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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: More Horns propaganda by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some Horns propaganda in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Another particle of a good Horn Propaganda. It was published in Sound Practices in 1994 and written by Joe Roberts. I disagree with quite many of the author’s statements but his strategic view that the majority of the horns and the horn installations...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Ostap Bender of Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Daniel Hertz M1 ultra mega mega party speaker in Audio News  3 Replies 
I did not know that Lynn Olson and Earl Geddes involved in Levinson’s operation.  With all disagreement with those individuals I thought that they are smarter than to deal with Mark Levinson. I hope they did not give him any money and did not accept ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #175: I like it. by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
Hm, I like the Cessaro thinking a few years back and I love it now. A very good move with this “Liszt” loudspeakers, even I am against the idiotic tendency to grand to the audio element the composers names.  Take a look what Cessaro did. A tweeter, p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: technological advances by guy sergeant on 2007-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 driver made in china in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"][quote user="guy sergeant"] I think it would be quite difficult for anyone to set up any sort of production of drive units and not become an 'industry' participant. It's quite remarkable that you manage to use a turntable, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications... in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
Since I know about a few ongoing attempts out there by different people to build Melquiades I would like to share with some of my observations regarding corrections, simplification and possible modifications of Melquiades amplifier. Obviously you ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: The ML2's 6C33C operation point. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] It took ~3 1/2 hours for the system to charge up and start working as a system again, and then I tried Romy's suggestion to try dropping current (and raising vlotage) on the ML2s.  I experimented again and stuck with the 16...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Ported box = no game. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rightsizing from extreme systems.... in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Hm, it is complicated. In context of ported enclosure (or passive radiator) it is imposable to talk seriously about the box resonance as a speaker/driver has no own sound but rather a summation of zillion resonances, aftersounds and the rest dirt tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #362: The dead guy’s lessons. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="floobydust"]  I'm lukcy to have a large stash of NOS 45 ...[/quote]Recently I visited an estate sale on western part of Boston. I usually do not go to such events but I was attracted that I was promised 100s tube radios, 1000s tube and 1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Transparency by anthony on 2020-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]I also have another SS pre just arrived with has been measurebated into existence with measured spec's difficult to confirm with the best measuring equipment getting about.[/quote]I've been listening to the new buffer with imd/t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: keep them coming by amperidian on 2006-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: biological minded speakers in Audio News  1 Replies 
I cannot help but burst out into laughter everytime I read one of your posts.  Always enjoyable, thank you. I look forward to hearing the Magico loudspeakers at the show.  Do you know if they can repair teeth also, so I can send horribl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Still, there is something in it. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better SET. in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
As many know I sine move in the new house do not have a fully functional Macondo and most of the time I listen Dunlavy with SS amp. Melquiades sit in there, collecting dust , waiting what it will be called to duty again. This weekend it was called an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: More on those Brazillian Horns!!...and Be Yamamura. by DERRICK on 2009-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
I bought those tweeters for Be Yamamura (second hand from Paul at Wembly Loudspeakers, in London)  I also took Be to Heathrow Airport to take a plane to Brazil to install one of his truly superb VT4c stereo amps!   It was the morning of a great wind ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #81: CH Audio Design by skushino on 2009-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
From a company called CH Audio Design in Florida:http://chaudioroom.com/Sculpture.htmlCH Audio Design Sculptures Loudspeakers, with Altec 288 high frequency and 515 low frequency drivers.A fully horn loaded two way system. Using the ceiling and adjac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: I'm good for now.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
Yes, Paul you are right. In my chaise for “cosmetics” the economic aspect jumped out of my aim. The last design would require 6 panes for a par of the loudspeakers it is might be pricey. McMaster quotes a steel panel of 3/8” by 6” by 8” somewhere nea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Commercial Nihilism by oxric on 2010-09-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Do curved corners help??? in Audio Discussions  15 Replies 
Mr Edwards (I think that's your name):I find the issue you raise, rather inadvertently, a very interesting one. As a matter of habit, I come across a lot of people, a bit like yourself, who know absolutely nothing about audio, and in fact are dea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: David Haigner, kill the stupid CD horn. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Engaging the David Haigner’s ideas in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
A site visitor pointed me out the I never made an intended write up about the David Haigner horns.  I just forgot about them… OK, let analyze David’s claims and his Alphahorn design. I would say right the way that I do not like the Alphahorn’s id...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: What esle you would like to know? by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Yes, I did not realize that the price of £225 is for a PAIR; usually price is given per driver. I guess the £225 per pair is not and of the world but I still insist to pay 65 cents per 1 Euro as it use to do… In past I never dealt with Fane direc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Joe Roberts and his Jonathan Weiss illness by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Memo to Silbatone: Associating yourselves with a person who expresses himself in this way will undermine your hard work and any credibility your products might deserve.[/quote] I kind of thought this way initially but the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: GOTO's price politic as GOTO primary deterrence. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
I would like to make a few comments about the entire idea of those expensive Japanese compression drivers: GOTO, ALE and alike. I have voiced the near-similar outlook about the irrational exuberance that some audio people express about electromagnet ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Show me where the money is? by Romy the Cat on 2014-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Prices in High-End Audio. in Audio Discussions  27 Replies 
Roger Skoff: “A cool half million dollars for a pair of speakers! Certainly impressive, but is it sustainable” Well, the question about sustainability and reference to the Death Spiral is a good one. However I have more interesting question to ask: w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: More 834PT bravua... by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] I don't doubt for a moment that there are plenty of people 'who know' who will wax lyrical about the benefits of open loop eq in feedback circuits. There are people 'who know' who will tell me that valve amplifiers cannot ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Questions by Merlin on 2007-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
Firstly are your observations regarding the ZH270 relating to comparisons with other push pull designs or SET's? Secondly could you explain which characteristics of the recording are destroyed, and what mechanism David Berning uses to acheive this...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
Loudspeakers. For whomever who follows my dairies on this site and whoever has any real understanding what makes a horn-loaded loudspeaker to sound good it is know that Macondo Acoustic System is not juts the result of my DIY efforts or the John Hasq...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: VMPS RM V60 – kill me, but I do not get it. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: VMPS RM V60 – kill me, but I do not get it. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
I told before that I have high respect to Brian Cheney (because of multiple reasons) but I do not agree with his loudspeakers, where he tries to use ribbons wider range then they should be... Brian recently announced his new model VMPS RM V60. Since ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Melquiades For Dummies™ - planning and ordering parts step. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades For Dummies™ - step by step. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
Here is the general specification for the parts that I used. The selection of the parts implies some liberty of course. It will be your amp after all, not mine - do whatever you wish. In some case when I feel that requirement is critical I will stres...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Perhaps I wasn't laying it on thick enough... by KLegind on 2011-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Daniel Hertz M1 ultra mega mega party speaker in Audio News  3 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I did not know that Lynn Olson and Earl Geddes involved in Levinson’s operation.  With all disagreement with those individuals I thought that they are smarter than to deal with Mark Levinson. I hope they did not give him an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Difference Frequency Distortion measurements by Andy Simpson on 2009-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Measuring reality: empirical mode decomposition in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]I don´t know whether the audio industry`s products are so sophisticatet that they need mathematical steam hammers to improve them. In a German forum there is a discussion about a diploma work from the TU Berlin where the student f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Big Amps. Mains Power, and Amp Loads by Paul S on 2023-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Marantz MA-9S2 Monoblock Amplifiers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Amir, I told of my own approach to wall power in other threads. Basically, I tried to make my gear as tolerant of AC variations as I could without simply smoothing everything over. My DAC runs on battery power. I modified the power supply and changed...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How the things are getting so much out of hands? by Romy the Cat on 2020-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How the things are getting so much out of hands? in Audio News  7 Replies 
I am not following the products as I use to do in past, do not buy anything in audio and do not look forward to. Sometimes I look on-line what is our on in audio industry and what is more and more amazes me the level of obnoxiousness , impunity a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #347: About dead-end listening rooms. by Romy the Cat on 2012-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I would like to share a concept that is not widely understood or even not formulated in mind of many audio people but something the has a tremendous importance to me personaly.  The readers of my site know that I do not like the concept of dedicated ...
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