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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The RMAF 2008 pictures + a few comments. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
The Federated Mike posted a set of the phonographs took at RMAF 2008 in Denver http://www.audiofederation.com/hifiing/2008/RMAF2008/report/index.htm I kid of do not like the pictures he did this year in past the images were much better. This year t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Meow #48403 by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"] I mean that with a horn loaded compression driver, a strong motor, and a very light diaphragm, the attack and transients are more life like. Because the diaphragm can more precisely follow the recorded signal, the reproductio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Options...Options...Options... by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass impedance bumps -- why and what to do? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]My mid/upper horns play down to 190Hz. That is -- 188Hz is the Fs of the mid. It's a horn loaded a 10" Precision Device driver. So I need a section (or two sections) to cover the bottom (below 190hz). [/quote] Herman, i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Show Report PiS Fest by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Show Report PiS Fest in Audio News  0 Replies 
Show Report PiS Festcomposed by Johan Dreyer This show was held at the Rama Sebo convention centre in Freetown on April 30 and May 1.Unfortunately my kids played with my camera and destroyed the photos.Highlights were:JBL announced that they were s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Hi, Jeffrey, and welcome. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chinese upperbass horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="Jeffrey Jackson"] so, my straight horns... I like them very much.. I built mine similar in style to what Greg B linked, but obviously much smaller.. mine are just under eight feet long (length of a sheet of plywood) and have a mouth roug...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dream Hi-Eff Speakers for an “inmate”. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dream Hi-Eff Speakers for an “inmate”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
The Morons™ at AA’s between selling to each other what they did not like and topping each other on their shoulders came up with a subject what horn installation would be if price would be no object. The question is semi-foolish as price is never ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Ok, let take a short ride across the Anima Loudspeakers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Greek Anima Loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
The first and the bigger thing that I like about them is that Anima is trying to use the vertical-horizontal configuration where the bell of the vertical horn serves as frame for horizontal channels. I love this idea and had a number of my own th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #394: …and the few Thanks…. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-29 
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 changed the new flash at my site to “Ok, the midbass horn project is successfully over. Over 3 months, over 400 posts, over 180 pictures… all publicly available…” The project started physically on July 16, 2010, ended...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: A phase plug as a tool or as a remedy? by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="ulf"] Well, it was not really a surprise to us that the horn without the phase plug was dissapointing. Without the plug we had a horn that was a bit too short, had too large front cavity and less compression than we desired. [/quote] It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #749: Finding my personal solution by joaco on 2011-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="unicon"]JoacoBut Can you mention the name of the product too ?The manufacturer Site is in Spanish and I could not find out which one is it.Another question is do you reckon that they will ship single unit outside usa too ?[/quote] ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Quarter space by martinshorn on 2018-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Hi Anthony,   i took ground + 1 wall. Which gives quarter space. Some may say distance to second wall is way below quarter lambda, so you could even take octa-space. But my K-horn experiences (which is 8th sp. ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Scott, are you going to park your Camel in your new horn? by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Multi-way Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="skushino"]  Edgarhorns weren't an obvious choice.  Many horns never worked for me.  The Avantgardes left me cold.  So did the single-driver crowd (I just don't get it....), Altec VOTs, PA systems, etc.  But there were some systems th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The quest for insight by oxric on 2015-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tractrix Bass horn vs Spherical Wave Horn - Bass loading in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
[quote user="Blaukopf"] Hi everybody, after reading RomytheCat's Macondo Setup I am very impressed ( phantastic music room ...) . Presently I have no working horns ( they are boxed), just questions. First, Romy describes his horns as spherical. La...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Crossover Design: WHY? by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] I know all the compromises involved with the EdgarHorns, I have heard them when I visited Bruce Edgar in Gardena, and they were pretty good compared to most of what is out there.  I realized that I would likely never be able...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Radio Stations Harmonize On Classical Music by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Radio Stations Harmonize On Classical Music in Off Air Audio  0 Replies 
WGMS Ditches Its Old Format But Helps Orchestrate Its Revival On WETA By Paul FarhiWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, January 23, 2007; C01 Washington radio station WGMS dropped the music of Mozart and Tchaikovsky yesterday after nearly six decad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: GOTO's price politic as GOTO primary deterrence. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
I would like to make a few comments about the entire idea of those expensive Japanese compression drivers: GOTO, ALE and alike. I have voiced the near-similar outlook about the irrational exuberance that some audio people express about electromagnet ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Bottom exhaust and some rant about “fast and tight bass” stupidity. by Romy the Cat on 2016-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vertical Axis Midbass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="skushino"] Bottom exhaust.  Could keep it simple and fire straight down onto the floor.  I think there are benefits to adding a very robust floor platform beneath the mouth, maybe with a reflector, similar to Bruce Edgar's Seismic Sub...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: The Robert Stevenson’s syndrome? by Romy the Cat on 2019-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="jackydai"]Romy, I’m disappointed to see you confront your own belief just to win a debate. It is not my intention to convince you, but if you, after all these years of research on horn flares, think that a twisted flare rate at t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: Upper Bass Horn Setup by Jorge on 2011-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
The best midrange comes from compression drivers, it has that minuteness, transparency and dynamics that no other topology can offer; the main problem with them is that they only cover a very specific mid frequency ran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tractrix Bass horn vs Spherical Wave Horn - Bass loading by Blaukopf on 2015-07-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tractrix Bass horn vs Spherical Wave Horn - Bass loading in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Hi everybody, after reading RomytheCat's Macondo Setup I am very impressed ( phantastic music room ...) . Presently I have no working horns ( they are boxed), just questions.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Some horn writing by Thomas Dunker. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some horn writing by Thomas Dunker. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
All below is written by Thomas Dunker Yeah, "sound consistent independent of signal level" is a very precise way to sum up my whole speaker philosophy. Anything that is assumed to be constant, but which actually changes with signal dynamics is what ...
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