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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Ocean Way Audio HR2 loudspeaker by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new CES 2010 loudspeaker? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
Thanks, ferenc. I went to Ocean Way Recording the Federated Mike mentioned but I did not see anything in there and I did not know that they have also an oceanwayaudio.com site. They call it the HR2 and it was built for them by Allen Sides, so ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Delayed Response by Paul S on 2022-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Those little headphones… in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
I've had lots of down time for a while now, and I just saw the old IEM (in-ear monitor/earbud) post while mining the site. I already posted that I got a Crane CC2E radio, mostly to listen to nighttime re-broadcasts of the local symphony orchestra. I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #138: Cap and Coil by Paul S on 2009-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Romy, I suspect that 200 Hz high-pass will be too low for that driver, even 2nd order, and almost certainly with just 6 dB roll-off.  I think more like 500 Hz with 1st order, and might still require the coil.Yellow-type drivers take on and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reading an official audio publication - TAS by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reading an official audio publication - TAS in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
What did you know; I was in Barnes & Noble and bought a first for quite long time September TAS magazine.  I do not subscribe audio publications but seldom buy them. Since I did not do it for as long time I though it will be entertaining.  It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The JBL Sound: 4435 – 4355 – Everests… by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new beast from JBL: Everest DD66000 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
I never heard Everests and I hardly feel that I ever will hear them in a reasonable installation as the people who would use Everests most likely will be the people of “different type”. Still, I wonder if the Everests are the JBL’s 21st century glori...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: HS-80 by Retrofunk on 2017-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
With regard to 'How fast to get to correct speed' These are my steps:- Hand spin the flywheel first- Hand rotate the platter until the Tach reads around 33rpm- Start the motor - Speed will be within 2-3% straight away - Due to the PSU altering the vo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: The clock doubler. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
I do not know what to say. Daniel is very knowledgeable person and it is the dual-wire specification (as I was told today) then I would doubt that Mr. Weiss would not comply with it. It is possible that it does it, you might not know how to activate ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: Making an inclosure....my experience by Thorsten on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rightsizing from extreme systems.... in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]T, also if you knockewd up a small monitor then let me give you a lead that you might or not might find worth attention.[/quote]I'm taking the opposite appraoch to speaker enclosures. I accept that enclosure resonance...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Tannoy Barkingside by starboy on 2007-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
My preferred type of speaker is a full range ribbon, though I've always had a monkey/Tannoy on my back which is surprising as I don't really care for box speakers. I've heard many over the years but I was never really that impressed but wan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Thx by derik736 on 2016-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rare Onkyo HM-300 MK2 Horn...need info in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Hi Romy,thanks for your message. I wasn´t aware that Japan made so many different horn speakers back in the days. Looks like they knew what they did...I like these horns a lot :) They are by far not that involving and musical like my Tannoy Monitor G...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #213: Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) by Paul S on 2010-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Sounds like you have the important parts, all right.  Well done!I am in Crossover Hell, myself, just now.  They are the Devil's Playground!  If you can get the drivers' actual, in-the horn, in the room, raw active data curves, then I recommend LEAP a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #148: I didn't have to seal by Wojtek on 2010-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
because floor josts support and extend the walls (they are solid  2"x6")so just screwed the board tightly to them. Because I needed the boards only within 10' so I have 3 rows of 5' +5' with the seam in the middle. I cut the second layer of bards so ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The Summer Monitors? by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="starboy"]… though I've always had a monkey/Tannoy on my back which is surprising as I don't really care for box speakers.. [/quote]I am playing now with something similar. I have a small sealed monitor 14 by 24 with an unavoidable 10” Re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: If it's the speakers themselves that you want to hear by Paul S on 2007-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good commercial speakers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
SamFrom your listings perhaps you do not mind if certain qualities of the speakers themselves come to the fore, as long as you get other things you want?I think the Verity Parsifals do need the Encore (is that it?) bass units, and you'd certainl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80 in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
A couple hours ago WHRB stage own 4 days long, day and night Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. The Broadcast is available on line – a phenomenal work listening… The program is more then exiting: Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a; Sargent, Philharmo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to test 6C33C? by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to test 6C33C? in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
It is sucks to live with Russians Tubes.  It is particular sucks to live with 6C33C. They are all deferent when they new, they age very ungracefully and differently. The life with Super Melquiades, where I use 6x6C33C driving individual channe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Bogus reply about nothing... by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Monitors: Wishful thinking in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Ronny, it is funny because I was juts about to carve my further observations about the Sound of my monitors. Last night I was listening Rigoletto by Callas and Gobbi on my monitor.  I come to an interesting observation that I would like Monitors...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Super Milq Change: the amplifier for Tweeters by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
OK, I have conceptualized what I need for the tweeter amp. It will be MilqEZ – the same Milq one with 6C19P at output. I will use the Super Melquiades power supplies but the HF channels will host own last caps of the filters and own bias of the both ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: HE 2004 follow up – “Zanden” retraction by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My trip to the Stereophile’s HE 2004 Show in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
This site never meant to be a popular and was more meant to be as my personal diary but since the site become quite popular (today was a third day in a row as the over 300 discreet visitors visited the site per day) then I would like to maintain it a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A comfort or a shortage of complexity? by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What lives in Symmetric Sound? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
Richard, I absolutely agree with you that dipole provides a masking affect from many problems but along with illumination of the badly reproduced bass dipoles inject into music a common denominator of…  dipolenisness….. and this something that ...

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 #6: Juts to address a myth by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital in Didital Things  13 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]The interesting thing about the Bottlehead people is that they are pretty good guys. "High and outside" is I think Paul Stubbelbine, who is an expert at mastering.  He remastered my girlfriend's last album.  I was very i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to switch moving coil signal by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to switch moving coil signal in Analog Playback  1 Replies 
I wonder what kind sound not-impacting methods exist to connect and disconnect signal from moving coil cartridges.  If we are talking about the switching the .1mV signal and monitor the results within a fairly high capacity playback then it beco...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: maybe they care.. but they aren't paid to- just sell more records.. by stuck.wilson on 2006-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ways to use audio methods. in Playback Listening  10 Replies 
i definitely see what you're saying there.. but i do wonder if it has more to do with the economics and the powers that be than a full on case of negligence.  most sound engineers-- or at least those i've known (and not the bastard species of fa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: How to test vibration vs. re-entry? by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Impulse response, short notes and midbass horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="unicon"]Bass FRQ have enough power to vibrate horn mouth and constructional area nearby them.  use a chip contact Mic in your horn mouth n monitor how does it vibrate Remember the time I insisted for having access to your midbass horn dr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: (monitor vs hifi speakers) VS room response by unicon on 2009-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: (monitor vs hifi speakers) VS room response in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
hey . i have been wandering around for an article about acoustic measurements untill i found something challenging monitors vs hifi. i dont care alot about monitor vs hifi comparsion.  but ...here is the link :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_moni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #120: Ok, this is already something that made me more encouraged. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I ran a series of the test for L – the listening distance and L+ a few and L- a few feet from two positions of right channel LF source. One position is the best location of the woofer from room décor stand point and another is “bay” location, where t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Placette is back to business. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-29 
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 
OK, got the Placette from the second round of "modification", it took 15 second to confirm that the HF problems that I sniffed out was not there anymore – so the absolute transparency is back to the business and this time the word “absolute” could be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I am not the best person to ask. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schimmel's Voxativ Ampeggio speakers in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
[quote user="StylinLP"]Romy what is your opinion on Art Dudley's review and Stereophiles announcement Product of the Year of the Schimmel's Voxativ Ampeggio speakers. I've been reading all the magazines for 15 years and I am shocked that they did. Th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: I do not think I use HDCD by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] So, all the files you've recorded @ 24/88.2 have the HDCD flag? And you've never noticed? How can this be? I'm sure I've read your previous posts Romy where you state that you don't agree with HDCD for >16/44.1 and that ...
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