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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Placette and Audio-Umami by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-01 
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 
It is know that in addition to basic tastes (I believe bitter, salty, sour, sweet) of the Western culture those “different”  Japanese people recognize another taste they call  it “Umami”. Umami, if I am not mistaken, is a sense deliciousnes...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Voltage reference tubes quandaries.. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gas voltage reference 0A2 tubes. in Melquiades Amplifier  42 Replies 
The value/type of the capacitor after the gas tube hugely affects sound. I made quite a number of experiments in past with those caps and I have no idea why it is so. Well, I hardly understand (and I did not see anyone who does) why the “gassed resis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: What the tube trace might show in the real world? by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"]I have not tried this tube yet.  It might push the limits of the tester.  The 6.3V heater current supply is nominally rated at 5 amps.  It might be ok to push it to 6.6 amps.  I have to think about this, make...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: While educating ourselves about the things.... by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Haralanov, I would not make any assumption about be’s friend who proposed that the heating up magnet describes the major difference between perm and electromagnet. In fact what he proposed I find very stimulating and to a degree might be very ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Sansui TU-X1 vs. Sansui TU-X1 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
I spoke with various people about availability of upgrades for Sansui TU-X1. I have to admit that I have no problems with it sound and my concern is purely intellectual – there are better sounding resistors nowadays and there are better caps then ele...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A small step and the giant leap. by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C in Off Air Audio  24 Replies 
A few days back I got rid of the 60-year old Germanium glass diodes in the REL detector and put in there the regular 1N4148 4pF low-signal diodes/ it was quite positive improvement. I need to be said that detector diodes are not the regulars diodes b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: The con and pro of 6E5P anti-oscillations measures by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]has supposedly very nice Obbligato line of film HV caps . [/quote] Thanks, the high nominals the have only 630V and they are larger than I would like to have. Does anyone know how those Obbligato sound in PS? [quote user="hagte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The DHOFT topology? Do not try it home. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The DHOFT topology? Do not try it home. in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
I know – it idiotic even for my site but it us what it is. I do not think that I can generalize my observations as I have not a lot of experience with DHT tubes but one thing that I have been observing for the last week is really arouse my curios...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Some comments about the PurePower unit. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
A few more very simplistic measurements to extend on my comments. Here is the raw wave from the wall: Here is the PurePower with 0W load Here is the PurePower with 50W load Here is the PurePower with 700W load The load that I used everywher...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: delay timers.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Milq: Starting the project in Melquiades Amplifier  23 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."] Regarding the C2 thing, He said that I misunderstood his proposal, what he says is using five double 200uF+200uF cans (400 uF each cap), which are rated for 500V (not 200 as I misunderstood) to get the 2000uF needed for C2, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #114: To deLamminate my ULF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
It did not last long…. Just a couple days back I was thinking that I will live with my current lower bass for a while and now I feel that I will not.  I do not feel that my current ULF is wrong. In fact I feel that it is truly superb but I wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: I need a “second-type” phonostage. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
Ok, what would believe…. but I am in needs to get another phonostage. Te older I become the lazier I become and there is no way I would switch those cables form tonearms again. Also, each time I switch the cables the unused cables drops behind my rac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: I just got into the apartment by Domidaw on 2022-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: R22 in Melquiades Amplifier  34 Replies 
And The first thing I did was I grabbed the multimeter and started measuring what JJ suggested. I think we're on the trail of "something". I discharged all the capacitors in the amplifier and with the amplifier turned off, when I put the red tip ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: It all might work. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] If I get you correctly, the graph should display a range of around 12dB from top to bottom, in .5dB steps... Yes? [/quote]Yes, it would do, you might go for high or lower resolution, and there are no rules in it. You shel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I thought I made it more or less clear.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ca(r)t before the horse: evaluation criteria in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] What I was trying to say is that as this is what you use to assess the results of your playback experimentation, this is what you might cover first. Places everything else in context. [/quote] Chris, I thought I made it more or les...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Of TDA DAC chips and such by nycparamedic on 2008-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="tuga"]Hello, I have owned a TDA1543 based Kusonoki style (passive I/V, digital filterless, non oversampling) DAC for almost two years. You can have a look at the measurements here. I find that this kind of implementation (Kusonoki...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: I got, I got, I got it!!!!! by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
I got it! I realty have got it this time and it is exactly what I was craving for and shooting for. I converted both channels for 18db/octave on tweeter and recalibrated the whole Macondo, in a slightly different manner...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: The 6-ch Milq: Fundamentals vs. Injection Channels. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Playing recently with setting up the new 6-ch Milq I again got an interesting feeling about my Fundamentals Channel. The in Injection Channel partially overrides some benefit of the Fundamentals Channel and I have a partial feeling that it would be p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #296: Good engineering parctices by N-set on 2020-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
I'm wondering if Romy experimented with the feedback resistor quality. His ingenious contribution to the design was to use the purest caps possible as in the feedback loop every imperfection gets amplified. So the next logical step after caps wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #161: Crossover balancing act; Act III by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Jessie, I was trying to evaluate the gain of my amplification in respect to larger room and again was thinking about your case. I think something that you do it not correct. You are complaining that you have not enough gain in upperbass, but I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #116: Some feedback on designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... might prove int... by floobydust on 2009-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
 This thread has been pretty interesting overall. I've read most of it and would at least like to provide some feedback on the technical side of designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... at least from my personal experience. A few years back I decid...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Fleshing out the design a little more... by anthony on 2015-07-29 
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: Then the AC-DC conversion on the first floor, filter caps and output transformers on the third level with the amplifiers sitting proud on top.  I don't want to see any caps or transformers...just valves.P...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: What a beautiful result!!! by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It did not last long…. Just a couple days back I was thinking that I will live with my current lower bass for a while and now I feel that I will not.  I do not feel that my current ULF is wrong. In fact I feel that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: I am confident that all connections are correct by Domidaw on 2021-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: R22 in Melquiades Amplifier  34 Replies 
I mentioned earlier that this is my first electtrical device  that I build. Realizing that it could be dangerous to my health and even my life ... I planned and soldered all the parts for a couple of months. I know every connection and ever...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Sound of one lip flapping... by Joe Roberts on 2009-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Well, I was there, which is more than The Cat can say. In fact, The Cat never heard a complete WE system first hand, so I'll have to take that into advisement when the expected foaming-at-the-whiskers rant.I always wonder why people would giv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: SS->Ceramic - the only marriage made in heaven? by rowuk on 2014-12-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SET amplifiers in Audio Discussions  30 Replies 
I have experimented with SS/SET and now DSEP for ceramic magnet horn drivers. I will agree that ceramic drivers with SETs that I have heard being suboptimal, but after a year of DSEP, at least for my use case, I am quite content. I cannot explain it ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: Milq-Sun-Audio amp, ordinary Sound, 2A3 tubes by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Dealing more with Sun Audio SV-2A3 kit it amassed me how bad the kit was. The guys made very cheap, in fact I hardly believe that this company has anything to do with Japan – it looks more like K-Mart level of amplifier. I heard a number of very posi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: The R5 is the key. by Romy the Cat on 2018-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Gintaras, yes, the 10.5mA was a bit too little for gas tube, 21mA. If you look at the stability of voltage regulation graph for these tubes then you will see an ark with 15-20ma being atop.   I do not understand why you keep asking me R13 & R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Bidat vs. Lavry DA-924: two years later. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold in Didital Things  14 Replies 
As I told before I picked recently a new interesting DAC and I got for it some AES/EBU cables. That made me to make the same Bidat vs. Lavry experiments only to use the AES/EBU interface with Lavry Gold.  During those experiments I did not use S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Summary by Rewind on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as op... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Thanks for the detailed answers. I will explain my setup.You are right about the dipole bass correction instead of the injection channel. Since I am waiting for both a subwoofer and the Fane Studio 8M and their horn, I am using the 12" as a b...
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