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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: 10" Bass drivers dairy note. by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bass drivers inquiry in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
Well, the game with a “better” 10" bass driver is over. After years of mind looking for the 10” light-coned, papered 20Hz drivers with higher sensitivity and after a month of quite active searching for such a driver I concluded that such a driver jut...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Some comments about the bass inclosure. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Haralanov, Here some raw cements of my on it, without any particular order of importance…. 1)      Sand damping it beautiful, it is well-recognized, but you do pay cost for it, in your case the cost is space. Sand is very little compressibl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Different factors affecting bass quality by haralanov on 2009-04-28 
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"]Sand damping it beautiful, it is well-recognized, but you do pay cost for it, in your case the cost is space. [/quote]I know that Romy… but without the massive amounts of sand, there are always some vibrations felt when I t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Re: Particular Reasons for 10" Preference? by Romy the Cat on 2005-08-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bass drivers inquiry in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="Chirag"]Outside of the already constructed bass towers, is there a reason you are looking exclusively for 10" drivers?  I have heard a pair of stacked 15" Lambda's on each side supplementing/providing bass to lower midbass under som...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Scanspeak, sand and sound. by oxric on 2011-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"]  Romy the Cat wrote:If you feel that 25W/8565-00 is a good driver then try many of 25W/8565-00. You might try it using both channels on one side and playing mono recordings…That was the first thing I made when I finished th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers: 10-inchers by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers in Audio Discussions  34 Replies 
We enter a complicated region as the lower driver we go the drivers could be used for different purposes and it is very hard to generalize. A 10-incher might be MF driver and LF driver. In my past I experimented with few MF 10-inchers, including some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Horn Speaker Leftovers for Sale by skushino on 2013-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn Speaker Leftovers for Sale in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
I'm wrapping up my horn building activities and have some leftover items available.  1) Edgarhorn 80Hz Mid-bass horns - Pick-up in Seattle - $350Condition -  8/10 based solely on age.  No visible imperfections.  They are in the identical condition as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Please , not again that…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] "The Macondo’s Bass Channel is line arrays. The arrays employ religiously-sealed enclosures with six “spotted” Scan Speak 25W/8565-00 drivers per channel... " Clearly you had written this at a time when you did not really underst...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Output transformer for bass-channel of Super Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Output transformer for bass-channel of Super Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  2 Replies 
Further looking at where I would like to take the new 6-chennal version of the Super Milq I am contemplating a new revision of my bass channel output transformer. Currently I have Jack Elliano’s made 450mA, large, single section LF transformer that b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #199: The “nicer” MiniMe, eventually. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Playing with B-2 power amp I made an experiment and instead of loading to it the MiniMe Bass section I loaded the B-2 with Macondo’s bass arrays. I made add-hog attenuator and coil to EQ MiniMe MF with Macondo’s bass and gave some listening. It w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: All about bass by anthony on 2015-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Hi Romy,So it is time to think about the bass output transformer in my DSET.  My bass channel will be 8 x 25W/8565-00 each side set in a sealed box and will cover the frequency range below say 100Hz.  These drivers can be wired anywhere between 1R an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Thoughts about above. by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dannoy 2021 Loudspeakers in Audio For Dummies ™  24 Replies 
The above in Red color the response of Tannoy 10” Red LSU/SF3LZ driver with default crossover mounted in in Dunlavy TSW-IV Tower in a position of third driver and loaded to 4th 25W/8565-00 driver as passive radiator.  In blue, the response of th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A port with a 'human face'. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NOhorn channel for “the melody range”. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] I’m still in the world of direct radiators and I’m looking for the ultimate midbass channel solution. At this time it’s still impossible to build a horn of this size so my purpose is to find the next most good sounding soluti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: I do not know. by Romy the Cat on 2015-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 4-way horn system Prelude in Horn-Loaded Speakers  13 Replies 
[quote user="maxx"]Then i have problems with my tapped horn. He works  25-90hz range.What you recommending for bass or midbass?I do not have too much room for bigger horn system.[/quote]I do not have too much experience with tapped horns but I do not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Classy and sophisticated Romy. by oxric on 2011-09-24 
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"]This is all because you are a primitive person with very simplistic and amateurish understanding of many things. You need to learn from much more sophisticated people, of cause I mean myself.  Take a look: I do not run like...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: DHT in the DSET by anthony on 2015-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Make the full-range and then you will see where you are. Still, I feel that for MF channels it is beneficial for do with a good DHT output stage instead of 6C33C and perhaps it is a good idea to use DHT driver as well. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: Approaching the LF DSET by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]Hi Romy, So it is time to think about the bass output transformer in my DSET.  My bass channel will be 8 x 25W/8565-00 each side set in a sealed box and will cover the frequency range below say 100Hz.  These drivers can be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: A LF solution for a new room by Romy the Cat on 2016-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Well, I kind of begin to think what kind LF solution I might have in the new room. The ULF might be fun to load on the ceiling in the way how I described above. For the midbass I most likely will go for the line-arrays with my beloved Scan Speak 2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Midbass reproduction by haralanov on 2008-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: NOhorn channel for “the melody range”. in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
I’m new to this outstanding website and I found it has really educational value and antimoronizating information :) I’m still in the world of direct radiators and I’m looking for the ultimate midbass channel solution. At this time it’s still impossi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Contributing factors of compressed sound. by malinowski on 2007-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Contributing factors in compressed sound in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Thanks Romy, I would have thanked you sooner but I had the day OFF of my day job today and had no time to post until now. *cracking up* I had a feeling there was no easy answer, wasn't sure if I was missing something, had scoured posts for a whi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
Recently Macondo was altered and converted into… nope, not into a Super Macondo :-) but in a “Larger Macondo”. The Super Macondo it will be when I resolved how to implement time delays along with a low pass flirter at midbass horn, that would enable ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A dangers zone? by Romy the Cat on 2015-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Make the full-range and then you will see where you are. Still, I feel that for MF channels it is beneficial for do with a good DHT output stage instead of 6C33C and perhaps it is a good idea to use DHT driver as well. So, when you strategy your 5...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #149: Which passive radiator by N-set on 2021-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
...do you use? Scan Speak 25W/8565-00? Do you also feel that the reduced 2cu feet volume works better than the original 3cu? I've just acquired a pair of nice looking Reds and think of moving slowly forward. My listening space is quite small. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Bottom exhaust and some rant about “fast and tight bass” stupidity. by Romy the Cat on 2016-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vertical Axis Midbass Horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="skushino"] Bottom exhaust.  Could keep it simple and fire straight down onto the floor.  I think there are benefits to adding a very robust floor platform beneath the mouth, maybe with a reflector, similar to Bruce Edgar's Seismic Sub...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Many thanks by anthony on 2015-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Output transformer. Here is what the thing become complicated. Of you drive ultra-low impedance with step down transformer then your secondary turns will decrease. They primary will have whatever they have for all case b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Planning my DSET by anthony on 2015-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Hi Romy, I am planning my own DSET build.  I have based my speakers on your Macondo and am busy turning MDF horns in my spare time.  Once that is over I will move onto amplifiers.  I plan to build a fullrange Melquiades for a friend and the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Answers.... by Romy the Cat on 2015-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]I plan to build a fullrange Melquiades for a friend and then if that works out the DSET 6 or 7 channel version for myself. [/quote] That is very good approach in my view. The problem is in this approach that you have t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: This has turned into a much larger DIY project than I initially intend... by anthony on 2017-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
...I think it has something to do with a small obsessive part of my personality, but as I have spent more and more time on this project I have wanted to do a better job as far as quality of workmanship and design and aesthetics are ...
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