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[quote user="drdna"]I appreciate the suggestions on the ceiling of the room; in my room the ceiling is about twelve feet tall and it opens on the side to another room with a taller skylight, so I do not know if this is a problem or not. It may ...
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quote:1:Deciding for horns is actually very easy. Why:1)
in the common sense range for each horn/driver they have far LESS
distortion than any standard dynamic driver covering the same bandwidth.
I define distortion as frequencies not originall...
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I would agree that the Lowther is not hard to beat but the question is where and in whose mind does this competition exist? Is the Lowther, Manger, or other full range single driver in competition with different multi-driver approaches, other single ...
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The closest to date I overlapped cones and horns myself was waaaay back in my time with Altec A7s. But I have since then and up to now heard many fine "hand-offs" from cone to horn, and my current project speakers hand-off cone to (very fast/short) h...
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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. I am using a 12" JBL midbass driver (~100dB sensitivity) in a 50L single driver Marshall cabin...
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[quote user="rdrysdale"]Do you think it would be possible to find the proper location by using a smaller pair of speakers, and then substitute in the big horns? At least to get to a close position?[/quote]Absolutely not! The “points” or even the “zon...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, what exactly was bad, and how?Honestly, my knowlwedge and objectives were in infancy back then. Also, it's been so long that my "memory" is probably crowded with parasitic ideas passing themselves off as memories. But I r...
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First off, I will point out that neither Silbatone nor I claim or agree that the Aporia horn is a point source, because clearly it is not. The sound comes from two "areas" but even that is not a particularly useful notion.Although some do make that c...
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Some folks from Australian audio site nominated my Macondo as the ugliest loudspeaker. I would disagree but my objective in this thread is not arguing about tastes but to talk a bit about reference points of judgments. It is irrelevant to me per...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] The L-9 enclosures were wood on all sides. Sealed box. No ambiguity here.Wings were common on theater speakers for mid-bass reinforcement. Plainly audible improvement on these and, for example, A-7/A-5 VOTs. It is equivalen...
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Your Typical Acoustical Suspension-type Loudspeaker enclosure witch has less then 90 db at 1 watt does not belong with a horn system that starts at 110db at 1 watt, even when you ad more then 1 driver, it is still way to far off to even consider usin...
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What I like: The fact that they are doing this. The upper part of these speakers is truly beautiful, both in composition and in workmanship, which is on the level of fine jewelry. Sonic attributes aside, visually that Pinocchio tweeter horn i...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I wonder if any new interning horns ideas are present at CES. There is a post at the hi-fi-heroin site:
http://hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2011/01/ces-preview-you-actually-want-to-see.html
… that depicts a...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]...though considering the scope of his customers he might not stick the MF drivers into the horn and those Morons would hardly notice anything. Most likely this specific Moron got the speakers second hand... [/quote]H...
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Merry Christmas!Nice woodworking job on your speakers.I have a couple if questions:Why did you select the drivers that you did?What made you select one horn for the midrange but for nothing else?What process did you use to select the crossover points...
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http://www.aries-cerat.eu/
(Curiously, the "Contendo Reference" is not listed under speakers but has it's own tab)Seems to be primarily an amp maker looking to branch out into speakers and custom audio installations. The image of the "Contendo...
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Hi all... yes, a clean power is paramount for a clean sound... I run my turntable and pre-amp on batteries and the difference in sound is amazing, while I never used outboard filtering on amps, BUT I have a public mains transformer at 10 meters from ...
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Yes, too low efficiency, even worse than Altec 515, (when loaded with small throat, in proper FLH, NOT A7 type "horn" which disqualified it also for my usage... I don't know how "colored" Tannoy would sound with properly designed...
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Romy,let me step up to the plate and get shot in the foot or what ever. A lot of what you relate is of course right - BUT, 'where the is smoke - there is a fire" as the saying goes.So, there must be a reason for this 'abnormal' notice of honking horn...
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A little update on the Milq amp.After sorting some of the problems with the amps transformers (see posts above ) .I now have two mono blocks operational that have about 700 hours ,I'm so glad hour meters were installed .Filament voltage is spot on 6...
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Hello,I just logged myself in so first of all: Hi Everybody ;)Few days ago I aquired a pair of very interesting 3way horn speakers which seem, as I imagine, to ba an ambitious DIY project from the past. These are basically the Altec Vott A7 replicas ...
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Hi Romy,It seems that the idea of tone is not only lost to most speaker designers but to most electronics engineers as well. When you hear the excrement most designers call an amplifier you would swear that they have never not even once heard a real ...
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The Morons™ at AA’s between selling to each other what they did not like and topping each other on their shoulders came up with a subject what horn installation would be if price would be no object. The question is semi-foolish as price is never ...
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I am interested to find out more information about how DEQX will help solve my issues with getting better soundstage, imaging and depth with the Edgarhorn Titans. I read some reviews from the DEQX website and sent them an email but still waiting...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Andy, I will say right away that I am not at all set up to "exploit" online music, but this comes across to me as "clean" and "noise free", with some nice spacial effects, basically devoid of harmonics, and not much in...
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Fostex T 500A MK 2 Horn Super TweeterArticle By Bill Gaw at www.enjoythemusic.com
As most of you know by now, I'm a horny type of guy. While my wife may dispute this, my audio system (actually my second partner) would have to agree as all seven spea...
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At CES there were Viagra-junkie sized power cords everywhere for $5000. Around our room were $10k and $20k speakers that sounded like a wet jukebox. It was the land of delusion.Value per topology is one way to measure but let's instead start with a p...
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Well, I would say listen to everything and make up your own mind.And you should select speakers that match your room and the rest of your stereo. Blah blah blah.I was going to say most folks here have built their speakers. Then I realized...
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[quote user="martinshorn"]So thinking stereophile was there thursday... [/quote]Reichert mentions Saturday twice in the article. Not that is really matters. He did not like them, the youtube video sounds horrible but you heard something interesting...
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I have listened to some expensive speakers from B&W, Wilson Audio, Dynaudio, and also owned the SF Amati, you know already. Musically these ones were more musically interesting to me than any of the others, but still weren't something that comple...
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