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My new 20L and 30K L-pads for the 6-chenals Super Melquiades’ tweeters and Injection channels. They are 24dB down by 1dB, made on the Elma Rotary switches and stuffed with unavoidable RB60 resistors. I did not want to burn my fingers and outsourced t...
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[quote user="op.9"]Could you help me understand your biasing scheme with this version? I thought I understood the original Milq circuit - but the only channel that looks like that to me is the D channel. I don't get A and B at all! what is the 50 ohm...
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Thanks, Adrian, as I underused the Dave Slagle is autoformer guy. I have no needs for autoformers as I need purely restive load. I fact it is not big deal to find switch, it is complicated to find a ready to go attenuator. Mike Percy care many ...
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Romy, I am on the verge of an L-pad for my HF ribbons, but in my case I believe it is mostly the MC cartridge response I am wanting to offset, on a case by case basis.Also, this would allow me to adapt HF to recordings, since there are some...
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[quote user="floobydust"] As you pointed out, if the input circuitry and driver operating points are fixed, your only options are to lose it via coupling or the output stage. Maybe split them, i.e. use a 1:0.5 ratio on the inter-stage tra...
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Quite likely, at least some of the time.I'll just stay tuned while you locate the L-pad ;>). It's been years, but I think the ones from my 'stats are choke-based.Nice to have options on a record-by-record, day-by-day basis, anyway, to keep t...
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Romy, As you pointed out, if the input circuitry and driver operating points are fixed, your only options are to lose it via coupling or the output stage. Maybe split them, i.e. use a 1:0.5 ratio on the inter-stage transformer and you coul...
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Like I said, Yoshi's gift of de-whizzered Reps got me thinking of better efficiency and more "weight".So far, I've got this:A pair of Eminence Kappa 18" in ~ 6 cu. ft BR box to ~250 Hz; de-whizzered Lowther DX-4 PLUS de-whizzered Reps ...
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Scott,[quote user="skushino"]- Remove L-pads from mid and tweeter (sounds a little brighter, yet "more pure" and "better" to my ears) [/quote]Lpad sets the attenuation and this is the parameter that should be tuned without fantasizes and subjectivism...
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All-I'm optimizing new speakers, but the deep subject matter is a little new to me. Will this work?Using a pair of Welborne Labs DRD300B SET amps (tapped 8ohms) with a 3-way passive crossover to integrate these drivers. Here is ...
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First and most important is time aligning the drivers, this will help a lot.When you are finally done, realign again... ijijiijii I would think you already have everything perfectly simmetrical to your listening position etc.Toe in and all of that. p...
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Mark, if you have volume-pot preceding the filter that all that you need to do is to put the volume after the filter, of to load the filter to your volume control. The volume control of cause in this case shall not be a regular pot but it shall be a ...
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Yes, a cheap inductive l-pad between OPT and S2 in midrange channel. Interestingly, the frequency response of the first order Lazy Ribbon is remarkably similar to a response you posted somewhere on this site of the Water Drop with third order filter...
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Thanks, Greg
[quote user="Greg B"] Cap and L-pad resistor quality is critical even in the cheaper models. [/quote]
I do not use any L-pad resistors with tweeters. If you need to reduce the tweeter output I drop the caps and move the tweeter up at t...
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I absolutely remember posting about A vey special "vintage" EQ a while back, perhaps in the context of LF; but I can't remember more than that.IMO, the 1st order of business is to avoid the effing "DSP". Let someone else get it right ONCE, then ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, I am on the verge of an L-pad for my HF ribbons, but in my case I believe it is mostly the MC cartridge response I am wanting to offset, on a case by case basis. [/quote] Hm, this it VERY bad. Fix you cartridge setup, it's ...
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I would like to pass some summarizing observations and some generalizations regarding the entire “Water Drop” project.
THE IDEA
The idea of trying to find a tweeter to compliment Macondo was a good idea. Many of you know that I was proudly declari...
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Romy, I'll limit my answer to only speaker-related problems. 1) Still too bright sound. Not hard or edgy, just too much top end. My local guy suggested trying a single resistor in series, rather than an L-pad, to tone down the tweet...
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Good advice, to be sure.I have chosen the most "neutral", "tape-like" MC I have found, but of course it remains a phono cartridge/transducer... Meanwhile, I just checked VTF on a hunch and was annoyed to find that at some point&n...
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Sometimes it can take a while for the other shoe to drop.I knew I had bass and balance issues with my phonostage. I recently added some capacitance to the output cap, and that did the trick for the ribbon level.Going back to the earlier discuss...
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Got today the parts and finalized the “perfect” Bessel passive crossover for my new channel. The coils are regular air-core 2.5H and 7H, the caps are Theta 10uF and the small wirewound tuning resistors that kills ~1.5dB in the channel. When I pu...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Get RTA and set the band-pass of acoustic pressure form the channel identical. [/quote]Yes, I need to get one! Although Bruce and my tech guy both advise that the RTA may cause more problems than it solves, ...
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A little update : Reading some recent comments in the "Configuration from Italy" thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=12605#12605 prompted me to share what I've recently done. Yes its an obvious thing to do, but it took...
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Well, yes... I've not been to prison in over two years! Apart from keeping me off the streets at night, the results when listening to one of the 40Hz horns were, dare I say, encouraging, though I do hesitate to say so, as the "evaluation" was carried...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]What do you mean the example of inductive Lpad? All speaker level Lpads are inductive. The speaker level Lpads work with low voltage and high current and therefore they use wire wound restive elements. Any wire wound compon...
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This is quite recent conclusion, as I sick and tired to do not say it finally!
A loudspeaker must have a volume control that will adjust an amount of HF that a loudspeaker radiates into listening space. I playback systems that has an excessive 1/3 d...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote:Sorry Romy, I was not clear enough, but the resistor
that I am questioning is in the Fundamentals Channel (not the MF Channel as I
believe you referred to in your previous post) between the OPT and the
S2....
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Scott, you see, this is the problem. You do not talk about the problems “as is”. All what I was asking was the acknowledgment/recognition/identification without context of loudspeakers. Your listening/assessment awareness is completely grounded to th...
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[quote
user="anthony"]Sorry Romy, I was not clear enough, but the resistor
that I am questioning is in the Fundamentals Channel (not the MF Channel as I
believe you referred to in your previous post) between the OPT and the
S2.[/quote]
Ah, th...
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Ok, I removed the series cap from the amp output and made it as it should be – pure parallel. To my great satisfaction the little “dirty inflictions” that I got in Vitavox are gone and now the S2 as clean as it should be. I presume in the former sett...
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