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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Sine my call for somebody builds for me a full range Melq was not answered: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2492#2492 I decided to put it together myself. Now I understand that letting the first amp to go  was a mistake....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Output transformer for full-range Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I do not know what else are you looking. in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
First of all: I have moved this thread into the Milq Forum….. [quote user="RonyWeissman"] I'm going to try and build a Melquiades type amplifier (with some help from friends) following the advice given above  to make it as simple as possible.&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Touching the full-range Melquiades by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
A local guy asked me that since my low-powe,  full-range Milq is sitting in my storage and I do not use it then he would like to try it: he has 1110dB sensitive speakers and SET and PP amps. I figure out that if I give the Milqs to him now then I wil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Full range Melquiades implementation by decoud on 2011-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Full range Melquiades implementation in Melquiades Amplifier  81 Replies 
For anyone interested in building a full range Melquiades I have a spare set of drilled aluminium cases, output and power transformers, offered at below cost. Apologies for sub-optimal photography. Please contact for more details.Regards, d ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: Troubleshooting full-range Melquiades by decoud on 2013-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Full range Melquiades implementation in Melquiades Amplifier  81 Replies 
Hi Romy,One my channels started emitting intermittent loud popping sounds, once every few minutes or so, and on inspection the current (set at 240mA) was in excess of 300 (my meters top out at 300). Assuming it is a tube problem I replaced the 6c33c,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: There isn't reason for me to talk about full-range Milq. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I do not know what else are you looking. in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, you have not recently spoken as much about the FR version of Melquiades as you have about the "multi-channel' versions, albeit for obvious reasons; but have you tried the FR version on, say, a ~"FR" 3-way system that makes ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The RAAL and an amplifier. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]  The "calm HF" effect is something I have long sought but seldom experienced from repro, and I have blamed the amps as much as the ribbons.  Mere HF extension is not enough.  Hard to say whether the amp or the rib...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Well, the Melquiades going to graveyard... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"].....it is scare how good it is and how good the new Melqs handled it with … almost smile.[/quote]Since almost 3 years ago I was introduced to Milq it went a long way. There was two full-rage Milq ever built by me – one was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Have you mentioned yet which speakers you intend to use? by Paul S on 2007-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Starting from scratch - new amps new system in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
One of the most frustrating things in hi-fi, IMO, is using the wrong speakers for your room and/or the wrong speaker/amp pairing.  It is impossible to get anything right or to even get started if you don't get this right (enough).  For exam...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Sine my call for somebody builds for me a full range Melq was not answered: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2492#2492 I decided to put it together myself. Now I understand that letting the first amp to go  was a mistake....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Other transformers... but they are does not matter as now. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"]Is it the new Tradition OPT for the MF channel, sorry I haven't had time to follow threads lately? If so I am curious as I need to order an OPT for my full-range melquiades project soon.  (I found someone to build...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Melquiades and preamplification. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
[quote user="from email"] …. I have the valves etc. for the Melquiades but have not built it yet. I have begun thinking about the preamplification stage. Right now it is just purely passive. Is this not the optimal input for the Melquiades? [/quote] ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My DHT experiment: Observations by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-29 
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"] There were some educational for myself observations made, in some way saying something about this specific DHT, in some way saying something about Melquiades’ single stage version and the Melquiades’ full-range two-stages ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Melquiades (D-Set) parts list by oxric on 2011-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades (D-Set) parts list in Melquiades Amplifier  4 Replies 
Hi,Every so often, someone contacts me and asks for some information about my plans (presently on hold) to build Melquiades Full-Range or D-Set, and whether I have a list of parts etc. My experience of trying to find a builder for Melquiades has not ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 6C33C loading in Super Melquiades by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-14 
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It was said in http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3418 [quote user="Romy the Cat"]The HF channel of the Super Melquiades should be revised. Something is wrong in there and it does not sound as I would like to. It mostly relates to imp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Midbass drivers testing framework. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
I set up today the framework in which I will be testing my Vitavox 15 inchers. It is a wooden frame from my bathtub with a driver screws to it, the massive sliding doors that squash the driver from both sides and cardboard that cover the wholes. This...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Opportunism by decoud on 2014-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small spaces in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
Thank you both for your thoughts. The space is interesting: not a cellar, but a sleeping area just big enough to fit a super king size bed, with one of the walls being half open, so it would not pressurize quite like a fully sealed room. Further, it ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: HF Line-level filtering mystery? by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
I really do not what is gong on there and why. Thorsten's comment that line-level crossovers do not act like speakers’ level crossover confirms what I feel and what some other people suggested me. Yes, the reactance of the crossover component, the in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Better chassis design for Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Better chassis design for Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  4 Replies 
[quote user="Jordi"] If I build them ... I'm going to use different cases. Man, the one's shown are U-G-L-Y. [/quote] To my view the chassis for the full-range Melquiades is not ugly, in fact I do appreciate the design immensely, functionally a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The single-stage Milq and power Supplies. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The single-stage Milq and power Supplies. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
I am very much do not like the current state of my mind about the single-stage Milq. Let me to explain…. In 2001-2002 I spend some time trying to assess the sonic influence of PS to sound. After making numerous tests and prototypes I concluded that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Which OPT is it for the MF channel? by RonyWeissman on 2007-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Is it the new Tradition OPT for the MF channel, sorry I haven't had time to follow threads lately? If so I am curious as I need to order an OPT for my full-range melquiades project soon.  (I found someone to build it for me finally!!!) .R W...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: Do not built LF Melequiades. by Wojtek on 2006-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melequiades PSU in Melquiades Amplifier  8 Replies 
Good points Roman. Thanks!!. I already decided that I'll build dual channel amp with those "crappy 300b's"(as I already spent my winter shoes and vacations on them) tubes and full range Melquiades when funds allow. Did you say "mid-bass" in the cont...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Is that bad? Re: operating points by Ronnie on 2006-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
I am always curious about those silly lines.The 230V 165mA point for the LF sections does not look so bad to me... maybe a bit of expansion effect, which could be good for counteracting some evil within the LF drivers.If I understand right,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. by Wojtek on 2006-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Why can't you just stack them inserting new horn in between midbas and midhorn and keeping your original arrangement? Since your midbass sits on the floor, the tweeter still should be on resonable hight.I would transform your full range Melquiades fo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Danley's synergy by decoud on 2012-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Anything wrong with wide bandwidth horns? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
This is a synergy horn, a topology that Danley has a patent on, I believe, and certainly the most expertise. There have been extensive discussions on this site about it, including Romy's theoretical objections to the idea. In a synergy configuration ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: Melquiades resistor question by DA on 2013-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Finalizing parts ordering for full range Melquiades and I have one thing with is unclear to me,  the plate to grid resistor on the 6E5PIs   R23  50R is this correct ?There is another R23 in the driver power supply .http://www.goodsoundclub.com/PDF/Me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: Holy trinity by decoud on 2019-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Merely the horn-loaded combination of an S2 and a Fane 8M, driven by a full range Melquiades, is a world away from any ordinary speaker. It requires musical intelligence to arrive at that conclusion in the first place, iterating over a million possib...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Cerebral and psychological evolution of amp matching for the Avantgard... by Tax on 2011-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cerebral and psychological evolution of amp matching for the... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
Hi Fellow Forumers,This is my first newbie post :-) Do any of you have any experience with running a Lundahl 1627 in a Full Range Melquiades with Avantgarde Duo Omega speakers?The other options are to get some custom Amorphous OPT's <50R 350mA 8:1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Full range Melquiades implementation by decoud on 2011-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Full range Melquiades implementation in Melquiades Amplifier  81 Replies 
For anyone interested in building a full range Melquiades I have a spare set of drilled aluminium cases, output and power transformers, offered at below cost. Apologies for sub-optimal photography. Please contact for more details.Regards, d ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: It is back... by Romy the Cat on 2024-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It's might be another project... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
The full range Melquiades is back to the duty......
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