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A few days back an audio guy from Mexico-city visited me from. We did listen some music, talk a bit about audio. As usually I interrogated him about the problem he hears in my sound. The people who were in my room know that I do it with absolutel...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Though the frames have wheels and roll very easily, my room is cursed with an elevated platform smack in the middle of everything (about 14 inches higher than the main floor), and to move the horns up on to or down off of...
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[quote
user="koh123"]Upon reflection I forgot that we ultimately listen to
the sound produced and not the beautiful computer simulated SPL profile.
So I went back to old school thinking and re-generated the mid-bass tractrix
horn with the mouth ...
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I would like to point out that copying or not copying Macondo is kind of irrelevant. With proper assessment techniques any person who experiment with horn-loaded multi-channel pile of the horns would end up with the very same configuration – noth...
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OK, after a few days to straggling with this damn tweeter I might report that the Water Drop actually made itself to sound civilized. It sounded somehow fine alone but it was a real nightmare with Macondo, I juts was not able to integrate it. I measu...
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[quote user="Ronnie"] Listening to the horns, it seems that they indeed die somewhere below 120Hz. I was surprised, and a little disappointed that it seemed so steep. Good to hear that it's to be expected!!Yes, I'm using a 30-something-Hz 1st order h...
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I got today RTA and decided to play with the midbass location
a bit. As I expected it is very hard as whatever I moved the things the problem
still there. Then rather to annoy myself
I position the speakers where they use to be but turned them 90...
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I was sit today to do the calibration of my infinite baffle.
I connected my 20Hz 4th order tube crossover with frond-end modified
Yamaha B-2. The RTA did show a very easy gain exactly where should be, the
transition slope doe the magic. I rolled ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
"...Jessie, I pulled posts from Macondo Axioms thread and encapsulated them onto a new thread dedicated explicitly to your project. I hope you do not mind..."No problem... I was actually starting to feel a bit apprehensi...
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This article was written by Johan Dreyer in 2006 posted at AA and the reposted recently at a Johan's local South African forum:
http://vinylsa.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1016
I desided to give to the Johan’ thoughts some exposure at the horn-citri...
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I meat with a local gentleman who runs North Reading Engineering.
He turned out to be quite intelligent
with whom is stimulating to bounce different design ideas. We might try the K-Horn
with Vitavox drivers, which would be the same as CN-191 bas...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night I did an interesting experiment. I took the bass towers,
just 4 driver per side, crossed them at 90Hz, line-level and drove them not
with the Milq’s bass channel but with SS Yamaha B2. I use it with the tube cr...
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Romy wrote :
"...This BTW expanse what we have such a differences in assessment of leaking he the S2’s back chamber. (It was somewhere in past)..."
I would just the same like to confirm my findings one more time in the new room; I will run the test...
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[quote user="hagtech"] After many years, Romy has come to enjoy this style of amplification. If I read his words correctly, the sound of these machines brings him more emotion and connection with the music and musicians. An admiral goal.&...
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Nope, I never heard about those
drivers. For sure a compression driver that goes down to 80Hz might be interesting.
A few concerns I would have however.
The people who make such a
driver would not come from nowhere but they rather would b...
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I need to give it to you and I need to retract my comments
about your bass pipes. I did find them to be ugly in your prototype drowning
but assembled I find them look very present, in fact quite wonderful. Connection al, of then in parallel is goo...
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If you have unused full range Milq channel then it is very easy for you to test Red Twitter. Use default crossover, just open the connector to the driver and cut off the red wire that leads to base driver. Connect it out of face S2 driver a...
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[quote
user="kodomo"] Now, I am very happy down to 20hz. Do not get me
wrong, it was sounding fine and was blending well. Now, I have spacious sound
at the bass frequincies too and the sounds start and stop and die in the room
more naturally. Ove...
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Ok, none it is time to dive into the practical process of tweeters alignment. Once again I presume that we are taking about monopole tweeters that use AFTER your midranges compression drivers (read my previous post). Some people use term “supertweete...
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I was asked a few days ago what I think about Zandèn new CD player and I replied that I do not think about it.
Truly, those companies produce new models each 18 month to initiate new rounds of cash extraction from clueless, deaf and blind audi...
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Yesterday I finalized everything, made the crossovers permanent,
arranged the cables, check the phases and levels per each channel and officially
declared to my wide that the listening room setting up is over. Then as the kids
went to bed I decide...
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Romy, I have been trying to explain to myself what happened and how I got to it and trying to recreate this wonderful boiling point.
I tried to make a write up of all the steps needed in order to make it happen, but it is ever so elusive. I ...
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[quote user="Romy the
Cat"] If I defeat the hardness by dropping of the output impedance then I
would understand what is going on but I minimize the hardness by raising the
output impedance!!! This is very interesting and I need to think about it ...
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The kids are growing up and twins sleep fine and walk already.
So, the Bessnow’s household is calming down, a live-in nanny for sure helps…
With more time at my heads I am trying to finalize my playback in our new home.
I spent a few hours today t...
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[quote user="Murataltuev"] Romy, read
my first post here.I told from the beginning that I'm going to try all kind of
respected drivers to decide for myself what I like most.This is not about
system as a whole with crossovering and other things. It...
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I followed exactly Romy's advice. I disconnected EVERYTHING from PP1500 apart from the Endoflife phono. The phono output was monitored via RTA software on a battery powered laptop. There was only phono connected to the PP. [I don't have GND loop...
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The best midrange comes from compression drivers, it has that minuteness, transparency and dynamics that no other topology can offer; the main problem with them is that they only cover a very specific mid frequency ran...
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