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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Then perhaps a new crossover is not needed? by drdna on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
Thanks very much for your prompt, courteous and informative reply!My thought about the crossover design for the EdgarHorn was due to a number of things:1.  This particular EdgarHorn is being sold to make way for a Cain & Cain speaker which i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1037: Did you pray to your power outlet yet? by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Canuck"]Romy   Do you plan on trying the new PurePower Plus and if so when? Maybe they should send you a loaner to try for a decade or so. [/quote] Canuck, I do not know. I am for sure would like to try it and I most probably will. I hav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The capacitor as not only a capacitor by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is the buzz: the V-Caps? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]…… people forget that a circuit is a physical collection of dynamically interacting electromagnetic fields…… [/quote] Isn’t it might a separate VERY large subject? [quote user="drdna"] The low level resolution is exquisite but t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: The Water Drop's Second breathing + New Super Milq by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Over the course of the last year I have been gently harassing my transformers-savvy surrounding trying to evangelize them into amorphous core. They stubbornly and perhaps stupidly resist. Some of them not…  During the last few months I was tal...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #163: Getting loaded by jessie.dazzle on 2010-01-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...You are complaining that you have not enough gain in upperbass..." It is also possible that I'm reacting to a lack of true dedicated mid-bass. As previously mentioned, while the pair of 40Hz horns are under constructon, I co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Bidats, multibits and whatever.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
[quote user="mark"] this will start to go down next month if john sends his bidat when i return to canada next week.so you see i am on an interesting parrallel path perhaps. [/quote] Taking about the parallel paths… My Bidat in Canada as well and I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Me too... by anthony on 2020-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]I am always a bit hesitant to buy into "listening descriptions". I am a musician and am confronted every day with Sound bias - attraction to what we are accustomed to, expectations being confirmed. We are creatures of habit and mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: One-stage DHTs by nl on 2008-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio did a series of one-stage DHTs with a step-up transformer input about ten years ago. I think they were called the Mercury series. By all accounts, they sounded good, but of course had limited gain, not much power and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: 6SN7-2A3 amps? by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] I also use the 6SN7-2A3 DHT for my system (except subwoofer). Did you use the Electrocubes for the coupling capacitors? Was the internal wiring regular copper? The coupling capacitor is critical, of course. Also, I will say t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Building the Zarathustra II by nautilus981 on 2010-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building “Zarathustra II” amplifier in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Hello, would it be possible for us to see the diagrams and schematics behind the Zarathustra II in the same spirit as the Melquiades was conceived, noting that the best of ideas are formed with the purest of sentiments?[quote]It is Dima’s and my stro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Like This? by Paul S on 2015-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
The usual "trick" to "stop inductance" of wire wound resistors is the "old double-wound trick", like those offered by Mills: http://www.soniccraft.com/index.php/resistors-mills-c-29_53 (and I think it is much the same for capacitors, for that mat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Some aged thoughts about TU-X1 by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: TU-X1 setup in Off Air Audio  16 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] Honestly for now, the character of the tuner is unobtrusive enough that I notice mostly the problems I have with the preamplifier and the electricity. However, I would be interested about what you had thought at this point to be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #301: The 'film' caps in PS by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I have expressed this attitude before and I think it bites me by my tail again. Everyone tells that electrolytic in POS are bad. Well, I kind of follow this thinking as well but up to the point. The true is that I never was able to beat actively ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #281: Good Electricity = an endless placid sea by drdna on 2009-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="floobydust"]one can identify multiple devices that provide clean power without impacting the sound quality then thru some level of analysis[/quote]Yes, the "analysis" is called listening. :) [quote user="floobydust"]what effect do tra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: It is not really important. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eduardo de Lima is a freak of the nature, so far…. in Audio News  7 Replies 
[quote user="Jim Smith"]Arguably the most humble, yet brilliant designer I have ever met.However, I am very concerned about him on a personal level.Eduardo seems to be wonderfully suited to be a designer.However - IMO - having to run the company, kee...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Collecting user requirements for Vitavox fieldcoil… by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Lately the Vitavox electromagnet project looks like moved to a fruitful direction. Well, I do not know if the direction would be a real fertile but it will be going somewhere instead of talking… that is always fruitful. I have quite good support form...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: EV T350 tweeter and the Moronity by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
It is incredible how stupid sometimes our audio steps are.  A few days ago I was complaining that sound of my T350 tweeter suddenly started to bother me but it was no the problem with the tweeter but rather the problem with my own moronity. A f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
We, the horn people, know what the compression drivers could do. The controlled dispersion, low distortions, low mechanical dependency, low magnetic anomalies, high efficiency, higher maximum dynamics and many-many more advance are well known. The te...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: New speaker system by guy sergeant on 2010-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New speaker system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
I recently completed some upper bass horns which I'm now enjoying very much. Sadly I lack the skills of someone like Jessie so my efforts are crude in comparison, but they are working well for me which is the main thing.I already had some old frontlo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #161: One can't cheat physics... by N-set on 2021-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
...as anthony points out, but sometimes one can cheat the brain. You mentioned the 100uF caps, here is an interesting film one: https://www.hificollective.co.uk/catalog/obo080-100uf-400v-obbligato-film-capacitors-p-9107.htm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Informity? by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: UHF capable tweeters and the moronic conclusions in Audio For Dummies ™  16 Replies 
Well, this concept of Defense Mode is good for superficial explanation (or for selling to ourselves own justifications) and I use to use it in past but I do not use it for a few years as unfortunately it is not what it is. The correction of “the wron...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: I think you did not get my point by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What Is The Minimum for an "Acceptable" Phono Stag... in Analog Playback  12 Replies 
It is not about low voltage buttery power, tube version with 200 pounds power supply, CRL filtration, no-transformer gain or air capacitors. The topology that we might or might not admit to comply with the concept of “acceptable phonostage” is co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #279: Gray market by steverino on 2015-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Romy,It is possible that he is concerned about people in the big Asian country near Japan taking these various ideas and producing knockoffs or even worse upgrades to his basic design. It is revealing that he says "intellectual deprivation" rather th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #599: VERY alarming behavior. Too early to close up the thread. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-02 
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"] Probably the whole thread about the evil electricity might be coming to it’s logical end…[/quote]Today turned the playback and I was surprise with gray and unexpressive bass. “What the hell?”-  I asked myself. There wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: One of many advantages of multi-amping. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: All Active! A DSET and multi-way acoustic system. in Audio Discussions  14 Replies 
The people who use a single driver speaker believe the while their driver move back and forth for it also radiates a problem-free MF and HF. Near the same people believe that if an amp has capacitors with precious metals foil then it not only do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Physical characteristics of electronic devices by drdna on 2008-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="nl"]The 45 is a wonderful tube for running compression drivers. Many people like carbon comp resistors for the plate load, and paper/oil capacitors for the coupling cap here. PIOs take some time to break in. Of course you want...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: DC Offsets in mains power supply & using toroids for power transfo... by peter foster on 2007-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Dear Romy, regarding your efforts to solve variations in mains power supply, there has been an interesting thread on RAT related to the use of toroids as power transformers that morphed into a discussion about the level of DC offset in mains power su...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: The air capacitors 'allegations'. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]What specific objectives did the air caps address in the circuit? You refer to the tempted virtue sound but I am unsure as to the goals that you were trying to achieve with this circuit alteration?[/quote]Adrian,  I what wro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: Sucks! by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
It is always there is something that poisons everything. It is last night in my Boston apartment, a night before the final big move and I was in the middle if heavy packing. Suddenly as lighting stroke me: I was moving my moved audio equipment fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: The noise-free gas regulator tubes. by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gas voltage reference 0A2 tubes. in Melquiades Amplifier  42 Replies 
If you read the post: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=41#41 then you know that I am happily employ an interesting 65dB-gain, 7788-7721 two stages phonocorrector designed and build with air capacitors. A few days ago when I eventu...
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