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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: How the “elephant sound” made “useful” by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GM70 vs. 6C33C in Melquiades Amplifier  13 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I always was “concerned” about those large high voltage triodes: 211, 845, GM70….  They kind of different… The 845 always was brutal and not elegant, 210 was elegant but not sophisticated, and the GM70 was sophisticate...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: A litile war with Super Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
Chris, at this point it is hard to say anything defiantly. Subjectively it sounds like the Super Milq has slightly less HF extension and transient then the regular Milq, although the output transformer of the HF channel of Super Milq runs higher and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Re: Melq Box by hagtech on 2006-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Wow, you sure do pack it in there!  I like the way you silicone the caps and other things into place.  Maybe you can do the same for the bleeder resistors and wiring bundles?  That is, once you are sure it is operational.  Wires c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: Too much current by hagtech on 2008-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Maybe if you didn't try to pull the caps down so fast.  Why the hurry?  Maybe a 500 ohm or 5k ohm resistor would be a more kind bleeder.  I think the peak current spike is not such a good thing for the capacitor.  You are also at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #249: The Loftinish-Whitish, well sort of…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Yep, it looks, like very close to “it” design-wise.  http://www.studiomaudio.info/loftinwhite.htmlIn the way this amp is one of the manifestations of Loftin-White DC-coupled but it has some own things. The driver stage is the Melquiades Tube to k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Amp 're-warming' issues... by Axel on 2009-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the pre-warming of playback in Melquiades Amplifier  13 Replies 
Romy,do not spit in my eyes as I do have solid state PassLabs 350.5 but even with this 50W Class A amp (push pull) it is exactly the same problem if it is switched off completely even for a short while. I can take ~ 2 - 3 days to be back to norma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Formation of capacitors by Genn on 2006-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Training amplifiers in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
Roman,  the reformation of capacitors is an unswer in many cases.  Those, who use BG - have to spend approximatly the same time to bring the system to the proper sound, but your mind is not SO corrupted.  You use relatively big tanks o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: All of the shelf owners have this problem, not just single driver by zanon on 2010-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Single Driver Speakers and their idiots owners. in Audio For Dummies ™  9 Replies 
Oh please Romy:What advantage does multichannel B&W owner have over off the shelf single driver (like Druid or whatever)??The multichannel B&W owner cannot alter level of each channel by 1db. He cannot slide the crossover up or down 20 Hz, no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: LPad in Channel F by anthony on 2015-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Hi Romy,I am calculating crossover scenarios for the HF Channel (Channel F) and am hoping that you can remember a reasoning for using a 20K LPad instead of a larger value such as 30K or even 50K?  As the larger impedance is used the value of the capa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: DACs & Macs by jessie.dazzle on 2007-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analogue to digital converter comparison in Didital Things  6 Replies 
Without completely understanding the post, I listened to all the samples (which by the way, will play immediately without doing anything if you have a mac...oops!). I first ran the files through my main system (there is a laptop + DAC associated with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #122: Then, out of Nowhere... by Paul S on 2008-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
Wifey went on an errand today and on a hunch I fired up the system to listen to some Schubert lieder and a piano sonata.Despite a dry east wind, it was not as hot as predicted, and despite schools in session, etc., the electricity was very good. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Permendur to balance field coil transient by serenechaos on 2008-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
Romy, I was asking questions here, and @ RMAF because I'm trying to gather enough information to build compression drivers.  At my day job I am a prototype machinist at Los Alamos National Lab.  I don't plan on going into production, j...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #740: Correction by joaco on 2011-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="joaco"]Last year while I was in the search for my actual DAC I came across lossless site ... and now I rememeber on their dac they are using batteries as a an alternative mode to ac . Also I found very interesting the concept that they u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: What to do for now? by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamaha B-2 V-FET amplifier. in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
Well, one way or another I will fix my B2 amp. I think while I have no bass amp it would be a good idea to try other amps for ULF: powerful tube amps or even class D amps.  I do not have inspiration to dry Class D amps and I have no powerful tube amp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #305: EAR by AlexBerger on 2021-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Hi Paul,My question was of cause about my phonostage based on EAR834p and "End Of Live" modification with air capacitors and LCLC + 0A2 power supply.A couple weeks before I increase the second stage ECC83 cathode capacitor value to 43400uF (Kaisei no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Duelund caps: sanity check. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] Actually, I believe they can be tailor made to your exact specifications, which at that price they should be.[/quote] It is not a thread about cup but I still…. This is always an interesting question to me – where is the thres...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Any IC-base RIAA corrector should cost $30, with no expiations. by Thorsten on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
Roman,> Any IC-base RIAA corrector should cost $30, with no expiations.Now now.... My "Analogue Addicts Phono Stage" is Op-Amp based and requires at current OEM bugetary pricing in 1000pc lots of $12.25 each. Add Tinfoil & Polystyrene Capacito...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: The coupling capacitors by anthony on 2015-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Romy, I understand that at some stage you trialled a number of different capacitors and settled upon Electrocube 950B/D not necessarily for the Melquiades but perhaps for some other project.  I was wondering if you ever experimented with different co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: Not power hungry 6-channel. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
I made some power measurement of the Super Milq, to my surprise it is not so much hungry east as I expected. During the startup, what the B+ begins to charge the large capacitors the amp sucks 8,6A. When the amps is fully charge, heated and in it cru...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A proper implementation of low-pass filters by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A proper implementation of low-pass filters in Melquiades Amplifier  4 Replies 
If to look at the Melquiades schematic in the channel “A” you will see 78H first order low pass filter. http://www.goodsoundclub.com/PDF/6-Chennal_Melquiades_DSET_Amplifier.pdf The low-pass filter in Milq and the low-pass filters generally is great...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Mies van der Rohe's capacitors by Paul S on 2007-05-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The single-stage Milq and power Supplies. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
Romy, I have futzed around with caps more than I should have, mostly because they so obviously affect the sound, no matter where they are in the circuit.  In general, it seems like the best bet is to keep the values as small as possible, an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Myth: High-efficiency Low-power by Genn on 2005-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth: High-efficiency Low-power in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Scott, my apologize, but issue of low-power does not have any relationship to the problems, you have described.   The problems could be located in the following areas:- high output impedance of the last cascade, and amplifier in g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I would like to advice the DSET concept. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. in Melquiades Amplifier  5 Replies 
My objectives when I wrote my initial post were not to knock the Herb Reichert’s design ideas but to demonstrate that DSET topology make most of Reichert’s views not applicable or even irrelevant. So, my post was not against Herb but rather to advanc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The capacitor shootout #2 by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is the buzz: the V-Caps? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
The Netherlanders Tony Gee after geting sick to fight with his stupid Fostexes and Lowthers have his run over capacitors. http://www.humblehomemadehifi.com/Cap.htmlThe Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Need new capacitors? by drdna on 2009-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]I have reason to suspect that my beloved large Cardas couplers have continued to loose HF past the point I described as "settling".[/quote]Well, it might just be the electricity, but if you need to replace them, maybe it is time ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Re: It is indeed! by Thorsten on 2004-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
hI bRIAN, [quote user="Brian Clark"]The 834P was a revelation for me, being a circuit that I would have dismissed as "old hat" (Feedback? 12AX7 cathode follower? Do me a favour!).[/quote] Me too, but you know me, i'm mainly pragmatic. The EAR 834P is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: 'Loose cannon' sound... by Axel on 2009-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Critical Audio Tune ™ in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
is what I have called it, and what I hear you are describing? I wonder for how long you will be OK with it. We have had this effect by using 1st order crossover with absolute minimal insertion loss, so you would now listing to uncorrected drivers in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #862: Pp2000 by Bill on 2011-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Every day that I listen to my system, I thank God for Romy's perseverance with the pp2000. For the past 25 years I've fought the crappy electricity that comes to my house in the woods with everything from banks of 8 massive 2 and 3 KVA isolation tran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1530: Follow up on the core issues on tube SMPS by JOHNR on 2016-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I did not follow up on the issues relating to improved performance on small smps when used on filament and DAC power supplies.Here goes:The first is that the source impedance of this type of supply is very small e.g. less than one ohm. The sp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Re: flashing temperature by hagtech on 2006-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Training amplifiers in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have seen in it in photographic flashes[/quote]Wow, this is news to me.  Makes perfect sense, though.  [quote user="he also"]likely due to the memory in formatting[/quote]Yes, electrolytics are funny devices.&nb...
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