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Posted by Romy the Cat on
03-26-2025
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Posted by Paul S on
03-28-2025
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Long time since I lived in the world of horns, but I never lost a distaste for audible contributions from the horns, themselves. The soundtrack that is played to prove the installation is well suited to system strengths, and - as usual - it says something about the builders' mindset. Like I told about my visit to the Cogent guys, years and years ago, despite they did not advertise, their house was crawling with people wanting to be part of it the whole time I was there, literally showing up every few minutes. I am glad that I was actually invited, or I likely would not have gotten to speak with either of them. I think Romy gave a good account of their operations despite never having seen or heard their speakers in person. It's all there, if you know what you are looking at.
Paul S
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Posted by Romy the Cat on
04-21-2025
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Here is an interview with the owner of Volti Audio. The company
has those three-way horns that are shown in the second part of the clip. The
whole beginning of the clip, along with the waxing poetry by the interviewer, who
was asking stupid questions, are just an unfortunate noise. The speaker is very
questionable and recognizing the fact that the designer never made efforts to time-align
MF and HF channels, makes it a very strong candidate for me to not even consider
listening to them.
However. This guy himself, Greg Roberts, the owner, sounds
very good. I typically hate how today's manufacturers speak about their own product.
It is either BS or lying. This person, Greg Roberts actually sounds like a normal
human being, very surprising and very pleasant.
I do not care too much about his product, but I like him. He denies
talking about the right things, he very apologetically says about the thing that
he believes. I'm typically VERY critical about those types of interviews, but I
have zero problems with anything that Greg Roberts said. I might disagree with
a few things, but it does not demean either Mr. Roberts nor the ideas that he supports.
A very pleasant discovery.
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Posted by green heron on
05-15-2025
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Thanks for taking the time to share you thoughts on my system, Romy.
My upcoming move will take me to the West Coast where, unfortunately, I won't have the space for these horns. So, I'm looking to find a new home for them. I posted details on US Audiomart.
Responding to a few of your questions/comments...
• I'm using high- and low-pass filters on the midbass horns
• The hypex mid-bass horn shape was designed to get a response as low as possible to best cross over to 18" stereo subs (sealed). The elliptical shape was adopted to bring the midrange to ear level. I planned to apply an elliptical shape for all the horns to shrink the vertical requirements, but I didn't get around to it (of course, it's much more difficult than round!).
• The stand is from Rogue fitness—a squat stand separated into two horn stands and extra components used as mounting arms. It works great, and is completely adjustable and can accommodate new components easily.
• And earlier version of the system evolution used tractrix and Le'Cleach curves for the lower and upper midrange with YL, TAD, Maxonic, JBL, Altec, etc. compression drivers. From what I tried, I gravitated toward the smaller home-oriented compression drivers rather than those designed for large concert pavilions.
All of the experimenting culminated to the point I got to about five years ago where I was pretty happy with how the music was reproduced. The system is forgiving and can play any recording musically without being over-analytical. I'm foremost a music lover, and when a system brings you to sit upright and just fully engage with music, it's a good system in my book. Since then, I haven't experimented much, and now I'm reaching a fork in the road. I need to go one way (and pursue other hobbies), and the system I built will go another. Hopefully, to someone who will take up the torch for the horns (jazz kissa anyone?!).
Cheers!Ben
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Posted by Romy the Cat on
05-16-2025
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Ben, I'm not sure the time correct? Recommending you what I'm trying to recommend below, but here is my take. My observation about the reality of the life suggests that the playbacks that you have built usually more persistent in life the reason which make you to move to West. A new job or a new woman are wonderful things. From what I observe it is actually easier to get a new Job or new love then to build a complete playback installation as you have. So I feel, if you can afford not to sell it then you might very well to dump it in some kind of cheap storage for a few years and then see how it goes. Just an idea to consider...
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