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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #201: Actually… by Romy the Cat on 2017-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Since Anthony posted his post this morning I have been thinking about it. Ok, I have drivers, If I pile 10 of them then I will have 88.7+9X1.4 = 101.2dB sensitivity. This always is workable number more or less. I will get a lot of room gas with it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Hunt for Speakers or for Result? by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speaker hunting in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Chirag, First off all you have to define what do you want from them. If at this moment you’re looking for something within $700 then very next year, when you finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range… :-) Now a lit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Delays and a typical rant... by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horns and digital crossovers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
Although all of it has no relation to digital crossovers but still: [quote user="cv"] On a vaguely related note: I dunno if you realise this, but conventional (ie excluding horn or large area ESL) speaker systems, even if measuring flat amplitude, i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My feelings about new exciting audio products by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I kind of feel that I am way off in my familiarity about what is going on with new audio products. My horizon is very restricted with my own needs and with my own interests. I am irregularly read audio publications and irregularly visit some audio si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: I do not agree with "Rubber Sound". by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Again, I do not agree with all notion of Rubber sound that Haralanov seeded.  I can not speak what was in the situation that “be” described and 400Hz crossover. I do have the 8” version of 25W driver (I think it is 21W) and my feeling that it sou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Altec is stepping out of closet. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"] Romy I have not herd so much doulble talk in a long time. Some of the best sounding drivers on the market in the last 60 years, were for sound reinforcement. [/quote] It is not my view. I wrote about it many times before...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Why I do not like La-horns. The tomatoes… by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not like La-horns. The tomatoes… in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
The Jean-Michel Le Cléac'h’s horns or as I call them La-Horns get a lot of popularity among people who are trying to build horns loaded systems. But as anything else in audio the Morons hear any noise and they has no idea how to associate the noi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Bass Horn vs. Sealed Enclosures. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Actually it is very interesting question and I almost feel you pain for decision you will be making. I do not think that anyone would be able to express any arbitral opinion about the subject, as least an opinion that worth to follow. You see, buildi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Musique-Concrete bass issues. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
I visitor of my site shat me an email informing that that above depicted horn installation by Marc Henri and Andre Klein was made French Musique-Concrete company. I do not know a lot about those people, beside that they hand around Jean Michel Le Clé...

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 #13: The non-annoying status. by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamaha B-2 V-FET amplifier. in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
The greatest thing that happened to my Yamaha B2 amp was the fact that I got rid of my MiniMe ported bass section. The MiniMe is truly nice now and I operate in the highly desirable not annoying status. That all made me to pay more attention to w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: CES: the most interesting room by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES 2005 in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
My prize to the most interesting and educational room at the show goes to a room with WAVAC 833 power SETs. Visiting this room made me to think a lot and made me to draw a lot of very valuable to me conclusions. I heard a lot about those amps. Recen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Understand by samuel33 on 2007-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Good commercial speakers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Samuel wrote : "...Step 1) no way .... i will never buy Cabass speakers..." Samuel, I did not at all mean to recommend Cabasse speakers... My point is not brand-specific... I just happen to stop on that pair as an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: “….the linearity of the Berning in comparison with the Lamm is quite r... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Merlin"] If there's one thing I hate about internet forums it's people postulating about sounic characteristics and possible failing in equipment they have never heard. [/quote] Merlin, I was under impression that it is very obvious tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 18-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
Let start from the largest drivers and go down. There are larger then 18” drivers (23” and 30”) but looking at this magnet structures I do not find them serious. I addition to make the 23” cone stiff enough requires a lot of diaphragm’s mass or to us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: AMR PH-77: just another phonostage or more? by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: AMR PH-77: just another phonostage or more? in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
The news just come inhttp://www.amr-audio.co.uk/html/pr_ph77.htmlThorsten use to tell me that his ambitions phonostage project will be coming through in fall of 2008. Well, it is late but it is there: the AMR announced their new PH-77 Phono Equal...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: Continuing the debate…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Somebody from AA was asking about electromagnet. The subject pup up here from time to time but this time Bruce Edgar uploaded an interesting comment. Bruce is not a typical AA Moron and if he says “inaccurate things” then it is not due to ignoran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Macondo alteration: first results by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Interesting, Very interesting. I might make some observations now, claming this recent modification as a success. The minor gain of sensitively certainly did not heart but the major advantage was defiantly the “activation of ceiling”. It is hard to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The state of High-Efficiency: horns. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The state of High-Efficiency Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
It is not surprising that the subject of horn is as screwed as the subject of drivers. It is understandable as driver must be made for specific horn loading, not one make drivers properly, so what the horns are made for? A horn is a very simple dev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Looking at the tapped horn further… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"] I do not know of importance of enemys death to this topic. [/quote] Oh, this is a sheer pleasure but do not call that dirt enemy. He is not enemy but way beyond it, he is the person about whom I have a death-wish as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #75: The time alignment of tapped horn by Romy the Cat on 2015-09-11 
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="kodomo"]I don't think you can align the tapped horn. My tapped horn has a total length around 5 metres. To time align that with my other drivers, its got to be around 5 metres closer than others. The only other solution is delaying t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Well, it is what it is... by Romy the Cat on 2018-11-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ in Audio News  10 Replies 
I have absolutely no idea what you people are pissed about the new MIT’s ACC 268 cables. You need to separate in your heads two separate things. The MIT new cable as a product and the MIT new cable as a concept.   The new MIT cable as a product ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Nice move... by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
Kodomo,   A brief post about concerns. Feel free to discard it.   LF modules – are you sure that you want to go with ported solution? You can model your boxes and use any good drivers but sonically with port you will end up with bass that would h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: About Pham’s playback. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pham Thanh Cuong's playback from Vietnam. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
 A few things I would like to say in context of Pham’s playback. I will leave his infatuation with turntables alone – man like to collect turntables and he within his constitutional right to do whatever makes him happy. The problem that I see ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #167: Might...... be.... by Romy the Cat on 2017-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I was thinking and thinking last couple days what to do with my lower midbass situation. I do need to use 2 drivers per channel with 100dB efficiency to get the dBs I need to match Macondo and Milq’s bass channel gain.  I do want to use Vitavox 15”...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. in Melquiades Amplifier  5 Replies 
The “Enjoy His Music” published the old celebrated by many DIYers Herb Reichert’s article about his 300B amp ideas. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0709/flesh_blood.htm I read it before but reading it now, after a few years again...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: New WAMM: time-aligned but "angled". by Romy the Cat on 2017-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wilson Audio and the Moore's law in Audio News  23 Replies 
It is great that Wilson did anything like this, thank for pointing out. I did not read the article passing 3rd paragraph and stooped reading when they start taking about listening impressions. The listening impressions from those people are truly ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #128: Some room dealing basics by Romy the Cat on 2016-10-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Two of my local audio folks asked me to put online my thoughts process about my listening room. Here are some basics. Yesterday, messuring my room I got the following response in lower octaves. That is a typical response in rondom rooms, or wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #126: A ULF solution for my new listening room by Romy the Cat on 2016-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
It looks to me that I will be able to live with my 6 driver line array. Again no measurements were made but it is what it “looks”.  Sound-wise it is very reputable and I just might leave it as is. My current room is 6 larger to what I had in downto...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...
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