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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Options DAW box by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Better organization/design forDAW. in Didital Things  12 Replies 
I looked what is around and I did not like whatever I see. The industry music server machines are all crap and mostly made to copy CDs and to play them from semi-intelligent applications.  My requirements are very specific and not of the existing mac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: When a transport is not a transport is a transport. by oxric on 2011-11-01 
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="Romy the Cat"]I do not know what you are trying to do, why do you need the Lynx card, why is need to be modified and what does it mean “powered individually”, the people looks like sell power supply and they push the notion of individual...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #328: Some winter observations. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
This year is the first winter that I live with this new listening room. Last winter the playback was up and I still was playing with minor arrangements of my ULF channels, cable and a few other things. For many months I do pretty much nothing with my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Lynix vs. Windows files playing. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="nycparamedic"] But you also might have overlooked some variables that frustrate many audiophile attempting this approach. Was Kmixer in Windows changing the sampling rate of your music? If you installed ASIO or that other plugin, was it ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The updated DAW? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best practices for DAW Data Storage. in Didital Things  9 Replies 
Well, I did some research and consulted with my network people and it looks like it might be unfortunately-expensive project. Still it will not be what I want. They recommended me to go for what they call NAS (network attach storage). It tuned out t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Why do not pile it on CD? by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dennis Colin's Sound Strobe in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
op.9, perhaps I am missing something but what would be a difference between this “Sound Strobe” gismo and a regular good sound generator (that will do a lot of more).  I still do not get what this devise does and how it might be used but I wond...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Advantage of disadvantage of a given topology by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
The excellent post, morricab! There is secondary point in your post - the core saturation is not the fundamental problem of SETs but it is become an issue when we go for power.  If you do not need to drive 92dB sensitive bass drivers with a 6W S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #128: FM and electricity, sources and electricity by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I wonder how many cities have good FM programming and broadcasting?  Los Angeles was great, back when I lived in Venice, with interesting stuff going on around the clock.  San Diego is quite limited, and I get Bupkis f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: More on firewire audio (my opinion) by Telstar on 2008-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] You are not exactly correct about Lynx. First of all my card had no DACs aboard it is just a digital I/O, channels re-mapper and the card’s software. Before I got the card I interviewed quite many technical people about t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The best practices for DAW Data Storage. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best practices for DAW Data Storage. in Didital Things  9 Replies 
With my FM recordings and with my few other sources to get digital uncompressed files I come to the situation that I need to rearrange the data stoppage for my Digital Audio Workstation (hate the word DAW but it is what they use). I have currently ar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Idagio.com streaming service. by Romy the Cat on 2021-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What to do in office? in Off Air Audio  33 Replies 
Wify for a few months harasses me that I stop to spin my records and should switch to idagio.com. I can not believe that we allow women to vote!  Nevertheless a few days ago I went to Idagio from my DAW and was surprised with the amount of music...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: What I am saying.... by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamamura's 6 ways in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] I bet Yamamura is using non-causal filtering... this is all running off a  music server, so could process everything offline. [/quote] Chris, there is no such a thing as “non-causal filtering”. Filtering is filtering, would it d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: About contra-productiveness of stupid guessing. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Whoever follows the Pacific Microsonics  threads, or whoever use Pacific know that both Models one and two have an interesting idiosyncrasy: at maximum sampling rate, when Pacific runs in dual-wire mode, the clock runs at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Analog FM on a PCI cards? by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog FM on a PCI cards? in Off Air Audio  1 Replies 
OK, no one argue that FM is good BUT the cost and complexity to record doe FM is quite high. It look like that it might not be more simple – to turn your tuner, to turn your A/D, to tune your DAW and to record whatever you wish. Well, l it is surpris...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: To power down the hard disks or not? by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAW drives configuration and backup strategies. in Didital Things  3 Replies 
My backup strategy is kind simple. I have another box filled with hard disk to where I copy data using Beyond Compare. I have also some automation scripts that synchronize some drives between my DAW, my working development machines with the drive...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Pure Audio Blu-ray. by Romy the Cat on 2014-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pure Audio Blu-ray. in Didital Things  2 Replies 
Hm.... I generally late to technology innovations in audio and I am OK with it. As many of you know many of "innovations" in audio are very much shooting to a wrong target and in most of the instances with a wrong dun and wrong ammunition.  The new o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I would like to have is ability for self-cataloging.... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Software for collection classification in Musical Discussions  3 Replies 
I do not know the available programs but I have a feature that I would like to have. I would not mind to write it myself…. What I would like to have is ability for self-cataloging. I would like when I play something and feed analog line into my DAW,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Analog Transfer: the first draft. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
People asked me: Romy why don’t you try to transfer some analog to digital and see what happen. I was queries myself and I decided to try tonight. Whatever I did was in a way half-ass but I was interested in “as is” result. Although the attem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Peter, do you think it makes sense? by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
[quote user="peter foster"] I suggest the following, if you are interested:  Select three recordings of varying quality; copy ten minutes of each of the three recordings to Redbook CD; send to me by air mail the CD that contains three ten minute...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
I do not regularly buy High Resolution files and most of my High Resolution files are my own FM recordings or something that was given to me by other people. I bought no more two dozens of Hi-Res files in past and it was about it. I do not active...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The Linux and a slightly misleading point of by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Nycparamedic, Thanks for your comment. It was interning as I am very far away from the Linux gaily and have absolutely no idea what kind gravitation forces are in play there. Even though I do understand that advantages to run dedicated operation sys...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Firewire by Vasyachkin on 2008-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"][quote user="Telstar"] I meant that the Lynx digital output may retain some noise from the computer, not that you get noise from the onboard soundcard (provided that you have one -You have onboard audio disabled in the bios...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold without ego. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
For whatever reason people expressed a lot of interest to Pacific vs. Lavry A/D and I recently got an relatively a large number of emails, including from the people I do not even know, asking me to compare identical analog tracjs and post the foundin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #252: The harvesting week! by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
That is it. I have felt that my “moving” project is over. I still have a few things that I am planning to do but the basics are done and the huge disturbances that moving to new home are over. The room is fundamentally us done and the core sound ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A long tail of “formatting misery”…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Do not touch that used tonearm! in Audio For Dummies ™  7 Replies 
[quote user="darkmoebius"]I asked Jim Hagerman how long it takes to break in interconnects, power cords, speaker, cables, and preamps? He replied  - "Usually about 40-50 hours on a FryK.  The amps are fastest and get most of the way overnig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The pianist Yuja Wang … and all of them… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The pianist Yuja Wang … and all of them… in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I was laying in bed, fighting with aftermath of a nasty flue, reading. The always “on” Rohde & Schwarz tuner was getting WHRB. The Macondo was up at 3 clicks very softly filing the room with WHRB’s “Cello Challenge” and “20th Century Brass Concer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A playback and wrong notes. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A playback and wrong notes. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
This weekend I discover interesting phenomena on which I did not pay attention before. The Montrealian Charles Dutoit conducted this weekend Boston symphony. I was listening the broadcast, recording it as usually. It was very bad. The BSO wind sectio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I am not a big fan of Apple mashines. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Better organization/design forDAW. in Didital Things  12 Replies 
I have old PCI Lynx card. I think they do have a new version with PciE, it call Lynx AES16e: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/554850-REG/Lynx_Studio_Technology_AES16E_AES16e_PCI_Express.html It still despite the PciE will not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: To buy an SACD Player? by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To buy an SACD Player? in Didital Things  7 Replies 
My contra-SACD position is well known but unfortunately as I predicted mode and more SACD recording are being realized and they have already vandalized by SACD format. It look like no one record nowadays on PCM if companies even want to release 2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Digital Volume explained by tuga on 2009-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digital Volume Control self-assessment in Audio For Dummies ™  12 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The last two weeks I have no preamp in house. I have great vintage EVS attenuators but I can’t use them with Melquiades as they talk with Milq’s input filters absolutely killing sound. The only way I can play music thos...
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