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  »  New  Macondo Horns: biography...  Macondo with Pussy Eyes....  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     2  69550  05-18-2005
  »  New  Super Melquiades Amplifier...  About the Super Melquiades Bass....  Melquiades Amplifier  Forum     29  316439  07-16-2005
  »  New  Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array..  Macondo and not only Macondo positioning...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     8  170182  10-29-2005
  »  New  Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. ..  The system is sounding these days…...  Melquiades Amplifier  Forum     10  203481  03-01-2006
  »  New  5 Channel Version of Melquiades..  Very easy....  Melquiades Amplifier  Forum     21  292239  07-23-2006
  »  New  Macondo Frame modification...  Parquet...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     46  528429  12-22-2006
  »  New  It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts)..  Changes With Consistency as a Backdrop...  Playback Listening  Forum     24  215486  12-23-2006
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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
Posts 2,818
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Post #: 51
Post ID: 29461
Reply to: 27856
Happy 2026!

Happy 2026! Looking back on 2025 hi-fi, it was all about integrating and developing new speakers for “more stereo”. Naturally (this being hi-fi), as my stereo improved my mono has slipped by comparison. Not to say the mono is “bad”, rather all the terrific stereo “soundstage” significantly overshadows what I get out of mono. I have not yet played much trying to “bring up” the mono, but I have observed that some more modern “mono” records are more “open” played with the K&K knob set to “stereo”, while old mono recordings just sound better on “mono”. I have in mind some things I want to try with mono recordings, but I am not ready to give up the great stereo I enjoyed in 2025, and I will not intentionally take a back step there to showcase mono.>>


Paul S
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Amir
Iran Tehran
Posts 387
Joined on 02-11-2009
Post #: 52
Post ID: 29462
Reply to: 29461
Happy New Year
Happy new year 2026, 
All audiophiles try to improve the sound even after 30 years of spending money, time and effort and they think they are doing audio but no one has a good sound. 
I think we should stop audio in 2026 and try to find a better hobby.
Just kidding
Amir

www.amiraudio.com, www.hifi.ir
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steverino
Posts 395
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Post #: 53
Post ID: 29463
Reply to: 27854
2026 New Year
All the best in 2026. I am focusing my time on listening to pink noise. I do wonder if I have found the best vinyl pressing or CD mastering though. I just grabbed the old Stereopile track but there must be something better out there.
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Wojtek
Pinckney (MI), United States
Posts 187
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Post #: 54
Post ID: 29464
Reply to: 29462
Happy New Year ! You won't have a good sound
with available technology. Aliens have to give it to us. It's hard enough to have a decent sound playing one genre of music or particular part of the genre music like chamber or solo instruments. To have something which plays  well most of genres requires a new technology and not a rehash of 100 years old ideas and pissing on the speaker cone. Good boombox is not so bad to sweeten up a "crushing sense of defeat"I think we should devote 2026 for boombox development SmileAll the best
  
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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
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Post #: 55
Post ID: 29465
Reply to: 29463
Alternate Pink:
Steve, probably no help, but FWIW I have used the Hi-Fi News Analogue Test LP for a long while. If you need continuous pink noise, how about a signal generator?

Paul S
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steverino
Posts 395
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Post #: 56
Post ID: 29466
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Repeat
Paul S  I just use the repeat function to give me hours of pink noise bliss.
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steverino
Posts 395
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Post #: 57
Post ID: 29467
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Aliens will have to pry my 8 tracks from me
 Wojtek wrote:
with available technology. Aliens have to give it to us. It's hard enough to have a decent sound playing one genre of music or particular part of the genre music like chamber or solo instruments. To have something which plays  well most of genres requires a new technology and not a rehash of 100 years old ideas and pissing on the speaker cone. Good boombox is not so bad to sweeten up a "crushing sense of defeat"I think we should devote 2026 for boombox development SmileAll the best
  

Wojtek,
I'll see your boombox and raise it with my rear wheel drive Chevy's 8 track player playing all your heavy metal favorites.
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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
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Way Back, More or Less
Wojtek, are you old enough to remember the old "portable" KLH FM/record players (AKA, Dorm Darlings)? Tons on ebay. A proven way to get more by asking for less. Spark a blunt and Hi Ho, Silver!

pAUL s
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Wojtek
Pinckney (MI), United States
Posts 187
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Post #: 59
Post ID: 29469
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Unfair becuase in a light of recent developments of unlimited oil supply I only decided yesterday to buy me a Semi sized pickup truck

My heavy metal favorites are closer to aluminum in heaviness rather than a hairy chest metal...Lost may hair by the age of 18 hence I put all my eggs into "intelectual music" . (Quickly learned that the only sure way to a pantyland is fist full of $$ Smile Everybody in business knows that nothing beats 8 track system in a rear wheel drive , even a boombox Smile
I hope pink noise let you fall asleep after years of nerve wrecking insomnia inducing system tweaks  
Paul , I had several of those dorm "all in one" systems passing by. I sold them all thinking  I can do better. Yeah
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steverino
Posts 395
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Post #: 60
Post ID: 29470
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That's very kind of you
 Wojtek wrote:

My heavy metal favorites are closer to aluminum in heaviness rather than a hairy chest metal...Lost may hair by the age of 18 hence I put all my eggs into "intellectual music" . (Quickly learned that the only sure way to a pantyland is fist full of $$ Smile Everybody in business knows that nothing beats 8 track system in a rear wheel drive , even a boombox Smile
I hope pink noise let you fall asleep after years of nerve wrecking insomnia inducing system tweaks  
Paul , I had several of those dorm "all in one" systems passing by. I sold them all thinking  I can do better. Yeah


expressing your concern over my shattered audiophilia nerves. But yes pink noise and my 8 track tape collection have soothed most of the heartache away. As for heavy metal don't you think Varese is the classical version?
Congrats on your new pickup truck. Yes oil is everywhere. I remember my Dad one time recalling a meeting he had with an oil exec. (My Dad analyzed commodity prices.) So he asked him about the long term outlook for oil supply. The exec looked at him and laughed saying: "The entire world is floating on oil." The exec turned out to be the best prognosticator.
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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The 2025 was revolutionary....
I would hardly believe it would be understood if I even began to explain what is going on with me and audio during the last couple months. All I can say: to my huge surprise I found a VERY interesting way to use audio in context of other superbly interesting events that are taking place now I my life. This is completely different version of audio. I made a few attempts to record a video on the subject, but I did not post it. I am not sure if there is an interest in the subject out there as it is a very fundamental departure from high-end audio as it exists. I am still thinking if I need to share it…

"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
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What Better Place as an Audio Diary?
Romy, you are The Cat, but I am certainly curious, myself. While I can't and won't try to speak for others, I will observe that it is simply sharing thoughts that has resulted in this site (that you so generously maintain). There are plenty of other places for people to look for component recommendations, but none I am aware of that so staunchly expresses the personal/subjective sense of audio. 

Best regards,
Paul S
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Wojtek
Pinckney (MI), United States
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It may be personal
but it was always rather influential and has it's followers adopting the solutions who may feel (and were in the past) rather blindsided by sudden changes in directions and "betrayal" of so called axioms. I always found it rather amusing. I wouldn't be surprised if the new direction was rather unassuming or even mainstream i.e nothing exotic. Tannoy period was one of those moments . Yamaha B2 was another one (prices went up considerably even though my local tech trashes it as inadequate and altogether a poor design) Anyway, everytime Romy de Kat changes direction the red alert " to buy" exotic leftovers goes off Smile) 
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Paul S
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The Deaf Following the Blind
Perhaps I was lucky to have burned out on vintage horns long before I found this site, although I did do a second round of SETs before I went on my own tangent. I refer copy cats back to "quasi-complimentary" amps and leave it at that. Warning: ALL vintage stuff is its own rabbit warren. Regardless of what Romy says, or what people think Romy is saying, people will have to listen for themselves and make personal decisions, including compromises. Anyone who brings home a component, plugs it in and loves the result may well find the initial delight fades over time. Anyone who doesn't understand this has not been at it for very long. I would lke to hear Romy's thoughts on his current "audio experience". I will serve as my own buffer.

Paul S
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Wojtek
Pinckney (MI), United States
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You guys have it easy
Your dancing days are long forgotten past (if there ever were any) and your "rebel period' may be akin to Glen Gould's eccentricity of plunking  the piano keys. Your audio pursuit is like "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in intensity of imagination but misery of  real flesh & blood carnal pleasuresSmile I don't believe any of your solutions can do "primitive" good enough or anywhere near good enough. On the other hand a mainstream is usually too neutered to do anything good enough. 
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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
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Properly Aged La Tache
Wojtek, not sure what you mean by "primitive", but at present I suppose any efforts I make with hi-fi relate to what I am getting from the recorded Music I listen to, and (obviously) my system reflects my own aesthetics at any given time, and my results are personal, coming and going. The way I see it, hi-fi involves choices and compromises, and I plan and implement accordingly, sarcasm and wistfulness notwithstanding. For whatever it's worth, it's not like I'm broken on the wheel of hi-fi, and I do not envy or resent others' hi-fi choices or solutions. Goethe came and went, himself. Whatever convinces or moves one, dance on. If it's "primitive" you're after, why not go for it?

Paul S
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Wojtek
Pinckney (MI), United States
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Post ID: 29477
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Lets say savage quality ;)
which should be equally well reproduced in all genres. I'm absolutely convinced that none of the composers wrote their music to the type of audience it is usually getting in form of so called "classical' crowd. Actually it can be universally applied to other arts as well. I don't want it to be reproduced in a form palatable to "those people" If I may be blunt, your system hardly reproduces your own "aesthetics" because as far as you let it be known you bought the speaker project unheard,  an enigma becuase it seemed  big enough, can take enough power and the designer (Troels?) did somewhat decent crossover job that it works more or less acceptable . Isn't that so :?) haha. I say it as a friend, and becuase I'm primitive it might have come out a bit cross so accept my apology. I follow the site because I can somewhat relate to experiences and when Romy sez that "the soup tastes like a window" I precisely know what that taste is even though most of the time I have no clue what he is smoking. I hope one day I find a sort of ghetto blaster which will do it all. Happy New Year!
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Wojtek
Pinckney (MI), United States
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Fck, I feel like Emma now ;(
so I better shut up for the reminder of a year. Ciao
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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
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Start to Finish
Wojtek, I kissed off the idea of reproducing someone else's system with a pile of parts many years ago, and my own process has long included "adapting" the stuff I drag into the house, to get as much of what I actually want as I can. I think I told that I had some idea (based on experience) what the Loudspeakers would do, and I had ideas going in how I would implement them, based on experience. You are right that I was basically lucky to get any semblance of what I wanted to begin with, starting from a kit build, but I was not drawing for an inside straight. And I certainly have not always been so lucky with other stuff I've tried. I could open a store selling the stuff that did not work for me. On the other hand, playing with all that stuff taught me things I might not have learned without the experience. Like I keep saying, if one doesn't hear it, or one just doesn't care, it doesn't matter. I wish everyone luck and happy listening through 2026.

Paul S
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rowuk


Germany
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Post ID: 29480
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The fate of composers
Being an active musician, I can say that many times composers did not actually compose for any specific ensemble. They may have been lucky and had someone interested in their work. Even the great Johann Sebastian Bach had his bread and butter cantatas written for his church job and the performers there but the Orchestra suites or Brandenburg Concertos were "in his head".

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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  »  New  Macondo Horns: biography...  Macondo with Pussy Eyes....  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     2  69550  05-18-2005
  »  New  Super Melquiades Amplifier...  About the Super Melquiades Bass....  Melquiades Amplifier  Forum     29  316439  07-16-2005
  »  New  Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array..  Macondo and not only Macondo positioning...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     8  170182  10-29-2005
  »  New  Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. ..  The system is sounding these days…...  Melquiades Amplifier  Forum     10  203481  03-01-2006
  »  New  5 Channel Version of Melquiades..  Very easy....  Melquiades Amplifier  Forum     21  292239  07-23-2006
  »  New  Macondo Frame modification...  Parquet...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     46  528429  12-22-2006
  »  New  It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts)..  Changes With Consistency as a Backdrop...  Playback Listening  Forum     24  215486  12-23-2006
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