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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #577: Herding Cats vs. herding sheep. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]Look what you have done to jack up pricess of vitavox (nobody was buying before your wistle) , Micro Seiki (gathering dust after Art Dudley wrote they bored the hell out of him) meittner dacs (suddenly the most musical in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Beauty is in the ears of the listener(s) by rowuk on 2013-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to train respect audio listening? in Playback Listening  18 Replies 
I will propose a heretical stand: The problem is a deficiency of the advanced playback. The magic only happens in one place and that can be severely comprimised by geometric objects that were not calculated into the listening environment. Maybe we ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: No tweeter is a good tweeter... by AOK_Farmer on 2005-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
Romy,Now that I am home for a couple weeks after the CES extravaganza I am listening to my system and wondering why I thought I needed a tweeter at all. For me, the problem with experimenting with the e-bay $200 plasma tweeters is the health iss...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Cat by zako on 2009-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: X-mas list in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
Funny how this time of the year brings childhood memories... Christmas for us came aroud 6th of January..Celibrated in exchangeing some gift or exchange of food or sweets.. To celebrate the birth of Christ,,, Nothing more,,,,, But what I would like t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Classical Music Café syndrome... by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
When people ask me what I would like to do if I were not a software engineer I usually reply that I would like to work in Cat's shelter. I would like to be surrounded with hundreds Cat's who will even walk across me like I am a piece of furniture - w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Cat food and vertical resolution by serenechaos on 2008-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression Drivers -in general in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
I kept thinking about cats and cat food (also known as birds) listening habits this afternoon.  That's why parrots bob up and down, as well as (less often) twist back and forth on one leg sometimes-- to triangulate and pinpoint a location in all...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #104: Ignore CH AUDIO ? by Paragon on 2009-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Skushino,being an avid believer of horn speakers throughout the years,I find myself questioning your findings, as you stated in your posting.Have you finally listened to these speakers? or is it like, beauty is in the eye of the beh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Feline's consciousness.... by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts) in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
[quote user="Dominic"]he who can describe it does not know….. There is a subconscious understanding of these principles at work while we listen….[/quote]I do not think that we deal with understanding here but rather with something else. Yes, an expre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: I would loose it in no time by Wojtek on 2008-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
if there was any taker not even mention for oportunity to get ML2 . It's not going to happen in this life though ;)I'm pretty sure that in writing the whole setup/tube procedure seems more tedious than in actual use. Sorry , I didn't want to be a pes...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I need to go cheaper as I need to buy a lot of them. by Romy the Cat on 2015-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Those little headphones… in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
scooter, thanks you. That was very nice of you.  Last two my Cats eat 3 paid of headphones and I just do not feel it worthy for me to get anything fancier then a few dollars for commuting purpose. After trying some of the buds (thankfully my Cats l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Excessive Negative Feedback by LossTangentZero on 2009-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Romy, Please accept my apologies for my first posting on your website.  I had only perused a couple pages and may have come to an incorrect conclusion.  While it is human nature to lock onto an idea and dogmatically pursue it, those in touch w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: What a lying loser by mumford on 2009-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="LossTangentZero"]  FoxNews is just a biased as CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, or any other “news” of choice because they are produced by inherently biased individuals. [/quote]Now that is a lie.  FauxNews is not even news, nothing but propaganda ...

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: Yes I am a fool right now - yes I really love music by tequilahut on 2020-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DIY Void acoustics Air motion // Azurahorns // Martion Orgon in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]TH,this is very much NOT a DIY site. It is however probably the most complete collection of „SOUND as it is related to horns“ articles.I suggest that you check out things here first before asking „the wrong“ questions. The horn sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: 1.5 order how to? by stuck.wilson on 2007-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
hm..lots of interesting information to chew on, and by and large, i've had similar experiences with first order crossovers on bass drivers .. this being my experience with a full range amp, and a two way system-- which is a far different critter than...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: 1.5 order low passes by stuck.wilson on 2007-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
what a great idea-- i never really thought of a sort of 'low pass bypass' inductor of sorts?!   i'd always assumed that inductance was similar to capacitance in that regard-- the more you add, the more you get-- but hadn't thought about the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Denon 103: Amendment #1 by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
Since the post above was posted I’ve receive a number of emails from the different people who complain about my use of word “Gray” while I described the 103 cartages. Well, I am not completely comfortable with the word “gray” as well.  However, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: What is possible and permitable. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"] I agree with Mingsu questions about "what" physical area must be aligned, as every inch +/- gives sometimes different results... [/quote] Come on Stefano, you do not align the “physical area”. You guys are so preocupated wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How do you position your stereo? by drdna on 2008-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How do you position your stereo? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
I am faced with remodeling a bit.  I started out with all my equipment on an Arcici Lead Balloon rack and two speakers, which was nice and simple. The mono SE-DHT tube amplifiers I built are now on either side.  I recently have come into po...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #331: Spring.... by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
It is 75F in Boston, unseasonably warm. I got home today and it is 68F in my listening room and 75F outside, it is sign that spring came and you know what Cats do in march – you are right  - getting horny on open air Bruckner listening. So that what ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: What is audio neutrality? by drdna on 2007-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
To me, audio neutrality is a very difficult idea to express.  Fundamentally, all audio recording and reproduction is a terribly compromised and flawed system.  An analogy might be to record the sound of children laughing and playing, splash...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Talking about the New Year music… a Nutcracker by... Dorati by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: X-mas list in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] music. What I remember from the Christmas of my childhood that it was overwhelming Tchaikovsky, Russians played as it was no tomorrow, particularly the Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker’s second act.  I remember...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: I'll miss the cats by jessie.dazzle on 2007-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Hello friends,Romy wrote (in the context of the MingSu/Jackson/Goto upper-mid bass horn thread):"...Yep, I would hang the midbass above and as you said put an upperbass on a floor to anchor the center image. Something similar to what Jessie is doing....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Dream of the Unified Field by Paul S on 2011-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
OK, I like this game.  Why not dream of a very wide range driver, say, from 300 - 12 or 13k?  Maybe a bit larger diaphragm and less "compression", along with a faster horn, could do the trick?  Some sort of ??? for the beaming.  Shoot for 6 dB  X/O "...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lowther Driver by Dominic on 2006-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Not to be too presumptuous but i thought i'd start a thread that could serve as a repository for lowther comments, ideas etc.the impetus for this was that rola experiment i mentioned in the cogent rmaf thread. I was thinking hmm, 'hard', 'shouty' tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Cables and good vibrations by Paul S on 2008-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How do you position your stereo? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
Adrian, is the room raised floor or a slab?  If the former, then wall-mount makes sense, especially for a TT.  If slab, then you have more options, as far as spreading things around.  Soft carpet or hard flooring factors, too.  Yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Dogs and things by JJ Triode on 2020-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I think it is the end. in Site Support Forum  9 Replies 
There is a saying in my family "two removals (moving house) equals one fire" (no joke right now out West!). Similarly we say "two dogs equals one child" in the amount of care and feeding needed. So you went from three children to effectively 3.5; not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Digital: small steps and further update… by Romy the Cat 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 
Jeremy, another few lead that I think might conceder. Manly Labs has their 20-bit digital to analogue converter that uses the Pacific Microsonics processor inside. I was told that is available as the “street price” for ~$6K-$7K and it might be a “f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #242: I need some volume… by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
This morning  we all: Amy, kids, nanny, cats were watching  Schleswig-Holstein festival from 2000 where Gunter Wand was leading  his North German Radio Symphony Orchestra with Bruckner 8.  The kind were playing with my laser rangemeter, women wer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Those little headphones… by Romy the Cat on 2015-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Those little headphones… in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
As the life nowadays runs in a very different schedule then it was years back I recently discovered a new invention of mankind – those little headphones that can be connected to phone. God, they turn out make the commune in work in public transpor...
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