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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
techniques
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Just new to this forum and there is so much to absorb.. One post I read suggested that horns be constructedwith dimensions to suit 1 oct. below the lowest Freq. to be used. I know that Mr. Le Cleache favours this ashe says the group delay is bette...
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In digging through the support section of the Amarra Music Player web page, and finally ending up on the FAQ, http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/faq.html I came upon this :Supported Audio FormatsNOTE: Amarra only supports uncompressed PCM files (AIFF,...
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What I found fascinating in relationship between high-end audio and prices that price high-end is not a subject of “benefit of purpose” but the subject of believing in values. Without cognitive understanding this simple difference the industry stupid...
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I have in my basement a room that I do not use and I am in process of building Finnish cedar sauna in there. The pre-sauna room will have a fireplace, shower, rest facility and the rest ordinary sauna suspects. While I am constructing the frame and w...
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There are few evil things within the mechanism of High-End pricing. I will start form the beginning of my list:
1) Disassociation of manufacturers from consumers
The High-End audio manufacturers do not target their efforts to provide “service”...
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The “best midrange comes from compression drivers”. I see somebody like Haralanov would be very much opposed to this comment. The irony is that I would be opposed as well to this comment. I would say that the best midrange at over 107dB sensitiv...
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I truly fill sorry for those people. They endure a dally need to writhe some remarkable BS in order to make the stupid audio people to buy adios scrap. That it truly demanding task!
Myles B. Astor is a long time audio writer. He wrote a good s...
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Recently, I would say the last 2-3 years, I detected a very foolish tendency that audio people are brewing within themselves. A typical today’s audiofool holds within itself a hope about existing of a “secret”, no discovered yet, SS high power amplif...
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Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I mean that EQ is a fine “tactical solution” but it a very bad strategic direction. [/quote]
I guess the question of the strategic value is dependent on the strategy.[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Look, there ar...
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Interestingly that I eventually decided to read the Mike Fremer review about the Continuum turntable. I was trying quite hard but I was not able to read it. The content was none-readable and revolting as in a beginning of each sentence the Framer jus...
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This is very complex and superbly important concept and with this I have pissed a lot of people in audio. So, while you participate in evaluation of an audio element DO NOT recognized the sonic benefits of this element in it’s comparing to other simi...
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Just now, anyone who might build "proper" amps has also a built-in pre-meditated agenda. In other words, he is not only building amps but he is also - and primarily - trying to glorify himself - and his "main idea" - in the process.The truth is,...
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Hey Boys, Remember even if you use a modern "pancake" compression driver, you still have no control over the flare rate the manufacturer used within the phasing plug. And most of the time they are not willing to tell you, or they don't even know...
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The reference object of my site brought me to the page where some kind of audio people scrutinize Mike Fremer: http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=5697&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=105It is given that Fremer is an idiot and t...
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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...
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Well, there is no question that power companies pay zero attention to the complaints of audiophiles, neither shall they. The power companies are in pusses to sell power and unhappiness of a done or so fringe consumer is understandably not their conce...
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[quote user="Amir"] you do not critic my idea , you just call me "moron" , you call me "black sheep" , i do not see any critic in your posts.i do not care you, over 1000000 people in the world are like you , no problem , i ignore them.haha[/quote]I a...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]any chance of a similar climb down on the 'adequate but not exceptional' 834P?[/quote]Not really. The 834PT still holds ground and the more I hear different phonostages the more firmly it does. I can’t tell you if it is due...
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I'm a phono moron, but having had several phono preamps, I think I can understand what finds Romy right in the EAR 834P, which I love. I'm not as skilled and crazy as to try to make all the Thorsten mods in it by myself, but I've tried some tube swap...
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Two weeks ago when I realized that something was wrong with my Shelter I asked a guy that I know “How people buy cartridges nowadays?” He said “They talk a lot with other people”. “I will not do it”, was my reply. Well, not two weeks after I ha...
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Looking at Vox as a glorified 2-way Altec speaker with tweeter and supertwiter with all " not optimal" choices ,folded 70's PA thunderbolt mid bass cab time misaligned crap ( Romy's opinion ) bi-radial Vitavox midrange suitable for derby races and d...
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Hi Romy,It is with great interest that I frequently visit your site and enjoy your observations on audio-moronity. While I have to admit that I am at a loss wether I could be qualified for being an audio-moron, I can live with the fact that others ob...
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*** This ever-present surrogate high resolution become an identity of today audio, the unfortunate identify I have add…. Did you note that that all so-called high-end items while they try to send a message to users that they sounds “better” in ...
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I, in my stupid imagination, thought that I will be able to close my R&E saga as I thought I found a truly wonderful new home for myself. The palace turned out to be grossly, I would say fraudulently, misspresented. Got home very disappointed an...
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Paul,I'm with you waiting for a bit more enlightenment and less rhetoric on the subject. As you stated if e.g. a Bass reflex does certain things wrong there are some known 'recipes' / fixes to try, and some will work. We would want to utilize a u...
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Jorge,With the risk of being called a moron, I actually didn´t do any calculations more than using hornresp to get a decent spl-curve.The driver properties a got from a guy in Denmark who renovates old altec drivers. The numbers probably weren´t accu...
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Romy, Sure, the tone could be a bit more special ie: delicate and colorful (sorry for lack of the right word). Thats why I have come back to these pages to read and hopefully understand a bit more and find the right incentive to tinker further. I hav...
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Yeah, and I once thought Krell was the way to go, a boy's (or a man's) dream when I saw pictures of the KSA 100 poweramp for the first time. I must admit that in 1991 I heard a demo with Krell KAS poweramps, Wilson WATT/Puppy's + Pow Wow subwoofer an...
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I do not know now many times 40 rpm it was. It was slower then necessary and I do not know, or care for how much. Also, nope, they did not blame anything and in fact after they measured the speed and confirmed that it was off they were very apologeti...
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Romy notes:[quote]The Lamm ML3 with it’s (looks like) composite driver stage might most likly to pump a lot of current and it would be so rational to put in there a second GM70 on the same chassis with own transformer, driving it from the same driver...
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