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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Drivers, Dope and Radio Flyers by Paul S on 2008-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Wojtek, I am indeed hemmed in by the fricking electricity these days, to the extent that it is about impossible to hold on to a baseline for reference.  And the Lowthers only make the problem more apparent.Yes, I still wonder about how I wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: OK, how far are you from Boston? by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is possible to eliminate some forms of gross side band di... in Audio For Dummies ™  22 Replies 
Bud, I read the White Papers, thanks you for sending them over. What you are saying is very much correct, very much influential and very much disregarded by audio industry. Although I do not know  if the proposed by you remedy might resolve/mi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The difference between class A and B insulation by Bud on 2007-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Input choke for Low Currents? in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Jim,UL has applied a compatability test to insulation materials since 1976. This test places representative amounts of each material, found within a potential transformer coil, in a test tube. This tube is then evacuated and subjected to infrared hea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: An amplifier for Tweeters by cv on 2006-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
Hi Romy,I think you may be struggling to get 10-12db of gain out of a spud amp (the term is a play on "one tuber").... May just about get it with 6C45.... remember you will be stepping down something like 12 to 18:1 on the OPT.best case: 10db require...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The usual bleat.... by Bud on 2005-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
This has been a very informative discussion folks. I am not a horn person... not through any lack of interest, but I am married. So, direct radiators rule. However, I do not like the sound of speakers and so developed a process for turning cone and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Is it the bass or is it the idea itself? by op.9 on 2007-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
I've been thinking abut this question form several angles. Firstly practical.I thought I'd better see what low bass sounds like. And to get some idea of placement possibilities. So I set up my LS3/5as in the (rather cold) un-converted barn. Couldn't ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Back is part of the front (the back part) by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations.The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be about right. Without any diffusor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Re: My PC Audio: the first summary. by Bud on 2005-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
I am certain you are welcome to what ever help any or all of us have or can provide... In that vein..... the only CD's that I have found to be worthy of using, to copy audio to, are made, or resold, by TDK as the Music CD-R (not CD-RW). The impo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Here we go: Schwarz vs. Schwarz by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
Since FM long has been my primary at the most enjoyable audio source I decided to push the envelope a little further. The Rohde & Schwarz tuner bind via wide-bandwidth output with modified Yamaha T-85 MPX decoder sounds identical to Sansui TU-X1....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: Buddanization and again: about the S2's diaphragms. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
This post is split form the thread:http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4549http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4556[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] "...I very much might try to use the metal suspension again when I will be dri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: While the Lowthers is producing E major… by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
[quote user="Bud"]Romy is being very kind to me and not shouting at me for wasting everyone's time.[/quote] Actually you are wrong. I am not a big or even useful played in this thread. About the subject of the Lowthers everything which could be said...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #386: The irrational Smalltalk? by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Bud, yes and no. They are right and the ultra high frequencies do pass any capacitors, indictors and transformers and I am attractive to the idea of filtering somehow by using the skin effect, I fins it is VERY elegant. The problem is that I do n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Thanks ! by HifiOrDie on 2021-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 3 way Tractrix Horn Build Questions - and Introduction! in Horn-Loaded Speakers  20 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"] Picture 1Picture 2Picture 3 You can also upload the images directly to the site (better) Looks interesting... [/quote]Thanks bud! I'll try again ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Increasing trouble by dealing with the DOD by Bud on 2005-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is possible to eliminate some forms of gross side band di... in Audio For Dummies ™  22 Replies 
HI Brian, No doubt that sigint would incur a big increase in intelligibility, to say nothing of the improvement in music to fly and fight by. Works real good on headphones. I spoke with a female development engineer with the Navy back in the early...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: OK, how far are you from Boston? by Bud on 2005-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is possible to eliminate some forms of gross side band di... in Audio For Dummies ™  22 Replies 
Romy,It is interesting that you say that the problem is well known. I discovered this application in 1972, while trying to come to a solution for the sonic insults being supplied by a pair of Ohm F speakers. I eventually got them to act somewhat as W...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: A sadistic suggestion at best by Bud on 2005-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Romy, First thing I would try is a single dot of Elmer's White Glue applied in the exact center of the dome, on the outside. The dot would be the size of a round wooden toothpick, cut off at the beginning of the taper. Dipped in the glue, the end of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Re: ribbons, ribbons, ribbons. Ribbons? by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Yes, Paul, I know this company. It is always slightly annoyed me that it is Chinese company as Chinese manufactures very rarely, if ever, do any audio products with extreme or demanding performing characteristics. They rather do inexpensive mass-mark...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: No problem with HF membranes by Bud on 2006-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Paul The entire pattern shrinks and grows geometrically, based upon the physical length of the edge of diaphragm involved. Please understand, this is not just a theoretical idea, I do and have done this process on many different types and sizes of d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #625: Akela missed his kill, doesn’t he, Paul? by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Yes, Bud, I agree that the most common problem for the full-tilt regenerators is that they begin to exhibit various problems in direct proportion to current demands.  And this seems to be true even when they are used "below capac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The vintage tubes paranoia and a custom bass transformer by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I have been surprised that you have not already pursued the Zarathustra for your multi-driver, sealed LF.  From your early descriptions of both, this seemed like a natural pairing and the most likely way to go, to keep the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: electronic peep show... explicit description of aircores by cv on 2006-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
Allo R,I'm afraid I don't have access to them or pictures for a while. I will try and get some towards the end of next week. However, I did just find an old post of mine on one of the other forums ... I think this should give Bud a decent idea of wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The core materials, the problems and the solutions... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Hi Romy, I dunno if you mean the C-core materials itself or the completed transformers... if the former (perhaps a poor term in this context), then http://www.elnamagnetics.com have what you are looking for. Seach for AMCC - these ar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Further Vitavox S2 narrative... by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Hm, I do not know men, but it des not work. Over the last few years I have tried the ordinal metal diaphragm 4 or 5 times and not with the Super Melquiades it is the most successful try but I still feel than it is not the sound that I would like to g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Vitavox S2 Electromagnetics… by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Below are the images illustrating how it will work at the first test-stage. [/quote]Hey, I kind if did it…. The first draft of the experiment with Vitavox S2 driver is on. The idea to use a combination of permanent magn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: DPOLS for tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
Bud, perhaps it does makes sense to try the “dotizm” one again. I quite severely review my view on the way in wish I use tweeter. I still am trying to make T350 to work, let see what I end up with. Nowadays my T350 sitting in 3rd order crossover, it ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Engineers are very cautious types, just like me when I design power tr... by Bud on 2005-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is possible to eliminate some forms of gross side band di... in Audio For Dummies ™  22 Replies 
Please, have some fun. First download the white paper to see what the patent artists came up with. It is essentially correct but not to scale. Note that it requires 18 offset sets of blocks around the periphery of a cone. About two degrees of space ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: in defense of EnABL-ing drivers. by Bud on 2006-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Gentlemen, I suppose it is time to defend my sterling reputation here. The EnABL process does in deed work across the full frequency band. Works on all driver types and permits the very qualities that Romy seems to appreciate in the treated Linneum ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Better among worst? by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="dazzdax"] what is your experience with passive transformer based preamps? Is this the ultimate way to get a perfect variable gain? Or do you prefer to use an active preamp?[/quote]Chris, I think the terms of ultimate might be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: It is possible to do many things.... by Bud on 2005-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is possible to eliminate some forms of gross side band di... in Audio For Dummies ™  22 Replies 
Romy I too am uninterested in Audio theories. I do not want to hear audio either. I design and build transformers, interconnect cables, speaker cables, treat speaker emitters, mounting face plates, boxes, etc., so I do not have to hear audio. List...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Meow #48403 by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"] I mean that with a horn loaded compression driver, a strong motor, and a very light diaphragm, the attack and transients are more life like. Because the diaphragm can more precisely follow the recorded signal, the reproductio...
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