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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #120: Ambience speakers by drdna on 2007-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
After thinking about this for a while, I have had a thought that should be relatively easy for anyone motivated to explore and I would be interested to see what others on this forum observe from such experiments.Fundamentally I think the injection ch...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #122: One more unmentioned benefit of my Injection by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Not will everyone “get” it, or would agree with it but… where did you see me to care…. Q: What is the worst aspect of sound reproduction? A: Excessive HF response of playback. A flat response above 5-6kHz is indication of dynamic and transient def...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Try it. by Romy the Cat on 2024-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My new “New” listening room, 2024 in Audio Discussions  31 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]....but....sometimes I do wish for a less "white" sound up top.  More colour, or perhaps contrast, not that anybody could ever accuse my sound as lacking any of those things.  [/quote]   Ironically it is exactly what you get...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: They are Apples and Oranges by Romy the Cat on 2023-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
This whole subject of acoustical reconstruction of performing whole by using reverberation channels is very complicated to discuss on audio forums. If visin many aspects of sound reproduction, better or worse, but we have constructed some c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: A revision of playback with reverberation injection or Pilot System 20... by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
I am revising the architecture of my playback in context of benefits of reverberation fields injection. Certainly, Macondo and Melquiades stay as they are. I always had a pilot system that runs in parallel with Macondo driven by a cold SS amp. I u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #71: One man's junk is another man's... Uh... Injection Channel? by jessie.dazzle on 2007-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Romy wrote : "If someone discover a 4-5” driver that can have the same Syrupy Sound as the Red 10” then please let me know" I will be trying some older alnico drivers in the Mid-Bass horns (the first pair should arrive in about 2 weeks time). I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Super Milq 6 channels diaries: #9 – HF response. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
I was kind of frustrated with some strange high frequency roll off at my HF and Injection channels. It should not happen. The 9H OPT LL1627 in Injection channels should be good up to 23kHz according to my former tests with a full range Milq and the T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: I am in full support of this broacast by Edgar= on 2023-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
Romy, I have not visited here since i made my splash on the forum back taalking about Dannoy. I wondered last week where things might be at for you and i chuckled to myself when I viewed your broadcast today. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: Going there.... by Romy the Cat on 2016-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I did finish today the 2-driver extension for bass towers. I did not mount them to the default location – waiting for a “friend” to come to help me to do it. As I finish it will be exactly the same configuration that I had 7 years back in Boston. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Pleeeeeeese.... by Romy the Cat on 2021-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
Pleeeeeeese, do not call what I was doing with reverberation injection as “surround”. I hate the notion of “surround” and Bill and I constantly have arguments about it. What I do has nothing to do with surrounding a listener with sound but rather ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #414: Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The subject of midbass nasal sound is very interesting. In addition to all OTHER aspects that might lead to midbass honk I would like to note that there is one that is in my view greatly overlooked – the precision of re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: The Cessaro Gamma's tone. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  192 Replies 
Very nice, Keith, thanks. The most interesting would be to access the “Absolute Tone” capacity of the Gamma. Frankly I feel that with TADs it should not be very too advanced as they are at BMS/TOA domain, only with a little TAD syntactic twist. Even ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: Excess of HF? by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-23 
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="Romy the Cat"] Not will everyone “get” it, or would agree with it but… where did you see me to care…. Q: What is the worst aspect of sound reproduction? A: Excessive HF response of playback. A flat response above 5-6kHz is indication...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: The hornier the merrier… by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-09 
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[quote user="Jim Smith"]You said, "I think the Cessaro folks shell recognize you as a quite valuable asset to explore US market."I'm curious as to what grounds you have for making such a statement.  I've never had a single contact from them, ten...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Different frames for different directions. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] My mistake. I should not use the term Lecleach on this site. [/quote] There is absolutely nothing prohibitive in Lecleach profile, it works very nice for HF but the La profile shall not be used in cases where vertical clea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: It is not about the honk noise but honk fog. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more non-spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="zanon"]My question is this -- in playback, how do you limit horn honk to just brass when there is no way to separate the instruments playing in an ensemble? Honk from strings for example sounds like crap. [/quote] You ask me as if...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #505: The electricity in my suburb. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
The holly shit! How bad my electricity was in downtown and it was bad! However, here in suburb it is not even bad but 10 times worse. In city it just produced bad sound. Here, in West Woburn, it not just does bad sound but it almost translates the th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Here is the global L-Pad economy at it’s best by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who makes good L-Pads? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
My new 20L and 30K L-pads for the 6-chenals Super Melquiades’ tweeters and Injection channels. They are 24dB down by 1dB, made on the Elma Rotary switches and stuffed with unavoidable RB60 resistors. I did not want to burn my fingers and outsourced t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: A Cloud of Ideas? A Charged Cloud! by Paul S on 2021-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
We had some background for the video on this site, I think, some of it, perhaps, starting with the injection channel, years ago. I do wonder how much a "cold call" viewer, with no "background" of this video, would take away from it. I hope we will fi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Saving the Best for Last! by Paul S on 2021-08-09 
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Thank you for this video! I will happily figure out the connections for myself now, and I really look forward to finishing my current project so I can get to this "reverb" injection. Regarding the Squirrel Singularity, I hope you mean what I think yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #185: Best Use of Assets by Paul S on 2022-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
Bill, if one assumes headroom for satisfactory peaks, and given the rest of your set-up, it "sounds like" you are effectively using your Dannoys to butter up the overall sound, like a sort of improved injection channel. As for all the sand, perhaps l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: "Reality" vs. Hi-fi by Paul S on 2024-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What Passes for "Space" in Home Audio? in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
Too true, Steve. As it happens, the distance between sidewalls just in front of my speakers is over 50 feet, and a wide hallway opens to large rooms along and at the end of its course. I have said all along in my The Loudspeakers thread that an "ongo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #134: Bloviation about turntables by drdna on 2014-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]You would need to keep the other components the same to test them all but that would inevitably favor some TT designs over the others...[/quote]Spot on. Loads of hype, a bit shy on the experimental proof. It starts out with a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The vintage brain virus. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fake Vitavox S2 diaphragms on ebay in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
I went to eBay and searched for his diaphragms. If you look for the rest of the items he sells then you see that he sell vintage labels of Altec, Western Eclectic, JBL, Rogers, Studer… Well, in my books the people who sell it and those who buy it hav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #267: Constant-width vs. active-width by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Any playback, unless it is an idiotic yellow driver speaker, bet bigger with sound become bassier. I however, very seldomly use phrase “subs” as it does not define what it is. The idea to have width modulation channels did come to me and I did a few ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: The experiments very worth to undertake. by Romy the Cat on 2012-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
KOTriode. One of the reasons why I advance the idea of using 6C33C for sub 100Hz bass is because it is very easy to say objectively if it is enough power. You see, when you use 845 for instance the tube might jumps in and out if A2. Since it is D...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Compression bandages by jessie.dazzle on 2007-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
While my attempts at this stage are very crude by comparison (injection channel experimentation is not yet a main priority), I have from time to time listened more with a very crude sort of injection channel plugged into the system. With this devi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Harshness by Rewind on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as op... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Yeah, they are my own experiments so I am the only one that need to care. They are based on your earlier work, so I felt like writing and tell you what I am doing with your ideas. The drivers we use may be superior or inferior. As long as mine are t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #247: Ehh.... by Romy the Cat on 2022-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
[quote user="Edgar="] but integrating down into another channel there is no hope. [/quote] Good, so much appreciate you to saying it as I kind of feel like I'm a freaking loser there's this configuration quite defeated me. my self-esteem is sa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: About Timbre and Audio #2 by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About Timbre and Audio. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Continuing my observation about the Timbres and Audio.From what I said above it is very important to understand that Timbres in Audio are not the photographic density of the colors themselves but rather an ability of a photograph to differentiate...
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