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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="alexd"]To answer your question about DAW output vs tuner. Well Tuner is not highest quality source to start with. I do not think you will hear much difference between DAW analog output and tuner analog output.[/quote] It is unquestionab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Melquiades: too early for a verdict? by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiades: too early for a verdict? in Melquiades Amplifier  6 Replies 
One of the greatest and the most important things for me in power amplifiers is their ability to differentiate tones.  When you listen live music you practically never hear two identical tones. Even two identical pitches presented after the diff...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1256: PP Helpdesk. NOT by steverino on 2014-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Eli, I as any other person on consumer side, do sympathize with how you feel. I would like however to point out that this site is not the best door for you to knock. Audiogon for instance (and many others) specialize to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The boom-tssza-tssza sound from ceramics by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"]I don't know where this goes, so I'm just starting it as a new thread; please move (or even edit or delete) as appropriate.  After reading too many wondourus reviews of ceramic driver speakers in general, and only havin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1541: Power cords mania by N-set on 2017-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]fiogf49gjkf0dWe do have a cable thread somewhere on this site that might be better for cable-specific posts. As far as purely electrical "issues", in the end, better sound is still the main consideration. Shielding power lines i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Different strokes 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 
I think it is a simple case of different strokes for different folks. Drdna writes about communicating the essence of sound - I write about the essence of music. He writes about wondering what Coltrane was thinking. I write about hearing him looki...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Sort of like the double horn by steverino on 2014-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Minusk: a new Vibraplan? in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
I ran across this Negative stiffness isolation platform (the anti Viagra??) independently but I should have known the Cat had pounced years earlier. It is hard to tell how much the concept has advanced since 2007 as I only found one firm doing it (Mi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #224: My DH DSET – 2 days later. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I made experiments running HF filaments from dedicated Hammond 6.3V transformer vs. lifting ground on my 6.3V IDH filaments. I did not listen Sound but rather measure the noise – the result was identical. In the best cases I was able to get 0.63m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Am I missing something? by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] In my case, it has nothing to do with convenience, and believe it or not, everything to do with quality.[/quote] Hm, I would question it. Are you saying that you are able to play from your PC music that you got by rippin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: What kind Morons care today the PhD and M.S in Acoustics titles? by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not know who Tom Martin. He said that he runs The Absolute Sound and he apparently has power to delete my posts from TAS forum. I have finished with TAS forum – they fully indicated the level of the subject handli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Horn speaker with dipole bass? by Vasyachkin on 2010-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn speaker with dipole bass? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Romy, i hope this post doesn't offend your sensibilities.  I am not gonna say a word about the physics principles that have led me to the conclusion that this is something that should be tried ( unless you ask of course ).  The idea i have is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Do an experiment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] This is very interesting and something that I have not noticed. Because I cannot double the clock frequency going into the Weiss AFI1, I have tended to ignore playing/recording 4fs files. But, I've kept the second AES/E...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: On Approach by Dresden on 2008-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
In reference to the two (or three) prototypes, the base design contains one (1) driver, a second proposal to the base design uses two (2) drivers (using almost the same exact enclosure--an increase of volume/area in the chamber containing the two [2]...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Supper Melquiades sandwidge... by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stands for Super Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  6 Replies 
Ah, last night, after midnight I picked in McMaster-Carr some elements for my proposed Supper Melq rack. Thy shipped it UPS ground and I had it delivered that same day! How they do it? Anyhow, I connected two shelves with 4 x 12” by 5/8” rods. I tigh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: My PC Audio: the first summary. by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
OK, it now looks like my dive in the world of PC is over and I pretty much know where I am staying. A well of so ago I was completely ignorant about the subject but now I could at least to understand what the common buzz-worlds means and able to ask ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The “blending integrity” vs. “dynamic viscosity” . by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
Paul, I re-mapped your post to your older thread; I hope you do not mind… Anyhow, I find absolutely nothing in the older ML2’ sound related to L1/L2 “X-Factor”. As I suggested in the second post of the flowing thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables PREFACE I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A sober view on Cogent True-to-Life Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Well, when we are talking about Cogent we need clearly differentiate two things: the Cogent’s drivers and the Cogent’s installation. The problem is that since Cogent’s drivers are something so called “compression drivers” then their performance might...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Lamm ML3 as a sad idea, at least for my needs. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] I don't have a problem with what Lamm has done in offering the ML3 (ignoring the price)... If I have a problem it is more related to how the product is being represented. Representations aside, depending on how it sounds,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
A few days back I posted the following post: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=8922 …proposing the parties of interest to play along in Milq vs. DHT competition. This interst derives from the following thread: http://www.goodsoundcl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #831: Electricity Analyses: Sonic Data by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Those who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I mi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. by Romy the Cat on 2016-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
I sometimes visit an Australian site and familiarize myself with progress of “acg” who it trying to build Macondo like acoustic system.   http://www.stereo.net.au/forums/index.php/topic/75784-deep-end-diy-my-first-speaker-project   A few weeks a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About playback and message personalization. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About playback and message personalization. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
I kind am debating it with myself for a last few months. What I discovered that a playback has an ability to moderate musical sensations from being very intimate and extremely personal to being very public and wide-declarative. Sometimes I li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1593: PurePower, PurePowerAPS.com and Richard Janzen is a complete fraud by OracleAV on 2018-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Contacted PurePower early 2017 and got a money-back guarantee to audition their PurePower+ 3000 Hooked up my Audio Research mono amps and powered on.   With the first mono amp on, PurePower started to generate this loud buzz from...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Just Hi.. and my audio believes by dedobot on 2018-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Just Hi.. and my audio believes in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Hey to everybody.  Long time lurker and now bored and little bit drunk - finally registered . To introduce my self I choose this forum section - looked most appropriate. Excuse me please if I'm wrong. I'm from Bulg...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Input choke for High Currents? by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Input choke for Low Currents? in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Here is another question that almost from the DIY-Audio universe. Dima is finishing Zaratustra II amplifiers. It will be quite interesting beast and I’m slowing begin to think about the power supplies – it will be my responsibility. The Zaratust...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #266: The hum problem is less likely the PP2000’s problem by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] What was more concerning is today some 60 Hz hum also re-emerged in the system, sounding like a vibrating cell phone going off in the back of the room. It was interesting how it was sort of localizable, but the hum is annoying. A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: The APS PurePower vs. good electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
A friend of mine asked my last night if I feel that PurePower’s Sound as good as a playback during those extremely seldom moments when electrify is good. It was a good question and I feel that it is worth to cover. First off all I can not say about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1513: Now that I think about it, maybe there are easy possibilities! by rowuk on 2016-01-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]rowuk , you are not wrong feeling that what we do with PS and Mains regenerator is kind of ridicules. Indeed we convert AC to DC, then to AC against and then to DC again. If you use SS then it very much makes sense to ru...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1542: Power cords my ass. by Romy the Cat on 2017-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Power cords is the most ridicules subject that I have seen in audio and they define all rules, would it be stupid rules or sensible rules. There is absolutely no difference in power cords construction, built quality, price, material use, insolatio...
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