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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Benefits of using a compression chamber on push-pull tapped horns. by JLH on 2009-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
There are at least three benefits of using a compression chamber in a tapped horn design.1.) When using push-pull woofers with a compression chamber second order distortion is cancelled. This effect is very audible. You must hear it to understand...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #237: A word of warning and some comments. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
One of the emails that I receive is very interesting. The author warns:   “...when experimenting with throaths I found that if the compression is big, near 2 or higher you get some big, smooth, unfocused aqualung sound. You are never scared at listen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: The compression ratio and Mother Teresa by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Open cell foam in horns and MF drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  40 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"] That 18 Sound ND2060A looks very interesting to me. And would fit in with my silly philosophy of only using currently manufactured components...  [/quote] That ND2060A does look very interesting. I never heard or even saw it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Violent "compression"? by Paul S on 2007-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Haniwa Cybernetic Audio System in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Romy, no doubt the following derives wholly from my ignorance on the subject, but I have not been able to get away from a sense of "variable compression" with any compression horns I have tried.  By "variable compression" I mean that the compres...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Ultimate driver and color control. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I will slowly upload, as time permits to write them, different posts on the subject of Ultimate MF Compression Driver. [/quote]This will be a bit controversial subject among the compression drivers users but it is only ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: A good guide. A few things I would like to expend on. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
The “best midrange comes from compression drivers”. I see somebody like Haralanov would be very much opposed to this comment. The irony is that I would be opposed as well to this comment.  I would say that the best midrange at over 107dB sensitiv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Upper Bass Horn Setup by Jorge on 2011-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
The best midrange comes from compression drivers, it has that minuteness, transparency and dynamics that no other topology can offer; the main problem with them is that they only cover a very specific mid frequency ran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Gain VS distortion by Andy Simpson on 2009-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]The fact is, all orchestral processing/recording/broadcasting involves some sort of "compression", so it's really just a matter of how it's done.[/quote]This is true in a more complete sense than I think was intended.Aside from t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: I want more of it. by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
Thanks, rogier this is very nice of you to post it.  So, it is Concertgebouw conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, live. Very interesting. I will be listening it tomorrow. Does this station has the page that future all Concertgebouw concerts? I found th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: The the right amount and the properly applied type. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
Andy, my mind does not operate by the categories you employ, I rather think about nature of Sound not about harmonic/non-harmonic distortions. The whole subject about the distortion is intricate, not to mention that it is not know if we in fact are a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: It is OK by me. by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
Nope, it was not a joke. For sure it is not the “whole point in a compression driver” but it is very much derivative from the compression driver design and anything that a compression driver has on back is irrelevant and impact only resonance frequen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Ultimate MF Compression Driver, the range? by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Here I would like to have a thread dedicated to a hypothetical ultimate MF compression driver. Use the existing, know to you compression drives as references.  Any thoughts? [/quote]I will slowly upload, as time permits to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: How to measure Soundstage by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The nature of "soundstage" in audio. in Playback Listening  22 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"] We may postulate that … compression is beneficial for soundstaging.[/quote] ... You are right and it is very simple to witness. A high dynamic range creates less soundstaging and more imaging. Higher compression kills imaging an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: It is not “compression” it is system builder's stupidity. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Haniwa Cybernetic Audio System in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, no doubt the following derives wholly from my ignorance on the subject, but I have not been able to get away from a sense of "variable compression" with any compression horns I have tried.  By "variable compression" I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Not unequivocal evil. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Hm,… yes and no. Inductance is not necessary an evil. Well, it is an evil for open-top-end drivers but you need to look at the life of compression driver all around and then you understand that inductance is not limiting evil. Sure with grow of diame...

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 #26: Ultimate driver and texture control. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Here is another subject that many people would not understand, however some of the advanced Vitavox S2 user will be able to follow me. The MF compression drivers hat go all the way to 12K-13K region all have own idiosyncratic way to present ow...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Short horns for midbass? by Rewind on 2013-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
You said are lucky to get hornloading down to 150Hz. Then I guess you suggest you will end up at maybe 175Hz. Hornloading a compression driver down to 175Hz is not too difficult and the horn will not be larger than the Avantgarde Trio midbass horn, a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Vintage JBL products lingo. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vintage JBL products lingo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
CATEGORIES:               2100 - Mid and mid-bass cone transducers               2200 - Low frequency transduc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Roundup: RAAL, “Water Drop”, Ribbons, Vitavox, generalizations. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
I would like to pass some summarizing observations and some generalizations regarding the entire “Water Drop” project. THE IDEA The idea of trying to find a tweeter to compliment Macondo was a good idea. Many of you know that I was proudly declari...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Get better and better.... by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
Well, as I understand the iPlayer version is M4A files, which is low-loss compression of audio part of MPEG-4 video. It would be interesting to get uncompressed (I mean digitally uncompressed file). I also do not know that bits rate in that M4A compr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: About bandwidth of Ultimate MF Compression Driver by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I will slowly upload, as time permits to write them, different posts on the subject of Ultimate MF Compression Driver.  [/quote] The subject of bandwidth for Ultimate MF Compression Driver is complicated subject. If ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: I would go one step per time. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression Drivers -in general in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
I see, I misunderstood you, Robert. I was under impression that you “speak horns” and that you have lived with variety of horn-loaded playbacks and ideas and now you have decided to go for making your own compression drivers. If you did not and it wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Electricity, compression and soundstage by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression in Playback Listening  23 Replies 
A few days back a guy who began recently to use a power regenerators that eliminates a great deal of compression out of sound was reported that soundstage the he did not like did despair. In this thread I was advocated that “soundstage” as a surrogat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Compression experiment by drdna on 2008-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The nature of "soundstage" in audio. in Playback Listening  22 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I propose that soundstage is a derivative property of compression. Stripping compression destroys soundstage, increasing of compression makes soundstage more tangible. [/quote] Yes, I have no argument with anything you have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: What Rullit has to do with this thread? by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
Ok, let kill the subject of Oleg Rullit out of this thread. Rullit has very little to do with horn and consequentially with compression drivers. Sine this thread is about MF compression driver I think there is no reason to pay attention what Rullit d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Monday morning…. 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"] Yes, you are right. Power – you have almost unlimited power. Dynamics – you have as much dynamics as you want. But there are a lot of associated problems with that kind of dynamics. The following illustration is taken by ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Come on, French people! You can do it! by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
I think the most interning would be to learn what kind MF and upperbass drivers were used, particularly the MF. I hope they are not the German BMS drivers as it would be a major turn off. It looks like 2” throat, would it be possible that French folk...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Cart before the horse 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 
I'm mainly concerned about three things: 1) I know I'm using the larger compression driver outside (below) its designed operating range, and it may not work well there, although just band-passing it in this range, and using it at reduced volume witho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Stage Accompany by Jorge on 2014-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
Pretty nice tweeter, probably a little less effcient that the compression driver.Very smooth imho....
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