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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: PS for DHT heaters? by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DHT driver & input in Melquiades Amplifier  25 Replies 
Welll, you still did not express yourself what are the sonic verdure of DHT from your point of view. You are not obligated I juts proposed you to do it if you feel that have any observations on the subject. [quote user="guy sergeant"] I started by s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #252: I am a conscious and sane egotist. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-15 
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"] So I'm wondering how things are going for the bold explorers who forked over their expectations for a whack at the PP2000.  Have the things turned out to be Plug and Play along with All That, or is this yet another case whe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Different factors affecting bass quality by haralanov on 2009-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Sand damping it beautiful, it is well-recognized, but you do pay cost for it, in your case the cost is space. [/quote]I know that Romy… but without the massive amounts of sand, there are always some vibrations felt when I t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #97: This week. by Romy the Cat on 2016-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
This weekend I was walking in my new listening room and did some thinking how to organize everything. Unquestionably my first step would be convers Milq LF section (bass line-array) from Midas accommodation to drive my woofer tower, in a way how I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #224: Some listening today. by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Spent great time and with happy with result. Not the results are so spectacularly good but the playback is back to be operational that I was missing for a while.   Starting with films. The damn OPPO has not enough output for my Milq. I decided to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: JUst deal with it? by rowuk on 2014-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Shopping vs. Piano Shopping. in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
The really serious piano players I know either ignore it or buy a different piano. I have NEVER worked with a pianist that tried to make a piano something it currently wasn't. I think that when you are obcessed with your playing there are no syna...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Hickok Tube Testers: Quick Reference by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hickok Tube Testers: Quick Reference in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Hickok Model 600/600A/800/800A/533 Tube Tester   Quick Reference Instructions by Daniel Schoo from Illinois. AC LINE ADJUST: Push P7 and adjust the AC line control until the meter pointer is at the LINE mark at the center of the meter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #322: The tubey déjà vu? by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="floobydust"] One of the reasons I no longer use a tube tester. They make a measurement at a specific target operating point(s). You don't really know what it is, so what are the chances they will be close to your actual circuit opera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #179: Bass Channel OPT by anthony on 2019-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Today, I decided to measure input voltages that induce clipping in my operational DSET.  I basically just put in place the appropriate load resistor, set the signal generator at a level in the middle of the bandpass and increased voltage until the si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About DSET-driven multi-way acoustic system maintenance assessment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About DSET-driven multi-way acoustic system maintenance asse... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
In this thread I would like to talk a bit about the practice in DSET driven multi-way horns configuration. I have expressed my view that the architectural configuration that Macondo and Super Melquiades end up to be I find is the most interest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: About voltage starvation of EAR-834P input stage. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About EAR 834P Modifications in Analog Playback  45 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"]First, it seems like the tubes are starved.  They are running very low current.  The 12AX7 is also at low voltage.  I'm guessing they are running at about 0.3mA at 65V plate.  This operating point is way down...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Roundup: RAAL, “Water Drop”, Ribbons, Vitavox, generalizations. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio and Music: four levels of unity and separation or… by Romy the Cat on 2004-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio and Music: four levels of unity and separation or… in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Audio and Music: four levels of unity and separation or… ...or a short and slightly dipped into Dostoevsky essay about Audio inevitability in case of …an Audio progress. K???? ? ??????? ?? ???????????? ?? ??? - ?????? ?? ???:O?? ?????? ??? ?????...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Do I need another pair of TH ? by Murataltuev on 2015-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="scooter"]1. Please take a look around this site for some intelligence on how detrimental digital room correction is and why. Romy and Paul are being excessively polite today regarding DSP, perhaps because the weather is nice. I'll be mor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Must be a glass window. I can't see it. by oxric on 2011-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Anyhow, it is interesting how the new 25 users that get those Studio 8M will use them. I wish something “new” would derive from all of it…[/quote]Speaking only for myself, I am planning to use the Fane 8M in a pair of 11...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Winter Is But A Season by Dresden on 2008-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
In terms of the length of the horn, I'm allowing myself a total height of 7'6" (just below the average ceiling height of 8').  In regards to the mouth diameter, that's another matter.  (It appears that I will have to build two [2] different...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: The new life of the Fundamentals Channel. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Whoever implemented and experimented with my slicing of lower MF range by 3 channels (Upperbass, Fundamentals, and MF) know how powerful it might be. Changing loading and volume of each of the channels it is possible to write any sound one might ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The nature of the beast by jessie.dazzle on 2009-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
As I've said before, I consider myself a beginner. I'll try to bear that in mind as I write this, but it would be wrong to say that I have not amassed some experience on the subject. That experience would have me believe that most don't invest the ti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My direction is 2x4" + 12" + 2x15" + 4x23" by haralanov on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Romy, I do agree with all your comments. It is true that the magnitude of the rubber taste very much depends on the crossover frequency. I used them below 64Hz, but with first order filter, implemented before the amp that drives them. With that kind ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Genesis of UB115 and a beginner's guide to horn building by oxric on 2011-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rakeshorns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ...this interesting point has no practical answer. First of all in the case of Rakesh horn what N-Set proposed is not necessary. Those 115Hz Hasqiun-style horns that Rakesh emulates are well dumped with own mass and own ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: If you were to start from scratch, what horn system would you build? by Romy the Cat on 2012-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you were to start from scratch, what horn system would yo... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
 The bottom eaters from AA raised an interesting subject: http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/hug/messages/16/160276.html ... and of cause covered it within the scope of own fears and limitations.  I particularly like their idiotic ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: …a number of logical flaws… by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] I believe that although you may be wrong to make a difference between ULF and the rest of the frequency range….[/quote]I know when I wrote it I would raise some eyebrows of the few readers of my site who actually are thinking...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: 2) Set playback in-wide-phase to room or how to find AEZ by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Ok, how to start. First of all we have to understand that out subject of attention will be a region between approximately 80Hz and 500Hz or something that shape the fundamentals of the “melody range” within your playback. Search my site I have writte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Interesting, educational but in many aspects debatable in my view by Romy the Cat on 2018-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
[quote user="martinshorn"] What Klaus also highlighted, is the importance to him to unlimit dynamics - in order to achieve the most live-alike sound. First of all, he noticed that Goto pleases him the most with uncompressed transient attacks more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: The Injection Channel “defused” channel by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Your latest post got me thinking in a sort of incomplete way about how you might locate the injection channel... If you consider tone as a harmonic of the original source, then (depending on the order of harmonic) it may ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Re: ribbons - we will see... by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Likely, the wider ribbons are less good for HF-only than a long, narrow ribbon, like the G3 and G3Si use.  Across the board, the larger the ribbon gets (and the lower the ribbon is made to go), the worse ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Hunt for Speakers or for Result? by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speaker hunting in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Chirag, First off all you have to define what do you want from them. If at this moment you’re looking for something within $700 then very next year, when you finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range… :-) Now a lit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: What the Audio Neutrality deals with. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
It is absolutely amassing how many audio people misunderstand Audio Neutrality. The Audio Neutrality is one of the most import moments of audio reproduction and still it is misunderstood. Not good! The very first step to begin understanding of real ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The story of a guy, who is overload by his willing to make a good pun by samuel33 on 2007-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]..as recorded music is just the industry commodities. Therefore I absolutely do not share your enthusiasm about the “opportunity for a big record label”. The Guy’s clip depicted a well know phenomena, there are a few more ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: No problem by morricab on 2007-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
I have a problem with how you are using the english language, Romy.  You are using an absolute word (like absolute) to mean something you have invented and it is a relative thing.  This for me won't do.  I understand more or less what ...
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