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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I do not think it is possible “long distance”. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building a new music room in Playback Listening  20 Replies 
My minimal distance between front of the upper bass horn and listening position is irrelevant as I set the proximity not according the upperbass but according a vertical shifting of HF image. Under a normal circumstances I might be as liitle as ~7.5”...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Edgarhorn, EQ, Soundstage by drdna on 2011-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  73 Replies 
[quote user="slack key"]I am interested to find out more information about how DEQX will help solve my issues with getting better soundstage, imaging and depth with the Edgarhorn Titans.[/quote]Marc, finally I have something to say. I also have the E...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Living Voice Vox Olympian by Wojtek on 2012-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What to do in England? in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
Maybe you could find the time to visit Living Voice studio and listen to yacht  horn speakers with Pinokio nose  and report your impressions ? Personally I'd skip all that and go to orchestra halls and listen to some life music.  Peter Walker once sa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Huh? by ShuffleSk8Ter on 2013-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why Horn loaded systems?! in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
please don't misinterpret what i write when i say up i mean up thank you :)now ever place i been to listen to the horn systems claims  theirs is the best! etc.. best crossover driver etc..and evertime I leave very disappointing...one of the main seri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: You are the definition of the word Moron. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why Horn loaded systems?! in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
For the person who very easy toss comments like “utter nonsense”, BS and “does not make sense” you are very uninformed. If you stop position yourself as an ignorant teenager who “knows everything” then you have chance to learn something. The Car Talk...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The New Placette as the dynamic quandary by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The idea was very simple: to convert the C filter into RC filter, to employ the Silicon Carbide Schottky rectification diodes that showed themselves so nice in 6-ch Melquiades  and to beef up the preamp with large bet...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Basshorn by Johan Dreyer on 2007-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Romy I think what I gained from the basshorns were 1. "Speed"or lack of momentum.Specifically deep notes on piano.The sensation of that leftmost keys with the initial impact then followed by the resonance from the instrument as separate entities.I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Drivers, drivers, drivers…. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  231 Replies 
It is interesting… complaining about the fact that the “promising to be claver” Cessaro Horn using the TAD drivers (still it is not completely known as they said that that MD driver cost €4000) I asked myself: what else they might use?  Really, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: YL audio, ALE, GOTO, and Onken... good post. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns of bd design in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
[quote user="angeloitacare"] Of course, Avantgarde with their price tag never will be for mass consumption. I offered Holger then to see If I could commercialize his horns in japan, Do u know how much was the dealer price for a pair of trios at that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: I'm not married to any topology by haralanov on 2014-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I very much do not want to sound like I am expressing sarcasm. [/quote] Romy, I don’t treat your comments like expressed sarcasm and I never did it. In my view, your site is the only place in Internet, where fruitful discus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
There are many threads on my site where I covered the subjects of Tweeter for my Macondo and particularly the moment of integration the tweeters with Vitavox S2 compression driver. Since a few months ago I altered my idea to use the EV T-350 tweeter ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: 'A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth' - Thomas Man... by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
Joe, I think I would battle it. I would not be so certain. Mostly the SUV sized bass horns are notoriously bad sounding despite of the assurances of the system owners overwhelmed with so common in audio endowment effect. Not to mention that the Stag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: The midbass merge and about the new environment. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-09 
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"]La Grande Castine will not be as expensive as Cessaro Gamma. i am sorry but i cannot answer to all questions, for several reasons you can understand.we have tested many drivers since the early prototype of La Grande Ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #132: I guess I did not get this memo by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"]Your Typical Acoustical Suspension-type Loudspeaker enclosure witch has less then 90 db at 1 watt does not belong with a horn system that starts at 110db at 1 watt, even when you ad more then 1 driver, it is still way to far...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! by Paul S on 2023-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally! in Audio Discussions  46 Replies 
The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); a report started "too soon" because they've taken sooo long to build, and they fired right up (first try), and they already do Music!  For some time (at least a decade) I thought about building a ver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Then perhaps a new crossover is not needed? by drdna on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  73 Replies 
Thanks very much for your prompt, courteous and informative reply!My thought about the crossover design for the EdgarHorn was due to a number of things:1.  This particular EdgarHorn is being sold to make way for a Cain & Cain speaker which i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Crossover Design by drdna on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  73 Replies 
Hi Roman et al!Allow me to introduce myself.  I have followed with amusement Romy the Cat for many years.  He is ascerbic and ultracritical, but he does know audio.  We share many tastes, like the Koetsu Onyx Platinum foir instance, on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: More speakers attitude... by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Speakers: a hi-fi disaster. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."] I have listened to some expensive speakers from B&W, Wilson Audio, Dynaudio, and also owned the SF Amati, you know already. Musically these ones were more musically interesting to me than any of the others, but still wer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: Another place to pee? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Paragon, what is your problem? In this thread I do not see anybody advocate any specific ways and no one set any “new path for others to follow”. If you spend time reading this site (and if you are an “avid believer of horn speakers throughou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Aries Cerat Symphonia, version 2020 by Romy the Cat on 2020-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aries Cerat Contendo - the newest "fat" kid in the... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
Nine years ago, when I posted the initial post in this thread the Aries Cerat was a different company with different products.  As I understand in 2014 they changed a lot and today they have a speaker that I would like to talk a little: Aries Cera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #158: First music testing by anthony on 2019-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
So, the first DSET is still downstairs on the electronics bench and I am back to work for a while, but not too hard and not for too long (I hope).  I've added all the filters and checked and tested and changed some more things and decided that it was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
We, horn people, when we see as some kind of horn outsider begin to spill his foolishness about the horns inhalations, we always feel  that out territory was violated by a primitive brain who listen a box loudspeaker. The Absolute Sound, in its ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Any no more Martha Stewart loudspeakers. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Anyone experimented with pro folded bass horns for home use? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
[quote user="moreart"]Hello,i made a few bass horns for home use:look on my HP [/quote]Moreart, Behave. What your “bass horns for home use” have to do with pro folded bass horns?  Also, no offence, your horns for home use are a bit ridicules and VERY...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: These speakers are capable of great things. by brad on 2010-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
symbiotic diaphragms were never used in the 19's.  this may be part of the "bad sound" that this guy was experiencing.they used the 802-8g driver with ultra light epoxy and aluminum diaphragm that allowed hf response up to 22,000 cycles when pairedwi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Haliaetus: Dick Cheney’s audio? by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Haliaetus: Dick Cheney’s audio? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
Q: What happens if Dick Cheney decided to buy loudspeakers?A: The US Force attacks Arctic Poll, US Congress declares South California as “axis of evil”, Halliburton order from Haliaetus HA-325 speakers with 5400% mark up and re-brand them into “Horn-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: What is important to understand that... by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Haliaetus: Dick Cheney’s audio? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  11 Replies 
.... the Haliaetus people did not even back-loaded their driver. If it was a horn loading then I might criticize the horn profile that they selected (and I do have quite a few arguments). However, those speakers are not horn loaded at all. They ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: All I know is that I don't want to spend THAT much by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most interesting horn ideas to me so far in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
I mean, even if I was extremely rich, there's sort of a "point" of return or guilt or something, like worrying perhaps TOO much on other aspects to compliment them. I wouldn't buy Cessaros even if I was rich...for some reasons. I'm not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #97: Prototype by noviygera on 2017-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Do you have the speakers as pictured already in place, or at least in the form your beautiful rendering shows? I would recommend to try a mock up of this layout in your room and not proceed with the full custom build. For example, I don't think the a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Sure It is not easy by Amir on 2023-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Amir, I think there are still "acceptable" "commercial" components (including speakers) still "out there", depending on how they are used; it's just a matter of finding and getting ahold of them. In any case, building up an integ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Ok... by Daniel on 2018-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Goto SG-370DX measurement in Audio For Dummies ™  30 Replies 
I'm quite busy over the weekend but I can do measurements of the SG-16 tweeter next week. I need to make adapters first but I want to measure the 370 on a Le Cléa'ch Iwata horn and I can compare that to a Yoshimura 3500G driver on the same horn. Ther...
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