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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: yes by Dominic on 2006-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Ah yes that was the thread. You mentioned that the lowther was used too low on the hørning because a lowther could not honestly be used for a midbass. What i was thinking is that due to its design and retarded power to weight ratio it could be p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Here it is by haralanov on 2008-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Now it will not be the midbass horn. [/quote]I think you have found phenomenally good sounding upper bass driver and you are going to build a dedicated quasi-bassreflex channel using it to fill the gap between your line arr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The Macondo 7th channel by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] I think you have found phenomenally good sounding upper bass driver and you are going to build a dedicated quasi-bassreflex channel using it to fill the gap between your line arrays and the upperbass horns... [/quote] Intere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Cruising around.... by chaos on 2008-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
i do it and i did it, but as a newcomer you have to sort out all the infos...not that easy! [quote user="Romy the Cat"](This is normal, I have written about it many times. Those large bass drivers have a lot of inductance in Voice Coil, the inductan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: 5 inch driver for upper midbass horn by decoud on 2008-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
Romy, do you think there is enough of a chance Fane's new studio 5 incher (http://www.fane-acoustics.com/pdfs/Studio_5M.pdf) could be driven down far enough to be worth trying out for an upper midbass horn (120Hz)? ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Copyright of image found http://www.specimenproducts.com/amps/XLHorn.h... by mjloudspeaker on 2009-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] My idea is a upright horn like your "midbass hanging thing", at 200 hz for the smaller size of it, and this will be my work for 2009/10. What I would like is exponential curve, not tractrix horn, something like this one...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #162: Macondo's Trim Tab by Lbjefferies7 on 2009-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] BTW, it will be funny if I learn that I like the Macondo’s bass better with the “help” of the MiniMe’s ports. The 95Hz is VERY special region for Macondo as the Macondo’s upperbass horn and the Macondo’s bass sections bo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: My true Christmas List by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: X-mas list in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
As I said I do not truly have any audio Christmas List. If I move I will build my midbass horn but with all honesty if I move and will not go for midbass horn then it will be little difference. With my current understanding of sounds I am very co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Rich’s driver: alleged concerns. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]Our bass driver has a 12v field coil motor, it developes just over 20 kilogauss flux density using a low carbon steel pole piece. The exit diameter is 4 inches at the moment. The diaphragm is 6 inches in diameter and made of a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Reply by electronluv on 2007-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electronluv systems questions and perhaps answers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
thanks I have a few questions to ask if you do not mind: 1)     Did you experiment with surface of the horns and a negative contribution of smooth surface to Sound?Smooth surface are fine don't waste my time on a trival matters. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #165: Amplification for Midbass Channel by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
This is very interesting subject. I expect that tghe new Midbass horns will have somewhere 108dB sensitively anechoicly.  The driver is 99dB and the hyperbolic curve has much more EQ then Tractrix and that is more important the EQ that work mu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: Everything is possible if done properly. by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  74 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]Romy, You make very, very good points now I am re-evaluating this all-in-one horn concept. I do know one thing that I learned from my current system. Midbass horn that rolls off below 120 hz and integrated with sub is not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Another more or less reasonable attempt using Goto. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="tuyen"]This is my current 4-way GOTO setup. I know it is in no way optimal but I am interested to find ways I can improve it's layout. GOTO SG-38WN woofer in 360L onken cabinetGOTO SG-505TT mid-low driver with Azurahorn AH-160 ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: It is all that counts... by Romy the Cat on 2019-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Short midbass horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Noviygera, yes to a degree a short midbass horns is not really a horn but some sort of waveguide or bounce-horn. A horn described, if to drop all crap out, by volume of LF equalization (boost) the horn makes. A larger trout to mouth ratio the larg...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Midbass reproduction by haralanov on 2008-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NOhorn channel for “the melody range”. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
I’m new to this outstanding website and I found it has really educational value and antimoronizating information :) I’m still in the world of direct radiators and I’m looking for the ultimate midbass channel solution. At this time it’s still impossi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #140: Some follow ups… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Resonant frequency  : I did not try to measure it. Can anyone confirm the following : I assume this parameter is most easily determined by playing a series of tones at constant signal strength (volume setting) whi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="wvdave"] I see this project as enhancing the value of the property…[/quote] I also see this project to enhance a value of property. If I place in the mouth of my midbass horn some kind of MF/FM driver then I will be able to presen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Ideal ULF/Midbass integration by oxric on 2011-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Hi Roberts, Romy and others,Before this thread vanishes in undeserved obscurity, I have a question or two for you. I understand that the issue is a complex one and should be addressed with more care and paying attention to detail than I am do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Romy's Horns by TonyB on 2005-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy's Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
I am reading through those interesting threads. I have just won a pair of S2 on ebay so I am interested in horns for them. I have fired an email to Vitavox Peter and I will get his diaphragms. Since my drivers are in UK, maybe he ...

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 #69: My idea of taking about horns… by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Dresden"]hmm...I didn't realise I had left my browser logged-in to your site (I left my PC on over night, downloading some files). '..the only advantage that class-D amplification has is cost, size, heat generation and power.' In my ey...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Midbass hors vs. flooding subwoofers - very different game. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I would think they might also compete with the mid-bass horns. The Auras can run up to 80, maybe 90Hz (you're probably going to say "60Hz max!!!"); would you really need to use the line arrays in the presence of a pair...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Ceiling horn ups and downsides by tuga on 2009-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Jessie’s comments about my idea to position midbass straight horns from basement, upper- firing and his warning that the horn will get converted into a giant garbage can made me to think. I did not think about it but it is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #442: Trying to do it with less blood. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Paul, Alinco magnets perfectly able to drop a charge "just like that" and I presume that it is what happened. If cause the environmental difficulties would not do it alone, at least for that time. Over winter I had output tubes worn up on both amps a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #175: I like it. by Romy the Cat on 2013-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
Hm, I like the Cessaro thinking a few years back and I love it now. A very good move with this “Liszt” loudspeakers, even I am against the idiotic tendency to grand to the audio element the composers names.  Take a look what Cessaro did. A tweeter, p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #237: Back and forth ceremony by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="zanon"]I know that because of your new mid bass horn, the speaker position is mostly fixed. So you move chair. I am wondering -- to those of us who can move both chair and speaker, how do you go about getting system to play the ro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: 1st priority: Upperbass and MF by Murataltuev on 2015-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not understand what does it mean. Are you saying that you lost bottom response with closed exit hole on the driver back? If with the closed drift from back you have a (loaded!) response  no lower than 200Hz then it i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Kerry, let look a very little more seriously. by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Kerry Brown"] Bruce says his folded upper bass horns work much better though - and he's usually right...[/quote]Well, let do not contaminate ourselves with superficiality. If Bruce suggests that his folded upper bass horns works better t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The KCCT82’s midbass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 8" Goto Woofer for 60Hz Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
[quote user="Kcct82"]Thanks Romy, your comment above cleared some of the questions I had regarding 50/60hz midbass horns. I found some info on the driver after digging through Japanese sites. I don't know if these info will help interpret with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Re: JMLC curve, 340Hz horns etc etc by cv on 2005-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
eyop fellas,Romy wrote: "Here we go! Not we are taking!!! I would not need the S2 tweeter and what it dose now in 400Hz horn is perfectly enough. I would go only for the midbass S2.  Something with 6” cellulose diaphragm, low to medium compressi...
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