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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 ...
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Loudspeakers. For whomever who follows my dairies on this site and whoever has any real understanding what makes a horn-loaded loudspeaker to sound good it is know that Macondo Acoustic System is not juts the result of my DIY efforts or the John Hasq...
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I gave another run to Vitavox S2 with electromagnet and while I was listening I come across to an interesting observation. I screw the S3 in 330Hz horn and was trying to run it with 500Hz crossover point. It is pretty standard configuration, the way ...
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I never was fan of the Oris 150. They meant be used with Lowther type of drivers, that never worked properly. The Oris 150’s upper bass is not really the bass that might be obtained form the Oris’ mouth. Should this Oris has twice smaller throat and ...
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Hi Jeff,I am certain that the best midbass was NEVER in a corner horn. Every fold in the horn is a new resonance. Corner horns need many folds...In addition, if you are very "anal retentive" about phase alignment - how do you integrate a corner horn?...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]As for balancing the amplitude between channels by driving them from different taps: I drive the upper bass horns form the 16 Ohm taps, and everything else from the 8 Ohm taps. An 8 Ohm versoin of the upper-bass driver...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Upper Bass : Frequency range between 100 and 500Hz – Driver loaded into a 120Hz straight horn, driven by DSET dedicated channel. Mid Bass : Frequency range between 40 and 100Hz – Driver loaded into a 45Hz straight hor...
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Of course i used the 515-G. this famous speaker suited very well to our bass horn...as any other bass horn ! the only problem with the 515-G was a upper end a bit...noisy with our 6db crossover.When we started with Cyrille-audio a project of a 15" fo...
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I dont want to hack this thread into TH, I tried them with sub-amps 150 watts and they didnt sound good, but I was using a passive preamp, when I added an active preamp things started to get better, now with 12 watts and a a lot of gain, bass is ama...
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[quote user="Jorge"] Lets just say that TH bass is much cleaner and generates a different "bass sensation" in the room. Once you get used to it, it is very difficult to go back to boxed bass.I find the sound similar to what a Mid bass horn woud pla...
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Romy, thank you very much for very detailed explanation of your horn theory.Let me present some doubts about it. From physics basics when we have more than one springs (suspension, throat resistance, back chamber) we can consider it as one spring. Th...
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I don't want to pull the thread way off but the thought occurred to me while reading here that audio bass never fools me into thinking it is real. Even my middling system once in a while can fool me in the midrange and treble for a few seconds or so....
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Hi Romy,I believe you're right and it's due to the amount of LF the vinyl outputs, which may be more than the Bidat or the tuner do. It doesn't happen with all the discs, just some of them, which happen to be old recordings that probably have mo...
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.... in home systems for Room correction and general system EQFolks,This is from my own Yahoo group, but may be of interest here....Since writing this I have in fact changed my speakers to dipoles and do not currently use a PADEQ (it will return thou...
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OK, the new Macondo frame is over as well. Eventually after 6 years of learning how to make the damn horn speaker to sound good, after numerous incremental successes and failures, stupidity and brightness, moves to wrong direction and mistaken assess...
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Unfortunately its $1000,- total... Its not fixed, i can still do alot with that though.Alnico is better but only available in vintage drivers right? How does neodymium compare?The Jbl's seem to fall off fairly quickly. I dont need flat to 20K b...
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The systems I've heard with steep slopes (only 4th or 8th order) sound hard and unnatural to me. Admittedly these are on everymans drivers - the sort of thing we all can buy and deploy.Several digital X/O users I've talked too all seem to gravitate t...
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[quote user="oxric"] So, yes, in an ideal world, I would have seriously considered doing something different….[/quote] I guess your definition of “doing something different” would imply reading of 534 pages of BS from people who have no idea about ...
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Hi jd*thank you for caring, and encouraging me to wade through all of this horn info. I'm 63 by now, not sure if I'll ever get out of there alive before I'm done though...Romy posted some picture about a commercial horn (Western Electric WE15) th...
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Of course we do not defend or support a given topology itself but we only wrestle with the results we are able to get from it. Right? But perhaps there are some basics we can agree on? Basically, if it's Tone you are after, you are swimming upstre...
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Again, moving the speakers last night I felt that I really would like to move the speakers closer to the mid of the room – the further the speakers from the back wall the more interesting sound. There is another “again” in what I felt last night. I t...
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[quote user="montepilot"]This past weekend I was able to have an extended listen to the revised Melchiades amplifers. My previous listening session left something to be desired with midbass punch and dynamics. Had I not have heard mini me it may no...
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My approach of the Mid/Upper bass horn and design decisions have been pursuant to a specific acoustic performance target first, quality of construction second, and cosmetic appearance of the finished horn the third. (I believe I was clear in a ...
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Romy wrote :"...Years ago when I researched the subject of the drivers for my UpperBass horns and when I was trying many alternatives..."And in the Warfdale thread :
"... I had in past a few Goodman drivers but I was looking very different thin...
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I got yesterday the new Macondo Frame.
As you see I went for a monopod, the strong one and I love a lot what how it turned out to be. What the horns are stuffed into the frame then the frame is unusable at all. The footprint of the frame is very sm...
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Too late now for points, but just the other day I tried to imagine your plan. and I was pretty close.Actually, it is a bit like what I have going now; 15" Eminence bass guitarr woofers in a sealed 3 cu ft cabinet,Oris 150 with 8" B&C midrange dr...
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I do understand that by changing power amps to drive Duos you got different sound. However, I do not think that it is a right direction to look at the things. If you want more “depth” from Duos then you are taking about the lower midrange and upper/m...
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[quote user="coops"]I have't heard the driver in the Beta, I am told that there isn't a great deal of difference sonically between the field coil and the alnico magnet versions of the driver. [/quote]
It is most like that people who told...
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I agree that the right 15" is a nice size for mid-upper bass. I suppose yours are the 15" Vitavoxes that were made to go in boxes? Of course, the usual reason for ports is to "extend" LF, and most modern LF drivers are used in something like this, ...
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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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