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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Some comments about the Montreal 2013 show. by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Montreal Audio Show 2013 in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
It has been a little wild trip from Portsmouth NH (our second home) to Montreal. The weather was wonderful and the drive was surprisingly easy. The trip in the way reminds me my audio trips from the past, with talks and thinking about audio here ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Constant directivity = constant wavefront center? by el`Ol on 2007-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constant directivity = constant wavefront center? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
Hello all!Some people call omnidirectional spekers "Hallsoßenwerfer" (reverb sauce throwers), some people even accept price and sensitivity of an MBL 101. While I find the MBL too diffuse, I still find there is something special about a speaker being...

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 #18: There are absolutely no accidents with it. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES's 2011 horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
[quote user="jeff1225"]I never understood the affinity that the Germans have for heavy metal. Whenever you going into any of their rooms at CES (especially MBL), Slayer is playing at 130 DB. Maybe it's the modern interpretation of Wagner.[/quote] Jef...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Shame about the Hifi Deluxe by manisandher on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]The Hifi Deluxe was in the Le Meridien... Would have been interesting what you think about the Duevel (and whether you like the MBL top end for being omnidirectional only).[/quote]I didn't know this, which is a shame as I definite...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #158: Stich's deaf buddies by coops on 2009-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  231 Replies 
Your audiophile buddies must be deaf stitch, the Cessaro room was easily the best at the show, although  to be fair there wasn't much competition, Magico sounded as if the sound was being pushed into the speakers, YG wasn't bad, their sealed aluminiu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1529: Stromtank: production pictures. by xandcg on 2016-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
Here are some pictures of the Stromtank production:http://www.monoandstereo.com/2016/06/stromtank-production.htmlAnd here says the creator is the founder of MBL:http://www.enjoythemusic.com/HIGH_END_2016/Stromtank/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Crazy Germans by jeff1225 on 2011-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES's 2011 horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
I never understood the affinity that the Germans have for heavy metal. Whenever you going into any of their rooms at CES (especially MBL), Slayer is playing at 130 DB. Maybe it's the modern interpretation of Wagner....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Lamm ML3+LL1- another stupid $200 worth review. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  105 Replies 
A few years back an editor of a “famous” audio publication asked me if I write for him. I explained to him that I have no interest to build my own audio clientele, that have no cronies manufacturers whose products I would like to promote, that I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Justification of Buying Expensive Audio Equipment by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Justification of Buying Expensive Audio Equipment in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
Ehh, what do you know – I subscribe the TAS last week. I think I did it 7 years back but I was wondering if it be some kind of fun. I got my first issues a few days back and made an attempt to read it. Funny but I do not exactly understand what they ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Hife Deluxe by el`Ol on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]Thanks for all the suggestions. As it happens, there were no exhibitors at the Flemings Hotel this year. But I did pop into the Stax stall before listening to anything else.[/quote]The Hifi Deluxe was in the Le Meridien.http...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Headamp, ANUK. by xandcg on 2015-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Really Expensive DACs? in Didital Things  29 Replies 
I do not go to 'Audio Shows' but the fact of the people are using Lampizators on this fashion may be because they (Lampizator) are promoting the headamp version of their DACs. Seems almost all of theirs DACs have a headamp version now.My experience w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: The Purpose of the Horn by Paul S on 2019-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The IDEAL horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
Gera, is this an idea you're familiar with from a sonic standpoint?  The horns are supposed to boost lower frequencies within their pass bands without adding their own sound, or - more realistically - allowing for their own minimal contribution to th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 360 degree radiation patterns by drdna on 2007-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bahnsen Horns + some free tools in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
The idea of 360 degree radiation of sound has great intuitive appeal to me since I feel the best recordings are done with two omnidirectional microphones.  The most precise reproduction of the musical event would seem to be: sounds enter microph...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Munich High End 2010 by manisandher on 2010-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
Thanks for all the suggestions. As it happens, there were no exhibitors at the Flemings Hotel this year. But I did pop into the Stax stall before listening to anything else.In general, I was pretty disappointed with what I heard. Most of the ‘convent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #166: ??????? by dkarmeli on 2014-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] dkarmeli wrote: What I called mental masturbation was the pretense to design of the ultimate turntable, not the musical experience or sound! Well, neither you, nor me, nor anybody else at this site, nor anybody else who de...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The "Best" of THE Show by Paul S on 2015-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: T.H.E. Show, Newport, 2015 in Audio News  14 Replies 
As I recall, the small ATCs at THE Show were the 19's, with the "long-throw" version of their otherwise-spectacular, domed MF driver, which their larger drivers employ, along with a range of woofers. I think they make amps for "consumers" now, too, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Some prose about a $200K horns installation. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-11 
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Well, here and there at my site I’m calling for rationalism in audio and suddenly I go enthusiastic regardless a perspectives of $200K Cessaro’s Gammas availability. Sounds hypocritical, doesn’t it? Well, not really. I’m under no presumption that go...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The “nice enough guy” syndrome. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Valin shell be an Alcatraz reviewer. in Audio News  4 Replies 
I have quite a confidence that if you meet and talk with Joseph Goebbels or Lavrenti Beria or with Idi Amin then they all will come along like “nice guys”. When I met and spoke with Valin he seemed “normal” as well. Hey even I appear as “a nice guy” ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The RAAL's omnidirectional idea at RMAF 2008 by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL in Horn-Loaded Speakers  31 Replies 
RAAL showed off at RMAF 2008 this new omnidirectional speaker and it is what I would be interesting to hear. What interests me in this is the concept omnidirectivity. I have no idea if the omnidirectivity as a concept is good or bad. Previously I hea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The powerful SS V-FET shootout? by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamaha B-2 V-FET amplifier. in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
Last few days listening MiniMe with B-2 my patients was running out. With all more or less OK sound my B-2 had wondering eye about imaging. The amp has a minor fluctuation of gain between the channels and this fluctuation can be addressed by …kic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The commercial music servers. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
It is shame that in 21 century we have such mediocre, not to say moronic, park of music servers. Whoever does music servers t know stat a file server with uncompress 24-bit files is a phenomenal source of music. So, why we have not a lot of well-per...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: About Wilson XLF by Robert Harley by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A primer on high-end marketing: Wilson XLF in Audio News  8 Replies 
Robert Harley wrote I his blog about his listening of the XLF. http://www.avguide.com/blog/wilson-s-new-xlf-flagship-loudspeaker-world-exclusive-preview The Robert’s article is hilarious.  He compiled all imaginable meaningl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: 360 sound makes no sense by drdna on 2008-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL in Horn-Loaded Speakers  31 Replies 
So-called omnidirectional sound (of course here we are talking only about 360 degrees within a two-dimesional plane) is framed in the concept of emulating the microphone. This makes no sense to me, since it, firstly , fails to emulate the microphone....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Buzz/Kill, and The Most "Amazing" Sound at T.H.E. Show 2014 by Paul S on 2014-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buzz/Kill, and The Most "Amazing" Sound at T.H.E. ... in Audio News  5 Replies 
A local GSC member took me up to THE Show, in Newport Beach, CA. This was the first audio show I've attended in over 25 years. It was way more frenetic than any audio show I remember. Lousy sound everywhere, of course, and no good music, and the c...

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 #10: The cost of the right-sounding Bidat. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="Telstar"] Out of curiosity, how much does a Bidat costs nowadays and the Wright mods?[/quote] This is very interesting question and I had a conversation with John Wright about it a few days ago. He asked me the same question: what the B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Correcting Problems by Paul S on 2023-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
So far, the “better” my reproduction gets, the more variable recordings get. I mean, they are all over the place. Considering this alone, who knows how a given recording needs to be manipulated in order to “correct” it? Plenty of problems I h...
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