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This concept of having a new listening room not contaminated with playback elements is very interesting. I did not have “living room” with no playback for… many-many years, so I am kind of not accustomed to it. I do not think that I wanted to have li...
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...is one of the greatest rooms to listen in, and even just to be in, that I have ever seen. And I haven't even been there for the latest redecoration and the opening-up of the bay windows.c...
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This week Romy was kind enough to invite me over for a few days for some Apprentice work and philosophizing. As I alluded above, my Apprenticeship contribution consisted principally of moving some audio gear, searching for some esoteric stuff hidden ...
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Writing anything on this site is akin to playing Russian roulette, which is a real shame as I find Romy's website generally very informative and a fascinating read, although my limited exposure to horn loudspeakers suggests that they might not be...
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With a DSP surround scheme, we can optimize the static front image and control room delivery at the push of a button with the rear channels....
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Thanks Romy, Paul, and Ronnie for the comments and encouragement :
Here are some responses :
1) Rubber gaskets :
Maybe it is not so important to have an “air-tight” seal (???). The rubber gaskets are there to seal the cover to the rear chamber...
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Bass-Horns-for-Ale-Western-Electric-JBL-Altec-Drivers_W0QQitemZ300388291899
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"Romy the Cat" - Hm, darkmoebius,I really do not know why it clears skies for your in anyways. I have written about the very same subject many times within my “Milq’s diaries”...Concise: marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all e...
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but would correct that this forgetting time can be shorter than 12 weeks in some human specimens (like me)...
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Most of you know that I built Romy's horns for him. The one thing that you may not know is Romy recently requested additional horns from me. He wanted some 250Hz tractrix horns made for an upper-midrange Vitavox S2 compression driver. Being very...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Stefano, it is funny that you have mentioned the “an old, little cinema in a small town”. I do not know if you did it unintentionally or you meant as some kind of sarcastic self-deprecated joke. What I mean is that the init...
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first post... but I recognize quite a few friends here.. so, my straight horns... I like them very much.. I built mine similar in style to what Greg B linked, but obviously much smaller.. mine are just under eight feet long (length of a sheet&nb...
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Romy said "then I would
do my version of CES stunt.During the first 3 days what the show is close to public walk around the room and offer the PurePower units to loan for free.. The people at the show do not know that
with PP3000 the sound they d...
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Thanks for the recommendation, Romy, I've just ordered the Bohm disc from Amazon Market Place - less than £3 delivered!A Mozart clarinet concerto recording that is unusual and worth looking out for is by the Managing Director (CEO) of the Musical Fid...
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Wiki: In criminal law, rape is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with another person without that person's consent. Outside of law, the term is often used interchangeably with sexual assault,[1][2][3] a closely related (but in most ...
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...there is a third: The two versions are in opposite polarities, meaning that one will sound better on his (or anyone's) fixed-polarity system. And no telling which!This is quite apart from any possible problems (and they are rife) in conversion....
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is 4” exit and reportedly goes down to 27Hz. I do not know what a lot about this diver but it might be a good driver for 40Hz horn. 4” into 40hz? God, it has to be at least 16 feet long horn! I would take my head off to ...
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So much for my sense of "timing"!Here is the fate of the Harold Powell Steinway Duo Art:http://webspace.webring.com/people/ks/samharris/steinway/"Water Damage"! Serves me right for my morbid curiosity, I suppose.I feel ill...Paul S...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Tax wrote:When I get my
playback right then I will embark on the third phase of my journey....listening
and learning about more meaningful music. Actually, I disagree with this approach. It is
like you are searching a n...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"] …there are some decent products out there although it seems that in your view those products are the result of happy accidents … [/quote]
Hm, this is a good way to look at the reality of the things….
[quote user="guy ser...
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This is complicated as I usually get very pissed on Christmas. I very pissed that Christians have stolen my great holiday and attributed it to own religion. I all my life celebrated last week of the year, it was wonderful holyday and I never att...
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I have to agree with romy on all except one point. I have always had problems with my electricity even though I live out in the woods, but just 10 miles from the Seabrook nuclear power plant. My journey in improving this problem took up at least 20% ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]First of all, if you have
multiple of PP3000 then be advices that them connected in parallel substantially
descries sound quality for each of them. Then might be use ONLY at different
phases of some measures should be ta...
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I was just wondering if Romy was deprived of oxygen at birth, or was perhaps "tapped" on the head with a wrecking ball at some point? Anyway to all, ENJOY THE MUSIC!!!...
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Whats a 'spinning' tonight section - that will cheer us all up.I like those. Ciao,Ed (the idiot bastard son)...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Tim, it is all very interesting and I would like to learn about the Proteus’ inner wire juts for a sake of general education on the subject. However, I would not go for a duplication of what Purist did. Doing it you will s...
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I know my posts haven't been very helpful and useful for the knowledge tree, but they've been for getting the CD, so I'm very glad and thankful.Rgrds,A...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not exactly understand what you are proposing at DiyAudio site.[/quote]i can't log in to Diy Audio so i can't view the attached image ( diagram ) files there - can you view them ? without diagrams it would be really h...
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As I have finished remodeling my new Opera room:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=16948
…I modified my Altec 19. The one ordinal that I had was truly phenomenal item. I went to recue what was done in there I was very impre...
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