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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The most appalling audio types: Audio DIYers. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most appalling audio types. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
I have writhen about it on a past and I would not go over it again: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=976 However, in the thread that enumerates the most appalling audio types I could not do not mention the DIY type. To make the l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Chasing the drivers… by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]You have no idea how loaded this question. The crossover point with the MiniMe is not a tactical question but actually the very strategic question of the entire speaker, let me to explain why. The woofers that I use are fai...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Horns, distortions, inadequacy of experiments etc… by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Erik, The high pressure zone near the throat does not create distortions; the distortions (the turbulence of the wave’s front) are created right after that zone (according to William Hall, MIT, 1932, though no one said hat he is right). Also, it is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Talking about those WE demos… + windows shopping by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
I am with skepticism treat that information about those WE demos. WE never did any interesting playback system solutions that might be stimulating in today home audio environment. At the time when WE was operational the requirements were very differe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Yes, I know those drivers by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Lbjefferies7"]I found these a few days ago...https://www.solen.ca/pdf/atd/14w2608agti.pdfAny experience or speculation about these drivers?[/quote]They are ADT version of Görlich. I spoke in some extend about Görlich at my site, do the s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: A litile war with Super Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades Amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
Chris, at this point it is hard to say anything defiantly. Subjectively it sounds like the Super Milq has slightly less HF extension and transient then the regular Milq, although the output transformer of the HF channel of Super Milq runs higher and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Midbass with plug: History by ulf on 2006-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Let me tell you a bit about how an why we designed the midbass horns the way we did.A few years ago we discovered the tractrix horn for MF use. It was really the most important improvement so far. No more honking exponential horn sound.The improvemen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: An excellent point…. here is my take…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Other Ways of getting Special Tone from a loudspeaker. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]Maybe it is important to ask what the problem is that moving in this direction is addressing … [/quote] Yes, the 30 drivers approach will ruin anything else BUT… When you are a painter and you just did a wonderful portra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy in Audio News  17 Replies 
I predict a highly probability that a new wave is coming in high-end audio loudspeakers. The today’s high-end audio the loudspeakers field is in a complex stagnation, the stagnation that will lead to the need to invent a new ways to sell loudspeakers...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: The halves of the twin-triodes by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, doesn't Tim de P also use this cool Miller capacitance idea in his never-mentioned "high end" tubed corrector?  Also,  do I remember reading that he runs both channels through the two halves of the same twin-triod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio and the “Alzheimer’s triggers” by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio and the “Alzheimer’s triggers” in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
The name of this thread a bit cryptic and need to be explained, as the Alzheimer in my vocabulary means slightly different things then it is commonly recognized.  When I was 13 years old I read a book (I do not remember what it was) that was dedi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Irrelevant measurement. by Romy the Cat on 2012-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: S3 on tractrix 260 graph. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
[quote user="gordan"] here's the measurement we've got from S3 on tractrix 260 horn. the increments on the graph are 1db it seems useful from around 450-500 to some 1.3k, but it still looks very bumpy in comparison with a number of ot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #233: These bass compression drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2016-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Xandcg, these bass compression drivers is a controversial subject. T think there are 3 of them ALE 160 and P1260 and GOTO SG-146LD. I think they all 4”, it would be very nice if they were 6”. However, 6” exit might be a bit too wide for compre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Tweeters frustrations? Again?!!! by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
Listening my Macondo with new “Fundamental channel” I noted that my tweeter is not as effective as it use to be. The effect of “not-effectiveness” is very minor but at some recordings it is notable. My T350 still sorts the Vitavox S2’s top but it als...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Additional thoughts for Eugene by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Once you establish that you are for sure on the right track with the whole idea of the Injection Channel, it would not be such a big deal to cut and extend the vertical mast of your Macodo frames, moving your Fundamentals Channel up... You could have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: ... indeed... by twogoodears on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  twogoodears wrote:I'm following with interest the thread and must say that I'm baffled: Goto's "instructions" are - SIMPLY said - a mix between non-existent and wrong... I love what Goto's did in my system... BUT I thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: The time alignment scenarios. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
A site visitor sent me emails saying: “Johan Dreyer says he can hear no time delay with his bass horns…” Well, first of all I disagree with it. The fact that Johan Dreyer can hear no time delay is not an indication that delay is n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Why Upperbass is a key by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
When many of your will experiment with building and listening your own horns and spend countless amount of time by sketching a configuration of your new horn assembly you then might come to an observation that Macondo Upperbass topology is very s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: I'm not married to any topology by haralanov on 2014-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I very much do not want to sound like I am expressing sarcasm. [/quote] Romy, I don’t treat your comments like expressed sarcasm and I never did it. In my view, your site is the only place in Internet, where fruitful discus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Altec radial phase plug vs concentric phase plugs by Sean19 on 2016-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec radial phase plug vs concentric phase plugs in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Sean19 wrote:Both versions of 802's have GPA diaphragms both are used on the same horn in a model 19 clone. Over longer periods of time the older versions are easier on my ears. You deal with random result. Pretend that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: The high voltage electromagnets… by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] I will not call this excitement, let say it dynamic stability. [/quote] Hm, the “dynamic stability”. This is a new objective… [quote user="cv"] I suspect [David]he feels more comfortable with coils running at low vo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: The liquefying of glue? by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="be"]Romy wrote: "However, the diaphragm in the small JBL 2420 driver is full metal (correct me if I am wrong) and there is absolutely nothing in that driver that might be soften mechanically." The speach coil former seems to be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: The Fundamental Chanel gets a new driver. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
As I wrote before I picked some Vitavox S3 driver. http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=8619 and I was expediting with them recently to use in Fundamental Chanel. My idea was that S3 might care LF knee better then S2. In past I had S3 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
There are many threads on my site where I covered the subjects of Tweeter for my Macondo and particularly the moment of integration the tweeters with Vitavox S2 compression driver. Since a few months ago I altered my idea to use the EV T-350 tweeter ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Throat, s2, 515g-alnico by chaos on 2008-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Hi Klaus, Spec sheet on the bass driver you plan to use here: http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/downloads/515_G.pdf [/quote] got it, thx. used this data to simulate in hornresponse,looks very promising. but i know...its ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Chinese upperbass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
I’ve been harassing my horn-maker for quite a while with an idea to go for straight, no-cheating 45-50Hx horn. We discussed it countless times and sometime probably we would go for this, and particularly if I figure out how to resolve the delays prob...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: More arond the Rich’s driver. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"] The bass driver will play to about 8 khz… [/quote] OK, this dose make some since, become I understood you that it droops after 300Hz. I wonder what made you to select the 300Hz as a crossover point – the currently existing...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Ok, let to complicate the things a little. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5-ways from Speedysteve7 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
 [quote user=" browellm from hifiwigwam"] "not your typical DIY moron". High praise indeed from Romy there… [/quote] OK, I would like to make a commentary on the subject. I know that people who love to chop wood at DIYAudio site would consider...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I juts do not follow you by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] I feel very pleased for you. I was always somewhat puzzled by your descriptions of how you felt the S2 sounded, particularly between 600 and 1200 Hz. My experiences with a few different horns but always with a good quality...

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...
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