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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: Tannoy & mid bass by serenechaos on 2008-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
Yes, too low efficiency, even worse than Altec 515, (when loaded with small throat, in proper FLH, NOT A7 type "horn" which disqualified it also for my usage...  I don't know how "colored" Tannoy would sound with properly designed...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: On the Road Again: Blending and Matching for Overall Character by Paul S on 2009-11-28 
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 
The Danley idea -  or something quite like it - does look good for LF, but maybe less good for MF and up, I think.Which takes me back to the whole "point" of the imaginary "single driver"...Effing around with mix-n-match "systems" back in the day...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #155: Burning Sensitivity by Paul S on 2010-01-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Jessie, your post catches me thinking about multi-channel driver matching, as well.  I am not familiar with the Fanes, but I wonder if simply throwing more power at them would make them nothing more than louder, so they would then "match" the res...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Sorry, I do not believe in it. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
I do not know Bud. I report only what I see and I believe in what I experience. Almond all SETs that I personally have heard the Lamm ML2.0 had the widest subjective frequency range.  I did measured how ML2.0 clip and it was at 18Hz at the bottom and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Boxy Harmonics by Chirag on 2007-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Hello again kitty...Analogous to the lack of perfect "audiomoron" transparency of something like an L1 or tannoys or koetsus, I can see the general direction of your thinking regarding the "oops" nature of developing a musical transducer in room.The ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Additional Note by jessie.dazzle on 2007-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
Oops, that last reply of mine was intended for Romy's post (the phone rang, and Paul added his post before I got mine sent...). When I rewired this place, I didn't know for sure that what I was doing was entirely necessary ; Paul's writing on grou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #450: Racks and things by JJ Triode on 2015-04-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I'm not sure if the Salamander-style rack (wooden shelves supported by nuts and washers on threaded rods) will support 800 pounds, but if you put heavier items near the bottom then a wide heavy-duty version might be fine.  Besides Salamander, some ot...

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 #5: I wonder if Myaskovsky loved Mahler… by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
Well, let call it Slav music. All Russian composers of 20 century were in one way of other took the torch from Rimsky-Korsakov. Ironically I’m not a big fun of Rimsky-Korsakov’ symphonic music because it is too Slav, overwhelmingly and insultingly Sl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Testing the search functionality: some useful reading by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="JLH"] I don't recall you talking about Pressure and Tone SPL before. [/quote] http://www.RomyTheCat.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3675   [quote user="Romy the Cat"] I know this effect but if it happen with bass h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #95: I wonder how much unexplored out there! by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Truly unexplored in the field of bass horns. There are zillion of new composite of syntactic light and very rigid material out there that might be a good candidates for building horns. People nowadays learned how to make good performing carbon fiber ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: Love at first listen by Antonio J. 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 
[quote user="drdna"]While I think a resonating speaker can add its own musicality to a reproduction, it is clearly adding harmonic distortion, etc.  It may be pleasant, but you run the risk of needing differently tuned speakers for each type of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The narrow-bandwidth nastiness is welcomed. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  30 Replies 
Bud,Thanks for pitching the A45a and FR4.5, I never dealt with both of them and will consider them, though it is slightly disconcerting that all those drivers meant to be wide bandwidth and therefore have too much HF in them. Still, my initial candid...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Injection Channel response vs. Main Speaker... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]You have mentioned that you want a much larger enclosure for your oops unit.  I was then wondering if you aim to merely broaden and/or lower resonant response or if you planned to in some way tailor resonance as it rela...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Summary: my audio, year 2007 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
It was an audio eventful year and I have experimented and discovered many fascinating things. Here is a brief summary of the 2007 audio-events and a short look what my audio happening will might take please in 2008. 1)    In the very ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Michael Framer's amplifier? by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
[quote user="jamesrm618"]The Vincent SP-T100 looks close "The SP-T100 is a hybrid mono block with tubes in the input stage where voltage is amplified. The power output Amplifier circuitry works without feedback." Nominal output power Class-A 8 Ohm: 1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Educate yourself first. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
[quote user="pe1mmk"]http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Playback/Site_images/Macondo5_1.jpg Is this about the same as the above brazillian? Oh I really like these horns ;-) Oops, I think I am gonna be killed by a Cat...........[/quote]Pe1mm, if you wish ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Important person i met once by martinshorn on 2017-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The remarkable moments in Audio. in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
hi Romy. Nice topic! I have a very nice memory. I started very young, supported by a friend who tought me a lot and gave me books to study. I learned the basic formulas and started DIY speakers from purely technical perspectives, graphs, math, calcul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 14-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Oops, I almost forgot the size of 14”. This is kind of off the wall size but still there was two exceptional drivers in this size that I met. The first is JBL 1400ND. The 1400ND was initially used in JBL K2 system. It had underhung voice coil, neody...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables PREFACE I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Considering that I am jaded about ported sound generally… by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I do not know what the Fs of the drivers that will be using. I did not measure them yet.  I have one of them in ¼ cub feet box with a port making 65Hz and two of them in 1/2 cub feet box making 38Hz. If I found more of the them then will be unit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Sealed, Ported, and Less-than-Ported Summer Listening by Lbjefferies7 on 2008-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
For the sake of helpfullness, I think that we may separate the differences of the ported speaker designs of myself and Petar.  What I have described is the standard, pedistrian model of a vented speaker.  Petar's is a hybrid aperiodic-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Ebay mid-bass near-45Hz horn. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Here is an interesting, atypical nowadays, attempt to get 45Hz. With massive (not plywood construction),  use one diver instead of two drivers, use better drivers and with proper tuning of the back chamber (it is wrong there) it might be a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Re: Is the 103’s reality a sane substance? by Thorsten on 2004-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
Romy, Just a few notes.... I did use the term "crappy" in the connection with the tonearm in an ironic sense. Have you lived so long among US Americans you lost your sense of irony? Also, i do not suggest crappy Phonostages, merely ones with low inpu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: It shall be easy. by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="de charlus"]Due to this thread, I called the friend upon whose boat I heard the Vox Olympian in order to find out precisely which DCS DAC he was using with his TLOX to get the sound that I found so remarkable. It turns out that whilst th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The 75 feet - this is over the "heal".... by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Help with Math needed. in Off Air Audio  7 Replies 
Oops, I am sorry. Of cause it was hill, I need to add it to my dictionary http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3823 The 40 extra feet in addition to my current 35? This would make 75 feet mast. Hm, this is comp...

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 #168: HF imaging from injection channel by martinshorn on 2017-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
An interesting finding to injecting HF without disturbing, but improving the imaging: I got learn from a guy with his setup, which made sense to me after studying the precedence effect, and copied it with some changes in my way. At the end, it ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: Decisions decisions by jessie.dazzle on 2008-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Thanks guys for all the suggestions.Klaus wrote :"...there are a lot of questions, but if one thinks to much, then he will end up like this lynn olson, pages and pages of endless talk and no horns..."Very true, I need to get cracking, but I'm&nb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Well, we can look even farther. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]… This brings to mind the time I tried walking during a fairly serious earthquake, or trying to write a letter while riding in a car... [/quote] Actually it is very good association. In Zaratustra amplifier bias was made ...
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