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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: It look like the project progress well by Romy the Cat on 2017-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
It look like the project progress well. I have a little concern about heat the will be building up in your PS enclosure. I do not know what kind ventilation hole you have in there but be advised that it will be quite hot. In worst case you mig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Not proving anything but a challenge. by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] Firstly, the costs involved and the real chance that this project might not work make this project statistically a horrible waste of money, time and resources which could be better spent in pursuing other solutions which are ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Thanks.... by Romy the Cat on 2018-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="martinshorn"]It was nice to talk to the Son and engineer providing proud all details with glow in the eyes, instead of rejecting like other companies "this is proprietary secret". You can really see they love what theyre doing  [/quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mid-bass Hornresp (V51.30) simulations by koh123 on 2021-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mid-bass Hornresp (V51.30) simulations in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
I am going to show two different simulations for a 105Hz tractrix horn with the same 8”driver (B&C 8PE21).  The parameter values for these two simulations are quite different.   However the simulations predict the same great flat fre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: I have my reasons. by Romy the Cat on 2023-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
[quote user="ArmAlex"] Hi Romy, In this picture it looks that attic opening's distance to listening position is very close to distance of chair to the main speakers. Time alignment?[/quote]ArmAlex, very good question. The position of the exit of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Another more or less reasonable attempt using Goto. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="tuyen"]This is my current 4-way GOTO setup. I know it is in no way optimal but I am interested to find ways I can improve it's layout. GOTO SG-38WN woofer in 360L onken cabinetGOTO SG-505TT mid-low driver with Azurahorn AH-160 ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: About bandwidth of Ultimate MF Compression Driver by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I will slowly upload, as time permits to write them, different posts on the subject of Ultimate MF Compression Driver.  [/quote] The subject of bandwidth for Ultimate MF Compression Driver is complicated subject. If ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
This time from Germany and this time the pattern is very much the similar to the patterns of any other company that sell electromagnet fro Hi-Fi: the semi-idiotic statements-claims meant to impress uninformed peoples and no credible claims about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Tweeter reply by audiofilofine on 2011-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The African compression electromagnet drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  42 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have a few comments and questions. First about the posting. I guess you are from Italy and your use some kind of text editors that user a lot styles that are not renders properly a browser with western meetings. I just wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: About Pham’s playback. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pham Thanh Cuong's playback from Vietnam. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
 A few things I would like to say in context of Pham’s playback. I will leave his infatuation with turntables alone – man like to collect turntables and he within his constitutional right to do whatever makes him happy. The problem that I see ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: JMLC comments on S2 in Stereolab Tractrix horn by oxric on 2010-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: French Horns/drivers shootout (oops! S2 came last) in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
Thankfully, JMLC chose to use english  as the common language for he event, not altogether surprising given the many nationalities that probably attended.JMLC writes: "N°13 : Stereolab tractrix horn + Vitavox S2 driver ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Part 2 – Description and explanation by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting more from MF channel: AMI™ solution in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Part 2 – Description and explanation Anyone who have ears and a rudimental mind to understand what ears register, and anyone among them who played with MF channels driven by SET, know that subject of SET loading is imperative. Let take for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo 2.0? by Romy the Cat on 2022-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
I need to say that I miss my Macondo sound, not the sound itself but an ability to push a button and have predictably good sound. However, from the place where I'm staying now, I feel that to have just Macondo result is not enough for me. I would ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #147: OK, good luck. by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Murataltuev"]Yes, back chamber is very small. And it is tunable! So, I need 110Hz Tractrix...ok[/quote] You might tune the Fs by using a acoustically semitransparent fabric, like Audiotechnica does in their headphones. About the si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #266: The unexpected resolution of AC vs. DC quandary. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Well, I have to admit that I did not listen the whole sound of AC vs. DC filaments yet.  I will bring home today my DC lab supply that I use for my electromagnet coil and will give the try. I still at this point am not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #364: Ho to use the YO186 by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if it might valuable for anybody. It looks like no one use YO186 on West. There are ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Eben X-3 loudspeakers - you know, for kids. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eben X-3 loudspeakers - you know, for kids. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Once again, it is not about the loudspeakers but about the idiots who put themselves in position of shaping public opinion by expressing the “expert” view.  Yes, I am taking about the Morons who write those audio reviews. A new Danish 90db sensi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #283: The back chambers are done. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
OK, now I am happier as I did my duty and the back chambers are ready to be attached to the horns and to be lifted up. Yesterday I spent 5 hours trying to build the back chamber displacement that Jessie and my carpenter recommended me. I bought t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Continued Development : Horns : Frame : Xovers by jessie.dazzle on 2007-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] "...Jessie, I pulled posts from Macondo Axioms thread and encapsulated them onto a new thread dedicated explicitly to your project. I hope you do not mind..."No problem... I was actually starting to feel a bit apprehensi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #345: The another day of midbass. by Romy the Cat 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 
OK, this morning I tuned the playback and did some listing, trying to understand what was the problem. Sound was not just bad but it was very strange, it was almost as a mechanical replica of sound. I took my phase meter trying to set horns in ph...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #372: The most important thing: dark side of the bass by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, I did not mention the most important thing about my new midbass horn. This most important and the most astonishing   new characteristic of Sound I did not pursue and I got it purely accidently. I did not talk ab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: I would not worry about it. Set it once and forget. by Romy the Cat on 2015-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Back chamber in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]1. Let's say the my original back chamber from the manufacturer is a good "starting point". Is Romy saying that those last few hertz of the fine tuning of the chamber volume are very important and audible, in other words th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Some more background on that system by martinshorn on 2018-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
Hi Romy, Again, good words (don't want to kiss your ass ;) ). Though, I get your point and agree, one should not think that this winter picture means Goto sound cold (u never know what one could read out of it) . What Klaus also highlighted, is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: 1st priority: Upperbass and MF by Murataltuev on 2015-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not understand what does it mean. Are you saying that you lost bottom response with closed exit hole on the driver back? If with the closed drift from back you have a (loaded!) response  no lower than 200Hz then it i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Corrections & thoughts on drivers perception by jessie.dazzle on 2007-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
I was thinking about what I previously wrote while driving today... thinking about the way people "see" the function of a driver... and about resonant properties of various materials used for speaker cones... I think it is more interesting than compa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: My rebuttle by ShuffleSk8Ter on 2013-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why Horn loaded systems?! in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
quote:1:Deciding for horns is actually very easy. Why:1) in the common sense range for each horn/driver they have far LESS distortion than any standard dynamic driver covering the same bandwidth. I define distortion as frequencies not originall...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Long Range Acoustic Device – how do they work? by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Long Range Acoustic Device – how do they work? in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
There is a family of sonic weapons: http://defense-update.com/products/l/LRAD.htm http://www.lradx.com/site/content/view/2016/110/ I wonder what kind principle they use to keep sound radiated at narrow angle at high d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The prison of language and the lie in the symbol by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
I would agree that the Lowther is not hard to beat but the question is where and in whose mind does this competition exist? Is the Lowther, Manger, or other full range single driver in competition with different multi-driver approaches, other single ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: More Horns propaganda by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some Horns propaganda in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Another particle of a good Horn Propaganda. It was published in Sound Practices in 1994 and written by Joe Roberts. I disagree with quite many of the author’s statements but his strategic view that the majority of the horns and the horn installations...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #357: The era of enlightenment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The events of the last 3 days are incredibly stupid, incredibly interesting and very educational. During the last few days I have discovered some very interesting phenomena, ok might be no a phenomena but a behavior, th...
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