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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Maybe it's a nostalgia game by Gregm on 2009-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I know at least 3-4 other people who very much like me bough in the Koetsu hype and bought the top of the line Koetsu needles. All of them hate it. The point that I try to make is that if the vintage Koetsu were so good th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: Just one of the sheep by Paul S on 2008-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I have to say, I never gave it much thought, since, as you say, The Book says 5751s are an OK sub for 12AX7.  I did realize that the gain was lower, but I obviously had a brain cramp in not interpolating the lower gain to "redistributed" global ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Sure It is not easy by Amir on 2023-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Amir, I think there are still "acceptable" "commercial" components (including speakers) still "out there", depending on how they are used; it's just a matter of finding and getting ahold of them. In any case, building up an integ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Oh ,Thanks for that thread! Dima are you watching it ? by Wojtek on 2008-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C in Off Air Audio  24 Replies 
I'm strugling with dreaded Mcintosh Mr67 tuner . I borrowed one from a friend and it was very nice ;clear , crisp , dynamic so I went out and bought one for myself . It sounds like a mud and matches 100% of your description of average tube tuner...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Kitchen radio as a source of immense pleasure. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Forward in the past with old radios. in Off Air Audio  18 Replies 
I can’t stress how much pleasure I get from my kitchen radio. It is not about brand of specific sound that the radio produces but rather the esthetics or it and the location. It happened that in my house a kitchen is a center of activities and traffi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: The LPADs.... by Romy the Cat on 2015-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
What do you mean the example of inductive Lpad? All speaker level Lpads are inductive. The speaker level Lpads work with low voltage and high current and therefore they use wire wound restive elements. Any wire wound components are inductive by natur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dedicated horn loaded mid -- big dissapointment. by noviygera on 2009-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dedicated horn loaded mid -- big dissapointment. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
I purchased a pair of front loaded horns with JBL e120 12" drivers. They are crossed over at 200 and 800Hz  24/octave2 pictures here:http://picasaweb.google.com/noviygera/Midbass#dimensions are of the cabs are 28" wide-20" high and 24" deep.When I ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: The Last driver is never a first one. by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]Also you say: "In reality the driver is the key"So let me ask for advice on suitable driver(s). This be my next step. Need I select a size? Or driver with certain spec? For example lets say driver "x" is good for this rang...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #276: Phase Linearity by Edgar= on 2022-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Not Amplitude. It's the rock solid phase linearity. It feels like a brick wall all the way up and down. I haven't looked at any graphs and haven't measured anything but that is my guess. There is no question of the great tone of vintage Tannoy but al...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Some useful curves by hagtech on 2007-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 7788 tube mic pre design in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
Ok, so it took me awhile.  I finally got around to doing a design around this tube, believe it or not, as a driver for a 2A3.  It just seemed right.  Bought some 60's vintage(?) Amperex "PQ" on eBay.  Well, here's what it looks li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: Tribute MC iron by N-set on 2011-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Hi all,I'm slowly progressing with my assault on the pussyfied 834.I'm looking around for an interesting step up.I've happily eliminated SU-1 (I'd rather daydream about a night withMonica Belluci instead of those ugly steel boxes), said fuck off to S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: RE: room treatment and loading by movingcoilguy on 2008-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wharfedale Super 12/RS/DD 12" full range driver in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
I Romy I have readone of your posts that you sent or posted and I am beginning to get a bit of a grip of what you are saying but will continue to read the other thread also. I guess at this point I should really use the tool I have and see what if an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Bravo, Schaub & Lorenz. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Forward in the past with old radios. in Off Air Audio  18 Replies 
I got this week the last new tube for my Schaub & Lorenz. Since I got wonderful result with change of the output tubes I decided to swallow the bullet and buy all new tubes for this radio. My presumption is that as bad my original output tubes we...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: If I may be a litt;e suggestive..... by Brian Clark on 2008-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
I have some ZVN0545A mosfets here for exactly that purpose of replacing cathode followers. You may like to try this starting at 2mA (250V supply, 125k biasing resistor). Did you or Dima try Soviet SSG silver-mica for the first coupler? I am using 0.1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: No substantial changes in mainstream audio by el`Ol on 2008-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy in Audio News  17 Replies 
Hello Romy!My predictions are:The mainstream manufacturers will continue as they have been doing for decades: Use steep x-overs that allow them to use more and more exotic cone materials without changing anything effectively. Strange-looking con...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Bass horn by audiofilofine on 2010-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best 20 hz bass horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  20 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]audiofilofine, you need to form a question in a format that would indicate you do the your do some homework. To bulb or even to design 20Hz horn is complex task and it usually made to the specifics of the given circumstance...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Still trying to work it out. by Tubebuilder on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mid Bass horns help with plans please. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
I am still here still trying to work it out. Read your mid bass horns article again. Learned a bit more. You right about open baffle I once foolishly sold everything I owned to buy a pair of km30. They never sounded good until one day...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Time to dig out those old… 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 
[quote user="Saturntube"] Time to dig out those old A7s and start playing with electronic Xovers...[/quote] Well, it depends. Depends what the objectives are. If the objectives are to fight the stupid pricing of contemporary high-end products ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Horns and SS A/B amps – no, no, no… by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo copying: Horns troubleshooting in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I put together a hot tube amp channel, and gone is the sound of shattered glass.All three of my receivers were distorting equally horribly.Beware of never-been-serviced vintage solid state, I guess!Anyone know if it is common for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: The new twist of G.I.P company. Reasons? by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Of course I did go to the GIP site and I did not see in there a lot of what I would like to see. They are presented in there as a vintage audio resellers, stressing the originality and authenticity of their items. The brochure that you posted has...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: "Passive" and "Virtual" by Paul S on 2009-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Equalizer? Hm… in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
I absolutely remember posting about A vey special "vintage" EQ a while back, perhaps in the context of LF; but I can't remember more than that.IMO, the 1st order of business is to avoid the effing "DSP".  Let someone else get it right ONCE, then ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Ok, the trip is booked. by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
Ok, we have booked the tip. We are leaving US in 27 August for London and return on September 11 from Edinburgh. Probably we stay in London up to 6 September, the day of the final Bruckner 8 concert with Vienna Philharmonic, exploring the city and th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1295: Chinese High End? by drdna on 2014-02-10 
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"]My experience that any wide-public  commercial devise that meant to be use foe audio placation in the best targeted to work with SONY 5ch receivers that people get in Best Buy. The application that we use in so called high-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #130: A corrector with an EQ controll by N-set on 2011-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The real wet dream of mine, something that I would like to have but never went for is to have in the axis of the air caps a high precision step motor and a remote control that would allow me to modify the phono equalization...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Zanden 2500S CD player + some general attitude comments. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Zanden 2500S CD player + some general attitude comments. in Didital Things  4 Replies 
I was asked a few days ago what I think about Zandèn new CD player and I replied that I do not think about it. Truly, those companies produce new models each 18 month to initiate new rounds of cash extraction from clueless, deaf and blind audi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Turntables testing by "some people in Germany & Japan" by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
A site reader sent me email: “ …some guys in Germany & Japan have put it [Micro RX5000] up against the Continuum and other ultra expensive high end tables with older vintage arms similar to your SME 3012 and shamed the newer tables.... “I asked a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Collectors Item by Paul S on 2009-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C in Off Air Audio  24 Replies 
Do I recall that the REL had a fairly "unusual" tuning section - among its many features that were (and still are) novel for a "civilian" tuner - , and that many of those old parts were not only top, SOTA mil-spec back then but most of them were also...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: A Good, Sound Beating Now and Then by Paul S on 2013-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wine, women, song.. and audio in Playback Listening  71 Replies 
Note that I am responding late to the post about the "closed-down/dormant" '89 Bordeaux.  For those who do not know, some great wines can be brought (back) to life by beating the hell out of them. I use a large Burgundy glass for about everything, an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Diviating From "Successful Formula" by Paul S on 2021-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
I hear you, Romy, too many other things going on to do this full time, like "the old days". To save time and effort, you could try to "repeat" the original Dannoy configuration (same gear and location) and hear if it is "repeatable". If not, you're d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #151: Ok by Murataltuev on 2015-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
Yes, I'm new to horns...I have only my ears...with other needed skills I have people around who help me and thank you for your help also.If you read SoundEx, then I don't need to post here.I'll be happy for any comments on my pages.Thank you,Mura...
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