that there is no way to measure pers...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Our short Audio Story by Amir on 2018-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
what is audio ? Audio is our reaction to sound , if there are audiophiles with different reactions then you may convince yourself Audio quality is relative to listener. I think it is not true. The real quality exist itself . ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Abu Ghraib of Audio by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digital recorders: what the "big boys" use? in Didital Things  15 Replies 
Yes, and particularly what enjoy with Patricia Barber (which is perfectly fine artist, BTW) that then when I go to the homes of an ordinary American audiophile then they have $90.000 worth of recommends Stereophile components and no more then entire ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #100: Cars vs. audio by ArmAlex on 2013-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Stitch wrote: Or let's go to the real world, there are endless high powered cars outside. 99,5% of their owners aren't able to handle them. Yes you are right, the problem is almost n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: To serve that “signature” in audio... by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New sample 24/96 downloads from HDTT in Didital Things  20 Replies 
[quote user="HDTT"] Just some clarification on a few points: I really don't care what people say about my recordings or how they sound I master my sound to what I feel is closest to the source and also "I think" I have no "signature" that is my goal....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Audio genius by el`Ol on 2008-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Amplification and Consciousness. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, among the 0.000000001% of all people who do audio and who do accidently have a listening consciousness AND at the same time do have and interest in subjects of “Abstract Audio” there is “thinking”. Rgs, Romy the ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The true audio is lonely discipline by nature… by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Absolute Sound of Audio Idiocy. in Playback Listening  13 Replies 
… and this certainly violates the idea of populization of audio by consumer publication. The absoluteness of audio orienteers dose not live in the audio loneliness but rather into a strict individualism of audio. However this individualism is applica...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: An audio Dic by tuga on 2008-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sound and How We Hear It in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
Let's first try to go over some concepts to see if the both of you are speaking the same language (from Sphile's glossary): coloration An audible "signature" with which a reproducing system imbues all signals passing through it. distortion 1)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The Denon 103 as a tale about audio Mormonism. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
Looking at my site’s stats I find is ridicules that the thread about Denon 103 is so frequently referenced from others sites and that near 50K people have read it. People like to argue out there if was right or wrong about my concussions regardin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: The low level of expectations is a bitch in audio. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
Well, it might be not EXACTLY on the subject of “buying a last cartridge” but it surprisingly has a lot of connection with your post above. Sometime I need to post the emails that I am getting from my site – this is very educational to observe what k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Endorsements in High-End Audio? Come on! by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ortofon MC Anna cartridge “Inspired” by Netrebko in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]It is not unusual for famous people to use there name for ENDORSEMENT,,SPORTS MEN HAVE MADE MILLIONS that way..  AMPEX used Frank Senatra..JBL used Benny Goodman...Its easy mony standing next to a product for photo Op and getting p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Audio Desk Systeme ultrasonic record cleaning machine by mem916 on 2011-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sensible record cleaning: vinyl piranhas and record Vaseline in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
I just received mine on Friday.   I am amazed at how easy to use and this machine is and how convenient it is compared to my old VPI.  I always dreaded cleaning records with the VPI.  With the audio desk I put the record in, push a button, come back ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Audio Desk System Vinyl Cleaner: Analogue rip-off of 2011? by oxric on 2011-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sensible record cleaning: vinyl piranhas and record Vaseline in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
[quote user="mem916"]I think there must be something to the theory that there is debris down in the grooves that the VPI and other similar machines cannot get out, based on the difference I hear after cleaning with the new machine.  I admit that I ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: This is how audio gonorrhea spreads. by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What 10k Buys You These Days in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
Fuck the Fremer and anathema to each single audio product he touches. Sometime those whore do play the primitive publicity games in order to send a message of “own integrity”.  That all BS and I do not even want to talk about it. Any single audio pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: This is all very emblematic for audio herd. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
Stitch, you see, the presence of that unintelligent audio glitter  that run across web sites and drool saliva about that or this product is very unfortunate thing that actually makes very hard for  sensible audio people to get any more or less releva...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The most appalling audio types. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most appalling audio types. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
It is not secret that I am not a big admirer of what is called the audiophiles community. I feel incredibly bored among them and they feel frequently incredibly insulted around me. Thanks God!!! I do not value the audiophiles masses, have little res...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My feelings about new exciting audio products by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I kind of feel that I am way off in my familiarity about what is going on with new audio products. My horizon is very restricted with my own needs and with my own interests. I am irregularly read audio publications and irregularly visit some audio si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Real-time free and public High-End Audio News. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Real-time free and public High-End Audio News. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
A year or two ago I was wondering if any news server for audio news is available. I put some code together and wrote a VERY simple service that collects Classical Music News http://www.goodsoundclub.com/ClassicalNews.aspx   (With top news ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My "Lenin’s techniques" and Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good commercial speakers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="samuel33"] …. I can't stop laughing when I read your comments about the audiophile mafia, you are so right. [/quote] Samuel, it is important, reading my self-obsessive rage about the industry, do not take the things out of perspective. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The most appalling audio types: the Friendship Bound by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most appalling audio types. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
This subject I complex and talking about it we should not take out of aim that fact that we are talking explicitly about audio applications. If so then let admit that friendship with various audio people severally cloud our views and rational of our ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Audio-thinking via the eyes of beholder by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most appalling audio types. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Here is a quote from visitor’s email that I received today about audio thinking existing within know to him audio communities: “… basically everybody writes with such bias and so keen to please one another (at least their croneys, their vested intere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Audio-tekne's "Tone Quality Improvement technique" by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The leather-suspended drivers. in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
Thanks you, Tuga. I care less about the Diatone drivers and was attracted only by the leather suspension. Anyhow, among the links that you posted there is one that actually made me to navigate further and eventually to read: http://www.audiotekne.co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Summary: my audio, year 2007 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
It was an audio eventful year and I have experimented and discovered many fascinating things. Here is a brief summary of the 2007 audio-events and a short look what my audio happening will might take please in 2008. 1)    In the very ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #118: PS Audio Ultimate Premier by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Please talk me out of trying the "new" PS Audio "Ultimate", which features "improved" "regeneration" AND "isolation".[/quote]  It might be not a bad idea, since the PS Audio sell honesty: 30 days trail period and money back...
All context of this site except the Forum's posts Copyright © Roman Bessnow 2004-2024
All messages within the Site’s Forum Copyright © by authors of the posts
Last 24-hours posts:  0  
Total human visitors:  42,743,349  
   
      Search Site Forum
     Search Site via Google
 
Login:
Pass:
    Create a New Account
    Forgot your Account
APR 27 Boston University Sy»
APR 27 Forays in Boston on »
APR 27 Forays in Boston on »
APR 27 Frederick Jodry, Dir»
APR 27 Andris Nelsons, cond»
APR 27 Julian Gau, conducto»
APR 27 Music of the Italian»
APR 28 Jonathan Biss, piano»
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 - 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,»
More Music News »»
Reinken, Jan Adams (27 Apr»
Thalberg, Sigismond (8 Jan»
Catoire, Georgi Lvovitch (»
Skriabin, Alexander (6 Jan»
Scriabin, Alexander (6 Jan»
Messiaen, Olivier (10 Dece»
Purist Audio Design Pro»
Korvet “Egg” Tonearm
Sansui TU-X1 Tuner
Electro-Voice T350 twee»
Fane Studio 8 dual conc»
Stage Acompany SA8535 d»
Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201»
Ortofon Mono CG 25 Di c»
Kenwood L-02T FM Tuner
Pacific Microsonics Mod»
Micro-Seiki Arm Board
More Leftovers »»