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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Yoshi, I think you are missing the point. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The jump-start of loudspeaker economy in Audio News  17 Replies 
What your little G.I.P Laboratry does is absolutely irrelevant. They feed already pre-buttered customers and their moves are not important. Shindo and Cogent do the electromagnets for years but they doe little events with no influence. In high-audio ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Vitavox S2 Electromagnetics… by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-24 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Below are the images illustrating how it will work at the first test-stage. [/quote]Hey, I kind if did it…. The first draft of the experiment with Vitavox S2 driver is on. The idea to use a combination of permanent magn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Electromagnets and my interest. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-12 
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MochaMike, yes you are correct it would not be the “softness” but rather”liquidity”. Still what you are taking is applicable for the paper cone 4 to 15" drivers not compression drivers. Who knows how the compression drivers will react. To the rest ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Some further explanations by haralanov on 2010-02-25 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Haralanov, I do not mock you, I juts report the facts of my past experiences. [/quote]No, you do not mock me. My experience is exactly the same.[quote user="Romy the Cat"] In fact I personally fee...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: A microscopic pneumatic valve? The field-coil… diaphragm damping? by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-10 
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What I think I would need is microscopic pneumatic valve that I would be able to stick into my back chamber and that would have a little-bolt that would allow adjusting the diameter of the leaking “port”... Sure, it would be fun to have the valve to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Observations about the S2 redesign by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-14 
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[quote user="cv"] I couldn't unscrew the top threaded piece myself. Perhaps I was turning it the wrong way?! Any guidance you could give on dismantling the driver would be appreciated.[/quote]Chris, To take the outer ring is very simple. Uncre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: ...Unless you (re)consider a higher sensitivity bog-standard tweet by Gregm 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 
...say like a Supravox at around 99dB: http://www.supravox.fr/mesures/mestg11.htm for some measurements and http://www.supravox.fr/haut_parleurs/tg1.htm for data. They rate it for 98dB but when I heard it, it measured a bit more at over 11k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Acapella from Germany by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-13 
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[quote user="Stitch"] A interesting company is Acapella from Germany. When you have the chance for a demo, try to visit.[/quote] The Acapella from Germany is an interesting company but they have MF driver challenge that they did not resolve for year ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Wow, THAT is very interesting comment! by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-30 
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[quote user="be"]I just spoke with a guy who have made both permanent magnets and electro magnets for loudspeakers.He said that the reason that electro magnetic speakers have a smoother and more grain free sound, is due to the temperature rise in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: I do not like those drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-26 
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audiofilofine, I do not like when they just remove the magnet and to replace it with electromagnet coil. I do feel that in this configuration the coil is not vented well and either the driver has too much thermal stress or it will run only at very lo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: The Messiah from a manufacturer? Eh!!! by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"]A great match for Asian culture/music? Makoto Tanaka (Builder of the Nessie cabinet) was at the controls, playing bamboo flutes, bells & such.  [/quote] And I am not kidding. Each time someone invite me and try to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: 6C33C bass. by KOTriode on 2012-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
I am not too worried about the 6C33C bass, since I have other alternative. Even if lower loading will improve it, the problem is to get more power out of the 6C33C to a 40W (PSE perhaps) level to be able to drive the 12in or 15in woofer, even then th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Re: Chave coil control by guy sergeant on 2006-04-26 
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I had to dismantle a friends chuffing PM6A drivers the other day (only to find that the foam spider had disintegrated after 5 years, nice work Lowther) What was interesting, possibly, was the coating that Lowther seem to be applying to the voice coil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: Ahigh voltage coil by Bud on 2010-02-28 
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CV,All that you point to is quite correct. My comments were based strictly upon which coil voltage would be a superior sounding electromagnet. The only benefit  I can see to a higher voltage is the faster rise time in the voice coil of the induced EM...

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 
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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 #3: Read my post again. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-19 
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[quote user="coops"]Are you decrying the use of field coils per se? A friend has been experimenting with them in a specific utilisation and has had very promising results.[/quote] Where did you see in my post above express any condemnation or support...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: M by be on 2010-01-01 
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"the chamber where the magnet is (would it be perm magnet of electromagnet) is absolutely decoupled from any paths where sound flows"The situation is the same as the backside of a woofer looking into a closed enclosure, and this relationshi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Some analysis of the Joe’s system. by Romy the Cat on 2019-12-16 
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I was pointed out to Steve Guttenberg’s video “Meet Joe, and his amazing DIY horn speakers” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoCVw2AJRc.     I would like to provide some commentary regarding what I observed in there.  Steve Guttenberg is an in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: Something more about the “hot magnet” theory. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-27 
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I would like to expense a bit on my post above. If we presume that a warmed up, hot magnet (electromagnet) radiate a magnetic field of different type and those “hot filed” have some kind of positive effect to sound then there is a possibility of mode...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Tweeter reply by audiofilofine on 2011-01-03 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have a few comments and questions. First about the posting. I guess you are from Italy and your use some kind of text editors that user a lot styles that are not renders properly a browser with western meetings. I just wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Mode filed-coil semi-BS by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-21 
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Somebody at AA asked about the difference between electromagnets and perm magnet. Thankfully the AA idiots who pick the pieces of brain at my site and already learned that the idiotic blabbering about “the electromagnets have more flux” is comple...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: YL1250 - very interesting! by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Thanks, Eduardo, very interesting. The YL 75000 has no phase plug and 70Hz with 1” trout. It look to me like a conventional diver.  Which beds a question: if to reduce compression with our classic drivers, loose plug off and reduce power then can we ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: Another 2 cents by haralanov on 2010-02-26 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, you feel that high voltage filedcoil do excite the electromagnets driver somehow?[/quote]I will not call this exitation, let say it dynamic stability.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]What voltage you feel is appropriate?[/quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: I do not insist but I do not think so. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-01 
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[quote user="be"]"the cavities behind the coil are not the cavities where pressure passes" Yes, but the speach coil and diphragm can "see" the air volumes behind the magnetic gap and will be loaded by the resonanses created, and the radiated s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: 450 volt by audiofilofine on 2010-02-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Haralanov,I spoke with a guy who consulted me during my Electo-Vitavox project. He helped me with selection of core material, deliberated the core and calculated the right coil to keep the core mass optimally magnetized....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: My field coil driver by audiofilofine on 2010-02-27 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  haralanov wrote:And the very same is with electromagnets. With those so widely used 12V power supplies (Fertin, Feastrex for instance) the sound is always softer than it should be in reality with severally restricted dy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: The high voltage remedy? by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-26 
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[quote user="haralanov"]And the very same is with electromagnets. With those so widely used 12V power supplies (Fertin, Feastrex for instance) the sound is always softer than it should be in reality with severally restricted dynamics and transien...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: More about the Electromagnetas by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-15 
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[quote user="Dominic"] i thought of it as soft and chalked it up to not being as strong a motor as was needed and begrudgingly accepted that perhaps 'field coil' did not mean 'powerful motor'. I'm starting to think otherwise…[/quote] Yes, it is exac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Pressures, nonlinearitys, known, unknown... by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-09 
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[quote user="be"] By distortion in the throat I mean distortion caused by the nonlinearitiy of air that manifest itself by high pressures.[/quote] Erik, I do not see why higher pressure atomically implies nonlinearity. Gas pushers its walls very lin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: ..it was Cogent and the Shindo... by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-26 
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[quote user="cv"] Or build your own outer magnetic circuit as you are saying, retaining the S2 diaphragm, phase plug, pole pieces and throat.... [/quote] If you read the thread form beginning then you will see that it was my original ultimate intent...
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