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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: State of the fart by N-set on 2013-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
Paul, thanks! I'm quite happy to hear I'm not the only one fighting vibrations in a seemingly dead structures...It takes a lot of thinking to properly isolate and damp vibrations.Not unlike in the complementary problem: reproduction of the audio rang...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #336: Type 45... they're not all the same by floobydust on 2009-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
 Romy, I have a very large collection of 45 triodes.... many brands and varying internal construction. From my humble viewpoint, here's some personal findings on the various types:- Globe 45 tubes... these are the earliest, mostly from RCA. There are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Combine damping, tube cooling and shielding by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Herbie's Hal-O Tube Dampers in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
I ordered today from them the 6C33C dumpers and spoke with someone in there. Forthrightly speaking it sounded kind of ugly when the guy on the phone insisted to call the pads as the “anti-vibration instruments”. BTW, I did ask him directly if there i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: Not yet by anthony on 2016-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Hi N-Set, I am three quarters of the way through assembling the first power supply to power-up stage so I have not tested the "singing" as yet.  It is something that I have thought a lot about.  First and foremost I wanted a steel skin around the pow...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: EM radiation by anthony on 2017-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Anthony, it sounds like you have given a lot of thought to damping structural vibration.  I was referring to the electro-magnetic fields thrown by transformers, and - based on my view of your perspective drawings -  I was wonderi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: What the new Hal-Os seem to do by JJ Triode on 2007-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Herbie's Hal-O Tube Dampers in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
For me the "delta" with the newer Hal-O dampers was in the direction of increased clarity. One example is in vocals, where consonant sounds like "f" and "th" were much more realistic (my "s" and "sh" were already pretty good.) Beyond these typically...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #141: Vibrations? What do you with them? by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
The basically the same tubes. The 6E5P has own unit pins layout with heaters connected across the tube – very moronic in my view and it does not allow twisting the AC filament wires to the very end. The 6E6P has a common pins layout that most of west...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #153: DHT 2A3 amplifier rectification by drdna on 2009-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I am not sure what rectifier the 2A3 SET uses. Mine uses the GZ37. The best regarded is usually the Mullard NOS. I have used that for years. Recently I was on the kick of listening to the vibration of tubes and I came across a dirt cheap tube fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #322: HVAC the Cat by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Robert, Yes, of cause I understand it. The problem is that when I laid down the pipes under the midbass horns there was no larger diameter available then 6” pipes, there was no more clearance under the mouth. So, my listening room has two 6” pipes an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Spike pickup by N-set on 2013-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
Paul, I hear you clearly re wall mount. Well...I have chosen the hard way an occasion to have one, +/- universal solution I could "copy&paste"if I change location.  Go through that hell and have it done once and forever. I even ask my daughter to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #224: Cats life ? by unicon on 2010-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Tube traps are mistakably designed as they tend to deal with a very erroneous assertion that it is possible to feel a listening room with some kind of confused and random bass and then to correct the things with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Capacitors are like cholesterol - migh be good and bad. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]The question in my mind Romy is: why?  I will be interested to hear your comment on what your goal was to learn about your system in introducing these and what the results are.  After the extent to which you have describ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The tubes sockets for Milq by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades For Dummies™ - step by step. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
I do not remember which one I used. I remember that I was deciding if to mount them on chassis vs. to have a small board with tube sockets under the chassis and bring the tubes through the chassis. The board mounting is better as it decuples the tube...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-22 
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="msaudio"] Romy   If you would thank about what you are building and what it does, you would grasp the concept of my thanking. You have a 7inch hole on your bafflle with your woofer on the back side of it in a sealed box. The only...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: The Sound of 6C33C preamp. by KOTriode on 2011-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Romy,  No, the DAC was not set at maximum level (for best sound) while Cyrille listening to the system. It was set at normal volume for the whole system. When Cyrille dropped by, I was showing him the Field Coil open baffle speaker system which con...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: More guessing by jessie.dazzle on 2011-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Romy wrote: "...But adding mass to membrane change the dynamics of everything, it also increases the exertion as it will add moment of inertia of the cone movement…" This is what I meant when I stated that it comes at a price. In an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #142: Platter evolution by rowuk on 2014-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
If we look generally at stability from bridges to optical measurement benches, mass has one function - tune resonance or place it outside of the desired passband. Other methods are chosen when we want to convert energy to heat.Do we know what a "ligh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #171: Grounding and trannies by N-set on 2011-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]N-Set, why would you disconnect from the house neutral, unless you are using battery power??? This "neutral" is the "ground" leg of your circuit! The house neutral wire is typically white, and the house ground wire is typically g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Suspension and vacuum hold-down by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tritium Turntables in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
[quote user="mem916"] Oh, by suspension, I meant the tuned spring suspension that the versa (and many other 'tables) use to isolate the plinth platter, and arm from vibrations coming up through the floor and the stand. I don't think of a platter bear...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: No problem by morricab on 2007-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
I have a problem with how you are using the english language, Romy.  You are using an absolute word (like absolute) to mean something you have invented and it is a relative thing.  This for me won't do.  I understand more or less what ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Again, is it CD transport? by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
[quote user="item"]Part of the reason we call our computers 'transports' is to encourage people to think of the number-crunching part of an audio system in the same already familiar terms as a CD player - because all the same things matter: CD tr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Sex with anorexic woman? by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 3.5m Tractrix Horn Project (AKA RAINDOG) in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] I don't think I'd be tempted to make a back loaded horn to begin with. [/quote] Yep, it is what it is. The back-loaded horns might have as convoluted back path as Scriabin music is but the sad truth about them is th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Hiroyasu Kondo: “My thoughts on Hi-Fi”. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hiroyasu Kondo: “My thoughts on Hi-Fi”. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
This material is courtesy to Mr. Shibazaki, the owner of Sibatech Shop in Tokyo, that sell internationally Japanise Hi-Fi equipment. http://www.sibatech.co.jp/ I hope that Sibatech people are more decent then our american distrib...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #181: Some explanations by unicon on 2010-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The bass traps, the biggest one, have only limited effectiveness on the spectra of interest and usually have much more effectiveness in 2-3 octave above the spectra of interest. This make bass to sound less problematic b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Material is not specific enough by rowuk on 2012-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
[quote user="be"] Horns are of course some kind of band pass filters with different kind of ripples at lover cutoff and beaming at upper cut off, according to horn type.Maybe it should be added that contributing to the horn sound idea, is that the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: That all need to be though out. by Romy the Cat on 2016-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] Shaking from ULF is another matter. [/quote]    I think if such a woofer “ignites” shaking within the attic then all bets are off and it need to be avoided by all cost. To do “right” thing I would put pneumatic decompiled be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Education by zztop7 on 2014-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Platine Verdier Magnum in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Romy wrote: "  If you do then please, educate me. ..................................................TEXT................................ I do not think that anybody would be able to identify it because the improvement we would get in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: Fear of forced ventilation. by Romy the Cat on 2017-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]…. so my fingers are crossed that I can keep temperatures manageable without a fan.[/quote]I do not think you need to be afraid of forced ventilation. There is a feeling in Hi-Fi that forced ventilation is some kind of derivat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: The turntables and a common sense. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
enjoy_the_music, I against all of it as it just does not make sense to me. There is a hypothetical problem and there is a cost-benefit to resolve the problem. There is also a cost of damage that the solution costs if to look at the result from a div...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #305: Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints by RF at Ona on 2010-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Congratulations on the construction and installation of your horns. May your pleasure at the results reward your effort and expense. I find their installed appearance even more geometrically striking than anticipated and I suspect now that some o...
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