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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Learned from S2 electromagnet: Lowthers by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
I gave another run to Vitavox S2 with electromagnet and while I was listening I come across to an interesting observation. I screw the S3 in 330Hz horn and was trying to run it with 500Hz crossover point. It is pretty standard configuration, the way ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: You're confusing this with your TV ... by Markus on 2008-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
There's no plasma tweeter on the Cessaro. The tweeter is the TAD ET-703. The HK owner has a gold-coloured horn for the tweeter, but there's no plasma driver. I'm pretty sure the horn on the Lansche plasma tweeter is a good bit larger than the horn on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Raal @ RMAF 2008 by serenechaos on 2008-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL in Horn-Loaded Speakers  31 Replies 
Hard to comment on this one...  Seems like most everyone I talked to there hears with their eyes, and thought they were beautiful sculpture, therefore sounded wonderful...  Maybe I should just be honest and say I flat didn't like the s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Macondo's driver alignment with string by I.M.Distortion on 2008-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Use a ladder tye end of string put other end threw the horn you use for 1000Hz take off driver, measure front of driver to poll piece, that is were the diaphragm mounts to. add that to your measurement and that is were you put the tape. Then with the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: More about Anima horsn. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Greek Anima Loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
Thank, Manolis, it did address some concerns. I think I even know what you did with the MF driver. You were able to get 50Hz out of this looks like horn? This is impressive. The boundaries-loaded horns sometimes allow doing away with the horn siz...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: I do not understand what CH Audio does. by Romy the Cat 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 
Skushino, Thanks for pointing it out. Unfortunately with all my desire to understand what CH Audio did turn to fiasco and I absolutely do not understand this LF section. Is it a duplex of 515 drivers with one loaded in this front shallow front horn a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Pillows and half space horns by cv on 2009-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
Well, I was thinking that there might be something of a "shock wave" created if they run too low, and the pillows might soften that up, almost as though one were trying to get the horn to behave more like a direct radiator at LF, where there is not e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Some Silbatone images and about the deal with front filtration by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Audio Federation have publish some images from the Silbatone room at CES, even it is in their new idiotic format of the “magazine” but they still visible. http://spintricity.com/445/public/Vol1-3/page182 What attracted me in the images is to see wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: No one knows… by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Dominic"]be careful here as mouth size is defined not by what you input, so much as the acoustic space and performance you want. The throat size can be fiddled with if you're careful but there's not much one can do to shrink the mouth. O...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: The Vitavox S2 back chamber stuffing. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
I did a lot of those experiments a few years back, stuffing the back chamber of S2 driver with all imaginable things. During that time I did not use a dedicated lower MF channels and was concerned only about the S2 top end. I did not detect any diffe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Power-to-weight by jessie.dazzle on 2010-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Why horns”, years later. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...a chassis designer told me. It is now possible to buy normal efficiency drivers with low mechanical loss..."Sure it might exist, but I question the application.First, a bit of the obvious:Consider only the driver; not the amps and rela...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Reasons behind the moves by skushino on 2009-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Multi-way Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Thanks for your comments, Romy.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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #199: Some data, impressions and me. 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 
A friend stopped by tonight when I was test-listening my midbass horn. He got freaked out from the size of the thing. I played for him some Gerhard Oppelt’s organ recordings. He told me that I am crazy, like I do not know it myself. Anyhow, he made a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #209: Eventually!!! by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
I spent some time with my back chamber, trying to drive the driver resonance heighted. I built a sealed sarcophagus as a back chamber (if somebody are interested I can post a picture) approximately 1.5 gallons but it moved Fs for 700Hz.  Then I began...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Thanks Jorge...I fee the love by atilsley169 on 2012-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Andrew's new 4-way horn using Stereolabs stone horns and DIY... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  43 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"]Andrew you got to read the site, get into it, there is a lot of useful information regarding excactly the project you are going into, is there any difference if the threads are addressed to you or someone else?  Most of them are R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #140: Pretend you are a diaphragm. by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
Pretend a driver diaphragm, any driver. From front diaphragm "sees" the horn throat and the mass of air in the horn that diaphragm needs to "push". This creates let call front spring.  If a driver has a front chamber than let discard it for now. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A single yellow driver. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.0 & Lamhorn/AER in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="HookEm"]The reproduction does not seem natural... too far away from what I would hear at a live event (e.g., female vocalist).  Sort of bright and fatiguing at times. I may not be using the proper terminology to describe it, but I do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: New speaker system by guy sergeant on 2010-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New speaker system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
I recently completed some upper bass horns which I'm now enjoying very much. Sadly I lack the skills of someone like Jessie so my efforts are crude in comparison, but they are working well for me which is the main thing.I already had some old frontlo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #378: Bumps & springs & exciting things by jessie.dazzle on 2010-10-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Romy wrote:"... from the perspective of “reading the back side of the midbass speed bump” I would argue that it has nothing to do with horn loading. Look at the notion widely. I would propose the following...""...An abstract ultimate playback system ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Let see how it all work out. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
jd, I cannot see any of PDF files, probably my current networks kills them. I do not know the AK150 drivers. I know AK157, AK151 and K15/40. If they have significantly lower free-air resonance, at 30-35Hz then I am not sure that they would be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Further thoughts..... by Andy Simpson on 2007-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Simpson Microphones thread. in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Andy Simpson wrote: You raise an interesting point regarding ribbons but are missing the bigger picture. With Romy's permission, I would like to invite you (and any other members) to listen to some recordings on my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: EdgarHorns and ... you by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I appreciate the suggestions on the ceiling of the room; in my room the ceiling is about twelve feet tall and it opens on the side to another room with a taller skylight, so I do not know if this is a problem or not.  It may ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: A typical upperbass horn mistake. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The biggest problem that usually people face when they listen the middbas horn is that people tend to make the middbas horns too short. In the short horn the driver shot right through the horn and the LF go not “get loaded”...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Yes and no, John by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Russian mythology and Horn loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
[quote user="JLH"] Other than being completely ridiculous in appearance, this guy didn’t even bother to time align any of the drivers. [/quote] This exactly what is the most fun in that system! Sometime people do not do the time alignment because it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Horning further questions. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hørning prøblems. in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"] First, the Lowther has ze wizzer cut off and has an Equalisation circuit to flatten ze upper midrange bump. Otherwise it is run fullrange, that is WITHOUT HIGHPASS OR LOWPASS. [/quote] Probably this is why the Lowther sounded...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: Life at speaker-level (+ Photos) by jessie.dazzle on 2008-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Quotes from Romy in blue: "...Anyhow, I do not know at which stage your project is what I think you are somewhere in a process of integrating the drivers..."I would like to stabilize the system, and listen to the existing horns, while ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #120: Process-related ramblings & remagnetizing by jessie.dazzle on 2008-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Oops, I'll send the images again once back at work on Monday. The thraot size will be 7 inches. Yes I have thought about paying someone else to do the work, but that sort of skilled labor is super expensive around here. And... Yesterday ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: The front and back loading and radiation by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Dresden"]I'm a new reader of your website and one subject which interests me a lot is that of upper bass horns. As you have noted time and again (with which I agree almost completely, after reading a lot of 'research' [many claiming to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Quite interesting ideas you put in there. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="ayebee"] The horns that Stereo Lab make are very good, especially considering the relatively modest prices. I bought the "Ultra-Fi" version of the 140Hz horns and they are of course not completely free of resonance ….Present system consi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #151: Then vs. now. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] If you've tried both, and decided to keep the 16R versions, you've answered a question I've had for quite a while; I too use the 16R version, but have always wanted to try a pair of 8Ms with 8 Ohm coils (should have o...
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