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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: NAT Audio Magna -160 Watts of Single-Ended Class A by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NAT Audio Magna -160 Watts of Single-Ended Class A in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
I have to admit that I personally care less about powerful full-range SET amplifiers. I do not take their sound seriously, in fact I do not believe they are cable to do “right full-range sound” and what I see then I always imagine them with huge, bar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Lamm ML3 snick preview. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
The Audio Fedirection guy got a new camera? I bet he did. Anyhow, the pictures are courtesy of Audio Fedirection blog. http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/271 As I said above - I was as queries to have a preview of that ML3 amp as I was wonder...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: I would say that it is all very much arguable. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]I also believe there is little wrong with your new room. Some electrical problems witch is common for new layouts and some light reflective material her and there with some good furniture witch you have been thanking about for a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1473: Daisy chaining of ground wires by JOHNR on 2015-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
You should take care that you do not daisy chain the ground leads. Refer to following text.From my perspective, you should treat the L and N leads as one type of circuit and the PE as a separate circuit.  Electrical codes, rules etc do not insist tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1338: What else is available? by Romy the Cat on 2014-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]The real issue is that there is no reliable repair center where statistics could be gathered on the various problems and their resolution. Romy at least can send his units back if a problem develops and PP will actually try to...

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 #17: What more be more prove then selfevidentce? by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators? in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
[quote user="George"] The remote is not a problem. Using a Xantech distributer, repeaters, and electric eye you can configure the two passive remotes in a foolproof, or nearly foolpoof, manner for about $75-100 total. Since I already had the basic Xa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1043: Liquid filled fuse. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
John Hoffman published an article in positive-feedback about the Liquid filled fuse: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue61/audiomagic_nano.htm … from audio-magic company. http://www.audio-magic.com/Prod-NanoFuse.html ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #915: And what is wrong with that? by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Biggy"]You force me to say that you are really rude person , or at least you make an effort to be so . Do you really think I'm so stupid to want a line filter which costs $ 5000 only "to reduce high frequencies " ? The electrical lin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The new room, the very first listening. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Connected today Melquiades and Macondo in new room. Macondo uses drivers as they are – no time or axis aliments of any kind yet, no Insertion Channels, no level calibration by channels. I just in-phase the channels and sat to listen, to see what happ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Environmental magnetic influence to high sensitively? by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I have found the next obvious glaring problem, which is contributing to the muddy sound I described earlier.  There is a mismatch between the two channels.  The right channel is very slightly softer than the left with a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: What is relevant. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rim drive? in Analog Playback  20 Replies 
[quote user="Serge"]Okay, I see your point, though I feel there is something wrong about magnets in the MC catridge's vicinity. I will have arguments later, probably.Now we can look at it differently. Remember direct drive? A motor sits right below t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Regulation and the alternative supplies by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The single-stage Milq and power Supplies. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]This is sort of a sideways answer to this question, but having used power supplies with vacuum and soild state rectification, I also played with Allen Wright's SuperReg circuit and I really liked the way it sounded. A more stable ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Correct AC Polarity by Jim Aud by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Always check power-line polarity. in Audio For Dummies ™  11 Replies 
CORRECT AC POLARITY June 17, 2009 — puristaudio System set-up "I wanted to talk about a tweak that costs little or nothing to do, while having the potential of paying big dividends in terms of sonic improvement. It involves a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 43489589283 - 3 + 1 by Tax on 2011-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cerebral and psychological evolution of amp matching for the... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Tax what are you willing to accomplish by DSETing Avantgarde Duo? As far as I can see in any playback action and decisions it shall be a straight line of sight to some kind of objectives. What objective you have in your min...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: My "Bro science" by Domidaw on 2022-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: R22 in Melquiades Amplifier  34 Replies 
5hours pass when I sit in the chair and stare at work of my life (amplifier), like some haunted man. As you can see, I divided the amplifier into two parts, the power supply is  in a separate housing. I d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ in Audio News  10 Replies 
Many audio publications grand some kind of idiotic rewards: “Product of Year”, “Editor Choose Award”, the “Best Sound at Show, “The Golden Ears” and so on. Trying to stay in the moronic awards-granting crowd I decided to form my own award: I would ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #972: SDS and balun random thoughts by N-set on 2011-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]However, if I stuck the balun between the SDS and the turntable (ie the turntable plug into the balun and the balun into the SDS) then I heard noise reduction Without a negative effect on the sonics. But note that the SDS –...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: About the TwoGoodEars new crossover. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
I am not completely thrilled with TwoGoodEars new crossover. http://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2012/01/making-of-line-level-crossover.html First of all , Stephano has a preamp with tube out stage.  The guy in his post says that the l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: How much harsh can you take? by tuga on 2010-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC in Didital Things  26 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I'm not sure exactly what I expected from swapping the digital cable at this point, but what I got was not it.Before I bought the Belkin Synopsis cable I just swapped out, I had sought out and purchased an Acoustic Revive cab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Considerations about Melquiades’ layout. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later. in Melquiades Amplifier  33 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]As a way of forcing myself to see the thing as a whole, I will start by converting this schematic to a 3D CAD model, illustrating each component and its relation to the others (with more distance between the parts than in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: DSET and Cables. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DSET and Cables. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
This is not as simple question as one might think. If a person embrace DSET topology, let for instance to take my example of 6-DSET channels, then what to do with cables that feed the DSETs? In my case I use one interconnect between preamp and DS...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: My implementation of ULF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Yes, I promised to tell about, so here is comes. The past Sunday I woke up at 6AM and first intention to answer to myself what is wrong with my ULF. I had wonderful sound with absolutely wonderful and the most important very proper bass.  Howe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: MF ramblings &&& by jessie.dazzle on 2008-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Romy wrote :"...Do what I did. Stop experimenting with horns and begin to actually USE your playback..."If I am in the house and not sleeping, the system is on."...If you still have an itch to “think horn” then insult others about their wrong horn mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Performance? by Stitch on 2010-02-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schroder Tonearms in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
Just a few lines to the "Performance" of this piece of wood on strings for 7k $I listened to the Schroeder Reference + SQ and some custom made ones which were normally not available (Schroeder model blahblah with Valhalla cable etc.)(of course you ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #123: Options, options, options.... by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="floobydust"] Some very good points here... if I downloaded the correct schematic from your site for the 6-channel Melq amp (also has the term DSET in the title) then you have created a 6-channel SET amp with built-in crossover points. Yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Further thoughts about ULF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Me being exuberant about the new ULF capacity does not necessarily mean that ULF contribution is right and proper, let me to explain. There is a musical event that has it sonic representation. This sonic representation better or worst was captured by...

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 #1: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC by Paul S on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC in Didital Things  26 Replies 
Well, I finally found and implemented a digital front end that I can live with.  I have been so cynical about digital up to now that I have kept and used an old, cheap Sony player (albeit one actually made in Japan...) because up to now it seeme...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Computer transport and DAC by Telstar on 2008-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Yes, the enclosure something like this, thanks for tip, miab, but it opens a door for desire more. A good box with fanless operation, 1920 x 1200 pixels touch-screen, 6 hard-drives, remoter control, $650 price tag is...
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