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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Macondo and not only Macondo positioning by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I'm curious about how you set up your horns in the room.From photos it looks as if they are fairly close together, compared to the wide setting you suggested I try, while our room dimensions are fairly similar?When I started push...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: About the Macondo Cloning. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
It is very important for the people who consider Macondo cloning is to understand what Macondo is all about. For a superficial or an idiot observer Macondo is the selections of drivers, horns, loading patterns and perhaps amplifiers. In really those ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: About the Macondo Cloning. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MacondoLite in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
It is very important for the people who consider Macondo cloning is to understand what Macondo is all about. For a superficial or an idiot observer Macondo is the selections of drivers, horns, loading patterns and perhaps amplifiers. In really those ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: About the Macondo-like systems room dialing. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] I'm not entirely satisfied that this single 40Hz horn was properly loading the room, which has a cubic volume not far from what I would consider ideal for such a system …. However, the horn was sitting in the center o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: A “new” tweeter for Macondo, Round 395. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RAAL “Water Drop” tweeter for Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  77 Replies 
Ending up re-amping my MF channel, I found myself at unexpected situation that I am not completely compostable with Macondo HF. It is not that the HF are bad but they were made to serve the interest of older, slightly softer operating single-stag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Splitting the DSET by anthony on 2015-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
So I am currently working towards this concept for my Macondo (see below) and I have just the Upperbass horns left to turn and prep.  I am thinking about how to best integrate the DSET with Macondo and have come up with something like this… Perha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET by anthony on 2019-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Hi Romy,Just thinking out loud here, but I have been listening to my mono DSET/Macondo for quite a while now and recently changed back to my old acoustic system so that I could poke around in the DSET innards for a little while.  The old system (in s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Macondo vs Utopia by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Focal-Jmlab – the Utopia of the Utopias in Audio News  11 Replies 
[quote user="CO"]But Romy, you also have the different channels in a curved array ? Whats the difference I know your's are time aligned but the Utopias must be as well.[/quote] Collin, you are correct the Macondo and Utopia implement the same curved...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Macondo Acoustic System – Evolution by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
Last week I have written an article: “Upperbass preoccupation and Vitavox S2 driver” where I ran over some my thoughts how the specific sonic virtues of Vitavox S2 driver allow to get an “interesting” upper bass from an upper bass channel, even thoug...

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 #6: Macondo Version 3.4 by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
Actually it was not my last design. The very last, the one that I love is below. It has elegance of a sea sail and has some sculptural dynamics. I do like it a lot and the design also take care about all levers and the centers of the masses…. T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Macondo Version 3.6 by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
I made some further adjustments, added details to the tweeter and so on. It looks good. Yes, to make this sail will be complicated and price. Not to mention that the thing will be over 6 feet long. I will not start doing it until I have the tweeter i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Bitching about the Macondo in the enemy forum by martinshorn on 2019-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Josh: My visit to Romy the Cat's Macondo in Audio For Dummies ™  28 Replies 
Hello Sir :) I expected your disappointed resonance already. What you write comple...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: The last comment about Macondo vs Dannoy by Romy the Cat on 2021-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dannoy 2021 Loudspeakers in Audio For Dummies ™  24 Replies 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Super Melquiades, Macondo and Class A2 by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Super Melquiades, Macondo and Class A2 in Melquiades Amplifier  0 Replies 
I do not know why people go into low-sensitive loudspeaker and they go crazy in order push the last drop out of the class A2 operation. From a different perspective the Macondo’s woofer towers with 97.5dB sensitivity are low low-sensitive loudspeaker...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: Macondo and wife satisfaction. by Romy the Cat on 2017-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Amy last night delivered the most brutal insult of my playback I have heard for years. Usually I very much like when stupid internet audio with audio IQ leas size of own shoe to “criticize” my playback. This is real fun to hear them and it is a re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #196: Changing Macondo Configuration by Romy the Cat on 2017-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Lately I have been thinking a lot, trying figure out what I am and where I would like to go with Macondo. The Macondo base, the horns isle is still there and I have no motivation to change anything. The conceptualizing and assembling of what I hav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #248: Macondo calibration check sheet 2017 by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Seven years back and I finished my former installation I made up a Macondo calibration check sheet.  I do not think that anybody care about it and I did it purely for myself.   http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=14&am...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #262: Macondo calibration check sheet. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Ok the Macondo is all done in new room, including the bass channel. I am uploading the calibration check sheet not as much for you but rather for me. I have been keeping it got years and constantly am loosing it, now I will know where to find it. BTW...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Milq-Macondo Next: the contemplations and hesitations… by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 1)      I would like to try amorphous core foe my LF transformer. I know, I know, the amorphous core is not LF core but I know what I hear and if I found somebody who would be able to make for me d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The Macondo 7th channel by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] I think you have found phenomenally good sounding upper bass driver and you are going to build a dedicated quasi-bassreflex channel using it to fill the gap between your line arrays and the upperbass horns... [/quote] Intere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: The Seventh Chanel of Macondo. by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Simpson Microphones thread. in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
[quote user="tuga"]The Realistic Painter "Completely true to nature!" - what a lie: How could Nature ever be constrained into a picture? The smallest bit of Nature is infinite! And so he paints what he likes about it. And what does he like: he likes ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Some hints of adding the 7the channel to Macondo. by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
From today’s email: Question: “…. As my audio system has improved over the years I have found myself continually wanting for something that I could not place my finger on. I suspect that really good sound sytems do too much for our brains and the in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo vs Dannoy = Essentialism vs Existentialism by Romy the Cat on 2021-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo vs Dannoy = Essentialism vs Existentialism in Playback Listening  2 Replies 
This is INCREDIBLY load subject. I come to thin realization after listening my own clip about Bermuda Triangles of Audio. I immediately recorded a clip about Existentialism in Audio and how the inherence of Macondo to Essentialism bothered me but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Macondo Acoustic System Review, 2021 by Romy the Cat on 2021-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Some ideas about the Macondo 2.0 by Romy the Cat on 2022-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 2.0? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  24 Replies 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo 3.0 by Romy the Cat on 2023-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
I cannot imagine that I started to work on Macondo over 20 years ago. How are all this time the Macondo axioms coupled with Milq DSET proved to be quite accurate and constantly delivered quite good predictable results. Yes, it is a pain in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Macondo and ALE drivers, well sort of. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo and ALE drivers, well sort of. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  0 Replies 
I got an email from a site visitor informing me that there us a set of cheap ALE drivers at London Craigslist: http://london.craigslist.co.uk/eld/4435844980.html(copy locally to have it available after the Craigslist posting will be gone) "ALE Acoust...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: SPUnisation of Macondo: how to catch own testicals. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SPUnisation of Macondo: how to catch own testicals. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
It is amassing what kind of tricks the Fundamentals Channel allows to play. Since my high-frequency Vitavox S2 driver “clicked” recently: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3592 my “Fundamental Channel”  with my LF Vitavox S2 al...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: The "Macondo Ultimate" MK-XXVII, Revision 432… by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
In my post to Keith I said: “if I designed the Macondo from scratch now, after knowing about the Injection Channels what I know now, then I might make some thing slightly differently”. Below is my deign idea how I would make the Macondo’s Frame imbed...
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