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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: 78: I’m a clueless Cat by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eq for 78's in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
Guy, I do not know. In my past I made an adapter to my Micro motor to play 78s and used contemporary 78 cartridge and 282 arm and off the shelf phonocorector. I would not call this setup as something that was good  but it gave me some opportuni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: Clueless as to dresdendesign by serenechaos on 2008-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Dresden"] ... two J-shaped horns back-to-back, as though it were a mirror image.  --the drivers do NOT share the same throat, but instead each driver loads its own horn.   I'm sure the 'picture' is now clear, correct?...If...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Lamm LL1 vs. L1/L2 by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm introduced LL1 Signature Preamp… in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
It six month as Lamm released his LL1 preamp but I do not see any “jitter” about the sound of the unit. Even the Lamms’ leash-driven, in-house bitches from Soundstage do not publish any “review”. I did not see even any talk online about LL1. This is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Sure it does, although more money than brain is often the case by Wojtek on 2010-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
and the forum which has already perfectly developed herd behaviour is most appropriate one. Yeah, I worded the post in a wrong way (as usual) If you're in a position which allows you to have intimate experience with most Mass TT's on market via X...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: They do not play like music period! by ShuffleSk8Ter on 2013-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why Horn loaded systems?! in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
your post has not merit sir...some of the most stupid people that have the ability to play musical instrument have no clueon how music sounds in an audience(fact) I know several people here in the chicagoland area that play for CSO they are cluelessa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: You are too radical by Antonio J. on 2005-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deficiency of sensible attitude in playback. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
I mean that you put the most of the people hanging around public sites into the same bag. I think there are several different categories:- The ones that have limited exposure to music and audio, they really don't care about music, and their exig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #982: Further responses by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-28 
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"]  clarkjohnsen wrote:Then you haven't looked close enough. Or perhaps the equipment that I used was not made by clueless people?CJ I believe one of the points you keep harping on is that most people are clueless. So... as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Dipole bas is for lazy and deaf people. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn speaker with dipole bass? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
I do not exactly understand what you are proposing at DiyAudio site. I have generally an attitude against dipole radiation, and particularly in bass. There is a common believe among audio people that dipole bass has advances, there was a lot of said ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: One more time about GOTO and time-alignment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Ming, what you say is not exactly accurate. I have MANY desiccations about it with number Goto users in past and if I am not mistaken then even some kind GOTO official from past event argued this point with me. He insisted that Goto require 4...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Sewer commercial FM stations, mindless radio listening by misnacat on 2009-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Apple helped kill FM...and might help rescue it... in Off Air Audio  2 Replies 
J. Here is a start, If you want live hosts and quality FM broadcast with a wide varity of program material try CBC Radio, available just about everywhere here in Canada including the North West Territorys.Most nations radio stations have large budget...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Happy to see this thread by montepilot on 2009-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The contra-ridicules solution for a good DAW? in Didital Things  1 Replies 
After hearing what a well designed FM station recording setup could deliver I became a believer.  The question was what would be the cost involved to implement a good setup.  After doing some research on the cost of Romy's components to capture fm br...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Very interesting Romy by Antonio J. on 2005-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How audio started…. in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
I wonder how did you realize that you were clueless and started to ask more from your system and why. Many people who start into this hobby because they're mainly music lovers and not gear freaks, don't use to get into audiophilia and never mind abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: We Cats have different means to get the things… by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"]Another reviewer who can write the review without hearing the product. Now THAT is something new. [/quote]There is nothing new in it. There are thousands reviewers and audio users who even after spending 40 years with a audi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #308: The minor day of Quartets. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I am in minor scale mode toady and play mostly chamber music and only records. FM broadcasts with all their majesty are hardly objective tool to assess what doing on with audio. So, I play records and tapes. Besides everything I am trying to figu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Very interesting Romy by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How audio started…. in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
Actually I think I was clueless until a second part of 90s, perhaps the late 90s. You know it is kind of strange: I did audio kind of all my life but I never knew, cared and was a part of the high-end hobby. All those valleys and summits of audiophil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How audio started…. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How audio started…. in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
It is interesting to recall how audio started in my life. Somebody asked and I was puling out from my memories some unconnected fragments was really enjoying to recall those times… I do not relay remember how old I was. I was then probably 10, as a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Mike Lavigne: I was really laughing! by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
I receive an email form a visitor of my site  with a “news” and was really laughing! Yes! I hate to know everything but proposed by me “The Rules of the Audio Morality Propagation” do work like a Swish watch! It was enough of one audio cretin (...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: We still do not know how to present speakers. by Romy the Cat on 2015-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wheel-Fi in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
What is interesting, and this is not Wheel-Fi problem but much wider problem, that we in audio still are clueless how to present speakers. The video above is fine but it is only fine in very confined zone of the Wheel-Fi audio interests. As the re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A belt drive? Why only…. by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting TT link: belt drive in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
Yes for sure it is very nice and “polite” link with pleasant information, not completed information however.  There is another aspect. The wonderful benefits and advantages of belt drive (and particularly with heavy platters) are well understood but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #583: Lawfully cheating with efficiency. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The Purepower state at their site that efficiency of the unit is 89-92% depending on load. I presume that they meant the power factor correction that need to be taking to the consideration. In my case my two 6-ch Melquiades run from two new PP2000. M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: More or less pleasure: wider implication by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More or less pleasure: wider implication in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
It made me to think. Another day I went to a concert that was very bad in my view. The semi-amateur orchestra spent a lot of efforts to play with fewer mistakes and as they more or less did. As the mistakes were filtered then the primitivism of gener...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) (4 years) BMus (Hons)... by Axel on 2009-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD off tune? The Big CD Conspiracy theory? in Didital Things  9 Replies 
sounds like just what Romy could have excelled in for a carrier ---- because beyond the maths you need to have EARS and DISCERMENT for what is being recorded and exactly how it's done. (I met some sound engineers that did NOT strike me very musically...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Sounds like a hypocrisy, right? by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New speaker system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Zanon, I do understand the sarcasm you would like to express. From one side I insist the people are clueless based upon that fact that they have not aliened diaphragms and from another side I pitch that the perfect alignment might be accomplished onl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #321: The ego time capsule. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
When my midbass horns projects will be finished the horns will be peaty much organic part of house and without looking at this thread an ordinary person would never understand what is behind and what it is for. When we look at reasoning for Carnac St...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #97: Cancel my subscription to resurrection... by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] So, yes, in an ideal world, I would have seriously considered doing something different….[/quote]   I guess your definition of “doing something different” would imply reading of 534 pages of BS from people who have no idea about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: Proving to be true.. by tuyen on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Thanks for your advice Romy and Stefano.I have used RTA with condenser mic in my past systems but I admit I am no professional at it. But I am not clueless with it either..  In my previous setup when I was playing with open baffle designed speakers, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Speaker Building: do not worry. by Romy the Cat on 2004-10-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speaker Building in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Alex, contrary to the numerous speculation that many people more or less reasonably spread about the subject, my experience indicates that there are no such a things as “preferable crossover frequencies". The chosen optimum crossover frequencies are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Do not “compare” audio equipment. by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Do not “compare” audio equipment. in Audio For Dummies ™  1 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Ultimate Pre-Amp for Dummies by Lbjefferies7 on 2009-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quests for an ultimate preamp. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Let it be known that I am nearly clueless when it comes to electronics.  Building speakers, racks, pianos, or just about anything mechanical is no problem for me to build myself and, unlike Romy, it is usually pleasant for me for various reasons....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #158: I generally don’t like lobsters of how The Pussy was raped. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
William, I do not know what to say. Russians have a proverb that says: in fishless word even a crab is considered a fish. You might appreciate your experience with F120A, I do not, furthermore I cannot stress how much I was not pleased with this driv...
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