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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: With Pavarotti I always want to cover my ears.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Loudspeakers and headphones in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I wish I could pin-point the frequencies and explain the effect better. I'll do my best.I want to cover my ears when a Pavarotti sings certain higher notes or some notes when Caballet sings pretty "comfortably".It's like bad PA h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: The multiple drivers: when sound in horn changes. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
Ygoh, Most of compression drivers have phase plug. A phase plug is very genomic center line oriented devise. A phase plug must be parallel to diaphragms and perpendicular to the axis of the driver. Practically all compression drivers have beggin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: What is going on with tapped horns... by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Kcct82"]I didn't use John Hasquin's tapped horn design, I modeled my own in hornresp for my TAD woofer. I knew I would only need it up to ~55Hz so I was happy to have it flat from 23Hz-70Hz. The lowest crossover point for Behringer DCX 2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #120: A few comments. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
1)      Be very careful with use Halco resistors. They were very good 15 years back but they turned south very aggressively. I bought a party of Halco in 2005 and I forced myself to trashed them as they were very noisy. You do not use then in critica...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: time alignment by stuck.wilson on 2007-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Driver Alignment, and Where to Draw the Line in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
hey jessie-I've wondered the same thing-- and the more i end up twiddling around with it, the more I think it really either comes down to good measurements, or  good listening!  And in fact.. probably both in conjunction!I have a small 2 wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Henry’s Grande Castine by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="Marc HENRY"] For this Musique-Concrete horn system called "Grande Castine" (it was developped in Saint Cast Le Guildo, Britanny, France, from were females inhabitants are called "Castines" ) i prefered a modified 60Hz Le Cleac'h cylindri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: ... by twogoodears on 2009-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Roman: since I came to GSC, I became more and more careful (at least trying) in proper choosing words,  due to the need of expressing myself in a language which isn't my own, some finesse and subtleties get lost, so further explanation or underl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The deaf skeptics, take note. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Driver Alignment, and Where to Draw the Line in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
I have been pitching about the superior importance of time alignment for years. It is not that I violently insist that people have their channels time-alignment. We kind of free people and everyone do whatever they want. Still, I exercise for years m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Center your drivers, boys. by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An ultimate horn profile? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
[quote user="cv"]This is but one reason why I'm asking Martin Seddon to make me a pair of 160Hz horns...[/quote]Another problem…. Chris, be carefully with those large 160Hz horn and S2. The guys who make then have no instruments to center the mounti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Thank you for giving me ideas on RTA by zanon on 2010-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Learning to interpret RTA in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Thank you all for your ideas and suggestions on RTA.Romy -- you are correct, measurements always need to be made in context of sonic experience and more importantly musical intention. For me, though, to begin the process, I need to unlearn much of wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #160: I agree, but YMMV by ayebee on 2010-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Yes, I agree. If the output of the fundamentals-channel is controlled via the slopes in the crossover, the opportunity to set the output on a recording-to-recording basis is lost. If one, however, has the output of the fundamentals-channel ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: How to use Vitavox’s S2 by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Here is the list of the thing to do with Vitavox S2 in order to use it in 4-ways installations. The S2 must not be used in 2, 3 ways systems. It possible to do with S2 whatever you wish but pretty much any other way to utilize them produces some very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #160: Some comments... by Romy the Cat on 2017-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I think 8-8-1 will be very good configuration all together. Make sure it stays sufficiently far from back wall. Point the axis toward to your shoulder and I think it would be fine setting. Turn off tweeters and Fundamentals channel and set right b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: Yep, very nice. by Romy the Cat on 2018-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Yep, indeed, it looks very nice. The 8 sections of bass line array look visually slightly overweening but I think when you put the upper bass horns in place it will visually balance the things out. I feel some sort of envy to the way how you plan ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1846: I agree by rickmcinnis on 2022-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
No question there is noise bleeding in from the rest of house - I just don't know it yet.  When something is taken away I can miss it but am not the most perceptive before being made aware of what to listen for.John Broskie talks about us being broke...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: MF ramblings &&& by jessie.dazzle on 2008-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Romy wrote :"...Do what I did. Stop experimenting with horns and begin to actually USE your playback..."If I am in the house and not sleeping, the system is on."...If you still have an itch to “think horn” then insult others about their wrong horn mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #118: The Behringer DEQ-2496 and MiniMe by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Actually it turned out that LE5-2/2105 are much more complicated driver and to sound right it need way more complex crossover then juts a band-pass the I initially unused. I spend some time with it today but did not find a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Frequency response is NOT a limitation of midrange driver. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EdgarHorn Speaker Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Adrian, It might be a fascinating but more evolved journey then you think or willing to endure.  The first thing first I think that your fear that your “midrange might have ideal frequency response” is not a motivation to change anything. Are y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: I migh be the phase "clicking".... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I've been listening for about one week now with the filters set so the hand off from lower-mid to upper-mid happens higher up (upper-mid S2 is high-passed at 4800Hz instead of 3200Hz), meaning the small 400Hz horn is doing...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #121: Miscelanea by N-set on 2011-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1)      Be very careful with use Halco resistors. They were very good 15 years back but they turned south very aggressively. I bought a party of Halco in 2005 and I forced myself to trashed them as they were very noisy. You...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Something does not click in here. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Multi-way Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Scott, I do not particularly like many of the ideas that you presented in here and, in my view, some of your movements you are planning are faulty. Your dissatisfaction of the Edgarhorns upper-bass is too wide-ranging and not well-interpreted ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Macondo-clone ramblings by ayebee on 2009-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
The system is still very much a work in progress, but I have come to the conclusion that the concept as such is very, very good. It's only up to me to make it sound as well as I know it is capable of. Making and fine-tuning the crossover might take m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #101: Trial and Error by Kcct82 on 2011-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Hi Romy,Well, this is my (and my dad's) first horn system so we're learning/building one step at a time. Our motivation is simple, to use horns as low as possible.The very first DIY configuration was:TAD ET-703TAD 4002GOTO 505TTTAD 1603 Woo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: It is like riding a wild horse.... by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A right midbass solution for Altec 515G. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
Marcus, here is absolutely nothing wrong in what you describe. I absolutely assure you that any single person initially end up with the results similar to what you describe. Most of them stop there and do not understand that they got very bad...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: Generally the phonocorrector has very low noise. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
Ok, you are getting somewhere. I am not sure why I used the 100R, 50R and 22R resistors. It is good idea in some cased to list the potential of some circuits but it need to be used ONLY what it necessary. Do not forget that in your case you have 5 ch...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Edgarhorn RTA response. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Edgarhorn RTA response. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
Someone at AA’ sewers posted his measurements of Edgarhorn system, supplemented with a subwoofer and Fostex Tweeter. I do not know the poster personally, most likely he is another AA’s advice seeker – means another idiot - and therefore it is ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Should we emulate what we admire? 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 
[quote user="Jorge"]I tend to think that we are not copying Romy, but more that he has generated a school of thought on audio and yes horns speakers also.I too have a system following some of the Macondo Axioms, but have used all diferent drivers.As ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I do not think I said a lot…. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Making it sing... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Scott,[quote user="skushino"]- Remove L-pads from mid and tweeter (sounds a little brighter, yet "more pure" and "better" to my ears) [/quote]Lpad sets the attenuation and this is the parameter that should be tuned without fantasizes and subjectivism...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Problems with horns: upper bass by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
This there is the last in the “THE PROBLEMS WITH HORNS” cycle. The previous threads might be found at: Problems with horns: tweeters.Problems with horns: mid-range horns.Problems with horns: mid-range drivers. This would be probably the most contro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: There are many layers of d-crossover problems. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horns and digital crossovers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
[quote user="slowmotion"]Romy, there are more ways to the top of the mountain... <BR>And we already know that your way isn't my way... <BR><BR>You bring up many very valid points, but still I will continue to use my digital crossove...
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