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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #131: Overblown Bookshelf LF Line Array by msaudio on 2010-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Your Typical Acoustical Suspension-type Loudspeaker enclosure witch has less then 90 db at 1 watt does not belong with a horn system that starts at 110db at 1 watt, even when you ad more then 1 driver, it is still way to far off to even consider usin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Recently Macondo was altered and converted into… nope, not into a Super Macondo :-) but in a “Larger Macondo”. The Super Macondo it will be when I resolved how to implement time delays along with a low pass flirter at midbass horn, that would enable ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #282: "PR" by Paul S on 2022-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  302 Replies 
When the passive radiator in question is mentioned, are we sill talking about a particular active 10" Scanspeak driver that is not hooked up to an amp? Again, the PR is always parasitic, more or less fighting with the active driver, except, apparentl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #125: The Big Picture by msaudio on 2010-05-12 
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Romy You have not done your main test yet, And you are ready to get rid of your LF array's to soon or maybe you did it and did not post it or say anything about it. The way i would troulble shoot this problem is to a test referance of 3 foot from Lf ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #127: The big picture indeed. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-12 
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[quote user="msaudio"]Romy You have not done your main test yet, And you are ready to get rid of your LF array's to soon or maybe you did it and did not post it or say anything about it. The way i would troulble shoot this problem is to a test refera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Situational Ethics by Paul S on 2011-09-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Setting aside the small drivers for LF, while the rest of us have been all ga-ga about the vertical array, the pros have long since moved to the "horizotal array" for LF.  Although I plan for several large drivers in large "modified IB" cabinets, I t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Commercially available BS, Avantgardes and ....whatever by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idea of a 3way horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Angelo, I care less about the “commercially available” objectives, honestly it is too boring. However, whatever you do not be distracted that what you are making will be reminding Avantgardes. The Avantgarde Trio Classic (in vertical configuration)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #208: Kind of LF depression… by Romy the Cat on 2017-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
The kids are growing up and twins sleep fine and walk already. So, the Bessnow’s household is calming down, a live-in nanny for sure helps… With more time at my heads I am trying to finalize my playback in our new home. I spent a few hours today t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: If not a midbass horn? by Romy the Cat on 2016-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
It is so funny. As Kitty and I are looking for different houses we look at different listening rooms and we have different ways to think about room sizes. She think about space for her piano and size of oriental ran she would drop on the floor. Wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: To free up the 6C33.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bass drivers inquiry in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]Not to start a pissing contest, but how are they wired (series/parallel?), and with what voltage across them? Something just can't be right; the makers spec is 88db / 2.83V, which is over 1W. Unless it's uniquely smooth room gain wit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #167: I deserved that by anthony on 2019-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, it might sound as a heresy to you, but I personally consider the impedance curve is a bit irrelevant in this application. In this application you need to care only about only 2 things: if you have enough power in yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Steep lower upper bass [Re: The miserable line-arrays with 25W8565] by Ronnie on 2006-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Listening to the horns, it seems that they indeed die somewhere below 120Hz. I was surprised, and a little disappointed that it seemed so steep. Good to hear that it's to be expected!!Yes, I'm using a 30-something-Hz 1st order high pass on them ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Lots of Little "Woofers" by Paul S on 2011-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
The 10" "woofer" is well known to "high-end" designers, who love the "fast" bass, and I have to admit that Wilson and Dunlavy (among others) have also managed to get some impressive (at least for a while...) "dynamics" from the little woofers.  To lo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Bass Horn vs. Sealed Enclosures. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Actually it is very interesting question and I almost feel you pain for decision you will be making. I do not think that anyone would be able to express any arbitral opinion about the subject, as least an opinion that worth to follow. You see, buildi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: I truly hate Accutons. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]A $$$ solution for a bass array that comes into my mind are the sandwich cone drivers from Accuton.Monstrous neodymium magnet, underhung voice coil (for low flux modulation).Very low Fs.Relatively low QMS for use in sealed enclosu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #194: What about at a lower volume... by anthony on 2017-07-26 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night I did an interesting experiment. I took the bass towers, just 4 driver per side, crossed them at 90Hz, line-level and drove them not with the Milq’s bass channel but with SS Yamaha B2. I use it with the tube cr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Re: The lower bass problems...some unexpected thoughts. by cv on 2005-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  cv wrote: I wonder if it is the reactive components (blocking caps etc) that are to blame here, seeing as much of the problem is in the lower bass.Chris, what you said made me to think. Loo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: The port solution in MiniMe by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
In MiniMe, after study all recommendations and talking with a number of port speaker manufactures I decided to go a simplest route. It will be one single port at the bottom. What pervaded me was the Precision Port Company. Then make 2” port with 4” a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: Iceberg by Paul S on 2010-05-05 
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Once you figure out where you want the LF drivers you could put them in a "cabinet" of lesser dimension and run that "cabinet" through the floor, using the basement, or part of it, for more volume/IB.  That could "solve" the IB footprint problem, and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Macondo alteration: first results by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-30 
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Interesting, Very interesting. I might make some observations now, claming this recent modification as a success. The minor gain of sensitively certainly did not heart but the major advantage was defiantly the “activation of ceiling”. It is hard to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #166: Your bass is better then you music, be carefull... by Romy the Cat on 2019-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Well, it might sound as a heresy to you, but I personally consider the impedance curve is a bit irrelevant in this application. In this application you need to care only about only 2 things: if you have enough power in you LF DSET to drive your li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The Cat's view.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The IDEAL horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
Here is my proposal for an ideal horn system. The concept derives from the really of the horns as I know them, the available park of the drivers, the drivers’ real capacity and from… everything else that I might comment upon if you would not figure o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Wishful thinking and the Maelstrom-21 by oxric on 2010-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Romy wrote:While the aftermath of the midbass horn project is not over I am strategizing how I might implement Macondo’s LF section. The leading idea is to bolt a triangular shape sealed enclosure juts behind the small wall that cover the load be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The shameless commerce division. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melequiades PSU in Melquiades Amplifier  8 Replies 
[quote user="AnonymousUser"] Line level crossing or passive speaker level crossovers-same devil. [/quote] If you are planning to build a dedicated LF SET then the line level crossing vs. passive speaker level crossovers is not the same devil. With a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Wonna be my neighbor? by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="slowmotion"]Your ears ( or some other hearing/sensing mechanism in your body ) "feels" large objects around you, and I think they will definitely "hear" relatively large upperbass horns mounted in the ceiling, even if no music is playing...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Mindless finger burning by shannon on 2015-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melq 6e5p driver stage for ss? in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
Had some fun experimenting with 6e5p driver stage.playing with difrent output transformrs and resistors found that the stage can drive a speaker with ground connected to air.  mabye this is widley know i did not know. + of speaker connected to bad ou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Classy and sophisticated Romy. by oxric on 2011-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This is all because you are a primitive person with very simplistic and amateurish understanding of many things. You need to learn from much more sophisticated people, of cause I mean myself.  Take a look: I do not run like...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Music, Bass and Reproduction by Paul S on 2010-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some Observations about Science and Bass in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
Your point about relative levels is well taken. Still, the typical concert grand piano, for instance, does about a 27 Hz fundamental, as I recall (and certain pianos go rather lower), and some other instruments are not far behind.  If to simply low p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Quote: "This article offers concepts and techniques for getting g... by noviygera on 2010-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some Observations about Science and Bass in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Your point about relative levels is well taken. Still, the typical concert grand piano, for instance, does about a 27 Hz fundamental, as I recall (and certain pianos go rather lower), and some other instruments are not far behind...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Old paper direct-radiation tweeters by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some Horns propaganda in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
I have seen those old Telefunken, Siemens and some other 4” cone direct radiation tweeters, but I never tried them. I do not know thier signature and I do not know thier characteristics. The reason why I never cared about them, although I might be wr...
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