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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #102: Learn to live with it by rowuk on 2021-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
As the recordings themselves are missing so much information, creating a plausible image (certainly not the original) is the actual “art” involved.I must admit that I do not generally have issues with singers mouths stretching between the speakers or...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #207: Some clarification by jessie.dazzle on 2010-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Re: the guy from “Enjoy the Music :Nice to finally see this. Romy wrote:"...Do not forget that I have a LOT of mid-upper-bass tool in disposal. I have 6dB extra in my current upper-bass horn and I have high-pas my injection channel at 120Hz…"6dB extr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Your playback is stressing drama by idiosyncratic use of texture and c... by skushino on 2011-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playback as an expressive tool: what are your listening obje... in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
This is one of my favorite posts on your site.My daily playback system uses Tannoy 15" Gold drivers in large back-loaded Autograph cabinets.  It isn't used for critical listening, rather it's mostly on in the background playing my local NPR radio sta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #321: Eaten alive. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]BTW, I have a local Bostonian guy have replied brought today a very interesting DHT amp. He has a number of DHTs and this one he reports is the special one, quite expensive as well. Although the electricity was not good tod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #325: Listening the DH and the striped down version of Macondo. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I very slowly started to convert another amp to DHT. For now I listen just left channel and in a striped down mode: no tweeter and no Injection, letting the MF to care the whole upper range. It is interesting to play different tubes in this mode. Fra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #183: Ok, now let to rebuild Macondo. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
OK, I disconnected my MiniMe speakers and left only Macondo to care sound in the room. I was listing for the last week Macondo. There is no bass, just upperbass horn at the bottom and The Injection channel a full range. It is OK sound but truly nothi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #184: I will do it when I have time. by Romy the Cat on 2017-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
I do not advocate injector on the ground. The way how I use my injector I high pass is aggressively, so the ground coupling is not a requirement. If somebody use injection at lower octaves then it might be a merit to do so but not in context of my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: A very thoughtful exposition, Romy by Paul S on 2007-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Since I have struggled with my own +/- insurmountable problems with Lowthers, OB, BR, etc., ad nauseum, I can certainly relate generically to what you have just said about horn drivers in this injection thread.Yet this may be the only time I have hea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: Tone & point of origin by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-05 
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Your latest post got me thinking in a sort of incomplete way about how you might locate the injection channel... If you consider tone as a harmonic of the original source, then (depending on the order of harmonic) it may in fact not be co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #100: I had a dream: The Black Box. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
From the above-linked 6moons’ site:  Publisher's comment:Layered Sound as demonstrated at Marja & Henk's during my short visit consisted of running their Avantgarde Duos and the Model Ones simultaneously, the former inside at dominant volume...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: It might become not what I initially thought by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-08 
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="drdna"]I would not restrict myself to the idea that things need to be a certain way or a certain configuration of the drivers or ports based on theory alone. I think it is important to ask what is interesting about the sound that the new...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About dymick sparkling. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About dymick sparkling. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
If you following the thread about my new listing room: http://www.romythecat.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=13235 …then you know that my room is almost done and that now I am working on the fine details of the sound organization in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: A new paradigm for ULF? by oxric on 2011-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The most important in audio is a state of realization and obtaining this state is a matter of time I am afraid. Let pretend that tomorrow I will build/buy some kind of speaker that would do the perfect ULF channel ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: One-stage Milq++ and the DHT's alleged tone by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I kind of was thinking… If a good DHT is able to give a magnitude of Absolute Tone that IDHT is not able then it might be good… But. I do not use Single-stage Melquiades amp itself but it supplemented with my Injection Channel.  The Inject...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I would like to overview the content of my thoughts on the subject. I feel that the first phase of my interest in single-stage Milq vs. DHT is over and I can make some observations.  The subject turned out to be more interesting and more changi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo 2.0? by Romy the Cat on 2022-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
I need to say that I miss my Macondo sound, not the sound itself but an ability to push a button and have predictably good sound. However, from the place where I'm staying now, I feel that to have just Macondo result is not enough for me. I would ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: Thinking about the forthcoming experiment. by Romy the Cat on 2016-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I have order 4cu feet sealed enclosure for two 15 drivers. It is relatively small box but I need to hit minus 6-8 dB at 50Hz. The collection of the drivers I have would be following: Vitavox AK51 and 15/40, Altec 416B and 515B. I like Vitavox tone...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold in D/A mode. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
In continuation to the "A new round of Pacific’s DAC listening" post.... I have a number of revisions of this little contest between two DACs in this thread and in other threads. In all of them the Lavry 924 has a little edge over Pacific Microso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Small SET’s bass, besides everything- is it about power? by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small SET’s bass, besides everything- is it about power? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
It is difficult to generalize but I will. As much as ribbons with each hertz down sound more and more unpleasant the low power SET amps with each hertz down in bass region more and more and more loosing ground. Ok, I am not taking about the real bass...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #309: Traveling antimatter by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]May 16, 2010: My ultimate wet audio dream was to have Bruckner Room. But so far it turning out that I got another big B room. Since 3 days back I stopped the intellectual masturbation with my room my playback up for the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Resonating hi from oversea by martinshorn on 2017-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Resonating hi from oversea in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Hi Romy, hi folksMy intro hello and first post, i just had to sign up. Just found the platform through googlin some hornstuff and came back too often.Especially the resonating oops was the latest topic that really cought my attention as im familar, a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #244: What a brilliant idea! by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I have so much fun today. I sent the whole kids with their nanny and mom to a Boston children museum along with ants and with grandparents and deeded to stay home to work on my listening room. Since I did not have good sound before I did not parti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #203: The upperbass in the new room. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I had today a long listening session. I listened  a whole Mahler Second and I can tell you that I was the best upperbass I ever heard from a playback. I am not kidding.  The upperbass literally despaired in the new room but what it is being called up...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Macondo and Melquiades in the NEW room. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Reading my old post about my new R&E adventures Midbass Horns and Real Estate http://www.romythecat.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=11190  ….and contemplating on my prospective move to a big room I am strategizing what change...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The most astonishing amplifier ever. by Romy the Cat on 2017-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The remarkable moments in Audio. in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
I was promising to tell stories of my audio miracles with no order of chronology or importance, so here is another one. I think it was in 2002-2003. I was transitioning from Lamm amplifications to Melquiades and was contemplating to introduce a DH...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Good one by anthony on 2021-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some thoughts about bass in high-end audio. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Thanks for this one Romy, very interesting...it sorta ties together several things that I have been thinking about lately.  I guess I am lucky that the Bass Cannons can be run off 9w from the DSET bottom channel and from memory I get about 115dB at 1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Injection Alignment by jessie.dazzle on 2007-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Romy, I'm very pleased to learn that you've got your Injection Channel done. I assume the above illustration is not indicative of the way you have the Tannoy Red aligned with regard to the other drivers, as it appears to be sitting out in front...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #107: Get the balance right by drdna on 2021-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]it seems like a miracle that two people familiar with the score could recognize "it" and agree on it, via any sort of playback whatsoever ... we tend to focus (more or less) on the parts we recognize as Music. [/quote][quote user...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Listening help with ULF stimulator by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] If the issue is merely to recreate a better sense of the live performance….[/quote]It might be not “recreate a better sense of the live performance” but rather to be able to administer in my own and deliberate way some “listening...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #111: The art of ULF volume adjustment. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations.  It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to ac...
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