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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: The RAAL “Water Drop” – follow up a year later by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
I have been asked by a number people who monitored my progress with RAAL’s “Water Drop” tweeter: “Romy was it worth it?” Well, I think after a year of leaving with tweeter, learning and satisfying it’s little habits I might pass some generalizing obs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: About the 6E5P stability by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]BTW, how stable 6E5P is? I'm asking as I was contemplating biasing the output by the voltage drop on 6E5P's plate choke (DCR is say around 1k),with only some minimal autobias on the output. The drawback is that any drift in th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Please, please please, let's get into the times, guys! by mjloudspeaker on 2009-09-01 
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"]You have to have guts (or stupidity) to introduce new FM tuners nowadays but as you understand this fact is very welcomes at my site. So, it comes: http://47labs.co.jp/4730.htmlI have no idea what it is and what is inside. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #75: On Purpose And Approach by Dresden on 2008-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
I'm not sure I understand what point you consider a priority, but I can explain the reason for my initial inquiry and what I intend to do.My initial inquiry was intended to acquire information on whether a horn with a target range of 40Hz to 400Hz co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: BlackStealth Horn Drama continued for M4 by mjloudspeaker on 2009-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
"I may be wrong to continue here with M4 ideas, Romy, feel free to move this where you want, thanks". In my very audio eccentric strange mind, there is two concepts for M4 that pop to the surface, and that merit some explorations. Se...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: It is complicated with Digital. My saga… by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
[quote user="Max Shatsky"] You say that the digital read from your transport is better than the multiple reads of CD-Rom with EAC software? Thats interesting!!! [/quote] Well, tell me dive you data and you make your own concussions.  I read CDs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #835: “…the cause must now be explored.” by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]Romy, this is very interesting indeed. I'm assuming that the sonic difference between these two files is in line with the sonic difference you hear between bad and good 'electricity' days when you're just listening to music,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1624: My radical view. by Romy the Cat on 2018-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I'm not at all suggesting the input coil topology be changed, as this may actually have something to do with the "magic" sound of the PurePower -- something like the special sound of Fender single-coil pickups on a Stratocaste...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Bruckner by Volkmar Andreae by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
A local audio guy brought yesterday a box set with all Bruckner symphonies by Volkmar Andreae, all the 1953 broadcasts with Wiener sympony http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/SESSIONID/70bce9d83bda5c76444fda02d6ad605a/classic/detail/-/art/Anton%20B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #418: The ASP 2000 regenerator, what is next? by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The example of the APS’ regeneration and the quality of sound attainable has clearly proved that class D is the way to do the things in audio electricity. I have been asking myself what is next? Well, this is not a question that I ask myself in a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: It shall be something out there. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A contemporary great CD transport for under $100. in Didital Things  5 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Some find the first generation Playstation (1000er series) great.I tried one with two different power supplies (original and after-market) with totally different sonic results. I think with enough knowledge for tweaking it I would...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Now we are taking! by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
[quote user="mem916"]I never tried the Onyx.  I had an Urushi, then a Jade, and now a Coralstone.  No I didn't buy any of them in the US so I paid a lot less than the crazy retail prices people throw around.  I only know one person personally who...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: Differences by kodomo on 2019-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
I have 2nd order crossover both on the upper knee of the ob bass section and on the lower knee of the midbass section. My measurements show phase response and the summed spl is as good as it can get. Have you tried the direct servo technology or do y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Cogent, electromagnetic, Edgar, Cyanide and me. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="jweiss"] It was good to finally meet you at CES at the Cogent Room. I guess that you really found Steve and Rich's drivers pretty interesting (you initially wanted to buy a pair of the midrange drivers, remember?) [/quote] Hi, Jonathan....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: Oval profile by Dominik on 2009-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
I go for tractrix because:"I know that if I done everything properly then any profile in my room I will be able to make to have right Sound because I know what and how to listen and I know how to react upon the heard."I dont. Yet..."with 100Hz Tra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Well, being more than a little facetious about the configuration... by cv on 2009-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Let's just pretend for the moment that you haven't heard the particular TAD driver Kevin is using , and consider the possibility that for at least for some portion of its frequency range, it has a tone similar to the S2 - perhaps it uses an alnico ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Difference Frequency Distortion measurements by Andy Simpson on 2009-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Measuring reality: empirical mode decomposition in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]I don´t know whether the audio industry`s products are so sophisticatet that they need mathematical steam hammers to improve them. In a German forum there is a discussion about a diploma work from the TU Berlin where the student f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: More about the upperbass importance. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
At the beginning of this thread I said: “Show to me your middbas solution and I will tell you how your playback sounds”. Continuing to stress the domination importance of middbas-upperbass I would like to bring some illustrations and let you to make ...

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 #1: Looking at the pictures of playback installations. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Looking at the pictures of playback installations. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
It is very habitual for the internet audio hoodlums (or for males generally) to report the accomplishments of their “hobbies” without any references to the actual accomplishments. In context of audio it might be applied to habits of posting images of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: It is not eyes but design principles by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electronluv systems questions and perhaps answers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="electronluv"]"Eyes do the hearing" is a comment geared toward you as you make alot of assumptions based on just what you see in photo.[/quote] It is not just about what I see on photo but about which design principles a given depicting ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: "Beautiful” but themselves. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more non-spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Paull, the horns might be “beautiful” but only themselves. When they are jointed with the rest Macondo spherical chennals then I do not like how it all looks together.  Regarding the drivers, I do have a few options, I might slowly exercise them and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #719: The new PP2000 – still fine. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
More days came, with different electricity and it looks l like the PP2011 hold its stand – I did not detect a significant change in Sound so far. I gave a scoop plagued in the wall all time and I did not see so far a relation between the wave profile...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1677: The quantum audio righteousness. by Romy the Cat on 2019-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Rowuk, ironically I am in agreement with your high horse approach and Amir’s “acknowledge and be happy” point of view. Almost in continuation to my thread from last week “Destination vs ceremony” I would like to ask a question. Not that it request...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #269: The APS Purepower 2000: Introduction by beachbum on 2009-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Hello Romy a long time visitor now a member. I have always been interested in what improvements can be made to my incoming power. I use a BPT 2, PS noise harvesters and quite lines through out the house. My system has always had  very good sound...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Getting reasonable Sound in that ‘café’ …. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
 [quote user="scooter"] Getting reasonable sound would be an entirely different beast, however...[/quote] This is very much true and even it is an audio centric-site I kind of was avoiding this direction as I would like to keep the thread in m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Germany: a few interesting points. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Impressions from High End 2009 GERMANY in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"] What we saw and it amazed us, is the huge increase in pricing… [/quote] The Hi-Fi is boutique products and it is customary to sell it for boutique prices. I am sure the economy also “helps”. [quote user="Stitch"] Turnt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About reviewer’s qualifications and disqualifications. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About reviewer’s qualifications and disqualifications. in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
Some kind of nut with name “Richard BassNut Greene” posted at the AA sewers a post: “What employment tests are given to audio component reviewers? Are hearing tests required?Are listening skills tests, done under blind cond...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #485: The Devil's Advocate by oxric on 2010-03-21 
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"]Rakesh,I think you’ve missed the accent of my battery post.  We do not argue abstract topologies but we argue the validity of topology in respect to sonic results.  I hope we all agree that we do not exactly know WHY affect...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Re: ribbons/electrostats.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="morricab"]Well Romy, IMO they are not just tonally different they are more tonally correct, ie. they simply have less coloration than other technologies.  Just listen to a recording sometime made with a ribbon microphone and you wil...
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