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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The wonder of Ayre Acoustics by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The wonder of Ayre Acoustics in Audio News  0 Replies 
Even though in the forum most of the thread stated as mockery of different companies, people and ideas but I would like to dilute this forum with a serious thread. The subject will be the Ayre Company. I have to say that I never own any Ayre equipme...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Baffle Dimensions by NBC on 2007-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Thanks Romy,Yes, I received your advice in the past privately regarding proper size for 1808 enclosure, and I thank you for pointing me in right directions. Yes, sealed box is simple calculation using e.g., WinISD. I am experimenting with&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: About Sound in Video Room by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
I would like to pass some observations on my about sound quality in my video room.  The sound in my video room is what I would call very very good, I am not kidding – really good.  It is delivered by Altec 21S speaker driven by Yamaha B2 amp and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Vox Olympian Audition by de charlus on 2013-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Recently, I was fortunate enough to have an extended listening session with the Living Voice Vox Olympian outside of a show environment. Since said listening session took place upon a boat – moreover, a wooden-bodied boat – under what can only be sai...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Re: benefits of .WAV files from audio cd's by Handful of Qubits on 2005-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
While you cannot overcome the limitations of 44.1kHz, 16bit PCM audio format by ripping from CD to .WAV, you can still find some benefit. For one example, dirty or scratched (cat-chewed?) CDs can often be recovered with error correction algorithms...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The important things for DAWs by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Telstar"] About the number of hard disks you dont really need 6 just for audio. 2x1 TB drives would be more than adequate. [/quote] One Die Walküre in 24/88 is 12G space on HD… An average concert is about 1.5-2G. I also have a tendency ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: CES: the biggest joke at the show by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES 2005 in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
Unquestionably it was Clark Johnson with his ultimate cure for CD misery. Clark is balanced mentally and psychologically (as far as a person who professionally spent tens years in the audio industry could be balanced) but when he showed me his new di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #144: Flac is bit-perfect by Amir on 2017-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="xandcg"]I am not surprised this kind of bizarre affirmation coming from a guy whom aim to live of royalties from copyrighted material.WAV or WAVE (aka Audio for Windows) is owned by Microsoft and IBM, and AIFF is owned by Apple Inc.I do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #109: Sure, but I doubt that anyone need to care about results besides you. by Romy the Cat on 2016-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
I might be not “getting” what you are doing but it looks to me that it is not near close to “CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha”. The Berkeley Alpha is just an interface to get stream of DAW but CEC TL0X is digital transport.  We have no idea what kind dat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Memory Player Box? by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Memory Player Box? in Didital Things  2 Replies 
In response to the long thread “Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source?” http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=17266 A site visitor sent me a link to something different: The Memory Player ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: A few comments about Mani post. by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] I strongy suspect this is down to his ADC (having owned the same machine myself until very recently). Good as the Tascam might be, it doesn't sound like it can match the Model Two. [/quote] This is the subject that I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The headphones amplifiers: Sugden HeadMaster. by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? in Melquiades Amplifier  27 Replies 
Talking about the headphones amplifiers: Sugden HeadMaster. I do not subscribe audio publication and buy them only if I’m mood to bitch about something. Occasionally I buy the British Hi-Fi+, which is kind of mandatory to buy living in the New Engla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: "...something more than the contemporary pro demands." by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Telstar"] If you are not using the Lynx DAC, how good it is really does not matter. Isolation from computer noise matters most IMO. While the Lynx is very good, I still believe you can get slightly better using a firewire interface as di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The truly amassing result with the New Lavry. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
I never hit such a huge jackpot as I just did with the Lavry DA-924. The most funny in that even that I did it absolutely blindly. I had some minor beef with DA-924 sound: upperbass/lower midrange and the slightly too much extended HF (very very clea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: EAC, Mr. Hansen etc. by jessie.dazzle on 2009-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Yes, excellent. And looong. manisandher wrote : "...I disagree with Charles Hansen who states, "[EAC] slows things down drastically, so you are probably better off just using some other program and setting it to rip at 4x or something like t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: How extensive a dedicated audio workstation should be? by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Hi, Max. When you say “WAV file X burned on CD-R” then the question would be what was the source of those files? If you have a row source with some kind of A/D and if you intend to stay with 44 then 44/20 is OK format, do not stay with for 16 Bit. H...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: That would be good news by steverino on 2019-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]John, my technician, his name is Dariusz, tested the original laser and the aftermarket that we got from eBay and he insisted that there is no difference and there was no need to change it at all, at least in my case....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #81: Interfaces, interfaces by Telstar on 2009-06-19 
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"]  Telstar wrote: I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD. I disagree. The main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD is not the soundcard/interfac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: A correction, a confusion, a mistake, an accident? Will see… by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-22 
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"] ….when it drives what it is willing to drive then the APS PurePower delivers the Sound that makes me willing to write a request to Pope asking him to canonize that damn regenerator. [/quote] [quote user="Romy the Cat"] To...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Let keep eyes on the ball. Define what the ball is. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Scooter, The High Quality Music Servers in addition combined with CD player functionally is not as simple and straight forward task as you think. The subject of high-end computer audio is very popular nowadays but I think it understood very wrongly....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-28 
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Wow, it is worth to live in Boston and have a day of miserable rain. I really like what I was getting with CD and I have a few very interesting results coming that should be even more exiting, at least one of them is more defiantly is very exciting ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #239: Avicenna's quandary and some measurements. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I am continue to look into Avicenna and trying to resolve a puzzle why when Avicenna is engaged the sound compare to the sound of the “Wall” looses dynamics. I do not compare Avicenna with PP2000 but rather I compare it with the sound of the Wall. Av...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The people who do not know do not know. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best audio source EVER! in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
[quote user="mats"]  As I write this, WFMT is playing The Planets,  Sir Andrew Davis conducting the BBC Phil, and it is rather amazing.Complex passages resolved as I would expect were I using my Goldmund transport.I prefer the digital out, 24/48 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1153: The Pure Power 3000+, the day one. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
After 4 days of suiting in boxes in my listening room today is my day off and I decided to dedicate it to play with the new Pure Power 3000+. I desired to use just records and connected all amps, preamps and phonostage to ol...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The cost of the right-sounding Bidat. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="Telstar"] Out of curiosity, how much does a Bidat costs nowadays and the Wright mods?[/quote] This is very interesting question and I had a conversation with John Wright about it a few days ago. He asked me the same question: what the B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #178: Wise Warning by Lbjefferies7 on 2010-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
"FWIW, I do not jest when I advise strongly against living in a house while you remodel it.  It is not "an adventure"; it is miserble.  If there's any way around it, do not do it." Absolutely true.  I've done ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Not too far apart but different reasoning. by Romy the Cat on 2012-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Big room vs small room in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]I had a rehearsal for a church concert last night and as usual, sat in the church to "acclimate". I was alone at first and saw no mice running around to generate "noise". Still, there was a fundemental sound, or breathing of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Deplete interest in DACs by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Telstar"] Because those 20 bit were true 20 bits No, it won't do true 24 bit ladder, according to the specs on their website. Nonetheless it can be good. At least it is sure that it will accept 24/174.6 format. But I I'm pretty sure that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: The APS PurePower 1050 regenerator: the honeymoon night. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-18 
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"] One of the things that solicited me to try the APS unit was the assurance of the APS guy (Richard) that what I run ASP unit from internal battery + regeneration vs. the plugged in wall + regeneration ….I should hear no dif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: The APS PurePower vs. good electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
A friend of mine asked my last night if I feel that PurePower’s Sound as good as a playback during those extremely seldom moments when electrify is good. It was a good question and I feel that it is worth to cover. First off all I can not say about ...
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