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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: How I'd wish to write in my language... by twogoodears on 2008-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
... to better express myself, with every needed nuance... Roman: I never wrote I'm able to time-align my speakers, I only told you I quite recently began "moving" drivers and horns as I never did in the past few years, NOT simply looking for a practi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Not really H HF by Paul S on 2006-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Like I said before, I found the silk domes best below the highest frequencies, just like your Vitavox, so it's another case of pick your poison.  And I'm not sure about matching dissimilar driver types/efficiencies to mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: EnBL-ing drivers? by Paul S 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 
OK, Romy, that EnABL stuff got my attention!I can't recall all of the bad ideas borne of good research, but this EnABL thing sounds a little fishy, and certainly it sounds too good to be true, as existing in a simple and really useful form.  Can...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: How to kill the ribbonninnessththzzz? by Romy the Cat 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 
[quote user="Paul S"] I can report that the G2Si loses the "glycerin" at 10k with the ML2s…. [/quote] I concur with this finding. Any ribbon tweeter that I heard has "glycerin" tone but it is because the ribbon mostly crossed too low. I would say th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Sounds like a ribbon or small electrostatic panels by Paul S 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 
I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who is overwhelmed by compression drivers.  I tried the A7s way back when they were current and everyone's favorite, and I tried various modifications with like-minded friends; but I came to the concl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Re: Midbass ..............( longish ) by cv on 2005-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Don't worry Romy, I know exactly what you mean. I tend to discount the opinion of anyone who raves about a system's ability to play back patricia barber. Speaking of which, if I were in her shoes, bunions and corns aside, I'd be mildly...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Content vs. Context vs. Majority Rule by Paul S on 2018-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great article from Peter Qvortrup in Audio News  4 Replies 
I appreciated a couple of things, probably for different reasons than Q put them forward, I think.  For one thing, I more or less discount his timelines, and also the idea that certain audio components reached a high-water mark as "complete" achievem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Problems with horns: mid-range horns. by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: mid-range horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Ok, I blamed the tweeters and MF drivers now the turn of the MF horns. The Mid Frequency Horns (I’ll them “MFH” from now and on) are the stinky like pieces of horn installations, and if they are not done correct then they screw up anything big time T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: More info by Scott L on 2016-12-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Infinite Baffle Implementation and "Compression Sub-bas... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Scott, is it your specific aim to configure an enclosure to "effectively" lower driver Fs? While this, along with an exponential increase in power, is a proven strategy for generating ULF, it seems like this approach creates more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #278: Online we can claim a lot... by rowuk on 2022-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
[quote user="Edgar="]Not Amplitude. It's the rock solid phase linearity. It feels like a brick wall all the way up and down. I haven't looked at any graphs and haven't measured anything but that is my guess. There is no question of the great tone of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: AK151 and K15/40 Differences by jessie.dazzle on 2009-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Romy's comments in blue :"...Interesting, as all my drivers, the AK151 and K15/40 are high impedance (15R-16R, DCR around 12R). I do not see a lot of difference between AK151 and K15/40..."Apart from the color the baskets were painted (silver Hammeri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #169: Well TH... by Saturntube on 2010-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Paul, I am no expert on tapped horns but I think the main (40 year old) principle is that you join the back wave of the driver with the front wave, now in order to have the 2 wave fronts meet, the back wave should travel a certain distance depending ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Please educate us by brad on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
nope. i truly believe it to be one of the best and definitely without argument most innovative speaker designs ever made. sorry if you don't see that.you need to learn more about them tho, because you didn't even realize what drivers they used from t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: ULF from the SledgeHammer by oxric on 2011-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I have also a fondness for this design which may well suit your room with the line sunk in your basement. It is interesting that this design makes use of two woofers in push-pull configuration as well as making use of a transmission line. The only tr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A Little Dedication by Paul S on 2010-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
In our experiments, the more power we threw at the A7s, the better they worked.  I heard some of the original "theater" version Altecs playing with their original "dedicated" Altec amps, and these sounded considerably better; but I never got ahol...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #269: 95%? by Paul S on 2013-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
But why would you consider brass connectors because of 95% of boutique RCA if the idea is to wind up with the best signal path?Probably, you will not use continuous wire from the cartridge coil, and you will probably not solder but use some sort of c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Is that all?? I'm disappoined, honestly. by haralanov on 2011-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="MINGSU"]Here is an example on how to use GOTO 505TT driver.  Use the GOTO S150 horn and crossover at 200Hz to 1kHz.  If you like to use other type of horn and crossover point, you are on your own.  Maybe good or maybe not but that is you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: Fane confirms drivers are available in 16 ohms or 8 ohms by oxric on 2011-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Hello everyone,I have excellent news from Fane. After checking their old stock, they have now found and have confirmed that they have sufficient old stock of the 8 ohms or 16 ohms voice coils to offer everyone ordering a choice of 8 or 16 ohms.Qu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #311: Condensation is the problem by miab on 2010-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Actually the thermal efficiency or inefficiency is not the problem. It is the condensation that occurs when a cold plane meets a warm one. Warm air vapour WILL condense on the colder plane of the attic. what is in between is your wooden horn structur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Wide range, but not enough. by tuga on 2008-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
[quote user="cdwitmer"]Dear Robert and Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"] To spending $40K for let it be even good single-driver loudspeaker is a summing of absurdity in my view.The Cat[/quote]For some people that is almost certainly true. But to tu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: Makes sense to me by Paul S on 2008-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Well, why not go 1st order with those little "woofers"?  And I suppose you will be glad that you've isolated the MF, too.Unless you just get lucky, it looks like the MF/HF XO might be dropping.  I am not familiar with the 2105, but dependin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Easy now....DBA! by mats on 2007-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
I don't know why the Berning topic gets everyone so worked up.  No need for another ZOTL screaming contest.  Is this not a hobby where we explore many solutions?  It is a difficult subject technically. I for sure can not speak about th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Enclosed vs. opon? by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The African compression electromagnet drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  42 Replies 
[quote user="audiofilofine"]After several tests of listening and somehow I felt that the best solution is fully closed. The heat is part of the project and not to damage the diaphragm, also the hot air is compressed better than cold and thus distorts...

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 #18: Spacing between drivers in vertical bass array. by oxric on 2011-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Here is the idea that I had for the “ultimate bass” for my room. Below is the picture of Macondo one channel as it is now from my listening position. So, if I find a way to deal with the wall edge at my ceiling  then I migh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Another Look at the "Problem" (and Branding) by Paul S on 2011-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Be, thanks for bringing  up the "subharmonics" in the way that you have done, for another good look at the elusive-to-hi-fi "undertones".  I have been bitching about and futzing with this for ages, and now am I working with the drivers, themselves, t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Two options only - to go for the road or to reject it by haralanov on 2010-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Natural Remedies for Sick Speakers? in Audio Discussions  28 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Again, I am NOT a collector - at all.  I am only in it for the music[/quote]I am not a collector too. I collect some very specific drivers only to take some good parts out of them which are not available anywhere else. I do not c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #90: Real estate & the Fs of 18-inchers by jessie.dazzle on 2010-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...I use 10” but they have free air resonance of 19Hz. Not any of 18” drivers have such a low resonance..."Well if we can believe the manufacturer's spec sheet, it is possible to get close; McCauley claims a free air resonance of 20Hz for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #123: The Halibut by Paul S on 2010-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Maybe this is a mic problem, or a Sunfire problem.  But, like I said way back when, the raised floor sink is not only the 5 Hz structural/footfall resonance, but it is uneven broadband + & - with respect to hi-fi, and the helluvit is that your ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Tannoy monitors and MF drivers by Chirag on 2006-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Hi Cat,The more and more I listen to reproduced music, the more I realize dynamics and tonal respect are key to start any reasonable installation.  This kind of crosses over into some driver discussions so bear with me...My Tannoy 10" ...
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