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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: The 6 channels diaries: evening of gratification by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Eventually, I had a chance to spend last night with up and running new Milq (no tweeters was involved at this point). As I said before, the major fight was around the MF channel and I feel I did found a good configuration where the MF channel takes a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Grado Sonata & Ortofon Rondo Bronze by AlexBerger on 2010-05-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Say “no” to the light tonearms. in Audio For Dummies ™  10 Replies 
Romy,Yes, I measured my cartridge-tonearm combination with test disk. The resonant frequency was completely different compared to calculation with http://www.mh-audio.nl/MySystem/RF.asp.7 years ago, I tried Fidelity Research FR-64FX with Grado Sona...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The hard-boiled PP with confined 6C33C by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The short "6C33C Survival Guide". in Melquiades Amplifier  20 Replies 
I see, what they did – the built a perfect sealed chimney with two fans to suck cold air in and two fans to suck hot air out. Well, it might work, even though I do like this idea. I absolutely do not see why such a hot and large tube as 6C33C sha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Replies by Bill on 2021-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
Will try to answer all questions here.Romy: I understand why you do not wish to use the term “surround sound”, but it is the accepted term for what we are discussing. You may add other terminology, but it only muddies the debate until others accept i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Whatever they say about pressings… by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Whatever they say about pressings… in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
Whatever biggest pressings names they do not throw I always feel defensive as any given record might be whatever it is. There is however the “pressings” that keep amuse me with consistency of good quality. It might not be always good hi-fi jou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Sounds like fun! by mem916 on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
Yes you don't want to go over 0 "dBFS" for sure.  In fact it is not good to even hit 0 dB from what I have read in an AES paper.  Something odd happens when you play it back (I can't remember the details).  I shoot for peaks at -2 or -3 dBFS when...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #375: "Absolution and Eternal Refuge." by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
The name of the post I took from the 32th  chapter of M. Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita, so from there will be the epigraph for this post: “Gods, my gods! How sad the earth is at evening! How mysterious are the fogs over the swamps! …So...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Re: Better among worst? by morricab on 2005-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Hi Thorsten, "I agree. I have to note that even in active preamp I/We (the we are friends from the London Live DIY Circle) tend to prefer TVC's over resistors." Hmmm....I guess I can't really see that unless you are enjoying a particular col...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: DEQX debuts 24/192 capable HDP4 @ CES 2012 by Kerry Brown on 2012-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #239: Reduced frequency response range, sort of. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I think my new room and new midbass horn will give me an opportunity to play at the NEW LEVEL with a notion that I have been chasing for years. I am taking about perceptual shrinking of frequency response. I need to admit that most of the ugliest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Oh, low voltage sources... by anthony on 2019-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]How many sources do you currently have? If you are building a phono corrector, make it for 4 volts output. If you have a PC for digital playback, there are good DACs with more than 2V output. That would leave a tuner to pimp - cer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: No, i don't know how to design that by Vasyachkin on 2010-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Do you personally recognize the sonic impact of bad electricity in your own playback?[/quote]no, not in the sense that i assume you mean it.  instead i have my own beef with bad electricity, which i suspect is different fro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The bigger view by Scott L on 2016-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Infinite Baffle Implementation and "Compression Sub-bas... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="skushino"]Guys, my attention has been elsewhere the past couple of weeks.  The catalyst for the original post was to go beyond the usual "speakers in a room" approach, and use the room itself as an integral part of the sound.  IB seemed ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Teac vrds 10se specs by Telstar on 2008-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yep, Telstar. The 1547 was use in Sony and Teac CD players and believe the first CD-SACD machines used that chip. I know very little about those chips and have none of my personal experience to deal with all of it. The reas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The old EQ curveball by steverino on 2016-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: FM Acoustics: The most important component of a quality Audi... in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]FM Acoustics’s  Manuel Humber speaks about his Harmonic Linearizer device. It is very possible that this FM Acoustics preamp is a fine unit and that it does better than other EQ solutions but why the EQ solution shale be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Understanding Line Array Systems by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Understanding Line Array Systems in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Understanding Line Array SystemsBy John Murray Behind the buzz, there are a lot of factors at work in line arrays. An explanation and comparison of current models. This discussion can’t be contained in just a few paragraphs, so we must start with th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Sound assessment recordings. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sound assessment recordings. in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
“…stop by and bring some of your music….” – how many times we hear when we invited to listen someone’s playback.  I am sure all of us have a selected favorite recording to assess playbacks and I would like to share some of mine that I have been ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: The last paragrapher worth to read a few times... by Romy the Cat on 2020-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]Have put all my DHT's on the curve tracer to see if pairs can be matched for preamp duties.  [/quote] It was very interesting to read about all of it. If you have a socket for YO186 then you can accommodate all 4V tubes and I si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: My electricity confessions by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Well, The most miserable things about electricity that you never know what to do. I had in past different filters and mny imaginable power gismos, a number of isolated transformers, balanced transformers, regenerators… For a couple years I was runn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #227: They are very simplistic and primitive things but... by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Romy wrote:"...Let pretend that you play a normal some kind of horn with a lot of air in it. The air drives the driver impedance down..."I'd like to understand this; correct me if I'm wrong:As soon as the membrane of a ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Koetsu Coralstone needle drop by mem916 on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
I never tried the Onyx.  I had an Urushi, then a Jade, and now a Coralstone.  No I didn't buy any of them in the US so I paid a lot less than the crazy retail prices people throw around.  I only know one person personally who did try an Onyx and he d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: The New Ortofone Jubilee’s jubilee by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
This new “Rev B” Ortofone Jubilee surprised me with it amassing agreeability I have a nasty habit to emphasize in my listening attention the things that I do not appreciate.  I might listen something, would it be amp, or speaker, or live event,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My views about PH-77 phonostage by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: AMR PH-77: just another phonostage or more? in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
I am not a big fun of Dvorak 9th under Ancerl. I’m not big fun nether the orchestra’s balance nor the recording quality.  Anyhow… I do not think that that you need to worry PH-77’s accuracy of curves or the comfort to switch them. It looks lik...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Bidat processors and whatever… by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
Yep, Telstar. The 1547 was use in Sony and Teac CD players and believe the first CD-SACD machines used that chip. I know very little about those chips and have none of my personal experience to deal with all of it. The reasons why I brought it up bec...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Re: Digital: small steps and further update… by TonyB on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Hi Romy[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ... I decided to listen my native feline instincts and go with them. So, decided to buy a Lavry’s Gold AD122. ....Now, the biggest problem remains what digital I/O PC interface to use after the Lavry’s digital...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Always check power-line polarity. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Always check power-line polarity. in Audio For Dummies ™  11 Replies 
There are some information here and here, particularly among those who knows, how the misbalance of the power polarity between the components of your systems can screw sound. Certainly the auditable benefits are very substantial and anyone who power ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What lives in Symmetric Sound? by Romy the Cat on 2004-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What lives in Symmetric Sound? in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
Let start from far away…. Sometime in the past, while I was fighting with bad electricity, I was trying a variety of symmetric transformers. I do not know if they were implemented as good as they should (I doubt) but I detected an interesting common ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The boom-tssza-tssza sound from ceramics by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"]I don't know where this goes, so I'm just starting it as a new thread; please move (or even edit or delete) as appropriate.  After reading too many wondourus reviews of ceramic driver speakers in general, and only havin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Phono Interconnects. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chasing utopian better phono interconnect. in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Since the 2007-2008 alchemic music season and consequentially live FM season was over (the event I marked with my “End of the live Phonostage”) I have been spinning a lot of vinyl lately. So, I spent some time with different phono cables with my diff...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lithuania enters the game: Reed 12" Tonearm by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lithuania enters the game: Reed 12" Tonearm in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
A local audio recently bought a tonearm form a small Lithuania manufacturer. They have a web site, a but foolish in navigation but it is what it is: http://www.turntables.lt/ http://www.turntables.lt/gallery.html ...
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