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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #291: This project is on fire! by oxric on 2010-09-17 
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="Romy the Cat"] OK, now I am happier as I did my duty and the back chambers are ready to be attached to the horns and to be lifted up. Yesterday I spent 5 hours trying to build the back chamber displacement that Jessie and my carpenter ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #343: The possible cause by deemon on 2010-10-02 
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="Romy the Cat"]I mean the driver from 14Hz to 150HZ gas absolutely linear impedance as it has no active load. I look at all of it and felt so tiered and I walked out if it. I think in the new room the horn is shooting into the wide open s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Useful findings. by noviygera on 2010-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass impedance bumps -- why and what to do? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
Romy,Thank you again for a helpful reply. Your comments are very appreciated inspite of not suggesting what to do. I will figure that out myself. And here is what I've learned so far:>> Herman, if you use Precision Devices hen you are at mid-hi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #168: The insulation… by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-29 
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Ok, I have hired a contractor and run the insulation between the space where will be the horn and the roof. He laid the plastic channels that still will allow air convention between the horn and roof. Ironically while we did it we devised a program t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #153: The current building plans. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-26 
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The back chamber will be revised when we do there.http://www.goodsoundclub.com/PDF/RomyTheCat_Midbass_Horn.pdfThe Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Avantgarde Trio and Fane Studio by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Do I understand correctly: AG used Fane 8Ms in the Trios upper bass horn?[/quote] Oh, no! AG in Trio’s upperbass horn used similar 8” driver with 103 sensitivity. That driver was bad and it made me to look for a replacemen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: The Goto Back Chamber by Kcct82 on 2008-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
 ygoh wrote: 1.) What's that formula to calculate the back chamber volume given a throat reactance? 2.) Would it be a bigger back chamber with higher reactance at the throat?   or vice versa?  You do not ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Redesign the Vitavox S2 back chamber’s cover. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
I really would like the Vitavox users who use the bottom region of S2 driver to pay very serious attention to my post above. The redaction of compression in this driver and dropping the resonance frequencies does impacts the lower knee sound of the d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: The Bermuda Triangle rediscovered? by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Hm, very different and very opposite result, interesting. Are you using the same S2 diaphragm as I do – the metal suspension? If yes then it would be the only one explanation that I might come up with. Sometime the compression drivers with horn form...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Odeon tube by be on 2007-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: German Odeon horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
They mention an intricate back chamber for the high frequency unit, maybe thats the primary function of the tube, apart from positioning the unit relative to the rest....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Finally... by Wojtek on 2007-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Actually if that horn would not be bending atop, go for another couple feet vertically, consequentially has a smaller throat and of course has a strong back chamber then it would be a very good J-horn (presumably that the w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Another semi-ribbon? by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
I was playing today with Stage Acompany SA 8535 Ribbon driver. It is truly 103dB sensitive little monster with crazily large 3 poll Neodymium magnet. I did listen the driver and there are some things that I like in it and there are some that I do not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Do not build horn, build "something else"….. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 45Hz Bass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
Jessie, 45Hz horn with 6”-7” throat around AK151 driver is from my perspective is the best thing might be theoretically built around a cone driver. I really envy of you and if I had room I would unquestionably go for it; this is why I keep a pair of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: The Fundamentals Channel around S2 is taken further. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-07 
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I really appreciate the result of the 180Hz horn with the S2... Particularly in terms of "texture". It is responsible for such an important range... [/quote] Well, if you appreciate the lower knee of the S2 driver then wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: The chamber pressure leaking. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-10 
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Could you clarify: Would you like to vent the rear chamber or increase its volume (or both)? This weekend I will try listening with the rear covers on the Lower-Mids slightly open...  [/quote] Good question. I do no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: How to predict Back Chamber. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-13 
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This is a complicated subject. While building the horn I would need to know what the size of back chamber to make.  Usually the initial size of driver diameter plus two depth works very nice. It makes big chamber that eventually might be minim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I think you misuse my terminology by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as op... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="Rewind"]Hi, I am slowly building my own Macondo. I understand why the injection channel is there. It brings some kind of softness that the compression drivers lack. [/quote] OK, but it is not how I feel about the service of injection...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #438: Midbass horns, latest story. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-02 
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A few months back a audio guy visited me and after a listening session I asked him if he can report any problems with sound. He reported that he hears a slightly more prolonging decay at upper bass then what he suspect to be. I knew about this effect...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: It's Alive by skushino on 2016-02-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vertical Axis Midbass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
This project just woke from a long slumber.I've been granted access to tools and people to move this forward.  The tools are a large-scale CNC cutting machine and paint shop, used to fabricate volumes (large 3D shapes) attached to climbing walls at i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #199: Some data, impressions and me. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
A friend stopped by tonight when I was test-listening my midbass horn. He got freaked out from the size of the thing. I played for him some Gerhard Oppelt’s organ recordings. He told me that I am crazy, like I do not know it myself. Anyhow, he made a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #123: An active thermo-stabilized blanket around back chamber? by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Miab, I have very limited knowledge in construction techniques, moist prevention and how all of it might affect a big horn. My very uneducated production suggests me that it is not truly a bid deal, but of cause if go this route then I certainly ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: "We do not need no education" by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="ygoh"] 1.) Why is it that you do not support using teo compression drivers in the same throat?   Is the distortions increases, such as wavefront distortion? [/quote]Sure the wavefront gets spread; it is what Wilson does in his ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The Red’s Tweeters by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Actually it is good that you reminded me about the Tannoys as behind my recent paranoia with the “Water Drop” tweeter I forgot about the beauty that blessed my life. I am taking about the “older” Tannoy’s tweeters. What is magnificent sound! I’m not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: Uncoherent thoughts about IDEAL horn systems... by MochaMike on 2005-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The IDEAL horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
You have identified the tricky parts -the transistion between the front and back horn as well as the throat  of the front tractrix horn.  A one to one throat with the front horn works best with my coaxials and a short 1.25" straight 'ring' ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: There is a foam and there are foams... by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Loudspeakers and headphones in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Ronnie, The stuffing the back chamber in upper bass horn and stuffing a sealed enclosure have totally different purposes. In the firs case we need to decrease volume of the chamber in the second to increase it. The polyurethane foam spray is not foa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Oh... Sh!T.... by Kcct82 on 2008-09-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Well, I just placed an order on the 505TT and S150 horn last week... I came across this site after placing my order and now I'm worried about the mismatch of driver/horn. It seems like I'll have to either change the horn or the back chamber. Romy, is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The methods of back chamber’s control must be available by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Ming, thank you very much for resonance information, it explains a lot about the SG145LD4’s suspension. Still, my primary interest was not how folks out there build 20Hz of 24Hz horns but about ability to use the SG145LD4 properly for smaller horns...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Slowly rolling back… by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
I am not quite sure what is going on but wherever is going on is wrong. I was listening this morning Shostakovich’s second cello concerto by Berlin and Rostropovich and I detected that something was not right. It was too direct and “too stereo”, if I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Egg-Nishna vs 50Hz by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I’ve been thinking about all this electricity stuff… I’ve stopped using all power conditioning devices since Bush got re-elected, and I consequently left the country to start a new life in the land of 220v/50Hz (this BTW, is not an exaggeration). ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Mid-bass horn observation by jessie.dazzle on 2009-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Multi-way Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Looking at phase 3, one of the first things that pops out is the following:Skushino wrote:"...75-240Hz [from a] 12" x-driver [loaded into a] 70Hz [horn with an] 8" throat..."Because they are a royal PITA to make, you'll want to give yourself every ch...
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