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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Lowther and Enabl by Wojtek on 2008-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
I corrected  a mistake in amps construction but the thing  I cannot explain is that after I picked up the drivers from Retsel they were much mellower /smoother sounding .Did hummidity change or they finally "broked -in" I don't know. Report...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: EnABL Pattern and Ribbed Cones by Paul Scearce on 2005-07-14 
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Do reenforcing ribs reflect enough energy to interfere with the effect of the EnABL treatment? Paul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Re: EnABL Pattern and Ribbed Cones by Bud on 2005-07-14 
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Brian,Microphone diaphrams, headphone diaphrams ,dome tweeters, all have to have the pattern applied with a technical pen i.e. Kohinoor or Mars. These are becomming a little difficult to find in all towns. A 50% mixture of Poly S and water should be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Re: EnABL Pattern and Ribbed Cones by Bud on 2005-07-14 
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Paul,They might. If they are radial rings, straight out from center to outer edge then no effect. If they are a spiral then maybe a small effect that will cause you to coat the cone in the Microscale product with 3 or 4 coats. For circumferentia...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: EnABL, PT-R9, Arum Cantus and Albert Einstein. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tweeter for Vitavox S2. High-sensitively ribbons? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  64 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]OK, Romy, that EnABL stuff got my attention!I can't recall all of the bad ideas borne of good research, but this EnABL thing sounds a little fishy, and certainly it sounds too good to be true, as existing in a simple and really u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: in defense of EnABL-ing drivers. by Bud on 2006-10-23 
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Gentlemen, I suppose it is time to defend my sterling reputation here. The EnABL process does in deed work across the full frequency band. Works on all driver types and permits the very qualities that Romy seems to appreciate in the treated Linneum ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers by Bud on 2007-04-14 
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Hi all.I am just supplying a couple of threads that are dealing with application and the theory behind the EnABL process I provide information on here last year. Romy, you should not go there, it will make you crazy and you will have to insult someon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Enabl test mode by cv on 2008-04-17 
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Hello Romy,While you are in test mode, have you played with bath towels around the horn mouth? There's a long thread here by Jack Bouska; you may or may not agree with the content, but interesting how towels make hifi news sound better (if not more t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: EnABL, PT-R9, Arum Cantus and Albert Einstein. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-23 
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[quote user="Paul S"]OK, Romy, that EnABL stuff got my attention!I can't recall all of the bad ideas borne of good research, but this EnABL thing sounds a little fishy, and certainly it sounds too good to be true, as existing in a simple and really u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: EnBL-ing drivers? by Paul S on 2006-10-23 
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OK, Romy, that EnABL stuff got my attention!I can't recall all of the bad ideas borne of good research, but this EnABL thing sounds a little fishy, and certainly it sounds too good to be true, as existing in a simple and really useful form.  Can...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Budificatiuon of Macondo. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-14 
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I am playing nowadays with Bud’s EnABLing ideas. http://www.romythecat.com/PDF/EnABL%20White%20Paper.pdf Look also for the posts in the linked threads. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: A couple of already tortured candidates by Bud on 2007-10-29 
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Romy,In the diyaudio thread on EnABL I cover the Hemp acoustics FR 4.5 C and the Lowther A45. Both drivers in your size range.Since EnABL does not measurably alter any compression wave characterisitcs of the piaton mode tests, except for phase shift ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: TAD PT-R9 tweeter: love and hate…. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-22 
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I tried the driver and generally I do like it’s sound a lot. It more sophisticated then Linaeum, it is more noble tonally and alike the Linaeum is seamlessly melts with Vitavox S2. In fact I am developing recently a theorem according to which a compr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: Buddanization and again: about the S2's diaphragms. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-05 
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This post is split form the thread:http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4549http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4556[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] "...I very much might try to use the metal suspension again when I will be dri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The narrow-bandwidth nastiness is welcomed. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-30 
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Bud,Thanks for pitching the A45a and FR4.5, I never dealt with both of them and will consider them, though it is slightly disconcerting that all those drivers meant to be wide bandwidth and therefore have too much HF in them. Still, my initial candid...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The Bud’s Papers. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-11 
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OK,I split the thread to let the Bud’s subject to run the show. Here is the Bud’s Papers. Rgs, Romy ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: It did not work out for me by Wojtek on 2008-03-26 
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but it may be worthwhile for you since you're using OB's .I only heard very approximate version on Zilla baffles (Retsel) and I'll take horns with their coloration . I just was wrong assessing ENabl process . You can hear it for yourself and decide i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Lowther and Enabl by Wojtek on 2008-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
I corrected  a mistake in amps construction but the thing  I cannot explain is that after I picked up the drivers from Retsel they were much mellower /smoother sounding .Did hummidity change or they finally "broked -in" I don't know. Report...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Using a thermometer to guage system performance (ways and means) by Paul S on 2007-08-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lowther Driver in Audio Discussions  62 Replies 
Bud, you sure make a case for your process, all right.  And the problems I have noted grew through the hot afternoon, eg, the power was certainly AFU.Of course I am curious, and your very intelligent discourse about hypnotizes me.At this po...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Better late than never by Wojtek on 2008-03-25 
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Paul I have to admit being wrong about "BUdification" (enabl doted Lowther) process . I don't have explanation besides lenghty "brake -in " time but I would not bet on that. It may be a show stopper for you but I also admit liking them better in fron...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: EnABL Pattern and Ribbed Cones by Paul Scearce on 2005-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is possible to eliminate some forms of gross side band di... in Audio For Dummies ™  22 Replies 
Do reenforcing ribs reflect enough energy to interfere with the effect of the EnABL treatment? Paul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Funny you should mention smoother by Bud on 2007-10-30 
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Romy,All measured tests for unsmoothed frequency response actually show that the violent peaks and valleys in frequency response, that driver mfg's usually will not show you, are just accentuated by EnABL. A friend of mine, one Gary Pimm, pointed out...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The corkscrew boundary effects? by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-16 
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Well, what I am trying to do it to smear or to defuse the virtual edge of the horn. It is not exactly the same what Bud does with him application of patterns on the cone driver but it very much similar. Toward to this end any random pattern that woul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #134: Why not really use the basement by Bud on 2011-10-27 
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I think you should investigate a transmission line subterranean woofer system. One tuned for 8 Hz and turned off at 28 Hz. That way you could use your beloved lite weight drivers where they are most useful and a super woofer with XBL magnet structure...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers by Bud on 2007-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Hi all.I am just supplying a couple of threads that are dealing with application and the theory behind the EnABL process I provide information on here last year. Romy, you should not go there, it will make you crazy and you will have to insult someon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: But what of HF membranes? by Paul S on 2006-10-23 
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Your explanations make it fairly easy to understand both the problem and conceptual solution in your terms.  It's the actual, mechanical solution that I have trouble with.Unless you can somehow alter/vary the application index&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: A short intermediate summation. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-25 
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Well, I still do not know what the tweeter solution would be. I know exactly what I want to get: to soften the S2 driver and get HF extension but without introducing HF noise. I know exactly how it should sound I juts do not know at this point how it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: More musings around the F120A by floobydust on 2009-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
 Romy, Not sure I can add much more.... you'll find out yourself of course. Overall, I can not comment on the "enabl" treatment beyond what, Dave, Chris and Bud have said (Dave and Chris are the Planet10 guys). I think I would have tried th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Drivers, Dope and Radio Flyers by Paul S on 2008-10-04 
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Wojtek, I am indeed hemmed in by the fricking electricity these days, to the extent that it is about impossible to hold on to a baseline for reference.  And the Lowthers only make the problem more apparent.Yes, I still wonder about how I wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: No metal tools in the gap, please. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-08 
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Buy or make a good non-magnetic flat-blade screwdriver (I made one from a solid stainless steel rod... use a "hollow grinding" technique and make sure the tip is a nice fit... not all "stainless steel" is non-magnetic)......
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