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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Thinking about the sound at that show. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Serge"] The SIlbatone room was very large. They played an Edith Piaf record on a mono WE16B (or A, not sure). They played it very loud which I don't like, ever. I felt the system was made to show dynamics and it did it. The dynamic r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Why so personal? by markus46 on 2008-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
It's hard to know where to start... I'd read a fascinating (and widely recommended) article about the importance of absolute speed stability in turntables. http://www.iar-80.com/page12.html I'd also read Grand Prix Audio's white paper on their turn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio and the “Alzheimer’s triggers” by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio and the “Alzheimer’s triggers” in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
The name of this thread a bit cryptic and need to be explained, as the Alzheimer in my vocabulary means slightly different things then it is commonly recognized.  When I was 13 years old I read a book (I do not remember what it was) that was dedi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: How audiofreaks twist everything upside down. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Morricab, Of curse you are very much correct but I always thought that what you said is understandable by default. When I am talking about the ability of playbacks to care the “absolute tone” I indisputably meat sound reproduction of the “best” in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: DPOLS and the science of us. by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression in Playback Listening  23 Replies 
[quote user="hifitodd"] Frankly, from my perspective your stance on DPoLS mirrors that of the typical audio-moron voodooism.  Here is some essentially non-obtainable state that when realized will make the listener "hypotized" by thew newfound mu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: The audio Herbs? by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
de Charlus, this “are not afraid of cabinet resonance per se” is complicated subject. I have raised the topic in the “How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers” thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=3833 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: RDANA - about banning nouns in Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RDANA - about banning nouns in Audio. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I a very much am sitting on sidewalk of audio. 10 years back I was paying attention to mainstream media, was buying and evaluating audio equipment, traveling around the country and around the world listening different installations, maintaining g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: On using Pro Audio Digital Crossovers (PADXO) in domestic HiFi setting... by Thorsten on 2005-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horns and digital crossovers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This subject of digital crossovers became quite popular during last few years and many audio-people give up and go for a simplicity and painlessness of digital crossovering.[/quote]Well, digital X-Overs would appear to o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Sorry for your allergy by atilsley169 on 2012-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Andrew's new 4-way horn using Stereolabs stone horns and DIY... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  43 Replies 
Ok, Andrew, this is allergy something. I would highly advise you in future before you post any discrete updates, questions, and ideas about what you to inform about the holistic objective of your project, sort of a view from 50.000 feet...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #149: The dead end of electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]Since all audio folks know that the wall gives us highly variable power (voltage being just about the least important aspect), it occurs to me that a way to measure it that includes all the various parameters would be highl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #132: I guess I did not get this memo by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]Your Typical Acoustical Suspension-type Loudspeaker enclosure witch has less then 90 db at 1 watt does not belong with a horn system that starts at 110db at 1 watt, even when you ad more then 1 driver, it is still way to far...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #233: We all reinvent the wheel in away. + Michael Green by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="bernie_f"] Hi Romy. Why trying to reinvent the wheel? Everything about room treatment and room accoustics has been said and done. By a guy totally in the know and offering his advice and his tools on his website. Michael Green do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How audio started…. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How audio started…. in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
It is interesting to recall how audio started in my life. Somebody asked and I was puling out from my memories some unconnected fragments was really enjoying to recall those times… I do not relay remember how old I was. I was then probably 10, as a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Several issues (long and probably boring to many of you, my advanced e... by Antonio J. on 2006-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
1.- Finding specific solutions to specific problems[quote user="drdna"] .... I have high-sensitivity horn loudspeakers and use some 2A3 SET amplifiers, which make very good sounds but I am looking to get closer to the Sound, which to me is feeli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #485: The Devil's Advocate by oxric on 2010-03-21 
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"]Rakesh,I think you’ve missed the accent of my battery post.  We do not argue abstract topologies but we argue the validity of topology in respect to sonic results.  I hope we all agree that we do not exactly know WHY affect...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: "What is the best/your favorite performance of...?" by clarkjohnsen on 2005-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What you folks got for Beethoven Piano Sonata sets? in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
  One sees this question often posed, and I think rightly so. I've been introduced to some fine music and performance by my friends and associates. In fact, they're better than reviewers! So I was dismayed when I started off a post with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: American National Recording Registry by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: American National Recording Registry in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Recordings are listed by year of release: "The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888) Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My beloved Contraltos: kill sopranos. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My beloved Contraltos: kill sopranos. in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I have admitted that I have some freakish affection to lover mirage “moments” in sound and the cellos concertos are my “specially” beloved concertos: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2630 The very same goes with voices. The ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #309: Traveling antimatter by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]May 16, 2010: My ultimate wet audio dream was to have Bruckner Room. But so far it turning out that I got another big B room. Since 3 days back I stopped the intellectual masturbation with my room my playback up for the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Some anti-Melquiades propaganda by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
[quote user="darkmoebius"] That's because "off the shelf" amps can be easily resold for little or no loss of money if they are not to the buyer's liking. The Melquiades, on the other hand, leaves the builder with $3,000 worth of parts not easily reso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: I have no idea why the skies clears for you.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
[quote user="darkmoebius"] Believe it or not, this very short, direct, explanation helps put everything else I have read about the Melq evolution in perspective. [/quote] Hm, darkmoebius,I really do not know why it clears skies for your in anyways. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #147: Distressingly familiar by anthony on 2019-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote:I woke up this morning …. It was funny that you named it “In my dreams”. Whan I was “designing” and building the Milq I had a lot of dreams about the problem I had. I am not am amplifier designer or some ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Don't waste time being "creative" by nl on 2008-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
There is no "one tube DHT amp." There are only amps with gain in one box or two boxes. Your 6E5P tube is not so special. People have been making WE437 spud amps since the 1960s. There is a class of amps that use a high-gm tube driver and a DHT out...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Speakers: a hi-fi disaster. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speakers: a hi-fi disaster. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
People frequently ask me what would be a good speaker to buy for $5.000, for $10.000 for $20.000 for $50.000 and so on. The more I think about it looking at the park of available loudspeakers the more I come to the observation that there are no good ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Resonating hi from oversea by martinshorn on 2017-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Resonating hi from oversea in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Hi Romy, hi folksMy intro hello and first post, i just had to sign up. Just found the platform through googlin some hornstuff and came back too often.Especially the resonating oops was the latest topic that really cought my attention as im familar, a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1686: Read it again. It said them then it appears it does. by Romy the Cat on 2019-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"] To answer the philosophical questions first - at least from my view: [/quote] Rowuk, I very much not in agreement with your choosing the answer the first philosophical questions. I just think it is not accurately describin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: This is a dreamlist - based on real life needs that I have had. by rowuk on 2020-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quests for an ultimate preamp. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] rowuk wrote: A preamplifier shall be modular - the ability to insert n quantity (maybe 20?) of input cards on a backplane (for phono MC/phono MM/line level/Balanced/Single ended/TOSLink) as well as be configured for mul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  53 Replies 
This thread is a derivation of the thread: Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Saint-Saens and...[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]While in general I agree with Romy about Wilsons, I have once or twice heard them sound really, really good. On the other hand I have also he...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: ....instead of lisening the Morons, me including... by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I do not know what else are you looking. in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
[quote user="Dominic"] I've run into that yucky place where words get in the way of ideas. The mastership is what i'm after. [/quote] Yes, it is the yucky place where words get in the way of ideas. I did not use “mastership” in term of skills or cra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: The RAAL's tweeter and Sound (#1) by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
I had many interesting listening experiences while I used the Water Drop’s Macondo. I would try to surmise briefly the sonic consequences of the Water Drooping. “Me” and “briefly”, would it be possible? Well, where did you see a Jewish boy who refuse...
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