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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: In search of optimum.... by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Configuration from Italy: multisell++ and double model 19. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
The quality of microphones is irrelevant and if you use not 1/3 octave sweep but Noise Generators then you need to run time average on your RTA.  Time average analyzers is fine but it need some additional experience to interpret the results. I do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: Validity of a point source? by drdna on 2009-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[quote user="Joe Roberts"]The illusion of a single source is lost. [/quote][quote user="Romy the Cat"]The “single source” neither is a fact a byproduct of a specific sound reproduction method but it has no existence in LIVE sound and there is not nee...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #241: I do not think that it might be damaging… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
CV, Good scenario as well but my leading idea is slightly different.  I would like to keep any reactance from the path, would it be inductive of capacitive, to assure ultra fast response time. Basically I would like to maintain the MF amp as it used ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Back is part of the front (the back part) by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations.The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be about right. Without any diffusor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: “Easy come, easy go” sound... by AnonymousUser on 2006-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fun with transformers? in Melquiades Amplifier  7 Replies 
Dear Romy,Assuming that your questions are "honest" ones ( I have no reason to believe they are traps, like it happened to me before with a certain Mr. Thor), I will give you "honest" answers, hoping that our dialogue will be of some interest to the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Do your home work. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.0 & Lamhorn/AER in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="HookEm"]But, although it seems things are moving in a good direction, the overall presentation still seems a bit dry (not as fluid as my head tells me it should be).[/quote]HookEm, it was a bit is very generic comment that does not expre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Stupid!?? by moreart on 2010-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small double bass horn for 3"-8" driver in Horn-Loaded Speakers  37 Replies 
Hey boy,is it a kindergarten,"does not change anything"you don´t understand my construktion, your are not able to interpret measurements and simulation,if you are so blind, to see and understand,why do you post, little boy.it is so boring. read again...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: My DHT experiment: some conclusions. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Ok, I do not know what it was: was it DHT, was it 300B, was it some other specifics of this given amp or whatever… but those two aspects that I named: intentional density of colors and randomness of pace are something that I would like to exercise in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #247: Ok, it's going to right direction. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]OK, I think I get it, except you will have a sand bridge along with your crap-load of Farads guarding ground, and your PS out feeds all six "channels", including the DC MF without dividers? [/quote] I will use the same trick ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: CD horn and JBL: Crossover point by Dominic on 2006-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CD horn and JBL: Crossover point in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Hey Rom etal.I'm entering into unknown and difficult to intuit territory for me.I aquired a pair of very large constant dirrectivity horns EV hr9040 a, a little while ago and i now have a pair of jbl 2420's to power em. I haven't put them to gether, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: What are you running? Some kind of Jackson's drivers? by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC in Horn-Loaded Speakers  25 Replies 
[quote user="cv"] That said, I do have is a single 160Hz/1.5" finally up and running on a compression driver, and it's a different world - stunning. Actually the results are exactly as JJ described. [/quote] The JJ, is it Jeffrey Jackson? I have no i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The existence of Santa Claus according to GOTO by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="Jeffrey Jackson"] Ming would like to provide this custom basshorn service to his customers in the US market.. Goto Japan has nothing to do with this... [/quote] Very cool, the more “hornier” the better as far as I concern. [quote user...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #135: You need ether a shorter women or a larger horn. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
A few questions. What driver is it? It looks like it is 15 Vitavox, is it 151 or 15/40? What the resonant frequency of the horn and driver with no back chamber? The most important: how the hell all of it sound. I do not be believed that you did not h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A single yellow driver. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.0 & Lamhorn/AER in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="HookEm"]The reproduction does not seem natural... too far away from what I would hear at a live event (e.g., female vocalist).  Sort of bright and fatiguing at times. I may not be using the proper terminology to describe it, but I do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Living Voice’s Kevin as the Mastro Geppetto? by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]I will ask.  As anyone could by sending an him an email or calling him.  Ultimately though it'll be because that's what he felt worked best. [/quote] Well, it is a bit more complex then what you wrapped up in your la...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Operating point of Melq SET for Single full range speaker by S.yorke on 2017-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Dear Romy,What would be your suggestion on the operating point and OPT impendance if I were to drive a single driver Back loaded horn speaker with over 102db/W? Knowing that you have mentioned a range of operating points in the forum, I still not too...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: Iceberg by Paul S on 2010-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Once you figure out where you want the LF drivers you could put them in a "cabinet" of lesser dimension and run that "cabinet" through the floor, using the basement, or part of it, for more volume/IB.  That could "solve" the IB footprint problem, and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #226: Hm, that is interesting and unpleasant so far. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I was searching for an answer why squire wave is so screwed and I was advised by the site’s visitors that it is due to HF restriction of my channel. My HF response does look too low to me – the 23kHz; with all my ultra low capacitance magnetic I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Single Driver speakers by Flm on 2021-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single Driver speakers in Audio Discussions  5 Replies 
Hi guys and gals! Glad to have found this site!My question is do you believe in single driver speakers like Cube Audio? I don't need ultimate low end extension but accurate mids and highs. Thanks ??...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The divers testing. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
This weekend if I have time I will be doing the testing of my driver deciding which one I will be using. The framework of testing will be the following: a single driver, closed at 150Hz first order, mounted in infinite baffle and working along with M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Part 2 – Description and explanation by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting more from MF channel: AMI™ solution in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
Part 2 – Description and explanation Anyone who have ears and a rudimental mind to understand what ears register, and anyone among them who played with MF channels driven by SET, know that subject of SET loading is imperative. Let take for...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Priorities, priorities by anthony on 2014-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Direct radiation in the Macondo midrange horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  3 Replies 
Thank-you for the detailed response Romy.  I can understand your reasoning.I have noticed that there are several commercial horn offerings that push a wide bandwidth through a single horn (eg. Martion Einhorn 370Hz - 20kHz, BD Designs Orphean MKIII 2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
With the project of the 6-chennal Super Melquiades is about to hit its final stage I might to review my summarizing observations. The 6-chennals Macondo is driven by 6-chennals dedicated DSET Melquiades, that looks like properly orgies for the job. T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: It looks like a mechanical diffraction control by Gregm on 2006-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: VMPS RM V60 – kill me, but I do not get it. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
You know, extending the front baffle without making it take up too much space? Many people use the ubiquitous single driver on a narrow front baffle augmented by back-folded wings on piano hinges...I like those three mids; what are they doing -- canc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #103: Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="nl"] I have used Russian high-gm tubes like 6C45 in amps before, including single-stage designs very much like Romy's single-stage Milq. These have many attractions. However, in my experience it just didn't have the tone. Jim de Kort of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Without bias by be on 2007-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The one-stage Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
ml8 wrote:"This few tubes was 6E5P, 6S45P (which i've found a little better for my single-stage amp that 6E5P) and... perfectly god-like sounding (output beam tetrode) 6P6S!!! Triode-connected, for sure. Absolutely the MOST clear sounding driver, and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I knew you'd agree by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Glad you came around to my way of thinking. Without actually hearing "X" it is kind of silly to have strong and well formed opinions about X's sound.If "Lowther" is used as a generic name for single driver speaker, then it is impossible to have a mea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: “Why do I need all those technical manuals?” - Amuse to Death by Roge... by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Joe, I personally very much disagree with my own comment that for two people objectively assess a speaker would be possible ONLY with two parties are sitting in the same room and listening to the same installation. I did propose it as a “remedy” in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Aligning drivers vs shifting one's head by jessie.dazzle on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
Try thinking about it like this: Moving your ears 1/2" closer to all drivers in the system is not the same as moving a single driver 1/2" closer to your ears.jd*...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Putting Theory to the Test by Paul S on 2012-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different type of upper MF compression driver. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
Robin, of course I meant to say above that the Heils are equivocal when pressed, and no reason for me to think a compression chamber mosh with another driver would improve this quality; but I am just guessing.  It would certainly be interesting i...
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