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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: The new power supply for MF channel: the Sound by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Those who flow what is going on with my 6-Ch Milq know that for sniggle driver stage I this revision I went what for non-electrolytic capacitors. I use a mandatory for me input choke with 200uF on PS side and then 100R and 100uF on the amps side to g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: quotations, leads to source, the caps.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Milq: Starting the project in Melquiades Amplifier  23 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."]Thanks a lot, I've forwarded to him your answers, let's see what he says. I have tried Mundorfs in some critical places in the integrated tube amp I'm using now and they are pretty good, expensive, but not at the level of tho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The capacitors draining dilemma by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Training amplifiers in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
I have been contemplating for a week if I need to drain the power caps in my new revision of my power amp. The benefits to live the voltage in there is the cap continue formatting what the amp of off and it minimize the need to break-in or to train t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #130: The recappication of ML2 by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] If Lamm had actually used the larger 950s in my unit I would probably be less curious about it, but for mine he used 10uF 935 couplers with small 950s for bypass (... I assume they are bypass caps...). Hard to imagine 10 uF ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: How to convert life insurance into Sound by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
Paul, Thanks for pitching the Johnson capacitors. They do not look “large enough” for me. I used in past the following caps: http://www.oselectronics.com/ose_p96.htm They have very good size to value ratio. The ironic part that I just called to th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Many options are available. by Romy the Cat on 2015-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"] Then the AC-DC conversion on the first floor, filter caps and output transformers on the third level with the amplifiers sitting proud on top.  I don't want to see any caps or transformers...just valves.[/quote]Possible, ev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Second Stage Half-6C33C impedance by anthony on 2015-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anthony, I think you take the right this in a wrong way. Sure the quality of the coupling caps is important but you truly shall not be worry about it. Make the amp, get comfortable with it and then change the damn cap. I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Eduardo de Lima by Amir on 2023-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Marantz MA-9S2 Monoblock Amplifiers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Delima was designer of Audiopax, I had Audiopax Model 88 . Delima believed there is some parameters that affect on amplifier/speaker matching. It's name is timbrelock if you check audiopax website. I have worked wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #718: The depth and longetivity of PurePowering. 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 
I would like to offers some thoughts about possible avenues for Pure Power 2000 improvements.  Those thoughts are no specific to the recent November-December events and have broader generic implication. I initially intended to write it to Pure Po...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #220: It is in the picture... by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]What sort of large value caps are you using in the X/O?[/quote] Electrolytics of course....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Some thought about 5-Channel Version of Melquiades by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
This thread is split from the following thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=2665 Jessie, I hope you do not mind that I pulled it to the forum explicitly dedicated to the Melquiades Support. 5-channels Melquiades is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Phonostage: EAR-843PT-VV by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About EAR 834P Modifications in Analog Playback  45 Replies 
There are many ways to deal with EAR-843PT. To my ears it works wonderfully, this in my case it coupled with Expressive Technologies ET2 transformer that probably takes in totally new league. I kind of so addicted to this transformer that I even run ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Some great solutions by Paul S on 2007-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Nice job of keeping R off the ribbon.  Like you said, who cares about circuit "damping" there, anyway, given the freaking magnet in that thing versus the 0 weight of the ribbon.  I'd say it's "damped enough"...It will be interesting to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: Topology vs parts by drdna on 2008-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The wire, the coupling caps, the cathode resistors and many other things are superbly important but it is after the strategic topology is settled. In my view caps, resistor, wire and other things are responsible for the sou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: Power supply caps by decoud on 2015-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Full range Melquiades implementation in Melquiades Amplifier  81 Replies 
I have film in that position; I actually meant the 1000uf+ caps in the power supply. Hard to get those in film.... ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: The End Is Near by Paul S on 2010-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is the buzz: the V-Caps? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
The "reason" for the copper foil and Teflon film caps is to offer for sale the penultimate fantasy cap, with silver foil and Teflon film being the "ultimate" intellectual destination at this point and the obvious next move "up", if this copper batch ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: quotations, leads to source, the caps.... by Antonio J. on 2005-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Milq: Starting the project in Melquiades Amplifier  23 Replies 
Hi Romy,Probably my evaluation methods are still quite moronic, but I think I'm learning to listen to what matters in the music. I had some experiences with a friend using several caps in a preamp he built, and also in the integrated I'm using. I und...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Building the Melquiades: #2 by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
OK, the next step is kind of done. All transformers and chokes are done form “outside” of the amp (under the bulge). I have attached the capacitors and the output transformer to the “inside”.  This silicone attachment that for the computer grade...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Of the several things I do not understand by Paul S on 2007-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Pretty clean, Romy (and one hellova tranny at Fundamentals)!Of course, I have questions:I thought you said Vishay metal foils in your earlier response about bias adjustment?If so does that mean steps, or...  how, exactly?When you specify "Full" ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #97: Electromechanically pressurized dialectic by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
Yes, it is a bit confusing, as I meant to say that it will be a half of capacitance, I said it twice and it looks unclear. Still anybody understands how series capacitance works. BTW, it was a standard practice in before 70, before industry made by-p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Cooling the 6C33C amps. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The short "6C33C Survival Guide". in Melquiades Amplifier  20 Replies 
Thanks, Paul. My Googleised Chinese allowed me to understand that they use some kind of forced cooling but there was not mentioning of it. Upon further inspection I come across to this image: So, the amp has two fans aside to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1434: PurePower Sale at PartsConnexion by TonyB on 2015-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
PartsConnexion has has PurePower 2000 and 3000 units on sale 35% and 32% off:http://www.partsconnexion.com/fin_prod_purepower2000.html?utm_source=getresponse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1express&utm_content=pcX%E2%80%99s+BIGGEST+Promoti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Anybody is willing to build something like this? by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
 N-set,actually, as you drew it, it became not too complex amp. What I would like to find is some kind tube like 833 only twin triode. Then it would be possible to have one chassis with a single drive and two output power stages. With 100W on fil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Mix, match & settle by Paul S on 2007-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Additive capacitance: mixing oils and films? in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Dan, it is funny that the Hovland is one of only a few caps I have specifically ruled out for crossovers.I do not like but merely settle for black Solens for larger values, mostly because I just don't like to solder together great wads of smalle...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: HF Filter by anthony on 2015-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Thanks Romy.Can you remember what caps you used in the HF filter?  They are certainly not standard values and I do have a memory of you trialling air caps.I spent too much time today trying to figure out if I wanted a power switch for these amps and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: Too much current by hagtech on 2008-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Maybe if you didn't try to pull the caps down so fast.  Why the hurry?  Maybe a 500 ohm or 5k ohm resistor would be a more kind bleeder.  I think the peak current spike is not such a good thing for the capacitor.  You are also at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: that's why they're out! by stuck.wilson on 2007-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Additive capacitance: mixing oils and films? in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
yep-- i could tell from the minute i stuck them in they were a no go... the foil is WAY too thick.i've used what i've been able to track down via ebay, and other nefarious means-- so those came in a lot of other lower voltage caps-- all in the 1-200v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Additive capacitance: mixing oils and films? by stuck.wilson on 2007-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Additive capacitance: mixing oils and films? in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
heres a question for the lot of you-due to general lack of many available capacitors in my shop-- i recently mixed both film AND oil caps to pull together a necessary value for a passive crossover.  the GOOD of it, is that it takes away some of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: these are just caps, yes? by drdna on 2007-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is the buzz: the V-Caps? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
I tried the V-caps in my system and it changed the sound.  This is not a big surprise.  Any time you change caps, even to the same cap, it is not broken in and you have been soldering and tinkering with your system, and it needs time to set...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The low voltage film capacitors. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is the buzz: the V-Caps? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
I am now involved in incredibly interesting project (tell you later about it what have firm result) where I need to use a between stages a cap that cares 1V and practically no current. The best film caps that I tried were 100V-400V and they actually ...
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