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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: A trip to neural bliss - turn the stereo off by rowuk on 2023-10-03 
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 
To be honest, I think that ANY stereo system gets in the way of the music - regardless of the amount of channels.Let us jump back to the monaural records/radio years. At that time, we had one choice and were very satisfied in being able to play back ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: Diode Handoff by hagtech on 2008-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Looks to me like the horizontal and vertical steps in the waveform are due to the diode switching.  One diode turns off while the other turns on.  Storage time on the diodes is normally short.  But it depends on the test setup!  T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: 3 way switch by be on 2008-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Training amplifiers in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
What about a 3 position switch?1. Direct connection between the anode and the B+2. Connection trough a suitable resistor for a gentle turn on/off.3. Completely disconnected.Just remember to turn on and off the heaters at the right times in the on-off...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #328: Some winter observations. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
This year is the first winter that I live with this new listening room. Last winter the playback was up and I still was playing with minor arrangements of my ULF channels, cable and a few other things. For many months I do pretty much nothing with my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1197: Blame it on the remodeling by steverino on 2013-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
Are you sure the remodeling didn't do it? I assume you mean you moved it back into the remodeled room.One time some years ago I was in a recording studio and wanted to use my Millenia mic preamp into the ADC. So I asked them to turn off the mixing bo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Nothing will hurt those Micro Seiki by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RX-5000 Thread tension. in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
[quote user="Ciampa"]Good anoon everyone,I am currently running an RY-5500/RX-5000 trough aramid thread. Was wondering wht wd be the ideal thread tension for the system. Wd it be better being tight or loose ? Both cases I get constant platter speed, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Correct AC Polarity by Jim Aud by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Always check power-line polarity. in Audio For Dummies ™  11 Replies 
CORRECT AC POLARITY June 17, 2009 — puristaudio System set-up "I wanted to talk about a tweak that costs little or nothing to do, while having the potential of paying big dividends in terms of sonic improvement. It involves a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #593: A few electric follow ups. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
Since I installed the 3 of PP2000 units they do work wonderfully. Since my days 2-3 years back when a turn of power switch on PP1500 required to dress in bomb-squad outfit and when any switching might be the very last switching, I kind of have th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #802: 10 KVA by Jorge on 2011-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
I have a 10KVA Isolation transformer that feeds on two separate 8 ga cables running direct from the house meters into an breaker into de transformer. This breaker is the one I use to turn my system on and off.  The Isolation transformer recieves two ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1493: PFC correction by JOHNR on 2015-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
PFC is a function of adding Xc using capacitors to bring the current in the circuit downwards.What you have is an inductive load giving a lagging PF eg a simple motor gives a PF of 0.85.Thus the inductive element can be manipulated to bring it from l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Some comments about your response. by Romy the Cat on 2016-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
kodomo , I would like to make some comments about your response. The presumption that the  mic was exact in the listening spot and the drivers are time-aligned and run “in-phase”. If any of the above conditions are not true then all bets are off a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: To power down the hard disks or not? by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAW drives configuration and backup strategies. in Didital Things  3 Replies 
My backup strategy is kind simple. I have another box filled with hard disk to where I copy data using Beyond Compare. I have also some automation scripts that synchronize some drives between my DAW, my working development machines with the drive...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: another option by guy sergeant on 2006-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cool running AB amplifier.. with good sound. in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
Hi Romy,I listened to the bigger brothers of this last weekend. The first smps amps I have heard that I didn't need to turn off straight away. Certainly cool running with plenty of power. It wouldn't replace your valve amps but might be entertaining ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Chostakovich: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre n°2 op.... by RonyWeissman on 2004-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chostakovich: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre n°... in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
That may halfway-explain my reaction to the performance. Despite the 1st level listening being remarkable with the live broadcast, I had to fight myself not to turn it off...I would have thought you would be fan of sym. 11 (kondrachine conductin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Even the Poles can’t rewrite physics by rowuk on 2018-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Trash your “full-rage”, single-driver acoustic systems. in Audio For Dummies ™  10 Replies 
Considering that Srajan is the ultimate audio reviewer, it should be clear to all that there is no opinion worth considering in that article.Where is the cone area to recreate anything except a fart? How is any type of low distortion HF possible with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1190: Bypass bypassed by steverino on 2013-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
Agree completely. In addition I am always leery of having electrical components cycling on and off just from a reliability and longevity standpoint. Turn it on and leave it on unless there are tubes....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #293: Bruckner and Counterpoint by AOK_Farmer on 2010-12-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Uni,There is a Bruckner Motet in that stained glass I posted. You will have to turn off the amplifiers to hear it. Listen to the space with that glass in it. Don't you hear the Bruckner's contrapuntal modes loading the room? You don't need a sound to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The radioactive Larvy and the fragile FM by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tuners and digital noise from DAW, A/D and D/A in Off Air Audio  10 Replies 
Peter, I do not know what is doing in with AM, I do not use it and all my experiments are in FM range. You might do the following: take FM antenna out of tuner and use instead a few cm of local wire. Defeat the noise causation on Sansui and run the t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: I'll give it a try by yoshi on 2007-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Recently, I added JBL 2220 for below 200 and replaced TOA DSP with Pioneer D-23 4way active crossover.  The result is very positive, but there are still many issues I'd like to attend.I'll be out of country early in September so that'll be a goo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #136: Double Dip by Paul S on 2008-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
Looking around quickly, it appears that it takes about 2 hp to generate 1,000VAC.  Around these parts, this probably means a 3-phase 220V electric driver motor, which would totally pollute the entire house electrical system that drives it, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: A business opportunity for someone…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
Oh, no, I’m absolutely not going to go to this route.  I absolutely certainly do not want to have any vacuum tubes in there, not kneeboard and mouse, no recording options, not switching or commutating, it need to have one single button to tune of and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #109: So much for "10,000 hours"... by Paul S on 2008-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I have been fighting the electricity and getting off-track enough to find it wearying, not to mention the silliness with the tubes.  The other day I happened to drop a double album and it hit dead flat on the carpeted floor. The mute was of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #152: More ham by N-set on 2011-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
I see the point, thanks a lot for your comments. Playing with the phono I've somehow come to a conlusion (possibly wrong) that my ham is an electrostatic air pick-up from the PS. During the operation both PS and signal boxes are very closetogether an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: OK, I did the HDCD. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
While I, waken up by Mani’s idea to us MP as the only DAC, was playing with new Pacific I have researched deeper the HDCD subject in the BSO recordings. Mark Donahu, from AudioMirror with his slightly patronizing attitude might consider himself a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: A man on clock with a clock by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] The last I heard from him, he was looking into how to get the clock frequency doubled, maybe by an external device (I think).[/quote] I do not like this idea. The frequency doublers are a very simple but it would need PS  a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: AMR DP-777 by Amir on 2017-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Abington Something = Abbingdon Music Research in Didital Things  14 Replies 
I think DP-777 sounds best when i turn off it's Jitter correction and i use bit Perfect I mode in 16bit 44.1khz mode.I think AMR DP-777 is very very good DAC but in my idea it is a-little bold sounding if i criticize tone.It sounds clear , very clear...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #894: One down one to go noise wise by beachbum on 2011-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
Thanks Romy i found the colbert and solved the 60 cycle noise. now go and figure we have a most powerful AM/FM station here wwland the sightliest of its signal is bleeding in to my system. I like to use unshielded rcas i am single ended also, its got...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #164: Punk Rock by Paul S on 2010-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
For many years I have habitually "rocked" tubes gently in their sockets (when the equipment is off!) in order to "better establish the electrical connection".  I suppose I have done this hundreds of times with no problems, apart from three fairly rec...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: Bread-boarded Melquiades Fullrange by anthony on 2017-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Romy,Using the Fullrange PS I have bread-boarded the Fullrange amplifier...Turn off the lights and it looks much better.To my surprise (this is my very first amplifier build) everything seemed to work pretty much straight away.  The voltages seemed r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Showcase by Jorge on 2014-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Those Video broadcasts from High-End shows. in Audio News  4 Replies 
Most Show videos are made with no preparation, maybe only some quick light fix, like please turn those on or off.I think the second type videos as Romy defined them are pretty useful,  just a nice Showcasing of the gear to see what is out there, how ...
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