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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Andrew's new 4-way horn using Stereolabs stone horns and DIY bass by atilsley169 on 2012-06-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Andrew's new 4-way horn using Stereolabs stone horns and DIY... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  43 Replies 
Hi Romy…and fellow audio nutters.   I’ve bitten the bullet, and shifted from BLH to front-loaded. Yes, I was an idiot, a moron for not doing this sooner.   My project is ‘humble’ by Romy’s standard…but I feel it meets the following objectives I h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: DIY multicellular horn by rottbull on 2013-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DIY multicellular horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
hello everybody I am interrested by manufacturing this type of multicellular horn and I would like to know who you would parmit the worksheet for this type of cab [url=http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1172&u=11328848][img]http://i55.ser...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: What did you mean to say? by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Commercial finished horn speakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
[quote user="harold"]I heard a friend's horn system recently and was very impressed. I don't have the resources to put together a diy system as discussed here, amazing as they seem, but am looking for recommendations for commercially available finish...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Do not build horn, build "something else"….. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Jessie, 45Hz horn with 6”-7” throat around AK151 driver is from my perspective is the best thing might be theoretically built around a cone driver. I really envy of you and if I had room I would unquestionably go for it; this is why I keep a pair of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Did You Already Cite Your Own Example? by Paul S on 2012-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Anything wrong with wide bandwidth horns? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
Gera, isn't the basic idea of the [front loaded] horn to provide shaped, increasing gain as the frequency drops?  So, is the idea here to use several wide-range drivers that all need similar boost, or ???If to reverse engineer such a thing, what are ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #101: Trial and Error by Kcct82 on 2011-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Hi Romy,Well, this is my (and my dad's) first horn system so we're learning/building one step at a time. Our motivation is simple, to use horns as low as possible.The very first DIY configuration was:TAD ET-703TAD 4002GOTO 505TTTAD 1603 Woo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Summary by Rewind on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as op... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Thanks for the detailed answers. I will explain my setup.You are right about the dipole bass correction instead of the injection channel. Since I am waiting for both a subwoofer and the Fane Studio 8M and their horn, I am using the 12" as a b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: LV horn by Amir on 2019-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How difficult is it to achieve Vox Olympian sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
I guess some audiophiles like me follow this site and they would like have a Good horn but they can not pay 750k$ For it.Horn DIY is not a simple project but i think i will put my effort to build a 4 way horn system because there is no other way....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: 2490 found! by Murataltuev on 2015-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
I found 2490, so very soon I'll test how low it can go in JBLs 1x1m mouth horn designed for 2490.Also I've decided to order 270hz LeCleac'h horn from Poland (http://horns-diy.pl/horns/jmlc/jmlc-270/).If it works well with 2490, I order custom 240hz f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Commercial finished horn speakers by harold on 2013-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Commercial finished horn speakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
I heard a friend's horn system recently and was very impressed. I don't have the resources to put together a diy system as discussed here, amazing as they seem, but am looking for recommendations for commercially available finished horn speakers that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Feedback by Arno P on 2011-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 3.5m Tractrix Horn Project (AKA RAINDOG) in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Arno, I am sorry but I am not quite following what you would like to hear from me.  I am sure you are involved in a fascinating project and I truly wish you to have fun to render it. Unfortunately I do not like the speaker ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Do not build horn, build "something else"….. by Wojtek on 2006-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote]Also, Jessie, there is another very important point. A construction of your systems should not be a pure DIY efforts or it will be just another stupid DIY project. Your should have none-DIY objectives and use those horns to resolve those none-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Some analysis of the Joe’s system. by Romy the Cat on 2019-12-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some analysis of the Joe’s system. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
I was pointed out to Steve Guttenberg’s video “Meet Joe, and his amazing DIY horn speakers” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoCVw2AJRc.     I would like to provide some commentary regarding what I observed in there.  Steve Guttenberg is an in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A journey of a thousand channels begins with four driver by nietzscheflake on 2010-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Romy says:"Then you can get some kind 250Hz -350Hz horn and would load it with whatever driver you like"manisandher wrote: "For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Michelin horns by decoud on 2009-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michelin horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
Apologies for DIY flavour, but what, I wonder, do people make of the following technique for damping relatively thin-walled large horns, in pseudocode...For horn length x = at throat to at mouth     Take a length of y mm diameter braided cable sleevi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Macondo Loudspeaker in munich show by Amir on 2023-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
I have thought many times about trying to have an Audio System like Macondo Horn Loudspeaker System and if I could get good result then I will demo it in munich high end show.this is a big project for me because I am not expert and I have no DIY expe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: GOTO's price politic as GOTO primary deterrence. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
I would like to make a few comments about the entire idea of those expensive Japanese compression drivers: GOTO, ALE and alike. I have voiced the near-similar outlook about the irrational exuberance that some audio people express about electromagnet ...

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 #1: How does it sound? by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How does it sound? in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
I got an email from… I do not from whom, somebody from internet. The guy sounds like build his home inhalation and considering some bass horns. He read at my site about my midbass horn project. He was inquiring how my midbass horns sound and if i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: One year passed... by Newtohorn on 2019-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How difficult is it to achieve Vox Olympian sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Well, it is maybe one year from my initial post.  I have not pursued the horn route basically because in the past year I have not heard any horn system that sounded like the Olympian.  Given the time constraint, I did not want to pursue the DIY route...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Relevant Reading vs. Satisfaction by Paul S on 2021-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 3 way Tractrix Horn Build Questions - and Introduction! in Horn-Loaded Speakers  20 Replies 
There is so much material worth reading here that it would be hard to list it, and not all the important material is where one might presuppose to find it. Romy hinted at this when he suggested, broadly, that you take a "wholistic" approach. There is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Andrew's new 4-way horn using Stereolabs stone horns and DIY bass by atilsley169 on 2012-06-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Andrew's new 4-way horn using Stereolabs stone horns and DIY... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  43 Replies 
Hi Romy…and fellow audio nutters.   I’ve bitten the bullet, and shifted from BLH to front-loaded. Yes, I was an idiot, a moron for not doing this sooner.   My project is ‘humble’ by Romy’s standard…but I feel it meets the following objectives I h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Silbatone by Stitch on 2012-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End 2012 in Germany in Audio News  36 Replies 
Well, I didn't come so close to answer your question right.I saw a few from the German DIY scenery and for them it was like the return of Jesus, best sound on PlanetBut probably they are still deaf as usual, because the Frequency step ups are limited...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: It has nothing to do with DPoLS. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  35 Replies 
Twogoodears, What you are experimentation now has yet nothing to do with DPoLS. You deal with the relatively rudimental ceremony of speaker positioning. It is not even close to the subject of DPoLS but it is also greatly neglected by majority of peop...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Mangerhorn by moreart on 2010-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
Hello,i constructed a Mangerhorn 1984,manger bought the lizence 1994what i don´t understand by silbatone Manger hornNO measurement, No IMPData:• 8 ohm, 93 dB/1W, Max. SPL - 120dbi never get more than 95 dB max.and 1W1m 90 dBand the lense IMHO...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Transition piece by Wojtek on 2010-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Can't help with the plywood source , I'd like to buy some for myself for that price . Transition piece I'd do from stacked plywood layers screwed and glued together and cut with jigsaw. The way John Hasquin built your upperbass horns .He posted t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #235: The smart reasons for my stupid hope. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-08 
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="unicon"] If I were you I would set up all things so that when the mid bass is in his place i can reconfigure the baffle tightness by using a huge DIY made screwdriver from the opening mouth...or wherever it can be reachable then ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Cessaro horns visit by coops on 2007-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  231 Replies 
Yes primarily i viseted Thomas to compare tonearms, he has a couple of Schroeders, the new graham Phantom ( mark III ) a vintage Ortofon amongst others. and he has a fine collection of cartridges, as I mentioned he is a very nice guy, The real surpri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The midbass merge and about the new environment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-09 
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"]La Grande Castine will not be as expensive as Cessaro Gamma. i am sorry but i cannot answer to all questions, for several reasons you can understand.we have tested many drivers since the early prototype of La Grande Ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. by Romy the Cat on 2016-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
I sometimes visit an Australian site and familiarize myself with progress of “acg” who it trying to build Macondo like acoustic system.   http://www.stereo.net.au/forums/index.php/topic/75784-deep-end-diy-my-first-speaker-project   A few weeks a...
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