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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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I do not know how interesting it is from technological or sonic perspective but the enthusiasm and perseverance of this guy defiantly deserves applauds. Claude Perrier in his 70 makes home direct heated triodes, how many people like him are out ...
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"I invited Clark but he sold his soul to Devil and went to Tanglewood for the concert."
Indeed I did go, for I had bought the ticket back in April. As for the Devil part, there had been no selling and therefore no satanic transaction.
Plus a...
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The last week Ozawa returned in Boston after 6 years of thanks God escape from BSO. He played Olivier Messiaen "Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine" and Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique". I am not a highe Ozawa fun but I have to admit the B...
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[quote user="tuga"] Don't you think that this “soft reading” players with no rythm syndrome could have mainly to do with dynamic compression, which is as much a feature of many "analog sounding" CD players as high frequency roll off?[/quote]
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Here's what I would do.In general :Start by excluding the DPoLs, excluding the electronics and associated gear, and considering just the room. With no electronics functioning, is the room an acoustically pleasant space ? Invite friends over and ...
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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...
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Since I speak French, and since I deal with plagiarism everyday, and since NOTHING pisses me off more, I phoned Phil Mundi to ask him about the unothorized use of your artwork on his site, and if this act was representative of the level of fidelity o...
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It was exactly how as I imagined - the Injection Channel worked very-very well. The electricity was good, close to wonderful. I calibrated everything and decided to spend a few hours just listening some tonally complex things. The Injection Channel m...
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There were plenty it of them made: Techniques 9500, Excusive 2301, Iwatas, JBL 2350 and JBL 2345, Vitavox (narrow) and few others … They kind of very strange horns and I always was suspicions about them. Though my suspicions are purely theoretical: a...
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Yes, thanks Charles and thanks for everyone who sent the direct amps on this subject.
The ClarityCaps, similar to the Canadian Solens, British Ansars Supersound, the French MKP, and a few others proposed, are all Metallized Polypropylene caps. I am ...
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[quote user="oxric"] You can do as you please, but in my opinion, it is a mistake. This approach has two main consequences that I would like you to reflect on. First and foremost, it will discourage people like Frank Shroder to post on your websi...
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Hello Rony,
No, I've never heard a DB Systems-modified AirPort Express.
You might start by buying AirPort Express from Apple (89€); this should give you some insight... If you sense it has further potential, then (since you are in France) you could...
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"Highlights include complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle, Strauss's Four Last Songs with Renée Fleming, Mendelsshohn's "Elihah," Mahler's Fourth and Seventh Symphonies, and Premieres by Carter, Harbison, Lieverson and John Williams.
BSO Music Director ...
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[quote user="oxric"] As to why people are interested in the 16 ohms drivers, that is only true of some. The idea is that if the Vitavox S2s are being used, and a single amplifier to drive the different channels, it seems to make sense to go for 1...
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Paul S wrote :
"...I thought it was a garden variety truism, if not the truth, that musiicians typically "make do" with - whatever - in the way of hi-fi..."
Yep!
The French have a proverb that translates something like this :
"Its always th...
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[quote user="Antonio J"] INTEGRATION that's the clue and that's what I always feel lacks in my room, I mean extreme integration, real integration, the feeling that the recorded bass sound has its own boundaries, not my room's. [/quote]
I do not comp...
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Paul S wrote :
"...Jessie, you know I am not a horn guy. I played with horns for 5 years, and I have heard plenty of them, and so far none have worked for me, musically. But I have remained mindful of horns' potential, and I keep coming back ...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Rakesh,Two things I see that may or may not turn out to be an issue:1) The relatively narrow stance of the front wheels; depending on how heavily you load the top of the frame, stability could be a bit on the limit when mo...
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As an update of his former article
http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/grandecastine/1.html
Srajan Ebayn of the 6moomsposted the second part:
http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/grandecastine/2.html
It looks ...
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Hello Stringreen,
First, though I do use it, I think the term "time alignment" is a misnomer... We should really be calling it something else.
When you say "Time Allignment has nothing to do with the placement of instruments in an orchestra", y...
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I knew that Bruckner will fuck up my mind, but I am grateful for that…
Lately I tuned my attention to organ music, in fact I’m listening a lot of organ music. It might appear that my playback got to the point where it might do a full justice ...
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I have added to my list the Karajan’ recording with Wiener Philharmonic made in April 1989, sorry I missed it initially. Karajan generally with Vienna is more interesting then with Berlin Philharmonic, not to mention that he is generally better recor...
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A friend of my told another day that with kind are long
nights but short years, it is amazingly accurate. In my family during those
long nights, regardless he reasons we spend time in the kid’s bedroom, we play
Bach. If it pretty much anything, wo...
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Nope it is not my birthday today, I share this day with Mahler but I truly celebrated my birthday yesterday. Yesterday I got home and found in my mail box a package from my Japanese friend. I brought it home, I knew what it was, I put it on my ta...
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Thanks Romy and Paul for your comments.
Romy wrote : "...I personally would probably go for a monopod frame above the upper bass horn (merging it in middle) as I feel it make the architecture more elegant, more airy and visually less deman...
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[quote user="cv"] Well, the Cogent (Steve Schell and Rich Drysdale) boys are building just such a beast: field coil magnet, (possible) permendur polepieces for >2T, Fs 70Hz, throat - dunno, but at least 3" dia, reduced compression ratio relative t...
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well,well, well.Big words.If the Marriot played the music from the Sound Liaison Label,in their elevators with a good sound system, I'd be riding that Thing all day.But that's the beauty of music,diversity.and Glen Gould,of course,no surpassing that,...
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[quote user="Stitch"]
I think, we should change our view for High End.We (the customers, those who pay the bill) are always mad or frustrated about reviewers (Astor, Valin, and son on..) and this discussion was endless, is endless and won't c...
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ATTENTION SOUND ENGINEERS
Dear sound engineer,
As you certainly know, a recording that sounds BAD on a "high-end" or "audiophile" playback system may still sound GOOD or at least acceptable on a the average more modest mass-marked systems (such a...
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Well, Jerry, I can pitch you some CDs. They would be from US resellers but I am sure you can found your local UK equivalent. Be advised that I have none of the Gieseking’s CD only LPs, so I have no idea how good sound transfer was made to CD. G...
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