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[quote user="montepilot"]This past weekend I was able to have an extended listen to the revised Melchiades amplifers. My previous listening session left something to be desired with midbass punch and dynamics. Had I not have heard mini me it may no...
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Last week and this weekend I been spending some considerable amount of time and efforts to do what I intended to do for long time – to finalize the Macondo’s ideas. What I mean is that with all Melquiades progress, the fundamental channel, with Injec...
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This week two audio persons visited me. Both of them experimenting with loudspeakers of own design and during their visit I discounted my Macondo channels and demonstrated to then the contribution of the each channel to Macondo Sound. Both of them di...
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...well, I do not understand how a "playback that loves you whomever you are" is to sound like and cannot even imagine what sounds or types of sounds could illicit that particular emotional response. It is not that I do not believe you Romy, because...
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I hope these friends of mine who clamed that that stupid Denon M31 might play music will read this post. After of a 3 weeks or living with Macondo I found myself having no radio. My portable playback, that does very well, is on my work. I do no...
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There were had few days. First it was complete distraction of my listening room, than the contractors put the new hardwood floor together and then the complete rebuilding of the listening room, back to the sate it was before. Well sort of…
The...
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Well, I loved, loved it loved it… but today I decided to experiment with integration the new horn into the system and learned that it would be far much complicated and take more efforts. Below are 3 sweeps form listening position, Firs is the new hor...
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From that location the only frequencies that would be useable would be 80hz down, basicly a subwoofer. You Don't even have 10 feet from the face of the wall to work with. I still say you will not be able to use above 80hz from this location behind yo...
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First of all this is not a post about somebody replicated Macondo. I use the colloquialism: “Building Macondo” as a reference to building any “end of the life” acoustic system. Building the proverbial Macondo, going multi-ampling , arranging powe...
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As I am slowly put Macondo back to the business a question come to my heard: how can I make the Injection Channel sexier visibly? As now Macondo is re-assembled and reinstalled but with no Injection Channel sitting atop. I extend no room for argument...
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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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There are a few moments I am working with now. One is the notorious “viola dryness” – the concept that I am staggering for years. Another thing is that my room each some dynamics of my Macondo – something that my old room did not do. OK it is given t...
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I do not think is has anything to do with parametric equalizer or writing own curves, at least I have no interest in it. The immediate questions that I would like to have answered are following: 1) Can Macondo or elements of Macondo produce ANY sound...
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I generally like what the Polish people did. Of cause from sonic perspective their system with misaligned tweeters is unacceptable but I very much like how they curved both midbass horn and tweeter fame – very tasteful. Design-wise in this configura...
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My view of Gödels "incompleteness" has more to do with systems not being able to verify themselves from within. This certainly can apply to audio in that the playback specifications can be very "qualified" but the "quality" must be found outside of t...
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There are some things that I truly cannot explain in Macondo
topology. I am kind of the author of the Macondo topology. Did not “invent it”
of cause, rather just formulated and I should know everything about the Macondo
application? Ended I know a...
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I moved your post into a separate thread as I think your post about a subject, contrary to the thread where it was moved from was about the virgin fantasies… [quote user="Ronnie"] I thought I built almost copies of the Macondo upperbass horns, yet I'...
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el`Ol,
it is so obvious with simple listening where is right polarity that is you try it you would not have doubts where is “right” and where is “wrong”. It is very clearly where the Red works with Macondo and where they work against each othe...
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The “coops” post at British forum encouraged me create a thread at my forum where I would actually to talks about Macondo acoustic system and share some thought about it design. I told about it in bits in many different places within my site but neve...
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Yes, it's might be interesting. I was thinking about it when I had both systems back to back. It was superbly interesting time for me. The decisions to remove Macondo from my listening room was a result of unadulterated anger I felt because in my...
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Thinking about the MiniMe this point I already know that I made a mistake with the MiniMe design.
The MiniMe might turn out to be an OK speaker but when I was thing about its dimension and the way how it will be used with Macondo I was thinking abo...
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As I said above - the myth of my easy replaceable tubes for my MF channel got evaporated. Sure, it is physically possible to plug in those 2A3, 45 or 4V tube and they all will work fine but Macondo will not tolerate it. In fact getting now the p...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Forgive me for being so forward, but I have been holding it in for some time, and am right now, at this very moment, ripe for saying that I see this MiniMe thing as being analogous to an affair with a capricious little mis...
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[quote user="scooter"] Getting reasonable sound would be an entirely different beast, however...[/quote]
This is very much true and even it is an audio centric-site I kind of was avoiding this direction as I would like to keep the thread in m...
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I need to admit that I absolutely adore my listing room. I like absolutely everything about it and if I enumerate what hat I like about it then the list will be long. Ironically, from a perspective of self-education I sometime try to nail down wh...
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[quote user="chaos"]macondo: searched it, but its far out;-) you and jezzie work on another base.[/quote]
Klaus, it does not need to be searched - Macondo has own page:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/MacondoAcousticSystem.aspx
I would like to note t...
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The more I get out and listen to other systems the more I appreciate Macondo/DSET mainly for the life-like dynamics offered. I am also sure that many of the people that listen to my version are unable to grasp just how dynamic the sound is compared ...
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Connected today Melquiades and Macondo in new room. Macondo uses drivers as they are – no time or axis aliments of any kind yet, no Insertion Channels, no level calibration by channels. I just in-phase the channels and sat to listen, to see what happ...
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Since my new tweeter will be arriving in a month or so I am slowing completing the ideas of finalizing the frame of my Macondo. Whoever dealt with 4-ways horn-lodes know that framing of this thing is quite tough. It should be functional and none-abus...
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Since the Macondo Horns were bult the selected few who had opportunity to listen them we able to “get” what Macondo is all about sound-wise. Among all audio advantages that Macondo does sounicly I do have one sadistic experiment that I conduct w...
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