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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #400: The next steps of progress. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Since I change the transformer I picked some harmonics and now I feel that my midbass has a bit too long roll off. I moved the second low pass filter close to the first filter. After a very careful listening and some thinking I ended up with setting ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Actually…. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I did not feel that it would be easy but I just found looks like a good configuration for ULF section. A second order 35Hz, yes, surprisingly second order. The key in this configuration is not to be selfish and to drive the ULF too hot. This might be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #402: Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"]Are there any signs for worsened transient response of your midbass channel due to the sharp electrical filtering?[/quote]Nothing that I note. The transient response of your midbass channel is a bit tricky thing as the way how...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The poster that I hang in my office. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
Stuck, You can NOT stack coils in series to get a “distributed half order crossover”. To make it “distributed” the first and the second first-order filters should be decupled. For instance the first filter might be at line-level and the second at th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #387: Talking about the midbass…. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Despite the fact the I lost the quality of the lower knee of my midbass horn (I guess the primary resonance went all the way down) I keep trying to catch the right termination of midbass  low pass filter. I bought those expensive 20H coils and added ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: First vs. second order crossover and alignment by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"] I want to listen to both 12db/octave and 6db/octave passive versions and see which one sounds better. And keep the one that sounds better. [/quote]Herman, It depends what you would like to listen. If you would like to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: In my view Mass matters. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] Romy, would you elaborate on that more? Looking at his formulas it looks like higher mass gives lower resonance point, which is I guess desireable?[/quote] Yes, the resonance point go lover but also the ratio of contributi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Active crossover by panwitz on 2018-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Coral x-viii in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Hi! I wanted actually to get rid of the behringer. Because I have only 1 super high quality tube amplifier and it was difficult to marry different amps with the speakers.  And you cant use a high quality dac with the active crossover. I ll right now ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Order of the filters in Macondo-like configuration. by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
[quote user="amdismal"]The crossovers were fourth order, which is what I use on my horns.  Second order, I have found, can give a better blending, but reduced the delicacy and transparency in my system.  But it's very complicated, and further exacerb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The RAAL and an amplifier. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]  The "calm HF" effect is something I have long sought but seldom experienced from repro, and I have blamed the amps as much as the ribbons.  Mere HF extension is not enough.  Hard to say whether the amp or the rib...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My DHT experiment: Observations by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] There were some educational for myself observations made, in some way saying something about this specific DHT, in some way saying something about Melquiades’ single stage version and the Melquiades’ full-range two-stages ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: The wonderful opportunity of the first order and... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
... and nothing as a result. After testing, measuring and the most important listening the new Water Drop integrated with the rest Macondo I summized that I would need to go still for a second order on my tweeter. It is kind of not what I hoped. I di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The crisis of perception. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I pretty much know what I need to do – I need to go for shaper filter built in my power amp. The second order I have no is too impactful to midbass, so I need to do for 2th order or perhaps for 4th and try to integrate it.  Whatever it will be I thin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: 6-channels Milq: the design phase is over. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
OK, it took for a while but at this point I have nailed down all design aspects of the new 6-channels Super Milq, and particularly its input stage. I have listen and evaluated all solutions that will be implemented in there; selected, appraised and o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: The Milq upperbass crossover. by Romy the Cat on 2014-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]Romy, I appreciate that this is an old thread now and that you may not remember everything from your time developing these amplifiers, but I have a (hopefully) simple question about the upperbass crossover in the schematic ab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: 1.5 order low passes by stuck.wilson on 2007-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
what a great idea-- i never really thought of a sort of 'low pass bypass' inductor of sorts?!   i'd always assumed that inductance was similar to capacitance in that regard-- the more you add, the more you get-- but hadn't thought about the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 1200 crossover by panwitz on 2018-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Coral x-viii in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Hi Josh! That was basically my idea too. Although I read that the 12 inch driver loses directivity after 750. But I played around with Behringer dcx 2496, and I had the impression, that 1200 second order was the best sounding. The main reason for cro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Prototyping crossovers. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Monitors: Wishful thinking in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Well, I never felt that for prototyping I need more then one-channels crossover as by use of the poor sounding prototyping crossovers I never look at the system in it’s entirely but rather for the “technical listing” of  just two channels that I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Re: More mysteries - bizarre crossover effects by cv on 2006-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Romy,That upper rolloff in the OPT comes from a number of distributed capacitances and leakage inductances in the transformer - it will not be a simple filter. Lots of transformers have weird resonances up at the top of their range. In fact, some mak...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Me, being in denial by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
[quote user="TonyB"]I disagree. I think it depends on the turntable. If I did not try it on MY turntable, I would not believe. My Verdier uses a DC motor "sloppy" mounted on grommets. The drive is linen thread. I have tried silk, different threads, 1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: I am a pain in ass. by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
It is over 2 weeks as the crossover parts for my Altec 21S modification are sitting in my house. It would be 30 min fix but I still did not do it – juts lazy. I want for how to keep the Altec low path crossover but I the crossover for MF I would like...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: OK, it is something. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I guess I have found a more or less usable new configuration for ULF channel. It is 28Hz, second order, with slightly raised ULF on the transition slope. It sounds quite good. Well, I am not supposed to say this. It doesn’t sound good but it sound pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #357: The fascinating time by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Now I have been listening the different crossovers trying to shape the new Macondo general balance. This is so fascinating ceremony that I do have a lot of fan.  The things doing alone very well. I boosted upper bass and it worked now very-very well....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Re: Tweeters: a new round. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
A second opinion needed. Interesting, I recently found a very-very well performing setting for my EV T350 tweeter. I changed the source for HF channel form amplifier’s output to the MF channel and now I source the HF channel AFTER the MF high-pass f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: The Water Drop - back to business… by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The HF Range “F” channel: The 6E6P-DR at 30mA connected at tetrode. The filter is second order with Sowter 9858 Pultec MEQ-5 EQ Inductor 420/277/145/108/61/34 mH) and variable air cap. The variable inductance and capacitan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: TSP related by martinshorn on 2017-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Hi Anthony. No miracles. Round shapes happen to be far more rigid than flat. That will also increase the pressure on the flat opposite plate, which has to be of quadruple stability. You can easily eliminate this by the so called impulse compensation ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Sub bass hi pass by serenechaos on 2009-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I think it might be very interesting to introduce the high-pass filtration for tapped horn and to see how it behaves. It is not only about thermal overload and restriction of excursion. The unloading of none-used bass gener...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: The “Water Drop” and the “Bessel curve”… by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Well it is quite amassing discovers not the fact itself, it is well known, but the amplitude with which the fact demonstrates itself. I run the “Water Drop” at 12K second order but not against the tweeter transformer but against an 8R voltage divide...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: 1.5 order how to? by stuck.wilson on 2007-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
hm..lots of interesting information to chew on, and by and large, i've had similar experiences with first order crossovers on bass drivers .. this being my experience with a full range amp, and a two way system-- which is a far different critter than...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #166: Upper-bass as a system's fulcrum: Part I by jessie.dazzle on 2010-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
First off, I forgot to mention an interesting observation: Before running the sweeps (previous post), since the drivers in the upper-bass horns are new, I decided to verify/optimize rear chamber volume (they are easily adjustable)... I wasn't expecti...
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