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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #202: Midbass Horns And Real Estate by msaudio on 2010-02-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Room looks large and has a lot of potental, i also have simialiar room except no cubby hole on right channel. It would send up an alarm with me with low resonance problems on right channel do from cubby hole, Maybe you could put some type of sliding ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #158: Stich's deaf buddies by coops on 2009-06-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
Your audiophile buddies must be deaf stitch, the Cessaro room was easily the best at the show, although  to be fair there wasn't much competition, Magico sounded as if the sound was being pushed into the speakers, YG wasn't bad, their sealed aluminiu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The future.... by chaos on 2008-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 60hz, GPA-515-8ghp horn... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  32 Replies 
i will upload a pic.i have no problem with an additional channel!1.)i dont have to build it right now, the 60hz-horn with the s2 mf and 2405 hf will sound quite nice(at least i hope so;-) and i have something to build on.2.)i prefer to do things by m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Hemp SR plug and listening room. by noviygera on 2010-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hemp SR plug and listening room. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
Since room acoustics are important, I'd like to share my thoughts on this device I recently acquired. This is not a review but some thoughts on how this thing changes the sound of the room, because that's exactly what it does, and in my opinion, only...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #192: Strange things with upperbass by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-15 
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I am keep listening my just two channels: MF + upperbass. They sound good and I know this sound VERY well but there is one phenomena that I can’t explained/ in the old room my upperbass went to 95Hz-100Hz. In this new room it doe 140Hz BUT subjec...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #181: Some explanations by unicon on 2010-08-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The bass traps, the biggest one, have only limited effectiveness on the spectra of interest and usually have much more effectiveness in 2-3 octave above the spectra of interest. This make bass to sound less problematic b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Surviving Nor'easter… by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
We in Boston are hit this weekend with a mean Nor'easter storm with wind, rain and show. They promises a feet or so and it is juts October…. I am having great time, secluding myself in my video room, lighting up fireplace, smoking my Cohiba, playing ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: A new challenge. by Romy the Cat on 2014-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Shopping vs. Piano Shopping. in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
I had yesterday our technician to make a first pass over the Mason and now it is eventually is in tune. It is become playable I have discovered a interring challenge. As I said before the acoustic setting for the piano is perfect in out listening roo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: GOTO at CAF 2010 and will also be there again in CAF 2011 by MINGSU on 2011-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New show in US, some new horns... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
That was the 4 way system designed by John Sheerin using GOTO drivers on my request.  The tweeter is GOTO 160 with S3000 horn xover at 5kHz.  The high mid is GOTO SG370DX with S600 horn xover at 1kHz-5kHz.  The low mid is GOTO 505TT with S150 hor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: What about the rest of the room by DHT4ME on 2008-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
In reading this thread I am compelled to ask the simple question about the rest of the room. In my experience moving furniture and room treatments also make a huge impact and must certainly inffluence the perfect lcation for any room as specifically ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Big by Paul S on 2016-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
More kids? Basically, bigger is better as far as accommodating a family AND hi-fi, IMO. I include my own family life experience along with my hi-fi/listening experience when I suggest a large, "available" room for listening, as well. In other words, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: A min Room size.... by Romy the Cat on 2016-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
It is interesting lately to think about a new listening room as a concept. We looked at a few good house that for this or that reason did not work for us and one had a very good listening room, just a phenomenal location in the house. A tall cathe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Dynamic consistency by noviygera on 2011-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] noviygera wrote:p.s from my experience of having a 500 sq. ft. listening room with 7 ft. ceiling and having two 18" woofers in a infinite baffle configuration, it is not enough to pressurize the room. I am talking about lo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Opera Room 2013, Fall. by Romy the Cat on 2013-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
I need to admit that after out UK trip last month I got more sensible what Amy is striving to make the Opera Room to feel and to look. She is British and Finish offspring with British root to be very strong in her, she actually a direct descendant of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #380: Sweet spot enlargement by noviygera on 2012-08-21 
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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 myself much less oft...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: Shape vs Construction by Paul S on 2009-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
The room shape depicted should be relatively easy to load, given that it is in fact rather large, volumetrically, so power to scale must be pre-supposed.As it happens, my own listening room was a lot like this for 13 years.  2A3 SETs with 97 dB BassZ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I kind of agree on dipole bass by KLegind on 2010-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn speaker with dipole bass? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"] Vasyachkin, if this is still relevant:I've tried dipole bass and dipole mids with horns mid/highs in my system. If anything, dipole works the WORST for the bass and here's why:It does not load the room with bass pressure (or ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Loading the room by manisandher on 2010-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Many Mani's options: My first horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Mani, my first thoughts were questions, whether you want to fill the room "like headphones fill your head" or you want to aim the speakers right at your ears and "do the mixing inside your head, like headphones".[/quote]Hi Paul,M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #77: Can a bad floor be cured by gain/power? by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Well, in context of a full-range speaker, like largest Wilsons or the similar, the answer would be unquestionably no.  Even if we biamp those speakers then the LF still is too wide bandwidth and too geographically bind to the MF section.  The wor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Thinking about the sound at that show. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
[quote user="Serge"] The SIlbatone room was very large. They played an Edith Piaf record on a mono WE16B (or A, not sure). They played it very loud which I don't like, ever. I felt the system was made to show dynamics and it did it. The dynamic r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Ideal ULF/Midbass integration by oxric on 2011-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Hi Roberts, Romy and others,Before this thread vanishes in undeserved obscurity, I have a question or two for you. I understand that the issue is a complex one and should be addressed with more care and paying attention to detail than I am do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Excellent walls. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rakeshorns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
Regarding the pictures above Whatever it is but the walls in that room are very for listening room. The wall like this of cause would not defeat any “unlucky” or “less successful” loudspeaker positioning in the room. Still with the wal like this is m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #387: WAF: it depends. by Romy the Cat on 2012-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]One of my audiophile Friends did it the only way a real man has to do (he had a HUGE stereo System with 2 big monos and fat cables everywhere in his living room)He showed that his girlfriend (they married btw.) and said to her:"Y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #335: Just good photography? by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"] I remember a picture of an enormous living room with large glass windows behind avantgarde trios, bookshelves running floor to ceiling on the sides. ….[/quote]I was in that listening room in 2000. At that time the owner di...

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 #3: Might be we all try to do it? by Romy the Cat on 2012-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The irony of playback photographs and videos. in Playback Listening  11 Replies 
Yes, Haralanov, you do pay attention to the right things. I use to write about this room in Moscow. The guy talk about a lot of things with pretentious attitude but one single look at his listening room turns me off instantly. It is for sure a wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Big room AEZ by ArmAlex on 2011-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About speakers Imbedded Macro-Positioning. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
Romy wroteMost of the mid and small size rooms (very large room is a separate subject) have two types of the room modes....Dear Romy, You mentioned big rooms are different as my room is very big(46x33 ft.) how can I find AEZ?Best regards,Armen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Listening rooms and composers. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Listening rooms and composers. in Playback Listening  15 Replies 
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 whole week and listening what I am listening...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Another problem in my new listening room. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another problem in my new listening room. in Analog Playback  1 Replies 
The appendix in the corner of my room (I think it called rotunda) is very cool thing – it is where all my equipment lives – superbly comfortable and I can’t dream for better layout of my listening room. I am not kidding. However, there is one however...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #241: To answer your question by N-set on 2022-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]It seems from following these threads that no one so far has been content to stay focused on recreating the accidental success of the original Dunnoy/Dannoy. Is this because no one can actually recreate the original, or is it bec...
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