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[quote user="msaudio"]Romy Why is it all the people in the art's are homo's Romy? Maybe being a gay does something to your ears. Forsure you have to much time on your hands, you need to find a women and maybe you will get lucky and she has some go...
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That about re-caps the Altec X/O issues in terms of range. Regarding the X/Os themselves in terms of sound, they eat power and the are wildly non-linear, at least with the non-dedicated amps of the day and into the 70's.I'd like to add that I cut my...
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Romy I see were you are going With this horn worship for midbass. It is the correct thing to do "But you still will not be happy with the outcome because it does no go low enough. You will not be happy with 60hz. Then you will need something that ...
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[quote user="msaudio"]Romy I see were you are going With this horn worship for midbass. It is the correct thing to do "But you still will not be happy with the outcome because it does no go low enough. You will not be happy with 60hz. Then you wil...
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I made a few calls to a few horn makers with a perspective to build for me a substitute for the horrible Altec 19 horn. While talking with people I was given an interesting lead about the guy that I did not know. He is a Canadian and his name is And...
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In our experiments, the more power we threw at the A7s, the better they worked. I heard some of the original "theater" version Altecs playing with their original "dedicated" Altec amps, and these sounded considerably better; but I never got ahol...
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Romy, what exactly was bad, and how?Honestly, my knowlwedge and objectives were in infancy back then. Also, it's been so long that my "memory" is probably crowded with parasitic ideas passing themselves off as memories. But I remember the 808 drive...
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I do feel that they are all worthless but when you are having lunch at your deck and would like to read something light and not serious then you have few options. I usually read Microsoft technology preview pages or the TheOnion.com. Alter...
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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...
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[quote user="angeloitacare"]hi Pauli had already Altec horns, and comparing them to wood horns, they really sound poor. What i really doubtis if someone is able to hear the difference between high gloss finish/ high porosity surface of horns.I ...
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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...
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Bass is what bass is and no mater how greedy audio people become with their implementations bass does not appear to obey people’s greed and lives according to own rules. I always said “if you can not do bass properly then do not do it at all”. It is ...
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Vitavox S2 does OK up to 12.5K ("strong, clean and in character") on it’s center but I never use this driver pointed directly to me but rather at good 20 degree off. (I hardly can tolerate any compression driver point directly to me). At my angle the...
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the sad truth was the space, the finite funds, and the available bms pucks! the sad truth also, i suppose,the lack of available, and sensitive horn users to bounce off of!i could probably see what your dislike of the bms stems from-- i tried to...
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well i never thought i would be opening such a pandora's box with this combination.firstly,the drivers have the plastic surrounds(whew,lucky!i know the diaphragms are potentially harder to source than the drivers)what indicators or criteria would mak...
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of MTM arrangement of two TAD 1201 in <100 Hz Horn ? I assume they would both work in the same frequency range . Also JBL LE8 is only 89 db driver and it doesn't look like it can take any power . Difference in efficiency within the channels would ...
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Thank you for the lesson in metalurgy, Jessie (seriously). Actually I have no reason to believe that the bronze horn in question rings "like a bell" "when struck" in the same way a real bell rings when struck, so that does seem to put ...
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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...
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Unfortunately its $1000,- total... Its not fixed, i can still do alot with that though.Alnico is better but only available in vintage drivers right? How does neodymium compare?The Jbl's seem to fall off fairly quickly. I dont need flat to 20K b...
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No mater how ridicules the title of this article sounds on my site but I was quite glad to see the in the May’s issues of Stereophile the Robert J. Reina review of Advent loudspeakers. I do not think that Advent’s review is a sign of some kind of sin...
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It is good, very good. Actually I did not expect that it would be so easy and some resentful at the same time. I was running the new horn, juts single horn, listing it here and there, trying to get a precise high-pass crossover point. The 18.5uF turn...
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Romy,I have seen this a few times with JBL and Altec drivers. This phenomena occurs more often in Alnico magnets than any other type of magnet. When a magnet is recharged, it is blasted with a very strong magnetic field. There is really no way to “ha...
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| agree with your feline wariness with regard to torch bearing disciples of any given faith, be they believers in Altec, Audio Note or even Vitavox. In the case of Audio Note the fervour has often been exacerbated by the activities, pricing and ...
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Hi All, 103 or 103R + mass loaded SME headshell + 3012 or a 3009 + Seiki 1500 + hagerman opamp phono stage (good only with select parts and battery power) or an EAR 834 (with some mods) and some old Altec mic t...
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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...
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Ok, I blamed the tweeters and MF drivers now the turn of the MF horns. The Mid Frequency Horns (I’ll them “MFH” from now and on) are the stinky like pieces of horn installations, and if they are not done correct then they screw up anything big time T...
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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...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]What are my plans for 2011? I have a few. I am sure that I will be working with fine refinement of Macondo in the new room. I look forward to review the Macondo Fundamental Channel, will it be my new 18-cell or not I do...
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Jorge, not to stoop to a shopping list, but I thought I also mentioned the 375 in the post where I introduced Rullit. Anyway, I meant to. Since there is no mention of the 375 there now, I will drop it again. This was the driver I lusted after in my...
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[quote user="Markus"]Interesting take on the Altec 820. No way can this be done for 20k. Looks like dipole bass with some attenuation for mid frequencies.[/quote] Markus, the price of this thing might be anything they want. They can set if $100K and ...
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