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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #266: The hum problem is less likely the PP2000’s problem by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] What was more concerning is today some 60 Hz hum also re-emerged in the system, sounding like a vibrating cell phone going off in the back of the room. It was interesting how it was sort of localizable, but the hum is annoying. A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Combine but not confuse by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn length/expansion/group delay in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
[quote user="jamikl"] On most music I listen to my very average gear is OK but loses it as the complexity ofthe music increases. [/quote] It is not only with your gear. Most of audio systems fall apart with increase of musical complexity. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About DSET-driven multi-way acoustic system maintenance assessment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About DSET-driven multi-way acoustic system maintenance asse... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
In this thread I would like to talk a bit about the practice in DSET driven multi-way horns configuration. I have expressed my view that the architectural configuration that Macondo and Super Melquiades end up to be I find is the most interest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Do not argue, learn. by Romy the Cat on 2024-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What Passes for "Space" in Home Audio? in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
I sincerely feel that all those conversations about space and the rest of the Audio G-spot words are irrelevant until people who engage in conversation are exposed to a properly implemented Auro 3d or any other objects-oriented Space reconstructio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Horn color control by Jorge on 2011-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
I think the usage of Romys Injection Channel has misguided you to think it was implemented because of a certian lack of tone or some sterile sound,  nothing of the sort,  I cannot blame you for not having listened to Romys system,  but theo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: DAC problems... by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
Well, I think the in this inquiry would be the use of CEC TLOX transport. If you do putting together a system from the ground up then it is arguable if it makes sense to commit yourself with CEC TLOX. This transport is from the last century and i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Integrated sound field optimization. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Integrated sound field optimization. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
A few days ago I visited a local friend of mine. He has a decent audio setup in his living room with mid-size monitors. Leaving aside what sound he is getting just would note that I know what to expect in his room. This time it was a bit more the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #153: Fostex F120A – the end of the game. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
It was yesterday around 4 PM – I viciously took it off and decided never use it again.  I was listening Brahms German Requiem with James Levine and BSO – a phenomenal performances in my view and one moment after being offended by each note the F...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Different factors affecting bass quality by haralanov on 2009-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Sand damping it beautiful, it is well-recognized, but you do pay cost for it, in your case the cost is space. [/quote]I know that Romy… but without the massive amounts of sand, there are always some vibrations felt when I t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Let me extrapolate and speculate by Gregm on 2007-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best speaker in the world, is yet again available in Audio News  9 Replies 
[quote user="morricab"]It is a good question that I also asked when I saw this speaker.  Afterall, everything being equal using the same materials for the drivers is more optimal from a coloration standpoint.  My guess is cost. Personally, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The point: variations in listeners by drdna on 2008-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sound and How We Hear It in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
[quote user="tuga"]I too am very tuned into Romy's Unvollendete. The way I see it, it somehow synthesizes the way an evolved person (which we all aspire to become someday) approaches a work of art. And I agree that "a certain" system could somehow...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My Multi-way Horns by skushino on 2009-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Multi-way Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
My current speakers are Edgarhorns with the straight 80hz upper-bass shell.  The bass never sounded correct to me.  The problems with Edgar's mid-bass are well documented at this site and elsewhere.  I tried some simple modifications to the crossover...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: It is much more then juts "properly calculated and sized cap”. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Thomas Mayer’s Triamp in Melquiades Amplifier  2 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"]I'm pretty interested in yr. opinion about the possible choice of best, safest, smoothest way to use solid-state amp/low-end with "Triamp"... ok... 3-channells DSETs... and my system upper ways... what slope do you think...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Confession as tool of removing self-responsibility. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How audio started…. in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
*** I've received and read most of February issue of Stereophile. They review the last M1.2 Reference amplifier and the comments from the reviewer are more about how the music can flow and show as a unique event, with the kind of interaction with the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: Listening patterns: main vs. pilot playback by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Hm, this is interesting. I have my 2 shitty temporary monitors in Hamster position sublimated with a par of LF sections from MiniMe. They are not perfectly set up but quite listenable in it’s ad-hoc configuration driver by consumer PP SS amp. Here ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: I do differently. by xandcg on 2015-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Really Expensive DACs? in Didital Things  29 Replies 
Paul S,I usually do not compare source components (or amplifiers or cables or etc.) in this fashion, DAC vs DAC, CDT vs CDT etc. unless I feel two (or more) of then (may) be too similar, like Lampizator and AN UK DACs I like. I prefer to focus integr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Listening Level and Audio IQ by Amir on 2019-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
rowuk my english may not translate what i think but i try to write , i hope it be useful. In Tehran we have classic concert in two halls , Vahdat Hall and Roodaki Hall .   the classic music is not very active in tehran. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Thinking about the sound at that show. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Serge"] The SIlbatone room was very large. They played an Edith Piaf record on a mono WE16B (or A, not sure). They played it very loud which I don't like, ever. I felt the system was made to show dynamics and it did it. The dynamic r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Vertical tilt adjustment for horns by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Driver Alignment, and Where to Draw the Line in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Romy's comments on "axial rotation" of the horns (meaning in this case, angling the horns) has me thinking. I had planned to build in a vertical tilt adjustment for horns located near the floor and ceiling...  I woul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: DSET amplifier is designed by anthony on 2017-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
It took a LOT of time in CAD using what I had learnt from building the power supplies and then adapting it to match the requirements of the rest of the system.  I have decided to mount the DSET on the horn stack and direct connect the speaker cables....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Do not spoil horns with dirty hands.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Earl Geddes: Horny Book in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
... or wondering if it has any new insight into horn design.I did not read the book but I find funny that person who presumably do not “believe” in horn write a review about the presumably horn related book. It would be similar to ask a blind person ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Listening the Single-stage 6E5P by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Now I re-listen all the things the we try to measure. To surmised everything I have to tell that Dima’s way to looks for optimum operation point of the tube (setting balance for voltage vs. current sufficiency) turned out to be very successful as I d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1895: Non-linear audio systems by Amir on 2023-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
RowukI have fully read all pages of this topic (mad mad mad electricity) two times and I know good sound does not come from pure sinewave .I should say I am here (like a student) to learn more and I do not like spread my in-complete BS ideas here.I r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Synergy vs. realty. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The idiotism of Audio Synergy in Audio For Dummies ™  9 Replies 
Paul, it is unquestionable that there are specific properties that set specific compatibility between audio elements but what is important to understand is that word “synergy” was specifically invented in audio by sales personal in order do not recog...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Wow, what a speaker! by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dunlavy SC++ loudspeakers as a vaccination from high-end aud... in Audio For Dummies ™  3 Replies 
I had today time and pleasure to spend some time to listen my Dunlavy SC-III with TN51 tweeter and a new 3K tweeter crossover. What a marvelous change! As I said above the Dunlavy instantly cot converted from corky cult product to a truly magnific...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Balance Control by Amir on 2018-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quests for an ultimate preamp. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1) A preamp shall have right Sound. I would not even comment on it. A preamp shall sound better then any other source a system has.2) A preamp shall have a remote control. I have expressed a well found view that a Remote Co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #161: I am looking for inspiration. by Romy the Cat on 2017-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I had a good listening session this Sunday. The Tchaikovsky 5 and Mahler 3rd. I shut down my ULF and was listening just with the rest of the system. I was thinking what the hell I can do with lower knee of my midbass. I absolutely adore what Vitav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: A couple of already tortured candidates by Bud on 2007-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  30 Replies 
Romy,In the diyaudio thread on EnABL I cover the Hemp acoustics FR 4.5 C and the Lowther A45. Both drivers in your size range.Since EnABL does not measurably alter any compression wave characterisitcs of the piaton mode tests, except for phase shift ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Circuit instability by N-set on 2012-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Staxquiades project in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
Actually I do not have the instability issue sorted out completely...I'm talking about circuit instability now, not the tube instability. Let us imagine all tubes are rock stable.As I see it there are at least two major sources of instability, in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: That crossover is perfectly understandable and very predictable by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] If Marko "needs" 3rd order, is somerthing else amiss? [/quote]It is not amiss but an area where the things should be explored. What I like about horns that they have very little ambiguity and if everything is done “properly” the...
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