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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Answer to 'what I do' by atilsley169 on 2012-06-16 
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 
Hi The CatI forgott to answer your q, what I do.I 'do' management...heading up a team of folk for a large social services charity in Sydney. I cover training, occ health and safety, payroll, volunteering etc. We have 2000 staff.My interest in audio s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I'm in... by Wojtek on 2006-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 driver made in china in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
Angelo Great idea , why only big boys can make money on chinesse labor. How about WE 555 copy ? It should be even cheaper than S2 .Why they could not make a diaphragms too?? count me for 2 pairs.I don't think Roman is interested in Audio distribu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Ok, it was a different link. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
Yes, it is a different link but I am sure what it is. They claim it as audio transport but they claim an optional CD hardware and software. What does it mean “optional”. If it is a regular DAW machine then it is fine, there are plenty of them out the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: Hm, again.... by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Alex, I think that there is VERY high probability that your hum is from transformer-correctors interfaces.  Get rid the transformer, change the loading resistor accordingly and use the corrector with high outpour cartridge, let say over 3mV. If you w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Power Observations by George on 2007-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Hello Romy,I am no power expert but here are my observations on your situation.Even though a PS Audio and others create a perfect AC sine wave this does not seem to be the answer, even for low draw front end components. It seems that some type of&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Limiting versatiity in cd/digital for improved performance musical and... by mark on 2014-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
good point in here;graphic cards perform so well because they are optimized to perform limited tasks and are cheap.I have been listening ,researching and experimenting to get musically interesting and satisfyting results from cd for 25+ years now.I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Microrendu by Amir on 2017-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I hate computer playback. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]fiogf49gjkf0dHere's a computer playback approach that I though people might be interested in. In many ways, it's pretty much the leading edge of computer playback as far as I know.The idea here is to isolate the DAC as much ...

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 #13: Is connectors/wiring fetish based on facts or fiction? by mjloudspeaker on 2009-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Superior electric binding posts in Melquiades Amplifier  26 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]'Standard Practice" most certainly depends on what part of "industry" you are looking at.  While an automoble assembly line might adopt one set of standards, submarine SONAR or interstellar spectrometry systems, for example, woul...

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 #75: On Purpose And Approach by Dresden on 2008-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
I'm not sure I understand what point you consider a priority, but I can explain the reason for my initial inquiry and what I intend to do.My initial inquiry was intended to acquire information on whether a horn with a target range of 40Hz to 400Hz co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: BlackStealth Horn Drama continued for M4 by mjloudspeaker on 2009-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
"I may be wrong to continue here with M4 ideas, Romy, feel free to move this where you want, thanks". In my very audio eccentric strange mind, there is two concepts for M4 that pop to the surface, and that merit some explorations. Se...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: It is complicated with Digital. My saga… by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
[quote user="Max Shatsky"] You say that the digital read from your transport is better than the multiple reads of CD-Rom with EAC software? Thats interesting!!! [/quote] Well, tell me dive you data and you make your own concussions.  I read CDs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Please, please please, let's get into the times, guys! by mjloudspeaker on 2009-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]You have to have guts (or stupidity) to introduce new FM tuners nowadays but as you understand this fact is very welcomes at my site. So, it comes: http://47labs.co.jp/4730.htmlI have no idea what it is and what is inside. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1624: My radical view. by Romy the Cat on 2018-07-26 
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'm not at all suggesting the input coil topology be changed, as this may actually have something to do with the "magic" sound of the PurePower -- something like the special sound of Fender single-coil pickups on a Stratocaste...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #835: “…the cause must now be explored.” by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]Romy, this is very interesting indeed. I'm assuming that the sonic difference between these two files is in line with the sonic difference you hear between bad and good 'electricity' days when you're just listening to music,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #418: The ASP 2000 regenerator, what is next? by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The example of the APS’ regeneration and the quality of sound attainable has clearly proved that class D is the way to do the things in audio electricity. I have been asking myself what is next? Well, this is not a question that I ask myself in a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: It shall be something out there. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A contemporary great CD transport for under $100. in Didital Things  5 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Some find the first generation Playstation (1000er series) great.I tried one with two different power supplies (original and after-market) with totally different sonic results. I think with enough knowledge for tweaking it I would...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Now we are taking! by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
[quote user="mem916"]I never tried the Onyx.  I had an Urushi, then a Jade, and now a Coralstone.  No I didn't buy any of them in the US so I paid a lot less than the crazy retail prices people throw around.  I only know one person personally who...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: Differences by kodomo on 2019-06-17 
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 have 2nd order crossover both on the upper knee of the ob bass section and on the lower knee of the midbass section. My measurements show phase response and the summed spl is as good as it can get. Have you tried the direct servo technology or do y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Bruckner by Volkmar Andreae by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
A local audio guy brought yesterday a box set with all Bruckner symphonies by Volkmar Andreae, all the 1953 broadcasts with Wiener sympony http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/SESSIONID/70bce9d83bda5c76444fda02d6ad605a/classic/detail/-/art/Anton%20B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Cogent, electromagnetic, Edgar, Cyanide and me. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="jweiss"] It was good to finally meet you at CES at the Cogent Room. I guess that you really found Steve and Rich's drivers pretty interesting (you initially wanted to buy a pair of the midrange drivers, remember?) [/quote] Hi, Jonathan....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: More about the upperbass importance. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
At the beginning of this thread I said: “Show to me your middbas solution and I will tell you how your playback sounds”. Continuing to stress the domination importance of middbas-upperbass I would like to bring some illustrations and let you to make ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Some sensibility about bass reproduction by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="slowmotion"]I don't understand what you mean here, Romy? To me "live" bass ( like when listening to an orchestra ) is much more dynamic than any reproduced bass I've ever heard. Also if listening to a real contrabass in a normal listenin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: Oval profile by Dominik on 2009-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
I go for tractrix because:"I know that if I done everything properly then any profile in my room I will be able to make to have right Sound because I know what and how to listen and I know how to react upon the heard."I dont. Yet..."with 100Hz Tra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Well, being more than a little facetious about the configuration... by cv on 2009-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Let's just pretend for the moment that you haven't heard the particular TAD driver Kevin is using , and consider the possibility that for at least for some portion of its frequency range, it has a tone similar to the S2 - perhaps it uses an alnico ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Looking at the pictures of playback installations. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Looking at the pictures of playback installations. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
It is very habitual for the internet audio hoodlums (or for males generally) to report the accomplishments of their “hobbies” without any references to the actual accomplishments. In context of audio it might be applied to habits of posting images of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: It is not eyes but design principles by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electronluv systems questions and perhaps answers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="electronluv"]"Eyes do the hearing" is a comment geared toward you as you make alot of assumptions based on just what you see in photo.[/quote] It is not just about what I see on photo but about which design principles a given depicting ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Why the Framer is “too sexy”…. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]I would agree. I'd feel that the objective of "audio journalism" (for wont of a better description) is entertainment -- not an "evaluation" that can be used for reference purposes.So, the components discussed/presented are simply ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Difference Frequency Distortion measurements by Andy Simpson on 2009-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Measuring reality: empirical mode decomposition in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]I don´t know whether the audio industry`s products are so sophisticatet that they need mathematical steam hammers to improve them. In a German forum there is a discussion about a diploma work from the TU Berlin where the student f...
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