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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio Covid and some homework by Romy the Cat on 2022-05-28 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 #3: The "uncharacteristic" subject for Audio by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About destiny of “High-End Sound”. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Generally it is very uncharacteristic subject in audio: the destiny of audio reproduction. Destiny might be only with something that has its own lifespan. Audio reproduction is in a way an imitation and therefore should hot have own destiny because i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About the Audio Neutrality. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-31 
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[quote user="Stringreen"] I am a professional violinist. When I play in Avery Fischer Hall my instrument sounds quit different than when I play it at home and again different still when I play it in Carnegie Hall. Instead of neutrality, perhaps one ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I would shade some light about “abstract audio” by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-28 
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[quote user="Max Shatsky"]>You might built better audio or learn to develop more sensitive perception and you end up with the same results. This why I, staring from a certain level, refuse to combine audio and music and  feel that audio resol...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Another side of the “glorified audio” harm by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-30 
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[quote user="livemusic"] You are absolutely right, saying "audiophile" which is not capable to hear any criticizm about his system…. [/quote] Well, there is another side of the medal in it. The fact that they are not capable to bear criticism is bad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Audio, visual art and Cesar salad. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-27 
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Reading Paul’s reply I came across to asking myself of what we call painting. Let get for instance any famous works, let I be the early Dali’s portrait of his sister “Figure at Window”. What we call as the “Figure at Window”? When we mention the “...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Selfdenial as Audio Tower of Babble? by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-26 
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[quote user="Paul S"] So, here we are, adrift on the great big sea of audio tomfoolery, without a metaphorical paddle. If we can on the one hand hear any and every change in our systems, then this implies that everything is worth considering. If we a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My Audio "Reviewing" agenda. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-30 
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I constantly receive emails from people asking me my opinions about audio equipment. I was trying to address it in here: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=681 …but still. Those people do not really understand hot tedious to think ab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Wilsons vs. out of audio money. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-12 
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Hm, the example with Wilson is much more complicated then you think. Wilson are very much misunderstood and mis-presented products. From certain prospective they well worth their money. Still, in context of this thread: problem with Wilson is not Wil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About “strangeness” of Audio Reality by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-11 
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It always amazed me that among the people who circle around audio there is a sentiment that audio might require none-presentational evidences. I look at those full of pomposity and self-assured individuals who would talk about anything and who would ...

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 #3: What the Audio Neutrality deals with. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-02 
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It is absolutely amassing how many audio people misunderstand Audio Neutrality. The Audio Neutrality is one of the most import moments of audio reproduction and still it is misunderstood. Not good! The very first step to begin understanding of real ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Audio form and content by Ronnie on 2007-04-30 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Audio has sort of wrapper on a gift– can make it more attractive but has completely no affect to the substance of the gift.[/quote]I do often believe that I miss some content by hearing acoustic music through any random&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio equipment recommendations at this site. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-07 
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I hate to provide what the audio people call “equipment recommendations”. Whoever has sent me private emails asking me about buying or trying one of another audio component know that I usually suggest do not bother me or propose to them going to hell...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The best audio system: my secrets are partially out. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-06 
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If you thoughtfully read my site then here and there (particularly in the articles about Lamm ML2) you read my “absurd” comments that the best performing system is the system that do best Sound while the power amplifiers not even plugged in the p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The chronicles about audio we practice… by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-26 
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Actually I would like to stay at on the subject of this thread - the benefits of critiques and the benefits of positive perception of critiques. I less care about corporations as they have no personal consciousness but I rather target my attention to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About Darwinism of Music and Audio assessments. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-11 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It played well, though I question if it makes sense to use that caliber music for audio evaluations. [/quote] Let just for sake of illustration to presume that any expressed opinion (a review) about audio element/component...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: It is about the about Pure Audio Methods. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-27 
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Manuel, I think you missed the whole point of my post. I did not say that musicians being better than others just based on the music they play, although I might see rational for some people, including me, to advocate this point. However, in context...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Are You On the Road to Audio Hell? by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-23 
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Here is an article by Leonard Norwitz that I think some of you might find motivating. I do not know Mr. Norwitz but it sounds like dinked too mach Qvortrup’s coca-cola. Anyhow, although I do not agree with some (sometimes many) of the Mr. Norwitz’s c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The wet dream of audio and ESD by Romy the Cat on 2018-05-19 
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I would like to share more of my troughs about the ESD acoustic. That are not truly the troughs about the company but rather the troughs that come to mind inspired by the company come to existence.   I do feel that it is an ultimate we dream of et...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #191: Viva Audio by Corallus on 2016-02-13 
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I think this is something new... Or not?http://vivaaudio.com/en/products/master-horn/http://www.monoandstereo.com/2015/10/viva-audio-master-horn-system-review.html...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Audio by Manuel on 2007-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: From Newton to Einstein in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
I may have a point on this some years ago, I had some confidence with the owner of a shop, and he let me use the demo equipment, though in fact my budget didn´t allow to buy him more than a few cheap things.one day I was psycothic listenig to s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Truly a new use of high-end audio by Romy the Cat on 2024-03-01 
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https://youtu.be/hV1dAmC4BzE?si=UUpTGMzzAB3cF0S8 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Re: Talking about the Audio Esperanto… by Max Shatsky on 2005-01-19 
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Romy, I was picky about the word "generate", since it means that a playback creates some sort of semantics. I would say that a "serious playback" may open new possibilities for a listener to use a higher order semantics, but those semantics are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Astronomy and Audio… by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-20 
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Anthony, without making it too wordy (no strength to write for a long now):  there are some natural rules of sound creation, sound distribution, sound propagation, sound consumption and so on. They are not my of anybody’s else rules but the rul...
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