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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Applied presbyacusis and ringing by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamamura's 6 ways in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
I do not believe in applied presbyacusis. It is not that I do understand the subject of loosing spectral sensitively with age but I certainly do not feel that deterioration of HF sensitivity makes a person more or less capable to register music.  We ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: The speaker-reviewer synergy. by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
 I think 15 years back I was speaking with a famous industry person who told that the responsibility of an individual who run an audio publication is to match the stupidity of audio product to the stupidity of reviewer. he said that if manufacture ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Redundant dual-wire cable by manisandher on 2009-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The problem is that I detect that if I record in 44/24 or 88/24 in single-wire mode but the second wire is connected from Lynx to Pacific (and the line is muted by Lynx mixer) then I do have worsening of sound quality. The ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: A testimony from a site’s visitor. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Form email I got from John Wright “PS, In case you care, the Bidat gets better all the time with fresh updates ….I mean it will sound broken in comparison. I have made some very good changes to the power supply and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Discussing attenuation? With whom? by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Weiss Engineering DAC202 in Didital Things  5 Replies 
[quote user="coops"]I thought we were just discussing attenuation, regarding connectivity the Weiss sounds best via it's firewire input,just a bit sharper, I find everything is a little more clearly defined than AES /s/pdif.Keith.[/quote] Nope, we do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: It would be much more beneficial for Truth. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sakuma's Show in Audio Discussions  35 Replies 
Thanks, John. We all adults and we all know how much difference between Realty and what we see on TV, particularly if we have done TV for living. As I told Sakuma might be is more interesting then the cult that I feel purely artificially is made abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I said “more friendly” - I did not say better. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tuuubes - where are the hard vacuums going? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
I’m very far from being able to express any more or less valuable opinion on the subject however, what I understand that they/you are taking about small signal-level devised. Whatever it worth, I feel that pure SS can care line-level tasks perfectly ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Re: EdgarHorns crash .... by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] BUT, I think it is more exactly what you say that the midrange horn is round and the lower midrange horn is rectangular.  They sound different and it is more easy for me to hear the presence of the rectangular horn. [/quote]...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Whew… back to sanity! by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wharfedale Super 12/RS/DD 12" full range driver in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
Well, Daren,there is a huge difference between the 1.200 sq feet and 12.000 sq feet. The 1.200 sq feet is a good size room the 12.000 sq feet is good size concert hall for a couple thousand people…. So we are back to a sane listening room…. :-)Intere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: It is Hot! The summer playback by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rightsizing from extreme systems.... in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
The damn Milqs and everything else do a lot of hit and I have been running during the hot days a pair of small monitors with consumer-grade 100V A/B amplifier. The only requirement that I have that the 100V A/B is driver from my default preamp and I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Sakuma and his sound. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sakuma's Show in Audio Discussions  35 Replies 
At the 7-level perceptual paradigm was operating not Sakuma by Cho-sun for Micro-Seiki. Sakuma was not operating in my view at any level but just listed highly band-passed, highly compressed gray sound. Nl, feels that “Systems like these are all abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #236: Dynamics and Avicenna by drdna on 2009-01-05 
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"] I played the full system today driven from Avicenna possessor.[/quote]Yay! [quote user="Romy the Cat"]It was interesting.[/quote]Uh oh. [quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, in my view this sonic elasticity of sound was with Avic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #114: The feline hypocrisy of the MiniMe caliber? by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Actually it turned out that LE5-2/2105 are much more complicated driver and to sound right it need way more complex crossover then juts a band-pass the I initially unused. I spend some time with it today but did not find a configuration the I feel co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: DEQ 2496 sound by drdna on 2009-02-11 
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="Romy the Cat"]Funny I thought that that for MiniMe it would not be so critical but as soon I plugged the DEQ-2496 in MiniMe pass I have heard that depersonalized DEQ sound.[/quote]It is funny how some people seem to not hear this at all ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The low voltage film capacitors. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is the buzz: the V-Caps? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
I am now involved in incredibly interesting project (tell you later about it what have firm result) where I need to use a between stages a cap that cares 1V and practically no current. The best film caps that I tried were 100V-400V and they actually ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: I do not think that voltage drop is a problem by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I have stated several times that the ML2s are less sensitive to bad electricity than my phono stage, and this is true. However, this is not to say that the amps are immune to bad electricity. In fact, it is the effects of bad el...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Intermodulation by el`Ol on 2008-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Measuring reality: empirical mode decomposition in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
I don´t know whether the audio industry`s products are so sophisticatet that they need mathematical steam hammers to improve them. In a German forum there is a discussion about a diploma work from the TU Berlin where the student found out in psychoac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: To “compensate for bad electricity”? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]What a relief! No matter how many times it happens, at some point I always wind up adjusting my system to compensate for bad electricity! [/quote] I would concur with it – sine the temperature dropped last week here in Boston the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A new European production of 12AX7? by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new European production of 12AX7? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
I have heard that here and there an advertising of new 12AX7 production.http://www.musicdirect.com/product/73403I wonder if it is the truly new production of some kind of new manufacturer (like Emission Labs or similar) or juts rebranded and repainte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Berning amps and “switching Oops” injection? by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
Merlin, might I ask you if you can recognize anything from my post: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=6020... in the sound of your Berning amp?Rgs, teh caT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: High frequency and sharp filters by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] The ribbon is 100% tonally … If you use this tweeter lower than 10kHz your system will be totally unlistenable because you cannot reproduce the proper tone of harmonics.[/quote] It is pretty much what I found as well during m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #451: “Perfect electricity”, let see where it would lead… by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
OK, I agree – it might be not necessary as PP2000 does produce fine electricity in a convenient package. Furthermore it violates the rule that I try to follow in audio generally: define snick objective and ONLY then render audio methods. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #279: What is relevant and what is irrelevant by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Floobydust, and this is exactly why I ask what “other available solutions for clean power” do the job but do not “hurt” sound. The reason why I ask is because if I know, let say 3-4 devises, of the different designs that do the “electricity cure” w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #357: Smile when you say that! by drdna on 2009-07-06 
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"]I do not remember that “recommended” APS. I do insist that it is the only devise If  does what I want a power devise to do with sound. Is it as recommendation or motivation to buy for others? [/quote]Actually, Romy specific...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #368: I still think that we still talk about different things. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The noise that PP generated in my case during the first minutes of charging a completely discharged battery was nothing close to “buzzing” or “buzzing saw wave oscillation”. It more sound like a very strong stream of water rushing out nozzle. It is m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #173: I would like to go V-FET… by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Well, since I will not experiment with many of them I'm  kind of narrowing down the scope of the amps that I would like to get. In 70s-80s break there was a short period of time when Yamaha and Sony made top of the line amps around V-FET output t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Not really sure what you mean? by mjloudspeaker on 2009-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Class “D” – the industry does it again. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]A could years ago here and there begun to pop up small SS class “D” amplifiers made with high-end pretence. They all sounded like shit but by the efforts of a number of typically deaf and stupid or just simply whorish audio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: ... the equally empty version #152424 by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About moronity of DIY Audio movement. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Glenn Gould one said that a pianist shell not record new recording is they not willing to express by their interpretation something that was not expressed before. Surrey, who needs 253252recording of the same Beethoven concerto if 95% of them are jus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Josh: My visit to Romy the Cat's Macondo by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Josh: My visit to Romy the Cat's Macondo in Audio For Dummies ™  28 Replies 
In reference to :  https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/multi-way/333079-visit-romy-cats-macondo.html   I was pointed out to me that Josh posted his commentary about me at diyaudio.com site. Since he was actively posted at this forum I was presuming th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The “Melquíades” Sound - further continuation of story by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
People, keep asking me about the sound of Melquíades and I feel strange as I really can’t not explain how it sounds. It does not make any sense as I initiated this thread with the objective to explain or at least to inform about the Melquíades’ sound...
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