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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Relevant Reading vs. Satisfaction by Paul S on 2021-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 3 way Tractrix Horn Build Questions - and Introduction! in Horn-Loaded Speakers  20 Replies 
There is so much material worth reading here that it would be hard to list it, and not all the important material is where one might presuppose to find it. Romy hinted at this when he suggested, broadly, that you take a "wholistic" approach. There is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Cessaro horns visit by coops on 2007-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
Yes primarily i viseted Thomas to compare tonearms, he has a couple of Schroeders, the new graham Phantom ( mark III ) a vintage Ortofon amongst others. and he has a fine collection of cartridges, as I mentioned he is a very nice guy, The real surpri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Borbely Audio Take on 6C33C by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Borbely Audio Take on 6C33C in Melquiades Amplifier  0 Replies 
Erno Borbely is well-know man from Germany whose company develop and sell kits for DIY audio amateurs. In mid 90s Borbely made an attempt toward the 6C33C. I have to admit that there are a many moments in Borbely 6C33C amp design that I do not like. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #235: The smart reasons for my stupid hope. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-08 
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="unicon"] If I were you I would set up all things so that when the mid bass is in his place i can reconfigure the baffle tightness by using a huge DIY made screwdriver from the opening mouth...or wherever it can be reachable then ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #59: Not such a dissimilar story by anthony on 2017-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Romy, thanks for taking the time to write a little about your history with Melquiades and diy.  In some ways our stories are quite similar.  My background is agriculture.  My family breed cattle and grow crops and I am a large part in that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I need a UPS-like solution. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to run MM-type cartridge into MC phonostage? in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Yes, I understand Bud that anything might be done but I do not want any DIY solution. To deal with all of the shielding, with grounds… I do not want to be involved into all of it. Also, the transformer shall sit at the RCA exit jacks of phono cable. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: No pretensions? by N-set on 2013-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting TT link: belt drive in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
I do not know the guy who has written it, maybe he is an idiot, but anyway I'd defend his page.As far as I understand he is a DIY-er (?) who attempted his own TT, inspired by high mass belts.Well, that's life--we all have to make some choices at some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: Thank u by Djjjj on 2019-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Hello rowukI am very curious whether u have ever listened our system, or had ever seen our system.I believe u didn't study my system well, so I don't know why u knew our system would have extreme room for improvement.I am curious whether u know many ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: It has nothing to do with DPoLS. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
Twogoodears, What you are experimentation now has yet nothing to do with DPoLS. You deal with the relatively rudimental ceremony of speaker positioning. It is not even close to the subject of DPoLS but it is also greatly neglected by majority of peop...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: A journey of a thousand channels begins with four driver by nietzscheflake 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 
Romy says:"Then you can get some kind 250Hz -350Hz horn and would load it with whatever driver you like"manisandher wrote: "For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem – how to recreate through speakers the same sound that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Mangerhorn by moreart on 2010-05-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2010 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  39 Replies 
Hello,i constructed a Mangerhorn 1984,manger bought the lizence 1994what i don´t understand by silbatone Manger hornNO measurement, No IMPData:• 8 ohm, 93 dB/1W, Max. SPL - 120dbi never get more than 95 dB max.and 1W1m 90 dBand the lense IMHO...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Transition piece by Wojtek on 2010-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Can't help with the plywood source , I'd like to buy some for myself for that price . Transition piece I'd do from stacked plywood layers screwed and glued together and cut with jigsaw. The way John Hasquin built your upperbass horns .He posted t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Michelin horns by decoud on 2009-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michelin horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
Apologies for DIY flavour, but what, I wonder, do people make of the following technique for damping relatively thin-walled large horns, in pseudocode...For horn length x = at throat to at mouth     Take a length of y mm diameter braided cable sleevi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Configuration versus parts by Paul S on 2008-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midrange driver suggestions in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
That sure looks like an interesting configuration for a change , all right, but are those "ceramic" drivers, or what? Does anyone know?What's with all the "space age" materials these days?  I mean, are people actually listening or do they just "...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Gdansk by N-set on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: (Hopefully short) headphone journey in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
You are very welcome! Keep in mind however, that I do not pretend that my "sound" is anything special  at this stage--I'm very much on thebeginning of a long journey, progressing slowly. What I offer is a chance to listen to O2MkI with a +/- advanced...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Driver 2 by audiofilofine on 2011-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  audiofilofine wrote:are only old obsolete  driver cocktail with homemade ingredients.no measure, no method, no philosophy...nothing , only diy fantasyYes, I do taste some slurp of “diy cult fantasy” in Rulit’s action, t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Deep enough... by Paul S on 2007-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
Wise words that mirror my own renewed concerns, Romy.Any recommendations for a particular tester, anyone?  The last time I put my hands on a tester to use it was in a drugstore, one of the many places you could find them back in the day when rad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Sage advice by anthony on 2021-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Think how a playback comes to your life.... in Audio For Dummies ™  2 Replies 
How things come into our lives can impact how we react to them over time, and playback is no different.  I was adamant that I did not want to fully develop a diy system from scratch because that could be too much learning and immersion in the "proces...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Macondo Loudspeaker in munich show by Amir on 2023-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
I have thought many times about trying to have an Audio System like Macondo Horn Loudspeaker System and if I could get good result then I will demo it in munich high end show.this is a big project for me because I am not expert and I have no DIY expe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Entry level dset milq? by mark on 2008-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Entry level DSET Melq? in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
i have vitavox S2 and also altec 288c.i am trying to source the fane studio 8m,just missed a pair by 1 day on uk diy.until i get the fane and make a horn for it,i will use altec 515c in vot.i also have jbl 2405.yes i will definitely build the full ra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #122: Great, yes, but hardly a "sleeper" by Paul S on 2008-01-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Of course you know,Romy, but others may not know/remember that Nichicon have always had great specs, and years ago they were a "secret weapon" in the high end.But lots of the DIY guys are computer geeks in their day jobs, and The Story is that Nichic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Boring? Perfect (sounds interesting)! by Paul S on 2008-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
OK, Bud:  This does appear, as I projected earlier, to be case in point for the "expert approach", using technology/techniques/machines that don't pencil for DIY, to say the least.  I mean, you're not saying you lay this stuff up yours...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Still planning by drdna on 2007-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Better chassis design for Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  4 Replies 
Ever since the Melquiades schematic was published, I have been planning to build one, because the objectives and topology seem like they would work for my system.  Unfortunately I am very much not a DIY person.  Even though I have built my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: What ever happened to Stereophile? by MusicLover on 2006-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
I agree completely drdna. I think the current editor of Stereophile is setting the tone...he is known to be an opportunist...in fact if you read some of Peter Aczel's criticisms of him in the past, he, along with pearson & others, are the ultimat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Acapella Plasma Tweeter by AOK_Farmer on 2005-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
I was captivated by the extraordinary Acapella tweeter at CES this year in their Violon III speaker demo...I think I had heard a version of this tweeter before in a different acapella speaker, and never noticed it as being wonderful...but t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Re: Nope - I'll pass by skushino on 2006-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth: High-efficiency Low-power in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
If you insist me to endorse something then this is why I make my Melquiades amplifier publicly available. Romy, I'm not seeking endorsement.  Mine is the only endorsement that matters in my system.  I have my own end-results in mind.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Leather felt by N-set on 2013-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
Yes, I was thinking about lether too. Felt is also an option. However they both seem to me not"viscoleastic" enough and good primarly at HF, while the damped steel profile vibratesmainly at LF. I was thinking about solutions for car deadening either ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #88: Modeling by N-set on 2011-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
Paul, I would not touch this beast without modeling it firstat least to see if the electron flow is +/- what I'd expect. The eventual sonics are of course hard to predict form the model FFT's. The only hints are some posts at DIY audio and few words ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Macondo topology and room. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5-ways from Speedysteve7 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
I know it is a difficult subject but as it has to do less with audio but more with life priorities. Still, the practice indicates that the short-wall installations for acoustic systems of the topology that Steve is trying to make will never work. Sur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Plinth resonance and material frustration by enjoy_the_music on 2008-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Hi Romy and GuyI've been checking out various plinths for my new DIY project. The project's base is a Technics Sp-10mk3 motor unit.When you say a materials 'frustration' I guess you mean the choice of alloy and the quality of the casting? Inproper ca...
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