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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Kharma misery is bigger juts the Kharma Problem by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-30 
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Paul.you marvelously identified the characteristic Kharma Sound. However, what is very important to understand in my attitude toward Kharma that the Kharma Sound has much more “negative load” with itself then juts being a poor sound from a manufactur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Kharma misery is bigger juts the Kharma Problem by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-30 
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Paul.you marvelously identified the characteristic Kharma Sound. However, what is very important to understand in my attitude toward Kharma that the Kharma Sound has much more “negative load” with itself then juts being a poor sound from a manufactur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Kharma corporate video by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-06 
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Here is a good video foe your boring Friday. In most case it is a pure BS but a nicely professionally made BS. The comparing the Kharma making with the making of musical instruments is a cheesy as the word cheesy it could be? There are many very slip...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-21 
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Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: RE: Kharma sound by beemer on 2006-11-29 
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Having heard specifically the Kharma 3.2 at length in the home of a friend for the life of me I cannot see the fascination. Absolutely the coldest sound I've ever heard. This speaker even with tube amplification I can describe best as like a 200...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Kharma Loudspeakers reach further!!! by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-14 
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The Audiogon leader: “Oosterum Loudspeaker Systems”, the Netherlands manufacturer responsible for the Kharma loudspeakers, recently announced that they terminate the long-term relationships with corporation “Toys R Us”. The founded Charles van Ooster...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Kharma Loudspeakers reach further!!! by dazzdax on 2005-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kharma Loudspeakers reach further!!! in Audio News  3 Replies 
Hi Romy, I'm from the Netherlands and I've heard this news too.What do you think of Dunlavy speakers? Do you think they are crappy, worthless and outdated? I know John Dunlavy used some cheap drivers on his speakers. I have the SC-V. Chris...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Kharmocrap. by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-22 
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Chris, I do not know how my opinion about the Dunlavy related to news about the Kharma Loudspeakers. There is a differents between the “not-effective enough drivers” (for instance the woofers used in your SC-V) and the fundamentally faulty drivers t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: … Fine and dandy at the Audio Fronts.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-01 
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[quote user="Gregm"]  Roman notes: The industry/trend/fashion goes towards "the more aggressive compliance with those sonic sliceing-choping…". Yes, BUT I don't see this as a design trend. Manufactueres don't target that sound -- but rather a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Dima’s Amp: the first blood. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “A” sound from “B” system? in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
Alex, I do not remember already the volume of those boxes, what is the deference? Thos drivers have an average sealed Qs and Fs I believe 19Hz, you might easy to circulate any volume you want. I slightly overdamped them, as usually, form where they s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Kharma Loudspeakers reach further!!! by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-14 
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The Audiogon leader: “Oosterum Loudspeaker Systems”, the Netherlands manufacturer responsible for the Kharma loudspeakers, recently announced that they terminate the long-term relationships with corporation “Toys R Us”. The founded Charles van Ooster...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: CEC TL0-X: by no means an in-depth review by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-26 
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A friend of my told me a couple months back that CEC introduced a new version of their top of the line transport. It was kind of strange as CEC was abandoning to manufacture TL0 for years, or it was at least what they were claiming. Then I thought th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Smart woman thanks the cat by serenechaos on 2008-10-20 
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Romy, Somewhat on topic, but it could go many different places-- My wife told me that I really should thank you for posting things like: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=3184&Phrase=kharma that help people like...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Prices in High End Audio - whatever market bears? by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-03 
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Today’s prices in Hi-Fi do not base upon any other principle then “whatever market bears”. The luck of objective evaluation methods and the completely un-liberated market of Hi-Fi consumers make the “market bearing” principles being completely not ap...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Kharma corporate video by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-06 
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Here is a good video foe your boring Friday. In most case it is a pure BS but a nicely professionally made BS. The comparing the Kharma making with the making of musical instruments is a cheesy as the word cheesy it could be? There are many very slip...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Sounds without music by Gregm on 2006-12-06 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] KHARMA AS THE SYMBOL OF THE INDUSTRY SONIC ASTRAY is very good illustration and I had already see the birth of the Industry high-end of the future.[/quote]I agree. An excellent illustration in fact: it looks good ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Federated Mike becomes a Sound expert. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Model 6 loudspeakers. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
There is a quy somewhere in the hole between Boson and California. He runs Audiofederation site, sells audio gear, is trying to make waves and to catch in the waves a damn customer who would buy audio gear from him. He also use make good pictures...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Some Magico history. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-22 
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[quote user="Stitch"]Magico started very fast from unknown brand to a very well known brand. They must have investors that they can afford the marketing (I guess). Family business manufacturers can not afford that, no matter how good their products a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reading an official audio publication - TAS by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reading an official audio publication - TAS in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
What did you know; I was in Barnes & Noble and bought a first for quite long time September TAS magazine.  I do not subscribe audio publications but seldom buy them. Since I did not do it for as long time I though it will be entertaining.  It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The new old play…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-12 
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I do not subscribe audio publication but sometimes when my level of venomous hate goes down to dangerously low level I buy one at newsstand. The last night I saw October TAS magazine in Borders with a big picture of Magico speaker on the cover I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #94: As the Mohel said when his knife slipped... by Lbjefferies7 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 
..."It won't be long now."The progress looks good and no green with red stripes!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?ddampstra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Digital and it's volume both are shit by Amir on 2009-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digital Volume Control self-assessment in Audio For Dummies ™  12 Replies 
me and armen were testing dcs scarlatti digital volume control with vitus amplifier and kharma midi speaker.it's effect on sound is removing life from sound, less emotion, flatter sound, less bloom, less color.digital volume kill micro information of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers by serenechaos on 2008-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
I don't know where this goes, so I'm just starting it as a new thread; please move (or even edit or delete) as appropriate.  After reading too many wondourus reviews of ceramic driver speakers in general, and only having heard two pair, one...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Wavac 833 by el`Ol on 2007-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A DSET is better then an expensive SET in Audio For Dummies ™  41 Replies 
I listened to $$$ Wavac amps with 833 tube driving Kharma speakers and I found it sounds like the old tube radio in my garden hut at 40°C. Why not more semi-active speakers with high-sensitivity mid/treble and transistor-powered bass? ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Silbaone info by ArmAlex on 2011-05-25 
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Dear Romy, The price is 167,000 Euro I was told. The material they used for bass cabinet at least looked like MDF. Sound was much better than any  speaker I've heard in show, expect Cessaro which was wonderful. BTW Marten, Kharma, Focal, Magico and s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Intriguing, plain BS or somewhere in between? by Gregm on 2008-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Tenor amplifier and the writing waves. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
[quote]“The Tenors bring a remarkable top-to-bottom continuity, which I've often called the Kharma effect (the speaker, not the moral law of cause and effect)...[/quote] This is intriguing. All of the Kharmas I've listened to have displayed contin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: How little I need to be happy and …. right by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
With great plessure and a deserved sense of appreciation I opened today the Stereophile and learned Continuum turntable was pushed by Michael Fremer to the “Product of the year”. I would leave aside even theoretical bogusness of the “Product of the Y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The boom-tssza-tssza sound from ceramics by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"]I don't know where this goes, so I'm just starting it as a new thread; please move (or even edit or delete) as appropriate.  After reading too many wondourus reviews of ceramic driver speakers in general, and only havin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Kharmocrap. by dazzdax on 2005-10-22 
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Hi Romy, first my apologize for the somewhat confusing reply I posted. The Dunlavy question is not related to the very funny Kharma news you mentioned (which is of course a very sick but brilliant joke! Heheh). I actually have the Dunlavy SC-V a...
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