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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy in Audio News  17 Replies 
I predict a highly probability that a new wave is coming in high-end audio loudspeakers. The today’s high-end audio the loudspeakers field is in a complex stagnation, the stagnation that will lead to the need to invent a new ways to sell loudspeakers...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Michael Framer as audio leech... or Caliburn my tail. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
The industry mechanism of making shekels on somebody stupidity works like clockwork. When I last year I was writing my initial article of this thread about Mike Framer, kangaroo and the financial burden that all this industry cheerleading inflict I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Much ado about upsampling ... by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Credibility of digital information in Didital Things  5 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"] ….I can´t say much about the dCS upsampler, because I only heard it in combination with a Lamm/Wilson combination that in my ears showed some surrealistic saccharine sweetness I found quite annoying. You mentioned some time that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The elusive “absolute tone”. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
It is very uncommon, practically never happens but still very rarely it is possible to talk about sound or playback systems from a prospective of “absolute tone”. Yes, the audio people love to take about tone of their audio but in 99.999% those audio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Why no diamond tweeter - any technology in hands of barbarian…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best speaker in the world, is yet again available in Audio News  9 Replies 
[quote user="morricab"] It is a good question that I also asked when I saw this speaker.  Afterall, everything being equal using the same materials for the drivers is more optimal from a coloration standpoint.  My guess is cost.  They ...

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 #422: More about Lamm show phenomena by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-14 
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"] Still, there is an interesting phenomenon that I never was able to understand. I observe Lamm’s show rooms from I think 1998-1999 to 2006 when I did my last audio show. Surprisingly all Lamm rooms at audio shows sound ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Crossovers, phraseology and the holes by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression in Playback Listening  23 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]Coming back to the "multi-driver" spkrs -- especially unfamiliar ones. It has taken me a long time to "optimise" the positioning of a pair of 4-way spkrs (9 drive-units, of which two in the back, in phase) …. One difficulty in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky Symphony #4 in Musical Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I have been enjoying the "Euroclassic Notturno" (BBC?) program on swedish radio tonight. As a happy rookie in the world of classical music, I seek advice on Tchaikovsky based on what I just heard; His Symphony No. 5.I though...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: NOhorn channel for “the melody range”. by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NOhorn channel for “the melody range”. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
In reference to: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=1414 I had recently a guy in my listening room and he asked me if it would be possible to get the 300Hz range in the way how it sounds in my room but without using those larger uppe...

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 #26: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 2-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
This is about the Focal Utopia TN51 tweeter.... It is hard to imagine not much I like this tweeter, in fact there is something insanely beautiful in this tweeter and from a certain perspective (narrow-certain) I like it even more then the HF o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Perfect HF and the “kinky” Electro-Voice T350. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
I think I have too much time on my hands or use my time in highly stupid fashion but I decided to do today the experiment about witch I was thinking for a while. The experiment was “methodology clean” and lead me to quite interesting discoveries. Sin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: T.H.E. Show, Newport, 2015 by Paul S on 2015-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: T.H.E. Show, Newport, 2015 in Audio News  14 Replies 
I went to THE Show again this year, along with a couple of audio friends. This year I was better prepared, with preconceived notions about what I wanted to see/hear, and where to find that gear. I did not try to “cover” the show, at all. I just wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Delays and a typical rant... by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horns and digital crossovers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
Although all of it has no relation to digital crossovers but still: [quote user="cv"] On a vaguely related note: I dunno if you realise this, but conventional (ie excluding horn or large area ESL) speaker systems, even if measuring flat amplitude, i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The empty words about compression. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Contributing factors in compressed sound in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Well, it is a good subject and my reply probably will be lengthy. However, do not expect to read anything worthy in there as I have no answers. We all know about the compression, the people with develop listening culture and more or less evolved lis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: The Lamm ML3 hits the reviewing market. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-20 
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="Romy the Cat"] Marc Mickelson had an “honor” to make my site in past:  http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=760  http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=2773  Marc is the “gear of the machinery” a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The power AC Outlets? by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The power AC Outlets? in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
I have written before that Dima is at the finish line with his new power treatment invention. http://www.romythecat.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=8522 BTW, Dima’s regenerator has a new name Avicenna Power Device and it is how it will be refered in future...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Horn-Kultur 5-Way from Germany by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn-Kultur 5-Way from Germany in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
It is looks like a small company in Germany that makes some kind loudspeakers and among them there is one looks like ambitious project: 5 ways installation: http://www.horn-kultur.de/englisch/prod_mk5.html ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Show Report PiS Fest by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Show Report PiS Fest in Audio News  0 Replies 
Show Report PiS Festcomposed by Johan Dreyer This show was held at the Rama Sebo convention centre in Freetown on April 30 and May 1.Unfortunately my kids played with my camera and destroyed the photos.Highlights were:JBL announced that they were s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgar by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgar in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996 Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Lamm / Wilson room a not-review by Saturntube on 2010-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new CES 2010 loudspeaker? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
This was our big discussion, the big Lamm / Wilson room, the sound was perfect in a sense that was absolutely quiet everything where it should go, the tone of the instruments was perfect, the soundstage was perfect the instruments w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #102: The American swallowing? by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]1. No real world sorrows2. Next toy from the Adult Toy Store3. Satisfaction for the Ego for whatever reasonsIn a way you find all answers in your Article of "Foolishness of analog People" ....The big Seikis were never common ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The new releases from "Music and Arts" by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new releases from "Music and Arts" in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #310: If a room can play Bruckner properly then it can play ANYTHING. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
A few months ago, in May of last year in the thread about Listening Rooms and Composers  and How to play Bruckner Sound on Audio I have complained that my room is not what I was looking for as I was hoping to have Bruckner Room but I need up with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Foolishness of Analog People by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
Epigraph "…just buy a used Micro Seiki and don’t worry about turntables anymore; built like a tank and sounds better than TTs costing over 30K USD.” Mr. Ikeda, of Ikeda / Fidelity Research The Main bitching It amasses me how the preoccupation...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Paper Tiger by Paul S on 2018-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  53 Replies 
Wilson’s advance reviewers/sellers have said Wilson has gone back to paper (all ScanSpeak) drivers, with silk tweeters.  IMO, this should be good for tone and texture, but it will likely change amp interface.  If I were interested in the Wilso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: More perspectives... by Romy the Cat on 2024-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My new “New” listening room, 2024 in Audio Discussions  31 Replies 
I put kids to bed and was listening at night at low level. The idea which was spinning in my head was the following. Okay I have good result but why and what does it mean? Was it a precise mid bass dialing to the rest of my system, to my ul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About bass horns by Johan Dreyer by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About bass horns by Johan Dreyer in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
This article was written by Johan Dreyer in 2006 posted at AA and the reposted recently at a Johan's local South African forum: http://vinylsa.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1016 I desided to give to the Johan’ thoughts some exposure at the horn-citri...
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