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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Glad to hear your bigger family is doing well and that you are making good progress on the room.Why not try a quick test. Try connecting your laptop to the big system, put the laptop a few feet in front of you and watch a movie or a concert? That wil...
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Congratulations Romy, Glad everything worked out well and wishing you and your family all the best!...
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This week Romy was kind enough to invite me over for a few days for some Apprentice work and philosophizing. As I alluded above, my Apprenticeship contribution consisted principally of moving some audio gear, searching for some esoteric stuff hidden ...
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I helped Romy shuffle around some hardware and connect some cables yesterday. That damned table weighs about 100.000 pounds. This was one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to see live, in-person how Romy thinks about audio and incorporates th...
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http://noaudiophile.com/Bowers_and_Wilkins_686_S2/
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I found 2 recent room upgrades made life more comfortable:1. We recently installed a "cork" floor. Acoustically it is quite pleasing, as it is finished with some semi-gloss sealant but also quite sound absorbent naturally (irregular texture/soft surf...
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I saw Kojo Technology is looking for an engineer relating to audio power regeneration:http://kojo-seiko.co.jp/recruit.htmlRun the posting through google translate if you are interest in job and don't understand Japanese. I own some Kojo stuff but don...
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[quote user="steverino"]I think this only works with grossly deficient recordings. I believe Levinson chose a historical recording as his example for the reviewer. But it allows the FM Acoustics listener to spend endless hours fiddling with the contr...
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I remember reading about a turbine subwoofer 15 years ago called the Phoenix Gold Cyclone or Typhoon. That was for kids in cars.Tom Danley the inventor had some comments:http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/55122-pg-cyclone-non-cone-subdriver.ht...
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If you want to keep this second house, think carefully what to do with it. - Unoccupied houses tend to decay incredibly rapidly. I was in Spain a few years ago checking out new apartments on the coast. Build quality was good but just four or five yea...
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With the Japanese Yen devaluation, stuff in Japan has gotten very cheap. Like 50%+ cheaper vs. USD in the past few years. This, combined with the fact that shipping charges generally drop rapidly for heavier packages would make me look at potentially...
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Rakesh,I have purchased books and software over the years from a Japanese company called White Rabbit Press; delivery to the US was prompt and painless. They publish some Japanese language books and sell a wide variety of books from other publishers....
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Kodomo,Maybe you move low frequencies behind you to back room?...
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As time passes, I find myself becoming more risk adverse; that is, actively avoiding risk. These days I try removing the "low-probability / catastrophic" scenarios that, as a teenager, I ignored or was oblivious to. Like running across a busy street ...
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Very cute video.As you have lived both in the city and in the suburbs, you should have a reasonable view on the advantages and disadvantages of each. - As a general rule, a city apartment provides fantastic access to culture, music, people, restauran...
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I never heard of DBA but it looks to be an interesting approach. It looks like DSP is used as a cancellation device at the back wall; maybe in this role, it does not have such a bad impact on sound. But who really knows how this will sound without tr...
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Hi Murat,1. Please take a look around this site for some intelligence on how detrimental digital room correction is and why. Romy and Paul are being excessively polite today regarding DSP, perhaps because the weather is nice. I'll be more direct - If...
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Ha! Maybe I can help. I lived in Tokyo for a few years and tried to find the "perfect" commuting earbuds. Tokyo's "Best Buy" type electronics stores are huge and typically stock 100s of different models. There are also two large headphone specialty s...
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Maybe first country to kill FM? http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/...
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I might approach the problem a bit differently. Think "space efficiency" and "space effectiveness."In my travels, I have seen that a lot of Europeans and Asians live in very small spaces. Of course, the Japanese have their futon beds, which they can ...
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Hi Jorge,Thanks for your quick response. I believe I came off a bit brash and apologize as that was not my intention. I edited my comments above a bit for clarity; I found the DCX quite useful at low frequencies. The DCX is not a perfect unit but I ...
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Just for the record, Sadurni uses a Behringer DCX2496 for the low fq. I might speculate the DCX solves more problems in low fq than it causes, but don't know as I have not compared it side-to-side to other solutions. I've found the DCX is not an acc...
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New bottlehead dac -- different spin on upsampling. http://bottlehead.com/smf/index.php?topic=6898.0...
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New review by the computer audiophile at http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/599-berkeley-audio-design-alpha-dac-reference-series-review/The review is what it is. There is a lot of history behind the company and it appears to be a site sponsor....
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Free medici.tv concerts for 24 hours to celebrate music day. I quite like this site as they scale up the catalogue. There is an HD option you should chose. Not affiliated....
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Novi -I am a big fan of digital processing. . .for experimentation and testing. So flexible, inexpensive, speedy with today's processing power. But once the testing is over, let me know when you find DSP that does not provide a significant negative p...
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Paul - I agree with your comments overall. Indeed Sony had a couple of Walkman tape players with surprisingly good sound quality. At the time I thought they were expensive and delicate. Today I appreciate the amount of engineering and care that Sony ...
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Linked is a brief article that categorizes the the portable audio player options available Q4 2013 as clearly and succulently as any I have seen. It also includes some portable dac/amp combos for your mobile phone. Of course, DSD is a hot buzzword re...
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http://www.cnet.com/news/speck-candyshell-amped-will-this-iphone-case-make-your-phone-louder/...
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I used a set of 2-way near-field monitors and a decent sealed commercial subwoofer in a study room that was quite enjoyable. Mostly listened to FM. That room was not much more than 3m x 3m with lots of alcoves, slanted ceilings and a thick nylon rug....
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