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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
techniques
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Recently, I was fortunate enough to have an extended listening session with the Living Voice Vox Olympian outside of a show environment. Since said listening session took place upon a boat – moreover, a wooden-bodied boat – under what can only be sai...
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I use to bring a CD player to work, not anymore. My dally listening in office last few months is strictly internet. My most favorite station is ABC – Australasian Broadcast Corporation – a phenomenal source of good taste, excellent program, sane comm...
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After posting the article in Audio For Dummies ™ section:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=1267
I had a long conversation with a friend of mine who blamed in ignorance and luck of sincerity on the subject. He is a strong believer i...
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Just a few lines to the "Performance" of this piece of wood on strings for 7k $I listened to the Schroeder Reference + SQ and some custom made ones which were normally not available (Schroeder model blahblah with Valhalla cable etc.)(of course you ca...
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Recently I tested the waters of computer audio. I've been using a Sony SCD-1 transport / Museatex Bidat DAC combo for digital playback. It has been a source of enjoyment for years. My goals for trying network-based music files were:- reduce physic...
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I half of my site dedicated to bitching about the problems with time alignment what it is imposable to do by pure real-estate efforts and a lack of clarity how it could be resolved properly. Sine this subject is the prominent for any horn user I deci...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] Christine and Wolf Von Langa deal in nice mods, restorations and rebuilding from scratch of classic Altec's drivers, adding the sought-after "field-coils" feature instead using permanent magnets... a snobbish, yet highly co...
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"Best bass" is of course a matter of opinion based on experience and expectations. The (original) Hartsfield LF driver is certainly "designed for horn loading", like the Vitavox AK-151, whereas the AK-150 and the JBL D-130 are designed to be direct r...
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Yesterday a local audio guy to me with this idiotic cartridge experiments and I was forced to dis-calibrate my second arm. So, this morning I felt to go for Mravinsky Bruckner 8 that I have only on record and I was thinking what needle to put in my s...
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Excellent point about in-the-day expectations and results vs. the best contemporary expectations and results from "classic era" LPs. Mining this same vein, who knows what future audio maniacs will get from today's soft and slippery "audiophile" LPs ...
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I initial thought to place this article into my Audio For Dummies™ section but then I decided to keep it in this pure audio section. What I would like to do is to point is to address one of the major foolishness that widely spread in High-End au...
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Interestsing... I thought the BD horns sounded noticably better than any other exhibit. It was not without problems, but was suprisingly good. The Festrex 5" was good in a limited range-- but get it out of that frequency range and or dyna...
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It's Art Dudley's turn, now:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/skin-deep
"I went to an audio show at which the average product price was astonishing—not just high, in the sense that a BMW is priced higher than a Subaru, but...
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Dear Jarek,Due to my company I'am every week from Monday to Friday in Gdansk, when not visiting our clients or trades in Europe or US.On weekend I'am with my family in Hamburg.90% of my ~4500 classic vinyls are in Gdansk as well as my most important ...
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I love much of the classic La Scala performance archive, and some of it is well recorded, too; just not as well as the Mercury Rigoletto. Interestingly, it seems like if performers are not simply scared shitless at La Scala, then they may well ...
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What is interesting, and this is not Wheel-Fi problem but
much wider problem, that we in audio still are clueless how to present speakers.
The video above is fine but it is only fine in very confined zone of the Wheel-Fi
audio interests. As the re...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]I personally NEVER heard unmusical/unbalanced gears, among "classic" transductors: YL-Yoshimura Labs, ALE, Goto, Kanno, Eltus, Coral... [/quote]... aehm: I meant "transducers"... BUT wrote again to add that among the scarce ...
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I wrote a few weeks ago a typically-pissed article about hypocrisy and lie in audio and how you, the fools, allow it exists in audio, despite that we would hardly permit it to exist in our “out of audio live”. I did not posted this article yet but an...
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"Actually I would like to stay at on the subject of this thread - the benefits of critiques and the benefits of positive perception of critiques"
To put my above meandering in more simple terms : I believe that your constructive criticism is indig...
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Wilson Audio Buys Rights to Romy's Amps and Speakers
Due to a reversal of fortune, Romy ("who would have thought all those air core capacitors would have added up to so much") sold all the schematics, rights, and designs of his Super Melquiades am...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I might be not “getting” what you are doing but it looks to
me that it is not near close to “CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha”. The Berkeley
Alpha is just an interface to get stream of DAW but CEC TL0X is digital transport. We...
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Dear gentlemen,My name is Frank Schröder and I'm the guy in the picture. It wasn't taken to show off anything, I actually noticed it after the fact.I came across this thread by accident and even though I realize that I may be better off forgetting ab...
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Sometimes ago I received an email from a NY guy that I know:
“I borrowed a friend's Sansui TU-X1 and just like I heard them at your place it sounds fantastic! What is it about this tuner? There is such an ease to the presentation and no distra...
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Finally, I'd appreciate your opinion on the scheduled implementation of regenerated electric power on my system.I am planning to hook up my entire gear on a single PP1050hv (230V) unit:2-channel:
PrimaLuna ProLogue Classic integrated tube amp (Clas...
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AudioPax now is directed by Silvio , a good guy who continue producing Audiopax in Brazil.
Silvio now is finishing the 5th Generation of these Classic Models.
I follow Audio Note , Border Patrol and AudioPax because they are different...
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Continuing to harass the readers of my site and myself with the good news about the performance of my SA8535 driver I would like to post a very educational article about the subject. As I told before, being familiar with sound of ribbons then never i...
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Sorry, Romy, I'm just bagging on you a little for caring/staying conected to Lamm...I hope you understand that I absolutely agree with your ideas about the "right" direction to go for the next viable step in audio *for those with the stones*. &n...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Gregm wrote:
There is where the entire purpose of Serious Audio is hidden, from my point of view. “Better Audio” is an active filter that incentives a listener with his/her listening experi...
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The el`Ol’s comments about Cessaro did not find a proper electronics to drive this TAD made me to ask: what electronics Silbatone uses? It never was part of attention of anybody and regardless if Silbatone demonstrate god or bad sound it might be int...
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I wonder if these guys were associated with a group I hung around with in Venice, MANY years ago, back when the old pier and "ballroom" were still operational, and they were recording rock groups in the ballroom and also doing "demos" in a +/- "garag...
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