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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The “wide bandwidth” drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
I do not look for beryllium diaphragms, I just was wondering if someone has succeeded to manufacture them in “basement conditions”. As I understand it shall be VERY difficult. Well, your driver might be interesting. If I was able to accommodat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The Electronluv drivers... by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Electronluv, As I understand you were a few years out of audio business and it looks like you are back, nice to see. I saw at your site just MF compression drivers not the bass drivers. Anyhow, I have a few questions to ask. You use berylli...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Why they never talk about the drivers? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ralf Stegmueller’s horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Since I learned today quite a bit about the Ralf’s horns I do not particularly have a lot of interest about the selection of his drivers but the stupid habit of the “derivers anonymity” is something that I do not like. I do understand when commercial...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Speaker drivers by noviygera on 2011-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the pre-warming of playback in Melquiades Amplifier  13 Replies 
I notice the same warming up effect on my system, takes a few hours. And I thought... could it be the speakers warming up? ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: What drivers are we talking by shannon on 2015-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Melq 6e5p driver stage for ss? in Melquiades Amplifier  29 Replies 
when talking ulf are we talking array of aura 18(the old ones not new junk), or something else...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Problems with horns: mid-range drivers by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: mid-range drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
If you know how in some optical systems imagery get destroyed when an aperture getting closed to F64 or even smaller, then you understand what happens in compression driver when frequency get higher and spaces smaller. Yes, the proximity of wavelengt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: rear tubes on compression drivers by slowmotion on 2004-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Hi all I have experimented a bit with rear tubes on compression drivers. Chucked the back covers in a lathe and made a suitable hole for the rear tube, matching the area behind the diaphragm. Got "better" results to my ears with wool filled tub...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Center your drivers, boys. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An ultimate horn profile? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]This is but one reason why I'm asking Martin Seddon to make me a pair of 160Hz horns...[/quote]Another problem…. Chris, be carefully with those large 160Hz horn and S2. The guys who make then have no instruments to center the mounti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Compression drivers ...... by slowmotion on 2005-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers saga in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Hi all..... [quote user="Romy the Cat"] I just wish somewhere would show up a manufacturer that would be able to produces compression drivers (or any drivers!!!) with sonic objectives… The caT[/quote] Unfortunately that will never happen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Vintage Altec drivers / horns lingo. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vintage Altec drivers / horns lingo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
LOW FREQUENCY DIRECT RADIATOR DRIVERS 411A –18Hz, 93dB, sealed box414A - 99dB, 30Hz, Alnico, cloth416B – Alnico, 97dB, 25Hz, cloth416C – 16” version of above with Ferrite416Z - 12" version417C – 100dB, 69Hz, Alnico, 1.3T, 12”418B – 100dB, 55Hz, Alni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The TAD 1201 drivers can take you on a road by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midrange driver suggestions in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
[quote user="homebuilder"]...active EQ will be a part of this project, along with in room measurement. My friend will do the honors on that. I have not purchased an EQ yet. [/quote] You might eventually revise your view about the active EQ and pres...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Soft phenolic drivers by Wojtek on 2008-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Open cell foam in horns and MF drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  40 Replies 
This is probably the reason I can listen to EV Patrician IV in relatively small space and close to the speaker without much of fatigue.  The other factor must be that it's 4- way design with narrow band-pass for each horn. EV T25 2" phenolic com...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The NEW “Compression drivers and the clean signal”. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
I was right before but now I really review my rightness for a new perspective. Yes, the compressions drivers are the subject of clean signal but it what I witness with the new 6-chenals DSET put what I said above in another extreme dimension. I do no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Fane impedance and other drivers. 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"] Back when Fane were still in business, I ordered a pair in 16O (I don't know if there is a theoretical best choice between the two for horn loading... Any thoughts ? However, the 8O model will require a smaller coil in th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: OK, let look at horn upperbass drivers sincerely by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-14 
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="be"] "another big selling point to me was the 505 being a low resonance compression driver.. there just aren't many drivers with a resonance in the 80 to 100 Hz range like this driver... I have just begun my playing, but am already quite...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Double drivers by ygoh 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 
Romy,I'm new here, and I have read your posts in the forum.  I have some questions that relate to this post of yours: 'The midbass horn is a pain in ass, a big pain!!! The GOTO-Jackson horn went for the very noble small throat size – somethin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Double drivers by ygoh 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="Romy the Cat"] ygoh wrote: 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? Sure the wavefront gets spread; it is what Wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #132: The cost of the TAD drivers - I migh be wrong... by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
[quote user="Merlin"]Where Romy is wrong is the cost of TAD drive units.[/quote]Well, perhaps my outdated memory plays a bad joke on me. What I remember from beginning of 2000s that TAD 2001 cost around $1200 retail with “street price” of $900. The w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #140: A few words about Avantgard’s Trio drivers by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
[quote user="Merlin"]  If they are modifying conventional drive units by hand, the labour costs alone can be prohibitively expensive. The fact that they are using heavy Alnico magnets and coating the diaphrams suggests that these units do not co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Channels, drivers design and some RTA rant. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Is the S3 as sensitive as the S2? [/quote] Yes, they are appearing to be the same sensitively.   [quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I keep telling myself that I am almost done making horns, but I keep having ideas to try...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Vitavox drivers? by drdna on 2009-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EdgarHorn Speaker Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you are still in MF frustrations then I have something that you might find interesting. Recently I pick up in UK a pair of Vitavox S3 drivers. I figure that if you wish I might let you to play with before they die in my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ferrofluiding of compression drivers? by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ferrofluiding of compression drivers? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
Yesterday I spoke with a guy at a Russian audio forum who reported that he played with addressing many problems of compression driver by pumping ferrofluid in the gap. I am not a big fun of ferrofluiding generally and in case of compression drivers i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Choosing Drivers by Paul S on 2022-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midrange driver suggestions in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
Since no driver is actually full range, driver selection is partly conditioned by how well it plays with the other drivers it will be used with, and - very certainly - the crossovers it will be used with, also baffle shape(s) and size(s), amps(s), an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Phase, Frequency, and Multipe Drivers by Paul S on 2022-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
Of course, any speaker is a compromise rather than a "solution" for the complex problems of "phase", which can hardly be "solved" by fixing driver diaphragms in the same verticle plane, at least relative to the listener. Not to say that this is not w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Parallel (U)HF Drivers by Paul S on 2022-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
Anthony, I agree with your central observation, and I have used paralleled HF drivers for decades, starting with the old Peerless paper tweeters paired with RTR6 electrostatic arrays, and now paper whizzers with Audaphon ribbons. As you know, this ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Zu treats their drivers by zanon on 2009-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Other Ways of getting Special Tone from a loudspeaker. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Zu Audio treats their drivers (from Eminence) in various ways, not sure if they dip them in liquids, but I would not be surprised. You've heard them so can judge their Tonal results yourself....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: SS Amplification for Compressions drivers? Sound? by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Amplification for Compressions drivers? Sound? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  19 Replies 
Anybody who ever tried SS amp with compressions drivers or the drivers of high-sensitivity that can be driven by minimum current knows how it works. Nelson Pass created with his First Watt project a lot of publicity to the idea. A few watts, in p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The drivers: first “hm…”. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
I was trying the drivers in my infinite baffle parody configuration and I have to admit that that all of them sounded not good. There is not even a fraction of tone that am loosing and from any other quantifiable subjective point of view the driver d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: I do not like those drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
audiofilofine, I do not like when they just remove the magnet and to replace it with electromagnet coil. I do feel that in this configuration the coil is not vented well and either the driver has too much thermal stress or it will run only at very lo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Time alignment of drivers by KS on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
Hey I read around here of the importance of time aligning drivers, and am trying to build it into my horn frame, but I'm starting to wonder, if tweeter frequency wavelengths are around and inch long, wont I completely loose any alignment if I sit hal...
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