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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A tribune to Transient Evenness or … by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tribune to Transient Evenness or … in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
…or the “The new Channel”: some observations after the game. This thread is organic derivation of the multi-paged thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2433#2433 First of all: despite that I got some preliminary positive result...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #387: Talking about the midbass…. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Despite the fact the I lost the quality of the lower knee of my midbass horn (I guess the primary resonance went all the way down) I keep trying to catch the right termination of midbass  low pass filter. I bought those expensive 20H coils and added ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #160: I agree, but YMMV by ayebee on 2010-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Yes, I agree. If the output of the fundamentals-channel is controlled via the slopes in the crossover, the opportunity to set the output on a recording-to-recording basis is lost. If one, however, has the output of the fundamentals-channel ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: The random phono-thoughts… by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LCR RIAA correctors in Analog Playback  57 Replies 
Perrew, LCR is not active at all; it is the very same passive EQ as your RC? I think you a bit confused with terminology. The main logical explanation (there are many of them) is that capacitive filtration is very bad one and need to be minimi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Simple is often the hardest thing to understand by rowuk on 2012-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
I am really enjoying myself here at Romys site. I like the idea of someone documenting their efforts in a very (self) critical way.I think that anyone solving issues in a methodical way uses similar techniques. They all involve stripping the problem ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SS Power Amps - the FoxNews of Audio. in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Recently, I would say the last 2-3 years, I detected a very foolish tendency that audio people are brewing within themselves. A typical today’s audiofool holds within itself a hope about existing of a “secret”, no discovered yet, SS high power amplif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Some transformer ranting. by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Thorsten"]I wonder, which specific line level interstage transformers have you tried, it would have to be ALL of them in order for your statement "there are non" to hold.......But, what specifically do you object to in these transformers...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Environmental magnetic influence to high sensitively? by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I have found the next obvious glaring problem, which is contributing to the muddy sound I described earlier.  There is a mismatch between the two channels.  The right channel is very slightly softer than the left with a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Shift in direction 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 
Rakesh, during the last year, there were some very important moments in my own realizations about the methods of low frequency reproduction. I totally abandoned my Scanspeak bass modules and now they are resting in my garage. I intentionally have my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Horning further questions. by Thorsten on 2005-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hørning prøblems. in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Regarding the absents of the band-pass filters… Perhaps you are correct.[/quote] I am correct, I have been inside Hoerning speakers, to find "what makes them tick"....[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, they...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Active filtering by devo_yan on 2018-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 250 watts Parallel S.E. advises in Audio Discussions  13 Replies 
Thank you for your answer.If I understand well, In purpose to do something realistic and good sounding. I should use at least 2 amplifiers (one for high frequencies and the GM-100 amp for low frequencies) with a tubes active filter at the inputs of e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #143: It migh be more complicated. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="unicon"]Since you added a new parameter  in audio play back called : Decor  I'm afraid, it may make it far too hard. [/quote]I agree but it I do not think that it would change my mind. Perhaps “décor” is not right word however; it is not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #372: A new ‘strange’ power conditioner: Dmitri from Running Springs Audio by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
This weekend I was told that there is a new power conditioner out there: Dmitri from Running Springs Audio. I never heard the company and have no idea that they are, what they do and what the stand for. A quick search lead me to number of posi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Where to start: Vitavox S2 upper range by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"] The tweeter I thought could go below the MF. [/quote] Not going to work properly. The EV T350 is 120 by 60 degree tweeter met to work in vertical configuration. If I were you I would lower you MF until it edge along with upperba...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Playing with the ideas... by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"] Listening to the horns, it seems that they indeed die somewhere below 120Hz. I was surprised, and a little disappointed that it seemed so steep. Good to hear that it's to be expected!!Yes, I'm using a 30-something-Hz 1st order h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #240: DC coupling and killing 13db and driving 6e5p miller and.... by cv on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Sorry I'm a little late here, but anyway... here's something that may worth trying. Apologies that I can't provide a schematic at the mo - I can sort this out later if you like. In the meantime, you'll need a pen and napkin to help visualise this:The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Don't waste time being "creative" by nl on 2008-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
There is no "one tube DHT amp." There are only amps with gain in one box or two boxes. Your 6E5P tube is not so special. People have been making WE437 spud amps since the 1960s. There is a class of amps that use a high-gm tube driver and a DHT out...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Recently Macondo was altered and converted into… nope, not into a Super Macondo :-) but in a “Larger Macondo”. The Super Macondo it will be when I resolved how to implement time delays along with a low pass flirter at midbass horn, that would enable ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Continuing battle the full-range hallucination. by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RMAF 2008 observations, opinions 1) ceramic drivers in Audio Discussions  32 Replies 
Chris, I certainly did not mean “costs nothing" in the literal sense. I meant that it costs as much as any other driver to make that Feastrex. Come on! If it is an electromagnetic driver then how much does it cost to make a few pounds of core (even i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  53 Replies 
This thread is a derivation of the thread: Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Saint-Saens and...[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]While in general I agree with Romy about Wilsons, I have once or twice heard them sound really, really good. On the other hand I have also he...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: First Order on Bass channels: Designed for Sound in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Merlin"] I have … yet to hear a bass unit that can provide the low end quality whilst still allowing a first order slope. Unless we are happy to accept copious quantities of 2nd Harmonic of course. I would love to know of one.[/quote] F...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Summary by Rewind 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 
Thanks for the detailed answers. I will explain my setup.You are right about the dipole bass correction instead of the injection channel. Since I am waiting for both a subwoofer and the Fane Studio 8M and their horn, I am using the 12" as a b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Digital: small steps and further update… by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Jeremy, another few lead that I think might conceder. Manly Labs has their 20-bit digital to analogue converter that uses the Pacific Microsonics processor inside. I was told that is available as the “street price” for ~$6K-$7K and it might be a “f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Bleeders at shut-down... by anthony on 2015-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, they technically not Lpads but juts regular attenuators even though they connected in “protective mode”. You can go with stabilized impedance to maintain the high pass filter over the coupling capacitor to work prop...

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 #32: Monday morning…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Yes, you are right. Power – you have almost unlimited power. Dynamics – you have as much dynamics as you want. But there are a lot of associated problems with that kind of dynamics. The following illustration is taken by ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About the audio Sources. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the audio Sources. in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
Recently an audio guy visited me. I played to him some music as, as I uselessly do - from all possible sources and we ended up to have a conservation which sources is able to produce more interesting result. The people who hear my playback know t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: How to use Vitavox’s S2 by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Here is the list of the thing to do with Vitavox S2 in order to use it in 4-ways installations. The S2 must not be used in 2, 3 ways systems. It possible to do with S2 whatever you wish but pretty much any other way to utilize them produces some very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A phase plug under 500Hz – my mania of disagreement by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="ulf"]A few years ago we discovered the tractrix horn for MF use. It was really the most important improvement so far. No more honking exponential horn sound. The improvement was so clear that A/B testing was not needed. [/quote] For wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: So far it has nothing to do with Goto. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-24 
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="tuyen"]When i change the cutoff of the 505tt to 200hz and 250hz, I experience that same 'hole' you mention about.  Hence why I was questioning if it is the 160hz le'clech horn causing this and if using the goto s150 horn with it's di...
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