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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: Eating frequencies.. by rogier on 2021-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Romy, apart from surround etc. , the gaping holes of your bass-cabinets might eat some important frequency-range from your audio......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #198: Agree on what you say wrt tonal density by zanon on 2010-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Romy:I agree. Those are what I have and that is what i found....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: A Subject for your post! by tomtt on 2010-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Somebody “tomtt” from Kansas City [/quote]here i am....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1504: Capacitors versus batteries in regenerators by drdna on 2016-01-25 
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"]Well, the StormTank is currently is being sold for $30K.[/quote]Oh well, I can forget about buying one to try it out...[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The PurePower has a bank of caps that shunt the battery. Intellectually, it ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #255: Stronger preamp by ArmAlex on 2017-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Dear Romy,Try EAR 312. it may help....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Many thanks by anthony on 2015-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Output transformer. Here is what the thing become complicated. Of you drive ultra-low impedance with step down transformer then your secondary turns will decrease. They primary will have whatever they have for all case b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: 703 by coops on 2008-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Explain TAD ET-703 driver to me in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
Romy Hi hope you are well, here's a ( rather poor ) photo of the spherical horn, [IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb255/coopie_photo/detail_13.jpg[/IMG] , very best keith....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Great experience by noviygera on 2020-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stay home with Bruckner in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
Romy, thank you for this link, I am enjoying these concerts. Do you know if these recordings are available to purchase?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #883: I DARE You! by Paul S on 2011-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Romy, if you do this, I will write an epic poem of your deeds and post it on the "social media" sites!Paul S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #791: I'll have to ponder this by Lx_ on 2011-03-09 
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"]Possibly that you are right but it might be something else. My last year unit did inject back to power line a LOT of dirt. I just measured my new fixed unit and I was VERY surprised the it out back to the wall significantly...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #819: Sorry, I mis-quoted by manisandher on 2011-03-27 
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"]BTW, there are reasonably simple tests to verify that your unit does or does not have the problem that my November units has, the testing procedures you will need to get from PurePower.[/quote]I will certainly look into thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #212: Yh by unicon on 2010-10-08 
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"]this is just a piece of fabric covering a fiberglass pipe. The fiberglass pipes everyone buy from the same Knauf factory and it costs virtually nothing. The piece of fabric starch above it is also cost a few dollars, so why...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #186: Fixed by anthony on 2020-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Thanks Romy,It is now fixed.  I have left Channel B the same apart from adding a 390k positive bias resistor on the positive signal line (between C1 and R5) connected to the 14k resistor that also connects to Channel C and F.  A 402k would have been ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Thanks Jim by Amir on 2009-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Get Better Sound” by Jim Smith in Audio News  12 Replies 
Dear JimI wanted to Thanks you and send a email to you for your good and very useful book.I think some audiophiles in this forum like to post radical and in some ways un-logical ideas.it seems romy approach and his radical views had this effect on ot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: It seems by clarkjohnsen on 2011-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playing bad recordings using the "B" system. in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
It seems that Romy is coming around to a wider view of things. Hip hip hurray!cj...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Wow, interesting things are coming :) by ArmAlex on 2021-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
I myself missed Romy of the past! I'm very happy that you're motivated again, I'm sure many people are waiting for new ideas....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: One-oh-two by Brian Clark on 2004-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Here is my new tonearm. in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I finally concluded that I need a better mono cartridge. Screw you Denon-102! I can’t listen this midrange pusher anymore![/quote]Send it over to me Romy, I'll make sure the little offender doesn't escape! :) Brian (who lis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Are original Aura Sound 1808 sound ULF solution for sealed enclosure? by oxric on 2011-02-09 
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"] Aura made their 1808 driver in 80s and most of the 90s and it was wonderful. It had huge high-temperature neodymium magnet, unique magnet geometry with underhung 4" edgewound aluminum voice coil.  It was the only 18-inch...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Rosand and Mullova and Tossy S .... by JANDL100 on 2007-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tschaikowsky, [Violin] Concerto in D, Reiner/Chicago/Heifetz in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
Hi RomyHeifetz as sex with a marble woman - yes, exactly!   Everything is perfect but without any emotional response.  I am sure that the recorded sound he was usually given does not help - thin, scrawny & screechy - while rep...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: The Nature and "Quality" of Main Channels and Delay by Paul S on 2023-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
Bill, sorry to hear a low followed the high, and I know what you mean about getting old, but you did not mention in this post that you use DSP to improve the "overall" sound quality and to produce specific room effects, but Romy  - as far as I know -...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Music blows, yes! by drdna on 2006-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Can a ultimate playback system bring us True Lasting 'Happin... in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]In fact, I might report that the most powerful moments of my personal experience listening “reproduced sound” took place in context of incredibly poor audio. Therefore, I do not feel that a perception that has need to consu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Re: Ways of approaching.... by yoshi on 2006-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio critique – open your mind! in Playback Listening  44 Replies 
[quote user="jweiss"]Hi Romy, Here is a hypothetical question. If someone sent you an email telling you, in quite a clear way, how you had made an enormous mistake in one of your audio projects, for example an exercise in modifying a speaker, detaili...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Really? :-) by haralanov on 2012-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]since I know that you do not deal with horns and discuss it only as theoretical exercise I am not sure what we are talking about. [/quote]Hahaha :-) This experiment was made a few days ago by a friend of mine who is speaker...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Drawing of dual LF bass horn by atilsley169 on 2012-06-07 
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 
Drawing of dual LF bass horn.Romy, here's a sketch of how I might be able to build the LF bass horns...per my post above.Regards....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Disagee by haralanov on 2014-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] However, do not use word “brake” as it if from the words of mass-centric drivers. Horns are not about mass and exertion but about velocity and consequential pressure, so in horns there are no brakes but rather damping over...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: LV sound by ArmAlex on 2015-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Stitch I can't understand why some people in this site are trying to be a mini Romy,you included. I read what Romy writes and you don't need to repeat it.It's very strange you KNOW what was playing in that particular room without being there. Anyhow ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #117: Yes, it is all correct. by Romy the Cat on 2015-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"] Romy the Cat wrote:Here is the list of the thing to do with Vitavox S2 in order to use it in 4-ways installations. The S2 must not be used in 2, 3 ways systems. It possible to do with S2 whatever you wish but pretty much any ot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #140: ...air-caps dirty.... by rogier on 2011-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Romy, It could be dirt (dust) in the aircaps..Friendly regards,  rogier...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: EMT 948 & 950 by guy sergeant on 2010-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
Romy, besides via the radio, did you ever have the opportunity to hear either the 948 or 950 in a domestic installation?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The unstopable cycle of life by N-set on 2013-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Life 3.0 in Site Support Forum  10 Replies 
... has claimed it's toll on my side too on the Christmans Eve...strange and beautifull time.My deep condolences, RomyN-set...
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