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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #117: An absolute must for ULF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
This for someone who do not use ULF might be considered as superfluous but I am going to tell you that that for me, the person who use ULF dally, it is an absolutely mandatory tool. The ULF channels have to have a good calibrate dB meter that in real...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: There is no cost-benefit analysis for this thing. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] In my mind, and given my specific circumstances, the question of strategy is inextricably tied to the resources in terms of time, efforts and funds that I will be able to devote to this attempt to achieve what I have in mind ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A better SET - yes, Yes! YES!!! by Romy the Cat on 2005-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better SET. in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Yahoo! I was able eventfully to educate myself how to get out of the “Melquíades” the sound that I needed (using some blood injections from Dima)! Now the project with  the “Melquíades” amps is slowly converting from a labor to a pleasure! “In ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: About the LF in multi-channel DSET by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
Yes, Jessie, but in case you decide to go for DSET, would it be multi-channel Melquiades or anything else, then your consideration for type and topology of the lower bass would greatly dictate requirements for your DSET. If your lower bass channels r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
As some of you know I’m playing last couple days with Red 10” Tannoys from 60s. My selection of 10” was not accidental -I would like to get as less as possible of that “Tannoy bass” but I did run very far  the “Reds” turned out to have 27Hz open...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: It will be probably two bass channels. by Romy the Cat on 2016-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, perhaps your ScanSpeak arrays are a +/- natural fit for mid-bass? If you used them for that you might also push them down a little until you got your ULF solution. The "nice" thing about this is, you might use something r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: Measured from? by anthony on 2017-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I will be moving to 8.5 -8.5 configuration as I feel it is more suitable.  No matter how large the room is I feel more comfortable with shaping Sound in a small area. [/quote]Romy, is this 8.5 feet measured from the driv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A turntable platter as a turbine? by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A turntable platter as a turbine? in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
If you read my site and are accustomed to some off the wall ideas that sometimes popup to my heard then you did not heard about the latest one, the most moronic of all.  I have to preface it by saying that I do not looking for any TT improvements. I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #170: Owning a expensive Turntable by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"] None of these owners bought it because they can hear a difference, they are absolutely not interested in that and they have absolutely no idea about it!! They bought it as a toy and to get a position in an audiophile community a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Let see how it goes.... by Romy the Cat on 2016-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Corner Speakers for a new music room in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
I have my Cetla 91 that I might use but they are too big and too demanding. The idea is to have a corner speaker with small footprint  and use the enclosure highs do develop bass. In the room like this bass will be dissipating very dramatically, so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The show rooms sound. by Romy the Cat 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 
Interesting that you post illustrates perfectly the notion of multi-amping advantage.  A few years bask when I still was going to all those hi-fi show I proposed a notion that a room that has 50-500Hz properly dialed to a given room has with all ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #170: A certain amount of ballast by jessie.dazzle on 2010-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Romy,  Selling the heavy stuff would be smart... Wait a minute; its all heavy. The ULF modules would be fairly easy to recreate; in any case, I want to redo the enclosures using different materials, so this part of it makes sense to me.   I'm not ent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #349: Good signs by jessie.dazzle on 2010-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Excellent news regarding this morning's discoveries. jd wrote:"...Are you able to say whether the problem is due to the horn position relative to the room, or to throat diameter relative to the driver diameter?..."Yes, a stupidly phrased question, bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Yes, your are. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="Greg B"]http://www.modernsolutions.com/artichoke/images/hornbwfront.jpghttp://www.modernsolutions.com/artichoke/images/hornside.jpghttp://www.modernsolutions.com/artichoke/images/horndan.jpgOK, here is my attempt at the big white trash s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Greets, Romy.. I built some 48Hz straight horns... by Jeffrey Jackson on 2005-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
first post... but I recognize quite a few friends here.. so, my straight horns... I like them very much.. I built mine similar in style to what Greg B linked, but obviously much smaller.. mine are just under eight feet long (length of a sheet&nb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: Can a bad floor be cured by gain/power? by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Well, in context of a full-range speaker, like largest Wilsons or the similar, the answer would be unquestionably no.  Even if we biamp those speakers then the LF still is too wide bandwidth and too geographically bind to the MF section.  The wor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Recoup the energy by anthony on 2024-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My new “New” listening room, 2024 in Audio Discussions  31 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1)    Since you use the injection channel, stop using it. The injection channel was a ridiculous idea with exceptionally beneficial results, but now I have found it better. You have two Tannoy Red 10 drivers. Use the HF...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Dynamic consistency by noviygera on 2011-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] noviygera wrote:p.s from my experience of having a 500 sq. ft. listening room with 7 ft. ceiling and having two 18" woofers in a infinite baffle configuration, it is not enough to pressurize the room. I am talking about lo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Schröder SetUp by bernie_f on 2009-12-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schroder Tonearms in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
Hi Romy.I completely agree with you regarding the VTA <-> VTF relation on every arm out there (the lever rule also seems to work with tonearms ;-)). Also i agree that if you want the correct absolute measurement of VTF you have to do it on the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Driving me nuts... by scooter on 2009-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who owns what in FM in Off Air Audio  5 Replies 
Dear Romy: I have noticed this problem and it drives me absolutely nuts to the point where when listening all I can think about is how misbalanced the levels are...then I just change the station. This is not a small nitpicker issue but so blatant...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Another chapter or life: the married smoking by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner and women in Musical Discussions  46 Replies 
To me there is absolutely nothing as high as the last 1-2 inch of Cohiba. I do not do any drugs, hardly ever drink but the last inch of Cohiba thrown me absolutely off cliff and I for a good 10-15 minutes drifting somewhere between “here” and “there”...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Now Concert Halls Pay House Calls by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
SOUND; Now Concert Halls Pay House Calls By Hans Fantel March 19, 1989 Playing symphonic music in the living room defies the natural order of things. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Relative scale of acoustic system vs. room by jessie.dazzle on 2009-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo: new horizons. A few thoughts in context Zander’s B5 in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Romy wrote : "...to my big surprise I hear the most proper events stopping effect in …. headphones, or in an environment that has a lot of issuers with reverberation decays..." I've made this observation when listening to music in very small ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Disagree . . . by scooter on 2012-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to make money in Audio in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
I "get" the attraction in selling a few Milqs. But. . .  1. What is the likelihood of the Milqs becoming part of a good entire system? 10%? 5%? less? So what is the point?2. An average "garden variety" professional consultant / law partner bills at $...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: How long will it take? by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Make you bids ladies and gentlemen – how long would take to complete my midbass horn. We broke the wall last Fridays and this Friday we made firth plywood cut. When I said “we” I meant truly not my carpenter and me but just my carpenter as my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Yes , but…. by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Yes, the bottom response is about right. There is a thing about the bottom response, I might be a bit in unchartered territory as I do not know how properly calibrated your measurement devise and many other conditions that might affect the measur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #101: My favorite seat by drdna on 2021-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]This is one of the aspects of being a "conductor". Very immediate sound, little early reflections or concert hall - everything is "overly" dynamic. When we compare this to being in the audience, each instrument group behaves in di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Speakers positioning and listening objectives by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression in Playback Listening  23 Replies 
[quote user="Hugh"]The rewards of ideal speaker placement is something I've experienced as well and perhaps is related to DPLOS or possbily audio-moronism.  While not easy to find or predictable between speaker brands the result is consistant.&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: Why yellow driver and horns only for bass by Murataltuev on 2017-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
Romy, I'm very proud that you are following me and commenting my achievements.I just don't understand why you are doing it in a manner that you are the one and others are idiots and morons. If you don't understand others, you can ask them questions. ...
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