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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
techniques
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I do not know how you feel if you have large glass surface in your listening rooms but in my room if I have any exposed balls then I instantly feel that something is terribly wrong with sound. It is kind of ironic as when I was buying this house ...
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First of all, the people who read this thread need to understand that I use the metaphor “idiots owners” purely in pedagogical sense. There is nothing idiotic to run neither single driver speakers, to have very bad speakers or not to have speaker...
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As some may know from previous posts, I have been working on horns for the Vitavox S2 as well as other drivers (I am photo-documenting the process, as it is somewhat unusual, possibly to be posted here at a later date). Last night I was able to test ...
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Ewa Podles in Boston this week in Rossini’s opera “Tancredi.’’ To celebrate Ms. Podles arrival in Boston I bought last week a couple of her live CDs with Russian and Chopin repertoire. Love her voice, even some of Garrick Ohlsson’s accompaniments we...
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Interesting. Living in city I did not truly experience rain, snow, wind and any other weather elements as all of it was out there, out of the walls of our city-barricaded live. City life is made to discard the influence of snow. Even if had 2 f...
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EU seeks to extend copyright protection for artists to 95 years By Stephen CastleThursday, February 14, 2008 BRUSSELS: The European Union said Thursday that it would seek to extend copyright protection for singers and musicians to 95 years - rather t...
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I completely agree that in a home setting, even if you love "Drum & Bass" and Hip-Hop, you will never ever use anywhere near 2" of cone excursion.
Romy wrote :
"...what the companies always “forget” to mention is what percentage of their excursi...
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We spent many days to unpacking and I am sure the final unpacking
will take for a while. The listening room is being repainted and it is all in boxes.
What is very interesting that while do unpacking I discovered in the new house
a new room. The h...
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Ok, here is the link: http://www.bso.org/brands/tanglewood/press/press-releases/archived-press-releases/051231/tanglewood-75-downloads.aspxOffer to public free in MP3 128 kbps formats. Both 320 kbps MP3 and 24bit 44.1kHz FLAC versions will be availab...
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The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996
Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I never managed to come up with a horn that did not sound like a horn… [/quote]
As many times I heard similar comments as many times I feel that people rather demonstrate own foolishness on the subject then express a sane...
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I would discard the first part of your post. It is it truly irrelevant what Germans, French, Japanese or Brits were buying and what particular brand and in what time they consider as “fashionable”. It is know that Ebay or Akibahara popularity has...
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My first impressions a about the “differences” of field-coiled derived form the time when I ran the Telefunkens war time drivers but at that time I had no reference how the same driver would act with permanent magnet. Also, the Telefunkens are the re...
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I kind of not looker but rather listener and when I do something I prefer to have a radio than TV. When I was hunting for my house I among other thing was looking to have a layout of the rooms what sound of my playback was well heard in my kitche...
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Chirag, First off all you have to define what do you want from them. If at this moment you’re looking for something within $700 then very next year, when you finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range… :-) Now a lit...
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In he French Horns/drivers shootout thread:
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=15130#15130
Jessie wrote:
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]…I'll definitely let you know if I get the system up and running again befo...
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I visitor of my site shat me an email informing that that above depicted horn installation by Marc Henri and Andre Klein was made French Musique-Concrete company. I do not know a lot about those people, beside that they hand around Jean Michel Le Clé...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A few years back I wrote somewhere that I “developed” a semi-mathematical formula according to which an acoustic system’s result might be absolutely objectively weighed up. I did not go very far with advisement of this eq...
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It is nice to see you around, Jim.
A few comments. C1 in my phonostage is .28uF. The higher values were a proposal of Anagnostopoulos. I understand what he is coming form and yes my output stage of power amps will be able to handle the ULF stress. I...
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Vincent Brient is French guy who has built an interesting installation that I think worth to analyze. Years back Vincent was an enthusiast, like normal people, but it looks recently he turned “pro” and came to audio market with his own version of...
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Pandora's Magic BoxRestoration of the music's dynamic range in historical recordings by: Pierre A. Paquin
We are now able to enjoy great recording of the distant past, thanks to the efforts of several successful and dedicated engineers who have had...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]One issue that I would consider is that the Tractrix profile supposedly does not lend itself aswell to extremely low frequency horns (being too short) as other profiles in particular the Hypex (Salmon) shape. [/quote]
Yep,...
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A few years ago I did not “get” Bruckner. Then, like with everything else, it changed. And of course being a compulsive feline, I can not get enough of what I like….
I admit that I listen quite a lot of Bruckner lately. There is something very medit...
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I had a very interesting experience last Sunday. I visited
my local audio guy and had a phenomenal listening session. He is horn guy and
had a good sound in his dedicated room. He is for year playing with surround sound
that I never cared about an...
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[quote user="Jeffrey Jackson"] first, basshorns... the basshorns that I posted here some years back are my straight ~50Hz horns (my memory is fading)... they are 8' long... then rear chamber.. mouth ~ 3' x 4'... throat ~8" x 8"... rear chambers of va...
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A few days back I got a hold of an article in some kind of French publication and a site reader helped me to translate it. In the article Klaus and Reinhard reported that Arthur Benade’s helped them better understand the propagation of sound in h...
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Coops, I less care about the attacks on me, I know that I am a pH-indicator of Moronity among audio freaks. So, if some specific idiots out there are not happy about me then… it is good for me. The higher we climb in mountains the stronger wind and l...
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It is sad that no one talks about it and it is very not clear what is going on. It looks like the companies that sell hi-res files feel that the phrase hi-res is automatically an assurance of some kind of “quietly”. Well, they most likely deal w...
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It has been a little wild trip from Portsmouth NH (our second home) to Montreal. The weather was wonderful and the drive was surprisingly easy. The trip in the way reminds me my audio trips from the past, with talks and thinking about audio here ...
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Josh, are you upset and are you yawning for a public sympathy
because I did not find you worthy “education”? I think it is my prerogative to decide
and at this point you most likely will not understand my motives. To understand
my motives you will...
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