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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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fair enough- you're absolutely right, i didn't!it's difficult to get that perspective on sonics without legitimate guideposts-- even with a lifetime of playing and recording music, it's difficult to know what the parameters of recorded sound ar...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]A mid-bass horn for my Altec 515-8G drivers operating from 100-600hz [/quote]
Rony, I think your wish to have mid-bass horn with 515G is a bit faulty. A mid-bass horn for 515G shall be 50-600 Hz. Let me to explain. T...
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Cat...your ability to look at a picture and diagnoseminutae of sound and even the character of the system owner is impressive.As you know from previous discussions, I am a fan of direct experience as a discovery procedure over intellectual manipu...
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[quote user="DHT4ME"]So I am aasuming that you are referring the very low level capability of your driver or amps? The subtle nuances?What other drivers did you find did well beside the Vitavox. I always felt that most comperssion drivers are ...
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Those who flow what is going on with my 6-Ch Milq know that for sniggle driver stage I this revision I went what for non-electrolytic capacitors. I use a mandatory for me input choke with 200uF on PS side and then 100R and 100uF on the amps side to g...
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“The Official Concert in Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of Tateyama City. The Sakuma demonstrates his amplifiers in an ancient temple in Tateyama city. Altec A5 speaker system driven by his amplifiers (845, 211, 6336A etc) re...
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Thanks for your comments, Romy.Edgarhorns weren't an obvious choice. Many horns never worked for me. The Avantgardes left me cold. So did the single-driver crowd (I just don't get it....), Altec VOTs, PA systems, etc. But there were some systems ...
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I was slowly looking for a compression driver that would go in my Fundamental Chanel down to 200Hz. The YL Acoustic 550N attracted my attention. Then I realized that it is the narrow throat type of the drivers, aka WE555, not exactly that I would...
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I too often wonder why people feel challenged on the internet. I see Romys site as primarily his diary on events around building his system. His very lucid descriptions show a deep level of thought about things before getting the soldering iron, ...
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Murat, that's a lot to ask from one driver. I thought that any time the "un-aided" driver craps out or acts weird, it's time to think about a crossover, and/or some sort of "assistance" for that driver. The great thing about horns is, they can passiv...
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[quote user="ygoh"] 1.) Why is it that you do not support using teo compression drivers in the same throat? Is the distortions increases, such as wavefront distortion? [/quote]Sure the wavefront gets spread; it is what Wilson does in his ...
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I did a lot of those experiments a few years back, stuffing the back chamber of S2 driver with all imaginable things. During that time I did not use a dedicated lower MF channels and was concerned only about the S2 top end. I did not detect any diffe...
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Happy Holidays, Everyone! First time poster...
Does anyone know where in the US I can purchase a new Electro-Voice DH3 high frequency driver (tweeter) and matching horn (perhaps the HP94--any suggestions?)? I can't find any vendors online that s...
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MusicLover wrote:
IF you can "hear" SS amps, Romy, then your system must not be well set up, and be sensitive to the frequency shifts caused by tube amps. SS amps have NO sound that humans can hear.
MusicL...
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I did not read it, I rarely read those types of articles but what you describe is very common and very indicative for those people. They fly like butterflies from a manufacture to a manufacture, from dealer to dealer and from marketing campaign to ma...
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I was rushing when I made the last post. Wanted to share a little more about my thought process and how I arrived at doing another large-scale masochistic audio project. Making a bass horn is a huge risk - the results can vary from exceeding expect...
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[quote user="joaco"] About the 2A3/45 , I ask a technician from Japan that lives several years in Chile to build it , he develope the whole tech repair lab for pioneer here or panasonic I do not remember well , but he leaves Chile about 6 years a...
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[quote user="slowmotion"]I'm not so critical as you to open baffles for midbass, tho, in fact I think they can be made to work quite well, if one doesn't have the room for midbasshorns. [/quote]
You suggest that open baffles might be more successful...
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I know that tweeters is a “lost subject” and it is hard to talk about tweeters with audio people. Everyone understand tweeters differently, primary in context of this systems or even more correctly – in context of this frustrations with thier current...
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I have expressed this attitude before and I think it bites me by my tail again. Everyone tells that electrolytic in POS are bad. Well, I kind of follow this thinking as well but up to the point. The true is that I never was able to beat actively ...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] You might be able to get away with a bit less; if I remember correctly, my calculations at the time (based on the above driver) yielded a theoretical ideal volume of something like 23 cubic feet (sealed), so still not...
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I gave another run to Vitavox S2 with electromagnet and while I was listening I come across to an interesting observation. I screw the S3 in 330Hz horn and was trying to run it with 500Hz crossover point. It is pretty standard configuration, the way ...
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Well, let start with factual data:
http://www.mceproducts.com/knowledge-base/article/article-dtl.asp?id=32
How relevant it is for us, the audio people? Probably very little, and the most important it does not answer why TAD use cobalt in their twee...
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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 ...
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Hello again Romy and cats... sorry so slow in replying to this thread... the recent posts generated an automatic email reminder... :^)so a few things... one, there is a pair of Goto 370 on eBay and pictures of insides... the newer ones are made the s...
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Hello, Pawel.
I never heard nether about Onkyo HM-300MK2 or about
anybody who use it. It looks like it is one of many obscured Japanize drivers,
and they made plenty of those. A simple googling said that it has 2 inches
voice coil, duralumin di...
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This there is the last in the “THE PROBLEMS WITH HORNS” cycle. The previous threads might be found at:
Problems with horns: tweeters.Problems with horns: mid-range horns.Problems with horns: mid-range drivers.
This would be probably the most contro...
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From Email that I got today:
“….. I see that you are considering trying the metal diaphragm again in your S2s. I am using the metal diaphram for the moment (it is all that i have), but have the terrible ringing problem, especially on female vocals. ...
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I have visited Sakuma's restaurant myself.
You don't need to travel to Japan to know that stock Altec A5s and Lowther-based designs from the 1960s basically run in the 70hz-12000hz range. They are in mono, and not particularly well-placed. That is...
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Thanks, Romy, for your generous reply.
I won't try to address everything about everything, but let me bore
you with a mini-history of what is going on with my playback so you
will understand where I'm coming from and where I'm trying to ...
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