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In the Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits
Post Subject: Classy and sophisticated Romy.Posted by oxric on: 9/24/2011
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 Romy the Cat wrote:


This is all because you are a primitive person with very simplistic and amateurish understanding of many things. You need to learn from much more sophisticated people, of cause I mean myself.  Take a look: I do not run like a wounded in the ass antelope across web, soliciting drivers, negotiating with dealers, forming group buys, shipping those heavy boxes and printing labels. I am much more classy then that. I am blabbering at my site about some kind of drivers, make a few pictures and drop the names of Bruckner, Gurdjieff and Kant along the lines. The simple audio people out there get scared, run to snatch the drivers. In a few months or years they come to me, complain that it was shit. Then I am making that companionably-suffering face and "agree" to take the drivers from their hands. This way I have half of the price and free delivery. You see, THAT is the way how the real professionals are operating.
 
The Cat


Romy,


I have never doubted for one little moment that you were one of the most sophisticated, classy individual I have not had the pleasure to meet!

I would like to say something about being called simplistic and amateurish. I like simplicity of purpose and elegance of solutions and in many ways a multi-channel system enables one to combine, paradoxically, sophistication and simplicity. So being simplistic and seeking simple solutions as opposed to being a simpleton which you clearly are when it comes to normal human interaction, is for me worthy praise indeed. That is why I started to explore this avenue only last year as opposed to you who have spent thousands of hours developing and posting about your audio system. I have no such time, will never have it and so must accept grudgingly the accusation of being and intending to remain an amateur.

I do not see the relevance of the Fane Group Buy to this thread which was if you remember about the use of the Scanspeak drivers in Haralanov's system. My query was adressed to him, and my intention was to find out what were the results of his project. You decided to jump in with your slanted configuration for LF in Macondo, maybe a post which really ought to have been made at a more appropriate location on your forum.

So to go back, clearly we are not talking about a line array at the relevant frequencies we are dealing with. See the part on your website where you describe your LF module:

"The Macondo’s Bass Channel is line arrays. The arrays employ religiously-sealed enclosures with six “spotted” Scan Speak 25W/8565-00 drivers per channel... "

Clearly you had written this at a time when you did not really understand or appreciate the concept of line arrays, or you were not able to express yourself very clearly. In any case, the construction aspects of mounting drivers in a tight space whilst maintaining rigidity are perfectly within the building skills of any good carpenter or talented diyer such as yourself. I do not think one would need to go to the expense of using aluminium whether one uses modules or not but certainly in the case of modules construction is evidently that much easier. And since you mentioned a tower height of 110" I thought it made sense to have 12 drivers where you were planning to have 8. Anyway, that's what I would do. And with regard to slanting the front baffle, I find the idea slightly odd because of the reflections at floor level for the lowest drivers.

Best regards
Rakesh



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