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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Back to Bermuda... by jessie.dazzle 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 
Romy, Just to be sure, I ran all the tests again today, but this time at various volume levels. I got exactly the same results as yesterday. To answer your question (sorry it took me this long) : Yes I do use metal suspension on all 4 S2s....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: More scattered points by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]  I gather the Acapella plasma tweeters have a catalyst so you don't get the nasty oxides/ozone etc. Got some old ionofanes on the way so will know soon how well they freshen up the room... They are self-amplified so efficiency ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Still it is mass-resonance not phase. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tightening to loosening Screws ? no fake... in Playback Listening  13 Replies 
Unicon, the RESONANCE that you deal while you tightening to loosening screws does not deals with TIME . Perhaps it is the semantics that you feel comfortable but still I would live mass resonance to mass domain and would not confuse it. The e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The drivers’ zone of comfort. by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-24 
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 
Pierre, yes, I understand it. It kind or irrelevant what they destined for and yes, in domestic applications in context of low power we can use it lower. What I am saying is that as we do use it at extreme low range we deal with slightly overdamped d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #113: Are we shaking air? by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="morespeakers2"] I am not against trying the S2 in the future but I was just curious about the very small details to cause compression drivers make their different sounds before running out and trying any more drivers. I upset a few speak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #101: Trial and Error by Kcct82 on 2011-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Hi Romy,Well, this is my (and my dad's) first horn system so we're learning/building one step at a time. Our motivation is simple, to use horns as low as possible.The very first DIY configuration was:TAD ET-703TAD 4002GOTO 505TTTAD 1603 Woo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: The Kings are Naked! by twogoodears on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
I'm following with interest the thread and must say that I'm baffled: Goto's "instructions" are - SIMPLY said - a mix between non-existent and wrong... I love what Goto's did in my system... BUT I think I did more with "my own" care, "my own" taste, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #373: Why elephants don't jump rope by jessie.dazzle on 2010-10-11 
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:"...In regular audio we accustom that any loud midbass tone get converted to sort of speed bump. You run a high speed, hit the bump and have your “point of no return”, what you fly in air and you have a generic expectations that the landin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #245: I do not think so. by Romy the Cat on 2016-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Yes, the exit look like WE 555 exit and if they use the original type of diaphragms then good luck to get 80Hz from it. You need to go with very long slow opening neck to raise more EQ. I do not like this approach. From Western Electric 15A and a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Thoughts for Klaus by jessie.dazzle on 2008-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
Hi Klaus, Spec sheet on the bass driver you plan to use here: http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/downloads/515_G.pdf Just to be clear, mid bass to me means from 60Hz - 240Hz. Throat diameter : 9.9 inches ?I'm just a beginner, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Lost in space? by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="slack key"] As for audio problems, you are correct, I really have to sit back and think about what to do.  Sure I want to improve what is now lacking.... soundstage, imaging and depth.  As for the sound, of course, I like the sound o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: More about the Plate Loading by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] I chose this for a sound most free from "graininess" which may change with PP2000. However, what is the rationale to change the impedence loading on the tube, from your perspective? As you know the Magnequest OPT has taps for 4,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A new Titans’ MF driver? by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dukane 5A540 Compression Drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Adrian, This it truly complicated question. The Titans’ upperbass (the better one, curved, with 12” driver) is not realty HF capable and it makes a MF driver need to go all the way down to probably 500Hz (I do not know what Bruce dies in the crossov...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: More goto... by Jeffrey Jackson on 2008-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Hello again Romy and cats... sorry so slow in replying to this thread... the recent posts generated an automatic email reminder... :^)so a few things... one, there is a pair of Goto 370 on eBay and pictures of insides... the newer ones are made the s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
We, the horn people, know what the compression drivers could do. The controlled dispersion, low distortions, low mechanical dependency, low magnetic anomalies, high efficiency, higher maximum dynamics and many-many more advance are well known. The te...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Commercially available BS, Avantgardes and ....whatever by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idea of a 3way horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Angelo, I care less about the “commercially available” objectives, honestly it is too boring. However, whatever you do not be distracted that what you are making will be reminding Avantgardes. The Avantgarde Trio Classic (in vertical configuration)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Multicells HF Horns. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Multicells HF Horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
I know that tweeters is a “lost subject” and it is hard to talk about tweeters with audio people. Everyone understand tweeters differently, primary in context of this systems or even more correctly – in context of this frustrations with thier current...

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 #14: Sometimes I disagree with myself. by Romy the Cat on 2018-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How difficult is it to achieve Vox Olympian sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="martinshorn"]But I replied assuming such a question is raised by someone who has experienced DIY background and basics how to „design sound“. This is of course a precondition. Of course we can’t list a „kit“ here. If we could, the VO...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: You are missing my point. by Romy the Cat on 2016-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec radial phase plug vs concentric phase plugs in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
[quote user="Sean19"]Both versions of 802's have GPA diaphragms both are used on the same horn in a model 19 clone. Over longer periods of time the older versions are easier on my ears. [/quote]You deal with random result. Pretend that you have yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #205: Some thoughts about power as it is… by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
It is kind of unbelievable in away: I have for a week the same stable sound. That is a good sign. The less good sign that I need to do something else in order to take sound where I would like it to be. Without doing anything I like what I am gettin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Goto philosophy of linear range... by Jeffrey Jackson on 2007-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Hello again, Romy... I totally agree with you about changing the rear chamber volume. It makes a very positive improvement in extension as well as quality. Also, I had never dreamed of a driver with a variable compliance resulting in a variable...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Throat size & future projections by jessie.dazzle on 2008-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
Klaus,Yes, I assumed that you had found the spec sheet; I only included the link for the convenience of others following the thread.Klaus wrote : "...whats wrong with 9,9"? its rougly 55% of sd? you think, 43" is too short for a 62hz h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: I have no idea what Jean Hiraga said but…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"] I re-read an half-page chapter in French from Jean Hiraga's "Les Hautparleur" essay, concerning time-alignement and phase... in this quite misconsidered and often unconcerned parameter, I more and more carefully weighted Hi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: It was reported that it was GIP Labs. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES's 2011 horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
It was reported, and I do not know how accurate it is, that Silbatone did not use WE driver but used a Japanese replica by GIP. http://www.gip-laboratory.com/ http://www.amtrans.co.jp/audio/gip/lineup.shtml ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Raal's Lazy Ribbon: a worthy cousin of Water Drop? by oxric on 2011-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Hello everyone:I exchanged a couple of emails with Romy, and since the topic may be of interest to everyone, I am posting the emails here. Just in case anyone wonders, of course I checked with Romy to see if he was alright with his reply to my em...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Ulf plug by rottbull on 2011-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="ulf"]Let me tell you a bit about how an why we designed the midbass horns the way we did.A few years ago we discovered the tractrix horn for MF use. It was really the most important improvement so far. No more honking exponential horn so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Searching in wrong places… by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression Drivers -in general in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"] Bret said the BMS …his web site says he modifies them. I didn't know it then, or know to ask what he did to modify them.  I guess they were even worse?  [/quote] It is lie, he does nothing to BMS driver to addres...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The most appalling audio types: Audio DIYers. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most appalling audio types. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
I have writhen about it on a past and I would not go over it again: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=976 However, in the thread that enumerates the most appalling audio types I could not do not mention the DIY type. To make the l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Chasing the drivers… by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]You have no idea how loaded this question. The crossover point with the MiniMe is not a tactical question but actually the very strategic question of the entire speaker, let me to explain why. The woofers that I use are fai...
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