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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #99: Did anyone say “blowing the gaskets”? by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I did put some gasketing under the driver, not thought but to so what it will do. I used the substance that I described above. It is Home Depot 3207680110 or the model #DS110 Pug duct seal by GB Electrical. The best thing about it that it is that pla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #241: I do not think that it might be damaging… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
CV, Good scenario as well but my leading idea is slightly different.  I would like to keep any reactance from the path, would it be inductive of capacitive, to assure ultra fast response time. Basically I would like to maintain the MF amp as it used ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: After all I was right all along, ... almost.... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
I always say do not stress them they do not like it and I always hate third bass. The 10” are particularly are fragile with a power handling of a few watts. It is applicable pretty much to any lover MF driver that pushed to work with the “open b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: "The whole notion is so romantic..." by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Yes, Paul, I got your points and I find them valid. It is hard to explain what I’m interested in. When I try to convey those ideas then to people are under faulty presumption that I looking for some custom coloration, like SPU or Tannoys form 50...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" by oxric on 2011-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
At some point last year, after I had been offered an opportunity to buy some Vitavox S2 drivers from someone in Paris, and some S3s from Germany, I decided to approach Mike Harvey of Octave Audio, AKA Vitavox Hifi, to get some information about how I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: An alien concept to me… by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 driver made in china in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] I think it would be quite difficult for anyone to set up any sort of production of drive units and not become an 'industry' participant. It's quite remarkable that you manage to use a turntable, arms, cartridges, CD Player...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Negative selections by N-set on 2012-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is unquestionably an ambiguous project. The topmost question that I would ask myself after this project would be the following: can Milq-biased 6E5P to be as good (sound-wise) DC driver as some vintage direct heated tube...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Good and neutral by Celsius on 2014-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Celsius, I do not know what CCS you impended, did you drive 6e5p’s plate with constant current source?*1 I also do not know/like 6e5p with battery bias. The only application that I find 6e5p suitable was the Milq-style bi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Live recordings by Jorge on 2012-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
We have tested live recordings against live sound, a recording of a jazz singer was done on Reel tape on an Ampex ATR modded machine with Fluxmagnetics heads etc.  The microphone used was the legendary Telefunken stereo tube mic. no post producti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re motivations by wlowes on 2012-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Computer Audio - like everything else - Keep it ultra thin o... in Didital Things  2 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Perhabs, wlowes. Might I ask you: when you refer to “sonic improvements”, “brought more life to the music”, deep quiet background and etc then what do you mean?  What I am trying to say is that your rational might be logica...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: How fast did you run 100m in 1982? by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
It has nothing to do with thread but with the fact, the facts that I am experienced. I have no exposure or familiarity with Yoshi Sugano’a cartridges but I know one guy who very much likes Koetsu and use then all his live. In fact he encouraged m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Cartridges are the subjects of personal hygiene by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="marknoir"]Hello Romy I like Shelters as well, so I finally scrubbed-up enough money and began to search. I was always happy with 901, but there were none around. Last night I got a 90X, with (supposedly) around 100 hrs on it, with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Anti-skate and Micro in Japan by Gibraltar on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro Seiki MAX 282 Questions in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
Hi Romy,[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I would discard the test disk truck– I never use it. Take a silent space between the cuts (test disk!) and make a needle at your operational VTF to be in stationary ay a bit more than a half record.In fact it is ar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #227: They are very simplistic and primitive things but... by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Romy wrote:"...Let pretend that you play a normal some kind of horn with a lot of air in it. The air drives the driver impedance down..."I'd like to understand this; correct me if I'm wrong:As soon as the membrane of a ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: It takes time. by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
[quote user="de charlus"]Alas, I am too young to have that whole "Mirrorphonics nostalgia" coloring my taste in sound reproduction - still, this is not to say that it cannot be investigated. [/quote] Actually the "Mirrorphonics nostalgia" that some p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Tone and girls by Jorge on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
The other night I listened to a Girl with Guitar master tape. A friend has a home recording studio that would make most comercial studios not only jelaous, but also broke.  A highly modded ATR 102 in 1/4" half track and a vintage stereo microphone;  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Perceptions by jessie.dazzle on 2007-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
Antonio, Reading your comments, I would like to ask if you did not possibly confuse the names of the two files, assiciating your comments to the other file in each case? (I just checked to make sure that I did not make this same mistake, as it wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: subject of post by enjoy_the_music on 2007-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: hello cats...meow. in Site Support Forum  2 Replies 
Hi,Thanks for the response. I came here through searching for music, specifically the 'Computer on the radio' music that was posted before...and i know one or two names so it seems.My post was just to introduce myself, apologies if it was off-topic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Hunt for Speakers or for Result? by Chirag on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speaker hunting in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
hi Koshka Sr...the reply has been illustrative as usual... when you> finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range. :-) yes, but then we have residency....5, maybe 7 years of *relative* poverty :-O > When you ent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables PREFACE I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: It is not about size. by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A right midbass solution for Altec 515G. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
[quote user="Macman"]Just realised that I had dual highpass filters on the TH, which more or less cut off frequencies below 50Hz entirely. A lot better now, still much to be made of course.[/quote] This is very normal. People get the “building...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Edgarhorn RTA response. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Edgarhorn RTA response. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
Someone at AA’ sewers posted his measurements of Edgarhorn system, supplemented with a subwoofer and Fostex Tweeter. I do not know the poster personally, most likely he is another AA’s advice seeker – means another idiot - and therefore it is ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Do not be too fast with “vintage” ML2 by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] Not to "sell" Milquiades, but how (other than multi-channel and bandwidth limiting) would an SET not crap out full range?  Even the "big" ones just give out at too soon, and they can't maintain balance under any sort of pre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Horns, fireplace and Vaseline... by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]The point of the field coil is to saturate the piss out of the magnetic circuit so that the coil flux does not modulate the motor. Romy, I suspect that your experience of them may be based on an older drivers where saturation was not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! by Paul S on 2023-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); a report started "too soon" because they've taken sooo long to build, and they fired right up (first try), and they already do Music!  For some time (at least a decade) I thought about building a ver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Do not buy Brand and Model but rather a specific unit. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Do not buy Brand and Model but rather a specific unit. in Audio For Dummies ™  1 Replies 
All audio components are different, different Brands, different models. However it is VERY frequent in high-end audio that 10 unit of the same brand and the same model yield 10 different sonic results. So do not buy a specific model but rather a resu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #163: The identical operation environment? by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] First of all, this not an attack on NOS tubes …[/quote]   A very strange introduction. Since when people post at this site feel a need to ask apologies for attack or not attack anything? Also, where this phase “attack” eve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lavardin discovery by noviygera on 2021-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lavardin discovery in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Hi guys and Romy,I was inspired by Romy's recent videos on Dunlavy speakers, sound, and it got me thinking, about simple correctness of sound, when I seldom experience it. It happens at surprising moments sometimes, when you least expect it. This rea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: One hell of experience by martinshorn on 2018-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
Hi everyone Guess what! Just had a visit to this system last night. Upfront, the owner - thank you Klaus again - is a very welcoming and friendly fellow. But also remarkably reasonable and decent. Total absence of any need to show off. You rather nee...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: MF Compresion drivers by Jorge on 2011-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
This is something I have been at for the last few years, I have tried a few drivers, at the moment some of my favorite are the vintage RCA MI 1443,  yes filed coil and some funny cone diaphragm,  they are used from 500 hz to 5 khz with a Fostex T...
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