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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #385: The additional agony of Romy's Site rules by Bud on 2009-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Here is the attachment I promised....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #384: The Agony of ignoring..... by Bud on 2009-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
So, what you would have to do is buy a bunch of #9 AWG solid copper wire from China, so it is only 99% pure,acid etch the surface, paint it with tar and wind it up in a snake sex twist. Or pay them to do it for you.The idea is sound, the application ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #343: High frequency explosions by Bud on 2009-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Sounds to me like your switch mode transformer is doing the buzzing. I recently purchased an APC product that charged the battery constantly, so long as it was plugged in. This caused quite a bit of heat and stench, from the hot switch mode power sup...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: If not hammers, then glass? by Bud on 2008-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Hi Paul,The net gauge for one cable of the 140 strands of #40 stuff is #15 AWG, as far as circular mils of area vs current induced heating goes. The surface area is some 13 times that of a solid #15 gauge copper wire. A minimum of 10 times the surfac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Hammers as the only solution by Bud on 2008-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Romy,Try wrapping a copper wire around a power cable, then "inject" it into the power line through an isolation transformer. The wrapping only to help defeat the antenna event of other signal sources that only have one vector.et all,For cables, the m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Multi wire hell by Bud on 2008-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Romy does explain things correctly, in his own way of course.Modern electrical field theory has it that the electrical field attached to a cable, stops progressing along the cable for every vector change in the field. Not exactly a digital event but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Another way to whack a Lowther by Bud on 2008-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
If you are brave and have a steady hand go here for a way to SOLVE Lowther problems. Without reconning. Ask Jon Ver Halen of Lowther America for his opinion too.http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1248682#post1248682 post 345http://...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Funny you should mention smoother by Bud 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 
Romy,All measured tests for unsmoothed frequency response actually show that the violent peaks and valleys in frequency response, that driver mfg's usually will not show you, are just accentuated by EnABL. A friend of mine, one Gary Pimm, pointed out...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: A couple of already tortured candidates by Bud on 2007-10-29 
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 
Romy,In the diyaudio thread on EnABL I cover the Hemp acoustics FR 4.5 C and the Lowther A45. Both drivers in your size range.Since EnABL does not measurably alter any compression wave characterisitcs of the piaton mode tests, except for phase shift ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A place for spotted speakers by Bud on 2007-10-29 
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 
Romy,We have discussed apottted Compression Driver's before, and I would not commit to promising performance you would like. Howere, here is a place where spotted speakers might well answer your needs, without altering anything you are currently doin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Something must be done about this and soon by Bud on 2007-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Simpson Microphones thread. in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
Andy,These are sensationaly deep recordings, just as you said they would be. DYNAMICS from a distance, and no artificially sick or flat notes, or hidden masses of groaning monsters.Romy you need to help this man, put his recordings on your broadband ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Boyk on musical values by Bud on 2007-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Musicians' ear in Playback Listening  10 Replies 
Check out what this musician has to say about the problem.http://www.performancerecordings.com/capturing-music.html Bud...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: How to scare you and your box. by Bud on 2007-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Yoshi,What material do you have as damping material in the box and how close is it to the Lowther? These things are incredibly transparent to what is behind them. Some things to consider.If the damping material is within 3 inches of the cone, it will...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Just one more for the road by Bud on 2007-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
For those of you who cringe at the thought of making a change in your costly drivers and not knowing if it has been a disaster until it is, or is not. Here is a post from an inventive lad who claims to live in an ivory tower, but has a practical answ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: All of the picture and pattern sheet posts by Bud on 2007-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Romy is being very kind to me and not shouting at me for wasting everyone's time.Paul, I really do not think that lipstick on a pig get's to the heart of the DX 4 transform.  It's much more like a stick of dynamite hanging from the pigs lips and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: A further discussion of how much trouble you could get into by Bud on 2007-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Paul,Actually they do not sound different. As shown in everyone's tests, those objective measures of performance do not change more than you might expect two different drivers of the same type, manufacturer and production run to sound. What changes a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Do Lowther, but do it right by Bud on 2007-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Paul,And any one else that is interested in what may be a new leaf in the Lowther book.Please go to the first post. This is from a participent in this forum. He may choose to speak up and he may not.http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?posti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Something for the Melq's by Bud on 2007-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
How about a motor generator? Both on the same shaft, and, you could even put a CVS constant voltage sine wave transformer in, to supply the electric motor part, to keep the speed constant. About 6 kVa should do it, for both channels. Fill u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Wet ground or dry ground? by Bud on 2007-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Romy and Paul,Many years ago, when I worked for Mille Nestorovik he used seperate mains and a sperate ground connection for the entire system. Before turning it on for a listening session, he would send me outside to "water" the ground, for a good ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers by Bud on 2007-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Hi all.I am just supplying a couple of threads that are dealing with application and the theory behind the EnABL process I provide information on here last year. Romy, you should not go there, it will make you crazy and you will have to insult someon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A resonant experiment by Bud on 2007-02-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
I wonder if you could hang a secondary driver in a dead box, without baffle, or perhaps more usefully, with a shaped baffle and use it to provide the "resonance" effect of many vibrating panals of tuned length and specificshaped  radiating areas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Another underground horn installation by Bud on 2007-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Hi James,Just so you know about these folks. go to this site and page down for a bit till you find the horn installation topic. http://www.royaldevice.com/custom3.htmRather interesting and might be all of the mistakes you can make in one place, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The difference between class A and B insulation by Bud on 2007-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Input choke for Low Currents? in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Jim,UL has applied a compatability test to insulation materials since 1976. This test places representative amounts of each material, found within a potential transformer coil, in a test tube. This tube is then evacuated and subjected to infrared hea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: No problem with HF membranes by Bud on 2006-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Paul The entire pattern shrinks and grows geometrically, based upon the physical length of the edge of diaphragm involved. Please understand, this is not just a theoretical idea, I do and have done this process on many different types and sizes of d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: in defense of EnABL-ing drivers. by Bud on 2006-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Gentlemen, I suppose it is time to defend my sterling reputation here. The EnABL process does in deed work across the full frequency band. Works on all driver types and permits the very qualities that Romy seems to appreciate in the treated Linneum ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Even moreTweeter frustrations... by Bud on 2006-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
Romy,Now that you have removed the slope try out the treated tweeter I provided you with so long ago, the one that sounded exactly like the untreated EV's. We would all like to know how that matches with the S2, in an unlimited application..... might...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Don't ignore the later TEAC's by Bud on 2006-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Transfer: The reel-to-reel operas wanted. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
Romy,About 6 mo's ago I purchased a Teac X7R becuse the man who ran the head mfg facility in Japan is still making heads and has new pinch rollers for the machines too. This is the X7R,X10R and X100 and X2000 series. The R stands for auto reverse so ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: possible patent search by Bud on 2006-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
Romy,I have no direct knowledge about these products. I only have a brochure, given to me by an evil person... well maybe not evil, but he does try to get male children, who are friends of his male child, to play in "Garage Rock an Roll Bands" rather...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Back to the beginning by Bud on 2006-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
RomyPerhaps this link and the information trumpeted within will help on this project. Certainly the leader of this pack has solid credentials in HF switching power supplies, though this particular link is actually about roasting transistors in an Aud...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Re: Masochistic headphone amplifier! by Bud on 2006-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? in Melquiades Amplifier  27 Replies 
Romy,Take a look at the output from the HP amp with a scope to make certain you do not have a high frequency oscillation in the amp. Under headphones this would be very seriously reinforced. Then check to see if you have a very low frequency oscillat...
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