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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: "Leave the gun, take the cannolis..." by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] First of all, I want to note that when somebody lives on the principle of denying everything, he risks to live in his own encapsulated world, build according to his own principles in order to feel comfortable there.   [/q...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Direct radiation in the Macondo midrange horn by anthony on 2014-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Direct radiation in the Macondo midrange horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
Hi Romy, As a recent convert to horn-speakers I have greatly enjoyed trawling through your website and I have learnt plenty not only about horns but also about questioning my own motives and the desired end result of a possible "from scratch" spe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The new channel, phase plug and the objectives by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Little suggestion should all else fail - you could have a rudimentary phase plug machined that would give you the same (or similar) compression ratio as the original but only one annular exit path. This might preserve the driver char...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Vitavox S2: notes to dairy… by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I thought that the folks who are interesting where I am going with my Macondo should know that am still working with Vitavox S2[/quote]OK, I think now I’ve learned whatever I need to learn about this driver. In order to und...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: Earl Geddes on the field-coils.... by MochaMike on 2006-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not know any advantages because the fact that the sound softer. I personally believe that the electromagnets have HIGHER MOMENTUM FLUX MODULATION and that make them to “sit” slightly…  or exactly what I would like t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Perfect HF and the “kinky” Electro-Voice T350. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
I think I have too much time on my hands or use my time in highly stupid fashion but I decided to do today the experiment about witch I was thinking for a while. The experiment was “methodology clean” and lead me to quite interesting discoveries. Sin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: Re: S2 chronicle: the latest update by skushino on 2005-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] If the S2 is completely decoupled (second order low-path at 1.5kz) then the rules of the game completely changed and the S2 behaved VERY different. I will wait until the dedicated channel of my Super Melquiades will be dr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: .... "strong, clean and in character" by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Vitavox S2 does OK up to 12.5K ("strong, clean and in character") on it’s center but I never use this driver pointed directly to me but rather at good 20 degree off. (I hardly can tolerate any compression driver point directly to me). At my angle the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Re: .... "strong, clean and in character" by Paul S on 2006-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Romy:Going back, you said:"Vitavox S2 does OK up to 12.5K ("strong, clean and in character") on it’s center but I never use this driver pointed directly to me but rather at good 20 degree off. (I hardly can tolerate any compression driver point direc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: The SA8535 tweeter: even more by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-06 
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Well, it looks like my lack of familiarity with ribbons/planar/isodynamic tweeters made an evil joke with me as the more SA8535 tweeter getting broken in the better it sounds. As now, after near 80 hours it practically free from any negative things t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: T350 tweeter: almost there... by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An amplifier for Tweeters in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
Well, it looks I’m near finding a more or less acceptable setting for the T350 tweeter. Ironically and completely accidentally it is not far form I use to be. It is still on the slope at 20Hz (since the T350 is pretty dead at 16kHz) but now it is &nb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Some thoughts about my New Macondo's Absolute Tone by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
After the painstaking setting up of the new Macondo, measuring all distance, paralleling the horns and time-aligning everything, after the setting up a correct level of the new channel’s attenuation (it turned out -2dB was necessary) I spent some tim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Divert and indicative picture... by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] In your earlier piece about how to use the S2 'properly' you wrote "Whatever happens between the 400 and 2,5 is pretty much unnecessary for you garbage. So, get any known to you soft capacitor of 3uF and place it in serie...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Tractrix vs. Exponential curve for lower frequencies. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]One issue that I would consider is that the Tractrix profile supposedly does not lend itself aswell to extremely low frequency horns (being too short) as other profiles in particular the Hypex (Salmon) shape. [/quote] Yep,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: About the new S2 drives. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Here's what's behind my comment regarding the irrelevance of color: I strongly suspect that the new production diaphragms will come with transparent Mylar suspension. In that case, I would hope they turn out to have the me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Indomitable S2 chronicle... by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-21 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Moreover, the driver has such a huge amount of the “beneficial resonance” and such a tremendous transient ability that it scare, and my system has a dificult time to handle it. [/quote] Referring to my privios post I'm wond...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Circumferential phasing plug problems by JLH on 2009-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
I understand your position on compression and not wanting to screw up the tone. The Community M4 driver is the perfect example of how NOT to build a 4” exit compression driver. First, the cone/dome material is garbage. Neither the sandwiched aluminum...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: The low-passing S2 driver. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] I have not heard any other systems using Vitavox S2 drivers, but I know it is possible to get the S2 to generate on-axis unpleasentries. In the case of the system I am building, one can happily sit straight in the firing ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Canadian Speaker Proposal by de charlus on 2013-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Dear All,I wish to commence gathering the components and finding the craftsmen necessary for my DIY speaker project, but wished to bring my proposal before this forum in order to establish whether it's intrinsically worthy, and whether any simple imp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: How Very Sad... by de charlus on 2013-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
1: If it is not patently obvious to W that Romy is far from enamored with what I hypothetically propose, then it would seem that W is grievously wanting in terms of intellect, a more troublesome failing in the world at large than errant taste in loud...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Fane impedance and other drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Back when Fane were still in business, I ordered a pair in 16O (I don't know if there is a theoretical best choice between the two for horn loading... Any thoughts ? However, the 8O model will require a smaller coil in th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A horn arc by Romy the Cat on 2014-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Direct radiation in the Macondo midrange horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
Yes, Anthony, any horn by nature has what I call horn arc. At the bottom of the range the channel boost output, then the gain slowly decay and become almost like a direct radiator and then the output begin to roll off at HF by horn until the driver r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: … and the winner is: EV T-350 by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Now my midrange channel need no upper range diffusion and now I feel that the result I’m getting from T350 is too soft and too transiently slow for S2. So, I kind of very mildly begin to look out there and to try top fugue ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Sorry, I do not follow your. by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Yes, but you are familiar with the compression driver and horns. How could somebody control the size of the audio window, formed by his midrange channel, using horns? If I remember correctly, you chose your Vitavox S2 driver ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Null-set dipole butterfly tweeters. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Null-set dipole butterfly tweeters. in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
As I have mentioned previously I’m slowly in a process of assessing other opportunities for my Macondo, since the EV T350 driver it too soft to be paired with Vitavox S2. While I am doing it an old observation keep knocking in my head. A few years ag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #171: The el-catastrophe! by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Yesterday there was the worst I can remember in my long-lasting with electricity. I mean it was not just bad it was beyond any description. My preamp has 126 steps (near a db per click) and during an average electricity day I listening it at 50-60 sl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Vertical spacing between channels of Le Horn by oxric on 2011-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Considering the conclusions of my recent experiences that I described in the following thread:http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=6876I would like to share some of my observation that the people who would g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #117: Yes, it is all correct. by Romy the Cat on 2015-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"] Romy the Cat wrote: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 ot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: High Voltage ? by Kerry Brown on 2013-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The African compression electromagnet drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  42 Replies 
Years ago, the two different systems in which I heard RCA 1428s - in a fairly big warehouse and crammed into a basement listening room - used giant RCA multi-cell horns in combination with giant Ubangi bass bins, passive crossovers and vintage WE or ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: The 6 channels diaries: evening of gratification by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Eventually, I had a chance to spend last night with up and running new Milq (no tweeters was involved at this point). As I said before, the major fight was around the MF channel and I feel I did found a good configuration where the MF channel takes a...
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