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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: For summer, for work and for NPR programs... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hi-Fi Mini Systems in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
Got a Hi-Fi Mini System. It was one of those Mini System that is conceded “great”, including by some of my “trusted” friends. Well, the “great” Mini System turned out to be quite crappy sounding, even for those $250. Was trying to run with the Mini S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
When I meet Jonathan Valin I  laugh. Jonathan is soft-spoken, kind-mannered person who does not have that revolting attitude of a typical audio reviewer. Most of audio reviewers that I met behaved like idiots, claiming:  “the entire wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by AllHammer on 2006-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
This post has basically wiped out the entire reputation you have tried to build up in the past. Rebutting a review does not make yours right, and from my personal experiences, you are indeed far from right. I can see why some people will not agree wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Hi-Fi Mini Systems by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hi-Fi Mini Systems in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
I’m involved now in a VERY interesting project that leads me to ask a strange question: did anyone ever research the subject of those Hi-Fi Mini Systems? What I need is a small source of FM and CD in a one small “comfy” box. I do not need that CD to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Some amassing things are going on with this Mini. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hi-Fi Mini Systems in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
Since I have no Macondo for 2-3 weeks (completely disassembled in expectation of my new frame – had to be ready two weeks back) I was playing music on that “celebrated” Demon M31. I ma telling you that I’m not use to have this type experience for yea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: As mini evolves... by serenechaos on 2008-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
ScanSpeak's 4.5" mid looks nice, but it's still 89dB http://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=148&products_id=917  Eton's 4" Symphony looks real nice, but it's only 88dBhttp://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Who inherit Mocondo or another Mini-Me. by Romy the Cat on 2014-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who inherit Mocondo or another Mini-Me. in Site Support Forum  42 Replies 
A few years ago a friend of mine, an audio manufacturer in Europe, in response to my Macondo Mini-Me project told me that my Macondo Mini-Me speakers were crap but the name I come up with for my Pilot acoustic system was ingenious. Well, he was n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Mini Review. by xandcg on 2015-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dc10audio. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
"Jim E, from Austin, Texas, USA On the Kabuki (at Newport Audio Show 2014) I was lucky to find the nice people at dc10audio. Their room was very pretty -- very artistic setup. The beautiful ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mini A7 by Gargoyle on 2024-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mini A7 in Audio News  0 Replies 
Come on, what's the matter with you This looks like a great winter project. I will absolutely make a pair of these for desktop use. Any guess on the size of these? I think 1" tweeter with 5" woofer you'd have a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Symphonic cooking? by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Targeted Audio Listening is like a high-end cooking, or the ... in Playback Listening  13 Replies 
I was cocking pelmeni this weekend.  Pelmeni is Russian meal, slightly reminding Chinese steam dumplings but boiled with different dough, and much smaller. So it was perhabs 20-30 of those miniature Pelmeni dumplings…. While I was making them (of cau...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A quest for a better monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
While Dima is cooking the Super Zarathustra I figure out that I would need some test speaker to be able to observe the preliminary results. I would not be able to drive the multi-channel Macondo with a single full range amplifier, so I need something...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Hi-Fi Mini Systems by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hi-Fi Mini Systems in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
I’m involved now in a VERY interesting project that leads me to ask a strange question: did anyone ever research the subject of those Hi-Fi Mini Systems? What I need is a small source of FM and CD in a one small “comfy” box. I do not need that CD to ...

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 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Model 6 loudspeakers. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
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 #2: Options DAW box by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Better organization/design forDAW. in Didital Things  12 Replies 
I looked what is around and I did not like whatever I see. The industry music server machines are all crap and mostly made to copy CDs and to play them from semi-intelligent applications.  My requirements are very specific and not of the existing mac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
When I meet Jonathan Valin I  laugh. Jonathan is soft-spoken, kind-mannered person who does not have that revolting attitude of a typical audio reviewer. Most of audio reviewers that I met behaved like idiots, claiming:  “the entire wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Melchiades further ruminations by montepilot on 2009-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo listening experience in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
This past weekend I was able to have an extended listen to the revised Melchiades amplifers.  My previous listening session left something to be desired with midbass punch and dynamics.  Had I not have heard mini me it may not have been noticeable.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Usb speakers in 2010 by unicon on 2010-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "artificially" made music? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
This might sound weird but I have a mini usb speaker attached to my laptop and they radically sound good ......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Bookshelf Horns by perrew on 2010-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bookshelf Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
For people with less knowledge of Horns and wants to use them in smaller real estate is there any chance of a speaker/horn of this type sounding good compared to a conventional monitor system/miniME type of speaker http://www.oswaldsmillaudio.com/Pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: Happy Listening, thank you. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
[quote user="AllHammer"]This is your website, if I am not mistaken. I shall respect your will to express, no matter the whatever the level of insights you have to offer. You are in no way degrading me. Like I said, anyone who have really listened to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Actually I disagree with your assessment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo listening experience in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
[quote user="montepilot"]This past weekend I was able to have an extended listen to the revised Melchiades amplifers.  My previous listening session left something to be desired with midbass punch and dynamics.  Had I not have heard mini me it may no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? by oxric on 2011-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
I have been looking forward to build my own dedicated passively cooled, Windows based source, with external power supplies and SSD drive, based on an HFX Classic case, or even better, the HFX Mini Metal, sometime towards the summer of next year. See ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The gift of life! by rowuk on 2014-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who inherit Mocondo or another Mini-Me. in Site Support Forum  42 Replies 
L'Chaim to the Mini-you! Taking 3 years where others only need 9 months is being thorough for sure!...

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 #21: Monitor speaker project: my hope. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
I would like to share some ides what I would like to do in my monitor project.  This are just intention and I did not try to put it all together. Probably I will do it with the next few weeks. I’m planning to use the Celestion SL-600 enclosure ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: A catastrophe of the MiniMe Idea? by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I have some strange feeling about this MiniMe idea and I really hate those feelings. The entire concept of MiniMe was to have painlessly integrated with large-speakers mini-monitor with somehow “not to revolting sound”. However, as I go slowly along ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Macondo is getting beter.... by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo listening experience in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
[quote user="montepilot"] When I have more time I will post my impressions of the mini me system that sits side by side with Macondo.  For now I will say that with all Macondo's virtues, mini me may be the David that slays the giant goliath![/quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: MF ramblings &&& by jessie.dazzle on 2008-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Romy wrote :"...Do what I did. Stop experimenting with horns and begin to actually USE your playback..."If I am in the house and not sleeping, the system is on."...If you still have an itch to “think horn” then insult others about their wrong horn mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: More ideas around USB and remote desktop. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Remote System Management in Off Air Audio  13 Replies 
http://www.instructables.com/id/SLFC6O2FJKGWVUU/ http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-controlled-mini-lava-lamps/ …and eventually: where can I buy THIS:http://www.everythingusb.com/elecom_t-y12usba_usb_power_bar.htmlThe Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: DACT et alia by Gregm on 2006-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
I am somewhat familiar with the dact: I used it in non controlled manner but familiar environment; it was assembled by someone else who also provided the necessary power supply; it was in two chassis about 15x15x~30 cm each (one for ps), so the equal...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Some kind of Grundig… by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some kind of Grundig… in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
It happen that I thought that my old Sony XBR Trinitron TV when sound and I was forced to by a new one. The old TV turner out to be fine and I was stupid to be left with the new one. It is a contemporary LED TV, they say the it is the best. I say...
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