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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Sometimes a SET is not juts a SET... by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth: High-efficiency Low-power in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
I do not think that it is a mater of the output tube. Yes, the 300B is crappy tube but it is too easy to blame the under-performing tube. I would say that in the situation that Scott is experiencing the problem is not with his amplifier but in the id...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Further comments about the Lamm ML3 (part II) by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  106 Replies 
Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3 What is important is to undusted that my view  less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire class of amplifiers. When I to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Lamm ML3 review. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  106 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3 What is important is to undusted that my view  less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire cla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Some improved results by peter foster on 2008-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is anybody live in Australia with a tuner and an interest? in Off Air Audio  19 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Hm, interesting. The problem might be in ADC, I/O cared, Recorder or DAC. When you do the experiment do you record the file? If so then you might plug ADC directly into DAC. Might your problem be with cloaking? I do know wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Svetlanov's complete(?) Myaskovsky Symphony set by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
The rumors are that Warner has bought licenses of all Svetlanov's recordings and they are reissuing them now. So far the Myaskovsky set is available only in Europe http://www.amazon.fr/Int%C3%A9grale-Symphonies-Nikola%C3%AF-Miaskovsky/dp/B000XCTD5S/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Warner box set now available in U.S. by Amphissa on 2008-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The rumors are that Warner has bought licenses of all Svetlanov's recordings and they are reissuing them now. So far the Myaskovsky set is available only in Europe http://www.amazon.fr/Int%C3%A9grale-Symphonies-Nikola%C3%A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The best set of ALL Beethoven Pianos Concertos? by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performance of a week. in Musical Discussions  87 Replies 
I mean who recorded ALL of them at the SAME level of performing quality?  A used set that I fished recently suggest that I might found a noble contestant. It is box set of 3 CD  (DG 435 744 -2) that has all 5 concertos performed by Wilhel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: If Only to Re-set This by Paul S on 2009-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Seven phases in the life of a hard-core collector. in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
So freaking true!Add to these the self-neutralizing Fear of Bad Recordings and you about have it covered, I think.Needless to say, I am convinced that catagories beyond #4 are just rumors of the order of El Dorado.Paul S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Another beam tetrode for high power SET? by Romy the Cat on 2012-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tube GU-29 in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
Nope, I am not familiar with sound or applications of this tube. It is indirect heated beam tetrode – why would it be any different from the whole family of beam tetrodes?  From my perspective it might be interesting for ULF DSET solution as it has a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Not taht this is SET by noviygera on 2014-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SET amplifiers in Audio Discussions  30 Replies 
anyone familiar with the sound of this amplifier RH-307a?http://rh-amps.blogspot.com/2013/09/rh-307a-v2-super.htm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: 2) Set playback in-wide-phase to room or how to find AEZ by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Ok, how to start. First of all we have to understand that out subject of attention will be a region between approximately 80Hz and 500Hz or something that shape the fundamentals of the “melody range” within your playback. Search my site I have writte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re-set by Paul S on 2011-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Western Electric reproduces 0Hz + some literature… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
There is really nothing of value to add here.  I just want to put this back at the top again.Paul S ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: Paralleled SET bass by decoud on 2011-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I can see objections to using paralleled tubes to achieve higher power where the channel has a single driver, but surely where you have multiple drivers differences between the drivers themselves would render any disadvantage of using (say) one tube ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Setting Up and Maintaining Set-up by Paul S on 2014-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
It seems like most audio "auditioning" is of the hopeful sort, where we can in the best cases "hear something" that attracts us, and we can perhaps use experience to try to "intuit" whether we might be able to "extract" and use the particular compone...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Another search for the better SET? by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth: High-efficiency Low-power in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
[quote user="skushino"]So next week I will broaden my playback experience by adding my new 90wpc PP mastadon, and Romy's approved Lamm ML-2, in addition to my current DRD-300B amps.  And as a personal favor to the readers at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Moving to the SET/Horns world by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: S2 Hissing Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Jessie, A few hints. If you are moving from Parsifal/Encore and LammM1.1 world into the world of SETs and Horn then do not be in hurry to commit yourself and do not create to yourself artificial addictions. When I talk about artificial addictions I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: "Temporary" SET by jessie.dazzle on 2006-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: S2 Hissing Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Romy, Thanks for the hints. I was anticipating the limitations imposed by of a pair of SET amps such as the ML2s driving such a system (4 or 5 drivers per side, down to 40Hz), but was planning to accept those limitations for the moment... takin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Praxis SET by Cosmos on 2010-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
Dear Romy, thank you so very much for mentioning our amplifier to your excellent forum. Indeed, during the last 5-6 years there are a lot of manufacturers “from non traditional hi-fi manufacturing countries”. In particular, in poor old Greece we ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The GM70 SET by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GM70 vs. 6C33C in Melquiades Amplifier  13 Replies 
Well, as I understand there is no truly GM70 vs. 6C33C context yet (sound in the respectfully equitable load) from you and it will be very interesting to hear from you when you feel that you are ready to say something. As I understand they are the sa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Speed, control and SET harmonics by Paul S on 2008-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Harmonic Speed”- friend of foe? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
I also find SET bass to be the overall best I have heard - at its best, and this has been, as you observe, when the amp is well within its comfort zone.  And this seems to remain true even when Z out and speaker load "matching" are har...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #303: The SET Problem, only with speakers... by Paul S on 2024-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  349 Replies 
Sounds like the problem I always had with SET, I really loved the "bass" I got, but there just wasn't enough of it to "scale up" when I wanted to. I think I have told at GSC before that the founder of Stereophile, Gordon Holt wound up with Tannoys, p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: Is this another N-Set? by anthony on 2017-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] anthony wrote:Hi Jarek,It was your thread on here that prompted me to think about incorporating the vibroisolation into the amplifer.  Although not seen, I have also designed in some ball bearing horizontal isolation that sits on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A speaker set with JBL 2225h, JBL 2105h & JBL 2403h by audiophile.1963 on 2015-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A speaker set with JBL 2225h, JBL 2105h & JBL 2403h in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Hi,I keep for many years a set of speakers, JBL 2225h, JBL 2105h and JBL 2403h and I'd like to build a reflex compact speaker with a good low response (see the picture 1:10).  - 40 Hz - 1000/1200 Hz: JBL 2225h in vented box  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A DSET is better then an expensive SET by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A DSET is better then an expensive SET in Audio For Dummies ™  41 Replies 
For whatever stupid reasons the DSETs (Dedicated Single Ended Amplifier) are not as popular among audio people as they SHOULD be and this imperfection I am trying to attack. So, if you use SET for whoever propose then it fine but if you e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Set Amp/speaker by Amir on 2022-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Always check power-line polarity. in Audio For Dummies ™  11 Replies 
I have not read this book (the wood effect) and if you have shopping link please sent it to me.I am not sure but It seems even amplifier speaker connection is important for sound.In past I have inverted the signal phase in my DAC and also inverted sp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Re: A simple SET isn't good amplifier…. by Genn on 2006-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not really believe in the ultimate ability of SET amplifiers to drive loudspeakers, at least any loudspeakers. [/quote]Well - I've heard a couple of such amplifiers, made by Mr.Juri Makarov.  They did have more o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: An good article about the 6C33C SET. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
Here is an interesting article by Dmitry Nizhegorodov about his experiences to use 6C33C. (I do not know who Dmitry is) I disagree with Dmitry’s amplifier. Also, I very much disagree with his vision that an amplifier is juts a machinery where voltage...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: SET syndrome and/or bad power? by Paul S on 2007-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Romy, of course I do not know if what you are describing is anything like what I hear from SETs, but that was my first thought when I read the post, the way it is so soothing - up to a point.I do not understand the relationship between the tube, the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Yamamoto AD-1 amp is SET by JJ Triode on 2007-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A contemporary AD1 Triode by Emission Labs in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Reading the Yamamoto link you posted, it actually says the amp is an SET stereo amp, not PP. You may have been confused by the schematic shown in the EML link, that showed a single channel of an IT-coupled PP. I certainly have not heard any AD-1 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Null-set dipole butterfly tweeters by horny on 2007-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Null-set dipole butterfly tweeters. in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
judging from your draving, they appear to be bipolar operating tweeters and not dipole. While I generally do favour the horn approach above all the others,sometimes I do wish the whole reproduction would be less "dry" and bringing in some wide beamin...
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