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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
techniques
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]buy a box of Epoisses Berthaut cheese. Just one sniff of this French wonder will give you an instant reference about the YO186 sound.[/quote]La fromage de les Epoisses du Borgogne, c'est ma favorite. Bad news since the YO1...
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Ok, can you in subjective trims describe what do you feel is wrong with your sound. disregard the speakers and channels, tell juts your pure reaction to what it is. The cat...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Another a very valid thing to try is to see of the same difference with the same recordings happens with different DACs, preamps the you will take care of the absolute phase. [/quote]To date, my listening has been with my f...
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BWO wrote:Look here on some clipped out material Jim Smith says about computer and sound:...
Certainly the position that Jim took in there is highly arguable to say at least. The only “excuse” that I might see in it t...
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I recorded the whole thing, including the Procofiev’s concerto and the Bartók ballet. The sound of the orchestra was interestingly changing as I fell that they change the “tuning” after the intermission. The Bartók: “The Miraculous Mandarin” was very...
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Thank you Cat.(Some light reading to chew on).Meanwhile,the happy punters travel down the road to find 'my sound is better thanyour sound'.From 'The Audio book of the Dead' Dr.Hippocrates...
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Paul, I am not sure what VTA and anything else has to do with phonostage. The VTA is not a characteristic of Sound but a property of a given cartridge. Sine I it set and the VTF is not changed I do not change VTA. I do not use VTA to change sound, I ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Bud wrote:These are sensationaly deep recordings, just as you said they would be. DYNAMICS from a distance, and no artificially sick or flat notes, or hidden masses of groaning monsters.Romy you need to help this man,...
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So, my point is that I do not care if one or other company trade their regenerators and that I might get the same or near the same cheaper somewhere else. There is many Class AB power regenerators that are being use in...
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The DC biasing of filtering caps was something that I was advocating for years but recently I was pointed out that German Avantgarde took it a bit further. I did not use this method but it goes sound interesting. Read the Avantgarde’s document, the p...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]our perception has kind of reversed logarithmic scale for tone resolution, so what.those definitions not bind to our perception[/quote]The definitions about theorical sound never bind or help our ears to hear soundWe humans...
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I do not know that guy but I can predict that it sounds fine, all 200 drivers, or wherever he uses. The point is to acknowledge what processes the system use and what is responsible for reportedly good sound. I do feel that what Eugenie attributers a...
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I think it is wider then just Schroeder arms. Did you see ANY discussions about the Sonic Quality of hyped products? [/quote]No. the typical audiophile has the following tatoo onto his forehead "I-buy-I-Am"[quote user="R...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]BTW, I do sincerely hope that the readers of my site, if they detect that I am turning toward to the ugly direction of whoring for anything, will point it out. The Cat[/quote]Sure if folks in industry and money making hif...
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[quote user="Crow"]The sound changed.[/quote]I do not think that sound changed. Those speakers have most likely MF compression driver with horn. When the camera shot from the back of the speaker the sound does not change. I mean is changes slightly n...
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I began to research live broadcasts in my area, and I found there is one station that broadcasts live every Saturday morning some local folk music, readings, sort of variety show, from a local club I have actually been to in Berkeley. I had no idea. ...
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A reader of my site sent me interesting information. It looks like Accuphase came up with a new model: T1100.
http://www.accuphase.com/cat/t-1100_e.pdf
In this new model more functionality went to DSP, but the most important the ...
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[quote user="analog10"]Hello, this is my first post here - this is a wonderful web site, critical and fair - a lot of knowledge here and i consider you real connoiseurs - that's why i'm hoping to resolve my problem here.
I have a Micro Seik...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1) Be very careful with use Halco resistors. They were very good 15 years back but they turned south very aggressively. I bought a party of Halco in 2005 and I forced myself to trashed them as they were very noisy. You...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yesterday I was working for a half day at the part of the house were my Altec 19 are sitting and just to keep myself entertained I set up the Altec 19 to play from my add-hog playback: Sony $30 DVD player, Yamaha C2A preamp...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The subject of midbass nasal sound is very interesting. In addition to all OTHER aspects that might lead to midbass honk I would like to note that there is one that is in my view greatly overlooked – the precision of re...
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Thank you Romy for saying this very important statement about Macondo topology. I believe that this is very very important and imperative for your numerous readership to "get this." I, for one, have no intention whatsoever of copying your efforts, a...
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I would like to pass some summarizing observations and some generalizations regarding the entire “Water Drop” project.
THE IDEA
The idea of trying to find a tweeter to compliment Macondo was a good idea. Many of you know that I was proudly declari...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Interesting the stressing the importance of the listening room Rakesh went into depth of discussing reference clocks and YL drivers that are very irrelevant to the subject of the rooms. The Rony’s comment about the expressi...
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Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"] After some experiments and still being dissatisfied with the HF I ended up consulting with Dima. He spread me a theory according to which the HF was killed by my coupling Silver Mica cap. All my arguments that sil...
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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="Romy the Cat"]Without mentioning the reasons here are a few pointers:
1) There is no proper tone 2) Horizontal imaging is less refined then I would like it to be. 3) Sound is not wet enough. 4) At high volume...
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I’m new to this outstanding website and I found it has really educational value and antimoronizating information :)
I’m still in the world of direct radiators and I’m looking for the ultimate midbass channel solution. At this time it’s still impossi...
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Well, it happened with me, one of my HH of my DAW, or as they call it “music server”, went down. It does not recognize by BIOS anymore, suck, it would be costly to recover data from there. Partially the most important f...
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One more thing…
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] When I talk about “right quality” I mean that audio people are fools and when they see 176KHz sampling rate then they automatically assume some king of “quality”. The industry takes now and will take...
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