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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: HF tweeters by Saturntube on 2009-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A single worst thing in today’s acoustic systems. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
I think hearing loss has to do a little bit with excessive HF in todays loudspeakers, with age this is the freq. that is mainly lost,  so boosting it a little bit helps that...  Most commercial systems exagerate HF  mainly to make you think they have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: How audiofreaks twist everything upside down. by morricab on 2005-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Hi Romy,I guess I view absolute tone a bit differently than what you describe.  I think that each real instrument or person (as in singer) has its own "absolute" tone.  It is the sound of what it is (or its gestalt).  The ideal speaker...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Band-Specific Info by Paul S on 2010-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Learning to interpret RTA in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Zanon, I do not mean DEQ, but that is one way to do it.  D[SET] is another way; and it can be done in real time, by a couple of means.If you actually settle on the mid-field monitor approach, you will want that sort of speakers installed before you g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Maybe but also Maybe not! by zanon on 2010-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Learning to interpret RTA in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Paul S:You are correct, I feel that RTA *might* have some intrinsic value, but I am not sure, and *if* it does have some intrinsic value, I am looking for help and guidance on how to unlock it. Or to be told that I am wasting my time.For example, I h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: True RTA and Windows trouble by Ronnie on 2007-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo copying: Horns troubleshooting in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
Yes, I've been meaning to aquire such things for quite a while now.The biggest obstacle is that I think I need to format the drive and do a clean install of XP (or Vista).I did some audiophile trick with the system and since then XP doesn't acknowled...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The 20-20k is not a myth. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 'Fundamental rich' listening, or is RTA even close to accura... in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
[quote user="stuck.wilson"] I just started using RTA as a method of evaluating my results with my own 2 way speaker system, and I'm finding that I'm ending up liking the sound of my system a GREAT DEAL MORE without the absurd notion that 20-20k is wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: My biggest event in 2007 by yoshi on 2008-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
The biggest event in my audio 2007 was Romy's visit/tuning of my system, and the following exchange which ended up with a revelation of how shallow my understanding and practice of audio/music was.  It ultimately seems to come down to the a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: It should be time aligned with religious prejudges. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Romy, I'm very pleased to learn that you've got your Injection Channel done. I assume the above illustration is not indicative of the way you have the Tannoy Red aligned with regard to the other drivers, as it appears to b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The problem is not THE problem. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Making it sing... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Scott, you see, this is the problem. You do not talk about the problems “as is”. All what I was asking was the acknowledgment/recognition/identification without context of loudspeakers. Your listening/assessment awareness is completely grounded to th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: You will have Fun with it... by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] This event really reinforces my curiosity to try such drivers in the Mid-Bass horns. As there are plenty here in Europe, that is exactly my plan (most however are not 16O... don't know to what extent that might be an issu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Corner-loaded horn option (correction) by jessie.dazzle on 2007-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
(I screwed my first attempt to respond by trying to get fancy with the code, so here it is again)Romy the Cat wrote : "...there is another solution that you might consider, that might be viewed as compromise for one-side as might not be view is compr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: MacondoLite optimization prerequisites. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
Decoud, in order to say anything useful I would like to know to the following: 1)  Where the tweeter will be installed? 2)  What the size of the room? 3)  What are you planning to install the speaker in your room? 4)  What LF solution do you consider...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #127: The big picture indeed. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]Romy You have not done your main test yet, And you are ready to get rid of your LF array's to soon or maybe you did it and did not post it or say anything about it. The way i would troulble shoot this problem is to a test refera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Clarifications by decoud on 2009-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
Hi Romy,Many thanks: the answers are...1. The tweeter I thought could go below the MF.2. The room is 5m x 5m x 3.6m.3. Given size of room, corner location would be most practical.4. LF will have to be compact, hence tapped horn appeals.5. S2 diaphrag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: RTA In/Out of Context by Paul S on 2010-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Learning to interpret RTA in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Zanon, you seem to feel that RTA has some intrinsic value.  In any case, in terms of results, I think you already have a sense of where this is going. If you are bound to use your present speakers in a room you yourself deem too large for them, t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #125: The Big Picture by msaudio on 2010-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Romy You have not done your main test yet, And you are ready to get rid of your LF array's to soon or maybe you did it and did not post it or say anything about it. The way i would troulble shoot this problem is to a test referance of 3 foot from Lf ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #108: Testing out the backdoor "Free Air" by msaudio on 2010-05-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I do believe your amp on the right side could also play tricks with you, do from tubes and or powersupply. In the past i have done quite a lot of research building tube amps. Finding someone to build output transformers cheaply without resonance prob...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #252: The Plain Truth, per Pythagoras by Paul S on 2022-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
Thanks for the explication, Robin. This is exactly what I encounted when I messed with passive radiators, many years ago, and it is exactly why I abandoned them fairly quickly, after "making sure" I could not make problems "go away" by "adjusting  Fs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Topology & test by N-set on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
[quote user="de charlus"] My proposal was to more or less combine the drivers from said systems in a single system, structurally similar to the Cessaro Gamma[/quote]...which is the Macondo topology only quite a few years younger. Either Cessaro reach...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: With Orchestra by Paul S on 2009-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 1st Guitar Thread in Musical Discussions  14 Replies 
Juaquin Rodrigo wrote two (too) often-played works for guitar and orchestra, the Concierto de Aranjuez and the Fantasia para Gentilhombre.  The music itself may not be to everyone's taste, but IMO the works are well rendered by Narcisco Yepes with th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A horrible driver by drdna on 2007-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 'Fundamental rich' listening, or is RTA even close to accura... in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
Now first of all our ears were designed to hear up to 20,000 cycles there-abouts if not perhaps more, a scientific fact I can't really argue against.  So I find it difficult to accept a proposition that we don't enjoy listening to sounds from 2,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Impossible. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sound of line level filters in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Nope, sorry, it does not make any sense for me. The use of Rowland amp I guess is fine if it being use for testing of the filters. Still if you use high-pass for your midrange horn then what resistor does in your RC filter? A first order filter, rega...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: 6 drivers sensitivity, where is the truth? by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bass drivers inquiry in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]I make 6 drivers = 95.8 db/W. You get 3db / doubling of the number of drivers ie 88 + 10log10(6 drivers).That's why I'm going with a bunch of Lambda TD15S (which are sort of a cross between the Altecs cone - paper, curved, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Re: EdgarHorns crash survival guide by drdna on 2005-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Drdna, generally I would not agree that your assessment of the EdgarHorns is correct. There is nothing fundamentally wrong in them that would prevent them to "disappear" in the room. [/quote]Well, this is good news.&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: ... indeed... by twogoodears on 2011-06-24 
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="Romy the Cat"]  twogoodears wrote:I'm following with interest the thread and must say that I'm baffled: Goto's "instructions" are - SIMPLY said - a mix between non-existent and wrong... I love what Goto's did in my system... BUT I thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 250hz horn at 1k? by Jorge on 2014-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
Hello Dan,Love how you pass that cable through the port,  I used to do that too...long time ago.Why are you crossing your 250hz horn all the way up to 1 khz?The 2445 should be able to go much lower. Have you measured the response you are getting from...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Its even possible to make my midbass... by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A right midbass solution for Altec 515G. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
[quote user="Macman"] Anyways, seeing the back chamber of my midbass horn, you would say that its way to big, no? [/quote] It is very hard to say. You need to measure and to publish the resonance frequency of your loaded driver and view it in context...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: If a listening space is not a factor.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Something that a loudspeaker must have. in Audio For Dummies ™  17 Replies 
Yes, centrally it is the speaker, actual not the speaker themselves but rather the speakers along with the entire reproductive chain. As far as the “speakers that doesn't peak at HF”… my do not, some other do not it as well. However the sufficiency o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Room, Drivers, Amps, X/Os, and Positioning by Paul S on 2023-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
Bill, I am happy that you've improved your bass. As Romy mentioned in an earlier post about Bruckner, RTA is just one tool, and we have to listen and hear results with Music we know and love. When you told of the disappearing S2s, I was going to ment...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I think it still should be tried. by Romy the Cat on 2004-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The crossovering Messiah is coming...air capacitors in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
*** I too have thought a while about exactly this... there is something that troubles me deeply though about this approach. I have a theory that too small a cap may not work out as well as one might hope. Now, shall I do a Romy and delay revealing my...
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