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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Ok, boys, this is kind of ... big!!! by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Well, I spent today a number of hours trying to advance my observations regarding abilities of the one-stage Melquiades. It was quite interesting. Thankfully the electivity today was way better during the second part of day. I loaded the 6E6P heavier...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The sound from the “default” Melquiades still will be there. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"]Hi romy, thanks for info. I am going to stick with the 2-stage plan then as it will not be DSET but full range and my mid-bass is somewhat barbaric at this point.  I have found someone to build for me, though we ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Weiss DAC1 vs. Larry Engineering DA-924 by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio critique – open your mind! in Playback Listening  44 Replies 
I always said that regular audio-freaks, who mostly unprovoked bend themselves in demonstration of the excessive and stupid devotion to audio manufactures, are the worst case. Ironically that “devotion” is not what the manufactures demand but the obs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications... in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
Since I know about a few ongoing attempts out there by different people to build Melquiades I would like to share with some of my observations regarding corrections, simplification and possible modifications of Melquiades amplifier. Obviously you ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Before I go into describing the concepts.... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Before I go into describing the concepts of Imbedded Macro-Positioning I would like to pass some overturning statements.  They are not necessary directly related to the Imbedded notion but they do have SOME relation and I would like you to think...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: One man's junk is another man's... Uh... Injection Channel? by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Romy wrote : "If someone discover a 4-5” driver that can have the same Syrupy Sound as the Red 10” then please let me know" I will be trying some older alnico drivers in the Mid-Bass horns (the first pair should arrive in about 2 weeks time). I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Cessaro speakers and some other tidbits by morricab on 2007-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi Romy, I recently heard the smallest Cessaro and while I felt that the bass was not adequate for long term satisfaction it was also not a total disaster.  From the midbass on up; however, the speaker is simply superb and one of the very best h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Three mid channels crossovering - playing in the middle. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Jessie, in the configurations of the horns and derivers that you are building your mid channels do not exposed too much to stresses. It is not that you have a situation when 1/4 octave more and less will send your channels into suffocation - your hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: An amplifier for “Robb Report” mind? by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]Actually, that could be a viable commercial product: a "stereo am"p allowing for four channels. One hi side, one low side, per channel.Any moron purchasing this could be stratosphrically happy flabbergasting his pals by "passively...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Melquiades bass channels: the coupling capacitor. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Melquiades bass channels: the coupling capacitor. in Melquiades Amplifier  11 Replies 
I was contemplating the 6 Channel Super Melquiades conversion – it will quite a revision – and I am slowly inclining to make it not 6 Channel but 7 channels…Anyhow, the post will not be about the needs of extra 7th channel but rather about one of the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: More about the 103’s reality. by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"] I did use the term "crappy" in the connection with the tonearm in an ironic sense. Have you lived so long among US Americans you lost your sense of irony? Also, i do not suggest crappy Phonostages, merely ones with low input c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Taking the mystery out of cartridge loading by skushino on 2005-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Taking the mystery out of cartridge loading in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Here is a snippet from an email from Jonathan Carr (Lyra cartridge designer) about objectives and considerations regarding cartridge loading.  Most of this is old news, I only re-post it here as a convenient synopsis on this most misunderstood t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Making it sing... by skushino on 2005-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Making it sing... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
All-I'm optimizing new speakers, but the deep subject matter is a little new to me.  Will this work?Using a pair of Welborne Labs DRD300B SET amps (tapped 8ohms) with a 3-way passive crossover to integrate these drivers.  Here is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: About the bug-screens by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]Romy, I just got a Vitavox S2 into my shop today. I notice that it has a very heavy stainless screen on the front, do you leave the screen on when using the drivers? It looks like it restricts about 50% or more of the thr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A quest for a better monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
While Dima is cooking the Super Zarathustra I figure out that I would need some test speaker to be able to observe the preliminary results. I would not be able to drive the multi-channel Macondo with a single full range amplifier, so I need something...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Do not spoil horns with dirty hands.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Earl Geddes: Horny Book in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
... or wondering if it has any new insight into horn design.I did not read the book but I find funny that person who presumably do not “believe” in horn write a review about the presumably horn related book. It would be similar to ask a blind person ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Monitors: eventually! by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Well, it took almost two month and much more money then I thought but I was eventually able to get very decent sound out of monitors.  The SL600 sitting on my “fundamental channel’s” tripods did not do well as I told before and I was forced to s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Material is not specific enough by rowuk on 2012-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
[quote user="be"] Horns are of course some kind of band pass filters with different kind of ripples at lover cutoff and beaming at upper cut off, according to horn type.Maybe it should be added that contributing to the horn sound idea, is that the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Thanks by Jorge on 2015-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new kid in the block: Sadurni Acoustics in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
Romy, Thank you for sharing the link! The second part is better! Scooter We only use the Beringher for bass under 100 hz, driven by the main amp. We tried a lot of different solutions, including analog active xovers, the DCX is cl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: An acceptable phonostage for Walter? by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What Is The Minimum for an "Acceptable" Phono Stag... in Analog Playback  12 Replies 
Well, frankly this conversation is about nothing in my view as the way how the subject calculated there is no right and wrong in this debate. What is acceptable, what is reasonable, what is effective what is any another adjective to put in… phono...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Berkeley Audio Design's Alfa Reference DAC. by Romy the Cat on 2014-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Berkeley Audio Design's Alfa Reference DAC. in Didital Things  4 Replies 
I am not well familiar with what Berkeley. Their voyage to the beginnings unit that the company started was irrelevant to me and then thinner USB version did not attract my attention. It is not that I feel that they were bad units. I never had th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Paul McGowan cries about SACD by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today’s SACD - music for oscilloscopes. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
Paul McGowan, the head of PS Audio send his newsletter with his comments about SACD. The comments are childish and in many way absolutely ignorant. I hate what the industry professionals twist the facts and go into pure falsification in order to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: Where to cross MF & theory on depiction of depth by jessie.dazzle on 2010-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...I will most certainly do not need it to go over 1000Hz, why would I? It is very much not my objective. All the I would like to do it to give to Fundamentals Channel some room from the bottom to breathe..."Three reasons:1) To try hi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #274: Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End by RF at Ona on 2010-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  RF at Ona wrote:Personally, I think it debatable whether the mouth edge should be free or attached as there are desirable aspects to both approaches. If attached, it need not be attached with great pressure.  Robert, ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: The Kings are Naked! by twogoodears on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
I'm following with interest the thread and must say that I'm baffled: Goto's "instructions" are - SIMPLY said - a mix between non-existent and wrong... I love what Goto's did in my system... BUT I think I did more with "my own" care, "my own" taste, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #103: Here and there.... by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"]I am not using the S2 driver, I have been going the long way testing a bunch of different compression drivers.  Right now I am testing the TAD 2001,  I can say leaving it full range going all the way up, it develops a certain ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: New speaker system by guy sergeant on 2010-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New speaker system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
I recently completed some upper bass horns which I'm now enjoying very much. Sadly I lack the skills of someone like Jessie so my efforts are crude in comparison, but they are working well for me which is the main thing.I already had some old frontlo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #94: Drive ULF Amp from Midbass Amp Output by RF at Ona on 2011-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Romy,I might have overlooked something on your site but I understand that your ULF amp is driven directly by the preamp line stage. If that is the case, you may want to consider an old technique for integrating subwoofers and drive your ULF amp w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: To regulate or not regulate 6C33C by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
[quote user="Cosmos"] Anyway, as the description on our site on second paragraph says, the third 6C33 located at the back, is used as the pass element of the regulator (controlled by solid state circuitry) providing 220V with 100uV of random noise &a...

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...
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