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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A reasonable contestant/s should come first. by Romy the Cat 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 
Bud, you might be correct and “spotting” a cone might have a positive effect and I most likely will send you are driver for your torture after I found a reasonable contender. Still, what you propose and what I would like to experiment with live in di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: The active flux recuperation by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"] If a magnetic field is static, who cares how it is created? Isn't the main potential advantage of electromagnets one that no one has explored at all - the possibility of modulating the field strength in direct response to the au...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: YL1250 - very interesting! by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Thanks, Eduardo, very interesting. The YL 75000 has no phase plug and 70Hz with 1” trout. It look to me like a conventional diver.  Which beds a question: if to reduce compression with our classic drivers, loose plug off and reduce power then can we ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Contributing factors in compressed sound by malinowski on 2007-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Contributing factors in compressed sound in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
I have been searching for a good discussion on this subject for a while an yet to come across anything that really explained this: What are the causes/factors of compressed sound? I know it when I hear it, and have heard this phenomenon attributed to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: A phase plug as a tool or as a remedy? by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="ulf"] Well, it was not really a surprise to us that the horn without the phase plug was dissapointing. Without the plug we had a horn that was a bit too short, had too large front cavity and less compression than we desired. [/quote] It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Hi, Jeffrey, and welcome. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="Jeffrey Jackson"] so, my straight horns... I like them very much.. I built mine similar in style to what Greg B linked, but obviously much smaller.. mine are just under eight feet long (length of a sheet of plywood) and have a mouth roug...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: You don't have to go there... by anthony on 2015-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Murataltuev"] anthony wrote:It is a compression driver with an 8" cone.  If you want authority at 300Hz you will need diaphragm area.  The Fane Studio 8M that Romy and plenty of others use for 100Hz up to 1kHz is an 8" cone driver on a 4...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: The drivers for midbass and…. the mistakes. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Eduardo, Thanks for your thoughts and illustrations. I also do not feel that loosely-suspended very small metal cone might be a right solution for midbass. To develop LF you need pressure, pressure is surface by exertion – there is nothing els...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
We, the horn people, know what the compression drivers could do. The controlled dispersion, low distortions, low mechanical dependency, low magnetic anomalies, high efficiency, higher maximum dynamics and many-many more advance are well known. The te...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: Any interest to help ? by Murataltuev on 2015-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not use compression driver for bass channel. I would like to have my system esthetically balanced, to get let say 120Hz from a compression driver would take too long horn and it would be no way time-aligned it. So,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Works only in some applications. by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Congratulations you have found and use this principle, otherwise the back chamber acts like pneumatic brake for the lower working range of the diaphragm! [/quote] Actually it shall act as “pneumatic brake” in a compression dr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: What's Lost In Translation by Paul S on 2009-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The sound compromises of high efficiency direct radiators. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
No love lost for any particular driver type here.  They are all all-but-hopeless, as far as I'm concerned, just for different reasons.Jesse, what I wonder is how the small daiphragm of the compression driver, with its very small movements, can b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: I'm not married to any topology by haralanov on 2014-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I very much do not want to sound like I am expressing sarcasm. [/quote] Romy, I don’t treat your comments like expressed sarcasm and I never did it. In my view, your site is the only place in Internet, where fruitful discus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I would not use PP for compression drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Amplification for Compressions drivers? Sound? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  19 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"] Hello Romy, have you searched for explainations for these observations? Are there others who made the same observations and tried to explain them? Does the damping factor play a role?From my limited experience I can say that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: To Fane or not to Fane? by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]Since the 8M is now no longer to be had anywhere, for love or money (delighted to be contradicted on this), would people care to suggest alternatives for precisely the use Romy puts it to: driving a round, 3-4 inch throat, upper ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #113: Are we shaking air? by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="morespeakers2"] I am not against trying the S2 in the future but I was just curious about the very small details to cause compression drivers make their different sounds before running out and trying any more drivers. I upset a few speak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: TAD or not to TAD, it is not the my opinion maters… by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  231 Replies 
Well, it is certainly not our objectives to define were one or another driver, in this case TADs, would punch up in regards to other drivers. I presume that any driver if a sufficient amount of time, effort and love invested might blossom with differ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Well, it does sound cryptic. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="Markus"]I usually manage to read you quite well, but this   Romy the Cat wrote: direct or indirect phase constructors. has me baffled. What do you mean, please?[/quote] When I wrote it I meant different ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Monday night :-) by haralanov on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Do not forget the damping the cones with amplifier by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Open cell foam in horns and MF drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  40 Replies 
[quote user="be"] The best driver I have heard is the TAD 4003. It does not use the secondary resonance of the suspension, as described by Duke LeJeune above for the TAD 4001-4002, to extend the response towards 20 kHz, but has a natural roll off fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: GOTO's price politic as GOTO primary deterrence. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
I would like to make a few comments about the entire idea of those expensive Japanese compression drivers: GOTO, ALE and alike. I have voiced the near-similar outlook about the irrational exuberance that some audio people express about electromagnet ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Very specific problems? by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"]I think you wanted to say reflection surface, not radiation surface, right? Radiation surface is the surface that is directly attached to the vibration creating element (the voice coil). So the radiation surface of the horns u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to select mid/upper bass horn drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to select mid/upper bass horn drivers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A few years back I wrote somewhere that I “developed” a semi-mathematical formula according to which an acoustic system’s result might be absolutely objectively weighed up. I did not go very far with advisement of this eq...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Cart before the horse by serenechaos on 2008-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression Drivers -in general in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
I'm mainly concerned about three things: 1) I know I'm using the larger compression driver outside (below) its designed operating range, and it may not work well there, although just band-passing it in this range, and using it at reduced volume witho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: The multiple drivers: when sound in horn changes. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Ygoh, Most of compression drivers have phase plug. A phase plug is very genomic center line oriented devise. A phase plug must be parallel to diaphragms and perpendicular to the axis of the driver. Practically all compression drivers have beggin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
I keep receiving those emails when people complain about the ballooned publicity and stuffed reputation of Vitavox S2 compression driver.  I completely agree: the Vitavox S2, in the way how the Vitavox originally used it in their speakers and in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Not TAD anymore… by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End 2012 in Germany in Audio News  36 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]I think they could could make the sound more pleasant with an overkill of second harmonic distortion. But for people who prefer that kind of sound a relax-horn like Anima would be better anyway. No real solution. Maybe they should...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: It looks like a synergy horn with 2 15" woofers by rowuk on 2021-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Danley's Hyperion in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
I suspect that the 8" and 5" cones and 1" compression driver are in the Danley Signature Synergy multiple entry horn. This creates a physically phase aligned point source above 45 Hz and probably a bunch of diffraction. The double 15" woofers are an ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Re: Rich’s driver: alleged concerns. by rdrysdale on 2005-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
Romy,     You make all very good points. I probably shouldn't call the front of the driver a phasing plug, because actually the long wavelengths really don't care much about the shape of the exit, they will just pass right through...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Technology vs. Sound – do they actually meet in reality by haralanov on 2012-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL Project Array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Dominik, in terms of technology advancement, it seems their new driver is better than their other models. But despite this, I’m not sure their transducer engineer knows how to make the drivers to be valuable in terms of sound/tone.  I’m saying that n...
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