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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #166: Upper-bass as a system's fulcrum: Part I by jessie.dazzle on 2010-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
First off, I forgot to mention an interesting observation: Before running the sweeps (previous post), since the drivers in the upper-bass horns are new, I decided to verify/optimize rear chamber volume (they are easily adjustable)... I wasn't expecti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: TSP related by martinshorn on 2017-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Hi Anthony. No miracles. Round shapes happen to be far more rigid than flat. That will also increase the pressure on the flat opposite plate, which has to be of quadruple stability. You can easily eliminate this by the so called impulse compensation ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #140: Some follow ups… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Resonant frequency  : I did not try to measure it. Can anyone confirm the following : I assume this parameter is most easily determined by playing a series of tones at constant signal strength (volume setting) whi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Multi-amping crossovering. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Multi-amping crossovering. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
I was reading the Stefano Bertoncello's post about his new multi-amping again options. http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2010/09/multi-amping-again.html .. and I feel that it would be a good idea to brief summarize multi-amping cros...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audiotism: cable elevators for 9/11 by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audiotism: cable elevators for 9/11 in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
I know that some of you might consider it as a dangers subject and if you afraid of yourself then do not read any further.  This view has no direct relation to the subject of my site, namely: “advanced audio and evolved music reproduction techni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: The power saga, another round by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I did not say how my saga with APS Pure Power regenerator finish but it never finished. Since the end of the last year the regenerators is sitting in my closet and I have sent the unit’s main board to APS people for the “re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: My new IB, the first blood, good one. by Romy the Cat on 2018-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ULF cannel for my new listening room. in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
This mooring I decided to play with my infinite baffle. The mess with my analog crossover hat was calibrate for my old listening room gave me bad IB taste. I bought used stinky Behringer DCX2496 Ultradrive Pro crossover for $100 to find my new cro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The Placette oscillations – pass the test. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Latterly is have been some controversy with new Placette output impedance, it does not look like it is 3R but rather 37R according to my measurement. I need to clear it with Guy. I also desided to address (since the Active Placette is a discrete op-a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: My direction is 2x4" + 12" + 2x15" + 4x23" by haralanov on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Romy, I do agree with all your comments. It is true that the magnitude of the rubber taste very much depends on the crossover frequency. I used them below 64Hz, but with first order filter, implemented before the amp that drives them. With that kind ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The tone at LFs by haralanov on 2011-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]I am very curious what "properly made" means when perusing the tonal attributes of LF. What properties or specifications other than driver diameter do you evaluate when perusing a better tone?[/quote] Normal 0 21 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: Coupling capacitor by Romy the Cat on 2014-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Daniel, if you have start, the igniting voltage, on the gas tubes 197V then it is perfect. If the tubes do maintain stable 150C then leave it as it. Each of the gas tribes has own stabilization voltage. If one of them has let say 148V and another 150...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Some thought about 5-Channel Version of Melquiades by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
This thread is split from the following thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=2665 Jessie, I hope you do not mind that I pulled it to the forum explicitly dedicated to the Melquiades Support. 5-channels Melquiades is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: No mysteries in there but still the bizarre crossover effect... by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]That upper rolloff in the OPT comes from a number of distributed capacitances and leakage inductances in the transformer - it will not be a simple filter. Lots of transformers have weird resonances up at the top of their range. In fa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: I do not think it has anything to do with transformers by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"] on 3) & 4): Dave Slagle, Intact Audio, knows a LOT more about transformers than I do, and the nickle autoformers I got from him work so well, I totally trust his (and/or Jeffrey Jackson's) judgment to over my "guess...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #391: The final Midbass by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Got the ultra low DCR toroids coil and pit them in use. Yes, it was very right move and they a bit trimmed the midbass tail. Playing with inductance and listening how the midbass decays (measurements are worthless in this case) I ended up with 4.8mH ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #106: Line-level passive vs. active ULF filter by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
My sub-bass amp is back but I am not sure if I am comfortable with it. The guy from QAudio did a wonderful job to fix my modified B-2 power amp and now I have my amp for ULF with passive line level filter in it. So, Now I have two identical, fully fu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Elaborate S2 on 600 Hz horn by skushino on 2013-03-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Romy wrote:For Vitavox S2 to use Tractrix 600Hz with 1.5KHz filter is a bit too close in my view unless you stay with second order filter. Would you elaborate further about your warning?  I'm very interested in this application.I think you use the S2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: Try the 3rd order. by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
You do not have a single capacitor on that ribbon as your cap acts as a second order filter along with the ribbon built in transformer. You might want to push the ribbon further then 12per octave that you have. I might not do it if you are “satisf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Scalford in UK by Romy the Cat on 2013-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: For one day only in Horn-Loaded Speakers  12 Replies 
Interesting, thanks Guy for posting. Let analyze what was done in there. It looks like well-thought, time-aligned, looks like multi-amped configuration. BTW, how the filters were implemented and what (slope/order) filters were? To my knowle...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The low-level resolution from SET by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “Harmonic Speed”- friend of foe? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Ironically, the "best" musical bass I have gotten is from the ML2s 16 Ohm taps, which seems to fly in the face of both the concept and the obvious problems that the Z/load creates.  What I am saying is that despite the "kitt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #207: More progress by N-set on 2022-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  297 Replies 
[quote user="Bill"] Had problems 2 and 3 here with my British crossovers Both speakers have the 78 hz. Dip after a 50 hz. Peak. they are probably room resonances. Try moving the speakers and/ or the mike and remeasure.Also you have the sa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I do not think I said a lot…. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Making it sing... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Paul, it was said not by Michelson but Mencken by Romy the Cat on 2022-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Weiss Introduces New High-End TT! in Audio News  11 Replies 
It is very interesting to hear this idiot pontificate about turntable able reproduce element of time in music. Some years back when I visited him, I played to him Tchaikovsky 6 symphony that he never heard, and after listening to the 1st movement ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Building a midbass horn... by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J"] INTEGRATION that's the clue and that's what I always feel lacks in my room, I mean extreme integration, real integration, the feeling that the recorded bass sound has its own boundaries, not my room's. [/quote] I do not comp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The new channel! Yes! I got it!!! by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
E-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y!!! Eventually the new “fundamentals channel” horn sounds as it should being incorporated in my Macondo!  The key was the  second order. I really never drove compression drivers to their 500Hz as I always used upperbass h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: How to "flood" the crossover point by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
[quote user="stuck.wilson"]In this thread, you previously said-- 12) If a filter requires a phase inversion then it is preferable to flood crossover point with amplitude and do not invert phase. What exactly do you mean by this and how's it work?[/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: The point.. by be on 2011-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
It is difficult to say below what frequency there is no sound registered, the lowest fundamental on a double bass is 41Hz and the A0 on a grand piano is 27Hz, both these fundamentals and at least one harmonic  thereof would probably be recognizab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Milq-Macondo Next: the contemplations and hesitations… by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 1)      I would like to try amorphous core foe my LF transformer. I know, I know, the amorphous core is not LF core but I know what I hear and if I found somebody who would be able to make for me d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #237: I never done anything like this… by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
It is new thing. Yep, I was right. As turned my right LF channel out of phase with my left channel I got my bass back and the super hasty brittle sound was gone. The right LF channel should be running out of phase with the rest of system as it has ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: The Hamster speaker becomes the MiniMe? by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Since my Fostex saga went deep South I was scratching my head wondering what  else I would like to do considering the I would like to do as less as possible. Well, talking about to do as less as possible – I like the sound of my shitty Hamster S...
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