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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Enabled Lowther drivers by Retsel on 2008-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
I just found this thread and can comment on the Enabled DX4s.  Limono (Wojtek) very gratiously loaned his Enabled 8 ohm Lowther DX4 drivers to me this past summer (summer of 2008).  It took my a while to make the crossover for these (I have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Terminations by be on 2008-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
The Enable patterns are efficient on a loudspeaker membrane because there is a strong structural coupling of the transversal sound waves in the membrane it self and the additional mass and damping of the spots.In this case the situation is different,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: It is not only amplification… by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Full range Melquiades implementation in Melquiades Amplifier  81 Replies 
The matter of serious musicians endorsing playback is a completely separate subject that has very little to do with audio. Regarding the amplification and large complex music – this is not only amplification. I wish I could have an amp that would do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Placement of ULF #2 by JJ Triode on 2010-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Romy,How about putting bass tower #2 directly behind#1, but facing the opposite direction from #1?  This would keep #2 away from the turntable, yield a symmetrical setup and enable #2 to energize the hot spot around your chair.Note, I'm not sure whic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: Cost benefit analysis of midbass horns v/s compromised ULF by oxric 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="Romy the Cat"]I do feel that a playback sound has to be built first...The way how I trained myself is to disconnect channels. While I was making Macondo, installing it, moving it and experimenting with it I was frequently disconnecting c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Vitavox are 'Go!' And the 'democratisation' of horn loudspeakers. by oxric 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 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]In the few converstaions I've had with him, Mike seems totally sincere and, as I've mentioned before, I very much hope he will one day come through.jd*[/quote]Well Jessie, it looks like your wish has come true. The Vitavox...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Macondo topology and room. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5-ways from Speedysteve7 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
I know it is a difficult subject but as it has to do less with audio but more with life priorities. Still, the practice indicates that the short-wall installations for acoustic systems of the topology that Steve is trying to make will never work. Sur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Similar ideas by JJ Triode on 2013-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The open project: a lateral cross-injection. in Playback Listening  25 Replies 
The old Dynaquad system involved using the L-R difference signal, but produced at speaker level across a pair of rear speakers (L-R in one and R-L in the other.)Decware has one amp (the "Taboo") that can be operated in what they call "lucid mode" whe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Why I like the like the location #1 by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="JJ Triode"]Romy,How about putting bass tower #2 directly behind#1, but facing the opposite direction from #1?  This would keep #2 away from the turntable, yield a symmetrical setup and enable #2 to energize the hot spot around your chair...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Multi-amping with DSETs by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A DSET is better then an expensive SET in Audio For Dummies ™  41 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] And the explorations that led you from the original Melquiades to this current set-up are well-documented over a period on months.  Still, it might be instructive (to me at least) to hear concisely stated your dissatisfactio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: It is more like an audio realism. by Thorsten on 2005-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio D... in Didital Things  9 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I mean that EQ is a fine “tactical solution” but it a very bad strategic direction. [/quote] I guess the question of the strategic value is dependent on the strategy.[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Look, there ar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #134: About me, MiniMe, love and anything else. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Well, the points you bring up are valid but as anything else it all highlight problems with people not with equipment. I am not sure that I am glad with my decisiveness and sanity in MiniMe projects. I was trying to rationalize the MiniMe idea in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Email from Production Manager of Fane International by oxric on 2011-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
As I mentioned above, I talked to the manager of Fane International and asked for further assurances in writing that these new drivers would use exactly the same parts  as the vintage drivers. I am quoting from the email, and I hope this will provide...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Rca 1443 continued by cv on 2009-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
No, the 1443 is also a field coil, just a different voltage.Re: the configuration - indeed; I am hoping to get 300Hz with the RCA, then the S2 from between 1k-1500 and up, + tweeter. Below the RCA willbe a compromise to begin with, but hope...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: It looks like Brits will fold first…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It looks like Brits will fold first…. in Off Air Audio  0 Replies 
DIGITAL BRITAIN: Government sets 2015 as digital radio switchover date LONDON - All radio stations broadcasting on national and local DAB multiplexes will cease being broadcast via FM by the end of 2015, according to the Digita...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to paint Multicell horns? by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to paint Multicell horns? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
I have ongoing project going for a while. I guy in Europe built for me 18-cell 183Hz horn for S3 driver. It is not that I am a huge Multicell fan, quite opposite but for sun 1.000Hz channel I think it might work. In addition I wanted to have Exponent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #436: Positive Indicators by Paul S on 2010-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Suburbs or not, there's no telling how the power the utility serves up will sound at any given moment, but a Master Electrician is likely to have followed best practices with respect to routing and connections, which will absolutely enable one to mak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Very informative by montepilot on 2009-05-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the undeveloped audio installations. in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
I no doubt fall into the category of the 70%.  My playback has not been as satisfying as I would like.  Many of us do not know where to turn when we hit a brick wall with extracting the best results. The default reaction is to look for a piece of equ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #136: Magic Foo by anthony on 2021-11-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] .. what I am saying that playback certainly deliver sound but also it delivers let's call it at lubrication for sound which make consumption of Sonic messages to be more palatable for our conscious. This aspect, is this MS...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: I think it will take another month. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Scooter, I know what you ask. I wish I have a cleared time to deal with audio. Unfortunately since my move I am engaged into a chain of events that has nothing to do with audio and that I do not particularly enjoy, but I need to do it now. This stupi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Thinking more about the Ortofone Jubilee’s bass by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
This is very interring subject for me to think about. I even mounted 901 on another arm of mine as I would like to explore this topic more. Even though Jubilee is not broken-in yet but it is clearly that it has “less bass”, that last sensational “spa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #773: The second, upgraded PP2000 is in and up by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I got today my second PP2000. This was the worst sounding unit, the one that I used for over 2 year, was fine then was upgraded to the new version and lost it sound. The first fix of the upgraded unit was not successful but this last one looks like m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Spacing between drivers in vertical bass array. by oxric on 2011-09-24 
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"]Here is the idea that I had for the “ultimate bass” for my room. Below is the picture of Macondo one channel as it is now from my listening position. So, if I find a way to deal with the wall edge at my ceiling  then I migh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The Fan groups! by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rim drive? in Analog Playback  20 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"] Today every Design (even the most stupid ones) will have - or have - a Fan group. [/quote] Actually I think the subject of forming those fan groups around some brainless ideas and inadequate results is a very interesting topic. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A single ultimate arm... by Romy the Cat on 2004-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]The Ultimate turntable only needs to provide for one arm. The ultimate arm. Why compromise its performance with various inferior arm designs.[/quote] Well, certainly a single ultimate arm would be a good thing but I still w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: What to do with Pacific Microsonics? by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
Since Pacific lost it’s battle to Lavry AD122 as AD converter I was wondering what I might do with this possessor. My initials sentiment was to sell but Pacific to my large surprise turned out to be a very good CD-level DAC. In fact it is so good 16B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: The Jubilee’s bass is rehabilitated by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This is very interring subject for me to think about. I even mounted 901 on another arm of mine as I would like to explore this topic more. Even though Jubilee is not broken-in yet but it is clearly that it has “less bass”,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #159: Crane and Rolling Scaffold by Paul S on 2010-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Yes, that's exactly the "cable forklift" I was referring to.  You really don't want to go 24' with one, but that is not a concern for you.  The lifting cable is scary thin, and the thing is a wild ride at its load limit!  Unless they've changed the d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I think "the Russian" is simply trying to control diffractio... by rickmcinnis on 2011-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
I have used thick wool felt around the perimeter of my round horns at times.  Having owned a pair of ROGERS LS3/5a's in my youth and being amazed at the huge sound those little speakers could effect one tries to re-use ideas.  Diffraction control is ...

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 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
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...
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