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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #241: Eventually I feel that I’ve moved by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
A few days back I unpacked my last moving box, which was good. Today for a first day in the new room when I have my playback system back, namely I time-aligned Macondo. Sine I find the right listing position there was no reason not to do it. It took ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: Stop! 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 
OK, I decided to stop today to do what I do as it does not feel like me anymore. For a month as I live in here and have the playback up my playback is a source of great pain and I do not like it.  I am accustomed that I turn the thing on and USE it. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: OK, about the “bug” by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
While a listener moves let say a few inches closer to an acoustic system like Jessie’s or mine then sh/e does not move closer to ALL drivers. Macondo is vertically piled up multiple drivers and when a listener head move closer to speaker then it most...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The Elephant (sized speakers) in the Room by anthony on 2017-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
[quote user="kodomo"]Hey Anthony,Your project is going on track (and looks like a very good track)!  Just a reminder about the room acoustics. You are talking about bass frequencies which are as dependent to the room as the speaker! Before installing...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #381: No compromises with Sweet Spot by Romy the Cat on 2012-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"] Is there a pill for that too? Seriously, it would be very interesting to hear what solution you come up with because I have converted from listening music solo to a small number of audience (friends). So much that I listen by...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #113: Two separate audio systems by Amir on 2021-10-16 
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="N-set"] If I read you correctly the big midbass did not release the "intellectual tension/demand" of Macondo/Milq. Perhaps I'm wrong or oversimplifying but it seems to me that at least a part of your "problem" with Macondo is an i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Your comment takes me by surprise by rickmcinnis on 2011-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
I am glad to hear you do care what your speaker system looks like, or should I say, will admit you care.MACONDO is about the best looking speaker system I have ever seen.  It is the embodiment of van der Rohe's dictum of form following function.  It ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Wrong. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Rakesh, I think you take it all wrong and I think you need to perform some degaussing from my site. You created for yourself a cardboard cutout of ideas that I describe at my site but it is not what it is. Macondo Axioms are not set of rules but a di...

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 #159: The MiniMe doing surprisingly good. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
While the left channel of Macondo is out full-time service (while I am redoing my left Milq’s MF channel) I have been listening MiniMe for weeks. The MiniMe is in the stage how I let if a couple month back: I did not fine-tune the port and used in cr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Sure It is not easy by Amir on 2023-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Amir, I think there are still "acceptable" "commercial" components (including speakers) still "out there", depending on how they are used; it's just a matter of finding and getting ahold of them. In any case, building up an integ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Macondo Loudspeaker in munich show by Amir on 2023-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
I have thought many times about trying to have an Audio System like Macondo Horn Loudspeaker System and if I could get good result then I will demo it in munich high end show.this is a big project for me because I am not expert and I have no DIY expe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #366: The YO-YO tube and "fundamentals" channel by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"]Would YO 186 be appropriate to use in "fundamental" chanel?  Over narrower band width, to color, "spice," "flavor" more?  [/quote]It would depend how the Fundamentals Channel is used. The YO186 has phenomenal lower MF, n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #419: It is nice to be back. by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Yesterday I retune and recalibrated the whole Macondo and Milqs, tubes, drives, horns, angles, timing… everything. The snapshot or fully calibrated Macondo that I made in the page 14 of this thread was phenomenal help. I think everyone who runs m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Clarification by anthony on 2020-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anthony, I do not know what you new buffer is. A few notes. The difference between sub 10R and 300R of output impedance is significant for the load you have (Milq) between your new buffer and your 10Y preamp. The type of th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo copying: Horns troubleshooting by Ronnie on 2006-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo copying: Horns troubleshooting in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
This seems like an appropriate place to share my latest thoughts about Macondo copying!I thought I built almost copies of the Macondo upperbass horns, yet I've really only achieved quite questionable results. Impressive from time to time, but never f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: If you’re multiamping then use passive-line lever crossovering by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you’re multiamping then use passive-line lever crossoveri... in Audio For Dummies ™  3 Replies 
[quote user="floobydust"]  Integrating multiple amplifier sections and drivers is always a challenge. Doing it with different topologies and OPTs adds some additional complexity due to the difference in response characteristics. Crossover design...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #237: Back and forth ceremony by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="zanon"]I know that because of your new mid bass horn, the speaker position is mostly fixed. So you move chair. I am wondering -- to those of us who can move both chair and speaker, how do you go about getting system to play the ro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Priorities, priorities by anthony on 2014-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Direct radiation in the Macondo midrange horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
Thank-you for the detailed response Romy.  I can understand your reasoning.I have noticed that there are several commercial horn offerings that push a wide bandwidth through a single horn (eg. Martion Einhorn 370Hz - 20kHz, BD Designs Orphean MKIII 2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Topology & test by N-set on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
[quote user="de charlus"] My proposal was to more or less combine the drivers from said systems in a single system, structurally similar to the Cessaro Gamma[/quote]...which is the Macondo topology only quite a few years younger. Either Cessaro reach...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: "Absolute tone" - I was missing that Sound by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
My playback was in “distraction mode” for a few weeks. The electricity is horrible nowadays, summer… The arrival of APS made me to reposition all components disconnect everything and the failure of the APS so far to do what I want it to do did not en...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: "Macondo-cloning" by ayebee on 2009-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
I have also been working on a pair of Macondo-inspired horn-speakers. Horns from Stereo Lab, but with horn-drivers from JBL, rather than the elusive Vitavox. I hold Romy's forum in very high regard because of the content-standard of the posted messag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Macondo with Pussy Eyes. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Horns: biography. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
I always pay attention to the references to my site. In particularly I curios when people out there making comments of judgment about Macondo.  In 99.99% of all cases that I have seen the remarks are idiotic, as it might be expected from the jury...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #160: The key to everything by Wojtek on 2013-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
is to become better , more aware listener. The rest is a secondary issue and you won't feel the need to ask those questions .There is always the issue of whats really possible technically speaking. I disagree with Romy's opinion that 99% of audio peo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Moving from conductor to audience by rowuk on 2021-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
What Romy has done up until now is very similar to what a conductor of an orchestra does:Search for music to performBuild the ensemble to play itDecide on the venue to perform inTrain all of the forces involved to play in accordIn real time, guide th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: Why do you answer a question with a question? by rowuk on 2019-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Djjjj,instead of reading the Macondo axioms, you ignore me and ask if I have listened to the ESD system. What difference does it make if you do not know what I am talking about? Yes, there are serious flaws in the ESD system. If this is the best that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Nowhere for now... by Romy the Cat on 2022-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
I finally set it up new Tannoy Red best Twitters. They are sealed irregular shape and purely themselves do not sound bad. They do not have the full range feeling as they had with passive radiator and had a typical red sound of late Autumn leaves....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: The "Macondo Ultimate" MK-XXVII, Revision 432… by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
In my post to Keith I said: “if I designed the Macondo from scratch now, after knowing about the Injection Channels what I know now, then I might make some thing slightly differently”. Below is my deign idea how I would make the Macondo’s Frame imbed...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Any further experiments shell be stopped by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo copying: Horns troubleshooting in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]The next big problem with sound here I think is a difference in sound level between upper bass and MF/HF.Upper bass seems louder (and ought to be). Would you help this electronics-handicapped guy to pad down the upper bass horn w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Injection channel with WRONG polarity in my case is not good. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Romy, What happens when you use the injection channel with inverted polarity?[/quote] Unsuccessful. My Injection Channel (Tannoy 10” Red) is too with bandwidth and even at minus 10db is “talks” with HF channel of Macondo, which do...
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