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If you think that I am not an idiot then read further. I have been looking at my Macondo calibration
check sheet above and I have that stupid itch in my brain that scream to me: “ Romy,
my God, the two drivers in own sealed enclosure at the left c...
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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...
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Sine my call for somebody builds for me a full range Melq was not answered:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2492#2492
I decided to put it together myself. Now I understand that letting the first amp to go was a mistake....
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I stopped by today in a local warehouse and picketed a 4x 16” fiber pipes and 2 two 20”. I absolutely love the effect. As soon I brought the tubes to the room and took the cover off in the hall room turned to be much quieter at HF. I did not expect t...
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I spent today good 5 hours listening my new playback. For somebody who do not know me it would look idiotic to listen the playback with such a huge amount of problems and do not make any efforts to correct them. Defiantly the problems are huge: the m...
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[quote user="manisandher"]I don't have a scope, so can't measure the output of my particular unit. [/quote]I do not think that scope is necessary. Pay attention that my Units #1 and #3 have very fine scope outputs that is not related to their sou...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
unicon wrote: el 0l if you could understand the basics about how audio waves especially bass range acts in closed space you wouldnt even bring the name Bass EQit just cures the sound pressure in a single spot(listener)...
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OK, I decided to stop today to do what I do as it does not feel like me anymore. For a month as I live in here and have the playback up my playback is a source of great pain and I do not like it. I am accustomed that I turn the thing on and USE it. ...
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Miab, since what I became an expert in cables? I am as much as anyone else – a subject of accidental discovering...
I do not use in Injection Channel any fancy cables. There is not a lot of need for it. The Injection Channel is mixed with M...
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Connected today Melquiades and Macondo in new room. Macondo uses drivers as they are – no time or axis aliments of any kind yet, no Insertion Channels, no level calibration by channels. I just in-phase the channels and sat to listen, to see what happ...
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[quote user="JJ Triode"]Romy, take a look at EML 30A and its cousins:
http://www.emissionlabs.com/datasheets/EML20B.htm [/quote]
Yep, thanks, JJ. Still the EML 30A has a lot of gain but it has also very high plate impedance as well. As much gain w...
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I was yesterday drawing plans for the Zaratustra II’s chassis and was wondering how I might use it. The Zaratustra II turned out to be a little Monster, efforts-wise and expanses-wise. I hope it will demonstrate some results that will rectify the eff...
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Rakesh, I think you take it all wrong and I think you need to perform some degaussing from my site. You created for yourself a cardboard cutout of ideas that I describe at my site but it is not what it is. Macondo Axioms are not set of rules but a di...
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[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...
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[quote user="Jorge"]I guess it would be simple enough to add a couple of inches in order to bring the throat down to 4" in order to try the Studio 8M. I have already reduced it temporarily to 3" in order to try the JBL 2490h compression driver. ...
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Excellent news regarding this morning's discoveries. jd wrote:"...Are you able to say whether the problem is due to the horn position relative to the room, or to throat diameter relative to the driver diameter?..."Yes, a stupidly phrased question, bu...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, I did not mention the most important thing about my new midbass horn. This most important and the most astonishing new characteristic of Sound I did not pursue and I got it purely accidently. I did not talk ab...
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[quote user="Vasyachkin"]expertise = experience X intelligence a cockroach needs millions of years of evolution worth of experience to have the expertise necessary for it to be able to do find food. leonardo da vinci didn't need to experience flying ...
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Joe,
I personally very much disagree with my own comment that for two people objectively assess a speaker would be possible ONLY with two parties are sitting in the same room and listening to the same installation. I did propose it as a “remedy” in ...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]I'm curious about how you set up your horns in the room.From photos it looks as if they are fairly close together, compared to the wide setting you suggested I try, while our room dimensions are fairly similar?When I started push...
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Actually Goto does not have default 5-6-7 way systems. I have seen that they recommend 4 ways systems. Definably in the fields the dealer and distributor load their ignorant customers with as much drivers as possible selling them 55 ways systems.&nbs...
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Hi Romy,Just thinking out loud here, but I have been listening to my mono DSET/Macondo for quite a while now and recently changed back to my old acoustic system so that I could poke around in the DSET innards for a little while. The old system (in s...
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Last week I have written an article: “Upperbass preoccupation and Vitavox S2 driver” where I ran over some my thoughts how the specific sonic virtues of Vitavox S2 driver allow to get an “interesting” upper bass from an upper bass channel, even thoug...
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It was exactly how as I imagined - the Injection Channel worked very-very well. The electricity was good, close to wonderful. I calibrated everything and decided to spend a few hours just listening some tonally complex things. The Injection Channel m...
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My sub-bass amp is back but I am not sure if I am comfortable with it. The guy from QAudio did a wonderful job to fix my modified B-2 power amp and now I have my amp for ULF with passive line level filter in it. So, Now I have two identical, fully fu...
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[quote user="Kcct82"] Hey guys, I bought the Goto 505TT with S150 horn brand new over 2 years ago. Guess what? I'd still be in sonic shit if I followed the 200-1000hz "recommendation". The 505TT does not perform well below 400hz and when I final...
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Dear All,Thank you all for your assistance, especially Romy, whose information has been particularly interesting. I have been in contact with Jeffrey Jackson, with whom I have discussed my driver preferences, and arrived at what is essentially only a...
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Romy,Your Macondo system is something that has been a "role model" for what I'd like my playback system to be in the coming years. And much of what I've learned about horn playback systems I've learned from reading your writing and other posts on thi...
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“Forever! That must be fully comprehended,” whispered the Master, and he licked his dried, cracked lips. He begun to listen carefully and pay close attention to everything that was happening in his soul. His excitement, it seemed to him, had turned i...
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[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...
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