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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The Tonmeisters, 48 channels and the under-table DG by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD off tune? The Big CD Conspiracy theory? in Didital Things  9 Replies 
Scooter, I was thinking myself if it was a pirated CD and I very carefully inspected it, I did not found any signs of not authenticity but I am not expect in it. To me it looks like a legitimate DG album. Though I admit that with contemporary mea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: How much harsh can you take? by tuga on 2010-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC in Didital Things  26 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I'm not sure exactly what I expected from swapping the digital cable at this point, but what I got was not it.Before I bought the Belkin Synopsis cable I just swapped out, I had sought out and purchased an Acoustic Revive cab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #128: FM and electricity, sources and electricity by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-14 
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"] I wonder how many cities have good FM programming and broadcasting?  Los Angeles was great, back when I lived in Venice, with interesting stuff going on around the clock.  San Diego is quite limited, and I get Bupkis f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Illusions in the service of survival by jessie.dazzle on 2010-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new 'chic' foolishness about mono systems in Audio For Dummies ™  48 Replies 
The Anstendig Institute wrote:"...The attempt to reproduce the way sound is heard by means of stereophonic sound reproduction is a misunderstanding that is the result of a fault in logic..."Yes, it would be better to record each source of sound with ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Some data about the S2 filed coil. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
The played today a little with Vitavox S2 driver with electromagnet and made some measurements. Measuring the relative magnetic force (I use Hirst GM04)  I found out that increase current up to 3A linearly increases the magnetic force in the gap...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Throat’s side thickness... by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Transition : Driver to throat, when throat is smaller than d... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Jessie, at the home page, in the left, within the GoodSoundClub Section there is the “Announcements” item of menu, which will bring you to the thread with the instruction how to upload the images to the site. Regarding the issues that you are trying...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #398: A hallucination? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote:That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #395: Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
This week I will be trying to address why the Milq midbass is clipping. This is very interesting one.  Currently the Melquiades LF channel uses an output transformer 700R to 5R or 11.83 to 1. I thought before that I have much lower ratio, like 5:1 bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: We are just covering old grounds. by oxric on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  There is absolutely nothing in Fane 8M specifications that is responsible for the diver sound. So, what is the purpose to ask about the new specifications?One might think that someone can use “specifications” as an assu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Alphas, Betas, Gammas... by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
Keith, you see, in Alphas the MF driver does down to let say even 500Hz then it mans that they need to bring those bass W-bins unto 500Hz but it is imposable even theoretically. Let me to expanse, it I very simple. When a “reflected” horn fires up a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Circuit instability by N-set on 2012-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
Actually I do not have the instability issue sorted out completely...I'm talking about circuit instability now, not the tube instability. Let us imagine all tubes are rock stable.As I see it there are at least two major sources of instability, in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: What to watch it the new RAAL… by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL in Horn-Loaded Speakers  31 Replies 
With the omnidirectivety paranoia many people might loose from attention that fact that in order to be good omnidirectional speaker the RAAL new speaker has to be just a good conventional speaker first. The new RAAL speaker (does it have a name?) as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Make it hard for yourself! by jessie.dazzle on 2007-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Hello Malinowski, Sounds like you may already have the necessary experience in working with plaster, but in case you're not used to making anything this large: For the final horns, especially if they are large, use hard modeling plaster. My up...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Follow-up on Music Room Options by RF at Ona on 2007-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building a new music room in Playback Listening  20 Replies 
Collin,I am pleased that you found my suggestions worthwhile. I approached the issue of your music room with two questions in mind:1- How to avoid the structural angle from interfering with the sound2- Would an enlarged room be worthwhile...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Limited experience with ss amps by Saturntube on 2009-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Amplification for Compressions drivers? Sound? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  19 Replies 
I have just taken out of my system a First Watt F5 clone Tim Rawson amp, It was substituted by a Telefunken PP amp with 6AQ5 tubes. Let me to explain. My system consists of 6 way horn loaded speakers.  I have a round Tactrix...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: It is very simple and it is very complicated. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that I get through headphones. [/quote]I very much applaud to the desire to have speakers that do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Switch off one of the stereo channels… by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] So the tweeter is always needed. The bad thing is it deforms (in 99,9999999999999999999% of the cases) the perfectly round audio window, formed by the midrange channel and "pull" some notes sometimes at its axis. These are of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Transcendence et al by de charlus on 2013-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Live vs. Recorded transcendent moments. in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
I was thinking about this when posting on the "deathbed audio wisdom" thread, where I said that to accept that there is a distinction between live performances and recordings, make peace with the notion, and derive the greatest pleasure from both bei...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Sound assessment recordings. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sound assessment recordings. in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
“…stop by and bring some of your music….” – how many times we hear when we invited to listen someone’s playback.  I am sure all of us have a selected favorite recording to assess playbacks and I would like to share some of mine that I have been ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My direction is 2x4" + 12" + 2x15" + 4x23" by haralanov on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Romy, I do agree with all your comments. It is true that the magnitude of the rubber taste very much depends on the crossover frequency. I used them below 64Hz, but with first order filter, implemented before the amp that drives them. With that kind ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Again, use “price” as a design tool by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  55 Replies 
It is nothing to do with Wisdom.  It is my principle of application of “cost” as a common sense design tool. I do not bitch that Duelund caps are expensive. I just try to find a rational solution for using them that would embrace their price. My ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My views about PH-77 phonostage by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: AMR PH-77: just another phonostage or more? in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
I am not a big fun of Dvorak 9th under Ancerl. I’m not big fun nether the orchestra’s balance nor the recording quality.  Anyhow… I do not think that that you need to worry PH-77’s accuracy of curves or the comfort to switch them. It looks lik...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The FM Stereo and Multiplex MPX decoders by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The FM Stereo and Multiplex MPX decoders in Off Air Audio  12 Replies 
I was wondering what the noise of stereo signal come into FM and are any ways to reduce it? Naturally we get out stations in mono mode with practically no noise at all. The best tuners more then 85dB signals to noise ratio – that are very high number...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Wow, the Yamaha MPX, who would believe! by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The FM Stereo and Multiplex MPX decoders in Off Air Audio  12 Replies 
Keeping harassing different people bout the most interesting options for multiplex decoder for my Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 I was wondering if it makes sense to me to use the Rohde. It is a very good tuner but it is not necessary result in better s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #238: Still have no idea why it works as it does. by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I keep thinking about the strangeness of my phase inversion. I still do not think that it should be this way. My leading explanation is because I did not implement the crossover precise. If the crossover called for let way 63mH coil and 795uF cap ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: How to make it working with Vitavox S2? by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
It is complicated. Any tweeter is different and the RAAL’s “Water Drop” tweeter is more different then others. Almond any other tweeters that I heard this tweeter has something absolutely unique- it has no annoying upper MF nose. When I asked Alex to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Some D-ideas for the barn. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"]the horns come out of a rakk dac with lundahl LL1674 passive outputs the midbass use a behringer DEQ2496 (26cm delay) modified with passive outputs.[/quote]James, if you use this DEQ2496 then you might find this thread worth attent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1232: Risky Business and Pure Power by eli8888 on 2014-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
HI all, my first post, although have been reading for a long long time and have contact with some members. Great site.Wanted to share with you my experience with a PurePower order. and my huge problem... I have read terrible things here before but I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1249: Rommy you are partially right by eli8888 on 2014-02-06 
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"]Eli, I do not think that it is PurePower objective to grab your money and to run.  They are notorious with delays and it certainly might be unpleasant. With all due respect: 2 month delay is kind of nothing and if the unit ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A single yellow driver. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.0 & Lamhorn/AER in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="HookEm"]The reproduction does not seem natural... too far away from what I would hear at a live event (e.g., female vocalist).  Sort of bright and fatiguing at times. I may not be using the proper terminology to describe it, but I do...
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