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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Jonathan Weiss Introduces New High-End TT! by Paul S on 2021-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Weiss Introduces New High-End TT! in Audio News  11 Replies 
Obviously, the header is just for Romy!Well, it took a while, but with development help and official intro by Michael Fremer, the new OMA DD TT is finally here!https://oswaldsmillaudio.com/k3Featuring the Best of Everything, including a bespoke Schro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Joe Roberts and his Jonathan Weiss illness by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-09 
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Memo to Silbatone: Associating yourselves with a person who expresses himself in this way will undermine your hard work and any credibility your products might deserve.[/quote] I kind of thought this way initially but the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Having achieved what? by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-13 
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An interesting question. What kind achievement one can expect from a person who claims that Schroder Tonearms are distinct by the Mark of Devil due to their association with Jonathan Weiss? If I have some kind of idiotic delusion and would tell story...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: "Beautiful” but themselves. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more non-spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Paull, the horns might be “beautiful” but only themselves. When they are jointed with the rest Macondo spherical chennals then I do not like how it all looks together.  Regarding the drivers, I do have a few options, I might slowly exercise them and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: The predictable “Whorish Fear Marketing”. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-18 
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Stitch, You outlined very nicely the pattern that exists with quite many products in audio, I call it Whorish Fear Marketing I can’t say that the same happens with Schroeder arms. I just do not know as I never paid any attention to those arms...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio equipment recommendations at this site. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio equipment recommendations at this site. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
I hate to provide what the audio people call “equipment recommendations”. Whoever has sent me private emails asking me about buying or trying one of another audio component know that I usually suggest do not bother me or propose to them going to hell...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: How the menacingly-empty idiots design audio. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bookshelf Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
I do not know, I do not see a lot of sense on bookshelf horn construction. The core of topology resets to bookshelf configuration. A horn but it very basic nature is bandpass devise. As soon you introduce a horn then you automatically truncate th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Joe Roberts and his Jonathan Weiss illness by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-09 
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Memo to Silbatone: Associating yourselves with a person who expresses himself in this way will undermine your hard work and any credibility your products might deserve.[/quote] I kind of thought this way initially but the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: To finish with the Weiss by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-18 
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Rakesh, the subject of Jonathan Weiss is not worth for me to argue it. I too much know on the Weiss to have an interest about it. All that I will say to finish it that the asshole was spending days and night reading my site, stealing positions and vi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Oswald Mills Audio & others by Stitch on 2013-03-09 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The only valuable foe myself history lesson I took after Jonathan Weiss visit was Jonathan’s quote. It was where we were sitting in his listening rooms and I was making one of few very fruitless attempts to explain to h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The most appalling audio types: Vintage Sufferers by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most appalling audio types. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
The people who suffer from the vintagtism in audio are special breed of Audio Morons™. Those people discovered a single focus of interests in some kind of vintage item and this focus became a point an unconditional dedication and fanatical devotion. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: About the RCA enthusiasts that I have witnessed. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
Which RCA driver you use? RCA had a few drivers the pre and after war. I am familiar with a few after war drivers that I tried in my 330Hz horn and I was not impressed. Reportedly the pre-war MI-1428B shall be the one to play with; I did not have thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-25 
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It was The Rocky Mountain Audio Show a few days back and I LOVE it. The best things about the show that I wasn’t there, thanks, thanks, thanks, God!!! But it was not actually all. I had even more pleasure today when I went on-line to The AA Sewers ™...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The implication of “exclusivity” from the shithole? by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-11 
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Frank, I do not see a reason to argue arms. I am not on a market for arm and I am comfortable with the sound I am getting from two of my six arms. I have no motivations or needs to look for other arms. Thankfully I am not in business to sell audi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Celebrating myself…. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-11 
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Rakesh, I perfectly agree what you say and I am glad that others understand that it is not about tonearms but people. Frank with his tonearms might be untended victim of his chooses but it is what it is. I very much know and understand what I say and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Cogent at RMAF 2007 by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-16 
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Another Rocky Mountain Audio Show went  on and Cogent dragged this filed-coiled asses :-) to the show. I was wondering is any changes with Cogent during the last year took place. The unfortunately-famous whore : Jonathan Weiss - has become ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: RCA MI-1428B vs Vitavox S2 by Romy the Cat on 2012-11-25 
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I have a guy visited me today who have high-voltage version of RCA 1428. I asked him to provide is feedback what in his view difference sonic between his 1428 and my S2 driver. Of course it might be large difference in the way how we use our drivers....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Oh, come on, Frank, get life, will you! by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-12 
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[quote user="berlinta"]..."your boyfriend from Oswalds Mill"... Absolutely superfluous, meant to insult only choice of words. My wife, if I'd show her this thread, would yell at you like a drill seargent. Her fuse is short. [/quote] Come on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Never too old to learn from a real Master by Stitch on 2013-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
Luv' it.************************01-07-13: JweissDon't know who Jeremy is, but it's pretty obvious he is shilling for Artisan.I often get emails when Artisan releases a new "product" to the effect that- "do you know this guy is ripping off your design...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Re: Gaussmeter wanted. by jweiss on 2006-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Hi Romy, It was good to finally meet you at CES at the Cogent Room. I guess that you really found Steve and Rich's drivers pretty interesting (you initially wanted to buy a pair of the midrange drivers, remember?) It would seem from all the activi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Using MS Word and how planctons discourse shrewdly on matters of expos... by oxric on 2010-02-17 
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  Romy wrote: Rakesh, before everything: you use MS Word to type messages and it has some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The Internet-inspired, brawn-track delivered Messiah. by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-18 
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[quote user="Stitch"]What is the main difference in High End today and 10 years ago? Today it is possible to launch average products into the market via Internet Hype from DIY groups. [/quote] Yep, you are spot on. All that you need to sell a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The satanic tonearm as far as I can see it. by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-16 
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[quote user="bernie_f"]Hi Romy.I completely agree with you regarding the VTA <-> VTF relation on every arm out there (the lever rule also seems to work with tonearms ;-)). Also i agree that if you want the correct absolute measurement of VT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: It has absolutely nothing to do with emotional involvement. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-18 
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[quote user="tuga"] It's amazing how so many intelligent people are unable refrain their emotions towards certain objects (and industry players in general, like manufacturers and reviewers), in the very "loving" attitude that prevents them from a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Of course I disagree. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-11 
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[quote user="oxric"] Romy, I am not too sure you understood me at all! Celebrating yourself? That’s not strength of conviction, that suspiciously rankles of self-idolatry and we know where this strong belief in oneself led Hitler, and for that ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: My last post as a "case in point". by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-11 
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Frank, I do not generally participate in the “technical discussions” about the tonearm design I would live it to DIYAudio0type of people. I see no point and no particular interest on the subject. There are multiple reasons why. Not the last of th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: To me it is a deal breaker, nothing else need to be said. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-12 
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[quote user="oxric"] I just wished you would find it in you, out of fairness and common courtesy, to keep the thread within the boundaries within which it was raised, that is a technical discussion on the approach of Frank Shroder to the design o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The whole idea is...What? vs. How? by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression Drivers -in general in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"]At first I plan to power the thing SET, with a known, existing amp (a  triode wired EL84) which I've already built and know the Sound.  It is not bad, but a little "warm" sounding (second harmonics, and is low powe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Cogent speakers: too early to say anything. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-01 
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[quote user="Paul S"]I recieved and accepted an invitation to hear an earlier version of the Cogent speakers, and I was subsequently asked for a considered opinion of the sound.  I guess the designers had read from my posts various criticis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Some clarification. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-15 
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Rakesh, before everything: you use MS Word to type messages and it has some strange styling formatting that My Word cleaning server scrip cannot clean. As the result your posts screw formatting of my site. I was trying to research what style item...
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