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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Impressions from High End 2009 GERMANY by Stitch on 2009-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Impressions from High End 2009 GERMANY in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
same procedure as every year...  When we did a visit at Munich we are no negative audiophiles, we are curious and just wanted to know what is going on.  Based on recession 30% less Exhibitors were there, from about 360 in 2008...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #438: No worries by Jorge on 2015-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
HI Romy, As you know I have 2 kids, one is 8 and the other 3, they grew up around my system too, and they learn where to move where to touch and what not to touch, and it is great they have Access to good sound. At the hardest time, when you cannot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Columbia recordings, FM and something else.. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Brahms Double Concerto in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Yes, I very frequently observe this effect. I hear sometimes on air something that make me to call to the station and ask with version it was played and then to my sadness I realized that they play the LP or CD that I have and that does not produce t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: "...Cheaper storage is better value than cheapish player" a... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="SearcherOfBetterSound"]Why is Acoustic Solid so interesting to me? Well, it should be to most when you read stuff like a $1,600 Black Wood Classic model can beat out a $5,500 Super Scoutmaster model from VPI, and a $4,000 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: Assumptions... by dkarmeli on 2014-05-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]David, of course the item under discussion would not exist at all unless someone "saw" it before he or she built it... Setting that aside for now, Lord knows I try to Keep It Real when sharing thoughts about hi-fi. With this go...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #144: Some more points by dkarmeli on 2014-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]David, please do not hallucinate about the existing of marketplace or rule of market in high end audio. Among all people you should know better. There is no market pricing in audio. There is only mental abuse and financial ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Corrections and comments by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Note new turntable and inflation in Analog Playback  14 Replies 
John, a few corrections for start First of all the gullible and moronic are not interchangeable words and I never use one instead of other. Second Audio Note Ginga does not look like traditional Micro. It has oil suspension and God knows what ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Hot to go goose-hunting with a thermonuclear bomb by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Richard, I have no experience on the subject. I heard many contradictory theories from various people about “how the plinth should be done” and “how the platter should be done”, including the materials, the mass ratio, that mass allocation and so on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #143: A Few Points as well. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-06 
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[quote user="dkarmeli"]You can't and shouldn't define cost vs value based on your wishes, the marketplace should be the judge. Of course that's if you believe in free markets.[/quote] Well, you unwillingly are revealing the biggest secret of any civ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Stainless steel platter for Micro RX-5000 by measet on 2017-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
Hi Brian, Thanks for useful infos. Recently I had possibility to enter in to supplier warehouse to check how the magnet react on different ss materials. I found some types which attracted the magnet still less than 316L. I'm not an expert in met...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Flat Tonearm by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ in Audio News  10 Replies 
Czech Republic company Euro Audio Team introduced a “revolutionary” Flat Tonearm. http://www.euroaudioteam.com/en/eat-e-flat-turntable-000046.html (click imaged under the bottom to see it) This is the most retarded design ideas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Further thoughts II by Stitch on 2014-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
The Rockports have a very light platter and a carbon Arm....the one I listened to was the latest, it had simply no Bass reproduction, nada, nothing and the Arm resonances are also inferior to any energy transfer from any cartridge. The lead wires are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1265: Principles or Purepower by miab on 2014-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Eli, I was in the same place at one time and accepted my listening as it was in relation to electricity. You say "When [electricity] is good great and when is ok I live with it and when is terrible I just walk away". This is fine to say...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Today's best turntables vs. greatest vintage turntables. by Patrick Mattucci on 2013-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today's best turntables vs. greatest vintage turntables. in Analog Playback  8 Replies 
Good afternoon Romy! I'm Pat Mattucci, and I'd like to respond to your post.How interesting you would post a response to my humble question to an obscure little group on my birthday, of all days. I'm honored. I also happen to be from the Philadelphia...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Suspension and vacuum hold-down by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tritium Turntables in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
[quote user="mem916"] Oh, by suspension, I meant the tuned spring suspension that the versa (and many other 'tables) use to isolate the plinth platter, and arm from vibrations coming up through the floor and the stand. I don't think of a platter bear...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: 3 motors and “F” configuration. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
George, I do not think that the 3 motors example of Clearaudio is applicable. Theoretically it correct and a single motor driving a platter coastally minor-swing it on it’s bearing. In realty the things are more completed. With enough mass of platte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: I do not think it is about deafness and… by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"] I agree, the Shelter transformer is nothing special, but when you really want to loose hairs, try the one from Koetsu. Well, living in a world of morons I spend - unfortunately - too much time with reading idiotic reviews fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Stop buying the records cleaning fluid? by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stop buying the records cleaning fluid? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
Since the recent summer holidays in FM live brought back some LP renaissance, and since the recent stories about the new stereo cartridge, I found myself to play more vinyl lately. It looks like I am about to be out of the fluid for my Record Cleanin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Denon 103 - back to reality by Thorsten on 2004-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
Folks, This thread caught my attention, because here Romy waxes lyrically about the failings of the Denon Cartridges. Now I only consider ONE Denon worth bothering, the ORIGINAL 103, it is often inaccuratly called 103C. It has a medium compliance (ar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Education by zztop7 on 2014-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Platine Verdier Magnum in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Romy wrote: "  If you do then please, educate me. ..................................................TEXT................................ I do not think that anybody would be able to identify it because the improvement we would get in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An air compressor and TT. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An air compressor and TT. in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
 This post might be called “the surprise of a new suburban idiot” and it will be not too far from truth.  Still the whole idea gives me some much pleasure that I would share it, no matter how pathetic it I for a person who live in suburbs for a w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Is better than Kinetic Systems’ Vibraplane? by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is better than Kinetic Systems’ Vibraplane? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
Thos who use air-suspended platform of large mass (like Vibraplane) under turntable know that they work very nice. Now there is a new idea – to use the no air, ”active” suspension: http://www.techmfg.com/products/tabletop/tabletop_pzt.ht...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Audiophile Light? by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I good spot-light for a turntable? in Analog Playback  15 Replies 
Arlequen, Thank for the suggestion, the shape-wise it is exactly what I am looking for. I have seen a number of similar lights but they are LED lights. I kind of automatically discard the led lights as I though then are not as powerful and not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: This was more practical bitching then you think. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I have a dream, the dream about a Chair. in Playback Listening  31 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]The normal audiophile has a problem when he marries first and wants to add a good Stereo System later. One of my friends did it right, he bought his system first and married later, before he did that he showed all to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Lamm ML3 price: how it works. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  105 Replies 
It might be not directly related to the subject of this thread but I do feel that it has quite a good relatively. Are you laughing that your Lamm made his new amplifier with a price tag of $126K? Well, think again.  Do you remember as  the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: What about Pavel Urbanek and the Prague Fantasy Orchestra version? by ghpicard on 2010-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My new favorite "New World" (Karel Ancerl/Czech Ph... in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
Do you have impressions on this CD (I know it's probably on another league than the ones you mentioned above) or perhaps you can suggest your "Romy's choice for Dvorak's New World Symphony record"? I don't own a turntable and given the cost...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A single yellow driver. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.0 & Lamhorn/AER in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="HookEm"]The reproduction does not seem natural... too far away from what I would hear at a live event (e.g., female vocalist).  Sort of bright and fatiguing at times. I may not be using the proper terminology to describe it, but I do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Sorry, but wrong by Bill on 2021-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
     I do not mean to be negative and criticize Romy, but he is wrong on surround sound. It is the implementation and not the concept which should cause vomiting, like with the vast majority of two track recording which are unlistenable. With the rig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 47 Lab new turntable and new tonearm by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 47 Lab new turntable and new tonearm in Analog Playback  1 Replies 
47 lab from Japan introduced their new Koma Turntable 4724 with 4725 Tsurube Tonearm. I did not see them in US. Here is a link to the Japan reseller: http://www.sibatech.co.jp/47/analog.html It is magnetic suspension with two plat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Fanboys .... by Stitch on 2012-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
[quote user="TheOptimist"]I've done some work with Mr. xyz, I know the guy, and most importantly, I've ACTUALLY HEARD HIS TURNTABLE. It is a sonic work of art. You CONSTANTLY bash it, but it's always "a guy you know" that has complaints about it. No ...
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