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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: it is rather my negative prejudges... by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators? in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
Yes, you are right it is rather my negative prejudges and I should not proud about it. It perfectly possible that Bend is a fine performer…. Still, it is a transformer and no mater what you do is a band-pass filter. It is still inductance at the bott...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Some D-ideas for the barn. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"]the horns come out of a rakk dac with lundahl LL1674 passive outputs the midbass use a behringer DEQ2496 (26cm delay) modified with passive outputs.[/quote]James, if you use this DEQ2496 then you might find this thread worth attent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: quotations, leads to source, the caps.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Milq: Starting the project in Melquiades Amplifier  23 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."]Thanks a lot, I've forwarded to him your answers, let's see what he says. I have tried Mundorfs in some critical places in the integrated tube amp I'm using now and they are pretty good, expensive, but not at the level of tho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: High End -THE ULTIMATE KEY by Stitch on 2013-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is High-End Audio? in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
Found some interesting comments on an independent web site, Twogoodears. I'll copy it, it is from 2009 with original lines from Arthur Salvatore and a comment from Stefano Bertocello - Twogoodears owner -, we will n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Some kind of sound? by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Polish Autotech steps up to Universe in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
[quote user="jzagaja"]To make the story short Autotech is a family business located in Lublin, Poland. Younger brothers graduated in mechanical engineering are cars and racing lovers - with scores in Europe as professional drivers and mechanics. One...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Once again, I would like to keep automobile sound out of this subject. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where the FM quality comes from? in Off Air Audio  22 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]With the stock radio-CD and buzzing fulrange speakers in my Civic I often find myself puzzled how pleasant and musical this crap sounds. If only I could get close to it at home -fruitless pursuit so far .Romy when it comes to tub...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #111: The art of ULF volume adjustment. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations.  It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to ac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Reply by atilsley169 on 2012-06-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Andrew's new 4-way horn using Stereolabs stone horns and DIY... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  43 Replies 
ThanksFor some reason, I can't attach pics. I use the attach key, but when I post, nothing happens...sorry.Here's some pics on Stereonet (in Australia) with my build pics.My comment re you cringing over Selenium, is that these are cheapish...nothing ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Strategizing. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
If we are taking about multi-way horn-loaded acoustic system then in my view is it very important to plan the development in a specific order. Any deviations from the order are perfectly fine but they will affect cost/time/efforts of the project. Thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: Goto-san as a dean of Jerry Falwell University. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-23 
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="MINGSU"]As you pointed out, there is no simple answer but manufacture recommendation should be the 1st to try.[/quote] Well, I have no idea why you stress the manufacture recommendations. I do not think it was the subject at all, not to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #97: Goto prototype system developed on request 4/24/2010 by jessie.dazzle on 2011-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: About the SH-50 by noviygera on 2012-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Anything wrong with wide bandwidth horns? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]This is a synergy horn, a topology that Danley has a patent on, I believe, and certainly the most expertise. There have been extensive discussions on this site about it, including Romy's theoretical objections to the idea. In a s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #110: What I am trying to accomplish. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
For a casual observer it might appear that I am constantly fought with my ULF, finding and loosing better and worse configurations.  It might be so but I have a very strong sense of objective of what I would like to accomplish. I want to reinstat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The second "best" commercial horn speaker? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Marc HENRY"]hi all,thanks for your interest !yes the frame is curved, HF and MF are //yes there is a phase plug in the bass horn. This cover 80-300Hz.there is a separate infra-bass section, covering 20-80Hz.images of the bass phase p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #171: Gain and bass by Saturntube on 2010-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
I dont want to hack this thread into TH, I tried them with sub-amps 150 watts and they didnt sound good,  but I was using a passive preamp, when I added an active preamp things started to get better, now with 12 watts and a a lot of gain, bass is ama...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Will get to work on it. by noviygera on 2010-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
Romy,Thank you for constructive suggestions, they will be very useful tonight. I am slowly getting the hang of this system tuning and observation approach that you advocate. I do not have separate identical amps (or one multi-channel) for separate sp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... by chaos on 2008-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
first post, hi everybody!plan to build a midbass horn around the gpa 515-8ghp, throat 9,9", mouth 24" x 39,37".945something sq inches.(excuse the strange numbers, metric units in europe)crossed at 500, s2 alu diaphr.(is it normal for the metals to ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Bass and infra bass by Marc HENRY on 2009-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
hi all,thanks for your interest !yes the frame is curved, HF and MF are //yes there is a phase plug in the bass horn. This cover 80-300Hz.there is a separate infra-bass section, covering 20-80Hz.images of the bass phase plug and the infra-bass sectio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Elephant shit - side view by Kunashirsky on 2011-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An unexplored way to deal with the sound/music perception in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
I did not make any genratorov . System pictures for a passive, in terms of electricity. Nevertheless, the acoustic power during installation increases 2-3.5 times (depending on the acoustics). Diagram of electrical circuit including a power amplifier...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #158: The Goose that Laid a Golden Egg by Paul S on 2021-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Hope it isn't the case, but it sounds like you have just described "the best sound" (or, in any case, the sound you're after) from Remedios as being limited to 90 dB SPL, through your wide range of experiments with the basic configuration. I don't re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #103: Does history repeat itself? by rowuk on 2021-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
In Macondo/Melquiades thinking, random process means random result - and that is exactly what happened with Dunnoy. A random driver was placed in a random cabinet with a random passive radiator and random cabinet damping. All subsequent attempts to r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Question by hoan da ox on 2014-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Avantgarde method of cap biasing. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Hello to all, After following the comments of Romy for some time (have learned a lot, thank you), I would like to ask a question on this subject.This circuit is built with resistors, diodes and capacitors. Could someone elaborate how it can produce a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: The pipes, the pipes are ringing... by anthony on 2017-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"]Hello Anthony,I did experiment with metal tubes for bass in a sealed configuration as you are planning. The weight of them, even made out of thinner than you would like steel, is prohibitive.  If you make them out of aluminum pipe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Nowhere for now... by Romy the Cat on 2022-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
I finally set it up new Tannoy Red best Twitters. They are sealed irregular shape and purely themselves do not sound bad. They do not have the full range feeling as they had with passive radiator and had a typical red sound of late Autumn leaves....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Passive only via Q by martinshorn on 2018-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Coral x-viii in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Hi, true thats why i wrote designated amp (Active). As a passive xover thats rather difficult, so try a low Q filter type that increases steepness slowly. Like a Bessel (Q 0.585) or if youre skilled calculate your own Q smaller than 0.5 (LR) as a 8-1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The TDA1543 and the NOS sound by tuga on 2008-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Hello, I have owned a TDA1543 based [url=http://www.sakurasystems.com/articles/Kusunoki.html]Kusonoki[/url] style (passive I/V, digital filterless, non oversampling) DAC for almost two years. You can have a look at the measurements [url=http://ww...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 by manisandher on 2009-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
Hi,I've just taken receipt of a Model 2 to use as a DAC in my study (using the ADC occasionally for recording live from a mic). I would like to feed the balanced XLR outputs of the Model 2 into the single-ended RCA inputs of my Berning Siegfried amp,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: PLLXO by KLegind on 2010-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Saying goodbye to the digital crossover. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
This is what you need to know - these are the equations you need for a passive line level filter:http://www.t-linespeakers.org/tech/filters/passiveHLxo.htmlYou also need to obtain the input impedance of the power amps in order to calculate RC values....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: I fear... the end is near by noviygera on 2010-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Saying goodbye to the digital crossover. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
Confirming our concern about digital crossovers, by Harman international, the parent co. of DBX, today at 11am, and I will quote, "theoretically they compress the sound" and also I will quote, "it is a concern for live recording and not live sound". ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #293: Look before you LEAP by Paul S on 2024-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Another tool used by sound pros is LEAP. The guy who designed my BassZillas (some time ago) used this tool to make the most of a BR enclosure. As for the Fostex (U)HF, the pros tend to correct them digitally, as they need "something". Mainly, did you...
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