Site by Roman Bessnow
Romy The Cat's Home
Manifesto Copyright
Statistics Site Links
Site Map Surveys
Send Email to Romy the Cat
Site News: 17 May 2026

My way.

Romy The Cat's Playback
Audio Knowledge Tree ™
Romy's "Audio Rules"
Audiophile Satire
Melquiades SET Amplifier
Macondo Acoustic System
End of Life Phonostage
Audio Demoronizator AD-1
My Exotic Audio Leftovers
My Playback System
Random Site's Threads
» Remastering (and re-loca»
» Levels of High End Audio»
» Professional sound syste»
» How to switch moving coi»
» Rachmaninoff PC 2: Conce»
» Bruckner Ninth and the W»
» Sound of line level filt»
» About the Critical Audio»
» Horns and digital crosso»
» Who builds horns?
» The Saudi Arabia and Uni»
» What to do in England?
» Opera “Boris Godunov”
» Here is my new tonearm.
» Non-classical genius (st»
» Choice of Fireware Inter»
» Oistrakh(s) on Monitor M»
» Some nice horns from Gre»
» The FM Stereo and Multi»
» You Can Play the Record,»
» A big subwoofer vs. an a»
» The Active High Frequenc»
» Horn speaker with dipole»
» SPUnisation of Macondo: »
» SET and speakers: disreg»
» 6C33C myths: audio Moron»
» Choosing Someone to Refu»
» The Remote System Manage»
» Overlooked Cello Reperto»
» My Multi-way Horns
» A CD off tune? The Big C»
» A full-range quality-tri»
» Where the Horns Light is»
» Watching conductors of t»
» The Loudspeaker (Troels »
» Non-Jewish Jewish music »
» Dannoy 2021 Loudspeakers
» Custom made woofers.
Bookmarked are red
Random Site Links
Bruce Edgar's Edgarhorn »
33+45=78
Eugene Ormandy Pages
Tin Lee Electronics
Conductor’s Corner
Classical Music Forum
Spinning Dog Records
Scriabin's Sonatas
Russian Records
Audio Perfectionist
Linkwitz's "Laboratory"
Koussevitzky & BSO
More Links »»
Romy the Cat's personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction techniques
Thread WITH the new posts.

Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage 6778 
End of Life 6778 
Do I need to make a chassis in the shape of a coffin? 6778 
Shallow ambitions 6778 
I might unwillingly bring to my home… 6778 
Acronym 6778 
The End of Life Phonostage’s power supply 6766 
"...better and more sophistocated PS" (vs. bad AC) 6766 
The stupid, lousy AC is another subject. 6766 
It is comming along.... 6585 
Now, that's a phono stage! 6585 
The perfect corrector. 6585 
Still noisy but already semi-operational 6585 
The perfect corrector - II 6584 
Here it is: The perfect corrector – III 6583 
Wrong values shown 6582 
The deliberate mistakes? 6582 
330R anode resistors 6582 
The coupling cap in my 'End of the life' phono? 6582 
Nope, it was not ‘keeping anybody on toes’... 6582 
The latest version of the corrector – not heard it yet. (corrected) 6580 
The sentiments behind “End of Life" Phonostage 6580 
Going on from "There" 6580 
Ok, it is already almost there. 6580 
The ET2+EAR-834PT and the ultra-dynamic softness. 6579 
I am semi-ecstatic; my vinyl will be back soon… 6578 
MFA Systems Phonostage 6578 
Good for them. 6578 
Photos of the MFA Systems MC Reference 6578 
A few more 6578 
OK, it is over. Some preliminary follow ups. 6578 
"Lack" of HF, etc. 6577 
“End of Life" Phonostage: what is next? 6577 
Hybridizing 6577 
I love it! 6577 
If I may be a litt;e suggestive..... 6575 
Mica, distortions, MOSFET and the Ocean State. 6575 
SSG 6574 
Of mosfets, caps and distortion. 6574 
USSR SSG 6574 
USSR SSG 6574 
Question for Dima re 2nd stage biasing. 6574 
Fixed bias 6574 
The stunning sound of the phonocorrector. 6574 
More on this, please 6573 
Interesting development! 6573 
One-Story Jack 6573 
Nature's Bias 6573 
The signal passing via the 834PTF-Air… 6573 
Apologies! 6572 
Tunable Y-factor? 6572 
Harmonically-proper vs. harmonically-flexible 6572 
Some comment on the characteristic of air-cap sound. 6567 
The sound of one hand clapping 6567 
The air-caps as an ultimate cap. 6566 
The tempted virtue of the phonostage’s prostitution. 6558 
Clarity vs. VTA vs. Character 6558 
What VTA has to do with phonostage? 6557 
Phonostage vs. VTA 6557 
The 834PTF’s cathode follower: tube vs. SS 6557 
The “End of Life" Phonostage Status…. 6472 
Specific air cap changes 6472 
The air capacitors 'allegations'. 6472 
One tube, two channels? 6472 
The halves of the twin-triodes 6472 
"Crosstalk" 6471 
I just love sound of this phonocorrector. 6430 
To close the book on the correctors subject ... 6409 
"End of Life Phonostage" in Thai 5983 
Sucks! 5911 
Is God's phonostage better than Romy's? It is now! 5910 
Um, what? 5910 
Alternative Transformer 5910 
Sorry to have upset your sensitive self, Reggie. 5910 
A stimulation by Gog's fiction? 5910 
Hmmm,I suspect 5910 
The "End of Life Phonostage” is back. 5902 
My "End of Live" vesrion. 5890 
The 100Hz hum? 5890 
Hum “disconnecting trick” 5890 
Right grounding configuration for PS, corrector and transformer assembly. 5890 
The hum is drooped significantly! 5889 
Generally the phonocorrector has very low noise. 5889 
DIY Air-Caps? 5889 
Capacitors 5886 
Hum again. 5865 
Hm, again.... 5865 
Tribute MC iron 5580 
Changing loads 5576 
I do not do adjustable loading. 5576 
Sound degradation vs proper loading 5575 
Loading on primary? 5575 
Anticipating the needs 5575 
CCS heating? 5538 
2nd stage bias mystery 5421 
It is true but it negligible. 5421 
V2 biasing continued 5420 
Works +/- properly 5419 
To cheat or not to (ccs)heat 5419 
My assault 5392 
What, No Breadboard? 5392 
Don't laugh too loud... 5392 
So far it is good. 5392 
Your 50 is my 60 (buzz-kill) 5392 
The assembly and the buzz 5391 
Make sure that your LC filtration works properly. 5391 
Caps and chokes 5391 
The price of fame 5391 
Tribute 5391 
About the last distraction cap and transformers. 5391 
Schematics 5391 
Traces 5391 
Moving Magnet 5391 
Barcelona? 230V? Hm, ....matchmaking? 5391 
Cat smells fish? 5390 
I enjoyed soldering maybe when I was 15... 5390 
How my phonostage shall sound. 5390 
In the box 5390 
Schematics II 5390 
A few comments. 5390 
Miscelanea 5390 
I am surprised. 5390 
Don't be 5389 
It is not about power supply. 5389 
EMI/RFI madness 5389 
Drinking in Modulation 5389 
The stupid 5uF cap on AC side 5389 
Finito 5388 
It is only partially outside the context. 5388 
A corrector with an EQ controll 5387 
There is EQ control and there are multiple curves. 5387 
Corresponding to ? 5387 
A German guy take on 834PT. 5360 
Qualitat 5359 
The baby is sick 5315 
Last Cleaning? 5315 
Mine too... 5315 
To fight with hum in phonostages is fan. 5315 
What the hell is going on!!! 5315 
...air-caps dirty.... 5314 
Too obvious perhaps ... 5314 
Hum points 5314 
Beats and pieces. 5314 
What else? 5314 
Suggestion for the phonocorrector problem 5314 
I do not think that it is electrical. 5314 
Veggie ham 5314 
Do phonocorrector first then transformers. 5313 
Holly idiocy! 5312 
Yes sir 5310 
I think your game is not over. 5310 
More ham 5310 
Route(s) to Ground 5310 
Grounding arrangement 5309 
Ground Thoughts 5308 
0A2 Question 5308 
Where is the Bolt? 5308 
Gas tubes in the phonostage 5308 
"End of Live" tube set 5308 
GND plane 5308 
That crazy 7025. 5308 
Distributed bolt 5308 
Amperex ECC83 5308 
Amperex "Bugle Boy". 5308 
ECC83 Amperex picture 5308 
More "Ground" vs. "Neutral" 5308 
More findings 5307 
EMF and "Split" "Grounds" 5307 
Grounding, tarnnies and diodes 5306 
Again with the "Neutral" Explanation... 5306 
Grounding and trannies 5306 
Ignorance is bliss... 5304 
Shakey DIY Basics 5304 
Poor photographer 5304 
Spare the Oxen... 5304 
Is SiC sick? 5302 
Possible, so what? 5302 
If you dont want to hear the bell... 5301 
Seek and you’ll find. 5301 
Filament 5301 
Filament considerations 5301 
Air caps?Buffer? 5301 
Exorcisms 5255 
Floating? 5254 
Twitchy signal tube and amp interactions 5247 
Toilet ham 5247 
The Shield 5246 
It is hard to say. 5246 
Fake bugle/teles 5246 
Never again. 5246 
Bingo! 5237 
Total current per channel 5230 
Stay with capacitive filtration for B+ for this init. 5230 
I like iron 5230 
Choke ringing 5230 
Ringing 5230 
Ringing is a BS reason. 5230 
Choke ringing again 5229 
What ringing? 5229 
Ring-ring 5229 
Fight Fire with Fire? 5229 
TT Rider 5229 
Snubbers and motors 5228 
Nice idea... 5228 
B+ 5228 
Shielded Interconnect 5228 
IC shields 5225 
The horrors of calibration 5073 
Floating Away 5073 
Ground is +/- understood 5072 
"Calibrate"??? 5072 
The self-serving calibrations. 5071 
Fighting with RIAA 5071 
The Usual 5071 
That's it! 5071 
Parts Location 5071 
Lush layout 5070 
Pinging Stitch/Syntax 5022 
It might be very impressive 5022 
To be clear 5022 
Shall I co? 5021 
Parts 5021 
I do not, it sounds interesting but… 5021 
What does it mean? 5021 
Come on! 5021 
Is it because secrecy gains females loud applause? 5021 
It's A Big'un, All Right 5021 
EAR polite recess 5021 
Power sequencing? 4991 
Some Sort of Off-Only HV Shunt? 4991 
3 Position switch 4990 
How true... 4990 
DIY Failsafe 4990 
Switch.. 4965 
Calibration problem 4940 
Resolved 4937 
Looks good 4936 
Fat LF 4936 
Loading Up 4936 
SUT's 4936 
Shunt regulation 4855 
Application dependent 4855 
Silvercore SUT's ? 4823 
It migh be an interesting company. 4823 
Amo/silver 4823 
From a Satisfied User of a Ready-made Item 4823 
Silver considerations 4823 
Again With the Amo 4823 
Silver path 4823 
The “secret” will be never revealed... 4823 
The Path of Least Resistance 4822 
(Not so) silver path con'ed 4822 
Foil 4822 
Amalgamated Phono Stage 4822 
Audiopedophile's hell 4822 
In da house 4821 
Consistent anality 4820 
Right 4820 
A speculation 4818 
Mone on silver Trabants 4817 
Parts Ag 4817 
Trabant done in pure silver 4817 
Too Soft and Brittle? 4817 
Silver swamp 4817 
In the Long Run 4817 
2RM? 4812 
Where's the Effing Cable Thread When We Need It? 4812 
DIY 4811 
95%? 4811 
More on that 4811 
"Partly Unshielded" Arm Wire 4811 
Fully shielded 4811 
Interesting 4811 
End of Life Phonostage… is breeding. 4007 
Creative people 4007 
Copyright air-cap RIAA... 4007 
It is what it is. 4006 
I Guess We Just Don't Understand Economics 4006 
Gray market 4006 
Mix up 4005 
The Thorsten’s mark. 4005 
Sound beats engeneering 3412 
Engineering Crap 3412 
Its not that it sounds "better" 3412 
Burn, motherf....r, burn! 2909 
Bypass Schottky by Snubber 2324 
Snubbers 2272 
More on snubbers 2272 
Capacitors Question 2272 
Capacitors & updates 2272 
Z-foil 2272 
Loading resistors & sockets 2272 
Low noise tubes 2271 
What Works Where 2270 
What are the REAL goals? 2270 
Good engineering parctices 2270 
Physical attributes of devices matter 2270 
The idea that the sum of the parts "quality&q... 2270 
It was 13 years back... 2270 
Thank you 2270 
Tube Selection 2259 
Valvo mesh 0A2 2156 
Big output capacitor question. 1917 
Context/Application/Circuit 1916 
EAR 1916 
Of Course... 1916 
834pT 1915 
Who knows.... 1915 
EAR834p how does RIAA feedback work? 1914 
Where? 1914 
Big cap banks 1914 
My "End of Life" phonostage. 499 
All context of this site except the Forum's posts Copyright © Roman Bessnow 2004-2026
All messages within the Site’s Forum Copyright © by authors of the posts
Last 24-hours posts:  0  
Total human visitors:  64,617,432  
Search the Site
   
      Search Site Forum
     Search Site via Google
 
Login into Site
Login:
Pass:
    Create a New Account
    Forgot your Account
Classical events in Boston
AUG 1 BU Tanglewood Instit»
AUG 1 Danish String Quarte»
AUG 1 Light & Shade in Var»
AUG 1 Mozart: The Marriage»
AUG 1 Esa-Pekka Salonen, c»
AUG 2 BU Tanglewood Instit»
AUG 2 Andris Nelsons, cond»
AUG 2 Music from Less Expe»
NPR Classical Programs
lang lang: tiny desk (home)»
marin alsop on her swing or»
mahan esfahani: tiny desk c»
cellist lynn harrell has di»
npr music's top 14 albums o»
anthony davis wins pulitzer»
augustin hadelich: tiny des»
c.p.e. bach: mercurial dive»
Classical Music News
classical music news - leo»
classical music news - aug»
is bach better on harp?»
julian bream, maestro of g»
a woman takes the podium a»
he wasn’t toscanini, but h»
9 things to do this weeken»
classical music news. diab»
another trump blunder»
from concerts to cartoons:»
classical music livestream»
how to diversify orchestra»
ethel smyth, a composer lo»
classical music attracts o»
‘the lost pianos of siberi»
5 minutes that will make y»
it’s (almost) business as »
the lost pianos of siberia»
leon fleisher, 92, dies; s»
leon fleisher, 92, dies; s»
classical music news. augu»
opera goes on in salzburg,»
More Music News »»
Composer's Anniversaries
Moniuszko, Stanislav (5 Ma»
Backer Grøndahl, Agat»
de Baratta, María (27»
Koc, Marcelo (4 June 1918-»
Maestro Ilaiyaraaja, (4 J»
van Eeten, Ruud (4 June 19»
My Audio Leftovers
Altec 515B bass drivers
Vitavox AK-15/40 15" ba»
LF Transformer for 6C33C
Vitavox S2/S3 diaphragms
Hillock TV-2 tube tester
Koetsu Onyx Platinum Ca»
Micro-Seiki air-suspend»
Fane Studio 8 dual conc»
Micro-Seiki MAX-282 To»
Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201»
Electro-Voice T350 twee»
More Leftovers »»