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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My feelings about new exciting audio products by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I kind of feel that I am way off in my familiarity about what is going on with new audio products. My horizon is very restricted with my own needs and with my own interests. I am irregularly read audio publications and irregularly visit some audio si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Some updates with MiniMe by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I am quite fascinated with the result that I might get from MiniME and at the same time I am defensive with the direction it takes. Anyhow, here is how it stands… The decision to go for MF driver was I think right one. Even the 70-20RX tweeter has s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The sound compromises of high efficiency direct radiators. by haralanov on 2009-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The sound compromises of high efficiency direct radiators. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
In the thread “Exceptional loudspeakers drivers”  Paul S. wrote:"LOTs of time pretty much wasted lately, looking at "HE" direct-radiator drivers that are actually only HE at their uppermost frequencies, with diving responses and large-to-hu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Hunt for Speakers or for Result? by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speaker hunting in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Chirag, First off all you have to define what do you want from them. If at this moment you’re looking for something within $700 then very next year, when you finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range… :-) Now a lit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A LF solution of seismic proportions then! by oxric on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Rakesh, during the last year, there were some very important moments in my own realizations about the methods of low frequency reproduction. I totally abandoned my Scanspeak bass modules and now they are resting in my gar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Vitavox S2 field-coil: more hours. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
My first impressions a about the “differences” of field-coiled derived form the time when I ran the Telefunkens war time drivers but at that time I had no reference how the same driver would act with permanent magnet. Also, the Telefunkens are the re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: I see not needs for electromagnet in tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
[quote user="cdwitmer"]I'm probably revealing my ignorance by even asking this, but I'm curious to know if a field coil ribbon tweeter could be practical. It occurs to me that if one could be made, it would be a lot safer since it wouldn't be a black...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Tweeter Integration by Jorge on 2011-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
Hello Haralanov,It is hard to talk about sound, and define points: this is why the post is so long.Most systems I have lisitened to that measure a flat response have exagerated high frequencies and usually the midbass is a little shy,  this might be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The lay of land: Alzheimerized Audio and gramophone effect. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About destiny of “High-End Sound”. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Make an experiment. Take any of those contemporary “highly reputed playback systems” and roll of their HF and LF unit you reach gramophone bandwidth. You might narrow the bandwidth with electric (LC) filers or with mechanical filers it would not be r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Midbass Horn by Jorge on 2013-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
Hi Gera"Has anyone done this and what were the observations of comparing different topologies."I have done just what you propose,  I tried the JBL2490 compresion driver with a 3" mouth in a 110 hz horn well made, MDF round tactrix horn,  it goes ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: The way how I see it, perhaps mistakably. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"]Sometimes it is not so much as adding color, but taking it away.  Most cheap cone drivers will exhibit a loose sound,  so if you want to get the cellos more clearly, you need to get some meat off the bones or they wil get lost...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Big vs. small. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
This is very interesting observation. I am in away envy that Petar went for a set of large woofers (4x23”!). This is the way to go! Unfortunately I did not experiment with it even I had the drivers and means to do it. My problem was with the fact...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: APS PurePower unit: some premature thoughts. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
While the APS guys trying to figure out why this unit can not handle power (which more likely involved a phone call to China :-) I decided to give another try across everything, repeating my last listening, this time in relaxed environment with diffe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Some thoughts about transformer for my MF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
First of all thanks to all who assist me with this project, including those who did not post here. Jim, Electraprinted Jack is great guy but he does not believe in exotic cores, very unfortunate because I like to deal with him. Jessie, you are righ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Some sensibility about bass reproduction by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="slowmotion"]I don't understand what you mean here, Romy? To me "live" bass ( like when listening to an orchestra ) is much more dynamic than any reproduced bass I've ever heard. Also if listening to a real contrabass in a normal listenin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Vitavox S2 revelation: follow up by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The S2 has own very idiosyncratic upper range with own helpful resonances injected into sound.  I feel that that original metal suspension diaphragm does it bolder and more aggressively then the plastic suspension dia...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Dynamic range of ULF, tsunami and something else. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
It is not about Dynamic Range per say but about dymick differences that I feel and that I care with good ULF he effect of rising of acoustic and tonal pressure is instant, very soft but absolutely instantaneous. Live music has feel like literally...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Why people still sell compressed music online? by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why people still sell compressed music online? in Didital Things  2 Replies 
A text by Audio Empire From http://groups.google.com/group/rec.audio.high-end/browse_thread/thread/d4c8480e2ada3c21?hl=en “At a presentation he gave at the recent Audio Engineering Society Convention held in London earlier this year, Mas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Creme de la What? by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GoodSoundClub – one year later. in Site Support Forum  16 Replies 
Guys, You really misunderstood this CD. This is just a compilation of GOOD MUSIC well performed and interpreted and it has nothing to do with audio. For instance now of my compilations CDs I ever played on my playback. Those CDs are good enough for ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The unsuccessful "quest for a better monitor" by tuga on 2014-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First order filtration and design methods. in Audio For Dummies ™  3 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It was a conversation a few days back at one of UK forum:  http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=113989#113989 The unfortunates from the forum did not get the message. They with their Chines...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The new channel! Yes! I got it!!! by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
E-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y!!! Eventually the new “fundamentals channel” horn sounds as it should being incorporated in my Macondo!  The key was the  second order. I really never drove compression drivers to their 500Hz as I always used upperbass h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Maxonic drivers from Japan by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Maxonic drivers from Japan in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
We had this exchange with Christopher Witmer, who lives in Japan, via the AA about the new driver form some small Japanese manufacturer. The dirt who runs that form has deleted the whole development. Hm, people wonder why for years I have a vocal and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What a week in Boston! by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What a week in Boston! in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
It is imposable to live in Boston…and particularly since I installed that large directional rotatable antenna on my roof and able to get everything high quality from Rhode Island to New Hampshire. The only problems that I see… is the hard drive space...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Shift in direction by haralanov on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Rakesh, during the last year, there were some very important moments in my own realizations about the methods of low frequency reproduction. I totally abandoned my Scanspeak bass modules and now they are resting in my garage. I intentionally have my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: HD Radio is nothing more than FM dildo. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HD Radio? Good, bad or ugly? in Off Air Audio  7 Replies 
Well, Doug My attraction to HD Radio statred from the moment when I learned that my WGBH does one less step of analog compression for DH1 compare to FM and do not use limiting-out  at HD2 for live-to-tape recordings. Very promising, isn’t it?&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: I think you are done then by Romy the Cat on 2020-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Well, you can’t use Gogol Suite as some kind of reference in term of gain. The Gogol Suite was record by Pope Music at very high dynamic range they have very little compression. It feels like very soft volume recording as a result. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Problems with horns: tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
All that I will be saying are the subject of my own experience with horns and my personal observations. You shouldn’t agree and most likely you will not. That is fine with me. I have lot of reasons behind what I will be saying and opened for some cla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: A bridge to nowhere... by Romy the Cat on 2018-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Goto SG-370DX measurement in Audio For Dummies ™  30 Replies 
[quote user="Daniel"] I need dynamic impact. I've been playing in bands for about 20 years and I yet have to find a stereo and a recording that gives a drumbeat close to the real thing. Cymbals are mostly dissapointing as well. Getting a bit clos...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: This information need update, and is prejudicial in my opinion. by mjloudspeaker on 2009-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Class “D” – the industry does it again. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] Romy the Cat wrote:A could years ago here and there begun to pop up small SS class “D” amplifiers made with high-end pretence. They all sounded like shit but by the efforts of a number of typically deaf and stupid or just...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #199: APS Purepower 2000: Sound #8 and the ‘softness’ by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Ok, this is probably the most important section as besides all positive changes that PP2000 does to sound it does this one, the one that I call “softness”, and the values of this “softness” have to properly understood and interpreted. The “softness”...
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