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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: But how can one become knowledgeable? by Antonio J. on 2005-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speakers: a hi-fi disaster. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
Nice post Romy, you're probably right, I can't say since I've never listened to a pair of speakers that really told me "what can be done". I've always owned and listened to speakers that are commercially made, and I've had to choose among the ones th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: RE: here's what I built.. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="Jeffrey Jackson"] It seems that I do agree with you about the sound of compression driver midbass.. at least from what I have heard in my own room.. I have heard the big ALE drivers you mention on a bent steel horn similar to what ALE bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Nothing budget about budget… by CO on 2005-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lower cost horn loaded alternative setup? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
Unfortunately its $1000,- total...  Its not fixed, i can still do alot with that though.Alnico is better but only available in vintage drivers right? How does neodymium compare?The Jbl's seem to fall off fairly quickly. I dont need flat to 20K b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Vitavox S2: notes to dairy… by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I thought that the folks who are interesting where I am going with my Macondo should know that am still working with Vitavox S2[/quote]OK, I think now I’ve learned whatever I need to learn about this driver. In order to und...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Re: More Vitavox S2 mysteries… by JLH on 2005-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Romy,I have seen this a few times with JBL and Altec drivers. This phenomena occurs more often in Alnico magnets than any other type of magnet. When a magnet is recharged, it is blasted with a very strong magnetic field. There is really no way to “ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Melquiadising other amp? by Welborne on 2017-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melquiadising other amp? in Melquiades Amplifier  3 Replies 
Hello Roman,Hola from Hong Kong! How are you? Haven't been here for long time. I have a question at the back of my mine for long time, and it may have been covered elsewhete in your blog before. I am asking it here but do point me to the thread if it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Show Report PiS Fest by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Show Report PiS Fest in Audio News  0 Replies 
Show Report PiS Festcomposed by Johan Dreyer This show was held at the Rama Sebo convention centre in Freetown on April 30 and May 1.Unfortunately my kids played with my camera and destroyed the photos.Highlights were:JBL announced that they were s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Diminishing returns? by Jorge 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 
The other day I was listening to a friend´s system with nice Avalon speakers, only one 10" seemed to be enough, of course it seemed we were playing house when listening to music, everything was small and very nice and pretty...Now when matc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Of course you can do it. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Single Driver Speakers and their idiots owners. in Audio For Dummies ™  9 Replies 
[quote user="zanon"]Romy:I was not aware that manufacturers of multidriver system let you attenuate individual drivers. I guess if you multi-amp, then you have control at that level. I have never encountered such a system so I cannot say, but if it i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: What would be possible advantage by Wojtek on 2008-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midrange driver suggestions in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
of MTM arrangement of two TAD 1201 in <100 Hz Horn ? I assume they would both work in the same frequency range . Also JBL LE8 is only 89 db driver and it doesn't look like it can take any power . Difference in efficiency within the channels would ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The chewing gum of Lynn Olson's new speaker by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
[quote user="mumford"] As we are discussing Lynn Olson's new speaker, here is what it appears to have so far.  Raal tweeters 5000hz and aboveAltec 288-16H with Azurahorn 1000 hz to 5000 hzsubwoofer below 80 hzUnknown (possibly open baffle) fro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Big Throat Approach and the Wide Horns by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="nl"] Within that horn-loaded range, the 210/515 type combo does reasonably well, and produces rather more inspirational midbass than most direct-radiator type strategies. There is a reason why these designs persisted for roughly forty ye...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The sound of bells by Paul S on 2007-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
Again, I am not insisting that the material of that horn will behave like a bell so much as I am suggesting that bell-like sounds will eminate from this horn.  Is the difference clear?  Some of those Altec horns were textbook exam...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I know, the life sucks with S2 driver…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Musique Concrete horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"] The HF sound is very quick and weighty , which can be quite nice on classical guitar for examlpe, but the tone is not clear enough, meaning for example cymbal attacks don't have enough metallic ring to them, nor enough blo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Bass horn and crossover by Marc HENRY on 2007-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
Hi Romy and all, first of all, my name is Henry, with a "Y". due to an Irish grand-grand-grand father called "O'Henry". the O' was deleted when my grand-grand father was born, due to a silly servant of registry office. :-) all my horns uses the calc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: how worthwhile is the project. by Dominic on 2007-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 driver made in china in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
There are a couple ways to look at it.The project could be taken from the same sort of perspective as Great Plains, id est, simply new manufacture as a replacement for a 'historic' piece of a equipment. If it can sound close enough to the original th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Orphean horns of bd design by angeloitacare-idiot on 2006-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
hi Romymy name is Angelo. I am swiss/italian, live in brazil the last 10 years . I grew up assisting my father buiding speakers and comercialize them in small numbers. I where listening for many years on Klipschorn replica with altec 416-8b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Avantgarde, BMS and Orphean. by angeloitacare-idiot on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Hi Romy a good sound in a room does not depend only on the speaker chain, but essencially also of the room acoustics. Probably many of the Trio systems didn’t sound right just because of that…. I was at Holgers Home in Lautersbach back in 94. He ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Problems with horns: mid-range drivers by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: mid-range drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
If you know how in some optical systems imagery get destroyed when an aperture getting closed to F64 or even smaller, then you understand what happens in compression driver when frequency get higher and spaces smaller. Yes, the proximity of wavelengt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: "Pile O' Horns" by NBC on 2006-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Hi Romy,   FYI: The previous photo of some unknown persons "pile o' horns" appears to be:   Upper midrange: 1" TAD TD-2002 mounted to 650Hz Edgarhorn   Supertweeter: Fostex T90A or T925A.   Lower midrange: ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Some thoughts about my New Macondo's Absolute Tone by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
After the painstaking setting up of the new Macondo, measuring all distance, paralleling the horns and time-aligning everything, after the setting up a correct level of the new channel’s attenuation (it turned out -2dB was necessary) I spent some tim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Henry’s Grande Castine by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Marc HENRY"] For this Musique-Concrete horn system called "Grande Castine" (it was developped in Saint Cast Le Guildo, Britanny, France, from were females inhabitants are called "Castines" ) i prefered a modified 60Hz Le Cleac'h cylindri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Reply by electronluv on 2007-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electronluv systems questions and perhaps answers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
thanks I have a few questions to ask if you do not mind: 1)     Did you experiment with surface of the horns and a negative contribution of smooth surface to Sound?Smooth surface are fine don't waste my time on a trival matters. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About bass horns by Johan Dreyer by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About bass horns by Johan Dreyer in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
This article was written by Johan Dreyer in 2006 posted at AA and the reposted recently at a Johan's local South African forum: http://vinylsa.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1016 I desided to give to the Johan’ thoughts some exposure at the horn-citri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #81: CH Audio Design by skushino on 2009-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
From a company called CH Audio Design in Florida:http://chaudioroom.com/Sculpture.htmlCH Audio Design Sculptures Loudspeakers, with Altec 288 high frequency and 515 low frequency drivers.A fully horn loaded two way system. Using the ceiling and adjac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The state of High-Efficiency: drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The state of High-Efficiency Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
Well, whatever you do with your loudspeakers of with you whole playback system is kind of irrelevant if your drivers are not right. In my view the drivers are the very much heart of playback but in case of High-Efficiency and particularly horn-loaded...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Sakuma’s syndrome? by Romy the Cat on 2012-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: LF Amplifier in biamping. in Audio For Dummies ™  10 Replies 
This Sakuma’s is kind of BS. What I mean is that it has the appeal to be “good thinking” but only in the realm of marketing hype, something that the editor of “Direct Heating” had created around Sakuma. The reality is that the Sakuma’s TWO channel Am...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Souls of tubes, Tone Control and midrange forwardness. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Sakuma's Show in Audio Discussions  35 Replies 
[quote user="dazzdax"] Sakuma's idiosyncratic and esoteric way of thinking (he believes for example that tubes have a "soul") is not to everyone's liking. He is projecting his mind into a sort of tone control. At least for him this tone control bring...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #167: Might...... be.... by Romy the Cat on 2017-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I was thinking and thinking last couple days what to do with my lower midbass situation. I do need to use 2 drivers per channel with 100dB efficiency to get the dBs I need to match Macondo and Milq’s bass channel gain.  I do want to use Vitavox 15”...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: David Haigner, kill the stupid CD horn. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Engaging the David Haigner’s ideas in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
A site visitor pointed me out the I never made an intended write up about the David Haigner horns.  I just forgot about them… OK, let analyze David’s claims and his Alphahorn design. I would say right the way that I do not like the Alphahorn’s id...
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