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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Mono cartridges: please not here. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
John, I had nothing to do with Voyd or Pink Triangle, I also not a big fan of Audio Note UK. Mono cartridges is good, in fact I feel that Mono Cartridges IS A MUST for anyone who do analog more of less serious. Defiantly a second arm is more conveni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #835: “…the cause must now be explored.” by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]Romy, this is very interesting indeed. I'm assuming that the sonic difference between these two files is in line with the sonic difference you hear between bad and good 'electricity' days when you're just listening to music,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I have good feeling about this project. by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dannoy 2021 Loudspeakers in Audio For Dummies ™  24 Replies 
My idea of Dunnoy loudspeaker took an interesting turn. I would like to capitalize upon what I discovered above an to vandalize my woofer towers, factoring Tanoy Red in it. So, it will ended up with Reds working in a half of wolfed towers w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Dominating yellowness by Bud on 2005-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Romy, I actually prefer the essence from the other end of summer, that wet, clear water running sound, so exuberant and hopeful ... though autumnal music has its own joys.. you only need encounter Vivaldi's  Four seasons portrayed by N. Marrine...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: These are beautiful indicators... by Gregm on 2007-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SET and speakers: disregard Volume in Audio For Dummies ™  4 Replies 
If I may add, from experience, following and including Romy's post above:1) In cases of established incompatibility with a average power SET, more output energy (55W), will not completely clear the above 2) and esp. make 3) less "muddy" or ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Some spaghetti of thoughts: distortions, 834 by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"] After many years, Romy has come to enjoy this style of amplification.  If I read his words correctly, the sound of these machines brings him more emotion and connection with the music and musicians.  An admiral goal.&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The best speaker in the world, is yet again available by Gregm on 2007-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best speaker in the world, is yet again available in Audio News  9 Replies 
      ...For only $ 25k: http://polymeraudio.com/index.html It is sold under the name Polymer Audio and these people also sell amplifiers called "DK design"I haven't listened to this product & am referring here to the unusual ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The DD, Idler or Belt from 50.000 feet. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
Stitch, the only thing that you are missing is paying attention to the OMA advertisements and truing to recognize behind it any rational beside a pimp yearling own merchandise (in fact it is not his merchandises). I told many times before tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #117: How my phonostage shall sound. by Romy the Cat 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 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Also do not forget that the phonostage that you built has very lash and very polite sound. [/quote]I would like to stress the politeness and lushness of 834PT-AIR phonocorrector. This characteristic of this phonostage s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Now we are taking! by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
[quote user="mem916"]I never tried the Onyx.  I had an Urushi, then a Jade, and now a Coralstone.  No I didn't buy any of them in the US so I paid a lot less than the crazy retail prices people throw around.  I only know one person personally who...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Any tool in hands of barbarian produces a barbarian result. by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog is Back 2011: Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable in Analog Playback  4 Replies 
Yep, another TT but what does it mean “Analog is Back” and “new hope for the discriminated analog Audiophile”? This language is a crap that industry and armature cheerleaders develop to pump themselves and others up. However, in my view this lang...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My old Fi-Hi gear associations... by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My old Fi-Hi gear associations... in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
  I was cleaning my old file server and found my old associations after auditioning some of High End gear...   Atma-Sphere  Lying in a bathroom with the bathtub filled with motor oil. Spectral  Begging for any liqu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Arrival ... by montesquieu on 2019-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
Very interesting Amir. I am also waiting on a Model 5, to arrive in the UK. It was ordered some months ago but I ordered a balanced version (this one will be all-balanced - two balanced inputs and balanced output) and that's tak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Re: Better among worst? by morricab on 2005-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
As to the best transformers souding more transparent than the best resistors, I'll believe it when I (don't?) hear it.  You claim to have heard this but I most certainly haven't.  Based on theoretical arguments the noninductive metal film r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My feelings about new exciting audio products by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I kind of feel that I am way off in my familiarity about what is going on with new audio products. My horizon is very restricted with my own needs and with my own interests. I am irregularly read audio publications and irregularly visit some audio si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The Lapmpizator and the rest of them. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CEC TL0-X: by no means an in-depth review in Didital Things  17 Replies 
I do not know the Lapmpizator but from what I have seen at his site I would not invest a lot into his assessment of sound.  Those people, like most of those audio-DIY people, do not any sonic objectives and their actions are just a series of endl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Dueland capacitors by drdna 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  55 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]then everyone here will just read, "gullible". However I admit to being totally hypnotized by the Duelund spiel, which I find oddly compelling despite no real, "serious" information apart from the sort mystical, quasi-reverential...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: I understand but... by N-set on 2021-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
I still highly recommend making the intellectual effort (was quite substantial for me) and reading that Jung chapter. You might recognize in his analysis of alchemists quite  a few psychological things you have been talking about in audio for yea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to evaluate playback... or the Six-Leveled-Listening Benefits™ by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to evaluate playback... or the Six-Leveled-Listening Ben... in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
A few year back a Russian audiologist A. Likhnitsky’s published a book “Sound Quality: New approach to testing of the home audio equipment”.  (P&K, 1998) The book has many positive moments and altogether it was a wonderful attempt to bring i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: YL audio, ALE, GOTO, and Onken... good post. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="angeloitacare"] Of course, Avantgarde with their price tag never will be for mass consumption. I offered Holger then to see If I could commercialize his horns in japan, Do u know how much was the dealer price for a pair of trios at that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I really want to meaningfully reply to this by Dominic on 2007-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The IDEAL horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[i]"because I "foresaw" that it would take a personally-developed 5-way system with dedicated amps not only to optimize this approach, but it would take about that just to overcome what I did/do not like about horns"[/i]I tend to think it's more w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Scalford: another view from a perpetrator by amdismal on 2013-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
And as one of the other perpetrators...The nature of this kind of thing is compromise.  The owner of the bass horn system wanted to run them together, for the enlarged horn mouth, and so we did - there was never going to be enough time to play about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Replica my tail! by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The African compression electromagnet drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  42 Replies 
[quote user="vinylithicum"] Here are some of my observations regarding the Wolf von Langa RCA 1428 replica. I long time wondered where mr. von Langa gets his phase correction elements and the diaphragm for his RCA 1428 replica. It's obvious that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Why I do not like La-horns. The tomatoes… by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not like La-horns. The tomatoes… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
The Jean-Michel Le Cléac'h’s horns or as I call them La-Horns get a lot of popularity among people who are trying to build horns loaded systems. But as anything else in audio the Morons hear any noise and they has no idea how to associate the noi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Not completely ready to give up on the idea by Iraschwips on 2018-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Trash your “full-rage”, single-driver acoustic systems. in Audio For Dummies ™  10 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Also, I need to mention that a very small monitor made with a full range driver that I heard once was the most interesting sound the I even hear in audio. It was not the most interesting sound overall but there was one s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Integrated sound field optimization. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Integrated sound field optimization. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
A few days ago I visited a local friend of mine. He has a decent audio setup in his living room with mid-size monitors. Leaving aside what sound he is getting just would note that I know what to expect in his room. This time it was a bit more the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The midbass merge and about the new environment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Marc HENRY"]La Grande Castine will not be as expensive as Cessaro Gamma. i am sorry but i cannot answer to all questions, for several reasons you can understand.we have tested many drivers since the early prototype of La Grande Ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #110: OK, for a first time I like the San Audio Kit. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
If I say that it was horrible with San Audio 2A3 driven with buttery biased 6E5P then I really meant it.  I got home today tune it on and it was so bad that decided that it shell not use it as is. Even though it an experimental amps but still it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #159: The electricity problems… The Armageddon? by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
  This weekend I made an interesting experiment.  I had a visitor yesterday. The gay is not what I call overly critical and overly demanding listener but he is not a typical Audio Moron and has from my point of view a proper and sane react...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1473: Daisy chaining of ground wires by JOHNR on 2015-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
You should take care that you do not daisy chain the ground leads. Refer to following text.From my perspective, you should treat the L and N leads as one type of circuit and the PE as a separate circuit.  Electrical codes, rules etc do not insist tha...
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