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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: YOU just ordered a pair. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
[quote user="AllHammer"]This post has basically wiped out the entire reputation you have tried to build up in the past. Rebutting a review does not make yours right, and from my personal experiences, you are indeed far from right. I can see why some ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #256: Pp2000 the next day by drdna on 2009-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Using the PP2000 has been a very interesting experience. Immediately listening I am NOT struck that it is the most wonderful improvement ever, which I have said before is a GOOD sign. Usually the seductive sound changes are colorations that are enj...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The “elephant sound” of the "dehydrated" highs. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NAT Audio Magna -160 Watts of Single-Ended Class A in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] But I don't think they are doing this here. What I would bet is that that they are running the thing in A2 with a much lower Z primary, using a lower B+ and high standing current. They are also using feedback which will help the ban...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Cessaro speakers and some other tidbits by morricab on 2007-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi Romy, I recently heard the smallest Cessaro and while I felt that the bass was not adequate for long term satisfaction it was also not a total disaster.  From the midbass on up; however, the speaker is simply superb and one of the very best h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: jitter-shmiter... by Thorsten on 2006-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I heard 4 (!!!!) complete contradictory descriptions how high level of jitter manifest itself subjectively – interesting that they all derived from the engineers whose credibility is very high (not juts the audio-tweaker...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Digital can’t filter, analog can’t delay. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horns and digital crossovers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
[quote user="slowmotion"]Good news if the analogue stages of the DCX2496 is so bad. So the improvement of a modified unit should be worth the ekstra work, and remove some of the x-overs negative influence on the sound. Which is always good to know be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Tone and girls by Jorge on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
The other night I listened to a Girl with Guitar master tape. A friend has a home recording studio that would make most comercial studios not only jelaous, but also broke.  A highly modded ATR 102 in 1/4" half track and a vintage stereo microphone;  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Elusive “absolute tone”. by morricab on 2005-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Hi Romy,I have found that the Apogee loudspeakers ribbon drivers can quite successfully reproduce correct tone.  The reason why is this:  They have very little coloration from the driver materials themselves (no nasty resonances as the reso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: It is not so simple. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamamura's 6 ways in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"]Yes, maybe the 120 db/octave is THE trick for complex multi-ways systems of highest resolution, yet this barbaric:-) slope can ONLY be achieved by digital domain crossovering... unfortunately, as a satisfied user of TacT RCS...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The idiotic 1-bit DSD format vandalizes everything. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The UnipheyeMusic and Studio Master Reference... in Didital Things  5 Replies 
That is so much pisses me. A few days back I posited this like and was laughing that this guy record in DSD (which is in fact not DSD but SACD, I do not think he has access to DSD) in order to sell his recording in PCM 2X and 4X? Why do those people ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Speakers positioning and listening objectives by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression in Playback Listening  23 Replies 
[quote user="Hugh"]The rewards of ideal speaker placement is something I've experienced as well and perhaps is related to DPLOS or possbily audio-moronism.  While not easy to find or predictable between speaker brands the result is consistant.&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The “Implied Sound” in Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Implied Sound” in Audio. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Running further away from Slav’s and Austrian’s “expressed sound” in music, walking across the Brucknerian soft monochromic fields I found myself lately to have very different interests in the sound that I am after. Well, I know how to make good soun...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Me too... by anthony on 2020-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]I am always a bit hesitant to buy into "listening descriptions". I am a musician and am confronted every day with Sound bias - attraction to what we are accustomed to, expectations being confirmed. We are creatures of habit and mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: CD + Good Transport vs. audio file by Romy the Cat on 2014-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shopping for DSD Converters? Here's One From the Lampizator.... in Audio News  18 Replies 
[quote user="xandcg"]I read a interview with Peter Qvortrup (AN UK) a week or two ago (but that was older) were he talk about his theory of why a CD + Good Transport sound better than a audio file from a hard drive (with the same resolution at le...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Measuring distance in decibels. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Well, what can I say, there is no surprise but the more and more I went into anal-retentiveness of time-aliment the more interesting result I got. Unfortunately with my the frame of my Macondo I was not able to go at the 1/12dB precision, I was able ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: (Im)Properly amplified orchestra by tuga on 2009-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Non-classical genius (starting with Leonard Cohen) in Musical Discussions  13 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderful opportunity to blame the Mother-in law…[/quote]My wife and I both had a good laugh at that.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: Happy Listening, thank you. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
[quote user="AllHammer"]This is your website, if I am not mistaken. I shall respect your will to express, no matter the whatever the level of insights you have to offer. You are in no way degrading me. Like I said, anyone who have really listened to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Material is not specific enough by rowuk on 2012-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
[quote user="be"] Horns are of course some kind of band pass filters with different kind of ripples at lover cutoff and beaming at upper cut off, according to horn type.Maybe it should be added that contributing to the horn sound idea, is that the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: What motivates to listen to music --- a lot? by Axel on 2009-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What I am doing? in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
? - purely zombianic, semi-psychotic and unconsciousness reasons, for the "Moron TM" ----a bit heavy all in all, hm. ? - expressivity having a lot of to do with creative egocentrism and personalized "collecting of musical events" => OK, her...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: 4 Levels, I see --- and so why not? by Axel on 2009-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio and Music: four levels of unity and separation or… in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
After all let's recall that it was Nietzsche who also stated,(I think actually one of his main themes): "Everything is about perception" i.e. the perception of the individual, not what others think and tell...Next, since we're at it, it was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Mind Injection, audio and ...HF? by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] It is certainly very very important, but how many systems you have listened where you can not be able to recognize the HFs as disconnected part of the sound? I just wanted to ask if you have ever heard a system, where the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Re: Better among worst? by Thorsten on 2005-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="morricab"]Hmmm....I guess I can't really see that unless you are enjoying a particular coloration you are getting from the TVC.[/quote] Nope. On this you are wrong. Based on direct bypass tests the TVC's I USE (that is the specif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: What might be more simplistic and elegant? by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="morricab"] You are also right that to get everything you want from an output transformer requires a VERY expensive construction and top materials.  However; even an expensive transformer is no guarantee of success. [/quote] Sorry t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1256: PP Helpdesk. NOT by steverino on 2014-02-06 
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"]Eli, I as any other person on consumer side, do sympathize with how you feel. I would like however to point out that this site is not the best door for you to knock. Audiogon for instance (and many others) specialize to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Many promis no one excels. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Be careful to relieve me if I am not impressed, many promised no one excelled. :-) Chris, I do not think that you will see me to think about transformers for other channels. I do not think that what I do will be some kind of resolution for Amor...

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 #13: Is the 103’s reality a sane substance? by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
T, ‘m glad to see you around. Your position is quite educational although not an unproblematic. I do not agree with some of the points you brought up (I mean that 103-is very low compliance cartridge - 5x10-6 cm/dyne (except D and M), disagree with ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Lavry is just a DAC, it is not all Multibits by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Keith, it is not the thread about Lavry Gold DAC I would rather to hear from people who have experience with other Multibits, perhaps with many Multibits, and who would be able to generalize their observation about Multibits vs. anything else. I kn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: Good for Weiss! by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] The latest firmware 'fixes' this issue. The AFI1 can now work in dual-wire mode at half or full audiorate clock frequencies. [/quote] Very good. I am impressed with Daniel’s responsiveness.  I wonder how many people ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: I think it is about right. by Romy the Cat on 2015-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
I think it is about right. The 6C33C for upper base has 100K biasing resistor and 20K to ground in Lpad. That would make ~60Hz. This high pass that unload the LF from the horns that it can’t handle is very important as you do not want driver to pr...
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