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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I kind of agree on dipole bass by KLegind on 2010-08-24 
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[quote user="noviygera"] Vasyachkin, if this is still relevant:I've tried dipole bass and dipole mids with horns mid/highs in my system. If anything, dipole works the WORST for the bass and here's why:It does not load the room with bass pressure (or ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Dipole bass by KLegind on 2010-03-09 
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[quote user="Vasyachkin"]has anybody tried a horn speaker with a dipole bass section ?[/quote]Well, I must say that I have tried dipole bass in a few configurations, including dipole bass plus horn, however I think this is completely immaterial to th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Dipole bass by KLegind on 2010-03-09 
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[quote user="Vasyachkin"]has anybody tried a horn speaker with a dipole bass section ?[/quote]Well, I must say that I have tried dipole bass in a few configurations, including dipole bass plus horn, however I think this is completely immaterial to th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I kind of agree on dipole bass by KLegind on 2010-08-24 
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[quote user="noviygera"] Vasyachkin, if this is still relevant:I've tried dipole bass and dipole mids with horns mid/highs in my system. If anything, dipole works the WORST for the bass and here's why:It does not load the room with bass pressure (or ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Dipole bass -- unsatisfactory in the long run. by noviygera on 2010-08-23 
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Vasyachkin, if this is still relevant:I've tried dipole bass and dipole mids with horns mid/highs in my system. If anything, dipole works the WORST for the bass and here's why:It does not load the room with bass pressure (or bass sound). ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: What, no comment on dipole bass? by Markus on 2011-05-06 
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Interesting take on the Altec 820. No way can this be done for 20k. Looks like dipole bass with some attenuation for mid frequencies.Wolf von Langa has a faintly similar take on the Altec 820: [url]http://www.holgerbarske.com/allgemein/fremderregt/#c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: An acoustic bass is NOT a dipole and can not be! by rowuk on 2024-10-20 
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Conventional string instruments are a special form of Helmholz resonators not dipoles! The strings that are supported at two ends in free air are mostly "audible" as articulation. The resonating top of the instrument, the bridge and the specific encl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What is wrong with Dipole bass enclosures. by I.M.Distortion on 2008-03-26 
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Woofers with rubber surrounds tend to have boomy bass. While accordian surrounds seem to have much tighter bass and more accurate sound reproduction. So adding more then one woofer to an enclosure would make the problem 2 fold. It would be much bette...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: dipole bass - was Chinese upperbass horn. by cv on 2005-08-08 
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Romy, Can you expand a little more on what the issue with dipole bass is and what it does incorrectly? I'm still not sure I know exactly what you mean (and I've had a look at some of your other comments on the site).What sonic aspects in particular? ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Horn speaker with dipole bass? by Vasyachkin on 2010-03-07 
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Romy, i hope this post doesn't offend your sensibilities.  I am not gonna say a word about the physics principles that have led me to the conclusion that this is something that should be tried ( unless you ask of course ).  The idea i have is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: I still won't stick my loyalty to non-dipole bass by Romy the Cat on 2024-10-20 
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I think you took slightly wrong in my comments that life acoustic bass is dipole. It is absolutely not dipole. In context of listening space it is what we call an objects single point source, where geometrical dimension of radiating surface...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Dipole bass -- unsatisfactory in the long run. by noviygera on 2010-08-23 
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Vasyachkin, if this is still relevant:I've tried dipole bass and dipole mids with horns mid/highs in my system. If anything, dipole works the WORST for the bass and here's why:It does not load the room with bass pressure (or bass sound). ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Dipole bas is for lazy and deaf people. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-07 
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I do not exactly understand what you are proposing at DiyAudio site. I have generally an attitude against dipole radiation, and particularly in bass. There is a common believe among audio people that dipole bass has advances, there was a lot of said ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: I do not know anything anymore.. by Romy the Cat on 2024-10-19 
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 Edger, I have fixed the link you reported with my kids playing. I also refuse to comment anything about the Dunnoy. It was such a monumental fiasco on my part that I still cannot interpret what it was. You do not understand what amount of physical a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: To Romy regarding dipoles by Vasyachkin on 2010-03-08 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not exactly understand what you are proposing at DiyAudio site.[/quote]i can't log in to Diy Audio so i can't view the attached image ( diagram ) files there - can you view them ?  without diagrams it would be really h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: I still won't stick my loyalty to non-dipole bass by Romy the Cat on 2024-10-20 
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I think you took slightly wrong in my comments that life acoustic bass is dipole. It is absolutely not dipole. In context of listening space it is what we call an objects single point source, where geometrical dimension of radiating surface...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A comfort or a shortage of complexity? by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-03 
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Richard, I absolutely agree with you that dipole provides a masking affect from many problems but along with illumination of the badly reproduced bass dipoles inject into music a common denominator of…  dipolenisness….. and this something that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: I have no personal applied interest in dipoles by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-08 
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Vasyachkin, to say honestly I do not think too much about dipole bass. What I head sounded unacceptable and it was unacceptable not by specific implementation but buy some common character that was characteristic to all dipoles I head.  Loose up some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Allrighty then by Vasyachkin on 2010-03-08 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Vasyachkin, to say honestly I do not think too much about dipole bass. What I head sounded unacceptable and it was unacceptable not by specific implementation but buy some common character that was characteristic to all dip...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: It is about people as usually. by Romy the Cat on 2010-06-29 
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Good summary, Markus, I would add a few more reasons but what is the point. The key is that bass from back loaded horns is dipole by nature or has a large dipole region. The back loaded horns produce bass similar in behavior of Sun during winter:...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I think you misuse my terminology by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-02 
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[quote user="Rewind"]Hi, I am slowly building my own Macondo. I understand why the injection channel is there. It brings some kind of softness that the compression drivers lack. [/quote] OK, but it is not how I feel about the service of injection...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as open baffle. by Rewind on 2013-07-02 
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Hi,I am slowly building my own Macondo. I understand why the injection channel is there. It brings some kind of softness that the compression drivers lack. I am using a 12" JBL midbass driver (~100dB sensitivity) in a 50L single driver Marshall cabin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: A new reiteration of the Moscow setup. by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-13 
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Another few months and the guy from Moscow have another change: http://www.soundup.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4296:2014-01-09-11-48-09&catid=91:2013-&Itemid=111 The text shall be translatable, even though I was no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I was lees shocked than some I'd say. by Edgar= on 2024-10-19 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] You do not understand what amount of physical and psychological efforts is necessary in order 1 day to listen Dannoy and then completely demolish my setup that I built for 20 years and incorporated everything that I know a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I am still thinking about it.. by Romy the Cat on 2024-10-05 
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Last night I have a long listening session of my New corner loaded speakers, I don't have a name for them yet. I kind of feel sense of amazement what they do with the lower register. Some of very very complex thingd they do amazingly interesting....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Bass from a vented box... by morricab on 2007-11-07 
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Hi all,In my experience it is VERY hard to get anything resembling realistic bass from a vented box, particularly with a Q of around 0.9 or 1.  There is too much stored energy in the system and too much overhang.  The best bass I have heard...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: The 6C33C dehumidifier. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-14 
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I see, this tri-way Quad system for sure shall be much different from regular Quas. I kind of even understand why you stay with open baffle bas to support the system’s bass. For sure it will not Bruckner-style pressurize a room as non-dipole bass wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: There is a difference between guessing and predicting. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-13 
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moreart,It is the theory that you feel comfortable with but I am not. If you compare a radiation from a single 40Hz transducer and a dipole 40Hz transducer then you will recognize the differences.  Also, you look at the 40Hz but I ma talking about a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: In context of which frequency zone? by haralanov on 2010-03-07 
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[quote user="Vasyachkin"]the only real questionable aspect here is adding a second set of back firing, inverted phase horns.  mathematically speaking it is what the design "needs" but of course the real question is - what does it sound like ?  that's...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: dipole bass - was Chinese upperbass horn. by cv on 2005-08-08 
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Romy, Can you expand a little more on what the issue with dipole bass is and what it does incorrectly? I'm still not sure I know exactly what you mean (and I've had a look at some of your other comments on the site).What sonic aspects in particular? ...
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