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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: High-End, High Art and alas we must part... by starboy on 2005-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
I guess the infamous JerryS didn't like the 90x that much...http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgcart&1122213293Any takers boys...?Regardsp.s. Hope the rave review he gave up helps to get his asking price.   ;-)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: High End will die anyway, it will be replaced with high price tags for... by Stitch on 2011-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
I heard from a Professional Journalist who was all days at Munich High End Show that they didn't have many visitors. The official numbers are critical, he said, they must have counted every Leg and Arm as Visitors.And it was the same boring demos as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The High End! What High End? by Romy the Cat on 2017-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End speakers Evolution - full range, back horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
David, the Merriam-Webster dictionary describes “high end “as superiority quality or sophistication. The loudspeakers you posted are inferior in quality of delivery and in sophistication of implementation. In fact they are just a reflection of inc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: How high is too high? by floobydust on 2009-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DHT driver & input in Melquiades Amplifier  25 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] gordan wrote: plus they IMHO sound better - less prejudiced towards a romantic SET sound we all know (and some try to avoid). Yes, Gordan, it is exactly what I heard about the 10s from the sources that I found rationa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: High end not high tech yet by steverino on 2014-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]David, I think you a bit overly glorify the notion of "precision instruments" that we all are a bit taken in high-end audio. If you go to a good hobby shop and by a microscope for 200 dollars, or lawn mower for $300, or a k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: High-End or High Art? by starboy on 2005-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
Okay, my point was not really the cost and not really even the magnets. (though I was surprised they were that cheap) Just the justification, but hey when has the 'high-end' needed any justification.When I was a dreamy youth there was exotica out the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: High-End Audio vs. High-End understanding. by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High-End Audio vs. High-End understanding. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I know that in audio we use fucked-up terminology that over the course of years audio propaganda pimps of all calibers impended into minds of feeble audio people. High-End Audio in today world means nothing that what I feel, is it possible to cle...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Does high-sensitivity speaker need a high-sensitivity tweeter? by Romy the Cat on 2014-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Does high-sensitivity speaker need a high-sensitivity tweete... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
In one if the Brits forums rowuk wrote about Linaeum diapole tweeters:“Give them their own amplifier, then the efficiency does not matter. Great amps are not that expensive and with the standard distribution of acoustical energy, the tweeter does ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Sorry for the off topic by Antonio J. on 2006-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  31 Replies 
I think we are speaking about different things, you speak about real High End which should be best possible sound quality to serve a musical purpose, and I'm speaking about a High End industry which doesn't give a damn about musical performance, beca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About destiny of “High-End Sound”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About destiny of “High-End Sound”. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Looking at the sound that audio high-enders cultivate as High-End Sound I have little enthusiasm in what I see/hear. The High-End Sound, as it exists in 99% of listening rooms is not really High-End Sound but rather the High-End Labeled Sound where t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Here is where the key of High End by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Audio and musical content. in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]"What the purpose to use audio that does not filter out bad performances or to read a reviewer who does not know how to use this ability of playback systems? " I don't quite understand the first part of your note.[/quote] There ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: More of the keys for High-End by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Audio and musical content. in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
[quote user="deemon"]But here we have an interesting question . Imagine two persons - the first man likes classic music and don't likes rock , and the second - likes both . And they tries to make their systems using this concept - "good performa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Dancing High End by drdna on 2007-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  31 Replies 
But I am worried what all my friends and neighbors will say if get up and start to dance to Lutoslowski!...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: How Romy the Cat saved High-End… by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Playbacks’ Thinkability. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] The vast majority of things that give us information about a performance of a musical piece are preserved or lost in the recording process, not in the reproduction by the audio system. [/quote] I would very much argue this. I wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: High-res : Second priority by jessie.dazzle on 2009-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
As things stand today, I believe that the biggest gain in quality is not to be had via the pursuit of higher resolution formats.A friend of mine who works for a large media distribution business (like Amazon) recently gave me a bunch of sample CD...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Where high-end audio starts? by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where high-end audio starts? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
I spoke recently with an audio guy who gourmet himself as advanced audio fellow and I was stricken how in fact banal and dull his audio interests are. I asked him: what in your view the high-end audio starts? He suggested that it starts with ability ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Where does high end start?? by steverino on 2013-07-06 
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Romy says So, I would like to post to the readers of my site a question: what in your view would be the most mandatory and the most prominent ingredient in high-end audio? Where high-end audio starts in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Who needs real high end? by rowuk on 2015-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A random neutralness in Playback Listening  10 Replies 
I often wonder who REALLY needs real high end? Maybe this is the wrong description. If we look at custom made trumpets, violins, guitars for musicians, there are parameters that can be played with to reach a desired goal. The artisans results become ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio clubs in London, Tokyo feature high-end listening by clarkjohnsen on 2016-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio clubs in London, Tokyo feature high-end listening in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
While there is some idiocy reported in this article, the founders are clearly of good heart. Only, no one seems to be listening to classical music.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Munich High End 2013 by Stitch on 2013-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new G.I.P speakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
Silbatone made a Demo with those Horns (the big ones)They said, it is one of three existing WE Horns, made 1935/36 (only mod is the addition of the tweeter you can see there). One Horn is made for 3500 Visitors, so we got a 7000 People Demo with them...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: High what? by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-10 
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[quote user="Stitch"] High End will die anyway, it will be replaced with high price tags … [/quote] Actually it is very valid point. High-End Audio as a notion implies advance sound reproduction by all means, with disregard to cost-benefit ana...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Munich High End - show impressions... by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
... by Jeffrey W. Jacksonhttp://hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2011/06/munich-high-end-show-impressions.htmlThe Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: More about high-pass, if it is necessary by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"] blah, blah, blah, all that stuff... yes, yes, I was thinking along those lines last night after I posted it, and wondering if effects of hi pass, (not just steep acoustic roll off of driver), in the amp, relieving unwan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: High impedance tubes by electronluv on 2009-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
are you asking if i like higher impedance tubes with my drivers  i  have always love the sound of imac tubes round plate triodes !!! i change amps alot right now i im running 75tl amp for highs and a 300B for bass drivers . i hope this answers your q...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #139: Injection Channel is about very high precision. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  203 Replies 
Yesterday a guy come me from Atlanta to “see” my new installation.  I kind of explained that I am not in “demo mode” now but he still came to “see it”. I have no idea what he wanted to “see” and I was kind of obligated to play something to him. I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: High ceilings by cv on 2009-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Hi Romy,How about building a mezanine floor (or two), with a nice wrought iron spiral staircase - surely koshka would enjoy that?Best,cv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: Using of the “High ceilings” by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Yes, I was thinking of take advantage of high ceilings, feeling the space above with midbass horns. A few days back I found a very interesting building. It is big factory from the beginning of the century converted into many lofts. The building has h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: About the serious Chinese High-End by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RCA driver made in China in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Thanks, Keith. I isolated this topic in a separate thread, reading to the end you might understand why. Those commentaries that something is “100% original” I usually take with a lot of suspicion and it usually is an indication that the peo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: The high voltage remedy? by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"]And the very same is with electromagnets. With those so widely used 12V power supplies (Fertin, Feastrex for instance) the sound is always softer than it should be in reality with severally restricted dynamics and transien...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: High End 2010 in a extra Hotel too by Stitch on 2010-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Some Manufacturers are not in the regular High End Exhibition Show.They choose the rooms in a Hotel 10min away from the HE Show.You can find them here:Fleming's Hotel München SchwabingLeopoldstraße 132 - 13480804 München...
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