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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The mystery of reversed imaging. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of reversed imaging. in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
I have been observing these phenomena for years and I have no explanation for it. Not that I requires any explaining, BTW… Pretend that you have a stereo installation where right and left channels produce absolutely symmetrical acoustic output. A sl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Forget about music. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How we "think" about audio in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
James, forget about music, music and audio are separate entities in they should be treated separately. I have written a lot about it before. In the realm of pure audio “it” exists as a moment of realization. The entire truth however about the “it” ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Yes, precisely! by jessie.dazzle on 2008-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playing music for visitors. in Playback Listening  11 Replies 
Romy wrote (in blue) : "...The Truth or False categories exist only in world of well defined coordinate systems and certainty of evolutions. In music the rules are different..."In the visual arts the rules are also "different".Taking first the q...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: I have a dream, the dream about a Chair. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I have a dream, the dream about a Chair. in Playback Listening  31 Replies 
This is my very wet audio dream over the years. I never had a good Chair. My room never allowed me to do so but as I will be moving my wet dream about a perfect listening Chair begin to erect my imagination. Now I have nice leather couch… I li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Alas we will never know by Nicanor on 2010-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lecture on history of architectural acoustics in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, Nicanor, I very much disagree that room acoustic being basically invisible to us. People who deal with sound more or less intelligent always not only pay attention to room acoustic but recognize sound ONLY in context ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: moreover by Dominic on 2007-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Starting from scratch - new amps new system in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]No, you did not do before and you are not doing it still. I think the problem with that you are expressing is that you have no desire to EXPLAIN FOR YOURSELF what you do.  Forgot about the amplifiers, speakers and the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Summary: my/your audio: year by year by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
The good thing of having own dairy-oriented site is that I can look at what I was positing during the year and to have good grip of what was going on over the passed year. Still, although everything is on the surface, I would like to bring up few bri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Again and again, I am amassed. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best audio source EVER! in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
I wrote about it many many times but it keep shook me, primary because it very much violates all intellectual provision I can extend against what I am saying. Today FM again flew my socks off and it was not special FM but objectively crappy FM. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Herbs and Speakers by de charlus on 2013-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Romy,It is indeed an interesting subject; I am instinctively drawn to it due to the fact that the majority of orchestral instruments - the majority of my listening is orchestral/chamber/classical soloists - produce their own sound through the resonan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: CES: Meitner’s unexplained disaster. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES 2005 in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
There was a big room in there with big Schweikert speakers (with thier grainy and insultingly confident Sound), some king of not particularly good electronics and the entire EMM Labs’ front-end. Many rooms at the show used EMM Labs so-call preamplifi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: About the fear of the “free advertisement”. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Greek Anima Loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Morfeas"] Wouldn't comment because using a public forum for free advertisement is not my cup of tea. [/quote]  Morfeas, you of cause might do whatever you wish but I would like to point out that the concept of “free advertisement”...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I except suggestions and critique. by kodomo on 2015-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
I except suggestions and critique. I live in Turkey and I am not living in a city, I live at the coast. It is not possible for me to go and experience most of the stuff first hand. There is no one really interested in horns or have multi-way horn sys...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Some unconfirmed story of Japanese driver manufactures. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
I was slowly looking for a compression driver that would go in my Fundamental Chanel down to 200Hz. The YL Acoustic 550N attracted my attention. Then I realized that it is the narrow throat type of the drivers, aka WE555, not exactly that I would...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: Where to cross MF & theory on depiction of depth by jessie.dazzle on 2010-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...I will most certainly do not need it to go over 1000Hz, why would I? It is very much not my objective. All the I would like to do it to give to Fundamentals Channel some room from the bottom to breathe..."Three reasons:1) To try hi...

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 #73: Thank you by jackydai on 2019-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Well that was my father. We founded the company together - he invests, I researches, mostly. Bruce Edgar and Sam Saye taught me how to design, and we built our first prototype system in California.Think I need a bit more clarification on the five tim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: About lean, mean and ‘easy go’ cartridges by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
Stressing Bass in my former post I would like do not overly accent the lower bass itself but rather an organic combination of bass with something that I would call “full body” sound. It we look at many properly setups, loaded and amplified cartridge...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: More on Tannoys by montesquieu on 2019-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
With regards to the links, as it happens, I totally agree that 15in Tannoy Reds struggle to handle complex music. The crossover is too simplistic and the cones too hard to control with a low power amp. Reds can be lovely in a simple vintage system bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: My history by Amir on 2019-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
ArmAlex   the fun thing is that you read Romy posts here without understanding his ideas and copy paste Romy instructions in your Audio system and the result is lower than those audiogon guys (an example of your audio logic -> you buy gryphon spea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Further thoughts about ULF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Me being exuberant about the new ULF capacity does not necessarily mean that ULF contribution is right and proper, let me to explain. There is a musical event that has it sonic representation. This sonic representation better or worst was captured by...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Pacific is full of surprises… by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]For a living, I teach presentation skills to executives and senior managers ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJetXp2r3pc ) . I always begin by considering the listeners and what they are looking for. I'll ask people what turns ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A DAC as event or a State of Digital Union. by Romy the Cat on 2014-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Berkeley Audio Design's Alfa Reference DAC. in Didital Things  4 Replies 
Well, leaving aside my "grinding axes", namely my habitual love to remind people and myself that there are plenty Morons in audio I do think that Berkeley's parley to Reference DAC is interesting. It is interesting not by the DAC as a unit but rather...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: Perfect or good by Amir on 2016-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
it seems even Thorsten do not believe computer source could be perfect and he just guide us to reach max from computer." The computer is a great music server but also a source of jitter ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: My revision by Amir on 2016-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"]these are my findings about computer audio after some trial error:1. computer audio is very very hardware/OS/software dependent. computer structure is multi task (time sharing) and using it as a real time single task processor is n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #81: Interfaces, interfaces by Telstar on 2009-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Telstar wrote: I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD. I disagree. The main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD is not the soundcard/interfac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: My View by Amir on 2016-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"] Amir wrote:I listened one time (just one time) to master tape (revox reel).micro harmonic was so better than dCS Elgar (digital source) and it was better in micro dynamic. i did not tested good DSD in a good DAC vs good analog but...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #117: How my phonostage shall sound. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Also do not forget that the phonostage that you built has very lash and very polite sound. [/quote]I would like to stress the politeness and lushness of 834PT-AIR phonocorrector. This characteristic of this phonostage s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: “Harmonic Speed”- friend of foe? by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Harmonic Speed”- friend of foe? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
I am kind of semi-evaluating a power amplifier now and think about the following: there is a correct relation between harmonic content of amplifier and it’s dynamic aptitude. I have heard many amplifiers that run across the dynamic range with a tre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Bass non-pathologic hallucination… 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 
Rakesh, Yes, life is too short but the definition of belter ULF channel is not something that one might learn during "a project next coming weekend". The most important in audio is a state of realization and obtaining this state is a matter of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky Symphony #4 in Musical Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I have been enjoying the "Euroclassic Notturno" (BBC?) program on swedish radio tonight. As a happy rookie in the world of classical music, I seek advice on Tchaikovsky based on what I just heard; His Symphony No. 5.I though...
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