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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The tube tuners syndrome by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
  My mind turned back recently to the subject of tube tuners – there were some even that made it happen. I have to admit that I have general difficulties with tube tuners. My past experience with then was not so great. When we are talking abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Buddhist, dude by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[Quote]Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy a good pizza. Unfortunately I won't find one in a Pizzahut. "That" man's 2 for 1 pleasure says a lot about his evaluating capabilities... I also enjoy several different kinds of music, mostly acoustic, but en...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Phonostages, photography and JLTi by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]"ASR do not use the regular ICs but the ICs that they removed form the demilitarized Russian nuclear missiles console and fallen Chinese satellites" ...which means that they use cheap, used ICs. So, the dealer has a better m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The guessing about the Mantis… by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
[quote user="starboy"] Romy wrote... He will go away over it in a few years... That he may just like Fannie mac or whatever, until then I guess he will be hand making those carts in his workshop. [/quote] Actually it was my typical mistype. I met t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The 'Side's End Ceremony' or a need for a Smart Tonearm Stopper. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 'Side's End Ceremony' or a need for a Smart Tonearm Stop... in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
Among many nasty things of the LP playing the way how our tonearms stops play records is one of the most unpleasant. Sure it does not beat the idiotic practice to locate consecutive sides of a performance on the different records within multi- re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: Ok, I play... by Romy the Cat on 2021-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Wojtek, to some degree what your share is correct sentiments but your position has two faulty presumptions presumptions. First presumption suggests  that most of  people out there strictly idiots and they have no own brain but just listen towards...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: YL audio, ALE, GOTO, and Onken... good post. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="angeloitacare"] Of course, Avantgarde with their price tag never will be for mass consumption. I offered Holger then to see If I could commercialize his horns in japan, Do u know how much was the dealer price for a pair of trios at that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Class “D” – the industry does it again. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Class “D” – the industry does it again. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
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 simply whorish audio propagandists-cheerleaders...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: It looks like Brits will fold first…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It looks like Brits will fold first…. in Off Air Audio  0 Replies 
DIGITAL BRITAIN: Government sets 2015 as digital radio switchover date LONDON - All radio stations broadcasting on national and local DAB multiplexes will cease being broadcast via FM by the end of 2015, according to the Digita...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: maybe this thing.. -Shanling mc-30 by Simon on 2007-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hi-Fi Mini Systems in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
I find it quite ugly, and who knows about the sound, but maybe another company has a similar product you could listen to... MC-3 Music Center 2006.12 produce Combining high quality CD player, tuner, dedicated i-PO...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: It might become not what I initially thought by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I would not restrict myself to the idea that things need to be a certain way or a certain configuration of the drivers or ports based on theory alone. I think it is important to ask what is interesting about the sound that the new...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: "Reference Room". by xandcg on 2016-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Acoustic Treatments That DON'T Work? in Audio For Dummies ™  2 Replies 
A thing that our friends never fail to  amaze  me is how they like to talk about their "Reference Room". Every single time I hear/read some one say "My Reference Room" automatically come to my mind something very professional made, a like m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Control that leak! by jessie.dazzle on 2007-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Try this : http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/489086 Miniature Cartridge Needle Valve Beswick Engineering designs and manufactures high-performance miniature fluid power devices. Beswick introduces a miniature Cartridge Needle Valve for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: A new DAW poker game. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Better organization/design forDAW. in Didital Things  12 Replies 
In response to my announcement that my DAW went “caput” I was expecting that people would bombard me with advise do not do PC anymore and try Mac. I was kind of semi-ready for it but… not one bombarded me. In fact a few Mac people I know were not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Forward in the past with old radios. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Forward in the past with old radios. in Off Air Audio  18 Replies 
I kind of not looker but rather listener and when I do something I prefer to have a radio than TV. When I was hunting for my house I among other thing was looking to have a layout of the rooms what sound of my playback was well heard in my kitche...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Regulation logic in amps and everything esle by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
[quote user="KOTriode"] Without regulation, this amp would not work correctly due to its design: DC coupled and fixed bias. The high transconductance will make the bias current varied as much as 50-100ma due power line fluctuation without the reg...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Avantgarde, BMS and Orphean. by angeloitacare-idiot on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Hi Romy a good sound in a room does not depend only on the speaker chain, but essencially also of the room acoustics. Probably many of the Trio systems didn’t sound right just because of that…. I was at Holgers Home in Lautersbach back in 94. He ha...

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 #156: My new MiniMe, I think it's it. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Ok, I think it is it. I close the experimental phase of the MiniMe projects as I have selected and feel comfortable with MiniMe results. The MiniMe Bass section is the very original MiniMe enclosure with the very same drivers as I plane from star...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Romy's temptations that would make my tail to move, list #1 by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio cabinet of curiosities or what audio experiences out t... in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
It is not my Audio “Bucket List” and not the audio things that I would like to experience before the 2012. These are just the regions of audio curiosity that I would be excited to sample and motivated to make efforts to pursue. The entries without an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Yep, you are right: the Grande Utopia by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy in Audio News  17 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]http://www.audiounlimiteddenver.com/ Focal Utopia EM[/quote] You are right: The Grande Utopia is one of the names that very much in the mainstream and have very much pre-inclined exposure in industry. That all will assur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audiotism: cable elevators for 9/11 by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audiotism: cable elevators for 9/11 in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
I know that some of you might consider it as a dangers subject and if you afraid of yourself then do not read any further.  This view has no direct relation to the subject of my site, namely: “advanced audio and evolved music reproduction techni...

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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: CES: New horn guy in town. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES 2005 in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
Someone stopped me at the Alexis Park and told me: “Romy, there is a new Israeli guy in town with  his amassing horn. He has a room at the St. Tropes and you should go”. I was almost offended! There was a new horn guy and I never insulted him?!!...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Ocean Way HR-2A, HR-2B and HR-2C. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new CES 2010 loudspeaker? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
I was trying to find out what drivers the Allen Sides’ speaker uses and found a lot of noise about this among the people of Guitar Center – it is not surprising considering Allen Sides background. http://www.clynemedia.com/gcpro/Ocean_Wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The prison of language and the lie in the symbol by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
I would agree that the Lowther is not hard to beat but the question is where and in whose mind does this competition exist? Is the Lowther, Manger, or other full range single driver in competition with different multi-driver approaches, other single ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: ...they do image wonderfully... by Romy the Cat on 2016-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"] But it is only the interconnects to the amplifiers that need to be longer...no others...speaker cables stay as is...all cables into the preamp stay as is.  Longer interconnects is not an issue in any way that I know of...bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: Yes, I will need to experiment with it. by Romy the Cat on 2016-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="JJ Triode"]As a separate system, I am surprised you mention something like Dunlavys--what happened to Cetla Ledom 91? [/quote] JJ, the Cetla Ledom 91 would be nice but it is quote demanding size-wise. I can accommodate the size bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reading an official audio publication - TAS by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reading an official audio publication - TAS in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
What did you know; I was in Barnes & Noble and bought a first for quite long time September TAS magazine.  I do not subscribe audio publications but seldom buy them. Since I did not do it for as long time I though it will be entertaining.  It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #866: Is there a way to determine by thrang on 2011-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
the capability of a PurePower 2000 for the components I have? I'm thinking of purchasing one...  Given the peak output performance of the 2000, I'm thinking I can connected all of t...
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