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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The different views about Celestion SL600. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]What you say may be true. I'm not sure there was an amplifier available in the mid to late 1980's that would have been suitable for these. They did get good reviews but I suspect that some of this was due to awe inspired by...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Celestion SL-600: some summation for now. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-03 
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After spending two weeks with high-passed Celestion SL-600 reinforced with external LF section I would like to make some observations. I had a single SL-600 monitor (I always tend to use one for assessment purpose) on it’s original stands in the very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: The Celestion SL-600’s tweeters by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-29 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]...To substitute SL600 original tweeter with anything else, would it be Revelators, Diamond or made from Faberge Eggs is like to make a movie with Humphrey Bogart and ask busboy form a nearby Chinese restaurant to re-record...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Hm, unexpectedly interesting… by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Here is what I substitute the Celestion original copper. It is Linaeum Lweeter modified by Bud Purvine from Seattle. I do appreciate the Celestion copper tweeter more – when it is new and works properly, but I have no copper tweeters anymore. The Lin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A journey of a thousand channels begins with four driver by nietzscheflake on 2010-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Romy says:"Then you can get some kind 250Hz -350Hz horn and would load it with whatever driver you like"manisandher wrote: "For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that ...

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 #33: Celestion SL-600: some summation for now. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
After spending two weeks with high-passed Celestion SL-600 reinforced with external LF section I would like to make some observations. I had a single SL-600 monitor (I always tend to use one for assessment purpose) on it’s original stands in the very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Recirculation by Paul S on 2013-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Trading cable elevators for spare space. in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
Well, you already paid once to condition (heat or cool) that air, so the ticket here might be filtered recirculation rather than true exhaust, at least, if you are as "thrifty" as I am.Yes, I would imagine the Dunlavys would be more satisfying than t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Chalk & Cheese by guy sergeant on 2006-06-10 
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From the Macondo to the Celestion SL600 !I cannot think of two speakers that could be more different in terms of design philosophy and (I imagine) the presentation of music.If you can get any noise out of the SL600's I'll be interested to hear what y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Resurrecting my SL600 speakers by manisandher on 2008-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
Hi all,This thread has been a facinating read for me, and has prompted me to resurrect my old Celestion SL600 speakers.But their copper dome tweeters are looking (and sounding) rather worse for wear.Does anyone know where I could source them from?Any...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Pro drivers by el`Ol on 2012-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End 2012 in Germany in Audio News  36 Replies 
I wonder how far one could get to the traditional horn ideal (low-ranging compression driver plus some metal shimmer on top) with a BMS neodymium pure mid driver and a Celestion/Eighteensound/Beyma with aluminium diaphragm.BTW, something with berylli...

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 #9: Re: Monitor project for summer listening by Wojtek on 2006-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cool running AB amplifier.. with good sound. in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
Roman wants to "test" other amps on the monitors .It is quite impossible on tri-amped Macondo-maybe he will become a rewiever -heheheh. I can assume that Macondo is so absorbing that it is impossible to just play a background music or work and not to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: G10 as Encosure Material by Lbjefferies7 on 2008-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I'm glad you had the opportunity to look into the G10.  I find it to be a very intellectually satisfying material, which (to this sick mind) is important.  G10 is a material that reminds a person of cleanliness, stability, perfect cons...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Harshness by Rewind on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as op... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Yeah, they are my own experiments so I am the only one that need to care. They are based on your earlier work, so I felt like writing and tell you what I am doing with your ideas. The drivers we use may be superior or inferior. As long as mine are t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: LF system by guy sergeant on 2006-09-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: LF for use with Vitavox S2 in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Hi Pete,You have a similar size room to me. I'd rather like a large 4 or 5 way setup but don't have the space. I use the S2's (in barbaric stylee) in damped RH330's. Beneath them I use a frontloaded (folded) bass horn Vitavox made called the Oracle. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Monitors: Wishful thinking by Ronnie on 2006-07-23 
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I too want a monitor speaker to play with, especially for amplifier experimentation.I put another 4" Fostex in a sealed "box" (globe actually) and crossed it over at 150hz to one SS 25w/8565 on the side. Wishful thinking? -Yes.About 88-90dB sensitive...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: The atheism in Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-18 
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[quote user="manisandher"]Hi all, This thread has been a facinating read for me, and has prompted me to resurrect my old Celestion SL600 speakers. But their copper dome tweeters are looking (and sounding) rather worse for wear. Does anyone know where...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Rola by guy sergeant on 2006-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Satisfying result: the RMAF Show + Cogent in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
Hi Dominic, I have some Rola's. Although intended (in organs etc) for quite widerange use I'm not sure that for listening to music they should be allowed to go too high. The other thing I found was that what lower frequencies they produced were more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Goto guts-burping rather than farting by Johan Dreyer on 2008-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Romy I had a SG370 mid apart only yesterday.I should have taken a photograph.I have also seen the inside of the tweeter.They are very similar,so I have no reason to suppose the low mid SG 505 will be much different.I'll try to explain.I think they a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1850: Not using a super tweeter by rickmcinnis on 2022-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I am using the Celestion Axi-periodic compression driver in the KLIPSCH K402 horn which I have boosted considerably when I noticed that the top one and one-half octaves were barely working when playing music so I figured WHY NOT?  and it works just f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Smaller driver by Saturntube 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 
http://professional.celestion.com/pro/products/cdx/detail.asp?ID=4 This driver looks interesting, it has aluminum diaphragm and neo magnets, it doesn't specify if it has a plastic suspension though. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Monitor speaker project: my hope. by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
I would like to share some ides what I would like to do in my monitor project.  This are just intention and I did not try to put it all together. Probably I will do it with the next few weeks. I’m planning to use the Celestion SL-600 enclosure ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The little Melquiades, the pictures and the illusive transformer core… by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="hagtech"] For a single driver, looks to me like you need an input signal of at least 3Vrms.  A lot of linestages can do that, so a single tube power amp seems both reasonable and interesting. [/quote] What actually I discovered the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: ..."the very worst speakers I've ever heard..." by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quest for a better monitor. in Audio Discussions  97 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]From the Macondo to the Celestion SL600 ! I cannot think of two speakers that could be more different in terms of design philosophy and (I imagine) the presentation of music. If you can get any noise out of the SL600's I'...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #212: I love it and I have no idea why I did not do it before. by Romy the Cat on 2013-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]The only advantage your pilot could have over Macondo is omnidirectionality... [/quote]It might be a good idea under some circumstances but not truly necessary in my case. The way how the room our listening/living room is org...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: A compression driver as a musical instrument. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="Johan Dreyer"] I had a SG370 mid apart only yesterday.I should have taken a photograph. I have also seen the inside of the tweeter. They are very similar, so I have no reason to suppose the low mid SG 505 will be much different. I'll try...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
There are many threads on my site where I covered the subjects of Tweeter for my Macondo and particularly the moment of integration the tweeters with Vitavox S2 compression driver. Since a few months ago I altered my idea to use the EV T-350 tweeter ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Tweeters frustrations? Again?!!! by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
Listening my Macondo with new “Fundamental channel” I noted that my tweeter is not as effective as it use to be. The effect of “not-effectiveness” is very minor but at some recordings it is notable. My T350 still sorts the Vitavox S2’s top but it als...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: The audio Herbs? by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
de Charlus, this “are not afraid of cabinet resonance per se” is complicated subject. I have raised the topic in the “How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers” thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=3833 ...
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