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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Chord QBD76 - the new dac by Telstar on 2008-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chord QBD76 - the new dac in Didital Things  0 Replies 
Anybody has listened to it?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: All scale notes are overtones by steverino on 2014-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
Let's be precise that the overtones (harmonics) from most musical tones contain All the notes of the scale at some point in the series. The major third is there and the minor third is there. The difference is simply their relative position in the ser...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Live recordings by Jorge on 2012-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
We have tested live recordings against live sound, a recording of a jazz singer was done on Reel tape on an Ampex ATR modded machine with Fluxmagnetics heads etc.  The microphone used was the legendary Telefunken stereo tube mic. no post producti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: R2R by Duc on 2017-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EAR Yoshino DAC 4 by Tim Paravicini in Didital Things  24 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"]Ear dac4 is not so transparent and it's volume control should be removed in my idea.[/quote]Amir,Good idea. I bet it will make a remarkable difference. Try to look for your ideal sound among true Multibit R2R DACs. For your informa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Delayed Response by Paul S on 2015-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Van Cliburn Moscow 1958 in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Thanks, Romy Interesting to hear the Moscovites do it. I think I like the percussive elements that V.C. accomplishes so easily, also the particular chord deconstruction of the 2nd movement. I will get a copy to listen closer via my hi-fi. Best...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: fascinating by Dominic on 2006-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
I find this project so fascinating. I find it particularly interesting because one of my first experiences of good sound involved a field coil driver. Many years ago my grandfather bought an old hammond chord organ(predates the b3 and other...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My first audio show. Hmm.. by Dominic on 2007-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My first audio show. Hmm.. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
Well the whole write up i just wrote disappeared. In one sense that isn't all that different from my experience of the Festival Son et Image here in Montreal yesterday. i'll be quick this time in the hopes that my post will get through. bett-er rooms...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: A good modeling software? by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]From this and from the mention of 3/4" plywood, I deduce that the "curved" walls of these horns will likely be described by a series of facets (flat planes). It is said to be okay at these frequencies; this must assume a p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #251: Do not touch the carbuncle. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="tuga"]What have you done with your room?I hope these carbuncles you've dessiminated across your room are only temporary and that you'll replace them with some acceptable props.[/quote]Yes, it is kind of unpleasant. As many people I hate ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Some midweek morning stimulation… by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"] … if we reduce our concept of "music" the more fundamental concept of "sound" as point of reference than we can easier visualize of what audio system should do. …. … this is not possible would be to take the "sound" as a poin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: "Closure" by Paul S on 2014-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic in Musical Discussions  18 Replies 
It seems to me that in terms of notes and sequences, the themes, broadly speaking, +/- "follow", but the spirit, tempi and mood (at least of the Solti performance), and even the extended chord structures seem somehow disconnected from what has transp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Here is the article by rowuk on 2014-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The centuries old struggle to play in tune in Playback Listening  10 Replies 
The Wolf at Our Heels The centuries-old struggle to play in tune. By Jan Swafford Y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Partially explained by rowuk on 2014-06-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] rowuk wrote: Major chords create sidebands that are harmonically related to the chord - there is little dissonance. Minor chords create sidebands that are NOT harmonically related. H, I did not know it. That is VERY inter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: lemme rephrase that, then by stuck.wilson on 2007-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 'Fundamental rich' listening, or is RTA even close to accura... in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
romy- i have resisted using RTA for the very reasons you're citing-- learning to read the visual data, as well as methods of how to get it accurately, are as equally time consuming as any other pursuit in audio.   anyone can be a reade...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #210: 1050 sound additions by DSH on 2008-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Denis, In the PP 1050 I had better result what I use extra ferrites in deferential modes, or putting ferrites in each individual wire. I never had problem with PP 1050’s dynamics until I begin to add capacitance to the P...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Right amount of wrong notes? by Andy Simpson on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Andy, my mind does not operate by the categories you employ, I rather think about nature of Sound not about harmonic/non-harmonic distortions. The whole subject about the distortion is intricate, not to mention that it is n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Tone and girls by Jorge on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
The other night I listened to a Girl with Guitar master tape. A friend has a home recording studio that would make most comercial studios not only jelaous, but also broke.  A highly modded ATR 102 in 1/4" half track and a vintage stereo microphone;  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: 6 Trumpets by rowuk on 2013-05-01 
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Well, as I do play trumpets professionally and own much more than 6 instruments, I thought that I would chime in.First of all, Romy, this is one of the most lucid descriptions of pitch that I have ever read! It also raises a point for discussion:If I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #107: The Solution. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Last night I was playing with my ¾” Baltic Birch. What I realized is that my Jew frugality played a bad joke on me.  At this point I do feel that ¾” of plywood is not enough thickness for my 43.5Hz horn. I understand t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My old Fi-Hi gear associations... by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My old Fi-Hi gear associations... in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
  I was cleaning my old file server and found my old associations after auditioning some of High End gear...   Atma-Sphere  Lying in a bathroom with the bathtub filled with motor oil. Spectral  Begging for any liqu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The New York Times on the subject by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gould's Goldberg Variations re-played? in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
Is It Live ... or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould By EDWARD ROTHSTEINMarch 12, 2007 Was that relief I felt as the piano was playing? A feeling that some worry had been alleviated or a fear quieted? Why then was it also mixed with disappointment, as i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Music and Arts' Spring... by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-09 
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CD-1124(2) J.S. BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES. BWV 812-817, selected Preludes, BWV 923, 999, 815a, and three Preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, performed by David Cates, harpsichord. CD1 49:38; CD2 45:22. DDD UPC #0-17685-112...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Musicians' responses to music by montesquieu on 2019-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
Musicians do respond differently to music than non-musicians. Brain scans have shown that different parts of the brain light up when their 'genre' of music or something close to it, or otherwise something easily comprehensible, is played to them,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: Surprise ? maybe, but I kinda doubt it by Kerry Brown on 2012-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
Jorge, I know what you mean about horns, Living Presence. I love what my horns do. Palpability. Solidity. In an invisible sort of way. I have two Ampex 300s downstair...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: About my horn skeleton. by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-25 
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Here I would like to share some basic ideas about the skeleton of the horn. This is just a view from 50.000 feet but it will give some illustration what is brewing in my mind. The one side of the triangular horn will be flat and will sit at le...
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