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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Just a boy and his soldering iron... by jessie.dazzle on 2006-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
Regarding the "complexity" of these amps : Not being a DIY electronics guy, the Melquiades schematic makes me want to reach for a cigarette... However, naive fool that I am, having no formal training in electronics, I look at it and think to mysel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: The Fundamentals Channel around S2 is taken further. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I really appreciate the result of the 180Hz horn with the S2... Particularly in terms of "texture". It is responsible for such an important range... [/quote] Well, if you appreciate the lower knee of the S2 driver then wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Ribbons - Chris the winner? by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Ok, I managed to get my measurement setup running. Behringer ECM8000/PC soundcard kind of thing.I measured the following tweeters:Focal TLRTAD PT-R9Aurum Cantus G1Fane 5022I don't have an absolute level calibrator and I need to take ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: The signal passing via the 834PTF-Air… by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Will I be listening to all my sources via the inverse RIAA? Well, the question was sarcastic but it has some rational grains.  If the signal passing via the 834PTF-Air does receive some positive attributes despite of the presumed nastiness of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The "C" words by Wellington on 2015-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Soory, Be, no matter how I look into it I can’t understand why circumference force would make the arm to move inward. If you spin your platter not at 33 but at let say 45 and pule some light subjects on the platter then ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Ultimate Turntable by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Here are some my ideas for an “Unlimited Turntable”. Feel free to share some of your ideas… An “Unlimited Turntable” should allow multiple arms. It should be a good quality arm with a good stereo cartridge…. Also, it should be a good quality arm with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #95: The cass D amps and the Plummer Joe's rubbery butter. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-30 
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="Lbjefferies7"] If you are really interested in moronizing your room, GTT Audio & Video are selling some Kharma Class-D's on audiogon.http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ddampstran&1237509628&demo&3&4&Looks like...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: One of many advantages of multi-amping. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: All Active! A DSET and multi-way acoustic system. in Audio Discussions  14 Replies 
The people who use a single driver speaker believe the while their driver move back and forth for it also radiates a problem-free MF and HF. Near the same people believe that if an amp has capacitors with precious metals foil then it not only do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Everything is much undefined now…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]So if I understand correctly, you are still using both elements of the Red, but have separated them, and now have the HF element as shown in the above photo, and the woofer is still in the large box (still sitting up on to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgar by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgar in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996 Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The conventional pair of front firing loudspeakers can not? by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL in Horn-Loaded Speakers  31 Replies 
Thanks, for posting the link. I never heard about this company. Here are a few interesting quotes from the Morison Audio site: “A conventional pair of front firing loudspeakers cannot recreate a natural stereo illusion. It always sounds like a soph...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: Helpful Romy? What's next? Rational and civilised discussion? by oxric on 2011-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Rakesh posted an add at DiyAudio site, in wrong forum in my view but it is what it is.[/quote]However, in an earlier post, where you suggested that I was knocking 'at the wrong door', you wrote:[quote user="Romy the Cat"...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Further observations by jessie.dazzle on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Romy wrote :"...It is most likely that you changing the yours crossover to 4800Hz introduced a phase shift that accidentally “clicked” with the neighboring channels...You might look at the differences in imaging since you changed the crossover..." H...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Re: EdgarHorns crash survival guide by drdna on 2005-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Drdna, generally I would not agree that your assessment of the EdgarHorns is correct. There is nothing fundamentally wrong in them that would prevent them to "disappear" in the room. [/quote]Well, this is good news.&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #537: Is Purepower in constant Beta, perhaps, but so what? by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I think you mostly get where I'm coming from and you just don't like it, and your criticism is smart, and your points are well taken; but there are a few things going on here that just bug me that you either seem oddly comfo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #588: The electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-14 
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"]Ok, I got my two more PP2000, not I have 3 all together and I need to find how to use them. My little celebratory mood with PP2000 is much shorn live and my old PP2000 flying back today to Canada for fixing the problem with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Here are a number of threads at my site where the concept of “Rightsizing from extreme systems....” is pitched. I looked into the “second” systems not because I was interested in “different sound”. In fact I insist that multiple playbacks in the same...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The many sounds of a City by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The many sounds of a City in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
The best sound that I ever heard in my life ironically came from an amateur band. It was in the 1999 and I was in Munich, hanging around Europe in search for sensations. In the center Munich, where all visitors crowded around Munich’s center platz, t...

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 #1: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
OK, the preceding thread what I research the subject of Midbass Horns and Real Estate have finished with great success. http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=11190 I found and got a house that I like very much ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Don't waste time being "creative" 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 
There is no "one tube DHT amp." There are only amps with gain in one box or two boxes. Your 6E5P tube is not so special. People have been making WE437 spud amps since the 1960s. There is a class of amps that use a high-gm tube driver and a DHT out...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #107: Emission Labs 2A3 by drdna 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 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]BTW, I run today the Chinese 2A3 and they were  much better then Sovtek tube, much-much better, in fact I was very surprise how bad the Sovtek were.[/quote]Having received a bunch of tubes, I have spent some time liste...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Unfortunately not by the Nelson Pass blessing…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Solid state revisited in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
Well, this is huge mystery in the reproduction of the few first milliwatt and I very much applaud to what Nelson Pass is trying to do. Being muse a proponent of high sensitively and low power I very much experienced with the fact the high power amps ...

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: High-End Industry and cartridges. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="starboy"]I decided recently to add the Shelter 901 to my collection of 'Groove Riderz' and wondered what was the justification of the price hike for the 90X. Read the same review as yourself and thought that I learn't nothing other than ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Putting the picture together. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]"A little information is dangerous. I find it incredible that people with absolutely no understanding about the technology and its application feel the need to speak with the authority of an expert. The HDCD processes "P...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: . by alex on 2015-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] be wrote:Your circumference force is right, but when viewed from above it work clocwise around the lateral bearing of the arm, therefore the arm wil tend to move inwards :-)Soory, Be, no matter how I look into it I can’...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo Horns: biography. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Horns: biography. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Since the Macondo Horns were bult the selected few who had opportunity to listen them we able to “get” what Macondo is all about sound-wise. Among all audio advantages that Macondo does sounicly I do have one sadistic experiment that I conduct w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: Ventilation by anthony on 2017-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It look like the project progress well. I have a little concern about heat the will be building up in your PS enclosure. I do not know what kind ventilation hole you have in there but be advised that it will be quite ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #122: Very good by Romy the Cat on 2017-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Agree, it is very good. For the vibration isolation, I would worry only about the driver tubes. If you have some money to waste then you might look for ALNIC made tube sockets vibration dumpers. They are VERY effective and if you buy them in bulk ...
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