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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The rest of it by anthony on 2016-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Well, acg, I am not wild about your idea of the curved frame, primary on the reason of esthetics but it is your speaker not mine and you shall do whatever pleases you. A few mandatory things that I would like to men...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Has Schrödinger's cat moved in unnoticed? by oxric on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  My current bass is very “integrated” and very musical. It low, it is large, it is extended and it is in away grandeur and it has nothing close with faulty Hi-Fi impressiveness. It never take over sound and never indicat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Altec 19 in my home. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
OK, I have the Altec 19 delivered in my second un-useful living room. I plan to do nothing with them now and will play with them sometime on winter or if somebody will come with pre-payment. Altec 19 has one (ONLY ONE) sonic positive quality (bes...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: MacondoLite is the new IMAX? by mjloudspeaker on 2009-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
Thank you Romy for saying this very important statement about Macondo topology. I believe that this is very very important and imperative for your numerous readership to "get this." I, for one, have no intention whatsoever of copying your efforts, a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Yes, it is about my sources by anthony on 2019-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  I do not know why Placette does not work in your situation. You do not have enough volume? If it is the case then you might have too low gains in your front end. All my front ends have very high gain: Bidat, Lavry, my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Nice by anthony on 2020-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Hm you are true in the “terra incognita” territory as far as I concern. The preamps are mystery to me. All my attempts to make any decently sounding preamp or even buffer failed. To me Placette was truly God sent and if I g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Oh well... by anthony on 2016-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Anthony, the rock located in a middle gives a great advantage of shortest and symmetric cables.[/quote]But it is only the interconnects to the amplifiers that need to be longer...no others...speaker cables stay as is...a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: State of the live broadcast by drdna on 2008-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: TU-X1 setup in Off Air Audio  16 Replies 
I began to research live broadcasts in my area, and I found there is one station that broadcasts live every Saturday morning some local folk music, readings, sort of variety show, from a local club I have actually been to in Berkeley. I had no idea. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: Facts by dkarmeli on 2014-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] dkarmeli wrote:It depends on the product and the company, not all are thieves! As of now they are selling 50 - 60 units/year and cheaper AF2 will also be available shortly.You seem to be obsessed with the $100k price, as I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #166: ??????? by dkarmeli on 2014-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] dkarmeli wrote: What I called mental masturbation was the pretense to design of the ultimate turntable, not the musical experience or sound! Well, neither you, nor me, nor anybody else at this site, nor anybody else who de...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Many thanks by anthony on 2015-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Output transformer. Here is what the thing become complicated. Of you drive ultra-low impedance with step down transformer then your secondary turns will decrease. They primary will have whatever they have for all case b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: The last nigh stupid DIY apathy… by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Still, doing whatever crazy and Macondo-dedicated things I will be doing with one stage I will have my full-range Milq as a tested reference trying to get result no worse then the one that I got from a “default” Melquiades ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: From lignum vitae to "rotae vitae" by oxric on 2011-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rakeshorns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, the resonance frequency of frame is the subject sucked out of nowhere. I can’t not even begin to tell how irrelevant it is. [/quote]You are probably right. Obviously not having lived in earnest with any multi-way horn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Titan DSET ideas by drdna on 2009-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EdgarHorn Speaker Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, you need to find out how much power and how much gain you need for you subs and your room. Borrow for someone any 6C33C and measure how far the 6C33C will be from class A2 at a level of max tolerable bass in your r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #686: PP battery wear by Lx_ on 2011-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The recent LX’s posts made me to think about the PP2000 buttery. He reports that his buttery got way weaken from 2009. I used my older PP2000 from December 2008 and my currant problematic “upgraded” problematic PP2000 used ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Disadvantages of DSET by drdna on 2007-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A DSET is better then an expensive SET in Audio For Dummies ™  41 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The result [in the 6-channel Milq] is definably better but the reason-consequences patterns are not so easily interpretable, and are absolutely not interpretable when the filters are applied.[/quote] And the explorations th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: a topology to make more neutral music transmission by drdna on 2007-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Try slowly removing from your perception of concept of Audio Neutrality, substituting it with Event Recreation Neutrality. You might discover eventually that a Recreative Really has a very strong cross-expressive bound an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Anti-skate and Micro in Japan by Gibraltar on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro Seiki MAX 282 Questions in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
Hi Romy,[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I would discard the test disk truck– I never use it. Take a silent space between the cuts (test disk!) and make a needle at your operational VTF to be in stationary ay a bit more than a half record.In fact it is ar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The stupid slot tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Explain TAD ET-703 driver to me in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
[quote user="coops"]Cessaro in fact make a spherical brass horn for the 703, drop Ralph a line ( at cessaro ) I am sure he will be answer any queries.[/quote] Keith, if they do it then it is good for Cessaro and indicates that they are not damn. How...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #144: Some more points by dkarmeli on 2014-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]David, please do not hallucinate about the existing of marketplace or rule of market in high end audio. Among all people you should know better. There is no market pricing in audio. There is only mental abuse and financial ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: A few tubes short of an amplifier? by markus46 on 2008-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It looks like you have difficulties to read it but even your, through all your difficulties, understood that that the initial post was the Framer mockery and use Continuum juts to serve the exotic Australian framework.[/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: jitter-shmiter... by Thorsten on 2006-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I heard 4 (!!!!) complete contradictory descriptions how high level of jitter manifest itself subjectively – interesting that they all derived from the engineers whose credibility is very high (not juts the audio-tweaker...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #396: Hm, what the hell is going on? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuff and concluded with ve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: In reality it is Dark Night by Stitch on 2012-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tree motors from one side? Buttery operated? in Analog Playback  4 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Give me a break! Sorry, but I do not believe in all of it. The Cat[/quote]It is simply a unit for customers who have more money than brain.The Raven AC was on the Frontpage from TAS and Stereophile (I think), and for some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: About audio absolutism, audio relativism and audio pragmatism by Thorsten on 2005-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio D... in Didital Things  9 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is a strange felling I have after reading it again. I feel like somebody cooked a beautiful and superbly testy meal, using the most refine cooking techniques and the best ingredients and then, a person took this entire m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Bingo! by Dominik on 2010-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RIP Henryk Mikolaj Górecki in Musical Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Different people and different nationals groups have deferent associations with sorrow, happiness, desperation, etc…. It happens that for some Jews feeling sorrow and sadness associated with death camps, would you blame...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Interesting, thankfully an engaging post. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What I am doing? in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Replying I have to say that I am a very intelligent person. No matter how much I am able to be flown with 'kick' during my sensuous experience and how far I might be drifted with flows I always try to rationalize and to learn the nature about my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Alas we will never know by Nicanor on 2010-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lecture on history of architectural acoustics in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, Nicanor, I very much disagree that room acoustic being basically invisible to us. People who deal with sound more or less intelligent always not only pay attention to room acoustic but recognize sound ONLY in context ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Time... by Romy the Cat on 2021-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Godel was brought as an illustration of principle  when the person used purely mathematical methods to prove philosophical incompetence of mathematics. No one fascinated with his conclusions mathematically, in fact mathematicians prefer not even talk...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Random vs. regular by el`Ol on 2008-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] el`Ol, in your proposal of “arbitrary speed deviations” what would be a criterion for the “arbitration”. I wonder what algorithm your DSP would execute in order to detect that the “speed irregularities of tape recorders ...
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