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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Lamm ML3 review. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3 What is important is to undusted that my view  less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire cla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: An experiment by KS on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
I should have said UP or Down in the listening chair. Toward and away from the speakers will also do it, unless you're sitting midway between tweeter and mid of course, but not to the extent of up/down will.I just did an experiment with some fishing ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #106: Looking more for a right “class” of amp by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I really would not know where to start with most of the crap out there, since most commercial SS sounds like it makes "music" by inhaling it.  But I've heard "acceptable" units from those listed, albeit in some poor environ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The boom-tssza-tssza sound from ceramics by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"]I don't know where this goes, so I'm just starting it as a new thread; please move (or even edit or delete) as appropriate.  After reading too many wondourus reviews of ceramic driver speakers in general, and only havin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Vitavox drivers? by drdna on 2009-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EdgarHorn Speaker Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you are still in MF frustrations then I have something that you might find interesting. Recently I pick up in UK a pair of Vitavox S3 drivers. I figure that if you wish I might let you to play with before they die in my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-28 
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 
“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables PREFACE I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Integration in complex structure by Amir on 2009-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog vs. Digital... without BS. in Didital Things  23 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] The first key would be that the digital reproduction be of a high enough sample rate to fall below the threshold of perception. The scond would be, in my mind, that the process of reproduction not create a new structure, but r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: History of phono stage by drdna on 2008-12-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About EAR 834P Modifications in Analog Playback  45 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Adrian, I wonder how you wound up with the never-mentioned FET 10? I prefer it to the EAR 834 I heard. Is this another case where it's full of old caps? I would not be at all surprised if futzing with those caps might yield as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Again, do not get the things wrong. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A single worst thing in today’s acoustic systems. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
I think my complaining against HF might be understood as my position in opposition to HF in generals. There is nothing could be further from truth. I am a strong supporter of excessive bandwidth of electronics and acoustic systems. I do not min i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #194: APS Purepower 2000: Sound #4 by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The PP2000, eventually(!!!!), demonstrated something that I was looking for long time.  Years after year I read and listen comments of different audio people when they describe benefits of different power treatment devises and year after year th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #712: The former faulty presentation and the rest sentiments by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I am looking back and my last 2 month frustrations with presentation width, with vertical midbass horns integrations,  with relatively aggressive sound bite, with somehow overly labored lateral imaging propagation prom Macondo and am realizing th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Memories of audio elements. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Memories of audio elements. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I have written about it multiple times but the site has become so big that it is getting hard to find anything that took place in past. Anyone knows that amplifier and particularly tube amplifier need some times after they get turn on to soun...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Playback and operation on character's boundaries by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playback and operation on character's boundaries in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
All Acoustic System or let say playbacks has signature or some kind of own character of sound. That is normal we all accept it and live with it. It is important to differentiate a character of playback from major mistakes of playback, but it is a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Good Compression: Low Level Extension by Pacific? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
I have to admit that I was experimenting last night with Pacific’s Low Level Extension and it was not bad at all. It would not be my last words as I would need the whole system up and running to see what is going on – the region where the Low Level E...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: A few comments about the big ass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
1)      If you decided to use the 12” JBL 2206H driver then I doubt  that you might talk about 4” throat. A 12” driver with wide outer suspension might go with 7”-8” throat. The 6” might do, though it might be a stretch....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #683: Thoughts about PP2000 butteries and incoming AC. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
First of all this post is NOT related to the recent PP2000 problems but it has a border, general view. The recent LX’s posts made me to think about the PP2000 buttery. He reports that his buttery got way weaken from 2009. I used my older PP200...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: APS is coming, APS is coming… + some bitching. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I have to admit that my first unsuccessful experiment with APS PurePower regenerator made me anxious like hell. In context of the none-loaded unit I’ve heard some results that I was searching for a long time. The APS claim that they have “fixed” it a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: It is not so simple…. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to make money in Audio in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"] You can become that which you most hate:  a Reviewer![/quote]Actually to review audio products is not something that I would hate but it I has to be only on my terms – the condition that certainly does not exist and would not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Who know? by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Practicality of paper mache horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Gargoyle, I do not know the answer. I have two friends who make paper MF horns and they claim that they are fine. I did not heard their system but even if I did then there a very high change that I would not be able to say anything defiantly. To s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: The ultra wide PLL? by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="miab"]Yes the Bidat does lock 48khz very well and so does the Idat-m. Something even more suprising and coming from someone that knows these dacs very well is that on a few samples of Bidat they even lock at 96khz! Alas I am not so l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Real world 24 bit recording by tuga on 2009-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How many Bits needed for FM, the Accuphase T1000 dilemma. in Off Air Audio  6 Replies 
Hello Romy, While discussing SACD’s and DVD-A’s aledged superiority in a webforum a recording engineer posted his description of real world 24 bit recording. I don’t really feel like translating the whole thing but I’ll try to sumarize it in numb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: More on Goto vs. Fane speculations. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-15 
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="be"]Both the Fane and the Goto where used as compression drivers, so there where no principal differences of use. [/quote] Wow, who made such experiment? Bring this person to my forum, it would be interesting to interview him! I still d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Problems with horns: tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
All that I will be saying are the subject of my own experience with horns and my personal observations. You shouldn’t agree and most likely you will not. That is fine with me. I have lot of reasons behind what I will be saying and opened for some cla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Yes and No by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Audio News  80 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]For me, the gratuitous mention of "name" yachts in the early part of the blurb is such an obvious Pimp Job that I literally could not get past it on my first try.  And I have to disagree about the "design', and the "execution...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Russian mythology and Horn loudspeakers by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Russian mythology and Horn loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
A few months John Hasquin sent me a picture of someone’s horns suggesting … actually he did not suggested anything but after I saw the picture I was laughing hard and quite long.  I found that those horns were very symptomatic to the most horns ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: “How audio might sound” by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “How audio might sound” in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
Audio people know how “live” music sounds and what impact it has to listener. Well not all of them know, and a large number of them never visited concert halls and are familiar with music only by the chest pressure that they experienced at pop-clubs ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Thirsty Horses, Water & Bio-Recordings by jessie.dazzle on 2007-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
Romy's Quotes in blue : "...recorded music is just the industry commodities... Therefore I absolutely do not share your enthusiasm about the “opportunity for a big record label”.I'm not really expecting it to happen (I have some experience wit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Amplifier is not a 'product' but a 'solution'. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"] No-one is criticising the ML3 (amplification) product. We are discussing the concept and the applicability of such products, i.e. the ultimate limitation of an amplifier called upon to work from DC to daylight and, accordingly, d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: 6C41C the verdict by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6C41C – the journey to nowhere. in Melquiades Amplifier  1 Replies 
OK, the amp is running for the 6C41C for a few days and it looks like the tube should be burned-in sufficiently enough for now. Still I have to note that the sound of 6C41C was not changed since my initial listening of this tube. Originally I drove ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Melquiades Sound: a month later by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
After a month of listening exclusively Melquiades and decided yestoday re-switch everything and to play Lamm’s ML2. I was quite shocked with the result and I did not anticipate the ML2 could be so way off. I will not elaborate about the a...
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