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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Sound and emotion by drdna on 2008-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sakuma's Show in Audio Discussions  35 Replies 
[quote user="nl"]Systems like these are all about understanding the emotional content of the music, not about Sound.[/quote]So, I take it you are saying that this system is more focused on a specific level of the 7-level perceptual paradigm? If so, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Sakuma and his sound. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sakuma's Show in Audio Discussions  35 Replies 
At the 7-level perceptual paradigm was operating not Sakuma by Cho-sun for Micro-Seiki. Sakuma was not operating in my view at any level but just listed highly band-passed, highly compressed gray sound. Nl, feels that “Systems like these are all abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The sound compromises of high efficiency direct radiators. by haralanov on 2009-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The sound compromises of high efficiency direct radiators. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
In the thread “Exceptional loudspeakers drivers”  Paul S. wrote:"LOTs of time pretty much wasted lately, looking at "HE" direct-radiator drivers that are actually only HE at their uppermost frequencies, with diving responses and large-to-hu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: DEQ 2496 sound by drdna on 2009-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Funny I thought that that for MiniMe it would not be so critical but as soon I plugged the DEQ-2496 in MiniMe pass I have heard that depersonalized DEQ sound.[/quote]It is funny how some people seem to not hear this at all ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #277: The not sufficient definition of 'good for sound electricity'. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Floobydust, I very much disagree with you on it, not because I have an alternative view but because I have practical evidences that what you say is not sufficient definition of “good for sound electricity”. The lower THD is not adequate representatio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #319: Slight fuzzy sound by beachbum on 2009-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Hello all i must have missed the subject line with pp2000 noise i have not noticed any hiss at all from all inputs except my phono amp. Whats the problem and fix?ThanksMike...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: RE: Wilson 'sound effect' by Axel on 2009-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  53 Replies 
el`Ol,it is quite fascinating how well you depicted (listening to WP 8!) what I heard, listening to some 5.xI.E. "some characteristic shining or radiance probably induced by the breakup of carbon-doped paper cones in combination with the anorganic-pa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: What I do not like in my current Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Without mentioning the reasons here are a few pointers: 1)      There is no proper  tone 2)      Horizontal imaging is less refined then I would like it to be. 3)      Sound is not wet enough. 4)      At high volumes room can’t dissipate HF 5)      S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tube pre-amp with ss amp for tube sound by muddasir on 2010-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Does tube preamplifier VTL would add tube sound to system in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Thanks paul for well thought reply. Two things need clarifiication, i am not new to the subject and am a constant and avid reader.Secondly my preference for music is hobby for electronics and pleasure of listening through application of mind and know...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #277: DPoLS and overcoming the dissection of sound by AOK_Farmer on 2010-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I think that thinking about the audio problems in terms of phase is perhaps logical but counter productive for the reasons you enumerate Paul. It is not the humane thinking... but room *loading* and the DPoLS placement philosophy are... feeling the m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #820: The OTHER SIDE the Sound of Electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I wonder if the Super Electricity Days hide another side in themselves. Remind you that the Super Electricity Days in the magnitude of sound quality are way beyond of what any devises including the PP2000 are able to furnish. I might explain the OTHE...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: "Tube Sound" by Paul S on 2011-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting more power from SET vs. properly distorting SS. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
While you are merely being empirical, there are actually plenty of devices that aim to "benefit" the end sound of SS gain by using tubes to "condition" the signal from DACs, etc.  Also, there are plenty of commercial widgets out there that say they w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Digital Equalisation and sound quality by custodian on 2015-04-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digital Equalization in Didital Things  3 Replies 
My system lives in a small room with poor acoustics. Fact of life until I get round to building the planned perfect music room which has been in design for 5 years and still is just a concept!Bass end is lumpy so I decided to try various solutions to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: "Digital Sound" by Paul S on 2018-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
Amir, I am a long way from understanding the digital audio chains or how they interact, and how each transition affects sound I can get at home.  The biggest reason I have only "invested" in CD so far is because this has been the only digital source ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The caramel-sesame texture of FM Sound by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where the FM quality comes from? in Off Air Audio  22 Replies 
[quote user="peter foster"]The station that I most listen to is 105.9 MHz that broadcasts from one location 50 miles away at 100kW power and that is detected by 2 FM aerials mounted as a parallel array with rotator and ~ 40 feet of coaxial cable to t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The orchestra’s and conductors’ “in-house sound”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Instrumental music vs. orchestrated counterpart in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Nowadays, however, (because multiple reasons) orchestras sound with no expressive, tonal or harmonic consistency …[/quote] [quote user="Michaelz"] Could you please expand on this?  I am very much interested. [/quote]...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: The “toy sound” of Beethoven by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="mats"]I agree about the fragility but perhaps less so about "toy like". I am just now hearing for the first time Beethoven's 7th by Nanut and the second movement is very lovely, beautiful, mesmerizing and as the Eroica seemingly well und...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The New sound of London Symphony Orchestra by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The New sound of London Symphony Orchestra in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
After a few deliberations I picked the Prokofiev’s Complete Symphonies box with Valery Gergiev conducting his new London Symphony Orchestra. It looks like London sound got much warmer and friendlier under Gergiev. I also heard a lot of positive b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Catastrophic reduction of sound quality.... by Andy Simpson on 2008-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of reversed imaging. in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
I would say that this is probably related to the human emphasis on horizontal differentiation.Much of what we see is influenced by our evolutionary skills of pattern recognition. If you take a photograph of your mother and reverse/flip it in the hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The sound of his system by haralanov on 2013-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An educational Eugenie’s installation. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjirDOYSKpM Eugenie and his philosophy of sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSRklBehRU...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Sound vs Sounds + more about Goto by Romy the Cat on 2018-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
[quote user="martinshorn"]This is at least how i (surprisingly) perceived Goto: very wild - though not colored, respectively. And very important how you choose your words - the way of presentation. This is a fine but important difference to "havi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Music for visitors: my “ridicules sound”. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playing music for visitors. in Playback Listening  11 Replies 
The more I think about reproduced sound the more disassociated I find myself with the mainstream audio people. Really, I do not share may of their objective and what in mass audio hysteria is considered essential and prominent does not impress me, fu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: Safety or Sound? by haralanov on 2010-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Yet, I don't think the "safety" aspect may be neglected; I suspect he feels more comfortable with coils running at low voltage than (what I guess was) 200-400V or so. [/quote]Yes, you are right. But it must not be at the expense of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Moreart, take a look at the other sound problems by haralanov on 2010-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small double bass horn for 3"-8" driver in Horn-Loaded Speakers  37 Replies 
[quote user="moreart"]oh yes, show me ![/quote]Just an example:I can show you at least 20 other backloaded horns with different drivers which I have heard here in Bulgaria.Moreart, your main problem is the quality of the drivers you use. All those fo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #359: Midbass nasal sound by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] To my huge surprise and pleasure my midbass horn has absolutely no honk. I heard bass honk in ANY, even the best midbass horns that I heard (BTW, some honk does not bothers me and I even consider it desirable). [/quote]  T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Sound at the Show by Serge on 2011-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Needless to say the sonic impressions I am getting at the shows may be deceptive and always are very preliminary: that's the nature of an event like that. Who knows what's happening in the mains while I am listening, may b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: “Tailor to each buyer's room and sound taste. “ by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="MINGSU"]I think you pointed out correctly.  GOTO sell speaker driver and not a system - because it is impossible to pre-config a multi-horn system to fit every buyer's room and sound taste.As a business, I offer the full service of insta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #141: ULF-only Sound by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
This week two audio persons visited me. Both of them experimenting with loudspeakers of own design and during their visit I discounted my Macondo channels and demonstrated to then the contribution of the each channel to Macondo Sound. Both of them di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Technology vs. Sound – do they actually meet in reality by haralanov on 2012-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL Project Array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Dominik, in terms of technology advancement, it seems their new driver is better than their other models. But despite this, I’m not sure their transducer engineer knows how to make the drivers to be valuable in terms of sound/tone.  I’m saying that n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Do something “pushy” with sound. by Romy the Cat on 2012-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL Project Array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Thanks, Dominik, an interesting driver and an interesting direction. JBL is probably one of the few large companies that that do something “pushy” with sound. Still, what they do and even if what they do objectively advantageous I am not sure that it...
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