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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #478: The Egyptian Empire, Parthia, Romy, dogma and scientific progress by oxric on 2010-03-20 
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"]I do not like the idea of batteries for anything. It is kind of ridicules to use batteries. Yes, in some cases there is some improvement on low voltage electronics but it is ONLY because the power lines are badly sounding t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Sorry, but wrong by Bill on 2021-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
     I do not mean to be negative and criticize Romy, but he is wrong on surround sound. It is the implementation and not the concept which should cause vomiting, like with the vast majority of two track recording which are unlistenable. With the rig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #109: Which Chinese 2A3? by JJ Triode on 2009-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Romy and drnda, When you speak of the "Chinese 2A3" which one do you mean? Romy, if you have the Shuguang 2A3C then I understand why you find it better than the Sovtek, no argument there! drdna, the Shuguang is a little more extended on top than t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Settling for less, for any number of reasons by Paul S on 2007-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio critique – open your mind! in Playback Listening  44 Replies 
Nice post, Jesse.There are lots of things that work against the average goom-bah who is trying to aquire/build up a SOTA sound system, even if that is the primary goal of the psycho in question. Like you said, the frame of reference itself is al...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #101: Lost in transition? Or not? by oxric on 2011-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The S2 has own channel and here is nothing your can do about it. [/quote]Yes, of course. The answer may be different for the S3, inasmuch as one might be able to start the chosen profile at the diaphragm...[quote user="Romy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: The clock upgrades: my proposals by Thorsten on 2006-03-08 
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"]it is highly possible that you are correct but it was exactly the point of my in initial post - the people worship the clock upgrades but 99% of then just throw in the new clocks, or do exactly what I did. [/quote]And I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: Earl Geddes on the field-coils.... by MochaMike on 2006-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not know any advantages because the fact that the sound softer. I personally believe that the electromagnets have HIGHER MOMENTUM FLUX MODULATION and that make them to “sit” slightly…  or exactly what I would like t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #783: Multiple pp 2000 by Bill 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 
Was priveleged to hear Romy's system on Saturday. I must say he's done a superb job both musically and esthetically over the past year, and except for one minor niggle has surpassed what he had in Boston. That was the very low bass, but he has stated...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #807: 15KVA transformer by manisandher on 2011-03-26 
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"]Instead of simply fixing the PP2000 you decided to try isolation transformer way.[/quote] With all due respect Romy, you of all people know that applying the term "simply fixing" to the PP2000 is ridiculous. I don't have th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Romy...thoughts on Lamm ML1? by justaute on 2006-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy...thoughts on Lamm ML1? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, “everything is a compromise” it is true, but when you talk about compromises you are talking about purchasing decisions not about abstract sound. So, I really do not know where ML1 would be in your scale of your compr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Digital by Amir on 2009-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog vs. Digital... without BS. in Didital Things  23 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, the result of direct conversion of analog into digital is practically NEVER exposed to audio people.[/quote]I never heard direct conversion of analog to digital and i should agree that i can not be sure that digita...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: Finally firing up the DSET by anthony on 2018-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Hi Romy,What a busy year just gone!  Finding enough time to just sit down and get the DSET's going has been impossible, but I have time now and have started the process.At the moment I am introducing some high voltage to the first amplifier chassis, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Equipment between speakers... by anthony on 2016-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If I position Macondo across the room then I would have great benefit that the equipment rock can go between the speakers with multiple benefits of this setting. Romy[/quote]Romy, what do you see as the benefits of having...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #598: The right grounding by manisandher on 2010-12-02 
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"]I do not know, Model Two was not supplied with 'ground loop isolators', so I am not sure what you are talking about.[/quote]These are described in detail on page 8 of the User's Manual.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have two ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #691: Proper quoting then by Lx_ on 2011-01-04 
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"] Lx_ wrote: Also Romy suggests that even its old, well-performing PP was still sensitive to input AC (I have yet to read his post about this). So it seems that the PP is indeed not completely immune to incoming AC noise, an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Genesis of UB115 and a beginner's guide to horn building by oxric on 2011-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rakeshorns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ...this interesting point has no practical answer. First of all in the case of Rakesh horn what N-Set proposed is not necessary. Those 115Hz Hasqiun-style horns that Rakesh emulates are well dumped with own mass and own ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #706: I was talking about Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-07 
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 the Cat wrote:The change of the voltage from battery and from AC always was there, I have seen it on all PurePower Units but I did not even report it as I find it absolutely irrelevant.Romy, you've said in the past:...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: 22Hz out of 44,100 by manisandher on 2010-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The model one has the same 44x and 48x clocks...[/quote]Ah, OK. I was of the belief that the Model One could only operate at 44.1 or 88.2.  [quote user="Romy the Cat"]At least I would not worry about it and would search f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Preacher of homophobia? by oxric on 2010-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]Romy    Why is it all the people in the art's are homo's Romy? Maybe being a gay does something to your ears. Forsure you have to much time on your hands, you need to find a women and maybe you will get lucky and she has some go...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: No brainer by manisandher on 2009-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... but for a person who works in the marketing you sound too naïve...[/quote]Well, I didn't say I was any good...[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Somebody with knowledge how Pacific DAC works need to overview this…[/quote]Surely...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1112: But What Has Changed, Really? by Paul S on 2013-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Yes, it's a l-o-n-g thread, but everyone should read it from the beginning.  My previous point was/is that the terrible "QA" and CS have been ongoing, since Romy first began airing his dealings with this company and their products, years ago.  Romy l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: East coast west coast by Bill on 2023-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
Paul, wish you were on the East rather than west coast. Then you could hear what Romy and I have with our two systems with concert hall reproduction and judge for yourself what it adds to concert realism. Of course, half of what I have in reproductio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Light on High Res-HF by unicon on 2009-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A single worst thing in today’s acoustic systems. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, the original question remind open – why in live sound 7kHz is enough but during a reproduction 40kHz is not enough.Romy The Cat [/quote]Thanks alot romy. thats the phrase i really needed to hearI have the same pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: More about Bob Robbins by JJ Triode on 2020-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dpols? in Playback Listening  11 Replies 
Bruno,Let me clarify some things. First, I am not making any negative criticism of Bob Robbins or his method. Not having heard a system set up his way, I cannot say anything definite about the results. Also, while I visited Romy twice (in Boston Back...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #952: YMMV by Lx_ on 2011-12-22 
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"]Whatver PurePower dose or dose not does but it works 100% perfect to address problem with dimmers.[/quote]Canuck,I would like to amend this somehow: my experience is not similar to Romy's. I have always observed that dimmer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: OK, I'll own it (sorry, speculators) by Paul S on 2008-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Amplification and Consciousness. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Actually, Romy, I did not think you were kidding, because I get it, just as you gathered.  As you know, as I have posted, the ML2 has been the pivot point of my system for over a year now, and this is exactly because of how this facinating&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1597: Agree with romy by Bill on 2018-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I have to agree with romy on all except one point. I have always had problems with my electricity even though I live out in the woods, but just 10 miles from the Seabrook nuclear power plant. My journey in improving this problem took up at least 20% ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Effective mass vs. Real mass by perrew on 2009-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lithuania enters the game: Reed 12" Tonearm in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I never understood all those conversations about heavier wands or lighter wands… What all this silliness came from? The Mass of the wand, along with mass of cartridge, shell and the shit that we pile up sometimes in shel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: About the drunk crossovers.... by Thorsten on 2005-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio D... in Didital Things  9 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, returning back to the subject, I would like the message be stressed: I feel that if people seriously contemplating the digital crossovers then they fight wrong fight for the wrong reasons. [/quote]That is where ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Blah blah blah 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 
Yes, well, in this case, it wasn't a new amplifier, it was his old amplifier! At the end of the day, he tried it and came to a personal conclusion. I also tried it and came to a personal conclusion. Romy is still just farting into the air. This...
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