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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Tip #1. by Romy the Cat on 2015-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tractrix Bass horn vs Spherical Wave Horn - Bass loading in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
[quote user="Blaukopf"]Hello Romy, thank you for the answers. Your horns have a round mouth, but their profile is not spherical. That is the profile of the Avantgarde Horns you formely had - apparentyl you have anayzed them intensively, could you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The Real Subject, Klangfilm Not' by msaudio on 2010-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Klangfilm: actual knowledge is better then fetish imaginatio... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
If you look at the picture second from the the top, you will see 2 woofers mounted in front on the baffle, notice a 2 piece horn from the baffle. Klangfilm never had such a horn, they would start at the baffle and curve out. The horn in your picture'...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Compare 1950's Ribbon-Horns by Horn Savant on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electrostatic Sub Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
I note English Mfgrs tried low power ribbon Midrange horns in the 50's (Decca, Kelly & Quad also made one!).These were probably inspired by the hi pwr prewar? Klangfilm ribbon horn (would like to hear one of those!) But, after Peter Walker moved ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
A few years ago playing with my favorite Vitavox S2 driver I was asking myself how it might sound if instead of the Alnico magnet the electromagnets would be used. As many other driver of the period the Vitavox did not utilized the only one magnet ty...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Horns by Blaukopf on 2015-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tractrix Bass horn vs Spherical Wave Horn - Bass loading in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Hello Romy, thank you for the answers. Your horns have a round mouth, but their profile is not spherical. That is the profile of the Avantgarde Horns you formely had - apparentyl you have anayzed them intensively, could you elaborate what problems yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Klangfilm Euronor 2 by RacerXtreme on 2008-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec A2 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee214/RacerXXXtreme/?action=view&current=speaker3.jpghttp://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee214/RacerXXXtreme/?action=view&current=IMG_2715.jpgGuess I've always been fascinated with horns.   Esp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Not necessarily. by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
I had two friends in NY City with Klangfilm Bionor who drove them with Lamm ML2.0. One of them had 405 footers and another had fool filed-coil version. I did not look into details and if I remember correctly the driver were in fabric cocoon but I do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Food for Omnivores by Paul S on 2013-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
I agree wholeheartedly with Stich that there is nothing "behind the curtain" that "stands by itself" due to some inherent value.  As a Well Tempered (Reference) arm user, I always warn everyone who will listen that this arm is totally "over-damped" "...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: About the Klangfilm and armadillos. by Romy the Cat 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 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] Having said that I've never heard a properly working WE555 or 594 either and given the problems of getting the S2 to work well I can't imagine there are many installations using those drivers with the right sort of horns t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Chinese upperbass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
I’ve been harassing my horn-maker for quite a while with an idea to go for straight, no-cheating 45-50Hx horn. We discussed it countless times and sometime probably we would go for this, and particularly if I figure out how to resolve the delays prob...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Road to happiness by Stitch on 2013-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Well, at the end of the day it is a personal choice. I listened to that WE-Demo at High End 2012 and beside all pros /cons there was a situation which was very unique: The room was always crowded, more smiling faces than in other rooms....of course y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: :) by haralanov on 2010-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] your diver might be a very good MF diver but it does not go to region where the “tizzing” live.[/quote]You may not believe me, but the driver start to  roll off (very smoothly) after 14kHz and at 20kHz is at -6dB. I intent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The "open baffle" means everything. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Weren't these speakers (at least in Germany) normally used built-in (infinite baffle situation)? And I don't like the word "open baffle" because it can mean anything. It reaches from quasi-IB like proposed by PHY-HP up to that mor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The house looks superior to the horn by Gregm on 2007-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Klangfilm: actual knowledge is better then fetish imaginatio... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
There is a picture of a bbq thingy -- at first sight I was confused thinking it was downward & upward facing horns...:)[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The Japanese Christopher Witmer posted at the Sewers some finny pictures of another Klangfilm “in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The sound of cults by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cogent+Electronluv+Acapella=Wretched What? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, I have for some time called this phenomenon the "necessary roughness", and one of the things I liked (loved, actually) about Cogent's main field coil was that it did this very well indeed over about 2 octaves; in fact, it w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Ribbons by starboy on 2007-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Full (fuller) Range Ribbons in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Some background first... My first initial foray into buying some decent speakers took me onto the path of Quad 57's, they had their limitation that are well documented i.e. sweet spot, not the most extended treble and not a speaker for a party.....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: One more thing. This is how I see the things out there… by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
I would like to add to my previous posts that the situation I described above made virtually imposable to correlate experiences of different people have with different drivers. If you for instance use your JBL driver and I use my TOA driver for the s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The retarded open baffle by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]our logic is correct but you refuse to see the whole picture - this is the biggest mistake the admirers of the open baffles do. Let trace the entire process. You grow the size of the baffle in order to keep the speakers to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #103: There are a lot of Goto out there. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
I do not know if it was because economy, because the Japanese events early on this year or because any other reasons but there is a lot of Goto drivers for the last couple months on used market. The prices go down and it looks like nowadays the G...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Not your average music cafe by Joe Roberts on 2009-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
This is "Camerata"-- a listening space owned by In Yong Hwang, a retired TV anchorman. It is located in a beautiful museum development in Paju near the North Korean border outside of Seoul.I have known Mr. Hwang for 10 years and he is an old ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Well, you need to read a whole book. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]But when the frequency where the dipole acoustic short circuit "kicks in" is clearly below the Fs of the driver, everything "dipoly" that can happen are rear wall reflections with the wrong phase, and that danger is also reduced b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Cogent 2007, True-to-Life Horn Loudspeaker - the criticism by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
The AudioFederation guy posted pictures from RMAF show with Cogent room. (The images are courtesy to http://www.audiofederation.com) I was wrong in my previous post, as Cogent did demonstrate their loudspeakers with Ionovac ion tweeter. Yester...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Agains, what are we talking about, Joe? by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"] At least I have significant WE experience! Romy, you have none to speak of, yet you are super-opinionated on the subject. Someday you might learn the truth. The big WE horn systems are a different league entirely from m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The cinema speakers consciousness. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES's 2011 horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
[quote user="zako"]I dont get it,,,Why introduce a system thats been around in all the CINEMA theaters for the last hundred years,,  I guess what goes around comes around again,,,[/quote] Well, they did not “introduce” anything as I understand...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: "We do not need no education" by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-17 
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="ygoh"] 1.) Why is it that you do not support using teo compression drivers in the same throat?   Is the distortions increases, such as wavefront distortion? [/quote]Sure the wavefront gets spread; it is what Wilson does in his ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A sober view on Cogent True-to-Life Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Well, when we are talking about Cogent we need clearly differentiate two things: the Cogent’s drivers and the Cogent’s installation. The problem is that since Cogent’s drivers are something so called “compression drivers” then their performance might...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #147: The lights look green for the YO tube by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Each new idea is an opportunity or a pain to be involved into a new round of custom work. With all my considerations regarding engaging the DHT I more and more biased to have YO186 as the leading candidate, in fact I almost decided to do it.  Fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Unless one heard the thing… by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] My driver has not even a single trace of  tizzing top end. Tizzines is intrinsic feature of ribbon drivers (including RAAL), not of well designed paper drivers. Actually, the heart of my acoustic system is ultra high perf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Servo??? by Paul S on 2015-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new G.I.P speakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
Not saying these are not better than most, but too little is said here of objectives, and too much is made of the "quality" of the bits and pieces, themselves, IMO. And servo is nothing new, if that's what this is: http://www.wolfvonlanga.com/spe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Solid state class A & compression drivers and horns by twogoodears on 2010-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Amplification for Compressions drivers? Sound? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  19 Replies 
Hi Roman, hi all... intriguing post and interesting questions, as I've been for about 20 years a triode and, before, a tube user and a glowing-in-the-dark maniac.My experience...I purchased - years ago - an Hiraga 20W which I used as a bass enclosure...
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