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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: New Fundamental Channel. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  [/quote]In my new room I would like to accomplish my long objective to get for Macondo a new Fundamental Channel. I would like my Fundamental Channel to employ 170-180 Hz slow-opening horn and to use a driver with 350-4...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Meh lets calculate by unicon on 2010-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small double bass horn for 3"-8" driver in Horn-Loaded Speakers  37 Replies 
[quote user="moreart"]Hello,i can´t help it,take a calculator and calculate,read the links and see the measurements and simulationof the Kornett to interpret,if you don´t understand, ask,if this doesn´t help, don´t write than your knowledge is to sma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Bass treatment by anthony on 2023-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
I've managed to make my own room treatments thus far,  all bass oriented and although some broadband absorption has been used the bulk is effective 30hz - 500hz.  It is an architectural type of solution where I have a covered the front and side walls...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Card on the table. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5-ways from Speedysteve7 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Ok, I shall stop to annoy lost in frequency responses DIYAudio people and to lay cards on the table, explaining why I consider that for now the Speedysteve7’s installation and his efforts are condemned to end up with sonic nothingness. When I read Sp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: The Count Alessandro di Cagliostro’s methods. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]…. but nonetheless it *is* a set of horns and driver without which it is impossible to give body to the ideas that you talk about. Someone who has not heard the S2, for example, in the way in which you suggest one uses it, would ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Basic principles of sound 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 
Dear Romy   Chapter 1 in the audio cyclopedia, you should read it because you are the won who lacks experiance when it come to building a sound system. #1 from were you listen to system from you should be able to look down the thr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Romy i was wrong about you 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 
I am very happy that you did not suspend my account. Because i will prove to you in the future that my idea for time alignment is correct. I have only had one account with your web site, and your web forum is the only one i am a member of. Because i ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Boxy Harmonics by Chirag on 2007-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Hello again kitty...Analogous to the lack of perfect "audiomoron" transparency of something like an L1 or tannoys or koetsus, I can see the general direction of your thinking regarding the "oops" nature of developing a musical transducer in room.The ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: ...particularly if you have tried it? by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]If you put your speakers in the back extra bedroom, you could have your cake and eat it 2. You will have a normal living room and your headphones sound that you love from small room will be back and better then ever and it don't...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #888: I love a good scavenger hunt by steverino on 2011-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Romy,  Why do you think the improved sonics were related to the residual noise or more precisely the hypothetical delta of noise components from one day to the next? You were very non specific about what was better and to what degree. If you are perc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Describing odors by steverino on 2014-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Prices in High-End Audio. in Audio Discussions  27 Replies 
This is an interesting thread. Romy is correct that the hifi industry is not user defined or driven really. Manufacturers have a standard vocabulary that they are able to use indiscriminately to describe the sonics produced by a given product (detail...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1494: Ferrites by JOHNR on 2015-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
A clue!You are not using the ground on the PP3000 unit and have ferrite packages on the incoming mains supply.I am guessing that you have fitted a clamp directly around the power cord.If this is the case, then you are using the ferrite on the ground ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks." by oxric on 2011-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Full range Melquiades implementation in Melquiades Amplifier  81 Replies 
Hi D.,Call yourself whatever you like, but you started this thread not me. I am genuinely interested (or rather was)and was thinking of buying your items but am puzzled that you are not clear, in either your email to me or anywhere in this thread...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Not on the new tube by hagtech on 2007-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
[quote]I really do not understand what conclusion you make by shutting the tube down.[/quote]I make no conclusion.  It's just an interesting thing to watch.  A good experiment.  I was hoping it would be a clue for everyone here.Since t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Speaker hunting by Chirag on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speaker hunting in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
hello kids, a few weeks ago i started my hunt for a pair of speakers....i've been attached to my big system with a pair of headphones for the past year and feel its time to get some speakers to listen to music with (plus, i think my ears are now...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Running from 16 Ohm taps. by Paul S on 2007-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I have been running my nominally 8 Ohm speakers from the ML2s' 4 Ohm taps for quite a while, in order to keep the sound from getting squirrilly and to keep the bass strong enough.Today I used the re-capped/improved K&K phonostage as a source and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #151: Is this common-mode voltage ? by jessie.dazzle on 2008-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
In my case, I have not observed any fluctuations in sound quality other than those resulting from my own state of fatigue (maybe they are doing something right with power generation/distribution over here... I don't see many complaints coming from ou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: We know so much by clarkjohnsen on 2009-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Off-the-wall playback or the 'hamster solution'. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Only, we don't know much about speakers do we?In my kitchen I have a $180 (list) Sony mini-system with subwoofer that is very very satisfying. That price includes AM/FM, dual cassette wells and 3-CD changer! But it's the main speakers that do th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: The plate loading with secondary’s taps. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-22 
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"]Today I used the re-capped/improved K&K phonostage as a source and I drove the speakers first from 8 Ohm and then from 16 Ohm taps, and I got a very pleasant surprize...... .It certainly gave a clue as to why Romy would opt a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Nanut - to be or not to be, that is the question! by JANDL100 on 2008-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Yep, I do not like the rest of the Nanut Mahler at all. That Mahler 6 I think was a big accident…. The caT[/quote]Hmmm ... nor do I.I don't think Nanut's superb Mahler 6 was an accident though.   ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #185: Two separate individuals by martinshorn on 2017-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
priviet. I tried many ways. I cut the front outside faceplate open, and put a second driver on it. So that two drivers were firing onto each other face to face in one single hornthroat, rest normal single K. To my surprise the output didn't increase ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #644: Regarding the PurePower buttery. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Steve, get a little clue in what you are saying as your preaching on this subject of worshiping the butteries become a bit annoying. What battery solution I already use? Ruing playback from battery and the issuers with PurePower buttery related only ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: I am really on something... by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="Chirag"]The only things I can come up with is the possibility of using musical friendly woods (not that i have a clue what the difference between oak and cedar could be) that resonate sensitively just enough to produce a musically motiva...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: Havering on... by jessie.dazzle on 2009-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Well, yes... I've not been to prison in over two years! Apart from keeping me off the streets at night, the results when listening to one of the 40Hz horns were, dare I say, encouraging, though I do hesitate to say so, as the "evaluation" was carried...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: TOA monster sized compression driver ID please - is it TOA HFD 651? by gordan on 2011-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: TOA monster sized compression driver ID please - is it TOA H... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
While seeking for a CD capable of covering a low mid range, say from 300hz or under, I am offered a pair of TOA compression drivers of rather impressive size. Unfortunatelly a seller has no clue what model it is, except "it sounds as seducing as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Closer to the bug ? by jessie.dazzle on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
To save people from researching the differences between Romy's and my systems, I'll note the principal differences here, ignoring our ongoing mid-bass projects, which will be different, but both are incomplete, so not yet in the picture.As concerns t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The Sad Truth by Paul S on 2014-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Making musical instruments by audio person? in Playback Listening  18 Replies 
Another "classic" "experiment". Too bad the average player cannot begin to get the most from a Strad, and too bad the average listener/reader has no clue - at all. I am reminded here of upstart CA wines being "more popular" than top 1855 marques in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Inconveniences of music servers by jessie.dazzle on 2008-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
In my case, it has nothing to do with convenience, and believe it or not, everything to do with quality.Shrink-to-fit, badly-mastered recordings... These are the cards we've been dealt. Ripping CDs is the sort of ritual I hate. I nevertheless spend c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: You Should Be The Presidents Cheif Of Staff. by msaudio on 2010-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
Romy    I have not herd so much doulble talk in a long time. Some of the best sounding drivers on the market in the last 60 years, were for sound reinforcement. I do believe, in a 2 way speaker system crossed over at 800hz with a good wood horn i wil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The HigherFi as anti-dealer framework by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MillionDollarStereos.com in Audio News  4 Replies 
This is a part of HigherFi site. They are in a very specific business and they do what they do fine. The site is pretty much enumeration of everything in audio with price tags. They  completely silent and with no expertise of any kind offered to buye...
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