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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1488: Dual PP3000 units by JOHNR on 2015-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
This is classical common mode noise interference on a common supply.  This type of noise will pass right through any power conversion technology and in both directions.  Due to the timing variations, I would expect it to be a little bit of mains inte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1850: Not using a super tweeter by rickmcinnis on 2022-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I am using the Celestion Axi-periodic compression driver in the KLIPSCH K402 horn which I have boosted considerably when I noticed that the top one and one-half octaves were barely working when playing music so I figured WHY NOT?  and it works just f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Ansvers. by Romy the Cat on 2024-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My new “New” listening room, 2024 in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]If you said anything about your 15" VitaVox in the video, I must  have missed it. What frequency range are you running them, and what is low-pass filter? Given your prejudices, I suppose the cabinets are sealed, so they can't...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: On 40Hz vs. 90Hz by Dresden on 2008-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
I know many would view the two frequencies as similar and perhaps of little consequence, but I have my reasons.My primary, driving objective for wanting the horn to produce sound faithfully to at least 90Hz is that 90Hz represents an ideal crossover ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Big Throat Approach and the Wide Horns by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="nl"] Within that horn-loaded range, the 210/515 type combo does reasonably well, and produces rather more inspirational midbass than most direct-radiator type strategies. There is a reason why these designs persisted for roughly forty ye...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: Further thoughts by KOTriode on 2012-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Romy, in the contrary, it is very unfair to compare my 845 amp with the 6C33C. The main reason is the 845 amp used the best output/interstage transformer available, while the 6C33C's output xformer is pretty good but far from being best for the 6C33C...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Bogus reply about nothing... by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Monitors: Wishful thinking in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Ronny, it is funny because I was juts about to carve my further observations about the Sound of my monitors. Last night I was listening Rigoletto by Callas and Gobbi on my monitor.  I come to an interesting observation that I would like Monitors...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The single-ended pretense. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The single-ended pretense. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Despite the tremendous popularity of the single-ended amplifiers have a certain group of audio people, let to be honest: the SETs do not sound REAL in audio people’s listening rooms. I was in many of those listening rooms and have heard many best SET...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: RE: do not fix until it broken by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]  1.  This particular EdgarHorn is being sold to make way for a Cain & Cain speaker which is based initially on a single-driver type backloaded horn.  To me this suggested that the seller was seeking the benefit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: The Zurrealism of the Zu Druids’ bass the SMDS by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Mani, I would leave the subject of DSET/horn setup for another thread and would drop a few words about Zu Druids. They are not the speakers that I would ordinary comment but since I have a local guy with Zu Druids and I had a chance to hear th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Do not built LF Melequiades. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melequiades PSU in Melquiades Amplifier  8 Replies 
W, Be careful with Milq’s LF channel. When you go for a dedicated LF SET and make the SET to operate very low then you need very precisely dial in the loading of your out tube with the behavior of your LF drivers/enclosure. Without know the very spe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Deep in the well of lower frequencies by Gregm on 2008-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Greg, I have written about my "DEBZ" speakers several times at this site, [/quote]D. Olsher's Basszilla -- of course! Sorry, Paul, I forgot.[quote user="Paul S"]If I were to do the DEBZ concept right now, I would tune the BR...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Some comments about GOTO-Jackson upperbass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Yes, it turned out to be the emails from GOTO importer. I am not completely understood if the horn at the picture above is an official GOTO product. The Ming Su said that the horn was build locally by Jeffrey Jackson with the support of GOTO but then...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Idiom of Axioms by be on 2008-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Romy wrote:"Do not listen Romy, make you own very simple experiment and then make your own mind. Take two horn channels, low-pass and high-pas them at 6K for instance and drive them with 6K sinewave. When you time alight the driver you have well ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I think you misuse my terminology by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-02 
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 
[quote user="Rewind"]Hi, I am slowly building my own Macondo. I understand why the injection channel is there. It brings some kind of softness that the compression drivers lack. [/quote] OK, but it is not how I feel about the service of injection...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Tube vs. SS tuners – the open question. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
  Well, Nerone, the differences between any tuners would greatly vary with signal, not even with the strength of signal but rather with the specific location and surrounding of a given station.  To make the things conceptually right it wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Midbass impedance bumps -- why and what to do? by noviygera on 2010-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass impedance bumps -- why and what to do? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
I though this would be answered elsewhere (AA) but Bruce Edgar did not reply. This question is important for me, maybe someone can help.When running an impedance sweep on the Edgar 80Hz horn some serious bumps showed up. (I ran the sweep because it s...

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 #81: Interfaces, interfaces by Telstar on 2009-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Telstar wrote: I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD. I disagree. The main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD is not the soundcard/interfac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: Keep pushing.... by Romy the Cat on 2021-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
Oh, rowuk, you have no idea how much I agree. To me passive theaters very much like ports and I hated anything which stay even remotely close to it. However, this time the entire Remedios project is is very different s s is built not based upon knowl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #415: My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It is in a way ridicules. For years people who build of use horn fight with honk in horn, particularly in midbass-upperbass-lowerMF horns. I built my midbass horns and it has no honk, I mean no honk ever of any kind. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: Macondo with wings and wide Fundamentals … by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="Dominik"]You probably decline this option, because this horn is from plasctic ( You can take carbon horn also).Polish autotech make Iwata 300 for me. You Can order from them what You want.[/quote] Yes, the Iwata horns are good as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #184: I will do it when I have time. by Romy the Cat on 2017-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
I do not advocate injector on the ground. The way how I use my injector I high pass is aggressively, so the ground coupling is not a requirement. If somebody use injection at lower octaves then it might be a merit to do so but not in context of my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #131: My troubles with direct radiators by Saturntube on 2010-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
I have been playing around with speakers for a long time, and things started snapping when I got into horns.  I have a system right now with an upperbass horn from 140 hz turned form MDF up to around 700 hz, to another horn, and another and a super t...

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 #62: Tone & point of origin by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Your latest post got me thinking in a sort of incomplete way about how you might locate the injection channel... If you consider tone as a harmonic of the original source, then (depending on the order of harmonic) it may in fact not be co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: AK47 by Jorge on 2011-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
I wish I could stop the US government from selling AK47s in any corner shop in the US.  If you give a monkey a gun, most probably he will shoot himself. If you give a monkey an AK47,  well that is different. He will take anything he wants and few thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Ringin! by Jorge on 2012-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A right midbass solution for Altec 515G. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
Hello Macman,Nice horns, I like that you finished everything properly!  I am getting tired of seeing piles of horns.I think the ringing you are getting from your midbass horn is that the throat reactance is not balanced.  How did you calculate the ba...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Might it be the faulty GOTO crossover politics? by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-21 
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="Kcct82"]On to other things... now that we've been using the GOTO SG505 for a while, the verdict is that it does not sound good below 290hz. [/quote] As I understand you use the GOTO SG505 in 150Hz horn and report that it does not sound ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #381: The LessLoss Solution for filtration. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I do not make any claims just inform about the LessLoss standing. I do not know how much BS in this and HOW they removed the “outer layer” of conductor from the pass but who knows… might be they are up to something… It is said that begin all thos...
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