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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Laughter of recognition. by Edgar= on 2025-03-24 
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That was funny.Now your here, why not do it right and use a loudspeaker with 5 hz response for injection. it would help to integrate your infinite baffle to the rest of Macondo. One doesn't need the tone of vintage drivers, use cheap modern stuff wit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #348: It is ridiculous by Edgar= on 2025-03-24 
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Friend after friend leaves astonished saying how "dialled" the sound is and the system was literally slapped together via the path of least resistance just for proof of concept. Development ended there other than adding 2 more braces to the speaker e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #347: My accoustic space by Edgar= on 2025-03-24 
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is about 60m3 or 2000ft3but with openings to other spaces.It will never be an ideal acoustic space here so I have not put any significant effort into room treatment. except for RI of course hehe, that is some good room treatment.The action is defiant...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #346: You are right Paul by Edgar= on 2025-03-24 
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I have tried it Paul, and more. None of them are as good as Dannoy.I can see it now, It's the linearization effect the Faraday rings have on the system. That is what other systems do not have. It's like adding a choke to a amplifiers power supply. It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #342: Not potentially a mess by Edgar= on 2025-03-24 
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Definitely a mess.   One I would walk away from...Re RI, you STRICTLY only want to implement rears or the game is off but if you want to talk RI, lets do it in the RI thread.Re the 10" being too little, think back to the port analogy. What would conv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #341: Yes, that exact enclosure. by Edgar= on 2025-03-24 
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I bought those enclosures from a local old timer who had made them with alot of care. they are heavy! They had a single goodmans driver where you see the Scanspeak now. I swaped it out and installed the Scanspeak and tried different drivers on top. T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #340: You would be suprised by Edgar= on 2025-03-24 
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at how low the 15 plays in this scenario Paul. Sure higher with the 10" but the 15s play deep. The resonate freq of the Scanspeak is 20hz.I think the issue is system power levels not F3. I think The efforts for implementing something under Dannoy is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #335: The question has been answered, indirectly by Edgar= on 2025-03-20 
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I was wondering if you had seen it yet. :-)My answer is it's not going to work. Excluding the remote possibility that the compensation system does work but thats a big if at the moment.Try answer this question, it might help. For the sake of this, le...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #331: A labor of love indeed by Edgar= on 2025-03-20 
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I am with you on most of the above except now I DO think the phase flip is resolvable. If, and like you say until tested and absorbed it is an if, if the liniarisation effect can be maintained whilst the phase flip countered then there is no reason w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #329: Intuition and happy accident by Edgar= on 2025-03-20 
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and the discernment to hear the result.Thinking about it more, there are 5 coupled dampening mechanisms in effect, 6 if you add the variable resistor.1. mechanical - the surround and spider create a mechanical spring2. acoustical - the air in the box...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #327: I think it would be insightful by Edgar= on 2025-03-19 
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[quote user="Edgar="].So Romy, yeah a varibale resistor on those terminals is going to change things but i'd guess, all in the wrong ways.[/quote]If this statement was to be validated or disproved....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #326: Start with whatever you have on hand for RI by Edgar= on 2025-03-19 
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Dont build something exotic as it is absolutely not required to get started. Use whatever loudspeakers you have and can fit in your space or slap something together, it really does not matter initially.Go pick up a shitty Yamaha suround sound amp and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #325: Golds not Reds... by Edgar= on 2025-03-19 
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... So im dating Remeides sister who is not quite in the same league as Remedies, I'll admit that but you still can't wipe the smile off my face!And yeah using THE scanspeak.Re larger passive radiators I have Audio Elegance SBP15 here (but not with A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #319: Not the primary reason no by Edgar= on 2025-03-19 
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I add that only to highlight there is more to it than just the sound  pressure, adding ULF will impact your system electrically as well but yes, in a far more subtle way.The primary difficulty i see is the phase flip at the bottom. There is just mo w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: NBC or NPC...? by Edgar= on 2025-03-18 
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[quote user="N.B.C."] Hi Romy,I have been reading your website views since the inception and prior.[/quote]How does one read a site prior to its inception? This is even more mysterious than reverb injection.......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #317: Its not gonna happen by Edgar= on 2025-03-18 
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I don't mean to be pessimistic but i know where this ends. It ends the same place Romy did, in a lot of work and no result.I am trying to lead you to water here but as the sayin' goes....I bring up the difference in implementing bass under a channel ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #312: It's not the path i'd go... by Edgar= on 2025-03-18 
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If you want more bass, add it with reverb injection. You can have all the bass you want and you will not disturb Dannoy's beauty.I'm curious, have you ever integrated ULF to a system with a sealed bottom end and one with a ported bottom end and notic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: I do remember saying... by Edgar= on 2025-02-04 
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...over in the Reverb Injection thread, that my favourite thing about RI is what it does in the bass. What I was referring to was the ability to add low frequency pressure to your room without it affecting the integration of your front main playback....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I was lees shocked than some I'd say. by Edgar= on 2024-10-19 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] You do not understand what amount of physical and psychological efforts is necessary in order 1 day to listen Dannoy and then completely demolish my setup that I built for 20 years and incorporated everything that I know a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The first video is private, by Edgar= on 2024-10-19 
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But I could view the second one. What a blast to see Mini Romy's!! Your boy on the cello, looks just like you. made me laugh! Thanks for sharing :-)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Edger fell off his seat! by Edgar= on 2024-10-19 
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Howdy Romy and all. It's a pleasure to visiting the site again, AND again I found myself flabergasted by the words coming out of your mouth Romy! Now dipole bass! What would the cat of 15 years ago say to the cat now?!?I make fun but I too have had g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Give it a try by Edgar= on 2023-09-09 
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Hey again Paul,I focus on the processor because I am making the point to go and buy one and try. Discussion is pointless unless people are using it for themselves and reporting their experiences. Honestly I am surprised more of us are not trying it.I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Agreeable lower octaves by Edgar= on 2023-09-08 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you get your lower octaves agreeable with your listening, then your objective for high frequency completely get reevaluated..[/quote]I have been thinking more about this comment and I can't say I have ever had my lower ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: It's Irrelevent by Edgar= on 2023-09-08 
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Howdy Paul,I mention the Dunnoys only in reference to Romy's comment about properly structured harmonics. What main channels I use is irrelevant to this thread. I'm sorry that comment is so blunt, I don't mean to be unfriendly, but I say it that way ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Indeed by Edgar= on 2023-09-08 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you have properly harmonically structured (this is key) response at 10-11 kHz then you are already in the business. .[/quote]Tbh, i feel like Dunnoy has properly structured harmonics from 40hz to 16k and with RI to >...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Better RI by Edgar= on 2023-09-07 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]First of all, let to address the elephant in the room: whatever additional DSP take place for reverberation or surrounds is applicable ONLY for reverberation and has no connection of any kind to the main channels. Thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Yes, this is the distinction I was attempting to point to... by Edgar= on 2023-09-06 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I never touch the main signal with my Reverberation Injection, and everything is happening only on a dedicated complementary acoustic system that acts as an injector.  [/quote] Yes,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: I am in full support of this broacast by Edgar= on 2023-09-06 
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Romy, I have not visited here since i made my splash on the forum back taalking about Dannoy. I wondered last week where things might be at for you and i chuckled to myself when I viewed your broadcast today. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Wow, what a song by Edgar= on 2023-05-02 
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I enjoyed that. Thank you....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: I See by Edgar= on 2022-11-23 
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Thanks N-set, yes I see your point. I remember now that Brian said how photons carry the information to tell the electrons where they are with respect to each other, so it is at the speed of light, and not instantaneous, of course. Whoops, looks like...
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