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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #117: How my phonostage shall sound. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Also do not forget that the phonostage that you built has very lash and very polite sound. [/quote]I would like to stress the politeness and lushness of 834PT-AIR phonocorrector. This characteristic of this phonostage s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Some further bitching about the HDTT "Signature Sound” by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New sample 24/96 downloads from HDTT in Didital Things  20 Replies 
Paul, it has nothing to do with noise reduction devices. It has also very little to do with the media on which the recording took place – would it be LF, tape or digital file. Audio it is about expression of musical spirituality through the semi-barb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The Sound as is. The interest Sound or something else? by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New sample 24/96 downloads from HDTT in Didital Things  20 Replies 
[quote user="HDTT"]    Wow what a greeting to give a new forum member!!! [/quote] Well, it is me. I would like do not moderate my attitude and my strictly audio judgments about audio result of the people that I do not know vs. to the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The St Louis sound-check tapes? by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: X-mas list in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="zako"] I live 2 hours away from The St Louis Symphony,,and the St Louis Philharmonic…. How sad... But I am caretaker of all master tapes plus of others before my tenure. [/quote] Zako, do you have any interesting performances in those ta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: The loud noise vs. loud Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-30 
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"]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 volume...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #198: The ASC Sound Panels. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Ok, I figured that while my midbass horn is being built (the carpenter stared yesterday) I it a good time to lay with HF treatment of my room. I took me sail out –look ugly, lowered the blinds (with expose glass it is pure nightmare) and begin to thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Sound Board by Paul S on 2011-05-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting more power from SET vs. properly distorting SS. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Romy, I must be missing something, because this suggests to me an old studio sound board.  I think the serious "good stuff" is mostly re-built and back in service with Vintage-Style recording/mixing guys; but maybe you only need parts?Or, what about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #81: This amp is OK only if you know the resulting Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
N-set, it is nice to see that you are keep punching the idea, somebody shall, I guess.. About the filters. For the low-pass and in this application I do not use inductors and much prefer RC filter. In LC filters the band-pass flows over coil. If we a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The [open] Window on the Sound 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 
The cool thing is how Lamm figured out how to get one's attention off the window, albeit, apparently, through a fairly didactic program of "organizing", "correcting" and/or "mitigating" certain information he realized contributed to that particular d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Naked Sound and Whether. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Naked Sound and Whether. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
When you step outside of your house you have a few seconds when your senses recognize whether and to react to whether. Before your awareness tag air as cold, dry, windy, hot or wet you have that deep breathe when all your inner-you just put on line a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Practical applications of implied sound by drdna on 2008-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Implied Sound” in Audio. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Simply put, this concept has more to do with tangible results than most other things we talk about.  At least, potentially.  In the same way that a person might go to the ophthalmologist and get a pair of prescription eyeglasses to see clea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Sound and How We Hear It by drdna on 2008-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sound and How We Hear It in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
How do we hear? A recent article examined the capacity of the optic nerve to process visual signals. Based on the number of neurons in the retina, etc., an estimate of less than a megabyte of information was found, which is surprisingly low. This...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Japanese were right about absolute sound by tokyo john on 2009-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Absolute Sound of Audio Idiocy. in Playback Listening  13 Replies 
It is funny but for many years I had been intrigued by the different approach to audio by Japanese vs "the West"."The west" here refers to Absolute Sound type (not everyone in the West is this of course) criteria of live performance. Confession time...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: My idea about sound by Amir on 2009-07-29 
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 
RomyI hope to transfer my idea with my bad english :)I should to say that my view is based on my personal experience and i have no stress on my views.I share my views but for knowing more not for disagree other views because i think this discussion i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: "...behind good Sound from playback... by Axel on 2009-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playback and Perception vs. Chicken and Egg in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
there is something else to work with and this something else always was there…"Could you be referring to what I. Kant made known as "a priori"? There are things in our consciousness that are apparent, present by "a priori" which in the case of pl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Three Little Pigs story and Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lecture on history of architectural acoustics in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
Good lecture, thanks for posting it. It reminds me that I think 12 years ago there was a “big” debate about the distinction between US and British Sound, from a perspective of speakers design. We all know about the “classic” BBC curves and the rest o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Digital Clock accuracy and sound quality by custodian on 2015-04-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
New member, first post, so go easy on me!Ive been playing around with clocks in digital audio for a while. Current system uses a DCS Scarlatti stack with the Scarlatti clock. Synching to the Scarlatti clock rather than using the Scarlatti DAC as mast...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: The Ortofone’s first sound by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
I mounted the new Jubilee last night. I did not have much time to listen it and all that I heard was just a half side of a record that I know well. The Jubilee was at 2.3g, no enforced VTA, loaded to 75R, the 3012 arm with default shell: I have no id...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: RCA’s Sound And The Story by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RCA’s Sound And The Story in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
A pleasant film about the RCA's Boston s recordings and record production from 1956 http://www.archive.org/details/SoundAndTheS RCA Victor presents Sound and the Story, copyright Radio Corporation of AmericaThis movie is part of the collect...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Why second tonearm/cartridge does not sound like first one? by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why second tonearm/cartridge does not sound like first one? in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
The people who has more than one tonearm for stereo might understand me.  I kind of pissed as my dally tonearm/cartridge does not sound as good as my reference tonearm/cartridge. What does it mean? It means that for dally records spinning sometimes I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Less Martion sound by el`Ol on 2012-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End 2012 in Germany in Audio News  36 Replies 
As far as I remember the former presentations in the latest version there is less softening by the amps without sacrificing tonal neutrality and the digitally controlled bass section has less problems with the room. Mr. Martion always plays a very br...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: DIY against Real Sound and Real Audio by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hmmm... the sad truth about BMS.. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Dan, I do not know were you’re going with “next step”, but I do see that some people treat interaction at this site as another swamp of DIY movement. This endless DIY paranoia when people pursuit abstract BS objectives and fulfill bogus frustrations...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Cogent sound was not near where it should... by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] And what they were doing, at CES 2006, was fine indeed. [/quote] Nope it was not. Cogent sound was not near as interesting as it could/should be, and the Cogent boys know it, or at least they are slowly learning it.&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A hornmaker: “Martinelli Sound” by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who builds horns? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  84 Replies 
Martinelli Sound is US based hornmaker. It offers small HF and MF rectangular but semi-nicely rounded horns, hoverer, as I understand they are opened for custom solutions as well. I did not see Martinelli Sound’s making a big splash among horn enthus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Bypass that sound card! by jessie.dazzle on 2008-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Mani wrote : "...An interesting thing that I have found is that the soundcard changes the data EVEN WITH EVERYTHING SET TO ZERO in its software mixer...I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Bypass that sound card? The Cosecant DAC? by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Jessie, I have two comments/questions. Are you sure that using the USB you do not use the sound card? I am a software guy not a hardware guy and with my limited understanding I presume that an application that reads a file must talk to so kind of dr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1178: Musicians and the Sound by drdna on 2013-06-16 
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"] Amy clearly acknowledged the difference but when I asked her to describe to me the difference ... and she begun to explain to me the deference she heard it from a position of a sting player.  It was fan to hear from her...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: The new power supply for MF channel: the Sound by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Those who flow what is going on with my 6-Ch Milq know that for sniggle driver stage I this revision I went what for non-electrolytic capacitors. I use a mandatory for me input choke with 200uF on PS side and then 100R and 100uF on the amps side to g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Sound vs Performance by Paul S on 2016-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: PlayClassics TRT v2.0 master file giveaway for GSC members in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
Mario, I don't know how many "audio" sites you have salted, but I wonder if you read this one before posting your blurb.  It is nice that you have spent some time trying to get a natural sound for you recordings via controlling some of the typica...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1780: Improving Sound Quality of Pure Power+ 3000 (230v) by Amir on 2021-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
It seems the pure power 3000 diagram is like below :The battery voltage in new pure power+3000 is 72v (6x12v in 230v version) and the battery voltage convert to 330v by a switching dc to dc converter if i am not mistaken.What is your idea if we remov...
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