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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Oleg Rulit’s take on the subject by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Yes, Rulit does try to push envelop of something. He does exiting projects but I do not know how all of it manifests itself in actual results. I said that he  pushes the “envelop of something” as I do not know what this “something” is.  I never h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: S2 Diaphragms and the Mysterious Eugene by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
 jessie.dazzle wrote: What diaphragms did you finally settle for use with your S2s... Plastic or metal suspension?                Reply from Romy :...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #121: Color Injection vs. Texture Injection vs. Imaging Injection by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] Fundamentally I think the injection channel and layered sound are different things.  The injection channel is designed simply to compensate for the timbral shortcomings of a particular driver.  However, because of lobin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Some Sunday morning thoughts… by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Although we sometimes speak of a piece of hi-fi gear as "intelligent", what we usually mean is that it is not "locked" into a particular mode of expression…[/quote] Well, to make audio elements to be adaptable is very comp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: The digital audio future... by nycparamedic on 2008-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Even though I do understand that advantages to run dedicated operation system but it do not automatically implies that the result will be better.[/quote]No, not automatically. But I believe using a minimalist open source op...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Hhhh…, I think you are wrong + pet stones... by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
[quote user="yoshi"]I do admitt that I have a tendancy to be attracted monochromic works in general, rather than colorful extarvaganza, both in music and visual.  The colors, even strong colors, when balanced and co-ordinated under a specific int...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About moronity of DIY Audio movement. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About moronity of DIY Audio movement. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
If it is possible to generalize which group of individuals in audio possess maximum amplitude of idiocy and at the same time archived the minimum audio result then unquestionably the leading position would be belong the audio industry marketing boys ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: Imitating... by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What drives good sound? in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
[quote user="MusicLover"]   OK let's take this one step further. Suppose I took a trumpet and put it in my room. One note was reproduced. The decay was measured. Now, the same trumpet note was recorded and played through my playbakc system....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Listening some Wilsons this week. by Romy the Cat on 2014-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  53 Replies 
Last week I spent in NYC and while Amy was hanging along some kind of malignancy conference of her and had a couple hours free around Grand Center Station and I decided to drop by at  Innovative Audio at 58 street.  I know that they Wilson and La...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Important person i met once by martinshorn on 2017-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The remarkable moments in Audio. in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
hi Romy. Nice topic! I have a very nice memory. I started very young, supported by a friend who tought me a lot and gave me books to study. I learned the basic formulas and started DIY speakers from purely technical perspectives, graphs, math, calcul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: Randomness vs. freedom and the Homework # 4334 by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] This may also be a factor in the "randomness" capability, which is really only freedom of movement, and not "randomness", per se.[/quote] OK, is it “randomness” of “freedom of movement”, the question is not about juts semantics...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Vitavox S2 field-coil: more hours. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
My first impressions a about the “differences” of field-coiled derived form the time when I ran the Telefunkens war time drivers but at that time I had no reference how the same driver would act with permanent magnet. Also, the Telefunkens are the re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Interesting, thankfully an engaging post. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What I am doing? in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Replying I have to say that I am a very intelligent person. No matter how much I am able to be flown with 'kick' during my sensuous experience and how far I might be drifted with flows I always try to rationalize and to learn the nature about my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Seem a test. by xandcg on 2016-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Direct to Disc: The Brahms Symphonies / Rattle · Berlin... in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
It seem a market test for that type of recording. They probably will launch a few more "luxurious" limited editions to cover everything they spent and guarantee some profit before lower the cost, and if they find out that fashion could be profitable ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: To me it is a deal breaker, nothing else need to be said. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schroder Tonearms in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] I just wished you would find it in you, out of fairness and common courtesy, to keep the thread within the boundaries within which it was raised, that is a technical discussion on the approach of Frank Shroder to the design o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Snatch it back and hold it by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[QUOTE]Anyhow, a properly implemented multi-channel installation has immense among of advantages against single-channel including the geometry of imaging. [/QUOTE]Imaging...another hi-fi delusion. I used to record the Philadelphia Orchestra. The or...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Bruckner as audio anti-idiocy tool. by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
There was a guy as one musical forum. His name is William Sommerwerck and for all intended purpose he is an idiot. He was posting more or less lucid comments about music but he also fancied himself as some kind of expert on audio.  He insisted th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio vs. Musical pitch by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
There are many conversations out there about the fact that many music people do not “get” audio.  In most cases this is correct. They are many conversations, we had some of them at this site and the reasons of the phenomena that were brought are ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report by Paul S on 2007-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  55 Replies 
I think I have had enough time with this phono stage now to make a few remarks about it.  In keeping with the spirit of this website I am not recommending this component, just reporting on it. I got my unit off AudioGon after keeping my eyes pe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: It is not Silbatone. by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new G.I.P speakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]Silbatone made a Demo with those Horns (the big ones)They said, it is one of three existing WE Horns, made 1935/36 (only mod is the addition of the tweeter you can see there). One Horn is made for 3500 Visitors, so we got a 7000 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: The blues would actually do it… by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"] You have not heard Mangers, Aporia, or Loth-X speakers yet you thought sniffed yourself into an incredibly accurate picture of what they sound like. Great trick! [/quote]   It is not correct. I did not report the “in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Buddhist, dude by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[Quote]Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy a good pizza. Unfortunately I won't find one in a Pizzahut. "That" man's 2 for 1 pleasure says a lot about his evaluating capabilities... I also enjoy several different kinds of music, mostly acoustic, but en...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #428: Surprising and Interesting development … by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
A few days back an audio guy from Mexico-city visited me from. We did listen some music, talk a bit about audio. As usually I interrogated him about the problem he hears in my sound. The people who were in my room know that I do it with absolutel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Some sensibility about bass reproduction by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="slowmotion"]I don't understand what you mean here, Romy? To me "live" bass ( like when listening to an orchestra ) is much more dynamic than any reproduced bass I've ever heard. Also if listening to a real contrabass in a normal listenin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Horns elementary school. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="JLH"]Foolishness is too soft a word to describe the unspeakable garbage the Magico Ultimate is. They have mis-matched impedance drivers, improperly sized horns for the drivers, and made everything from metal. Then they go on an attempt t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Ordinary self-entertainment or something else? by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"] I heard that some audiopholes don't like to go to classical performancess because their gear just SOUNDS BETTER [/quote] There are many very reasonable explanations of this sentient. I do not go in there as it is what of the su...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Su-su-surrealistic audio? by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “How audio might sound” in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."] But having some ideas of the sonic attributes that accomplish that "feeling" would be very helpful. So you couldn't help that someone listening to such a system wanted to build a clone of it. [/quote]I do not think it is pos...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to build the best audio payback by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to build the best audio payback in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
I sometime try to address broad and purely abstractive audio issues, still without a big hope then it would be properly understood or properly interpreted by most of the readers, not to mention anyone else. An average audio person do not need a broad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Most ideas are lead balloons by Brian Clark on 2005-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another interesting corrector: Likhnitsky's RX corrector. in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
My reference to air caps was purely a tongue-in-cheek reference to the voids in the coil. Of course the parasitic capacitance due to the propinquity of winding layers would dominate and here the dielectric is quite often Mylar. It's just that the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I think you misuse my terminology by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as op... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="Rewind"]Hi, I am slowly building my own Macondo. I understand why the injection channel is there. It brings some kind of softness that the compression drivers lack. [/quote] OK, but it is not how I feel about the service of injection...
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