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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Thanks Jessie by Wojtek on 2008-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
but I'm not going to compete with "S2 people " Following recommendation of John Hasquin I ordered B&C 21EP8 -16 . I'm cured form Fane for a time being and  don't have S2 but  "obsolete " altec 288c 24 Ohm on 400Hz horn . I was counting ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #74: Jessie by coops on 2009-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Jessie Hi, re question 1, drop Jon a line at Sonic, he is far better placed to advise you on the addition of new codecs and hardware , the 'early adopter' software is I believe $1000, there is a demo version but it cuts out after 30 seconds which is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Just one word, Jessie: by Paul S on 2007-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
PlasmaCuts what-you-will like nothin', clean as a whistle, and the system is portable (ie, the Mountain can come to Mohammed).Also, I see an interior mold and making the inside of the Big Guns' metal a little oversized, to allow the us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #119: Jessie went for the obnoxious horn by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Jessie, Unfortunately your images did not make and the most important dimension: the throat size is not visible. Will you go for 12” throat? Sometime I will do pretty much what you do, ironical using the very same drivers. I have a pair of AK154, a p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Jessie Dazzle Project by jessie.dazzle on 2007-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Below are some images of what I was thinking (my apologies for the long load time) :Please feel free to laugh!jd*Above : View into rear chamber (45Hz horn /AK151)Above : Same but further awayAbove : View showing the attachment of one of the segmentsA...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #280: Jessie, this is funny. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
What funny is that what you proposed was exactly what my carpenter suggested me to do as soon he saw my frustration with foam. In particularly funny that he used pretty much the same words. I got the 2” foam and 300 feet 6ga stranded cupper wire from...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #205: An important statement to make. by Romy the Cat on 2012-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
I would like to point out to a very important moment that took place in here. I do presume that Jessie account is very accurate and the Teflon sockets were bad. I even presume that they were bad not only from the perspective of cooling but were bad s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Let return in this thread to 5-channel Milq... by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 5 Channel Version of Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  21 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] There may be better drivers out there, but with my level of experience, I doubt my abilities to recognize them. So though it may resemble laziness on my part (remember, this is the same person that will be constructing a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Tractrix vs. Exponential curve for lower frequencies. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]One issue that I would consider is that the Tractrix profile supposedly does not lend itself aswell to extremely low frequency horns (being too short) as other profiles in particular the Hypex (Salmon) shape. [/quote] Yep,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: You need to EQ the dBs of the angled horn by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] So last night I angled the upper horns of right channel down toward listening point, and left the left channel with horns firing along parallel axes. [/quote] Jessie, do not forget that if you made the dramatic-enough ang...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: It all might work. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] If I get you correctly, the graph should display a range of around 12dB from top to bottom, in .5dB steps... Yes? [/quote]Yes, it would do, you might go for high or lower resolution, and there are no rules in it. You shel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A little homework for everyone. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Time alignment of drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
Yes, Jessie, in a way right – we align the summits to the same frequency from two drivers in the same period. Why he is right “in a way” in such case? Well, become in Jessie’s example there is an interesting hidden bug. I would like to offer everyone...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Centering options by decoud on 2009-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 coupling in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Thanks, Jessie; for the benefit of others here I can confirm pulse-racing are excellent, just as Pete found. They still have his CAD file, so if you are happy with the bolt placement no need even to send them a drawing.What is definitely not excellen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: The virtue of the experiment. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Are you suggesting : 1) Running the upper bass horn from a second ML2 ? 2) Running the lower bass enclosures (sealed boxes) from a second ML2 ? 3) Running both the upper bass horn and lower bass enclosures (sealed boxes) ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #206: The all is not so simple. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-03 
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"] Assuming you go ahead with the mid-bass horn project: If you decide to run the woofer towers along with the mid-bass horns, it is logical to assume they'll produce much of the range produced by these new horns. [/quot...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Some answers from Engine with ax. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]However, I must say, I have a lot of trouble accepting the idea of redundant drivers. [/quote] Yes, it dose not sound attractive to me but it is not the redundant drivers but one main driver and another at minus 9dB drive...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: The Fundamentals Channel and imaging altitude. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Though the frames have wheels and roll very easily, my room is cursed with an elevated platform smack in the middle of everything (about 14 inches higher than the main floor), and to move the horns up on to or down off of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #121: Remagnetwhat? by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]The thraot size will be 7 inches. [/quote] Wow, THAT IS BOLD!!!! The 45Hz how from 7” throat – that is very-very cool and very positively-obnoxious. [quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Yes I have thought about paying someone e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Connectors and Mass by Paul S on 2009-09-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Superior electric binding posts in Melquiades Amplifier  26 Replies 
Over time I have observed that, in most cases, one quickly turns the corner from "enough' connector mass to suddenly arrive at "too much" connector mass.  I started out with a cable clamp like Jessie shows for my 6 gauge "dedicated ground" wire for j...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Interesting: 10” vs. 15” by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Below a certain frequency the advantages become a handicap. At that point (if you were using its EQ capabilities), the SMS -1 would start to step in... Whether you reach that point with your 10" arrays depends on how low ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: It looks like the case is closed. by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who builds horns? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  84 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Since I speak French, and since I deal with plagiarism everyday, and since NOTHING pisses me off more, I phoned Phil Mundi to ask him about the unothorized use of your artwork on his site, and if this act was representativ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Re: 10 Footer : more.. by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Evaluation of tractrix curves based on visual surface reflec... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Regarding cone movement versus rear chamber pressure : I understand that low excursion explains to a great extent, the advantages of horn-loaded designs, I just don't understand how something that "does not move", can gen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: Yep, the real-estate sucks for audio freaks. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] So it sounds like you're considering a move... [/quote] Yep, I am contemplating this now… [quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Criteria :1) Main room minimum 80m2 with correct length-to-width ratio 2) No mid-room obstru...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Some points regarding your comments. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Jessie, I pulled posts from Macondo Axioms thread and encapsulated them onto a new thread dedicated explicitly to your project. I hope you do not mind. [quote user="jessie.dazzle"] This would impose a design that is not round but octagonal. It would...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Make Your Own Horns by jessie.dazzle on 2007-01-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Make Your Own Horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
The following link will take you to images showing my construction method for small to medium-sized horns (click on the images... to view the explanations) : http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w3/jessie-dazzle/400Hz%20Tractrix%20Horn/ Since these are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #144: Finding a home for midbass horns. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]1) Set horns to fire all in same direction (will require some modification to the house)2) Move to a new house[/quote]Jessie, As I understand you in the middle of your midbass horn project were forced (or whatever reasons ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: Macondo with wings and wide Fundamentals … by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="Dominik"]You probably decline this option, because this horn is from plasctic ( You can take carbon horn also).Polish autotech make Iwata 300 for me. You Can order from them what You want.[/quote] Yes, the Iwata horns are good as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Vitavox are 'Go!' And the 'democratisation' of horn loudspeakers. by oxric on 2011-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "O Vitavox, Vitavox! Wherefore art thou Vitavox?" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]In the few converstaions I've had with him, Mike seems totally sincere and, as I've mentioned before, I very much hope he will one day come through.jd*[/quote]Well Jessie, it looks like your wish has come true. The Vitavox...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: It is very stimulating to observe.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
Jessie, a few comments. The back chamber mechanism is good. Are you planning to do the same in the midbass horn? Since you most likely will not drive your upperbass all the way down I think that the back chamber mechanism  will be more effectiv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Plan B... by Paul S on 2008-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  30 Replies 
Neodymium, eh, Jessie?Perhaps you could use them for injection channels?Best regards,Paul S...
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