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Paul S,Cessaro use plate amplifiers in theirs "bass horns". I do not know if they are made by Hypex (I think I already saw "Made in Poland" in one of theirs amplifiers) but if you find someone around with a Cessaro you could experience it.EDIT: a bet...
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Romy,Your Macondo system is something that has been a "role model" for what I'd like my playback system to be in the coming years. And much of what I've learned about horn playback systems I've learned from reading your writing and other posts on thi...
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Hi everyone,It is quite ironic that the day I hear from Fane telling me that the Fane 8Ms are finally ready, I should receive this update from my horn maker maestro. Russ Collinson of Layers of Beauty. Russ, if you ever read this here, please take a ...
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Romy's quotes in blue:Daniel J. Plach's quote in green:"...The back chamber mechanism is good. Are you planning to do the same in the midbass horn?..."Yes, it will be similar, but more robust; I have an idea for a locking-type seal, which I would pro...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] "...Horn installations are ugly from female perspective..."
Yes, and this type of woman is, from my perspective, as interesting as your average cabbage.... [/quote]Well, believe or not but they can live together. There i...
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Hi all
Thanks for your thoughts, Romy.
In my view the least controversial of your “THE PROBLEMS WITH HORNS” cycle. Or, to put it another way, I agree with most of it.
I'm not so critical as you to open baffles for midbass, tho,
in fact I thin...
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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...
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Since having replaced the 16 Ohm drivers in my upper-bass horns with 8 Ohm versions of the same driver, I gained enough upper-bass output that it is now possible to run all horns from the 8 Ohm taps (I was previously running upper-bass from the 16 Oh...
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Actually it is very interesting question and I almost feel you pain for decision you will be making. I do not think that anyone would be able to express any arbitral opinion about the subject, as least an opinion that worth to follow. You see, buildi...
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First: Anyone with a pair of 8 Ohm Fane Studio 8Ms for sale may contact me (contact info available by clicking on my user name in the blue column on the left of the page).In answer to Romy's comments: I agree that there is a deterioration in sound qu...
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I visitor of my site shat me an email informing that that above depicted horn installation by Marc Henri and Andre Klein was made French Musique-Concrete company. I do not know a lot about those people, beside that they hand around Jean Michel Le Clé...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]One issue that I would consider is that the Tractrix profile supposedly does not lend itself aswell to extremely low frequency horns (being too short) as other profiles in particular the Hypex (Salmon) shape. [/quote]
Yep,...
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A little update : Reading some recent comments in the "Configuration from Italy" thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=12605#12605 prompted me to share what I've recently done. Yes its an obvious thing to do, but it took...
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Rakesh,Thank you for your kind remarks. I appreciate the close scrutiny you have given my previous post but I think you are at a stage of system design where many basics of your system should be considered and evaluated before the issues of my po...
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In considering integration of my own mid-bass horns, and how I'd ideally like to do it, I too passed by the underground, up-firing solution, and very much like this approach. I do however have a preference for inverting the concept, resulting in a do...
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[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...
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Romy,
Your frame looks nice, clean, and minimalist ; very Zen. Superb.
I hope that once you get the horns installed, you will light up a fat Cohiba, sit back and conclude that, yes, damn it, a pair of good straight Mid-Bass horns is exactly wha...
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Hello,"I am not sure what you are asking about, or what exactly you are promoting, but I do not agree with lightweight, square-section horns, because I have never heard one that worked,"i promoting nothing ,i gave only an info about a world novelty,y...
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I know, I know, I know…
Any person who in one way or other practices horn-loading loudspeakers has a wet dream about bass horns. Here and there people built them. Here and there you can hear the assuring and overconfident statements like: “the...
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[quote user="Blaukopf"] First, Romy describes his horns as spherical. Later he names them tractrix. Are some of the profiles of the spherical wave profile? [/quote]
Yes, they are spherical, wish means not rectangular. ...
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Hi Roberts, Romy and others,Before this thread vanishes in undeserved obscurity, I have a question or two for you. I understand that the issue is a complex one and should be addressed with more care and paying attention to detail than I am do...
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Re: the guy from “Enjoy the Music :Nice to finally see this. Romy wrote:"...Do not forget that I have a LOT of mid-upper-bass tool in disposal. I have 6dB extra in my current upper-bass horn and I have high-pas my injection channel at 120Hz…"6dB extr...
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[quote user="serenechaos"]I built a pair of tapped horns, as per John Hasquin, designed to integrate w/ mid-bass horns (cross over ~ 70-80 hz). Loaded in the corners, the low bass is well supported, and, they "dissapear" sonicaly. By that, I mean, ...
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I understand your point of view concerning 'vintage' in comparison to 'contemporary'. What I find the most troubling with many of the present/contemporary attempts in design is that many people claim to have a truly horn loaded system capable o...
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Have you considered the opportunity of raising your upper bass HP crossover? How high do you plan to use your mid bass horns? If your mid bass is comfortable playing up to 280hz (or whatever the right freq is), you can use your upper bass horn to p...
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The Absolute Sound cite a street price of 250.000€ and also call JBL Paragon-like the bass horns.http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/munich-high-end-2015-loudspeakers/I believe that configuration, with the bass horns in the middle, should be mor...
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I dont want to hack this thread into TH, I tried them with sub-amps 150 watts and they didnt sound good, but I was using a passive preamp, when I added an active preamp things started to get better, now with 12 watts and a a lot of gain, bass is ama...
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[quote user="haralanov"]I think it is very interesting subject and I’m looking for first hand opinions by people, using properly sounding upper bass horns in their listening rooms. I’m not interested in theoretical opinions – only by opinions, co...
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I was rushing when I made the last post. Wanted to share a little more about my thought process and how I arrived at doing another large-scale masochistic audio project. Making a bass horn is a huge risk - the results can vary from exceeding expect...
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