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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #222: B2 problem by N-set on 2022-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] Only yesterday I started to get some interesting results after tuning the UK crossovers. But still not near to the sound I'm getting from my electrostatic headphone setup. I assume my Dannoy setup is quite compromised: one of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: To drive S2 (a comperession driver) with a litle Solid State. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Here's a crazy thought... have you every tried driving the S2 directly from the Placette?! I know the 6E5p does some unique things but I wonder if it might be educational.The placette has a 7 ohm Zout right? Don't forget that that do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1662: Pure Power 3000+ by Amir on 2019-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I have connected My Audio Note DAC 5 to EAR HP4 Headphone Amplifier and I hear the sound from My Sennheiser HD800. the Source is Computer . Sennheiser HD800 is not easy load for HP4 and i think HD800 is very very bad sounding Headphone. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The little Melquiades, the pictures and the illusive transformer core… by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"] For a single driver, looks to me like you need an input signal of at least 3Vrms.  A lot of linestages can do that, so a single tube power amp seems both reasonable and interesting. [/quote] What actually I discovered the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The dreams about a concept of ideal speaker. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."] Anyway, going back to the subject of the thread, why would you implement the ambiance retrieval at speaker level and not at the "pre DAC" one? After all we'd like to have from CD's something closer to what TU-X1 does.[/quote...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Absolute polarity? by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Simpson Microphones thread. in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
Hi Collin,[quote user="CO"]Hello Andy,I like your recordings although i am listening on headphones which i normally do not use. My Main setup is not operational right now.They do sound clean, clear and dynamic.[/quote]If you get your main setup opera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: High end club for $50.00 bucks possibility! What is wrong with this? by mjloudspeaker on 2009-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A visitor sent me information that British company BW Broadcast  http://www.bwbroadcast.com…released this month a new tuner.http://www.broadcastequipmentguide.com/BW-Broadcast_09_03_09.phphttp://www.goodsoundclub.com/PD...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Yes, that sucks... by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
[quote user="KOTriode"]It's 60Hz hum, caused by both mechanical and magnetic field coupling to the output transformer. I used a toroidal transformer and thought it would not caused this problem but it did. When using an external power supply for ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Habituation by steverino on 2024-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A passive but elegant presentation in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"] my question is: the relation between "music listening experience" and "sound quality". very good articles are here (GSC) and I have read them.when I wake up early morning and start climbing at 5:30AM the music l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Ça Ira – the second listening, The last one perhabs. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Roger Waters' Ça Ira Opera - waste of good melodyes? in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
I took today Ça Ira at work and gave to is a second listening, hoping that I will warm up to the opera. I have a phenomenally good headphone listening system at my work. Listening the Ça Ira again I understand deeper what I did not like in his...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: How it might sound in your application… by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-21 
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="nietzscheflake"] I am also thinking about how to get that headphone sound in my house and am contemplating the horn route… [/quote] It ‘s fine but never forget that the imitation of headphones sound is NOT something that need to b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Failed installation by martinshorn on 2018-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Interesting. Also to be put in relation to the other things reported there. I came Saturday Sunday to ESD. Sunday, they welcomed me  Dai:"hey you have been here before" ....  me:"yes yes i need to see if what i heard yesterday was really that good be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Balance Control by Amir on 2018-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quests for an ultimate preamp. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1) A preamp shall have right Sound. I would not even comment on it. A preamp shall sound better then any other source a system has.2) A preamp shall have a remote control. I have expressed a well found view that a Remote Co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Stop crying by unicon on 2011-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Impossibility of commercial seriousness? in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="Steradian"] Look at the popularity of 5.1 and 7.1 "multichannel" (not DSET) sound nowadays.  Stereo audio is a dying breed.  The public is choosing 6-8 channels of MP3 quality sound.  They can't put together a satisfying 2 channel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Cheap and decent commuter earbuds by scooter on 2015-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Those little headphones… in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Ha! Maybe I can help. I lived in Tokyo for a few years and tried to find the "perfect" commuting earbuds. Tokyo's "Best Buy" type electronics stores are huge and typically stock 100s of different models. There are also two large headphone specialty s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The pitch discrimination.... by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A playback and wrong notes. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
I kind of never paid too much attention to it a few years back but lately more and more it become to fascinate me. I am taking about the Macondo/Melquiades tandem’s ability to demonstrate distinction between pitches at alarming high level.  Sure ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Again and again, I am amassed. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best audio source EVER! in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
I wrote about it many many times but it keep shook me, primary because it very much violates all intellectual provision I can extend against what I am saying. Today FM again flew my socks off and it was not special FM but objectively crappy FM. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Berliners by steverino on 2014-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What to do in office? in Off Air Audio  33 Replies 
ROWUK says "I get much enjoyment from the Norwegian Radio web radio. They have a wonderful mix of the music that I like which is orchestral and advanced chamber music. They broadcast at 192KB which is not super fidelity, but their cho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: I am against synthetic reverb by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Closer to the musicians - closer to the music? in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
Oliver, I do not know and I do not particularly care about what is going on out there with synthetic reverb. There are few major reasons for it. 1)    All synthetic reverb is gone by DSP of signal and my experience indicates that post...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #327: More HF from a transformer and DHT? by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I found an interesting flow in the sound of my current OPTS and while it will be certified I am experimenting with park of amorphous core transformers that left over from my former projects. I am trying to remap my Tribute but it is just 40mA. It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The one-stage Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="ml8"]So sometimes i just wonder why do you need 6C33C at all, with your high-sensitive speakers.[/quote] This thread is a derivation of the “5 Channel Version of Melquiades” thread: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=406...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tubes and the Sound by drdna on 2009-01-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A sort of DPOLs in Melquiades Amplifier  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I am not sure if you stress the words “sound” or the word “stereo”. I do not have anything to do with mono but properly implemented stereo is absolutely wonderful and I love Take a little portable mono microphone, attach it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Axiom and EL34 by N-set on 2010-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
(Romy feel free to move this post)[quote user="Paul S"]N-set, I understand you do not mean to hijack the thread with the Axiom, so I actually tried to make generic and/or thread-related observations.  I don't know the 6E5P, but generic issues with sp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Is it about Sound generally of Stereo Sound? by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A sort of DPOLs in Melquiades Amplifier  8 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]Experimenting with the new 2A3 tubes has been a very interesting experience. It has given me insight into more specifically exactly what I am looking for in the stereo sounds, which I associate with the Sound. The most we can as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Gas, bass, jazz... by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A resistor between screen and grid in Melquiades Amplifier  9 Replies 
[quote user="ml8"] If you think gas regulators make sound of 6E5P so nice, didn't you try putting gas regulator tube in the grid of the 6C33C, and why? [/quote] Sure, I trued. It sounded very bad. I pull out of my butt any imaginable rational with e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Tube vs. SS tuners – the open question. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
  Well, Nerone, the differences between any tuners would greatly vary with signal, not even with the strength of signal but rather with the specific location and surrounding of a given station.  To make the things conceptually right it wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: A new Super Short Milg? Oh, no! by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]So this amp would not have to deal with a crossover?  One R and one L in the signal path, it looks like a headphone amp, maybe a dream circuit for a light piston, HF only, given no cap/coil load at the [ribbon] driver. [/quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: If not one 6C33C what about two? by Iraschwips on 2017-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Do the Filament Transformers Require a Center Tap? in Melquiades Amplifier  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Iraschwips , sorry that your post was deleted. The site was hacked this morning, I fixed it and your post was the only casualty. I restored it under my name and since you reported it we all set for now.[/quote] That’s ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Some digital thoughts and speculations… can wait to try it. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
Yes, Peter, I know that in the Steinberg WaveLab use only Bob Katz’ metering system, still I thought that if they are cooperate then Katz’ Ambience Recovery might be available as a standalone plug-in. It is kind of suspiring that Mr. Katz was able t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. by rowuk on 2012-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamaha tuners in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
I had one for about a week and was not happy. Switched to a Kenwood KT1100. Here an honest review that matches my experience. Bottom line is that on stuff this old, the individual buyer will determine the price, not the market. ...
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