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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: DHT in the DSET by anthony on 2015-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Make the full-range and then you will see where you are. Still, I feel that for MF channels it is beneficial for do with a good DHT output stage instead of 6C33C and perhaps it is a good idea to use DHT driver as well. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The axial symmetry at 750Hz? by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I was really shocked when I saw this idea of yours.  It is a trade off of course with improved control over narrower frequncy bands being traded for axial symmetry.  Yet because the position of the drivers is so very imp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The inflatable speakers dumping and no only. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The inflatable speakers dumping and no only. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Fllowing my experiments with Injection Channel http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4473 I have discovered recently that I was a greedy fool who should know better. The new Injection Channel does OK as a independent single channel bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #316: DSET vs. the “better tubes”. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Spending some time listening carefully my new setup after fine-calibration I recognize some inaccuracies in my previous comments and some mistakes of my original objectives. Here are some observations I would like to m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Looks good. by Romy the Cat on 2017-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A big room with good acoustics before treatment, and some ot... in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Xandcg, I did not see this thread below. I would not comment on 5x10x14 vs. 4x8x12 rooms, the answer is obvious, What I will comment that the scenario you propose is very close to ultimate configuration for Macondo-like acoustic system. A few this...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #213: My playback feels like it is broken. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-10 
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I have today a local audio guy stopped by in my room and listened my playback. I have almost painful reaction from this listening session and could not wait when it will be over. The playback sounded very unpleasant, I mean so unpleasant that I w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #309: Traveling antimatter by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]May 16, 2010: My ultimate wet audio dream was to have Bruckner Room. But so far it turning out that I got another big B room. Since 3 days back I stopped the intellectual masturbation with my room my playback up for the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"]Romy, you said there is no proper tone. In your old system/room setup you were very close to the back wall, but now it is far behind you. I'm probably wrong, but I thinkyou don't have proper sound in the mid-upperbass with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: I think I have found the problem with my ULF by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]In this case, below 50Hz, I think el`Ol is right to suggest that you consider using DSP as a permanent solution. The SMS 1 is in theory the silver bullet... You just need to find out if you can live with it long-term.   Be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Raal's Lazy Ribbon: a worthy cousin of Water Drop? by oxric on 2011-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Hello everyone:I exchanged a couple of emails with Romy, and since the topic may be of interest to everyone, I am posting the emails here. Just in case anyone wonders, of course I checked with Romy to see if he was alright with his reply to my em...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: "Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink" by oxric on 2011-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Romy:Again thanks for the response. With regard to the most important question, my choice would be to use the standard AM Amorphous C-Core transformers in the short term but the Direct Tube Drive in the long term. As I mentioned elsewhere, I was in t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Odeon weren't really serious about what they do. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: German Odeon horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
Adrian, You pretty much said it but do not think that what you said it minor – it is in fact huge, with exception of some rough lathe-work: it is not exactly true but if it was true then it would be irrelevant to Sound. I really do not know wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I might be using something similar.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Bob, Yes, the variants are multiple but the key I feel might be the following: smaller size, less reliance to baffled, smaller size. Or yes, did I mention the smaller size? The thing that led me to think about the MiniMe incorporation was my recent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
A few days back I posted the following post: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=8922 …proposing the parties of interest to play along in Milq vs. DHT competition. This interst derives from the following thread: http://www.goodsoundcl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Good and problematic things for single-stage Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
I did an interesting experiment today trying to learn if those Melquiades driver tubes have even gain. The Russian tubes are notorious to have very widely spreading specification, so…. I took 14 6E6P. Some of then were new, some used and some violen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #398: A hallucination? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-23 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote:That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The new channel! Yes! I got it!!! by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
E-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y!!! Eventually the new “fundamentals channel” horn sounds as it should being incorporated in my Macondo!  The key was the  second order. I really never drove compression drivers to their 500Hz as I always used upperbass h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A tribune to Transient Evenness or … by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tribune to Transient Evenness or … in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
…or the “The new Channel”: some observations after the game. This thread is organic derivation of the multi-paged thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2433#2433 First of all: despite that I got some preliminary positive result...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The uppperbass first…. by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="danvprod"]My objective is to create a system that is able to emotionally re-create music in a powerful and realistic way. My greatest memories are playing in orchestras and sitting in the middle of the violin section with a hundred o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Vitavox S2: notes to dairy… by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I thought that the folks who are interesting where I am going with my Macondo should know that am still working with Vitavox S2[/quote]OK, I think now I’ve learned whatever I need to learn about this driver. In order to und...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Vitavox S2 field-coil: the first 10 minutes. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Well, I screw-in today the S2 with filed-coil into my horn. I decided to drive it with 2.4A.  I used a regulated DC PS and did not employ my prepared for this tusk 4.2 Farad capacitor: the voltage is too high for my cap. The current gave me a ni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The S2 “fundamentals channel” – first success! by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
I made today some interesting experiment and for the first time during my “fundamentals channel saga” I get some stimulating and very result. I find a way to mount the “low frequencied S2 driver” on the speaker’s axe way above the Macondo’s tweeter. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Of course I am putting the cart before the horse... by anthony on 2015-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, if I did it again then I would not do it in context of multi-channel amplifier but rather I would make a maket amplifier able would test my ideas with it. [/quote]While I do like the idea of experimenting with MF...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The one-stage Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="ml8"]So sometimes i just wonder why do you need 6C33C at all, with your high-sensitive speakers.[/quote] This thread is a derivation of the “5 Channel Version of Melquiades” thread: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=406...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #186: Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] [/quote]OK, now, after mach thinking, consulting and very little actual listening I have finally conceptualized my next move with powering Macondo MF channel.  Considering that I have some extra space Melquiades’ ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: A few comments about the big ass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
1)      If you decided to use the 12” JBL 2206H driver then I doubt  that you might talk about 4” throat. A 12” driver with wide outer suspension might go with 7”-8” throat. The 6” might do, though it might be a stretch....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
At recent Nord-West trade show Jeffrey Jackson, the guy who runs Experience Music site, demonstrated his new horn Installation. I know little about it and would like to make some comments about what is feel is obvious from the image. It is 5-ways ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Must be a glass window. I can't see it. by oxric on 2011-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Anyhow, it is interesting how the new 25 users that get those Studio 8M will use them. I wish something “new” would derive from all of it…[/quote]Speaking only for myself, I am planning to use the Fane 8M in a pair of 11...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The horno-live is defiantly is a bitch… by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]So how do you suppose the proper DPoLS can be located? With a system like Steve Schell and I are working with, everything weighs hundreds of pounds and to properly evaluate changes would take days, maybe even weeks f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: Time misalignment in bass by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 1) Horn loaded drivers are narrow-bandwidth transducing system. The wider range a horn channel covers the more it conflicts with restrictions of own topology. 2) All channels shell have strictly parallel axis 3) ...
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