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Below are some images of what I was thinking (my apologies for the long load time) :Please feel free to laugh!jd*Above : View into rear chamber (45Hz horn /AK151)Above : Same but further awayAbove : View showing the attachment of one of the segmentsA...
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NPR July 16, 2007 by Nell Boyce To listen the programm go: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11851842 and click "Listen"At the Library of Congress, in a small, white room with bright red carpet, physicist Carl Haber sits down ...
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Yeah, the scale of things looks more like what I would expect... In my images I used the models of horns I am building for myself... so the Fundamantals horn is not the same as yours... also, it is placed too close to the listener, but was just tryin...
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Jessie, Unfortunately your images did not make and the most important dimension: the throat size is not visible. Will you go for 12” throat? Sometime I will do pretty much what you do, ironical using the very same drivers. I have a pair of AK154, a p...
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And so.....
Is the APS now "up to scratch" ?jd*...
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OK, I understand now when you talk about suspension and will translate to "bearing". I don't know if it needs to be the turntable or the stand but something needs to be responsible for isolation. I have heard good things about the vibraplane and wo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Paul S wrote:Some of the DIY "Eastern European"/Slavic systems I "hear" on YouTube seem to have very amazing Tone on "selected cuts". This is the best description I heard to date.[/quote]From my limited experience I very m...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] Romy the Cat wrote: Your will take 85% of all donations and will run to hi-fi store to buy platinum-make fuses for your audio. That is life, no wonder that your wife does not talk to you but only throwing projectile dishe...
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Jeno wrote:"...It looks like the system John Sheerin developed..."Clearly that IS the system. To see it, once having clicked on the link Jeno providedhttp://www.jhsaudio.com/index.phpyou need to scroll all the way down to the box in the lower right c...
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Thanks for your question, I want to recreate my fave album sleeve. Not sure how to attach photos on here but if you type on google images Depeche Mode Music For The Masses you will see they used 3 speakers. The sleeve was done in 1987 and the one I a...
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romyi never heard before regarding this technique of push pull, ore isobaric design. i searched the net, and i found it very interesting.That means when one driver cone is moving out of the enclosure, the other is also, but, due to the way they are m...
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Lately, here and there, among the “advanced audio people” become very fashionable to spread bravado about themselves that they “more evolved” because they dropped the “slavery of stereophonic reproduction” and went back to mono installations. My nume...
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Snubbers are more effective when there is no inductor - just a diode/capacitor rectification. That's when they become useful. To snub out the ringing caused by leakage inductance. Keeps the "buzz" from coupling to other areas of the...
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[quote user="DOT*SYSTEM"]I created a DVD-A using your track and also some upsampled CD tracks. Is easy to hear the superior sound of your track versus the upsampled redbook tracks.I hear a bit more noise in the right channel of your track and the ove...
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High-end is supposed to be an adjective describing luxury or upmarket commodities.But if it meant high-performance, in this particular case the "perfect" reproduction of recorded music in a domestic environment then I find it mandatory to include...
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[quote user="Reggie"] Did you take courses in electronics and mechanical engineering or have you learned yourself outside of a structured environment? I am very interested to become proficient in working on/modifying my own electronics. I would enjoy...
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As some of you know the long-standing horn-loading topology enthusiasts
Bjørn Kolbrek and Thomas Dunker from Norway deseeded to write a book about
Horn
Loudspeakers. It will be called "High Quality Horn Loudspeaker
Systems" and will be available ...
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[quote user="Amir"] Stitch wrote:Based on that marketing I would say, digital playback is now 25x better than live. Minimum.:-)))New CEC DAC DA0-3.0 is in market , It will be connected to TL0-3.0 transport and it uses r-2r network. http://www.cec-web...
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[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] Romy the Cat wrote:A2A, at this site only I have permission to write posts that no one, including myself, can understand. :-) So, might I ask you: what were you trying to say? Mjloudspeaker, This is a thread is about a cu...
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Here's an even more extraordinarily long 30" arm from [url=]Horo[/url].(images and info from 6moons website)It appears to be shaped like a violin bow.The piano-like plinth is a bit kitsch, though, and those legs look very flimsy...Cheers,Ruga...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yes, the layout kind of not optimum. You might try to lay the transformers sidewise and to make the RCA atop, above the transformers. Still, I hope you understand that your hum has very little to do with layout. Properly gr...
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MusicLover wrote:
Lack of distortion, or suitable 2-level distortion
Perhaps, however how to estimate and to interpret them? If we are talking about the compression driver then they all made very crappy and each driver mig...
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I am continue to look into Avicenna and trying to resolve a puzzle why when Avicenna is engaged the sound compare to the sound of the “Wall” looses dynamics. I do not compare Avicenna with PP2000 but rather I compare it with the sound of the Wall. Av...
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[quote user="Gargoyle"] Romy the Cat wrote: Scott L wrote: the last time I checked, you were using 6each
@ 10 inch low frequency drivers per side. That's "getting there" but
still not enough to produce an acoustical watt. (which horns CAN do).
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Romy the Cat wrote:This mooring a brilliant idea hit me. Instead of the pale and un-spicy while foam the boars me I will use a completely different idea. I so got hooked on it that I ordered the parts already. A few po...
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Romy the Cat wrote: Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdfI have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if...
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Sometimes ago I showed to my local audio-friend an absurd looking old Russian tonearm that Russkies made somewhere in 70s. The friend of mine, the MIT-type person, looked at the tonearm, then looked at me and asked me very seriously: “Romy, are you s...
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Take a look at the below Dumax Report on the Dayton Titanic Mk III subwoofer.
http://www.parts-express.com/pdf/295-404dumax.pdf
Of course this is not the woofer I used, but the asymmetry seen in this report i...
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[quote user="doug s."] i have never heard the rel. but, if you want to hear a tubed tuna at its best, pick up a sherwood s3000ll or later, get it serviced, and run it thru one of your mpx decoders. or get one w/a built-in sherwood mpx. this is...
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Thanks Romy, Paul, and Ronnie for the comments and encouragement :
Here are some responses :
1) Rubber gaskets :
Maybe it is not so important to have an “air-tight” seal (???). The rubber gaskets are there to seal the cover to the rear chamber...
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