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I kind of fed up to receive those emails (I ordinary do not reply them) with questions and therefore I would a would make one atypical public statement and it will be it. I say “atypical” as I truly do not care about your purchasing habits, still sin...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]He is in a difficult position. Does he make a the driver using the tooling/knowledge/supplier information he has acquired from Vitavox(and change nothing)? This would be actually be a Vitavox S2 (not a repro) or does he try...
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Last week I have written an article: “Upperbass preoccupation and Vitavox S2 driver” where I ran over some my thoughts how the specific sonic virtues of Vitavox S2 driver allow to get an “interesting” upper bass from an upper bass channel, even thoug...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] For above 550hz you might use the same LL1627A if you wish, for MF the 200-250mA gap will be fine. Yes it would be reasonable to desire less inductance in the transformer, mean less turns but honestly I personally did not ...
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[quote user="oxric"]
Well Jessie, it looks like your wish has come true. The Vitavox site went live at 9 a.m. this morning. It has very interesting implications for the compression drivers landscape in that it suddenly makes buying a hi...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]I had dinner with Mike Harvey from Octave this weekend. Mike acquired the intellectual rights, tooling, drawings and jigs needed to manufacture the S2's. I believe that newly manufactured S2's will be available very soon. M...
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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...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Once I am done with more of this project, I will make a 330Hz Tractrix to try in place of the upper mid 400Hz. [/quote]
Hm, I wonder what would be the purpose to make 330Hz horn for you if you have 400Hz and a dedicated ...
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I just posted yeastoday the post above and have got already a few emails asking about the “new” ways that I am planning to use S2. OK, let me to explain what is going on.
The default Vitavox S2 driver comes with thier default aluminum diaphragm with...
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[quote user="jweiss"] When we spoke at CES, you mentioned that your experience with field coil drivers only extended to cone types. So I assume that you have never heard any field coil compression drivers. That would include the WE 555, 594, RCA 1428...
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Here is the list of the thing to do with Vitavox S2 in order to use it in 4-ways installations. The S2 must not be used in 2, 3 ways systems. It possible to do with S2 whatever you wish but pretty much any other way to utilize them produces some very...
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jd, I cannot see any of PDF files, probably my current networks kills them.
I do not know the AK150 drivers. I know AK157, AK151 and K15/40. If they have significantly lower free-air resonance, at 30-35Hz then I am not sure that they would be ...
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Hi.The top picture of a cut JBL unit shows it has a ring just below the magnetic gap connecting the central polepiece and the front plate.Although there still is a little ring shaped cavity with a triangular cross section, the large cavity is hereby ...
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Thinking about my Vitavox S2 “fundamentals channel” I can’t stop think about my hypostatic view about the horns. Year after year I was mucking what GOTO does when they introduces a horn for a couple octaves. Ironical now I am truing to do the same fo...
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I would like to expose what my intentions are what I was tiling above about Goto 555 or a similar 200Hz driver. My S2 does not stress the bottom of my 183Hz horn. My multi-cell is expositional and those types of horns do pick honk very aggressively ...
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I think I like what it adds to 8-14k range also, so If I use higher order may be I'll miss it...but I'll try if you suggest.I would like to ask a question regarding 400-1200 range (fundamental channel). You are using Vitavox S2 for this range. Is it ...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy I read your post listing some aspects of the Vitavox drivers Mike might take a look at and I know you give acoustic reproduction a lot of thought, have you envisaged the 'perfect ' driver, has the Vitavox enough 'accidentally...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Manville, just for sake of an experiment, I’ve sent one of my “worst” performing S2 drivers to remagnetize it. I do not know if it affect the ‘beneficial resonance” and if it does I will report the results of its performanc...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"] I think it would be quite difficult for anyone to set up any sort of production of drive units and not become an 'industry' participant. It's quite remarkable that you manage to use a turntable, arms, cartridges, CD Player...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] There were some educational for myself observations made, in some way saying something about this specific DHT, in some way saying something about Melquiades’ single stage version and the Melquiades’ full-range two-stages ...
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[quote user="martinshorn"]The bass horn for the ak151 is housing a rear chamber slightly open, giving the injector channel - that creates a lot charme, flavor and „heart“ but also 3 dimensional projection. [/quote]I need to say that that very muc...
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Yago,
I appreciate your suggestions about what I shell do instead of what I am doing (!). If you feel that you are the only one person in the world who is familiar with the Ravens then you are mistaken. However, I would like to remind yo...
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Another decision that I need to make about the new Super Milq. I have MF and Fundamental Channels around the Vitavox S2 drivers that will be driven directly from the single-stage amplifiers, with the crossovers and attenuators sitting at amplifier li...
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My excrements with the RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter are gong on. It looks like it much more complicated to make it to work in Macondo but I hope I will get there. I have some preliminary feeling about the drivers but they are too row and I do not feel t...
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So, with this horn I got the sound I was dreaming for!Currently system consists of 4 channels:1. RAAL Lazy Ribbon (14k+)2. JBL 2453 in 550Hz LeCleach (1200 - 14k)3. JBL 2490 in first part of own JBL horn (300-1200)4. 12" Supravox in 42Hz 2m long horn...
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[quote user="coops"]If you are correct there should me a large gap in the market for any company that really cares about sound. Returning to the topic of the thread, have you noticed wide discrepancies in the 'sound' of S2 drivers even between driver...
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[quote user="Jorge"]I tend to like drivers with plastic suspension. Radian makes retrofit diaphragms for JBL with plastic suspension, maybe they will help you achieve the tone you are looking for.
Extensions are easy to machine out of aluminum, eve...
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So, I did exactly how I described in the previous post and I returned back to the plastic suspension diaphragm sitting in the “new” drivers. I lost ~3dB sensitively and was forced to go back to 3uf crossover, exactly how I described in the beginning ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anyhow, now it is officially: I permanently removed a tweeter from Macondo. [/quote]After a few days of playing my Macondo without tweeter I begun to think what is goingon. The S2 eventually works clean and without any hars...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The 6moon has posted an article about the Living Voice:
http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/livingvoice2/olympian.html
http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/livingvoice2/olympian_2.html
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