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While my attempts at this stage are very crude by comparison (injection channel experimentation is not yet a main priority), I have from time to time listened more with a very crude sort of injection channel plugged into the system.
With this devi...
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Though to me it is obvious, in the interest of being completely clear, I add the following :
In my above post with regard to the responsibility of history's most "ugly chapter", I meant to convey that the responsibility is SHARED, and lies as muc...
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Whoa! Might we agree that Mr. Hitler had an ego, and very much needed to do SOMETHING; needed to be somebody... And might we also agree that "the people" needed or at least responded to what he (and his gang) offered them? It was a nice tidy little s...
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Romy's Quotes in blue :
"...recorded music is just the industry commodities... Therefore I absolutely do not share your enthusiasm about the “opportunity for a big record label”.I'm not really expecting it to happen (I have some experience wit...
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Guy, that is one excellent clip!
It does explain a lot of the problem, and I can understand why Pop and Rock are most affected, and why Jazz and Classical are more often less horribly affected.
It seems a lot of older but remastered recordings ...
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ATTENTION SOUND ENGINEERS
Dear sound engineer,
As you certainly know, a recording that sounds BAD on a "high-end" or "audiophile" playback system may still sound GOOD or at least acceptable on a the average more modest mass-marked systems (such a...
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Romy wrote :
"... Please whatever you do, do not stick in the gap anything metal...By doing it you short the gap eclectically and you are discharging the magnets..."
Yes of course, there should be no electrically or magnetically conductive mate...
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Ronnie,
If you clean them yourself, here's a tip :
Buy or make a good non-magnetic flat-blade screwdriver (I made one from a solid stainless steel rod... use a "hollow grinding" technique and make sure the tip is a nice fit... not all "stainles...
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Bravo for the progress,Romy quotes in blue :"...My concern is that with introduction of that super-lucrative and “palatable cleanness” the new MF channels lost some bubbleness on sound..."Upon reading this, I of course immediately want...
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Samuel wrote :
"...Step 1) no way .... i will never buy Cabass speakers..."
Samuel,
I did not at all mean to recommend Cabasse speakers... My point is not brand-specific... I just happen to stop on that pair as an example of a more or less c...
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[quote user="samuel33"]"...I just ask some path to follow at first because i need urgently speakers... I compose music and i need quite quickly some speakers to work with.[/quote]Hello Samuel,Ok... If I were in your situation, here is what I would do...
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I'm feeling quite dry myself... No interest in listening to half a system... Just pushing myself to get on with the manual labor... It is somehow like therapy.
Been working mostly on the frames for the horns. They are going along quite well... The...
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Paul S wrote :
"...my wife would shoot me if she knew I was thinking of using the art as room treatment..."
My "wife" (we are not actually married) is an artist... A while ago I had the idea to stuff the chassis of her paintings from the rear s...
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Paul S wrote :
"...I thought it was a garden variety truism, if not the truth, that musiicians typically "make do" with - whatever - in the way of hi-fi..."
Yep!
The French have a proverb that translates something like this :
"Its always th...
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Romy,
Thanks for the thoughtful writing... Sorry my response is not exactly "time-aligned"... I've been meaning to reply for the past few days, but my other life has been in the way...
Romy's quotes in blue :In a few month, after you installe...
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330 or 300 or 297.875Hz... Migh all be just as interesting... Or more likely a complete waste of time.
It does not matter what Vitavox did.
My motivations : There is only one, and it is not related to the lower knee of my Upper MF horn/driver, ...
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Romy,
Just to be sure, I ran all the tests again today, but this time at various volume levels.
I got exactly the same results as yesterday.
To answer your question (sorry it took me this long) : Yes I do use metal suspension on all 4 S2s....
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[quote user="Paul S"] The new room is smaller than the old one; in fact it's the smallest room I've used with the DEBZs, and I wondered if this might help the ML2s, if not overall sound quality. I measure the new room at 20' 6" X 17' 2" X 8' = ...
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Romy,
Ok... I tried it... I backed off the screws securing the rear cover on one of the S2s I use with a pair of 180Hz horns. I backed off each screw a total of two turns, leaving a gap of 1.5mm.
I also did some measuring, and had left a 400Hz ...
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Romy,
Forgot to mention... The same people also offer a stepper-motor-actuated version, making it possible to do what you suggested above.
See it here (Scroll down to "Actuated Metering Valve") :
http://www.mediaworks.co.in/beswick/products/c...
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Try this :
http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/489086
Miniature Cartridge Needle Valve
Beswick Engineering designs and manufactures high-performance miniature fluid power devices.
Beswick introduces a miniature Cartridge Needle Valve for...
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Romy,
Could you clarify : Would you like to vent the rear chamber or increase its volume (or both)?jd*PS : This weekend I will try listening with the rear covers on the Lower-Mids slightly open... I have to admit, I'm a bit nervous about h...
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While not qualified to comment on the subject at this depth, I am very much following the discussion, and though it may seem slightly "off-thread", it does not go unappreciated. A technical understanding is necessary and I am always trying to learn m...
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Quotes from Romy in blue :I do not see that you imbedded into your plaster construction any tightening points from a stronger material. I mean: the holes in plaster – how strong you will be able to tight the bolts before the plaster will give up? Did...
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Hello BE,Quotes from BE in blue :A tractrix and a exponential horn was compared in a AES paper sometime 1950-1970, I dont remember when exactly.
Does anyone know where I might get a look at this paper?The two round and straight horns where mad...
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Paul S wrote :
"...Jessie, you know I am not a horn guy. I played with horns for 5 years, and I have heard plenty of them, and so far none have worked for me, musically. But I have remained mindful of horns' potential, and I keep coming back ...
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(I screwed my first attempt to respond by trying to get fancy with the code, so here it is again)Romy the Cat wrote : "...there is another solution that you might consider, that might be viewed as compromise for one-side as might not be view is compr...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
"...Let pretend that some kind of company take the Jessie’s idea under the wing and begin to commercialize it...""...I really think that someone who is willing to be in the business should look at the Jessie’s idea of fr...
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Paul,
Regarding plasma cutters :
Yes,
I am such an idiot!
I was once all set up with all the stuff to make my own nuclear sub.
I sold a Miller plasma cutter that would handle over 1" thick steel plate... I sold it along with a super TI...
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Guy, I too have had this question (Tractrix vs. Exponential vs. Hypex), and you are right to bring it up.
I very much appreciated Romy's comments on the subject... Including the modular horn with interchangeable profiles proposal... (It might be ...
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