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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anyhow, now it is officially: I permanently removed a tweeter from Macondo. [/quote]After a few days of playing my Macondo without tweeter I begun to think what is goingon. The S2 eventually works clean and without any hars...
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Jessie, I pulled posts from Macondo Axioms thread and encapsulated them onto a new thread dedicated explicitly to your project. I hope you do not mind.
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] This would impose a design that is not round but octagonal. It would...
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[quote user="cv"]Here's a crazy thought... have you every tried driving the S2 directly from the Placette?! I know the 6E5p does some unique things but I wonder if it might be educational.The placette has a 7 ohm Zout right? Don't forget that that do...
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It is amassing what kind of tricks the Fundamentals Channel allows to play. Since my high-frequency Vitavox S2 driver “clicked” recently:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3592
my “Fundamental Channel” with my LF Vitavox S2 al...
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Here is another subject that many people would not understand, however some of the advanced Vitavox S2 user will be able to follow me.
The MF compression drivers hat go all the way to 12K-13K region all have own idiosyncratic way to present ow...
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Peter Empson from United Kingdom, the guy who use to run Unofficial Vitavox site and Forum has open a High-Fi shop in Aylesbury with a sentimental name “Deco Audio”. He sells the new production of Vitavox parts: The S2 drivers, the 15” woofer and...
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I bet it's one of the infrequent posters on this site system . I also find 2khz crossover for td2001 not problematic. Very nice and I imagine it's hard to loose that DIY look in setups like that. Especially when the speaker is undergoing constant cha...
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He might be a fraud or it might be that he did found some stock of “different” Vitavox or Mike’s diaphragm. I do not think that there were any standards and the make different production runs, and some of them might be better or worse than other....
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Romy, I just got a Vitavox S2 into my shop today. I notice that it has a very heavy stainless screen on the front, do you leave the screen on when using the drivers? It looks like it restricts about 50% or more of the throat exit.Rich Drysdale...
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Wow, it took 3 hours to take it apart. As I always told those vintage driver made horrible. The do sound Ok but precession-wise and technology wise they were very pure. They really were the low teach devised made for popping up the sound pressure but...
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Pete,
I do not think that it makes a sense to searched for “LF for use with Vitavox S2”. Do you think that there are good LF to use with Vitavox S2 and there are good LF to use with other drivers? I do not think so. The good LFs are good by themselv...
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Somehow I knew that after that Roman was not going to save me and sell cheaply a pair of Vitavox S2. Apology to all offended parties. I'm trying to change my way of thinking....
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No time, can only post in snippets...The second hand S2 and 15" Vitavox that I have were all compromised by age and use and have been thoroughly cleaned and remagnetised and where appropriate Sent to the UK to be reconditioned by Vitavox. ...
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[quote user="jweiss"] It was good to finally meet you at CES at the Cogent Room. I guess that you really found Steve and Rich's drivers pretty interesting (you initially wanted to buy a pair of the midrange drivers, remember?) [/quote]
Hi, Jonathan....
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The played today a little with Vitavox S2 driver with electromagnet and made some measurements. Measuring the relative magnetic force (I use Hirst GM04) I found out that increase current up to 3A linearly increases the magnetic force in the gap...
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[quote user="oxric"]Mike duly explained to me that he would not vouch for the work of anyone not qualified and experienced with Vitavox drivers, given both the complexity of the work and the number of parts that go into making these drivers. I as...
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Ok, I removed the series cap from the amp output and made it as it should be – pure parallel. To my great satisfaction the little “dirty inflictions” that I got in Vitavox are gone and now the S2 as clean as it should be. I presume in the former sett...
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Interesting, thanks Guy for posting.
Let analyze what was done in there. It looks like well-thought, time-aligned, looks like multi-amped configuration. BTW, how the filters were implemented and what (slope/order) filters were?
To my knowle...
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angelo,
I do not know what the story about the Vitavox Mike. He travels a lot and sometime he is few weeks out of county, during this time he does not retie emails.… It happened with him before. He runs a shop and you might call his ask how he is do...
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Hi Romy,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Pete,
I do not think that it makes a sense to searched for “LF for use with Vitavox S2”. Do you think that there are good LF to use with Vitavox S2 and there are good LF to use with other drivers? I do not think so...
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Actually it is good that you reminded me about the Tannoys as behind my recent paranoia with the “Water Drop” tweeter I forgot about the beauty that blessed my life. I am taking about the “older” Tannoy’s tweeters. What is magnificent sound!
I’m not...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] There may be better drivers out there, but with my level of experience, I doubt my abilities to recognize them. So though it may resemble laziness on my part (remember, this is the same person that will be constructing a ...
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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...
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Thank you, Jorge, for comment. I'm definitely going for wood horns. For my ear it has no coloration in compare with other material. Only for experiments I'm using what is available ready.Regarding driver for 300Hz, which one will you suggest to try ?...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Do not worry, you won’t be happy with your new speakers
as well. It is a little dirty secret that no one told you yet: speakers do not
give happiness. [/quote]In my case only speakers can give me happiness, because with e...
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GOTO make me feel it renders the musicians like they are ghosts. They are all in there but floating and slightly transparent.I think the reason for that is GOTO does very interesting things at highs and mid-highs but while it goes down at the frequen...
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I have two pair of the old 15" Vitavox: two drivers coned as K15/40 and two as another less common variant with a softer suspension and lower Fs but I cannot remember right now the name. Shortly, a brand new pair of K15/40 shall arrive along with ...
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Romy,I am very interested in this thread as I have heard the latest version of the speaker "eufrodite mk IV" . I do not think any of your objections would be changed by the latest version as he is now using push-pull array of beyma 8" drivers up to 2...
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i have vitavox S2 and also altec 288c.i am trying to source the fane studio 8m,just missed a pair by 1 day on uk diy.until i get the fane and make a horn for it,i will use altec 515c in vot.i also have jbl 2405.yes i will definitely build the full ra...
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It is really amassing, how Melquiades takes recordings apart, literally and rebuild then in own manner! I never see anything like this, and I believe that I have seen something in audio.
Melquiades does something entirely unprecedented: it retrofit...
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