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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Further thoughts by guy sergeant on 2014-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
The demonstration of the WE equipment was impressive as was looking closely at how these horns were constructed.  The arrangement (originally it would have been mono) was to provide the audience seated both in the stalls or circle with an evenly bala...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #150: Looks that way... by dkarmeli on 2014-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"] Going in circles is bad for your health. Just like every other thread on expensive gear, the name calling starts where the good reason stops.Regardless of how we calculate, 100K is artificial because there are people willing to p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Silbatone electronics. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-09 
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The el`Ol’s comments about Cessaro did not find a proper electronics to drive this TAD made me to ask: what electronics Silbatone uses? It never was part of attention of anybody and regardless if Silbatone demonstrate god or bad sound it might be int...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Electrostats by Amir on 2023-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] Amir wrote:Funny video from Acoustical systems and Wilson Benesch Turntable systems, lots of marketing hype in their presentation and finally the sound is dead crap.Wilson Benesch Marketing hype: "the future is carbon" finally yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #109: The art of the trade-show listening. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-24 
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[quote user="el`Ol"] ....and so I didn´t take a seat in these rooms, too.[/quote] Guys, first of all I think we all will win if you will stop to use the site as a public instant messaging servise and will consider uploading a complete and developed s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #136: The “wrong secrets” and the marketing BS by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
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[quote user="coops"]Romy Hi, I didn't particularly set out to 'demean' Avantgarde, they have a good business model, I don't believe it is a secret that they modify conventional drivers, I simply mean that the constituent parts of a Cessaro horn ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #172: Cessaro Gamma modification. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-23 
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There was some kind of hi-fi show in Gernany and it looks like Cessaro showed off a new version of Gamma. They look like change the frame. I really do not like what they look now. They look heavier with new frame and much less elegant. They looks lik...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: TADs, Cessaros and... it was not me... by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-11 
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[quote user="NBC"]Hi Romy, Since you have certain opinions on TAD/Beryllium sound, Im curious: 1) Which TAD drivers you evaluated (2001, 2002, 4001, 4002, 4003) ? 2) With what Fc horns? 3) With what horn materials? 4) With what Xovers? [/quote]Neil,&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: The Cessaro Gamma tweeter criticism + some solutions. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-01 
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Coops, I less care about the attacks on me, I know that I am a pH-indicator of Moronity among audio freaks. So, if some specific idiots out there are not happy about me then… it is good for me. The higher we climb in mountains the stronger wind and l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: I think I have an orchesta in my head by Murataltuev on 2015-08-16 
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="Paul S"]Murat, this latest information from you has gotten you farther along than you might suppose at this time. From what you now say, it sounds like 6 months would be a minimum amount of time for you to spend getting a sense of the S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Now that's what I'm talkin' about! by jessie.dazzle on 2011-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Nice work; bravo Mike!  With regard to improvements to the S2: Apparently Romy's prayer, one of them anyway, has been heard and would seem to have been answered; a diaphragm-centering guide has at last been added. As for the rest (other improveme...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Knowledge Tree by de charlus on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Dear N-set,I do not set out to copy Romy's speaker installation for a number of reasons, foremost among which is that I have not heard it. I'm sure that it sounds excellent in his room and with his ancillaries, but since mine are/will be different, I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Vox Olympian by de charlus on 2013-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Romy,Thank you. Now that you mention it, perhaps 85% of the stateroom in question was indeed beneath the waterline, meaning that the potential for unruly resonances was perhaps less than I had at first assumed. The front and rear walls of the room we...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: How i perceive things by martinshorn on 2018-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Hi Romy, OK ill give you an idea: 1. The Vox Olympian. When i first visited, they played gentle music and classic. I was paralyzed by its ability to accentuate details like the touch-sound of piano solos (keys, pedal, hammer, body-borne etc). Or emot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Canadian Speaker Proposal by de charlus on 2013-06-21 
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Dear All,I wish to commence gathering the components and finding the craftsmen necessary for my DIY speaker project, but wished to bring my proposal before this forum in order to establish whether it's intrinsically worthy, and whether any simple imp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: The absolute prohibition! by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-02 
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="Paul S"]But doesn't putting the drivers on an inward-firing arc more or less shoot all the sound into a point, like the opposite of the Big Bang?[/quote] Paul, locating the horn channels on an inward-firing arc and targeting them to the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: The first order on the bass units. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-20 
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I do not want to go on tangent in this Cessaro Gammas thread, still what Merlin said deserves very much to be accented. I juts mention it once in here. The first order on the bass units is NOT an “unacceptable compromise”. If your bass section, the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Well, I feel that there are no other ways. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
[quote user="chaos"]macondo: searched it, but its far out;-) you and jezzie work on another base.[/quote] Klaus, it does not need to be searched - Macondo has own page: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/MacondoAcousticSystem.aspx I would like to note t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: It is depends of what you need. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Explain TAD ET-703 driver to me in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
Vasyachkin, I have different view about “modifying products” as any product is always implying something very generic but I have my own needs. Probably not “modifying” but adopting would be better but it is not the subject in here. If you read my s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Saturday? by anthony on 2018-05-18 
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[quote user="martinshorn"]So thinking stereophile was there thursday... [/quote]Reichert mentions Saturday twice in the article.  Not that is really matters.  He did not like them, the youtube video sounds horrible but you heard something interesting...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: DSET with horns made easy in Germany by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-19 
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Here it is, where the Cessaro folks should look and learn. Their cousins: The Berlin-based Martion Company produces Orgon system. The Orgon design and implementation are erroneous in many ways, however the Orgon system is 4-way playback with active c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Cessaro speakers and some other tidbits by morricab on 2007-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi Romy, I recently heard the smallest Cessaro and while I felt that the bass was not adequate for long term satisfaction it was also not a total disaster.  From the midbass on up; however, the speaker is simply superb and one of the very best h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: The Asian woman syndrome? by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-10 
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I remember I had an Asian girlfriend who was viciously trying to convince me that I was the best man in the world. She was 23 and I, listening her, was experiencing the incredible boredom... Anyhow, Keith, although I am not a big fun of Alpha-type o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: German Odeon horns. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: German Odeon horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
Here another horny “client” – German company “Odeon” http://www.odeon-audio.com/Look at those miserable Germans: the Avantgarde, Cessaro and Odeon! Wow, and it is from a country the size of New Jersey… :-) Of course I am kidding…  Dose anyone k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Prejudice vs experience... by martinshorn on 2018-05-14 
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Hi Romy Indeed you sound a little racist, but i think we all have our prejudice.  Funny enough, i didnt recognize nor cared, spotted the horn with my eyes, went in and listened.Now, read this carefully: I listened to the system with closed eyes, for ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Let see how it all work out. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
jd, I cannot see any of PDF files, probably my current networks kills them. I do not know the AK150 drivers. I know AK157, AK151 and K15/40. If they have significantly lower free-air resonance, at 30-35Hz then I am not sure that they would be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #227: Good question by Amir on 2024-08-16 
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[quote user="Paul S"] Everyone wants to know what’s the best. The next question is, best for what, and it goes on from there. Is it possible to lay out a significant context in a coherent, useable format in an open forum? If you think so, then ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Vox Olympian Audition by de charlus on 2013-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Recently, I was fortunate enough to have an extended listening session with the Living Voice Vox Olympian outside of a show environment. Since said listening session took place upon a boat – moreover, a wooden-bodied boat – under what can only be sai...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Horn is not Saddam – I feel it could be hanged. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"]Romy, I don't know what it is, but something bothers me about the way the upper horn hangs.  All other drivers are supported from bottom, that one from the top.  This is just gut, but it doesn't seem right to me. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The second "best" commercial horn speaker? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Marc HENRY"]hi all,thanks for your interest !yes the frame is curved, HF and MF are //yes there is a phase plug in the bass horn. This cover 80-300Hz.there is a separate infra-bass section, covering 20-80Hz.images of the bass phase p...
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