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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The fight for 450Hz… by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more non-spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Hm, this is what I am playing how: the new 18-cell and S3. I run it from a full time Milq and use it with no filter of any kid. Rony is right the depth effect is there, it is not even depth but rather multi-dimensionality. Indeed very pleasant feelin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Scalford in UK by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Interesting, thanks Guy for posting. Let analyze what was done in there. It looks like well-thought, time-aligned, looks like multi-amped configuration. BTW, how the filters were implemented and what (slope/order) filters were? To my knowle...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Please spare me from those questions. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox ak151 in klipschorn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
Angelo, I have no interest to consult on purchasing decisions, at least in context of your type of questions. Also, the only way to ask me regarding “what would be better” is to describe what is currently wrong.  http://www.goodsoundclu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Disadvantages of DSET by drdna on 2007-09-26 
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="Romy the Cat"]The result [in the 6-channel Milq] is definably better but the reason-consequences patterns are not so easily interpretable, and are absolutely not interpretable when the filters are applied.[/quote] And the explorations th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Re: Adding one to Macondo: Beautifully wasted Saturday! by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
I did not expect that it would be so much work with the new “fundamental channel”. The new 250Hz horns required some help to correct some problems, plus they have to be finished in a civilized fashion and color. However, the biggest problem is positi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: You need to make the Second Step. by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My horn speakers system. (from Thailand) in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
Hi, Touch. I see what you are trying to do. However, I think that you have reached a point in your craziness when you need to stop using off the shelf accidental horn solutions. I feel you need to recompile your system as a custom installation that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: I migh be the phase "clicking".... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I've been listening for about one week now with the filters set so the hand off from lower-mid to upper-mid happens higher up (upper-mid S2 is high-passed at 4800Hz instead of 3200Hz), meaning the small 400Hz horn is doing...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A difficult simple upperbass horn by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Got new mid/high horns. Now need suggestions for a lower ran... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
Herman, I am not familiar with your driver and I do not know those horns. It looks like they are 200Hz horns through…. You shall not worry about your horns create any shadow. As I understand you use digital crossovers with your horns and if...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: It might be much simpler then that. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Should I low pass the midrange @10k? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
[quote user="KS"]Thats the kind of stuff I was hoping for. I appreciate the help with this, there seems to be a scarcity of horn related discussion on the web and its proving hard to learn the ropes.One other unrelated question that could save me a l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Good speakers to cut sushi.... by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, what exactly was bad, and how?Honestly, my knowlwedge and objectives were in infancy back then.  Also, it's been so long that my "memory" is probably crowded with parasitic ideas passing themselves off as memories.  But I r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: What do you expect? by Romy the Cat on 2015-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
Well, it sound what you like to do, which is fine and I am sure that it will produce some kind of sound. It is hard to say if it will be the sound you want as I do not know what you want. I presume you do.  I am not sure what was the purpose of pos...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: BBC LS3/5a solution. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Thanks behhl for sharing. I’m not well familiar with the LS3/5a’s Sound. I think I heard juts few of them but I can’t say anything about thier sonic performance. However, looking at the LS3/5a concept, purely intellectually, I would hardly find them ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Audio or porn? by twogoodears on 2008-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Yep, Stefano, it looks like we do have similar views about the subjects we touched. Let go back to exploring one of the terra incognito of compression driver – the sound of Goto. The reason I ask is because no one talk a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The karaoke-level RIAA? by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dubbing LP to digital. in Didital Things  3 Replies 
[quote user="outopos"]Hi Romy,I am new to your site. I have read some of your postings (including other sites) with much gusto.For the digital LP recording, I am (was) tempted to do the same, but given the fact that I have absolutely no personal ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A quest for a better monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
While Dima is cooking the Super Zarathustra I figure out that I would need some test speaker to be able to observe the preliminary results. I would not be able to drive the multi-channel Macondo with a single full range amplifier, so I need something...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Crossover Design by drdna on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
Hi Roman et al!Allow me to introduce myself.  I have followed with amusement Romy the Cat for many years.  He is ascerbic and ultracritical, but he does know audio.  We share many tastes, like the Koetsu Onyx Platinum foir instance, on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Why EdgarHorns? by drdna on 2005-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
I chose the EdgarHorns for fairly simple reasons.  I have listened to them and I loved the way they sound.  They are not the perfect loudspeaker, but they make much truer music than what I have now.  Also, the price I paid is less than...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1300: QK1 or better integrate LCR directly into your grid to audio link by Goetz on 2014-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
What I assumed initially is written on the Nordost page. "The QKOIL QK1 is a load resonating coil (LRC) which generates a passive electronic field that has a beneficial sonic effect on the AC current." ... as we should do in loudspeaker crossover...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: It is not so simple. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamamura's 6 ways in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"]Yes, maybe the 120 db/octave is THE trick for complex multi-ways systems of highest resolution, yet this barbaric:-) slope can ONLY be achieved by digital domain crossovering... unfortunately, as a satisfied user of TacT RCS...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #110: Crossover Las Vegas... Make your bets... by Romy the Cat on 2021-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Today I had a promising experience. Bill is keep experimenting with his Dannoys and I was visiting him to see what's going on there, since I am still waiting for my panels and I can experience the Dannoy foreplay only valceruasly. We did a very usefu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Edgarhorn RTA response. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Edgarhorn RTA response. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
Someone at AA’ sewers posted his measurements of Edgarhorn system, supplemented with a subwoofer and Fostex Tweeter. I do not know the poster personally, most likely he is another AA’s advice seeker – means another idiot - and therefore it is ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Thomas Mayer’s Triamp by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Thomas Mayer’s Triamp in Melquiades Amplifier  2 Replies 
I do not know it is just Triamp or 3-chenal DSET by the direction is good. The amp was mentioned by Twogoodears on his blog. http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2010/03/triamp-tm-by-thomas-mayer.html I do not know what he mention abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: The Goto confusion indeed. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Thanks, Be, for a correction but the fun part is no one acknowledged your blander. The Goto drivers I think are exotic terra incognito for most people and I think it is how Goto Company is willing to keep it. No one talk about nuts and bolt of Goto c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Thought process in selecting horns, drivers and synergy among all... by scooter on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="ayebee"] Present system consists of:140Hz (3" throat) horn with Fane Sovereign 6" driver (120-700Hz)250Hz horn with JBL 2440 driver (700Hz-2kHz)600Hz horn with JBL 2420 driver (2-12kHz)Bass is one Scan-Speak 8555 8-incher per channel ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: About the Macondo-like systems room dialing. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] I'm not entirely satisfied that this single 40Hz horn was properly loading the room, which has a cubic volume not far from what I would consider ideal for such a system …. However, the horn was sitting in the center o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #94: Not artifact but a byproduct by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] I agree it is a mistake to get hung up on imaging as an end in itself, but it is a artifact of the process, and I am not going to say it is not related to making the correct connection. To have proper imaging is like saying: ther...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I see no needs for them in home installations by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wide dispersion horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
There were plenty it of them made: Techniques 9500, Excusive 2301, Iwatas, JBL 2350 and JBL 2345, Vitavox (narrow) and few others … They kind of very strange horns and I always was suspicions about them. Though my suspicions are purely theoretical: a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Sorry, but wrong by Bill on 2021-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
     I do not mean to be negative and criticize Romy, but he is wrong on surround sound. It is the implementation and not the concept which should cause vomiting, like with the vast majority of two track recording which are unlistenable. With the rig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: All roads lead to rome ('the microphones are out-of-tune') by Andy Simpson on 2009-02-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A playback and wrong notes. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] This weekend I discover interesting phenomena on which I did not pay attention before. The Montrealian Charles Dutoit conducted this weekend Boston symphony. I was listening the broadcast, recording it as usually. It was ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mitigating Undesired High Freqs in Midbass Horns by skushino on 2010-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mitigating Undesired High Freqs in Midbass Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
One of the challenges I see for my midbass horns is to minimize hf output.  The goal is to operate the horn in a bandwidth where it can cross to the higher horns, and have each horn function in their best sounding manner.  My drivers are Altec 515-16...
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