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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: FM Acoustics: The most important component of a quality Audio system by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: FM Acoustics: The most important component of a quality Audi... in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
FM Acoustics’s  Manuel Humber speaks about his Harmonic Linearizer device.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaG5d98zVC0   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_h1NdHzeuM   Well, Mr. Humber and the Company feel that this is the most important compon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Depicting and Visualizing Sound by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Depicting and Visualizing Sound in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I do not mean visualizing the sound waves or music, that is a relatively smile task. What I mean is a visualizing of Sound. To depict sound is very finical; it is like depicting of wind, did you see any good attempts? I was sent to an Asian si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
We, horn people, when we see as some kind of horn outsider begin to spill his foolishness about the horns inhalations, we always feel  that out territory was violated by a primitive brain who listen a box loudspeaker. The Absolute Sound, in its ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: It was all in there, somewhere by anthony on 2019-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]   Oh, good, why did not you tall it before. How the hell can you listen if it you DAC outputs 1V?! No wonder you have no volume. Also if you have no voluble you do not “get” one of the most advanced feature of multi-amp ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #111: The art of ULF volume adjustment. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations.  It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to ac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1739: You get the idea…. by Romy the Cat on 2020-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I disagree with an idea that PP introduces different grounding schema into system. I mean it does and it does not. Anything the in your power pass induce different grounding schema and PP not different. I personally did not experiences that PP int...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #147: Distressingly familiar by anthony on 2019-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote:I woke up this morning …. It was funny that you named it “In my dreams”. Whan I was “designing” and building the Milq I had a lot of dreams about the problem I had. I am not am amplifier designer or some ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
What they say:Every audiophile music lover knows of the legendary sound of Koetsu phono cartridges from decades past. Those old enough to have experienced Sugano's Koetsus retain the memory of a musical experience unequaled. Few were privilegedd to o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Multi-amping crossovering. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Multi-amping crossovering. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
I was reading the Stefano Bertoncello's post about his new multi-amping again options. http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2010/09/multi-amping-again.html .. and I feel that it would be a good idea to brief summarize multi-amping cros...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: Macondo and wife satisfaction. by Romy the Cat on 2017-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Amy last night delivered the most brutal insult of my playback I have heard for years. Usually I very much like when stupid internet audio with audio IQ leas size of own shoe to “criticize” my playback. This is real fun to hear them and it is a re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: The Alnic’s Preamp Mystery #2 by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It is not a the thread about Allnic but LCR RIAA correctors, still there was something expressed in here about the Allnic LCR phonocorrector… and  I feel bad about it. It is not that I don’t think that Allnic LCR phono...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The world is a disc by Stitch on 2009-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
I never knew, that the 103 fanatics are ruling the world (ok, not really, but they try) until I made the following: One of my friends had someone in his area who is a cartridge maker (or repairs them), I ordered 4 Denon 103 R w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #186: The Kiss of Death List by Stitch on 2019-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Well, the Ultimate Turntable. I had the chance to listen to some personally. Most have one in common:Overrated and hyped from deaf "reviewers"And .... price tag has no direct comparison to sonic excellence ... or a lot of technical features which are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Yes, it is about my sources by anthony on 2019-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  I do not know why Placette does not work in your situation. You do not have enough volume? If it is the case then you might have too low gains in your front end. All my front ends have very high gain: Bidat, Lavry, my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Summary: my audio, year 2007 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
It was an audio eventful year and I have experimented and discovered many fascinating things. Here is a brief summary of the 2007 audio-events and a short look what my audio happening will might take please in 2008. 1)    In the very ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The 15 Commandments of Ultimate Preamp. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quests for an ultimate preamp. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
It kind of strange that so many manufactures produce preamps, so many users use preamps but no one talks about them seriously. The dealers sell them, the reviewers write their doodle but the manufactures do each year a new version but what we, th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Proscenium III is "state of the art" .... by Stitch on 2013-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
.... the usual marketing blubber. The more expensive a High end Product is, the more superlatives you need to make it superior to anything else. You want the big bucks? You need a big mouth first.but we all know how this business runs. What amazes me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: ...comparing of different RIAA methods. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
[quote user="perrew"]Romy,one thing that interest me is you use an active RIAA and the Allnic is passive circuit if I understood things?[/quote] Perrew, Among the none-commercial, home-made correctors here is my evolution of phonostages. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: Very good. by Romy the Cat on 2019-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]I woke up this morning ….[/quote] It was funny that you named it “In my dreams”. Whan I was “designing” and building the Milq I had a lot of dreams about the problem I had. I am not am amplifier designer or some kind of DIY ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Good luck with that ....:-) by Romy the Cat on 2019-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Anthony, I know what you feel but I am no sure that I might be too useful for you quest. Let me to explain first the points you made.   I do not know why Placette does not work in your situation. You do not have enough volume? If it is the case ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: You may well be right... by anthony on 2019-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
...especially about the difficulty of making a transparent preamp.  It seems to be a general concensus.   But I need gain for most of my sources apart from perhaps the FM ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 review from 1992 by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 in Analog Playback  33 Replies 
After years of using the Expressive Technologies SU-1 and SU-2 step up transformers I come across to a fact this morning that the Expressive was reviewed by Robert Harley in June, 1992. I read the Expressive’s preamp review but I never seen this one....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Omnigon - The Final Phonostage by Stitch on 2013-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good phonostages? in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
A private Project is finished. Some record collectors and serious Listeners (RCA Living Stereo, Decca...) wanted the best Phonostage to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: It is simple and not. by Romy the Cat on 2019-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]Exactly that, my sources do not play loud enough through the Melquiades or DSET.  Like your OPPO, they only put out about 2V RMS which seems to be the modern standard and I need more.  Can you remember what input voltage ...
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