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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Prejudicial… by Romy the Cat on 2013-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
I do not know how this pacific devise I am bit prejudicial about all of those in-line re-clocking devises.  I have seen tone of them in past and all of them were incredible crap.  Well, if one has a bad performing playback with objectively shitty (ev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: It is imposable to tell “long distance”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
Peter, I do not believe that it is possible to talks about what happens with speakers in specific acoustic environment. I do not believe in any acoustic modeling or in any rules - each case is different and each case requires own empirical approach.&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #233: We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="bernie_f"] Hi Romy. Why trying to reinvent the wheel? Everything about room treatment and room accoustics has been said and done. By a guy totally in the know and offering his advice and his tools on his website. Michael Green do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: My site requires you to do some homework. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
Axel, The “understanding” at my site require a little more then a typical for audio people submission yourself to “tell what to do” type of lip-service.  I am individualist in Audio and I expect individualism from others.  I expect others do not subs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Adverse contributions. by Romy the Cat on 2014-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Platine Verdier Magnum in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
[quote user="zztop7"] I do believe that it is best to minimize adverse contributions. [/quote] zztop7, I was very much not my intention to be abrasive with you and I am surprised that you got it in this way, it wasvery much not personal. The angle th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: When It Was Still Fun by Paul S on 2014-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
Back in 1962 it was still fun to try to make "real" sound from hi-fi. Oddly enough, I was soon into horns... JGH went from (A-7) horns, to big Fultons, to mid-field monitors (Tannoys, the last time I spoke with him...), and his own version of 5.1 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: "...Cheaper storage is better value than cheapish player" a... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="SearcherOfBetterSound"]Why is Acoustic Solid so interesting to me? Well, it should be to most when you read stuff like a $1,600 Black Wood Classic model can beat out a $5,500 Super Scoutmaster model from VPI, and a $4,000 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Turntable interest, digital thoughts by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Why is Acoustic Solid so interesting to me? Well, it should be to most when you read stuff like a $1,600 Black Wood Classic model can beat out a $5,500 Super Scoutmaster model from VPI, and a $4,000 Solid One can compete with a TW Acus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: More Horns propaganda by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some Horns propaganda in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Another particle of a good Horn Propaganda. It was published in Sound Practices in 1994 and written by Joe Roberts. I disagree with quite many of the author’s statements but his strategic view that the majority of the horns and the horn installations...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #283: Engineering Crap by Paul S on 2017-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Yes, an ongoing theme here at GSC: If it sounds good, it is good.  Conversely, no matter the "logic", and no matter the "technical genius" or "technological breakthroughs", if it sounds bad, it is bad. Likewise with any sort of "logic" or "intuition"...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Not a problem at all. by Romy the Cat on 2023-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] Am I the only one who wonders about parking the amps on the woofers? [/quote] From the point of view of a methodological purity indeed the location of a vacuum tube amplifier atop of midbass section does not make any sense. B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Better DAW by a “second” echelon of digital efforts? by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Better DAW by a “second” echelon of digital efforts? in Didital Things  0 Replies 
Those of us who use DAW (digital audio workstation) come to different observations what make better DAWs. My personal observations are based upon a number or principles (mostly not empirical but intellectual prejudicial) that briefly might be surmise...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: It is much more complicated then that. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rakeshorns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="scooter"]That is a really interesting point for designs going forward... [/quote] I would very much argue that it is interesting point. Not because it not interesting but to highlight the fact that this interesting point has no pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Genesis of UB115 and a beginner's guide to horn building by oxric on 2011-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rakeshorns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ...this interesting point has no practical answer. First of all in the case of Rakesh horn what N-Set proposed is not necessary. Those 115Hz Hasqiun-style horns that Rakesh emulates are well dumped with own mass and own ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #821: Atmosphere? by Paul S on 2011-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
We have long spoken of the "electrical" event as something that is +/- "routed" by cables rather than being "contained" by the cables.Whatever the "source" or "nature" of the electricity, the gear does use it.  Sometimes "conditions favor electricity...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Ripping with better playback by dlm on 2009-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To Rip or not to Rip. in Didital Things  2 Replies 
I also like the convenience of playback via computer with ripped files.  Theoretically, at least, and in my experience, if the cd is ripped properly, the sound quality is better than a cd player.  The reason I think so is that no cd pl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: The criticism from the peanut gallery. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The 6moon has posted an article about the Living Voice: http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/livingvoice2/olympian.html http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/livingvoice2/olympian_2.html ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: The Cessaro Gamma's tone. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  231 Replies 
Very nice, Keith, thanks. The most interesting would be to access the “Absolute Tone” capacity of the Gamma. Frankly I feel that with TADs it should not be very too advanced as they are at BMS/TOA domain, only with a little TAD syntactic twist. Even ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Tube vs. SS tuners – the open question. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
  Well, Nerone, the differences between any tuners would greatly vary with signal, not even with the strength of signal but rather with the specific location and surrounding of a given station.  To make the things conceptually right it wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Theory by Markus on 2007-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I personally, dealing with horns do not use theoretical bases to observe what happen with them and I tend to use purely empirical ways. It is my believe that NO one TRULY knows what the hell it going on with horns and no on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #180: My further thoughts on room acoustics by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="unicon"] that old sails does just control <1khz reflections ... you need to control your mid bass n basic bass frequencies first. [/quote] I guess you meant >1khz reflections? Yes, it will and it is erectly what I am loo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The stupidity of JMLC profile: not a problem with horns but with the p... by Romy the Cat on 2016-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not like La-horns. The tomatoes… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
Jean-Michel Le Cléac'h is RIP and it is not a good idea to talk bad about dead people. However, it is not a personal commentary against Jean-Michel but rather my attempt to point out a huge harm that he did with his idea of what I call La-horns or...
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