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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Merlin"] I have … yet to hear a bass unit that can provide the low end quality whilst still allowing a first order slope. Unless we are happy to accept copious quantities of 2nd Harmonic of course. I would love to know of one.[/quote] F...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Bleeders at shut-down... by anthony on 2015-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, they technically not Lpads but juts regular attenuators even though they connected in “protective mode”. You can go with stabilized impedance to maintain the high pass filter over the coupling capacitor to work prop...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: An amplifier for “Robb Report” mind? by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"]Actually, that could be a viable commercial product: a "stereo am"p allowing for four channels. One hi side, one low side, per channel.Any moron purchasing this could be stratosphrically happy flabbergasting his pals by "passively...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: About the bug-screens by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]Romy, I just got a Vitavox S2 into my shop today. I notice that it has a very heavy stainless screen on the front, do you leave the screen on when using the drivers? It looks like it restricts about 50% or more of the thr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Do not spoil horns with dirty hands.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Earl Geddes: Horny Book in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
... or wondering if it has any new insight into horn design.I did not read the book but I find funny that person who presumably do not “believe” in horn write a review about the presumably horn related book. It would be similar to ask a blind person ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: So, what is about the SOUND of the GOTO drivers? by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Yep, Stefano, it looks like we do have similar views about the subjects we touched. Let go back to exploring one of the terra incognito of compression driver – the sound of Goto. I would insist is that to judge sound of Goto driver from the installa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: That crossover is perfectly understandable and very predictable by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] If Marko "needs" 3rd order, is somerthing else amiss? [/quote]It is not amiss but an area where the things should be explored. What I like about horns that they have very little ambiguity and if everything is done “properly” the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Three mid channels crossovering - playing in the middle. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Jessie, in the configurations of the horns and derivers that you are building your mid channels do not exposed too much to stresses. It is not that you have a situation when 1/4 octave more and less will send your channels into suffocation - your hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Cessaro speakers and some other tidbits by morricab on 2007-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi Romy, I recently heard the smallest Cessaro and while I felt that the bass was not adequate for long term satisfaction it was also not a total disaster.  From the midbass on up; however, the speaker is simply superb and one of the very best h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A proper implementation of low-pass filters by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A proper implementation of low-pass filters in Melquiades Amplifier  4 Replies 
If to look at the Melquiades schematic in the channel “A” you will see 78H first order low pass filter. http://www.goodsoundclub.com/PDF/6-Chennal_Melquiades_DSET_Amplifier.pdf The low-pass filter in Milq and the low-pass filters generally is great...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: 6E5P, the resistors... and the load. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A resistor between screen and grid in Melquiades Amplifier  9 Replies 
[quote user="ml8"]...but resistor between screen grid and plate, to my hearing, makes sound slightly unnatural, especially in highs.But this may be not true in your case (i didn't try to use this resistor with 6E5P, only with other power tetrodes), s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The sound from the “default” Melquiades still will be there. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"]Hi romy, thanks for info. I am going to stick with the 2-stage plan then as it will not be DSET but full range and my mid-bass is somewhat barbaric at this point.  I have found someone to build for me, though we ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Melquiades bass channels: the coupling capacitor. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Melquiades bass channels: the coupling capacitor. in Melquiades Amplifier  11 Replies 
I was contemplating the 6 Channel Super Melquiades conversion – it will quite a revision – and I am slowly inclining to make it not 6 Channel but 7 channels…Anyhow, the post will not be about the needs of extra 7th channel but rather about one of the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Well, we kind of 'have' a file Virginity Assessment Test by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A need for Resolution /Sampling Assessment Test in Didital Things  1 Replies 
Not completely objective but still “some kind of test” for the bit’s resolution. For those of us who use Pacific Microsonics processors it is easy to see of the file was original. When pacific does A/D it injects the HDCD code. It does it in any ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #249: It is complex by Edgar= on 2022-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
Yes a few ridiculous requests and statements there indeed. Full ridiculousness intended. I know Dunnoy needs a lot of power and low impedance amp. My aims are not the same as yours here as I'm not concerned to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: You are preaching to the chorus. by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"]Beside I'm not a Goto eGotist and I own about 7-10 years old drivers, for what I'm concerned their sound is correct, quite lean if compared to 2440 and 2420, thicker sounding -  but very, VERY detailed, quick and musica...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A quest for a better monitor. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
While Dima is cooking the Super Zarathustra I figure out that I would need some test speaker to be able to observe the preliminary results. I would not be able to drive the multi-channel Macondo with a single full range amplifier, so I need something...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Good sounding SS amplifier for horns? by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cool running AB amplifier.. with good sound. in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
Chris, I have no experience with good sounding SS amplifier that might drive high sensitive horns. I also have no expertise to build such an amp. From what I trued before I have learned that in order to sound more or less acceptable the SS should run...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: The Hamster speaker becomes the MiniMe? by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Since my Fostex saga went deep South I was scratching my head wondering what  else I would like to do considering the I would like to do as less as possible. Well, talking about to do as less as possible – I like the sound of my shitty Hamster S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #103: Here and there.... by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"]I am not using the S2 driver, I have been going the long way testing a bunch of different compression drivers.  Right now I am testing the TAD 2001,  I can say leaving it full range going all the way up, it develops a certain ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: Geometry by jackydai on 2019-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
I’m glad you talk about geometry, but to respond to this I have to refer to other brands. I will only talk about facts and hope it’s not offending anybody.My basic point is: the flare rate has to be coherent right from the entrance of phase plugs. In...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Weiss DAC1 vs. Larry Engineering DA-924 by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio critique – open your mind! in Playback Listening  44 Replies 
I always said that regular audio-freaks, who mostly unprovoked bend themselves in demonstration of the excessive and stupid devotion to audio manufactures, are the worst case. Ironically that “devotion” is not what the manufactures demand but the obs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: OK by clarkjohnsen on 2010-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The industry-embraced audio and classical music. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
While one has some quibbles with Romy's post, and must also ignore his sometimes bilious tone, the principal thesis is grand indeed: The process that led to a playback industry where a $50 tabletop (in my case a fine $180 Sony "minisystem") sou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Debugging Macondo’s HF like debugging a car. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Actually the S2 above 8Khz, or what ‘nl’ calls the “breakup range”, is something that I absolutely certainly would like do NOT loose. I very much like what S2 at it’s 10-12Hz. It might be a bit brutal in some cases; I reported it at the beginning...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: One man's junk is another man's... Uh... Injection Channel? by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Romy wrote : "If someone discover a 4-5” driver that can have the same Syrupy Sound as the Red 10” then please let me know" I will be trying some older alnico drivers in the Mid-Bass horns (the first pair should arrive in about 2 weeks time). I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Thanks by Jorge on 2015-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new kid in the block: Sadurni Acoustics in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
Romy, Thank you for sharing the link! The second part is better! Scooter We only use the Beringher for bass under 100 hz, driven by the main amp. We tried a lot of different solutions, including analog active xovers, the DCX is cl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: David Haigner, kill the stupid CD horn. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Engaging the David Haigner’s ideas in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
A site visitor pointed me out the I never made an intended write up about the David Haigner horns.  I just forgot about them… OK, let analyze David’s claims and his Alphahorn design. I would say right the way that I do not like the Alphahorn’s id...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #639: Solar power by Jorge on 2010-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I talked for a couple of hours today with a local Solar Power technician,  I sort of told him all the gear I have that would need to run on batteries and we got a shaky number; from that number he started calculating a bunch of panels and batteries a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Brewing, thinking and heating by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="nl"] Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio did a series of one-stage DHTs with a step-up transformer input about ten years ago. I think they were called the Mercury series. By all accounts, they sounded good, but of course had limited gain, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications... in Melquiades Amplifier  16 Replies 
Since I know about a few ongoing attempts out there by different people to build Melquiades I would like to share with some of my observations regarding corrections, simplification and possible modifications of Melquiades amplifier. Obviously you ha...
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