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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About Stupid Dynamic by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Stupid Dynamic in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
Yesterday a local audio guy came over and I played to him my Altec 19 in the finally cleared fireplace room. While he enjoyed his frumpy music I paid attention to how unintelligent sound was. I do not know if it was Altec 19 or the electronics that d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About audio Crashes. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About audio Crashes. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I think it was Wagner who first incorporated in his composition the concept of masking. He felt that during loud sounds people are losing ability to recognize the instrumental complexity. Later on during the stupid mp3 times or digital compression, o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A sober view on Cogent True-to-Life Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Well, when we are talking about Cogent we need clearly differentiate two things: the Cogent’s drivers and the Cogent’s installation. The problem is that since Cogent’s drivers are something so called “compression drivers” then their performance might...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #365: Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... by Paul S on 2010-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Bud, excellent footnote, and just the sort of thing I always find out about the hard way!  Still, the effing C hinge also "adjusts" according to R, while the shape of the curve changes as the L changes relative to the changing C...Sure, by all means ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: One last try for the mindless? by rowuk on 2013-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why Horn loaded systems?! in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
Deciding for horns is actually very easy. Why:1) in the common sense range for each horn/driver they have far LESS distortion than any standard dynamic driver covering the same bandwidth. I define distortion as frequencies not originally in the recor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Talking about the free cheese … by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DeCompressor - Puncher Processor for WaveLab in Didital Things  1 Replies 
I was playing last nigh something and feel that the Puncher although adds adds some pinch in dynamic but makes the sound quite unpleasant as well. I think it has a lot of to do with the fact the Puncher has built in compressor that extends picks but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: My DHT experiment: some conclusions. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Ok, I do not know what it was: was it DHT, was it 300B, was it some other specifics of this given amp or whatever… but those two aspects that I named: intentional density of colors and randomness of pace are something that I would like to exercise in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Oh, please, not again!!! by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lavry vs Stahl -Tek in Didital Things  22 Replies 
[quote user="coops"]Romy rain all this weekend so have been listening to the Stahl-Tek and the MSB platinum III with 'signature' upgrades , MSB seems to float the sound ona cloud of coton candy, almost to the detriment of resolution , perhaps there i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: Why yellow driver and horns only for bass by Murataltuev on 2017-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
Romy, I'm very proud that you are following me and commenting my achievements.I just don't understand why you are doing it in a manner that you are the one and others are idiots and morons. If you don't understand others, you can ask them questions. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: From Newton to Einstein by yoshi on 2007-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: From Newton to Einstein in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
I've been listening to my system tuned by Romy.  So far, this is what I think is happening.  I don't want look like a kid puffing up to look like an adult, so will try to be simple.The most noticeable difference is the increased dynamics an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Taste of Blood - the further thoughts... by Ali Hassan on 2005-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Zarathustra” amplifier: loosing of virginity. in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
I give you an association: fat american with to much money and no brain sit in dreary shack by side of road trying to fill every desperate hour with something to give his life meaning.  He listens to half ass designs and declares them great usin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Looking for the most vintage-played Gran Partita? by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Looking for the most vintage-played Gran Partita? in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
The wonderful Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 (the “Gran Partita”) for winds and double bass is as good as it could be, in fact it is the probably the most brilliant music ever was written for the instruments. I love it but I lately would like to have i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Do your own experiments. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] I have always felt that if I went for a vertical array of 10" drivers, I would keep the drivers closer spaced than you do in your 'Dunlavy' made enclosure. Based on the 110" height of the tower, I see that you would be doing this...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Hi Jeffrey, Hi Romy by rdrysdale on 2005-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
Hi Romy, Hi Jeffrey     Steve and I have been working on the bass compression driver for quite some time now, about 3 weeks ago we made some design changes that really paid off, as of now I'm convinced that a compression driver is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: A “new” tweeter for Macondo, Round 395. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Ending up re-amping my MF channel, I found myself at unexpected situation that I am not completely compostable with Macondo HF. It is not that the HF are bad but they were made to serve the interest of older, slightly softer operating single-stag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #116: Another attack on the electricity problems by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
A month or so ago I came to an occasion to fish a large isolation transformer. It is not that I believe in isolation transformers as all my former experiments with them delivered quite gruesome sonic result. However, since the APS people are still no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Is Living Voice the Vitavox revival? MiniVan vs. JBL by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
I think guessing what the hell they did with tweeters would make since if whatever they did sound right. Since Living Voice’s is not the company that has a lot of exposure in US I do not think I will ever hear those speakers. Even if they have US rep...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: It is NOT FM is Analog Signal Processing vs DSP by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Revisiting DSP in Didital Things  12 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]FM is Analog Signal Processing vs DSP. The compression aspect is only really intrusive on orchestral works. Pop and jazz are already compressed and chamber music presents a more limited dynamic range if not limited contrast. B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Come on! by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
[quote user="KIS"]Your facts about Plasma Tweeters are incorrect. It is so far off that it is useless discussing it."I feel that that their Sound is very muck syntactic" ..."I feel the plasma tweeters take the sub-dynamic, deneuralized sound of elect...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Still, there is something in it. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better SET. in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
As many know I sine move in the new house do not have a fully functional Macondo and most of the time I listen Dunlavy with SS amp. Melquiades sit in there, collecting dust , waiting what it will be called to duty again. This weekend it was called an...

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 #56: Re: ribbons - we will see... by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Likely, the wider ribbons are less good for HF-only than a long, narrow ribbon, like the G3 and G3Si use.  Across the board, the larger the ribbon gets (and the lower the ribbon is made to go), the worse ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Non-Melquiades amplification: not good anymore.... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades: too early for a verdict? in Melquiades Amplifier  6 Replies 
Frankly speaking I kind of thankfully drifting away from observing what is going on in the industry and particularly in amplifiers. Since 1998-99 I was using explicitly Lamm amplifiers that were heads and shoulder more interesting then anything else ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Does this person sound familiar? by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Zarathustra” amplifier: loosing of virginity. in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
[quote user="Ali Hassan"] I give you an association: fat american with to much money and no brain sit in dreary shack by side of road trying to fill every desperate hour with something to give his life meaning.  He listens to half ass designs ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Bose SoundDock Devil Machine. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bose SoundDock Devil Machine. in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
As Amy moved in a few month back I inherited her Bose play station. http://www.amazon.com/Bose-SoundDock-Series-30-Pin-Speaker/dp/B001DLTDQC/ This radio is a platform for iPad and active speaker. Since we have two home we now own ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: A playback system as a statement of mind. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] A technical understanding is necessary and I am always trying to learn more... [/quote]Jessie, you might at this point have worries/interests about technicalities of horns operation or a desire to find theoretical justifi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Lamm’s Hi-Fi frequency pusher by Romy the Cat on 2012-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.2 and Mark the BS teller. in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
 [quote user="Stitch"] I wanted to do that, but they are so rare and I found nobody to visit.  [/quote] Well, let me give you my version. I know ML2 quite well and I made a number of people to buy it, not soliciting them but rather demonstrating to t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: The tempted virtue of the phonostage’s prostitution. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, I feel that air-cap has own coloration. This “no resolution”, vacuum-clean HF dynamic is coloration itself as I do recognize this characteristic across all music that the corrector plays. The sound of the air-correc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: More about Point Source by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Tuga, It is very much NOT about the Point Source. The Point Source is absolutely irrelevant label that was invented by the single driver enthusiasts in order to mentally differentiate their speakers from multi-drivers configuration and in order to j...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Sometimes I disagree with myself. by Romy the Cat on 2018-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How difficult is it to achieve Vox Olympian sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="martinshorn"]But I replied assuming such a question is raised by someone who has experienced DIY background and basics how to „design sound“. This is of course a precondition. Of course we can’t list a „kit“ here. If we could, the VO...
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