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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: 450 volt by audiofilofine on 2010-02-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Haralanov,I spoke with a guy who consulted me during my Electo-Vitavox project. He helped me with selection of core material, deliberated the core and calculated the right coil to keep the core mass optimally magnetized....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Is Living Voice the Vitavox revival? MiniVan vs. JBL by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
I think guessing what the hell they did with tweeters would make since if whatever they did sound right. Since Living Voice’s is not the company that has a lot of exposure in US I do not think I will ever hear those speakers. Even if they have US rep...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Try it you'll like it by Kerry Brown on 2013-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The African compression electromagnet drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  42 Replies 
Thank you Romy and congratulations on your website, it just keeps getting better and better all the time. The RCA1428 is a great sounding driver on RCA multi-cell horns. Not that I like multi-cell sound. I have never heard an original 1428 on a tra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Stressing the damn contemporary tubes. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the life-expectancy of the new production tubes. in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
This weekend I will be finishing the whole Milq modefication, putting it back to the full-time service and this Sunday the James Levine’s live-to-tape broadcast of “Simon Boccanegra” is was planning to listen via the reincarnated Macondo. Doin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Antelope by de charlus on 2013-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
From a technological perspective, these look very interesting. Unfortunately the nearest place i could audition these is Montreal, but it looks to be worth it. Have you heard these, Romy, or are you also impressed with the price/technology ratio? d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Taking a Few for the Team by Paul S on 2009-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: AMR PH-77: just another phonostage or more? in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
Too hot to expect the best sound today, and besides I have gotten my morbid curiousity worked up about the recording/playback curves, so I fished out a few LPs mostly to hear/see how they sound with respect to the "shape" of their sound, aspects of w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Expressive SU1 + Expressive preamp by Romy the Cat on 2014-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Expressive Technologies Model 1 preamp in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
[quote user="Paul Costa"]I have a PDF file of the manual if it interests you to read it, I can email it to you. The unit weighs 80lbs, uses 6 6sn7's. What I found a little odd was the spec for the phono is it says : MM Phono Stage Gain: 64 dB at 1 kH...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #305: Seek and it will be given to you. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] Exactly. Thus, it suggests a ground loop internal to the PP2000, doesn't it? [/quote] In my view it is highly unlikely as a definition of loop itself implies two contacts to ground and PP2000 has only one.  I do not think t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: $ilver Connector$ by Paul S on 2021-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
I've read that high-purity silver does not corrode, and so far none of my Eichmann or WBT silver RCA connectors have corroded, years and years down the road. However, they have gotten pretty darn expensive! The WBT are well made, at least, and I woul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Re: EdgarHorns and the ordinary pile of audio Morons. by drdna on 2005-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Considering the problem you described, it was pretty much, where I expected it to be. However your explanations are kind of sound strange to me. If your tweeter were out of phase with the rest of the drivers then it would ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. in Melquiades Amplifier  5 Replies 
The “Enjoy His Music” published the old celebrated by many DIYers Herb Reichert’s article about his 300B amp ideas. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0709/flesh_blood.htm I read it before but reading it now, after a few years again...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Wireworld Pro Audio. by xandcg on 2021-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Jarek, Thank you for your input. This is nice to have a somehow a list of good connectors. Today I found Wireworld Pro Audio[1] sell "Silver-clad OFC" connectors (they call plugs). I n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: 6C33C: don't use badly-made sockets. by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
[quote user="Genn"] Another issue of the 6C33C - short lifetime of the socket.  I think, that ventilation will help to extend their lifetime as well. [/quote]It is not a problem with the 6C33C but with the stupidity of the very specific Russian ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #208: The horrors of calibration by N-set on 2012-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
I'm pathetically slow with my 834 clone, but that's what I am....Sorry for boring you but I treat this threat a bit like a blog on my "progress".I've tried to fight more with PS induced ham and interferenceby putting the PS transformers and HV rectif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: Schematics II by N-set on 2011-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Here is the signal box:The design is double mono past the VR's. Including the bias. The coupling caps are Arcotronics KP172 from RS-Online, quite prised by Thorsten Loesch. THey are sitting on sorbothane pads. The air caps are: 1) 365pF some +/- s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Ahh. your part is done then by mem916 on 2011-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
Hi Romy,I miss-understood.  I did not realize you were able to play my file in "natural 96K".  Since I am not able to play your file in "natural 88.2" I needed to make another recording before I can really compare yours to mine since my CD player ups...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: It takes time. by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
[quote user="de charlus"]Alas, I am too young to have that whole "Mirrorphonics nostalgia" coloring my taste in sound reproduction - still, this is not to say that it cannot be investigated. [/quote] Actually the "Mirrorphonics nostalgia" that some p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #172: I do not see a lot of interesting solution out there. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="Saturntube"] Anyone has some sort of comparison between compression drivers against cone (dynamic) drivers in a this huge mid bass horns, or even upper bass horns.     All I heard are this guys from Germany with the out of reach expe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: LCR Promotion by perrew on 2009-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Perrew,I do not know if you use sarcasm in there but Lamm LP2 is not my bellowed phonostage. In fact I am one of the very few people whop do not like it at all. How much in what I do not like in Lamm LP2’s MM section com...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Teac vrds 10se specs by Telstar on 2008-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yep, Telstar. The 1547 was use in Sony and Teac CD players and believe the first CD-SACD machines used that chip. I know very little about those chips and have none of my personal experience to deal with all of it. The reas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The “ice maiden” status. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tschaikowsky, [Violin] Concerto in D, Reiner/Chicago/Heifetz in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
Interning that Heifetz has that same “ice maiden” status, primary because he did not express any facial or body emotionalism while he was plying. Ms. Mullova is the same she appears almost like “detached” and just “renders the notes”. It is hard to m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The best album of 2005 so far. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best album of 2005 so far. in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
This really happen: when I have a 3 disc-compilation box-set and when the each single peace or the entire collection in a whole crates such a huge enthusiasm within me and such a great admiration for the content of the entire album. I bought this ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #308: Totally floating grounds by drdna on 2009-02-22 
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"] [quote user="drdna"] Exactly. Thus, it suggests a ground loop internal to the PP2000, doesn't it? [/quote] In my view it is highly unlikely as a definition of loop itself implies two contacts to ground and PP2000 has on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1721: Again, how it works in my case. by Romy the Cat on 2020-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"] Later after the PP battery was replaced hum disappeared forever. [/quote] Interesting. What made you to replace the battery? The reasons I ask is a because an old buttery would not be different for powers supply then ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Agains, what are we talking about, Joe? by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"] At least I have significant WE experience! Romy, you have none to speak of, yet you are super-opinionated on the subject. Someday you might learn the truth. The big WE horn systems are a different league entirely from m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Agree to disagree by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
C, I very much agree about the benefits of spherical needle, partially on the older records and out of condition records, and this is one of the reasons why people have multiple arms on TTs. Yes, in many cases the spherical stylus “tracks better” 9mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... by twogoodears on 2008-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Hi Romy and thanks a lot for the always interesting topics and discussions going on... I'm quite new to DPoLS and consider the approach of "obtaining sound in a room" more than "speakers positioning" - too often to WAF fullfillment and aesthetics, th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The Cogent architectural problem or the Cogent++ by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cogent+Electronluv+Acapella=Wretched What? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
I do not know the characteristics of the Cogent bass driver. I do not like the entire idea of a bass driver be electromagnetic as bass defeat itself first with field coils, still if electromagnets is something that Cogent intend to do then they are w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Macondo Frame modification: six month later... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
OK, the new Macondo frame is over as well. Eventually after 6 years of learning how to make the damn horn speaker to sound good, after numerous incremental successes and failures, stupidity and brightness, moves to wrong direction and mistaken assess...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: "We do not need no education" by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="ygoh"] 1.) Why is it that you do not support using teo compression drivers in the same throat?   Is the distortions increases, such as wavefront distortion? [/quote]Sure the wavefront gets spread; it is what Wilson does in his ...
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