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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #197: The first test is comming today. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Well. It will be tonight – I will be trying to drive through the horn signal and to see how it will drop main resonate frequency. This will give the idea of the back chamber size. The 5 and 6 sections are not glued yet – it will be gone upstairs, oth...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #158: The screws subject and the sections join subject. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Here is the subject that makes anyone who does what we are trying to do wondering: do remover the screw from wood or not. Our leading position is the screw will be removed. We use long 5-7 inch double threaded screws that bund wood stronger than regu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: At This Stage by Paul S on 2015-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
Yesterday I listened for a few hours again, including Bruckner 7 and a new-to-me, (old) East German, "Chamber" rendition of Ein deutsches Requiem. It has been hot (for here) for several days and electricity was not so good. There were some nice mus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The art of audio thinking. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The open project: a lateral cross-injection. in Playback Listening  25 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]My point is not that separation per se must always be maintained but that the character of the music determines the degree of optimum separation or co-location. For example the first violins are grouped together for a reason s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Defending the Hobohorn by Rewind on 2013-08-24 
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 
I guess you have heard a more detailed speakers then. Your collection seem rather extensive. I never meant the Fane S 8N was overly detailed, just that it my paper horn the detail was gone, so I will not try that again.I share the process because...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Its even possible to make my midbass... by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A right midbass solution for Altec 515G. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
[quote user="Macman"] Anyways, seeing the back chamber of my midbass horn, you would say that its way to big, no? [/quote] It is very hard to say. You need to measure and to publish the resonance frequency of your loaded driver and view it in context...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #442: Trying to do it with less blood. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Paul, Alinco magnets perfectly able to drop a charge "just like that" and I presume that it is what happened. If cause the environmental difficulties would not do it alone, at least for that time. Over winter I had output tubes worn up on both amps a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The quest for insight by oxric on 2015-07-07 
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"] Hi everybody, after reading RomytheCat's Macondo Setup I am very impressed ( phantastic music room ...) . Presently I have no working horns ( they are boxed), just questions. First, Romy describes his horns as spherical. La...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Frst things by Jorge on 2015-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
Get your Upper bass horn sounding properly first, this should be a lot of fun, Play it by itself untill you get the perfect sound out of it adjusting the back chamber volumen changes the sound a lot. Why use a different driver form 2400hz? Do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #391: The final Midbass by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Got the ultra low DCR toroids coil and pit them in use. Yes, it was very right move and they a bit trimmed the midbass tail. Playing with inductance and listening how the midbass decays (measurements are worthless in this case) I ended up with 4.8mH ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Scott, are you going to park your Camel in your new horn? by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Multi-way Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="skushino"]  Edgarhorns weren't an obvious choice.  Many horns never worked for me.  The Avantgardes left me cold.  So did the single-driver crowd (I just don't get it....), Altec VOTs, PA systems, etc.  But there were some systems th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #205: Mid-bass horn: Room loading/augmenting by jessie.dazzle 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 
Romy wrote (in the "It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity." thread):"...I might not have enough power in new room for my woofer towers and it would force to use class A/B SS amp..."You've mentioned on more than one occasion how much you love what you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
Loudspeakers. For whomever who follows my dairies on this site and whoever has any real understanding what makes a horn-loaded loudspeaker to sound good it is know that Macondo Acoustic System is not juts the result of my DIY efforts or the John Hasq...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: Fundamental evolution by jessie.dazzle on 2008-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Romy wrote : "...This BTW expanse what we have such a differences in assessment of leaking he the S2’s back chamber. (It was somewhere in past)..." I would just the same like to confirm my findings one more time in the new room; I will run the test...

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 #39: Evaluating two midbass horns. by Rewind on 2013-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
Tonight I finished two horns at once. One was a shortened Goto S-150 horn that now has a Fane S 8M, without back chamber so far. Dimensions are now 1.1m deep, 11cm throat, 75cm mouth. It is replacing the Avantgarde Trio midbass horn r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Small misunderstandings :) by martinshorn on 2018-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Folding introduce a bunch of resonating chambers and cost audio coloration in most of the cases that do MASK OUT the transient dynamics but folding itself should not have an impact to dynamics itself.[/quote]Might be the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Thoughts about the 2490 testing by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2490 mid-range driver in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I plug it for a first time today. It looks like it is sensitive like hell and I did not hear any titanium problems on it even without low pass filter. I do not have infrastructure now to look into it further. [/quote]   I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I love my fucked up life 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 
Wojtek, Yes, too late.  Once you've heard a good "stupid horn installation", there's no going back is there?  Yes, something similar to what was shown in Jeffery's GOTO installation. It should work the same on the floor or ceiling, (...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A few comments in context of the Reinhard's notes by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
I find that one of the most interning and stimulating ideas that you expressed was your experience with your bass horn [quote user="Reinhard"] Midbass horns: are there are two 20 cycle bass horns which normally have 6,50 m in length and 3,20 i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Linn recordings: listening by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I bought a few Linn Records own recordings of Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Dunedin Consort. They pushed them as “Studio Master” but they are WMA files – means the re-rendered compress...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #203: The upperbass in the new room. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I had today a long listening session. I listened  a whole Mahler Second and I can tell you that I was the best upperbass I ever heard from a playback. I am not kidding.  The upperbass literally despaired in the new room but what it is being called up...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: OAE is about the Culture of Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bach, Brandenburg Concertos in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
[quote user="Max Shatsky"] I find the playing by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as the most boring, sorry, I don't get it. [/quote] In my view the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s play it not boring but rather not flashy and not overly...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: My latest BMI post... by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
...deletd.The Mahler Second last Saturday was a wonderful concert to demonstrate how irrelevant BSO is becoming in lives of people who are interesting in actual musical results instead of paranoiac desire of feeding a parochial cesspool of smalltalk ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Fane impedance and other drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Back when Fane were still in business, I ordered a pair in 16O (I don't know if there is a theoretical best choice between the two for horn loading... Any thoughts ? However, the 8O model will require a smaller coil in th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: 1st priority: Upperbass and MF by Murataltuev on 2015-10-27 
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="Romy the Cat"]I do not understand what does it mean. Are you saying that you lost bottom response with closed exit hole on the driver back? If with the closed drift from back you have a (loaded!) response  no lower than 200Hz then it i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Vacuum caps and more by kodomo on 2016-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
Yes, the crossover looks fancy :) More than that it does the job. The vacuum caps are only for the tweeter and the upper-mid beryllium. Still they are bridged with micas as they wont do much alone. Adding vacuum caps smoothens the transitions and sou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The latest measurement and small changes by kodomo on 2016-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
Maybe, some people would be interested in what I am doing with my system. I have been continuously listening and sparsely making changes and letting them sink in. For now, I feel more settled and think the biggest obstacle for me in reaching the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ferrofluiding of compression drivers? by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ferrofluiding of compression drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
Yesterday I spoke with a guy at a Russian audio forum who reported that he played with addressing many problems of compression driver by pumping ferrofluid in the gap. I am not a big fun of ferrofluiding generally and in case of compression drivers i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: You are about to ruin own winter. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
You need to decide what length of the horn you can afford. When I mean “afford” I ment the position of the horn in context of the rest of your system. You know the lowest cut off - 40Hz. So, the most suitable for you length and the mouth size will gi...
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