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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: No wonder by Wojtek on 2013-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
I bet it's one of the infrequent posters on this site system . I also find 2khz crossover for td2001 not problematic. Very nice and I imagine it's hard to loose that DIY look in setups like that. Especially when the speaker is undergoing constant cha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Not sad at all by Wojtek on 2013-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
although you obviously lack the perspective of looking on the task from less serious angle and feel threatened by maybe less than obvious satiric attempt.I'm happy for you that you can afford what you can afford .Now ,I offered you a piece of advice ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Why? by Wojtek on 2013-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Looking at Vox as a glorified 2-way Altec speaker with tweeter and supertwiter with all " not optimal" choices ,folded 70's PA thunderbolt mid bass cab time misaligned  crap ( Romy's opinion ) bi-radial Vitavox midrange suitable for derby races and d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Given all the hopla by Wojtek on 2013-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new G.I.P speakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
It must sound better than that. I bet the camera was not sophisticated enough to catch  this technicolor sound..... or the recordings they played were unfortunate. Usually with this kind of installation pop, rock sounds pretty good and positively hon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Another horn manufacturer by Wojtek on 2013-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another horn manufacturer in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
I can recommend Attila from Hungary ; fast , professional and reasonable . He advertises on AA classifieds : http://www.audioasylumtrader.com/ca/listing/Speakers-Horns-Parts-Stands/Manufacture/tractrix-le-cleac-39-h-spherical...../Wooden-horns-until-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Route to happiness by Wojtek on 2013-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
gets narrower with every passing year and suddenly soup starts to taste like a window frame and organs in cathedral sound boring ..I wish there was a classical & jazz cafe nearby with book cases , full of tobacco smoke  without a single TV screen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: According to Stitch by Wojtek on 2013-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
 other  "super arms" (in terms of price ) do have  some  , "stand by itself" inherent intellectual value which Schroeder totally lacks. And also personal prejudice seems to blind his objective judgement. Apart from that the question remains if the ar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: It's like in this joke by Wojtek on 2013-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
A guy enters highway upstream and listening to a traffic radio warning that one car is going upstream yells angrily ..."one ??? you fuc..ng  morons ?? .. there are hundreds !!". Over the years I was not able to dig up a single bad review of a Schroed...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: You need to differentiate by Wojtek on 2013-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
the cynical whores whom don't believe in what they doing from the ones which do. Joe Roberts happens to always have expressed his W.E love and bias ever since the dawn of "Sound Practices" so I don't see his involvement in Silbatone as a "whorish sel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Oh dear by Wojtek on 2013-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
. Don't get me wrong, but please fuck off. I don't remember readingany interesting thought or experience from you here.My apology that I assumed you're Polish . You're right . I realized, I  don't have anything interesting to say some years ago and r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Stop wondering by Wojtek on 2013-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
and "fucking" around.  I know it's a common thing on Polish forums but better keep our small xenophobic attitudes at home. I know it's hard to be a citizenof small , ignored  banana republic   with unfulfilled, unrealistic geopolitical ambitions but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: I'd want one too by Wojtek on 2013-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? in Didital Things  53 Replies 
So far I have nothing from club's non-recommended component list and it bothers me, so if you still have one left I'll take it. Regards, W...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #213: But why do you need another pilot system when by Wojtek on 2013-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
you already have one, which is Tannoy Red in enclosure ? You just need to figure out the way to use it independently via some remotespeaker switch to switch amps (if needed )and that's all . Isn't it good enough or what?Regards, W...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #160: The key to everything by Wojtek on 2013-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
is to become better , more aware listener. The rest is a secondary issue and you won't feel the need to ask those questions .There is always the issue of whats really possible technically speaking. I disagree with Romy's opinion that 99% of audio peo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #432: There won't be a need for it by Wojtek on 2013-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Those who publicly hate you the most will line up to buy the house the same way they buy Lamm amps with plastic speaker postsand Vitavox drivers , don't forget to leave the antenna mast and as many artifacts as you can ,down to  Koshka poop, heheheMa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Whatever you buy by Wojtek on 2012-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fidelity Research FR-7 in Analog Playback  42 Replies 
it's going to be a hit and miss affair. You can as well make a list, close your  eyes and put the finger randomly , really .If you're short with cash (and I have feeling that you are ) just buy something lesser, not having cult status and what goes w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: May I suggest by Wojtek on 2012-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 47 Lab Digital in Didital Things  9 Replies 
Metrum acoustics mini dac octave as an alternative to NOS dac from  47 labs. The same concept in modern application. I had a chance to listen to this dac as compared to 47 labs cloned dac (the clone was unfortunately filled with those expensive b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: People want(ed) TAD's by Wojtek on 2012-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End 2012 in Germany in Audio News  36 Replies 
and especially "perfectionists" markets like Germany. Sound is of a secondary importance. I bet the new driver from Cesarro will be field coil driver because that's what peoplewant NOW. They want "the best" and field coil is now the best. Roman , som...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Living Voice Vox Olympian by Wojtek on 2012-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What to do in England? in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Maybe you could find the time to visit Living Voice studio and listen to yacht  horn speakers with Pinokio nose  and report your impressions ? Personally I'd skip all that and go to orchestra halls and listen to some life music.  Peter Walker once sa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Be more cynical and cash on the sheep... by Wojtek on 2012-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to make money in Audio in Playback Listening  19 Replies 
You already have quite  profound effect on the market place , why not find a way to cash on it? You don't even have to prostitute yourself into revieving whore just make a  separate " commercial " part of your web site like your exotic leftowers with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1034: Mark Levinson syndrome by Wojtek on 2012-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I bet Taiwanese got tired of getting paid cents on dollar (and usually late) for product they developed and manufactured. The real guilty character in this all affair is Romy the Cat and his rumblings . Without it Pure Power would be selling as it wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Ah, you're not very consistent by Wojtek on 2011-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
with your opinions. Your hateful criticue of 802 driver goes against your own recommendation of finding apropriate solution (horn and application ) for chosen driver . To me 811 is a bad, raspy sounding horn ,but quite perfect for reproduction of ele...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: If you mean by Wojtek on 2011-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Nothing Is Perfect in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
that this is another forum of frustrated bottom feeders and impoverished " inteligentsia" of dumpster diggers who really have no first hand experience (no $$$) but are above the crowd  in the mysterious matter , well,  (probably) you're right (or wro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Too much Stolichnaya last night but.. by Wojtek on 2011-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new G.I.P speakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
I was responding to Serge's post and link to French ceramic and wood horns-wrong thread obviously but I never post in the right one anyway ;)Those post belong to  "why I don't like LA porfile"...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Oh, and this abnoxious "LA profile " used in big MF horn (20... by Wojtek on 2011-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new G.I.P speakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
WTF Roman , you trumpeted this as a very nice and sensible solution and now you suddenly don't like "LA Profile" ?....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: If on suicidal mission by Wojtek on 2011-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
I have a suitable NOS surplus power transformer  from OSborne; 110/220V primary and 2825V-2000V-0-2000V-2850V at 0.5A secondary.Should be a good base for a bass SET. Not, that I  want to encourage anybody to undertake that project. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Civilised sound of a tweeter by Wojtek on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
I have to admit I have no idea and did not experiment with matching horn loaded tweeter to big ,direct radiating "extended range' MF channel. I'm not sure it's doable. I was speculating on the reasons why the owner of Moscow instalation switched from...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Sharp and artificial sounding fostex supertweeter by Wojtek on 2011-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
I'd like to point out that Fostex 500 MKII is very much not sharp and artificial sounding. If anything it's an opposite -little too syrupy , soft and round so it blends with cone mid better than beryllium tweeter. I have no first hand experience with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Cheap DVD player by Wojtek on 2011-02-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
Don't you have one which you could  use  as a transport to asses your DPA dac and make up your mind for yourself? (it may happen that you'll like cheap DVD player better sounding by itself) 90% of cretins who own Bidat do it only because  Romy prizes...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: No beef by Wojtek on 2010-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
and the "semi -mean" thing I was trying to express it that I don't like a plot here. I can't support running from one cult symbol (EMT) to another (Micro Seiki) without any expressed reason .Going broke, fighting those fucken collectors and hoarders ...
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