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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Another Melquiades? Never thought! by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades: too early for a verdict? in Melquiades Amplifier  6 Replies 
This is kind if funny as I never thought that I will go this way. I kind of have a need for an amplifier. For a normal full range amplifiers that would be able to drive conventional speakers. I really can’t use the Super Melquiades as it has the live...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: I thought to drive the 6C33C harder. What a Moron I was! by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Jim, I did try the anti-phase transformer in the secondary but I felt that it did something to sound. I can not do it on primary as I have the pate coil for the first stage sitting on the same transformer. Regarding the sweet spot of the 6C33C - I ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: Super Milq 6 channels diaries: one is done… by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Eventually the right channel of the last revision of the 6-Channel Super Melquiades is complete. It has the new dedicated power supplies for single-stage amplifiers, the 600V Schottky rectification for 200V line and 1200V Schottky for 400V lines, the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #387: When good is not good enough. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night I was listening  Zubin Mehta’s recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No.9. It was his first recoding from 1966 with Vienna. I am not a big fun of this performance all together but it has spectacular first movement...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: To kill of do not kill the capacitor. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I am taking about coupling capacitor between driver tube and the DHT. There are zillion way to do it and no one said that they need to be used. No one proved yet that a very good quality of caps shell be worse than other methods. In my case since the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #231: How about the tweeter? by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I have to admit that although the Macondo “Water Drop Tweeter” sounds very good but I do not have that “shocking sound” that I got from the “Water Drop” during my initial introduction to it. I kind of always felt it and I thought that I get use t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: I did not tell the whole story... by anthony on 2015-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote:I am often drawn to the super-clean sound ….  I do not think that use the term of “super-clean sound” in the same way. Vienna Philharmonic does not have “super-clean sound” from the perspective of most of ...

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 #9: Electromagnets and my interest. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
MochaMike, yes you are correct it would not be the “softness” but rather”liquidity”. Still what you are taking is applicable for the paper cone 4 to 15" drivers not compression drivers. Who knows how the compression drivers will react. To the rest ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Clarification by anthony on 2020-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anthony, I do not know what you new buffer is. A few notes. The difference between sub 10R and 300R of output impedance is significant for the load you have (Milq) between your new buffer and your 10Y preamp. The type of th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next? by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  30 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Make an experiment, and I will simplify the case quite assertively. Take a typical compression driver, cross it at 800Hz, second order and load it into a proper contemporary horn (Tratrix or JMLC) of 300Hz. Listen that hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #110: What I am trying to accomplish. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations.  It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to accomplish. I want to reinstat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: I hate, hate hate you John Hasquin! by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
Continuing in my quest to the finding the new DPoLS with my Super Milq I did some “critical test listing” today. I’m certainly getting closer. I spent a few hours to play with the playback and I recognize that the first signs of the approximation of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Of course I am putting the cart before the horse... by anthony on 2015-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, if I did it again then I would not do it in context of multi-channel amplifier but rather I would make a maket amplifier able would test my ideas with it. [/quote]While I do like the idea of experimenting with MF...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: More data about the new Melq and some about the Super Melq by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Well, Jim, it is time to say “Oops!” I told to myself do not make any posts early morning unit I eat a bagel but this mooring I disobeyed the rule. Anyhow, I do not know how I come up with 28.5V RMS. Defiantly it was peak-to-peak on the scope and I r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
I would like to share my observations about public perception of Melquiades - The Realty Reconstructions Amplifier. Melquiades, or as I affectedly-abridgedly call it “the Melq” was released to pubic exactly a year ago: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1153: The Pure Power 3000+, the day one. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
After 4 days of suiting in boxes in my listening room today is my day off and I decided to dedicate it to play with the new Pure Power 3000+. I desired to use just records and connected all amps, preamps and phonostage to ol...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1163: Pure Power 3000+, corrections and further observations. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Ok, it is a lot of information on my plate and I am trying to make sense of it. Below I will share my observations about the new Pure Power 3000+. The first thing first.  In the post I made a few days back: http://www.GoodSoundClub.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The New Placette as the dynamic quandary by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The idea was very simple: to convert the C filter into RC filter, to employ the Silicon Carbide Schottky rectification diodes that showed themselves so nice in 6-ch Melquiades  and to beef up the preamp with large bet...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: A correction, a confusion, a mistake, an accident? Will see… by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-22 
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"] ….when it drives what it is willing to drive then the APS PurePower delivers the Sound that makes me willing to write a request to Pope asking him to canonize that damn regenerator. [/quote] [quote user="Romy the Cat"] To...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Output transformer for full-range Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I do not know what else are you looking. in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
First of all: I have moved this thread into the Milq Forum….. [quote user="RonyWeissman"] I'm going to try and build a Melquiades type amplifier (with some help from friends) following the advice given above  to make it as simple as possible.&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Plate regulation: bad idea. by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sonic consequences of regulation. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"]  Romy the Cat wrote: Among the imperfection I would mention the mains voltage fluctuation. It could be fixed only by regulation with all negative sonic consequences of regulation.I find this comment m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Gas, bass, jazz... by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A resistor between screen and grid in Melquiades Amplifier  9 Replies 
[quote user="ml8"] If you think gas regulators make sound of 6E5P so nice, didn't you try putting gas regulator tube in the grid of the 6C33C, and why? [/quote] Sure, I trued. It sounded very bad. I pull out of my butt any imaginable rational with e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: A new Super Short Milg? Oh, no! by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]So this amp would not have to deal with a crossover?  One R and one L in the signal path, it looks like a headphone amp, maybe a dream circuit for a light piston, HF only, given no cap/coil load at the [ribbon] driver. [/quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: inside views of "melquiades" by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Inside views of "melquiades" in Melquiades Amplifier  1 Replies 
[quote user="AnonymousUser"]hi-i have downloaded the circuit diagram for your amp but wondered if you have any photos of the "guts" so i can see how you laid yours out ? [/quote] I do not have a full rage Milq anymore. I have only the 3-chanals Supe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The single-stage Milq and power Supplies. by Romy the Cat 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 
I am very much do not like the current state of my mind about the single-stage Milq. Let me to explain…. In 2001-2002 I spend some time trying to assess the sonic influence of PS to sound. After making numerous tests and prototypes I concluded that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Bias or do not Bias – what a qeston!!! by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Contemplating now how to organize biasing for 3 singe stages of my 6-chanls amp I was faced the dilemma: do I need to bias my tubes. The 6E5P/6E6P are Russian tubes and it means that are very different right from the boxes. The Milq, driver tubes, be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Do not do it. by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Do the Filament Transformers Require a Center Tap? in Melquiades Amplifier  12 Replies 
Iraschwips, I do not think that it has anything to do with impedance at all. You might have sub 1R impedance of your loudspeakers and perfectly compensate it by wiring a custom transformer that will perfectly work against lower impedances. I would...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #132: The first Milq screw up. by Romy the Cat on 2017-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
I am looking at my posts at the forum and am trying to figure out when the 6-ch Milq as made. I think it was during the late 2007 beginning of 2008. Well, the Super Melquiades then is 10-year-old then….   One way or another I got my first screw ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: More on the 2A3 comparisons by drdna on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I was thinking about this: how come that driving 6C33C (in fact driving anything one can imagine) the 6E5P was very fine but driving 2A3 it was dull like hell. I opened the amp and tested all – everything was perfect but th...
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