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I like them and use the quite extensively. As the comparing result between the headphones and the loudspeakers…. they are different. The best speakers sound-wide would do a similar result to what the headphones can do but the loudspeakers but will ha...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do have the answers about the right objectives but I have my reasons do not share them with you and I would like you to develop those answers for yourself.[/quote]Fair enough.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... Sine you willi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]buy a box of Epoisses Berthaut cheese. Just one sniff of this French wonder will give you an instant reference about the YO186 sound.[/quote]La fromage de les Epoisses du Borgogne, c'est ma favorite. Bad news since the YO1...
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Decoud, When and if you but Milq then I would encourage you to make an experiment. Disconnect all basing schema that I implemented for Milq and bias the driver stage with regular fix, buttery or cathode bias. The amp will be working perfectly fine. N...
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Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdf[/quote] I have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if it might v...
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Ok, can you in subjective trims describe what do you feel is wrong with your sound. disregard the speakers and channels, tell juts your pure reaction to what it is. The cat...
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BWO wrote:Look here on some clipped out material Jim Smith says about computer and sound:...
Certainly the position that Jim took in there is highly arguable to say at least. The only “excuse” that I might see in it t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Another a very valid thing to try is to see of the same difference with the same recordings happens with different DACs, preamps the you will take care of the absolute phase. [/quote]To date, my listening has been with my f...
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[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...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The HF Range “F” channel: The 6E6P-DR at 30mA connected at tetrode. The filter is second order with Sowter 9858 Pultec MEQ-5 EQ Inductor 420/277/145/108/61/34 mH) and variable air cap. The variable inductance and capacitan...
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Sure, it is fully colored in JBL self-glorifying propaganda and their drivers from the last 20 years do not sound good but it is interesting to read that their objectives are remarkably similar to what I was trying to accomplish by my “Fundamentals C...
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[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...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]our perception has kind of reversed logarithmic scale for tone resolution, so what.those definitions not bind to our perception[/quote]The definitions about theorical sound never bind or help our ears to hear soundWe humans...
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I do not know that guy but I can predict that it sounds fine, all 200 drivers, or wherever he uses. The point is to acknowledge what processes the system use and what is responsible for reportedly good sound. I do feel that what Eugenie attributers a...
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The DC biasing of filtering caps was something that I was advocating for years but recently I was pointed out that German Avantgarde took it a bit further. I did not use this method but it goes sound interesting. Read the Avantgarde’s document, the p...
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[quote user="analog10"]Hello, this is my first post here - this is a wonderful web site, critical and fair - a lot of knowledge here and i consider you real connoiseurs - that's why i'm hoping to resolve my problem here.
I have a Micro Seik...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1) Be very careful with use Halco resistors. They were very good 15 years back but they turned south very aggressively. I bought a party of Halco in 2005 and I forced myself to trashed them as they were very noisy. You...
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Well, it happened with me, one of my HH of my DAW, or as they call it “music server”, went down. It does not recognize by BIOS anymore, suck, it would be costly to recover data from there. Partially the most important f...
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One more thing…
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] When I talk about “right quality” I mean that audio people are fools and when they see 176KHz sampling rate then they automatically assume some king of “quality”. The industry takes now and will take...
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That is why what I refer to “transport” I refer to the very primary duty – to read an optical disk and the ability to create more advanced sound out of it. As a persons who am familiar with the best optical disk rea...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yesterday I was working for a half day at the part of the house were my Altec 19 are sitting and just to keep myself entertained I set up the Altec 19 to play from my add-hog playback: Sony $30 DVD player, Yamaha C2A preamp...
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I would like to pass some summarizing observations and some generalizations regarding the entire “Water Drop” project.
THE IDEA
The idea of trying to find a tweeter to compliment Macondo was a good idea. Many of you know that I was proudly declari...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The subject of midbass nasal sound is very interesting. In addition to all OTHER aspects that might lead to midbass honk I would like to note that there is one that is in my view greatly overlooked – the precision of re...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Interesting the stressing the importance of the listening room Rakesh went into depth of discussing reference clocks and YL drivers that are very irrelevant to the subject of the rooms. The Rony’s comment about the expressi...
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Thank you Romy for saying this very important statement about Macondo topology. I believe that this is very very important and imperative for your numerous readership to "get this." I, for one, have no intention whatsoever of copying your efforts, a...
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Another “interesting” thing... Any amplifier that I know is absolutely disabled to let me as a listener to extract from music something without unavoidable loosing a perspective to the whole musical peace. The Melquiades swallows this task with ...
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Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"] After some experiments and still being dissatisfied with the HF I ended up consulting with Dima. He spread me a theory according to which the HF was killed by my coupling Silver Mica cap. All my arguments that sil...
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I began to research live broadcasts in my area, and I found there is one station that broadcasts live every Saturday morning some local folk music, readings, sort of variety show, from a local club I have actually been to in Berkeley. I had no idea. ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do some very interesting experiments with Rohde & Schwarz tuner. Dima and I have discovered a way to use the Schwarz without the wide bandwidth amplifier, driving the Multiplex Decoder from the Schwarz’s preamps. Bas...
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A reader of my site sent me interesting information. It looks like Accuphase came up with a new model: T1100.
http://www.accuphase.com/cat/t-1100_e.pdf
In this new model more functionality went to DSP, but the most important the ...
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