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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: An amplifier for an ‘active' horn by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Dresden"]… One very important component I'm leaving out of the cost of the horn is amplification (the horns will be active, using class-D amps).  The reason for my choosing class-D amplification is that the modules and various compo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I had a dream... by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eighteen Sound ND1460A compression driver & 8M400 8” mid... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
[quote user="horny"] Those used to vintage gear might find it laughable…[/quote] Well, do not be under impression that vintage drivers are an assurance of some kind of quality. They are not; in fact in most of the case the opposite is true. I always...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... by twogoodears on 2008-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Hi Romy and thanks a lot for the always interesting topics and discussions going on... I'm quite new to DPoLS and consider the approach of "obtaining sound in a room" more than "speakers positioning" - too often to WAF fullfillment and aesthetics, th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: The ordinary honk of the bad horns owners. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"]Interesting.  I'm wondering here if this is the key to eliminating the honkiness I hear in most horn installations.  From your experiments, it seems that the low frequency extension is key.  Push it too far and it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Now you are getting to the real crux - crossover points... by Jeffrey Jackson on 2005-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
and this is the huge decision.. although Steve and Rich's drivers do have the potential for extremely wide bandwidth, I feel that the first decision when designing a horn speaker is to decide how many horns and the corresponding crossover points...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A sober view on Cogent True-to-Life Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Well, when we are talking about Cogent we need clearly differentiate two things: the Cogent’s drivers and the Cogent’s installation. The problem is that since Cogent’s drivers are something so called “compression drivers” then their performance might...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Hunt for Speakers or for Result? by Chirag on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speaker hunting in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
hi Koshka Sr...the reply has been illustrative as usual... when you> finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range. :-) yes, but then we have residency....5, maybe 7 years of *relative* poverty :-O > When you ent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Why EdgarHorns? by drdna on 2005-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
I chose the EdgarHorns for fairly simple reasons.  I have listened to them and I loved the way they sound.  They are not the perfect loudspeaker, but they make much truer music than what I have now.  Also, the price I paid is less than...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Woof... by twogoodears on 2018-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
Hi Roman, hi all...... very interesting topic... I recently made the contact between Josh and Klaus and his Goto system... I experienced Klaus' system three times and also if someway blaming his choices about using only and exclusively "liquid music"...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: 2" drivers by be on 2008-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Open cell foam in horns and MF drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  40 Replies 
The best driver I have heard is the TAD 4003. It does not use the secondary resonance of the suspension, as described by Duke LeJeune above for the TAD 4001-4002, to extend the response towards 20 kHz, but has a natural roll off from app. 15 kHz. I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The phenolic and none phenolic cones… by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Open cell foam in horns and MF drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  40 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"]This is probably the reason I can listen to EV Patrician IV in relatively small space and close to the speaker without much of fatigue.  The other factor must be that it's 4- way design with narrow band-pass for each horn. E...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: So, what is about the SOUND of the GOTO drivers? by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Yep, Stefano, it looks like we do have similar views about the subjects we touched. Let go back to exploring one of the terra incognito of compression driver – the sound of Goto. I would insist is that to judge sound of Goto driver from the installa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Do the things progressively… by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression Drivers -in general in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"] If I were in your shoe I would take make as you wish but wish a slight correction: 65Hz Tractrix from ~80Hz to ~800Hz w/ fane 8" ( or better driver) 250Hz LeCleach from ~800Hz to ~10kHzJBL 2405 ribbon from 10kHz up  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: RTA by Jorge on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Do get an RTA,  it is amazing how different the frecuencies are from what we imagine, 50 hz is very low!  150 hz is a vital freq, and a lot of female voices have a very nice fullness at 150 hz.  It is hard to tell without measuring what is happening ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: You Should Be The Presidents Cheif Of Staff. by msaudio on 2010-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
Romy    I have not herd so much doulble talk in a long time. Some of the best sounding drivers on the market in the last 60 years, were for sound reinforcement. I do believe, in a 2 way speaker system crossed over at 800hz with a good wood horn i wil...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A Russian implementation of JBL-2490 by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2490 mid-range driver in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
I saw today link of a Russian guy who was trying to make set a playback around JBL-2490. http://photofile.ru/users/yras/3860502/all/?mode=xlarge The speaker turn out to be a ridicules – 2490 in upperbass shorted version of WE horn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #172: I do not see a lot of interesting solution out there. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="Saturntube"] Anyone has some sort of comparison between compression drivers against cone (dynamic) drivers in a this huge mid bass horns, or even upper bass horns.     All I heard are this guys from Germany with the out of reach expe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: They are easy and accessible ... still give to them and to yourself a ... by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
I care less about Bret and his business, in fact I have no idea who is he. Since he use audio as business then what distinct him from any other audio whore. A purpose of any business is supply demands and capitalize on the frustrations, investin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: "Those kind of people" are actually listening to music by Joe Roberts on 2009-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Classical Music Café syndrome... in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Cat...your ability to look at a picture and diagnoseminutae of sound and even the character of the system owner is impressive.As you know from previous discussions, I am a fan of direct experience as a discovery procedure over intellectual manipu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Melquiades & high cost as a limiting factor of design. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I do not know what else are you looking. in Audio Discussions  12 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"] It will drive  either my Tannoy Gold's full-range, or my 3-way system (Altec 515/Vitavox S2/EV T-350 or JBL 2450).  I could also use it just to drive the Altec 515 and use my current 300B to drive the MF/HF of my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: The Goto confusion indeed. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Thanks, Be, for a correction but the fun part is no one acknowledged your blander. The Goto drivers I think are exotic terra incognito for most people and I think it is how Goto Company is willing to keep it. No one talk about nuts and bolt of Goto c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: When Ribbons are not just ribbons. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
Do you remember in the brilliant cartoon “Ice Age” there was that lovely character who was going of his way in his infinite chase for the nut? I feel audio people have the sale obsession with ribbons, or more precisely with importer use it ribbons. R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The horn design from Bruce Edgar by martinshorn on 2018-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
So first in line, the horns.  They stressed out that particularly the horn flares where not within the comfort zone of their own developer team.That triggered the recruitment of Bruce Edgar. The design is only his, and they took it 1:1. Of course too...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: How it might sound in your application… by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="nietzscheflake"] I am also thinking about how to get that headphone sound in my house and am contemplating the horn route… [/quote] It ‘s fine but never forget that the imitation of headphones sound is NOT something that need to b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: MF Compresion drivers by Jorge on 2011-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
This is something I have been at for the last few years, I have tried a few drivers, at the moment some of my favorite are the vintage RCA MI 1443,  yes filed coil and some funny cone diaphragm,  they are used from 500 hz to 5 khz with a Fostex T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: The myth of demagnetization. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Listening the argument of the field-coil’s people I note that they constantly stress the demagnetization subject of the driver’s magnet, advocating that with electromagnet “the field coil will always produce the same strength now and 100 years in the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: No beef by Vasyachkin on 2008-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents.... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"][quote user="Vasyachkin"]expertise = experience X intelligence a cockroach needs millions of years of evolution worth of experience to have the expertise necessary for it to be able to do find food. leonardo da vinci didn't...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: GOTO - no one knows anything…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 8" Goto Woofer for 60Hz Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
[quote user="Kcct82"] Hey Romy, Goto makes 12" and 15" woofers at 100db. I recently found out they make a small two way system using an 8" woofer. The 8 incher's range is 55hz-8000hz so I'm thinking it might be a good candidate for use with 60Hz h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: On Preference For Class-D Amplification by Dresden on 2008-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
hmm...I didn't realise I had left my browser logged-in to your site (I left my PC on over night, downloading some files).'..the only advantage that class-D amplification has is cost, size, heat generation and power.'In my eyes, that's more than I cou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Life sucks with Vitavox S2! by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
I recently made some highly attractive changes with the way in which I use S2. Now, since the S2’ top got cleaned up the universal misery of universe bothers me tremendously. :-) Really, the S2 runs in my 400Hz horn up to 12.5kHz and the S2’s 12.5kH...
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