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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Rolling off 15” drivers - I wish life would be so easy. 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 
[quote user="Merlin"]Romy, if you see my post you will notice that I mentioned I did not know of any drive units that could successfully be employed. Can you list some? Here is a typical high quality 15" cone - indeed one of the finest on the mar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Concrete horns and the Cogent Boys by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] Well, the Cogent (Steve Schell and Rich Drysdale) boys are building just such a beast: field coil magnet, (possible) permendur polepieces for >2T, Fs 70Hz, throat - dunno, but at least 3" dia, reduced compression ratio relative t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An ultimate horn profile? by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An ultimate horn profile? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Looking at the variety of exponential, parabolic, conical, tractrix, hyperbolic and whatever ales horn profiles out there I was thinking that we probably incorrectly approach the entire subject of horn profile analyses. We listen the horns and we fe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Compression drivers saga by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers saga in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
John Hasquin showed up a couple days ago and suggested that many of modern compression driver manufacturers design thier products to get the "best" publishable parameters while completely disregarding any basic horn design rules and actual sound resu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Horn color control by Jorge on 2011-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
I think the usage of Romys Injection Channel has misguided you to think it was implemented because of a certian lack of tone or some sterile sound,  nothing of the sort,  I cannot blame you for not having listened to Romys system,  but theo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Injection Channel – some tails for followers. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Interning that the strings and are the primary beneficiaries of the “Injection channel” effect. It would be hard to explain to people who never were not in my room what the effect is but I would try. (Yoshi you have to visit me again and what I tried...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Electricity and different compression drivers’ diaphragms. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Musique Concrete horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"]The electricity comment is interesting as today I put on some jazz music and the HF is very snappy, excellent! I feel like posting on AA to ask people's opinons if it's the electricity or if my concrete horns are going thro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Bogus reply about nothing... by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Monitors: Wishful thinking in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Ronny, it is funny because I was juts about to carve my further observations about the Sound of my monitors. Last night I was listening Rigoletto by Callas and Gobbi on my monitor.  I come to an interesting observation that I would like Monitors...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Trading cable elevators for spare space. by Romy the Cat on 2013-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Trading cable elevators for spare space. in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
A week it trashing audio. I finished with my client with wish I worked for a while, the contract with a new client kicks in 2 weeks and this week I do not work.  Well sort of. This week is a big project on my aim – to reconcile the value of my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Chinese upperbass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
I’ve been harassing my horn-maker for quite a while with an idea to go for straight, no-cheating 45-50Hx horn. We discussed it countless times and sometime probably we would go for this, and particularly if I figure out how to resolve the delays prob...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Thinking about the sound at that show. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Serge"] The SIlbatone room was very large. They played an Edith Piaf record on a mono WE16B (or A, not sure). They played it very loud which I don't like, ever. I felt the system was made to show dynamics and it did it. The dynamic r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The reasons. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] For some unknown reasons, he later decided to change it with the sharp and artificial sounding fostex supertweeter. What might be his motivation? Logically appears the following question – is that Goto supertweeter so hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: ... by Macman on 2012-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A right midbass solution for Altec 515G. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
Hi Romy,Its an Altec 416-8A driver in a ~100 Hz exponential horn, Jbl 2441 in 350Hz tractix, Aurum Cantus G1 tweeter and Eminence Definimax 4012 HO in ~30Hz Tapped horn.I just hooked it up and the highs are promising but I thought the lower end (200 ...

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 #31: The chewing gum of Lynn Olson's new speaker by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
[quote user="mumford"] As we are discussing Lynn Olson's new speaker, here is what it appears to have so far.  Raal tweeters 5000hz and aboveAltec 288-16H with Azurahorn 1000 hz to 5000 hzsubwoofer below 80 hzUnknown (possibly open baffle) fro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: It is very simple and it is very complicated. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that I get through headphones. [/quote]I very much applaud to the desire to have speakers that do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Rare Onkyo HM-300 MK2 Horn...need info by derik736 on 2016-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rare Onkyo HM-300 MK2 Horn...need info in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Hello,I just logged myself in so first of all: Hi Everybody ;)Few days ago I aquired a pair of very interesting 3way horn speakers which seem, as I imagine, to ba an ambitious DIY project from the past. These are basically the Altec Vott A7 replicas ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: What drives good sound? by MusicLover on 2005-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What drives good sound? in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Let me list for you what I think drives sound quality to me:1. In room flat response at the listening positions2. equal decay at al lfrequencies off axis3. Adequate delay between direct & first order reflections. 4. Lack of distortion, or suitabl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Decay by MusicLover on 2005-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What drives good sound? in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
MusicLover wrote:    IF you think I am mocking you , then I will stop posting. I thought I'd try your website since you seem to at least be doing the right thngs, which is building your own system. But if your ego is going ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Diminishing returns? by Jorge 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 other day I was listening to a friend´s system with nice Avalon speakers, only one 10" seemed to be enough, of course it seemed we were playing house when listening to music, everything was small and very nice and pretty...Now when matc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Speaker hunting by Chirag on 2004-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speaker hunting in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
hello kids, a few weeks ago i started my hunt for a pair of speakers....i've been attached to my big system with a pair of headphones for the past year and feel its time to get some speakers to listen to music with (plus, i think my ears are now...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: But how can one become knowledgeable? by Antonio J. on 2005-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speakers: a hi-fi disaster. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
Nice post Romy, you're probably right, I can't say since I've never listened to a pair of speakers that really told me "what can be done". I've always owned and listened to speakers that are commercially made, and I've had to choose among the ones th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Ocean Way Best of the Show by Saturntube on 2010-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new CES 2010 loudspeaker? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
I was there and heard it a while and then came back the next day to see if what I heard was true... it was.I talked with Allen Sides who was there showing his speakers and having a good time.  It is a 3 way speaker, It has a 1" JBL compression driver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Of course you can do it. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Single Driver Speakers and their idiots owners. in Audio For Dummies ™  9 Replies 
[quote user="zanon"]Romy:I was not aware that manufacturers of multidriver system let you attenuate individual drivers. I guess if you multi-amp, then you have control at that level. I have never encountered such a system so I cannot say, but if it i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Cone to Horn to Piano by Paul S on 2022-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
The closest to date I overlapped cones and horns myself was waaaay back in my time with Altec A7s. But I have since then and up to now heard many fine "hand-offs" from cone to horn, and my current project speakers hand-off cone to (very fast/short) h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: how worthwhile is the project. by Dominic on 2007-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 driver made in china in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
There are a couple ways to look at it.The project could be taken from the same sort of perspective as Great Plains, id est, simply new manufacture as a replacement for a 'historic' piece of a equipment. If it can sound close enough to the original th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Big Throat Approach and the Wide Horns by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="nl"] Within that horn-loaded range, the 210/515 type combo does reasonably well, and produces rather more inspirational midbass than most direct-radiator type strategies. There is a reason why these designs persisted for roughly forty ye...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: "Pile O' Horns" by NBC on 2006-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Hi Romy,   FYI: The previous photo of some unknown persons "pile o' horns" appears to be:   Upper midrange: 1" TAD TD-2002 mounted to 650Hz Edgarhorn   Supertweeter: Fostex T90A or T925A.   Lower midrange: ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #99: You are wrong. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]49Hz To 52Hz will be your peak, so the best you could hope for would be 3 hz below that flat with a perfect tuning of your length of your horn and back chamber of your box housing your woofers. If you shoot for the free air low ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Vitavox S2: notes to dairy… by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I thought that the folks who are interesting where I am going with my Macondo should know that am still working with Vitavox S2[/quote]OK, I think now I’ve learned whatever I need to learn about this driver. In order to und...
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