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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Cessaros 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  192 Replies 
Romy Hi, I do not know how the Alphas are configured crossover wise or how much 'sonic mad' they use, Avantgardes do not use compression drivers of course just slightly modified conventional cones ( I believe ) I have heard AG Trios the Cessaros are ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Cessaro drivers by thierry on 2007-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
If you ask me the compression drivers is like the jbl 2420/2470 design only with an other back chamber. And the low freq driver really makes me think of an old alnico driver of jbl 2220A http://www.lansingheritage.org/images/jbl/specs/pro-comp/2420/p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Ah, the TAD PT-R9! by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Thanks Gregm. It is interesting that I completely forgot the TAD PT-R9. I was looking at it 5-6 years back and spoke with AudioKinesis ‘Duke, who reportedly knows them well. My reservations that time were the very same as now: with 97.5 dB/W sensitiv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: Earl Geddes on the field-coils.... by MochaMike on 2006-01-12 
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"] I do not know any advantages because the fact that the sound softer. I personally believe that the electromagnets have HIGHER MOMENTUM FLUX MODULATION and that make them to “sit” slightly…  or exactly what I would like t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Concrete horns and the Cogent Boys by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] Well, the Cogent (Steve Schell and Rich Drysdale) boys are building just such a beast: field coil magnet, (possible) permendur polepieces for >2T, Fs 70Hz, throat - dunno, but at least 3" dia, reduced compression ratio relative t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The old technology resurrected for … by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy in Audio News  17 Replies 
[quote user="coops"]Ralph and Thomas are friends there would have been no price premium for the field coil option …[/quote]Considering that Cessaro claims that they pay for $500 worth TAD drivers (OEM) over $5000 then I might only imagine how much pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: New drivers by Purite Audio on 2012-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End 2012 in Germany in Audio News  36 Replies 
Ralph (Cessaro) is in the process of manufacturing his own compression drivers, I have no details as yet, I believe the diaphragms will be beryllium not made by TAD.Also new and ready for release ,although not shown at Munich are  double skinned carb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: I am wondering.... by Romy the Cat on 2021-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dannoy 2021 Loudspeakers in Audio For Dummies ™  24 Replies 
One of the main advantages of Macondo configuration was the fact of multi amplification. As with any other systems which have a dedicated amplifier of the same type to each individual driver Macondo can run over dynamic range with amazing ease th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Some updates with MiniMe by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I am quite fascinated with the result that I might get from MiniME and at the same time I am defensive with the direction it takes. Anyhow, here is how it stands… The decision to go for MF driver was I think right one. Even the 70-20RX tweeter has s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Too simple mistake to make. by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Klangfilm: actual knowledge is better then fetish imaginatio... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]If you look at the picture second from the the top, you will see 2 woofers mounted in front on the baffle, notice a 2 piece horn from the baffle. Klangfilm never had such a horn, they would start at the baffle and curve out. The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Audio vs. sound vs. scale by noviygera on 2013-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
I've been thinking about this matter for a while but could not find a better excuse to formulate my theory then in this topic. My simple theory is that if we reduce our concept of "music" the more fundamental concept of "sound" as point of reference ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Not unequivocal evil. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Hm,… yes and no. Inductance is not necessary an evil. Well, it is an evil for open-top-end drivers but you need to look at the life of compression driver all around and then you understand that inductance is not limiting evil. Sure with grow of diame...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: I am still on a fence with all of it. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Decoud, I do reject any speculations about flux modulation in compression drivers as I do presume that it is absolutely negligible. It is like using a SS amp with ultra low output impedance, to drive a ribbon tweeter and to worry about return current...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #342: How to localize the problem by haralanov on 2010-10-02 
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="Romy the Cat"]It is was not bad sound but the sound that clearly indicated that something is very wrong: supper compressed, complete absent of LF, huge HF extension. The whole horn sounds like a bad MD driver.[/quote]Open the back panels...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #97: Cancel my subscription to resurrection... by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] So, yes, in an ideal world, I would have seriously considered doing something different….[/quote]   I guess your definition of “doing something different” would imply reading of 534 pages of BS from people who have no idea about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Vitavox as an autistic obsession. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-27 
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="oxric"]Mike duly explained to me that he would not vouch for the work of anyone not qualified and experienced with Vitavox drivers, given both the complexity of the work and the number of parts that go into making these drivers. I as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: About the Goto SG146XX… by Romy the Cat on 2017-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Kato-san's Goto system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
Hm…m… I do not know how about that.   Well, the SG146XX where the most interesting from one perspective and the most problematic from another perspective. Goto, never gave to SG146 an option to moderate resonance frequency and without it I feel i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: Other drivers: TAD or Vitavox by Murataltuev on 2015-09-14 
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="Jorge"]I tend to like drivers with plastic suspension. Radian makes retrofit diaphragms for JBL with plastic suspension, maybe they will help you achieve the tone you are looking for. Extensions are easy to machine out of aluminum, eve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Forget midbass, Fane got it covered. by Rewind on 2013-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
I take it back, 100Hz is pushing it regarding horns and compression drivers I know of. I can't imagine a compression driver reaching the midbass muscle of the Fane S 8M. And I don't see why one should try, when the Fane reaches 120Hz so effortlessly....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Time Alignment by Jorge on 2013-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
There are a few at least theoretical backdraws for the Array in my view.Of course having a lot of different drivers playing at the same frequency implies that all of them should work in perfect unison,  if one starts lagging a little bit it will mess...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: What is your reasoning? by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]p.s from my experience of having a 500 sq. ft. listening room with 7 ft. ceiling and having two 18" woofers in a infinite baffle configuration, it is not enough to pressurize the room. I am talking about low and medium listeni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: To illustrate my point. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
BTW, to illustrate my point. Here is typical Goto inhalation. In fact this is the better among others as to be typical the MF divers need to be lined up horizontally. I can hardly believe a person needed to be more Moron to voluntary arrange drivers ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: The Part of the Pieces and Parts by Paul S on 2011-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
I like those ideas for tuning texture, and would add the way the surround is done and how it is clamped/bedded, which might be relatively easy to control, maybe even on the fly (with some sort of cam, for example).  So far, it seems to work best to "...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: About the diaphragms cult. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]THE ONLY COMPANY THAT HAS ADVANCED THE DESIGN OF A MODERN DRIVER IS JBL,,, GOING FROM THE WESTERN ELECTRIC DESIGN TO THE 375,,376...PRO VERSION 2440,,2441...  TO the 2450 types..USEING COHERIENT PHASE PLUG DESIGN TOPOLIGY that unit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: It is about magnet and SS type. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Gordan, I think you are missing the accent of what I meant to say. The Class A or not is not important for compression drivers and the S3 in particularly. I mean it is important and it much be ONLY class A but I do not see any SS amps switching in cl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Ok well by ShuffleSk8Ter on 2013-07-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why Horn loaded systems?! in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
there is one system that resembles what live music sounds like and its not a horn! :)To be honest I really have no idea of what topology these horns were setup like... all i have evaluated is there soundI like to go into something without any prejust...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Back to the UBH by Jorge on 2011-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
I guess you cannot say you listened to a horn system if you dont have an upper bass horn.The upper bass horn has to fill in the response from the compression driver down. At this delicate range nothing will perfectly macth it but another front horn. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Whos diaphragms they use? by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
The $3.6K per pair, if they are good divers - the 2440 level, is a tolerable price for custom-made drivers. I presume that he does not include and PS into the price. My major question would not be about the drivers – the filed-coils are very simple d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: better shot showing the rear chamber... by Jeffrey Jackson on 2005-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
Hey Romy... you could be right about the ALE's.. I certainly did like them, but when I went back to that familiar recording it was definitely shelved down low.. it would be easy to assume that I thought that they were "lightweight" because I had...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Polarity Tester – a must have for any horn person by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Polarity Tester – a must have for any horn person in Audio For Dummies ™  2 Replies 
Srajan La Pergola just announced that Danish company “FMJ Audio” began to make an acoustic phase tester. An acoustic phase tester is absolutely mandatory thing for anyone who uses horns. If a person use horns and has no ways to objectively recognize ...
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