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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #567: What to do next NOW with electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I am finishing us to setup my listening room and I have my PP2000 blowing up sometimes (go to protection bypass mode) when I use powerful SS amp for ULF along with Melquiades and the rest of the systems driver from one single PP2000. So, I guess I wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Turning the constraints of space into a virtue by Romy the Cat on 2014-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small spaces in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]So the ambition is low, and I am after a simple solution prioritizing these things, but the question of general interest is whether anyone has found an elegant way of turning the constraints of space into a virtue [/quote] We...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Enabled Lowther drivers by Retsel on 2008-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
I just found this thread and can comment on the Enabled DX4s.  Limono (Wojtek) very gratiously loaned his Enabled 8 ohm Lowther DX4 drivers to me this past summer (summer of 2008).  It took my a while to make the crossover for these (I have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My trip to the Stereophile’s HE 2004 Show by Romy the Cat on 2004-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My trip to the Stereophile’s HE 2004 Show in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
Last week I spent a few hours at the scene of NY’s Stereophile Show – HE 2004: a half-day on Thursday and 2 hours on Friday. As many other audio-shows it had many semi-ugly colorations, however as any audio shows this zoo trip brought it’s own “inter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Cost projection by de charlus on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Romy,I merely thought that you felt I was riding roughshod over your advice, when it was in fact a degree of naivety requiring extensive clarification that may have made it appear thus. Regardless of your indifference to praise and/or criticism, I'd ...

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 #23: Some more questions by haralanov on 2011-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I am not familiar with those types of drivers and with the results they are able to show. [/quote] Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Big Bang recording? by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The UnipheyeMusic and Studio Master Reference... in Didital Things  5 Replies 
I did not order the UnipheyeMusic. Tne only recording I was interested was the Beethoven quartet but I did not like how it was recorded.  According to the UnipheyeMusic guy the artists were too “famous” to give him a lot of time for recording an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Monday night :-) by haralanov on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The misery of passive crossovers on bass channels by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
Paul, l I have written about it somewhere: the passive speaker-level crossovers on bass channels are no good. Marko has 250Hz that with 3rd order would be around 10mH and 2mH. With air core then would be very large coils with huge amount of DCR – ver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Any noise from the Manger Orchestra? by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
Mani, BTW, if Silbatone-pimping Joe Roberts showed up in here then it had to be the Aporia speakers with the  back-loaded single Manger were presented in the show. Why would Silbatone otherwise to drag to the show that  big and expensive mastodon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Greek Arcadian Audio new horn. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Greek Arcadian Audio new horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
A Greek company Arcadian Audio come up with own new horn-loaded loudspeaker. http://www.arcadianaudio.com/description_style.html ... with Lowther-like single driver. I truly hate those tipe of speakers. Anyhow, the Arcadian Au...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The other side of the coin by haralanov on 2012-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you were to start from scratch, what horn system would yo... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not disagree with it but I would certainly question the practicality of it alone with cost/benefit ratio. I think if the identically amount of effort would be spend for other aspects then the benefits would be highe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: GOTO design efforts? Ahhh? by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
With Ming permission I post a fragment of his emails where he describes his midbass horn. It appears that he uses cone-drivers with ltooooooo ow Fz in non-compression application with no back chamber. Now it is obvious where he is losing his midbass ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Lower/Upper Mid Transition Point by jessie.dazzle on 2008-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Jessie wrote :"...In the case of the system I am building, one can happily sit straight in the firing axis of any of the horns without experiencing the above-mentioned unpleasantries... No cringing (and this while using the older metal diaphragms). T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Looking at the pictures of CES I came across a new Seoul-based company Silbatone Acoustics that show off a new speaker “APORIA” in Vegas. It is a back-loaded Manger. What I read the company philosophy I was not pleased. http://silbatoneacoustics.co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: To regulate or not regulate 6C33C by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
[quote user="Cosmos"] Anyway, as the description on our site on second paragraph says, the third 6C33 located at the back, is used as the pass element of the regulator (controlled by solid state circuitry) providing 220V with 100uV of random noise &a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #170: Tubes, Whole Circuits, Expectations and Sound by Paul S on 2009-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
It sounds like a lot of the circling has to do with which 2A3 "sounds better", outright.  In any case, I'm guessing everyone would agree that it is specious to argue about which 2A3 sounds most like some internally-estab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #221: The Macondo's “space texture” with PP2000 by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
As I said before, in many if not all instances the provisions for “bad electricity” are deeply entrenched into the design of our playbacks. A few days back I took advantages of some new possibilities that PP2000 offered and made some changes in playb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: How to make it working with Vitavox S2? by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
It is complicated. Any tweeter is different and the RAAL’s “Water Drop” tweeter is more different then others. Almond any other tweeters that I heard this tweeter has something absolutely unique- it has no annoying upper MF nose. When I asked Alex to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: 25-30mA or 15-17mA by G on 2018-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
I double checked and everything seems connected ok. all parts values are correct. I have measured the voltage across R2 and it was 208V so 208v / 15k = 13.86mA. I connected 1r resistor between M and R2 and it was 14mA. also connected 1r resistor betw...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Fishing for Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The invisible sound barrier in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Haralanov, What you are experiencing in my view is an inconsistency and confusion between listening of playback presentation vs. content of musical message. I know that it is fashionable among audiophiles to claim “not listening to audio but l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #205: Mid-bass horn: Room loading/augmenting by jessie.dazzle on 2010-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Romy wrote (in the "It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity." thread):"...I might not have enough power in new room for my woofer towers and it would force to use class A/B SS amp..."You've mentioned on more than one occasion how much you love what you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: remotely possible interstage or volume control by Bud on 2005-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
actually I agree with Romy, to a degree.... If the amplifier is a push pull device, using my output and input splitter devices of course, then an interstage transformer is a much better choice than rc coupling. Using transformers designed to the crit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
Loudspeakers. For whomever who follows my dairies on this site and whoever has any real understanding what makes a horn-loaded loudspeaker to sound good it is know that Macondo Acoustic System is not juts the result of my DIY efforts or the John Hasq...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Everything else is less relevant. by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Trash your “full-rage”, single-driver acoustic systems. in Audio For Dummies ™  10 Replies 
[quote user="Iraschwips"]I imagine this excellent transient response was limited to a narrow frequency band that was emphasized by the specific recording? [/quote] Yes, it is was very accurate guess: it was the “narrow frequency” and it WAS to a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Another option to consider by noviygera on 2016-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Romy,I understand your situation as a result of the move. It is a good thing because a system that is out of proportion with not work in a family environment and ultimately you will be battling yourself between sound and family priorities and practic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: N-set number of idlers or belts by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] The only purely theoretical point which is intriguing for mein the whole multiple drive idea is whether one can achieve a uniform "floating" rotation: the forces perpendicular to the spindle balance out and the spindle rotates wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: It is very stimulating to observe.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Jessie, a few comments. The back chamber mechanism is good. Are you planning to do the same in the midbass horn? Since you most likely will not drive your upperbass all the way down I think that the back chamber mechanism  will be more effectiv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: About the RAAL tweeter’s “Sarcophagus”... by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
After spending a day with RAAL’s “Water Drop” tweeter, trying to make a mounting harness for it I have to tell you that it almost a nightmare to handle it. Around this tweeter I was forced to recognize all objects I my room on magnetic and non-magnet...
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