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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Vitavox S2 field-coil: more hours. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
My first impressions a about the “differences” of field-coiled derived form the time when I ran the Telefunkens war time drivers but at that time I had no reference how the same driver would act with permanent magnet. Also, the Telefunkens are the re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dukane 5A540 Compression Drivers by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dukane 5A540 Compression Drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
A six year ago or so when I played with different compression drivers I bought a pair of Dukane 5A540 and at that time I was not able to find any information about them. Nowadays I was pointed out that an eBay sealer “ bayleafs” actions a pair of Duk...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: 15"/1" by el`Ol on 2008-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Maxonic drivers from Japan in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="vuki"]The best sound at the Show (to my ears, again) was in Hiraga/Melody room.  [/quote]Hello Vuki!To my ears this speaker has a very smooth-sounding compression driver that hasn´t deserved being combined with a 15" cone ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Ming, now “new” these GOTO views? by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="MINGSU"]GOTO always recommend to use 1st order active crossover and 2nd order passive crossover. The reason to use 2nd order for passive crossover is to protect the driver. Of course, the user can use whatever they like the best but 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 #44: Double drivers by ygoh on 2008-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ygoh wrote: 1.) Why is it that you do not support using teo compression drivers in the same throat?   Is the distortions increases, such as wavefront distortion? Sure the wavefront gets spread; it is what Wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Rich’s driver: alleged concerns. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]Our bass driver has a 12v field coil motor, it developes just over 20 kilogauss flux density using a low carbon steel pole piece. The exit diameter is 4 inches at the moment. The diaphragm is 6 inches in diameter and made of a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Transition : Driver to throat, when throat is smaller than driver by jessie.dazzle on 2006-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Transition : Driver to throat, when throat is smaller than d... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Hello all :::: This will be my first post, and I am writing first to thank Romy and the lovely Koshka for making the results of their research available to others, and also to ask for help :::: I am something of a "New Horns Guy" (cringe !), as I am ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Problems with horns: tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
All that I will be saying are the subject of my own experience with horns and my personal observations. You shouldn’t agree and most likely you will not. That is fine with me. I have lot of reasons behind what I will be saying and opened for some cla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: An ultimate horn profile? by JLH on 2005-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An ultimate horn profile? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Hey Boys, Remember even if you use a modern "pancake" compression driver, you still have no control over the flare rate the manufacturer used within the phasing plug. And most of the time they are not willing to tell you, or they don't even know...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Listening to specific case is precisely my point, typology be damned by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Cat:First off, the Silbatone Aporia is $30k/pr not 100k. You could do 6 speaker surround with Aporia for well under $100k. Hope you feel better now."So what," I say. $30k is already too much for my pocket. I am on a fellowship this year and cheapskat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: Why care about the specifications as Goto understands it! by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="MINGSU"] Since they are very old pair of driver, I will recommend you to send them to GOTO Japan to make sure the driver are up to the spec. so you can be sure …. [/quote] Ok, but then they need to send them to me then in order I inform ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #94: Options, options, options… by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Yes, Ric, thanks for posting it. I have seen it a few years back, in fact I was searching for the images but was not able to find it.  I think that fellow was ether Japanese or from Sound West Asia, I do remember already. It looks like it is 20-3...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Leather-like materials or plastics surrounds? by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
Kea Audio, Regarding the driver. When I meant hard suspension I meant low excursion. Acoustic pressure equals displacement by volume and displacement equals surface by excursion. In horn we add the horn EQ, so for a given frequency we might have lowe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: .... "strong, clean and in character" by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Vitavox S2 does OK up to 12.5K ("strong, clean and in character") on it’s center but I never use this driver pointed directly to me but rather at good 20 degree off. (I hardly can tolerate any compression driver point directly to me). At my angle the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Re: .... "strong, clean and in character" by Paul S on 2006-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Romy:Going back, you said:"Vitavox S2 does OK up to 12.5K ("strong, clean and in character") on it’s center but I never use this driver pointed directly to me but rather at good 20 degree off. (I hardly can tolerate any compression driver point direc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Compression tweeters by noviygera on 2018-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
TAD TD-2002:I have been evaluating these without horns. Essentially, listening to them without the horns, but also with original horns. No difference, as I will describe what I am hearing in both configurations (applies to their high frequency reprod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: A baby thrown out with bath water? by yoshi on 2007-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]It should not be a problem for you to borrow one of those plastic 150-200 Hz horns for your REPS .[/quote]I heard it a couple of times in a different settings several years ago.  Although I was interested in the application ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: One from left of field... by anthony on 2015-08-26 
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="Murataltuev"]So, the question is still opened: how to get 300-400hz.[/quote]Perhaps give the JBL 2169H a try.  It is supposedly very good from 300Hz to 2.2kHz, but I have never tried it.  Use it in a sub 200Hz tractrix horn with a 4" thr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #167: I do not know where I'm going to go from here... by Romy the Cat on 2022-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
Here is where I stay with my enigmatic Remedios project. I build inside of top box at resonator that I tuned  50-60 hertz. So basically it is under two square foot enclosure with a port tune at the bottom of resonance frequency. The port is shooting ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Goto S150 with what? by Rewind on 2013-07-03 
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 kind of got stuck in selecting an upper midrange driver, above 2kHz. If a driver is going to screech in your ears it is going to be in these frequencies. I was never really satisfied with the range of 1" compression drivers I tried. That is wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Hands on by Jorge on 2013-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Charlus,As you expressed here this would be an End of life speaker project, and I am sure you will not fancy any other speaker once you start with this,  even Vox Olympian etc.  Yes it will take a lot of money and a lot of time, but you will have fun...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #149: Fostex F120A – the fucking disaster! by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I was running the F120A for a whole day and now I can’t stress more than I did it in the subject of this post this - driver is ultimate nightmare. In full range it was just too brutal to list it and it sounded sometimes like mechanically distorted. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: What is your reasoning? by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]p.s from my experience of having a 500 sq. ft. listening room with 7 ft. ceiling and having two 18" woofers in a infinite baffle configuration, it is not enough to pressurize the room. I am talking about low and medium listeni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Another consideration – the cable length by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
If I succeed to make my midbass horn at attic then I will face another problem that I do not know how to address at this point. The horns will be powered from Melquiades bass channels – it means it will use a good 70 feet speaker cable. If I go with ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Faital chamber/ratio by KS on 2010-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Multi-way Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Hi Skushino, hope you dont mind me jumping on to your old thread, but I can upon it while looking for ideas re chamber volume and compression ratios for the same Faital driver into a 160hz Azurahorn. Could I ask how you were using yours? Ta,K.S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #337: About the foam by el`Ol on 2010-10-02 
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, I think you have neither a system with back chamber now (because the foam is closed pore), nor a "true compression driver" (because the foam is not rigid). Probably you mainly have a second vibrating system coupled to the cone that enhances mec...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #93: It is about magnet and SS type. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Gordan, I think you are missing the accent of what I meant to say. The Class A or not is not important for compression drivers and the S3 in particularly. I mean it is important and it much be ONLY class A but I do not see any SS amps switching in cl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Wave lenght and xover by Jorge on 2011-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
Haralanov,  I guess you mean to say disconnect the tweeter on one side of your playback?  not the whole left side of the playback...When you use compression drivers it is very important to design the horn taking care of the high frequency response.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: I read before the bed.... by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Take a look at the video: [/quote]I am not sure why you keep bringing the Vengerov’s video again and again. It is quite banal things and those infomercials of Vengerov educating in front of camera the sentimental girls ho...
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