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In the Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems
Post Subject: Some sharing....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/1/2021
+++ Going back in time to your Super Macondo with the midbass horn, I'm wondering how did the big horn influence your perception of Macondo sound if you remember?
Yes, it is very very good question and essentially the question which relates to the birth Remedies.
Let's start from beginning. I am very much like you admire myself for idea how I implemented my mid-basss horn. To have this huge machinery completely invisible in listening room was a great accomplishment and it is no surprise that I was looking for a house to buy for a year. I have written in the past that when the first time come to that house during open house event I saw that triangular wall and the size of the living room the next few years of my life immediately formulated in my head. Furthermore, even my Carpenter admired my project. She is very smart guy, who actually built theatrical decorations around the world and to be still when we meet each other we still remind ourselves how great that project was.
Regarding the sound. The midbass horn was fine and was certainly superbly usable. Was it absolutely perfect? I would say no and there are multiple reasons which has nothing to do with horn concepts. It was driven by bass channel of Milq and it's required to have different output transformer. Since I used what I had in my view the bass driver was loading the amplifier too much. I did change it once it was not enough and I did not go for further experiments as it is too much efforts. Also, in my view, I did not have good lowest frequency channel to be able to support that horn. Still. was still very good but I did heard better midbass sound from this driver under different circumstances. If see, even my blackbak in my former listening room was solidified and pretty much did not change from my listening room in Boston, there were always some kind of actions with this. It did not prevent me to listen my music but purely from other perspective over the course of 6 years that I lived there there was one single night, and I very much remember it was a new year night 2012, when my installation sounded from my perspective absolutely not compromised, and in fact it was one of the best sounds I ever heard in my life from any installation. I was so shocked with the result that I was getting that I even sent a few emails to other people is whom I not in a good friendship and said set results that I was getting is UNESCO level event and if they would like I would permit them in my listening room. So only best result I ever heard in my life it was when I lived in the city and my avant-garde horns, driven by lamm solid state electronics accidentally hit DPoLS for 2 days. Still, as you can understand to live in a place for 6 years and to have one single listening night when playback sounded the way how I want is not too exciting.
I do not have mid midbass hon since 2016 and I always thought that I will be missing it. To my huge surprise I didn't. I stuck the same mid bass driver into sealed enclosure and I use it as direct radiator driven by is the same Milq bass channel, only now the driver does not have throat reaction. I very much like the result but here I have infinite buffle low frequency channel is that acts remarkably similar and remarkably different than humongous base horns. It is very difficult to equate everything and bring to a common denominator. They are all different but they are not necessary better than worse.
Here is where the whole notion of Remedies come from, from desire to stabilize environment and make it super simple. For the last couple years I have a numerous of visitors included my close friends who stopped by to listen and for one or other reasons system were not apparatable. I am so confident that my Macondo produces wonderful result that in many instances I did not even acknowledge that same thing is wrong. It's a very last time a guy come to hear my new Dynalavys and I was so confident that they do spectacular job that I failed to acknowledge that I connected right and left channels to same Mono amplifier and while guy complained about Mono sound I did not take it close to my mind. One of the amazing things that hugely attracted me in Dannoy voice that I have two black box of the shelf amplifiers connected to to a pair of black box speakers, does that have no variance and I have some kind of default sound that I consider a remarkably good and not abusive for my perception. I hope I did share my feelings accurately
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