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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Quite a few people send me emails asking about my techniques to trace the DPoLS http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=994#994 Sure the DPoLS are practically not known techniques and it is great to “handle” it but there is somethi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: An Easy Imbedded Macro-Positioning method. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
A guy read my site and sent me a series of emails complaining that it is too difficult to found Imbedded positioning for his new bass horn as it is too big and too balky. Moving the large and heavy thighs and measuring them is the hard. I agree, but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Before I go into describing the concepts.... by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Before I go into describing the concepts of Imbedded Macro-Positioning I would like to pass some overturning statements.  They are not necessary directly related to the Imbedded notion but they do have SOME relation and I would like you to think...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: The DJ programs vs. context programs by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]At any rate I've already heard two pre-recorded DJ programs on CRB repeated later, both originating from other sources, as well as numerous waltzes and other super-lightweight material reminiscent of the old CRB. And they s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: It does not need to have knowledge to know… by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
None of the commercial speakers might relay on the Imbedded principles because the obvious reasons. They always look for as neutral as possible location because they mostly designed for anechoic operation. However, if the Imbedded techniques are used...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #127: How to finish my midbass horn by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
I was thinking and fantasizing about finishing of my midbass horn. My first idea was to paint it internally with the same color as my cathedral room. Perhaps a lighter grade of paint in the end as the horn goes dark. As the only mouths of the horns w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: I do not feel sad nither for him … by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Conductor Herbert Kegel in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
...nor for anyone else in that state. We humans are walking under the silent but deeply imbedded law of “pursuit of happiness” and Kegel coming suicides pursuit his happiness. If he felt that under his conditions, whatever they were, he would be bett...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: #1) The first things first. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Ok, the very first thing in your way to the proper Imbedded Macro-Positioning is to undusted what you what to accomplish. Most of you redder can not understand it before 2 reasons: 1) You were thought and learned wrong thing for too long2) ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: 3) Do not forget the Third Dimension by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-28 
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BTW, I forgot to mention one very important thing that might be very easily overlooked: the Imbedded Macro-Positioning Reality lives in three dimensions. It is not about the right, left, closer and further but also up and down. In fact the vertical p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: You speak of the "vandalizing" of 78s (and more) by clarkjohnsen on 2006-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ways to use audio methods. in Playback Listening  10 Replies 
That is correct, but another factor enters equally: Few people know how much great sound is imbedded in those 78 grooves, therefore they never aim to capture it. Instead they concentrate on the noise.Were they able to play 78s rightly, they would&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Easy. by Romy the Cat on 2018-05-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to insert youtube video into a post? in Site Support Forum  1 Replies 
Nikolai, I do not extend opportunity for the site visitors to host video files on my servers. If you would like to do it you need to host your video file at any hosting service, many of them available and they provide a link at my sire, would it b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Ignorance is Bliss? by Paul S on 2013-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More or less pleasure: wider implication in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
This is an old saw.  But how does one "forget what one knows"?  Perhaps, once the awareness and critical faculties are developed beyond a certain "point of no return", it requires a sort of personal discipline to simply let go when one is best served...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The active and passive crossovers are not the same. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Multi-amping crossovering. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Of course most of the people do prototyping the type of crossover they need for a given channel using active crossovers.  As the crossover point, slop and in some cases Q are found then the same data is applied to a given topology of line level in-de...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I do not think it is possible “long distance”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building a new music room in Playback Listening  20 Replies 
My minimal distance between front of the upper bass horn and listening position is irrelevant as I set the proximity not according the upperbass but according a vertical shifting of HF image. Under a normal circumstances I might be as liitle as ~7.5”...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The plaster horns: how will they hold bolts? by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Jessie, I’m very ignorant in materialology but I have a “common sense” concern. I do not see that you imbedded into your plaster construction any tightening points from a stronger material. I mean: the holes in plaster – how strong you will be able t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Quite a few people send me emails asking about my techniques to trace the DPoLS http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=994#994 Sure the DPoLS are practically not known techniques and it is great to “handle” it but there is somethi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Soundstage vs. spatial reconstruction via Soundstage’s inner-dynamic. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
[quote user="peter foster"] 3) A stereo recording of a beautiful piece of music that is well played but where the soundstage is imperfect.[/quote] Peter, we will do what we spoke in emails (there was nothing secretive in there folks), still ther...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: You use wrong criteria. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Jessie, Unfortunately it is in my view it is absolutely imposable to predict anything juts based upon the CAD modeling. The entire criteria that you for founding the right positioning of your instantiation are wrong, at least in my view. You use the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The sound of bells by Paul S on 2007-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
Again, I am not insisting that the material of that horn will behave like a bell so much as I am suggesting that bell-like sounds will eminate from this horn.  Is the difference clear?  Some of those Altec horns were textbook exam...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Continue to work with the room by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
The more I play with me room the more I fell in love with it.  As I mentioned before there are so many truly perfect features in the room that I very frequently note that if I build the listening room from scratch according to my own design then very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #321: The ego time capsule. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
When my midbass horns projects will be finished the horns will be peaty much organic part of house and without looking at this thread an ordinary person would never understand what is behind and what it is for. When we look at reasoning for Carnac St...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Something vs. anything. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aimez-vous Bartók? in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
I know some people who do not get Brahms. I am not one of them; even I am not a huge fun of his First Symphony. As any composer he has more and less interesting works, much more interesting in my view. In contrary with all my respect to Béla Bartók I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #216: Voltage Divider in ML2 Input Stage by skushino on 2013-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I finally added a -15 dB voltage divider to my ML2s last week to fix the noise problem from my L1 preamp - Why did I wait so long?!!The result is absolute dead silence.  Nothing.  Nada.  It is almost impossible to tell if the system is powered on, ev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #837: The main answer of the study. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
[quote user="Bill"]Could it be that the really great recordings of the 50's and 60's compared to those today were due to the fact that they had more "great electricity days to record. [/quote] What a brilliant idea! I never even thought about it.[quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: In search of optimum.... by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Configuration from Italy: multisell++ and double model 19. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
The quality of microphones is irrelevant and if you use not 1/3 octave sweep but Noise Generators then you need to run time average on your RTA.  Time average analyzers is fine but it need some additional experience to interpret the results. I do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #193: APS Purepower 2000: Sound #3 by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
One of the most pleasant things about the Purepower 2000 (PP2000) that it in contrary to any other power devise I hear it has very limited if any impact to the original sound of a playback. Somehow the PP2000 surgically removes all negative manifesta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: Doing MiniMe’s mid range. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
OK, MiniMe now is up and running. It does what it does and I wonder if it can do better then what it does. The LF sections need to have ports fine-tuned but I do not particularly care about bass now. What I do care is MiniMe to have a certain quality...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Do not glue Sound to the walls. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"]I guess you cannot say you listened to a horn system if you dont have an upper bass horn. [/quote]Yes, I can very much concur with it. The upperbass and MF horns set the frame of the sound, sort of sonic skeleton upon which everyt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1452: A Compendium of Noise Sources on AC Lines by clarkjohnsen on 2015-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
That's the title of a manual I was given some twenty years ago, an official publication of some electrical association or other. (I can't locate it at the moment.) Two things however remain indelibly imbedded in my mind. "Pole bangers" are the gu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: The SA8535: final conclusion. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
OK, now the SA8535 driver is fully broken-in and well-habituated. I have no idea how the “Stage Accompany” suggests using this driver from 1000Hz! From what I observe, at MF this driver sounds very “flat” and very none-impressive. I have suspicion th...
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