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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: I do not think in terms of “should” but rather as “could”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Well, Jessie, I think you're  exercising a wishful thinking but you have, I think, a wrong subject for your thinking. Neither Lamm nor any other high-end manufacture care about result as a concept but rather a result as product. A product b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The West-Silba LochTone Ness Manga-Electric? by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"] Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations. The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: As good as any other obsession… 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 
Well, I did not mean to express any specific attitude to Bottlehead people - the only experience I had to them was a few years ago visiting their meeting right here in Boston (I did not know what Bottlehead wa all about at that time). The meeting was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: The Allnic’s Mystery and class “F” operation by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
It is not a the thread about Allnic but LCR RIAA correctors, still there was something expressed in here about the Allnic LCR phonocorrector… and  I feel bad about it. It is not that I don’t think that Allnic LCR phonocorrector deserve positive m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Shunted to ground by anthony on 2016-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I sometimes visit an Australian site and familiarize myself with progress of “acg” who it trying to build Macondo like acoustic system.   http://www.stereo.net.au/forums/index.php/topic/75784-deep-end-diy-my-first-speak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: EdgarHorns and the ordinary pile of audio Morons. by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]Looking again at the EdgarHorns, the placement in the room seems nearly optimal and they are now properly time aligned.  Looking at the phase of the individual drivers and listening to each of them individually revealed that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Bravo, Stereophile: Advent loudspeakers by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bravo, Stereophile: Advent loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
No mater how ridicules the title of this article sounds on my site but I was quite glad to see the in the May’s issues of Stereophile the Robert J. Reina review of Advent loudspeakers. I do not think that Advent’s review is a sign of some kind of sin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: About the 6E5P stability by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]BTW, how stable 6E5P is? I'm asking as I was contemplating biasing the output by the voltage drop on 6E5P's plate choke (DCR is say around 1k),with only some minimal autobias on the output. The drawback is that any drift in th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Educate yourself WHY you buy your loudspeakers? by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Educate yourself WHY you buy your loudspeakers? in Audio For Dummies ™  0 Replies 
People who frequent at my site know my constant intend to assess performance of audio before even thinking to make any changes: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=432 Approaching from this mindset I always ask people who buy n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #429: One of the reasons why I do not write reviews… by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] I can tell you already it will work. I have experimented extensively with adding lengths of metal to cables. It works well, but you can do a lot more by fine-tuning the amount of metal and in fact adjusting it slightly from l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: Keep your head on your pillow. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] However, in an earlier post, where you suggested that I was knocking 'at the wrong door', you wrote:… Having said this, we should not be overly concerned or surprised about a few inconsistencies coming from you so I do not re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Prerequisites. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
The whole notion of the de Charlus’ quest I find to be very interesting. Charlus feels that only use horn topology and compression drivers is able to deliver “superior” audio result, at least it was his experience. I do not feel that horn topolog...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Was there... by Romy the Cat on 2022-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Weiss Introduces New High-End TT! in Audio News  11 Replies 
Saying all that I said let do not fool outsells. The concept to have in plater and base hollow spaces to be file with dynamic dumper is very good idea if it is done properly. What is properly? This is very deep subject, and the reference might be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reallocation of efforts: Realm of Reason by Romy the Cat on 2013-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reallocation of efforts: Realm of Reason in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I met a few days back a person who does high-end audio and in fact he does. He has multiple turntables, he has discrimination taste in audio components/elements, has his ideas how a playback might or should be built. For all intended purpose he i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to build the best audio payback by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to build the best audio payback in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
I sometime try to address broad and purely abstractive audio issues, still without a big hope then it would be properly understood or properly interpreted by most of the readers, not to mention anyone else. An average audio person do not need a broad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The lay of land: Alzheimerized Audio and gramophone effect. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About destiny of “High-End Sound”. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Make an experiment. Take any of those contemporary “highly reputed playback systems” and roll of their HF and LF unit you reach gramophone bandwidth. You might narrow the bandwidth with electric (LC) filers or with mechanical filers it would not be r...

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 #189: Purepower 2000: Operation: DC component follow up. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-22 
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"] There was a moment once want I drove one of my Milq from Purepower 2000 and with all perfect operation parameters on Milq and on Purepower the Milq’s transformer were hissing like crazy. [/quote] [quote user="Romy the Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The most appalling audio types: Vintage Sufferers by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most appalling audio types. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
The people who suffer from the vintagtism in audio are special breed of Audio Morons™. Those people discovered a single focus of interests in some kind of vintage item and this focus became a point an unconditional dedication and fanatical devotion. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lamm hybrids: M1.2 vs. Lamm M1.1 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm hybrids: M1.2 vs. Lamm M1.1 in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Positive Feedback published David Robinson’s review of Lamm M1.2 amplifier. http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue34/lamm_1.2.htm Frankly speaking I do have interest to see what people might say about Lamm M1.2. Not that I care about a review’s ob...

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 #20: “...People who simply want to own the best products...” by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
I went recently at the Soundstage.com site  and read Marc Mickelson’s comments about ML3.  Marc Mickelson had an “honor” to make my site in past:  http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=760  http://www.goodsoundclub....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: ‘Men have forgotten this truth,’ - said the fox by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"] If you can't relate to individual personal enjoyment as an ultimate goal of audio, sorry Bud, I can't help ya. [/quote] Well, when you stick your finder, nose or whatever into a vise and someone will close the vise, coursi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: I want to try... by Dominik on 2009-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
"Dominik, I ma not pleased with your “suck in by Romy vision of sound reproduction” but this is another subject." I didnt wrote this to make You pleased, this is true. thats all...I would not advise to build anything as yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My trip to the Stereophile’s HE 2004 Show by Romy the Cat on 2004-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My trip to the Stereophile’s HE 2004 Show in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
Last week I spent a few hours at the scene of NY’s Stereophile Show – HE 2004: a half-day on Thursday and 2 hours on Friday. As many other audio-shows it had many semi-ugly colorations, however as any audio shows this zoo trip brought it’s own “inter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: .. by alex on 2015-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  alex wrote:Sorry Romy,We are talking about pivoted tonearm with overhang. That is the geometry  that creates force to pull the cartridge toward the centre of the record. If you take a moment to observe how anti-scat...

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 #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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The state of High-Efficiency: horns. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The state of High-Efficiency Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
It is not surprising that the subject of horn is as screwed as the subject of drivers. It is understandable as driver must be made for specific horn loading, not one make drivers properly, so what the horns are made for? A horn is a very simple dev...
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