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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Wrong. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Rakesh, I think you take it all wrong and I think you need to perform some degaussing from my site. You created for yourself a cardboard cutout of ideas that I describe at my site but it is not what it is. Macondo Axioms are not set of rules but a di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: Cost benefit analysis of midbass horns v/s compromised ULF by oxric on 2011-03-12 
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"]I do feel that a playback sound has to be built first...The way how I trained myself is to disconnect channels. While I was making Macondo, installing it, moving it and experimenting with it I was frequently disconnecting c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Delay issue by noviygera on 2011-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
Would not a 9ft-11ft long bass horn path (tapped horn or any horns) cause a sonic problem if not physically time aligned with the upper bass or mid bass channel? The only way to fix that would be to place the bass horn 9-11ft closer TO YOU than other...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: Just thinking out loud... by Romy the Cat on 2017-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Hm, your advice to discard the Midbass time alignment and to go to ULF time delay to catch up with Midbass timing is very interesting. Theoretically I have no auditable sound from ULF. They are at 20Hz. As you understand there is no way to align t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Nope, folks, it has… by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
… nothing to do nether with surround nor with delay channels. Look deeper into the “real time perception moderation”…. The Mysterious Cat ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1620: I am not against Richard by Amir on 2018-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
we have no problem with purepower sound , it just has delay , richard should have better lead time .I am not against Purepower and i just hope richard deliver us those orders.We are happy with pp3000 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Vertical tilt adjustment for horns by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Driver Alignment, and Where to Draw the Line in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Romy's comments on "axial rotation" of the horns (meaning in this case, angling the horns) has me thinking. I had planned to build in a vertical tilt adjustment for horns located near the floor and ceiling...  I woul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Some basso-experiences form Sound Africa. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Johan, I understand what you are saying. This is kind of James’ barn thread and if you do not mind can you share with him one thing, I think that many others, including me, would be interested to learn the answer to this question: What did you gain g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: Pyschotherapy bills aside... by guy sergeant on 2006-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Evaluation of tractrix curves based on visual surface reflec... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Hi Romy,How would such a time delay manifest itself in the resulting sound? Have you had the opportunity to listen to such an attempted system? Would the benefits of having a hornloaded AK151 not outweigh this or would it just sound too wrong to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: It might be much simpler then that. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Should I low pass the midrange @10k? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
[quote user="KS"]Thats the kind of stuff I was hoping for. I appreciate the help with this, there seems to be a scarcity of horn related discussion on the web and its proving hard to learn the ropes.One other unrelated question that could save me a l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: …and pay attention how God blows. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio-tekne's "Tone Quality Improvement technique" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Ok, I like your illustration. Let look into it deeper. Considering that God located very far from the boat then the individual streams of God’s blows departed from a single infinitely-far located point (the God mouth) are parallel, as it is d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: It might be a very useful tool. No one does it. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Chris, The point of digital delay is well taken. Digital has no problems to delay and if someone had only digital as source then it is very simple to use tow parallel DACs and to stick temporary storage memory in one or them. In case of multiple so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: The RAAL's tweeter and Sound (#2) by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Another very interesting aspect of the Water Dropping of Macondo is a dramatization of silences and influence of LF decay. Macondo has no own noise and the Super Milqs are dead quiet. However, the perceptions of silence with the Water Drop tweeter an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Idiom of Axioms by be on 2008-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Romy wrote:"Do not listen Romy, make you own very simple experiment and then make your own mind. Take two horn channels, low-pass and high-pas them at 6K for instance and drive them with 6K sinewave. When you time alight the driver you have well ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #291: This project is on fire! by oxric on 2010-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] OK, now I am happier as I did my duty and the back chambers are ready to be attached to the horns and to be lifted up. Yesterday I spent 5 hours trying to build the back chamber displacement that Jessie and my carpenter ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" by oxric on 2011-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
At some point last year, after I had been offered an opportunity to buy some Vitavox S2 drivers from someone in Paris, and some S3s from Germany, I decided to approach Mike Harvey of Octave Audio, AKA Vitavox Hifi, to get some information about how I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Yes, it is pretty chaotic but still…. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time Alignment : Live Performances vs Audio in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"]Yes, I agree they are different issues. However, quite a big however too...It all depends on where we believe 'reproduction' starts. We are very rarely simply reproducing the feed form one single microphone. Choices are made very e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The distortion of intention by Romy the Cat on 2020-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More or less pleasure: wider implication in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
I think to a degree we misguided with our expectations as we feel that the answer is in directly heard sound. We attributed to sound some properties and we evaluating the properties are trying to make judgments about sound. I am taking now strictl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: The digital dynamic protuberances by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
I do suggest to re-read my post above where I stated that Pacific has remarkably similar sound to Bidat. In Bidat there is one quality that sets it apart from any other converters out there – the Bidat’s dynamic bursts are orders of magnitude less an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Open letter to WGBH. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Open letter to WGBH. in Off Air Audio  1 Replies 
From: Romy Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:37 PMTo: ****Cc: **** Subject: The Tanglewood LIVE problem: 3 millisecond delay To WGBH production and technical stuffCC:  to WCRB production and technical stuff Guys, I know that kept harassi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Re: 10 Footer : Time Algnment by jessie.dazzle on 2006-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Evaluation of tractrix curves based on visual surface reflec... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
It is looking like I will be constructing the 45Hz horn before some of the others. In considering time-alignment I went back through some of our posts and found this : Quote from Romy : "...There is another option. Last year, or even before, when...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A difficult simple upperbass horn by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Got new mid/high horns. Now need suggestions for a lower ran... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
Herman, I am not familiar with your driver and I do not know those horns. It looks like they are 200Hz horns through…. You shall not worry about your horns create any shadow. As I understand you use digital crossovers with your horns and if...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: An experiment by KS on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
I should have said UP or Down in the listening chair. Toward and away from the speakers will also do it, unless you're sitting midway between tweeter and mid of course, but not to the extent of up/down will.I just did an experiment with some fishing ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: DSP from Beginning to End by Paul S on 2009-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ralf Stegmueller’s horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
My only targeted listening experience with DSP has been bad, including "modern" "reinforced" concert halls.I later found out from one new-ish concert hall sound guy that they always immediately "digitize" the sound specifically in order to "process" ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: What kind Morons care today the PhD and M.S in Acoustics titles? by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not know who Tom Martin. He said that he runs The Absolute Sound and he apparently has power to delete my posts from TAS forum. I have finished with TAS forum – they fully indicated the level of the subject handli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: I do not see it with Fostex by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]A Fostex wood horn instead of the ugly metal monstrum plus a Fostex supertweeter on top would give a nice look.And you could let a 2" Radian run against a 2" Eighteensound Aluminium driver. I would be very interested in the outcom...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: I hope that good news will come later this week. by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]Putting The Mid Bass horns behind your head will not work. This thread was about Mid Bass Horns Project, do you thank you will be able to use any frequency above 80 cycles with rear fired horns that are behind your head? Tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #147: The midbass horn: the first uppercut from real-estate. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Ok, I do officially like this “Battle Road” hours. Upon many considerations (and there are 4 ways to implement the midbass horn in that room) I have inclined to my leading idea to do it elegant and with time alignment....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Raal @ RMAF 2008 by serenechaos on 2008-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL in Horn-Loaded Speakers  31 Replies 
Hard to comment on this one...  Seems like most everyone I talked to there hears with their eyes, and thought they were beautiful sculpture, therefore sounded wonderful...  Maybe I should just be honest and say I flat didn't like the s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Well well well the horns and drivers arrived... by Kcct82 on 2008-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Hey Romy,The Goto drivers (505TT, 100-8khz) and horns (S150, 150hz round exponential) finally arrived. I've only had them for a week so I can't say much about them besides they're not a simple drop in replacement of the previous 10" TAD woofer (200hz...
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