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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: Sitting on a fence with ULF by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I am not sure that I am at final stage of my ULF wondering. I do like the integration-free problem of my ULF via tube crossover. I am a bit concert that I am injecting now + 9dB at sub 20Hz and do not feel that I have too much bass. I am a bit mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Has Schrödinger's cat moved in unnoticed? by oxric on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  My current bass is very “integrated” and very musical. It low, it is large, it is extended and it is in away grandeur and it has nothing close with faulty Hi-Fi impressiveness. It never take over sound and never indicat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: My ways to mimic Reality. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I am trying to keep the discussion about midbass horns out of ULF thread, I guess if Rakesh would like he can create a separate thread dedicated to his specific installation and the design ideas. I would like to keep the content of the posts more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: No beef by Vasyachkin on 2008-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents.... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"][quote user="Vasyachkin"]expertise = experience X intelligence a cockroach needs millions of years of evolution worth of experience to have the expertise necessary for it to be able to do find food. leonardo da vinci didn't...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Analyzing, it is what I am doing now. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"]Romy, you said there is no proper tone. In your old system/room setup you were very close to the back wall, but now it is far behind you. I'm probably wrong, but I thinkyou don't have proper sound in the mid-upperbass with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The inflatable speakers dumping and no only. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The inflatable speakers dumping and no only. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Fllowing my experiments with Injection Channel http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4473 I have discovered recently that I was a greedy fool who should know better. The new Injection Channel does OK as a independent single channel bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #309: Traveling antimatter by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]May 16, 2010: My ultimate wet audio dream was to have Bruckner Room. But so far it turning out that I got another big B room. Since 3 days back I stopped the intellectual masturbation with my room my playback up for the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Raal's Lazy Ribbon: a worthy cousin of Water Drop? by oxric on 2011-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Hello everyone:I exchanged a couple of emails with Romy, and since the topic may be of interest to everyone, I am posting the emails here. Just in case anyone wonders, of course I checked with Romy to see if he was alright with his reply to my em...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: "Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink" by oxric on 2011-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Romy:Again thanks for the response. With regard to the most important question, my choice would be to use the standard AM Amorphous C-Core transformers in the short term but the Direct Tube Drive in the long term. As I mentioned elsewhere, I was in t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Odeon weren't really serious about what they do. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: German Odeon horns. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
Adrian, You pretty much said it but do not think that what you said it minor – it is in fact huge, with exception of some rough lathe-work: it is not exactly true but if it was true then it would be irrelevant to Sound. I really do not know wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: I think I have found the problem with my ULF by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]In this case, below 50Hz, I think el`Ol is right to suggest that you consider using DSP as a permanent solution. The SMS 1 is in theory the silver bullet... You just need to find out if you can live with it long-term.   Be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I might be using something similar.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Bob, Yes, the variants are multiple but the key I feel might be the following: smaller size, less reliance to baffled, smaller size. Or yes, did I mention the smaller size? The thing that led me to think about the MiniMe incorporation was my recent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Of course I am putting the cart before the horse... by anthony on 2015-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, if I did it again then I would not do it in context of multi-channel amplifier but rather I would make a maket amplifier able would test my ideas with it. [/quote]While I do like the idea of experimenting with MF...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #186: Conceptualizing Melquiades DSET is done by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] [/quote]OK, now, after mach thinking, consulting and very little actual listening I have finally conceptualized my next move with powering Macondo MF channel.  Considering that I have some extra space Melquiades’ ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
A few days back I posted the following post: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=8922 …proposing the parties of interest to play along in Milq vs. DHT competition. This interst derives from the following thread: http://www.goodsoundcl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Good and problematic things for single-stage Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
I did an interesting experiment today trying to learn if those Melquiades driver tubes have even gain. The Russian tubes are notorious to have very widely spreading specification, so…. I took 14 6E6P. Some of then were new, some used and some violen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The new channel! Yes! I got it!!! by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
E-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y!!! Eventually the new “fundamentals channel” horn sounds as it should being incorporated in my Macondo!  The key was the  second order. I really never drove compression drivers to their 500Hz as I always used upperbass h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #398: A hallucination? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Romy the Cat wrote:That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Some more comments. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New speaker system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"] 7. 4.8" x 4.8"[/quote] Hm, and you used 12” driver with 4.8" x 4.8" thought?  With you look for 6”-8” driver and Fs drivers. I know it would be very hard to find them with near 100dB sensitivity… [quote user="guy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: My unfortunately-conformistic multi-cell... by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more non-spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Romy, I'm trying to understand your logic in choosing a multi-cell design (instead of a single-cell oval or rectangular 180Hz exponential horn of the same vertical height)... Was this in the interest of achievi...

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 #54: Vitavox S2: notes to dairy… by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I thought that the folks who are interesting where I am going with my Macondo should know that am still working with Vitavox S2[/quote]OK, I think now I’ve learned whatever I need to learn about this driver. In order to und...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The horno-live is defiantly is a bitch… by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]So how do you suppose the proper DPoLS can be located? With a system like Steve Schell and I are working with, everything weighs hundreds of pounds and to properly evaluate changes would take days, maybe even weeks f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: A few comments about the big ass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
1)      If you decided to use the 12” JBL 2206H driver then I doubt  that you might talk about 4” throat. A 12” driver with wide outer suspension might go with 7”-8” throat. The 6” might do, though it might be a stretch....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
At recent Nord-West trade show Jeffrey Jackson, the guy who runs Experience Music site, demonstrated his new horn Installation. I know little about it and would like to make some comments about what is feel is obvious from the image. It is 5-ways ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Must be a glass window. I can't see it. by oxric on 2011-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Anyhow, it is interesting how the new 25 users that get those Studio 8M will use them. I wish something “new” would derive from all of it…[/quote]Speaking only for myself, I am planning to use the Fane 8M in a pair of 11...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: Time misalignment in bass by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 1) Horn loaded drivers are narrow-bandwidth transducing system. The wider range a horn channel covers the more it conflicts with restrictions of own topology. 2) All channels shell have strictly parallel axis 3) ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: Macondo with wings and wide Fundamentals … by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="Dominik"]You probably decline this option, because this horn is from plasctic ( You can take carbon horn also).Polish autotech make Iwata 300 for me. You Can order from them what You want.[/quote] Yes, the Iwata horns are good as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The one-stage Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="ml8"]So sometimes i just wonder why do you need 6C33C at all, with your high-sensitive speakers.[/quote] This thread is a derivation of the “5 Channel Version of Melquiades” thread: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=406...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Vitavox S2 field-coil: the first 10 minutes. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
Well, I screw-in today the S2 with filed-coil into my horn. I decided to drive it with 2.4A.  I used a regulated DC PS and did not employ my prepared for this tusk 4.2 Farad capacitor: the voltage is too high for my cap. The current gave me a ni...
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