[EProvenzano]

On his site he goes into detail about his system....and I happened to pick up on this line...

"I generally do not bring Audio people in my home. I consider most of audiophiles are Zombie-idiots and I feel incredibly bored when they’re sitting in my room, when I’m spinning for them Josef Hofman playing Rachmaniniff or Furtwangler playing Brahms and those Morons keep asking me: “Ok, … and where is the famous Romy’s Sound?” I usually have very high ability to identify the audio-idiots: my estimate is approximately 97% of all audiophiles out there, and I do not allow them in my listening room."

One could argue that anybody who doesn't know that "Moron" isn't a proper noun and shouldn't capitalized is a bit of a moron.

...   does anyone else catch the irony in this?

No offense Paul, but we're all capable of erring from time to time  .

I'm missing the irony - what is it?  I capitalized the word the first time as I was quoting him verbatim.

I know it was a cheap shot, but this guy is apparently quite an arrogant ass! 

I was just giving you a rub because you missed the word "be" in your sentence.

[viggen]

On his site he goes into detail about his system....and I happened to pick up on this line...

"I generally do not bring Audio people in my home. I consider most of audiophiles are Zombie-idiots and I feel incredibly bored when they’re sitting in my room, when I’m spinning for them Josef Hofman playing Rachmaniniff or Furtwangler playing Brahms and those Morons keep asking me: “Ok, … and where is the famous Romy’s Sound?” I usually have very high ability to identify the audio-idiots: my estimate is approximately 97% of all audiophiles out there, and I do not allow them in my listening room."

One could argue that anybody who doesn't know that "Moron" isn't a proper noun and shouldn't capitalized is a bit of a moron.

...   does anyone else catch the irony in this?

No offense Paul, but we're all capable of erring from time to time  .

I'm missing the irony - what is it?  I capitalized the word the first time as I was quoting him verbatim.

I know it was a cheap shot, but this guy is apparently quite an arrogant ass! 

I was just giving you a rub because you missed the word "be" in your sentence.

"and" is not the best conjuction used here either... but who's keeping score.

[rollo]

Guys this is becoming boring

   Who cares about spelling, grammar and anything related except the so called educated.To me the size of your wallet tells how smart you are.Gee a teacher makes 75000 a year here in NY after 20 years.
      That is chicken fee to me with no masters degree,or any degree for that matter.
       Grow up and go make some money!I had a gas at my high school reunion meeting all the people with a bunch of degrees but couldn.t buy a home for their family.
      Sorry I'm ranting but you forced me into it.NO MORE INSULTS live and let live.

Thats all folks
rollo

[yo2tup]

so whats a real preamp?   

[jon_010101]

   Who cares about spelling, grammar and anything related except the so called educated.To me the size of your wallet tells how smart you are.Gee a teacher makes 75000 a year here in NY after 20 years.
      That is chicken fee to me with no masters degree,or any degree for that matter.
       Grow up and go make some money!I had a gas at my high school reunion meeting all the people with a bunch of degrees but couldn.t buy a home for their family.

!?!?! ?!?!? I can't tell if you are joking or not.

[eric the red]

I myself have a B.A. in English but am more concerned here with the lack of distance between the top of Romy's speakers and the ceiling than punctuation, grammer and semantics. I found out that hard way that a few very intelligent AC members are sensitive to this subject. Git yer own thread.

[rollo]

Sorry Eric
   Could not resist.Your correct I'll stop now.Jon I am dead serious.
rollo

[fredgarvin]

Sorry Eric
   Could not resist.Your correct I'll stop now.Jon I am dead serious.
rollo

Maybe you should re-think your post on Town Square, it's your post here that is arrogant and insulting. Your money means nothing compared to hard-earned knowledge and credentials. Although, it's not your fault really, that damned Eric had to go and start a thread about ROMYalways a guaranteed flame war.

[eric the red]

I started this thread because Romy has been around awhile and I thought his speakers and especially his vinyl rig looked cool. This is a first for me: Chair Guy feel free to send this thread where the sun don't shine.

[jon_010101]

I started this thread because Romy has been around awhile and I thought his speakers and especially his vinyl rig looked cool.

I must say, I agree totally.  I was stunned by the attention to detail (and aesthetics) in his system, and I think he probably is onto at least one way to good sound.  The only thing which isn't clear to me is how big that room is in relation to those monster horns    His ownership of a Lavry DAC (and ADC!) really caught my eye --  a Lavry Gold DAC will be my first (and possibly only) seriously-high-buck audio purchase.

I can't imagine that his system sounds bad, but I think he may be a bit narrow-minded in his audio "rules". 

[PaulFolbrecht]

I was just giving you a rub because you missed the word "be" in your sentence.

Missed it not only when I wrote it, but when I re-read it too!

But, that was a typo, not a grammatical error. 

[eric the red]

I started this thread because Romy has been around awhile and I thought his speakers and especially his vinyl rig looked cool.

I must say, I agree totally.  I was stunned by the attention to detail (and aesthetics) in his system, and I think he probably is onto at least one way to good sound.  The only thing which isn't clear to me is how big that room is in relation to those monster horns    His ownership of a Lavry DAC (and ADC!) really caught my eye --  a Lavry Gold DAC will be my first (and possibly only) seriously-high-buck audio purchase.

I can't imagine that his system sounds bad, but I think he may be a bit narrow-minded in his audio "rules". 

"My intentions were to use an extreme-nearfield-capable, full range, intentionally multi-way acoustic system with a maximum possible (from a tonal perspective) sensitivity and to submerse all of it into a center of a large room. My room is 21’ by 17’; the speakers are in the center of the long wall, well extended in the middle of the room. The system response is 20Hz-12kHz, flat within <2dB."

I'm guessing those are 8' ceilings

[jon_010101]

"My intentions were to use an extreme-nearfield-capable, full range, intentionally multi-way acoustic system with a maximum possible (from a tonal perspective) sensitivity and to submerse all of it into a center of a large room. My room is 21’ by 17’; the speakers are in the center of the long wall, well extended in the middle of the room. The system response is 20Hz-12kHz, flat within <2dB."

I'm guessing those are 8' ceilings

That answers my question!  There's a lot of info there, but I couldn't bring myself to read it all.