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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Invigorating and positive... by twogoodears on 2011-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BEST bass cable? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
... as I also found something VERY similar, Roman... the truth is in the sentence "... bass-shy in full range..." as a full-range cable is equalized for 20-20khz and - you'll agree on this - the ULF frequencies of your system aren't so common, around...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Monophonic bass: myth and reality. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Monophonic bass: myth and reality. in Audio For Dummies ™  5 Replies 
Audio people are so accustomed with a comfortable believe that as frequency drops the stereo information becomes less important that no one seems question this old believe.  The reality is very much do not support this. From what I can observe the st...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: I do not have an opinion yet. by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-09 
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Rakesh, I moved your post to this thread as I feel it is more relevant here, I hope you do not mind. You ask yours the very same question that I ask myself. I do not have definitive answers to them: [quote user="oxric"] I am presently consider...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Specifics by Paul S on 2016-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Typical framing would be 16" or 24" on center, with 14 1/2" or 22 1/2" between ceiling joists (or rafters). With "conventional framing" it is usually no big thing to "head out" for openings, and soffit and/or frieze vents plus ridge or near-ridge ven...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Comming year 2012. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]What are my plans for 2011? I have a few. I am sure that I will be working with fine refinement of Macondo in the new room. I look forward to review the Macondo Fundamental Channel, will it be my new 18-cell or not I do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: More info by Scott L on 2016-12-15 
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[quote user="Paul S"]Scott, is it your specific aim to configure an enclosure to "effectively" lower driver Fs? While this, along with an exponential increase in power, is a proven strategy for generating ULF, it seems like this approach creates more...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Another Look at the "Problem" (and Branding) by Paul S on 2011-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Be, thanks for bringing  up the "subharmonics" in the way that you have done, for another good look at the elusive-to-hi-fi "undertones".  I have been bitching about and futzing with this for ages, and now am I working with the drivers, themselves, t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #117: A vicinity where I would just start…. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-11 
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Thanks, msaudio, for sharing your experience with Aura and Hartley. I do not have Hartleyes. I heard them I think twice but person the people did not try to get out of their playback anything that I care, so it is hard to say anything. In contrary I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #427: Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at h... by twogoodears on 2012-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
My five cents, folks... find nothing wrong in a flexible ULF, as it, sort-of, makes honour to any audio system and music and audio lover, as this "flexibility" strongly reminds me to various music and concert halls and venues around, where their "per...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: It will be probably two bass channels. by Romy the Cat on 2016-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, perhaps your ScanSpeak arrays are a +/- natural fit for mid-bass? If you used them for that you might also push them down a little until you got your ULF solution. The "nice" thing about this is, you might use something r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: A sort of ridicules bass idea but let see… by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Once again, there is nothing specific in this post just some further thinking on the subject, as I keep discovering new idea. A couple weeks back I was looking at a house that gave in inspiration to think about it. The house was 3 bedrooms Cal...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The BEST bass cable? by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BEST bass cable? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Here we go, I will be telling you that I am looking or that I have found the “best” cable to use for bass channel? Sound like a stupid thing to tell you and sound like a stupid thing to read at my site. Still, I will be obnoxious enough to insist...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: The point.. by be on 2011-09-28 
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It is difficult to say below what frequency there is no sound registered, the lowest fundamental on a double bass is 41Hz and the A0 on a grand piano is 27Hz, both these fundamentals and at least one harmonic  thereof would probably be recognizab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #190: A next day. by Romy the Cat on 2017-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I think my dysfunctional one 15” driver in my Midbass was for a while and THAT was something the make me to feel that I need to move Macondo to 9-9-1 position. With the recent changes (recovery of a woofer, recalibration of channels, EQ of the mid...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: Welding and other activities by N-set on 2011-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
I think this GM81M does not justify itself. It's good only for welding and tesla coils?Due to a seeming common unknowledge ofhow to relate spectra to sound at ULF as a bare minimum I tried to get a decreasingspectrum of harmonics. This brought the po...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Is there any tone in the ULF range? by be on 2011-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
It seem that the concensus here is that there is no tone in the ULF range, something like below 50Hz.This is probably not true for live acoustical instruments.Physical systems that can be described by non linear differential equations, are known to p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #140: Symmetry by tuga on 2010-05-14 
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I agree with Paul: it seems wiser to take care of the room before trying out new ULF solutions.I'd place the jacks in the basement under the speakers and close the equipment cubicle with a glass door like the one you have on the lefthand side.Cheers,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Watch the lower knee by rowuk on 2018-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ULF cannel for my new listening room. in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
Romy,you have often advocated the ULF channel not having a sharp lower knee. Maybe something like the Thigpen rotary woofer with response to DC would be worth considering....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #143: Red Grills by Paul S on 2011-12-25 
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In the Christmas Spirit, a couple of notes in passing:1) These units might need a LOT of power to make ULF in those cases...B) "Conventions in Vegas" re: pro speakers = "Little  Old Lady From Pasadena" re: used cars.Paul S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Pitching pitch by jessie.dazzle on 2010-09-21 
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Romy wrote:"...What kind outer suspension it has, is it rubber?..." Correct (I know I know...)"...I think the key factor would be the degree to which the driver is able to decimate the LF pitches..."Pitch: The property of sound that varies with varia...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Size Matters by Paul S on 2018-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hypex for ULF? in Didital Things  15 Replies 
A brief search for the Barefoot Sound speakers suggests that it is very important to the designer that the speakers be compact, which (if they are actually acceptable in terms of sound) might be a boon to apartment dwellers, students, teens, etc.  Fo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: Further problems with interstage transformers. by Thorsten on 2005-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Nevertheless, if that bass was truncated between the stages then the devastations are way more severe. [/quote]That may be so, however an LF response of less than -0.1db down @ 10Hz is what is normally called "ruler f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: The Circle Unbroken by Paul S on 2010-11-17 
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If you put ULF boxes where they "beam" best, would this not, none the less, re-create the weird (U)LF chart you have already shared, with +10 dB at the chair, TT, etc?  If so, perhaps you can have the wave cake and eat the full-pressure, too with the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: You might find slaughter is forbidden by law in most jurisdictions. In... by oxric on 2011-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I would load one pair with dynamite and send to the very deserving person...I will be celebrating if I learn that this asshole got run over by a very slowly moving asphalt roller machine. [/quote]Romy, I wonder why you wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Tome and bass note and tone in general. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Yes, if you are at 40Hz first order then you are with regular dedicated LF channel and tone is certainly a subject. The entire definition of ULF channel inkstand or LF channel is that ULF channel has no tonal information. It is very same like use twe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Paralleling 6421215685 tubes by N-set on 2011-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
....may work here as small dis-sincronizations in pumping the current should not matter at ULF.But how much God would be in 121478521785 parallel KT2318 tubes?1/121478521785?One, max two big tubes is still more appealing to me, don't ask me why.I'm t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Non-linear electric chair by N-set on 2011-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
I've been pushing this intellectual excersise (masturbation?) of solving Romy's constraints on a powerfull bass SE amp.Thanks to Stephie Bee the humanity have now a decent model of GU81M, so before electro-cuttingonself, one can see if the electrocut...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #126: Power & ULF channels by jessie.dazzle on 2010-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
You might find that you don't need that much power.When I first built the ULF channels I assumed they would require loads of power, so I bought a single, mono, 1KW class D amp to use in testing. Then I tried driving them with a pair of M1.1s that I h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: "Tuning" IB by Paul S on 2018-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ULF cannel for my new listening room. in Audio Discussions  43 Replies 
The AE cited is said to be "designed for IB".  Since one does not "use the box" or a vent, etc. to jack up IB LF, it's going to be all about moving the 250g Mms through  the usual, steep, ULF filter.  Maybe a notch filter or anti resonance filter at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Some nice horns from Greece! by ulf on 2008-02-22 
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A friend in Greece started a company manufacturing and selling nice horns.He makes a serious attempt to use the best materials and highest quality finishing. Take a look!http://www.sonusaeterna.com/speakers.htmlBest Regards: Ulf...
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