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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Of course, it should not be a full range operation for Reds by Romy the Cat on 2021-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
Oh, yes this is the whole idea of Remedies, it is not only a Red combination but it is an assembly with midbass channel which would make it a conventional box loudspeaker. You see, with all interesting things about Tannoy Red the woofer part of t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #147: I think I got it. by Romy the Cat on 2021-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
Ah, I think I have found the secrets that I was looking for. I still do not work with 15-in woofer but still try to make my red driver sound the way how I want and I got some revelation  and the result that is very close where I would like to be. The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Sounds like fun! by mem916 on 2011-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
Yes you don't want to go over 0 "dBFS" for sure.  In fact it is not good to even hit 0 dB from what I have read in an AES paper.  Something odd happens when you play it back (I can't remember the details).  I shoot for peaks at -2 or -3 dBFS when...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
The Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 tuner was made for German Ultrakurzwellen (ultra short waves or FM) Broadcast Network. The idea was to have a chain of wide-bandwidth composite signal receivers that feed re-transmitters. I made an attempt to accommoda...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: A few random comments. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
First of all we need all to understand that all channels attenuators need only for setting up phase of playback live. When the installations are set up properly then it is all not necessary. Anyhow, if the upperbass has less output then you might use...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #206: The all is not so simple. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Assuming you go ahead with the mid-bass horn project: If you decide to run the woofer towers along with the mid-bass horns, it is logical to assume they'll produce much of the range produced by these new horns. [/quot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The decentralization and multi-polarization of audio. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The decentralization and multi-polarization of audio. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Talking in my previous posts about the major inversion in high-end audio: http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=2920#2920 http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=6917#6917 … and observing that lately small high-end (a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: A pussy becomes to be a consumer advocate? by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
OK, thanks. I would leave for others to decide what the “higher resolution image” might mean. It might be some kind of untranslatable Japanese folklore. The more vibrant color palette is definably a valid accomplishment, no one knows through if it is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #698: Some observations. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Lx_"] The second sentence is my own conclusion. It was not my intention to imply that it is yours, sorry for the misunderstanding this may have caused. We both agree that PP can be sensitive to incoming AC. The context and circumstan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Some truth about Lamm ML2 SET by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] Speakers:  I built a version of Dick Olsher's 3-way Diamond Edition BassZilla (hard to find at www.blackdahlia.com), and I tricked it out considerably from his mule.  Bass is BR, 15" Audax P380MR, which is a nice semi-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: 6-channels Milq: the design phase is over. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
OK, it took for a while but at this point I have nailed down all design aspects of the new 6-channels Super Milq, and particularly its input stage. I have listen and evaluated all solutions that will be implemented in there; selected, appraised and o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #381: The LessLoss Solution for filtration. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I do not make any claims just inform about the LessLoss standing. I do not know how much BS in this and HOW they removed the “outer layer” of conductor from the pass but who knows… might be they are up to something… It is said that begin all thos...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I think you misuse my terminology by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as op... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="Rewind"]Hi, I am slowly building my own Macondo. I understand why the injection channel is there. It brings some kind of softness that the compression drivers lack. [/quote] OK, but it is not how I feel about the service of injection...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #131: My troubles with direct radiators by Saturntube on 2010-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
I have been playing around with speakers for a long time, and things started snapping when I got into horns.  I have a system right now with an upperbass horn from 140 hz turned form MDF up to around 700 hz, to another horn, and another and a super t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #184: I will do it when I have time. by Romy the Cat on 2017-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
I do not advocate injector on the ground. The way how I use my injector I high pass is aggressively, so the ground coupling is not a requirement. If somebody use injection at lower octaves then it might be a merit to do so but not in context of my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Ringin! by Jorge on 2012-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A right midbass solution for Altec 515G. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
Hello Macman,Nice horns, I like that you finished everything properly!  I am getting tired of seeing piles of horns.I think the ringing you are getting from your midbass horn is that the throat reactance is not balanced.  How did you calculate the ba...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: It is not “compression” it is system builder's stupidity. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Haniwa Cybernetic Audio System in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, no doubt the following derives wholly from my ignorance on the subject, but I have not been able to get away from a sense of "variable compression" with any compression horns I have tried.  By "variable compression" I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: Tone & point of origin by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Your latest post got me thinking in a sort of incomplete way about how you might locate the injection channel... If you consider tone as a harmonic of the original source, then (depending on the order of harmonic) it may in fact not be co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #415: My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It is in a way ridicules. For years people who build of use horn fight with honk in horn, particularly in midbass-upperbass-lowerMF horns. I built my midbass horns and it has no honk, I mean no honk ever of any kind. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Might it be the faulty GOTO crossover politics? by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-21 
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="Kcct82"]On to other things... now that we've been using the GOTO SG505 for a while, the verdict is that it does not sound good below 290hz. [/quote] As I understand you use the GOTO SG505 in 150Hz horn and report that it does not sound ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: Macondo with wings and wide Fundamentals … by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="Dominik"]You probably decline this option, because this horn is from plasctic ( You can take carbon horn also).Polish autotech make Iwata 300 for me. You Can order from them what You want.[/quote] Yes, the Iwata horns are good as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: AK47 by Jorge on 2011-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
I wish I could stop the US government from selling AK47s in any corner shop in the US.  If you give a monkey a gun, most probably he will shoot himself. If you give a monkey an AK47,  well that is different. He will take anything he wants and few thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Re: Another semi-ribbon #2 by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
I was keep listening my Dutch-made SA8535 tweeter.  There is a lot of deferent with this tweeter and I think it is a good time to pass my early observations about the tweeter Sound. This driver is not a ribbon tweeter as the Stage Acompany frau...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: All for nought? by anthony on 2020-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Well, I decided it was time to start using some  "proper" interconnects between the preamp and DSET's, ordered them and had them delivered.  To date I had been using cheap interconnects from the local electronic shop (literally $6) which should be ok...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: I do not think I said a lot…. by skushino on 2005-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Making it sing... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Get RTA and set the band-pass of acoustic pressure form the channel identical. [/quote]Yes, I need to get one!  Although Bruce and my tech guy both advise that the RTA may cause more problems than it solves, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: "Different" way to use Vitavox S2 by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
I just posted yeastoday the post above and have got already a few emails asking about the “new” ways that I am planning to use S2. OK, let me to explain what is going on. The default Vitavox S2 driver comes with thier default aluminum diaphragm with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: Further thoughts by KOTriode on 2012-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Romy, in the contrary, it is very unfair to compare my 845 amp with the 6C33C. The main reason is the 845 amp used the best output/interstage transformer available, while the 6C33C's output xformer is pretty good but far from being best for the 6C33C...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: The Zurrealism of the Zu Druids’ bass the SMDS by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Mani, I would leave the subject of DSET/horn setup for another thread and would drop a few words about Zu Druids. They are not the speakers that I would ordinary comment but since I have a local guy with Zu Druids and I had a chance to hear th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The single-ended pretense. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The single-ended pretense. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Despite the tremendous popularity of the single-ended amplifiers have a certain group of audio people, let to be honest: the SETs do not sound REAL in audio people’s listening rooms. I was in many of those listening rooms and have heard many best SET...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: RE: do not fix until it broken by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]  1.  This particular EdgarHorn is being sold to make way for a Cain & Cain speaker which is based initially on a single-driver type backloaded horn.  To me this suggested that the seller was seeking the benefit...
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